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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo Office 2012: $5

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2014, 01:05 PM »

Thanks Curt,
I wonder if Version 2015 is coming soon
Mind you I'm very happy with this one (well, I have the Softmaker version) - it opens all MS Office document formats AFAIK, and does a great job of anything I've tried.

Softmaker usually makes the odd good offer for upgrading from the Ashampoo version to their more complete version.

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Developer's Corner / Re: New EU VAT rules change the game for digital businesses

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2014, 03:27 PM »

not sure what exactly wraith meant, but the big question is how the EU would stop (or punish) a supplier from outside the EU selling without VAT (?)

-tomos (November 20, 2014, 02:43 PM)

I meant, if I as a US citizen sold a digital item, and someone in the EU purchased it and downloaded it- then how would they enforce the strictures of these rules against me as a US citizen?

-wraith808 (November 20, 2014, 02:46 PM)

that's what I thought -- but dont have the answers either. But as dr_andus says, they're largely making it work already (via the payment processors).

How is it working in the States -- are there any states successfully implementing their own sales tax for suppliers from outside that state?

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Developer's Corner / Re: New EU VAT rules change the game for digital businesses

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2014, 02:43 PM »

re not part of an aggregation type service for payment have decidedly *not* been doing it.

-wraith808 (November 20, 2014, 12:06 PM)

I didn't say they were. I said *most that I've bought from in recent years.* In the early years of the Internet I could happily pay in USD and get the same deal with no taxes as the US customer. But in recent times many payment services would identify me as an EU shopper and would automatically apply the VAT—I can only presume it was due to pressure to comply with the local EU country legislation.

-dr_andus (November 20, 2014, 02:27 PM)

yeah, that's been my experience as well for a good few years now.

as for

how would they even go after me?

-wraith808 (November 20, 2014, 12:06 PM)

there would be an electronic payment trail linking the seller and the buyer, so it's just a question of access to the payment data + plus the right software and processing power to figure that out that an export/import transaction had taken place across the EU's borders.

-dr_andus (November 20, 2014, 02:27 PM)

not sure what exactly wraith meant, but the big question is how the EU would stop (or punish) a supplier from outside the EU selling without VAT (?)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2014, 02:13 PM »

-Giampy (November 20, 2014, 11:32 AM)

said the grannies from Ren's post above

Durn, new page - here it is:

Grandmas Smoking Weed for the First Time (Extended Cut)

http://www.youtube.c...amp;feature=youtu.be

-Renegade (November 20, 2014, 08:38 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2014, 04:28 AM »

Very minor-trivial-unimportant stuff

1) check for updates is broken here -
nothing happens for a while, then I get:
---------------------------
tiffInfoGUI
---------------------------
Version data could not be downloaded.
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OK   
---------------------------

2) just a suggestion:
in the 'About' box, instead of linking to the OP in this thread, why not link to your first posting of the software?

i wouldn't mind having a GUI for the tiffinfo program. who knows, it might come in handy one day.

-lanux128 (June 25, 2009, 06:16 AM)

Here you go:  tiffInfoGUI download
 (see attachment in previous post)

-skwire (June 25, 2009, 12:23 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2014, 08:36 AM »

Me make booboo in previous post try, forgot to read fine print about file types allowed.

So here's the link to a .pdf file of 46 pictures you've probably never seen before.

-dantheman (November 19, 2014, 07:50 AM)

I'm confused -
there's no problem adding PDF files to posts - or is it too big?
Is there a link to a site with the photos?

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2014, 06:49 AM »

[iDiots video]

-panzer (November 19, 2014, 03:32 AM)

good video -- made me want to finally get a smartphone. Only half-kidding ;-) that whip app was grrrrrreat fun
Messes nicely with the apple insignia --
but that takes away from it imo, because it's a universal thing - not just apple.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2014, 06:24 AM »

Cost is $39/79. Upgrade from v.3 upwards is $29/39

-tomos (November 06, 2014, 01:51 PM)

FWIW -- these prices for MainType standard/pro run until 21 November -- normally they $10 more.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2014, 03:12 AM »

A History of Pre-Cupcake Android Codenames

-Arizona Hot (November 18, 2014, 09:03 PM)

that was interesting - wonder what they'll use for K M

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2014, 03:06 AM »

And finally... UNTERGANG style!!
[...]
(this one had me crying...)

Ok, that's enough...
 

-Edvard (November 19, 2014, 01:40 AM)

damn, I had just taken a mouthful of tea when that one got going -
just about managed to not spray the keyboard

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - epCheck

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2014, 12:35 PM »

^lol, hadn't noticed Jim's sig before -
but I'd say that's not sarcasm - I had the same thought myself

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General Software Discussion / Re: Latest Avast deleting Firefox add-ons

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2014, 09:00 AM »

But I still don't know why some of my programs are missing from the "Programs and Features" in the control panel, and what the consequences of that (if any) are. Should I be worried about that? Scrivener and Dragon seem to run as they should, so does it matter that they are no longer listed in P&F?

-dr_andus (November 18, 2014, 08:52 AM)

I'm no expert there (anyone else got an idea/opinion?)

• Does the problem persist after rebooting?
• Do they show up in an alternative uninstaller? (e.g. Revo, or MyUninstaller from nirsoft)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Latest Avast deleting Firefox add-ons

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2014, 08:24 AM »

Wrote this below, but you seem to have solved the problem (?)

Personally didnt have any problems with the recent MS updates (Win7), but probably worth doing a search about it. Maybe doing a system restore would be easier than all this reinstalling? And installing the MS updates one by one (oh the joy!). Re uninstalling anti-virus, it's probably always best that one use their dedicated uninstall utility. I guess the idea is that they dont want anyone e.g. a virus, to be easily able to uninstall/remove their software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox windows and CPU slow-downs and restarts

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2014, 04:51 AM »

Firefox got really bad in the last couple of weeks here - tabs became unclickable, the one to the right would get focus; had to restart very often as it would eventually just sieze up & the plugin container would crash (Flash would also crash occasionally, but that's always been a problem I find).
So I started it without plugins and it worked fine [Click the menu button =>, click help => and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled.... Firefox will start up with the Firefox Safe Mode dialog.]

So I restarted and disabled all the add-ons I thought I could do without.
It's working very nicely so far, the usual memory consumption, will have to wait see how long it takes to goe overboard. CPU usage is almost nil (tbh I didnt check what it was before).

I didnt bother trying to figure out exactly which add-on was causing the problem/s.
(BTW is there any way of exporting a list of add-ons?)


EDIT// Version 33.1

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Living Room / Re: Mandatory Work Activity (UK) - Stupidity Beyond Belief. [DEBATE]

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 03:37 PM »

Yeah, sounds like BS, the whole thing

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Living Room / Re: Mandatory Work Activity (UK) - Stupidity Beyond Belief. [DEBATE]

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 03:18 PM »

Best of luck with the whole thing Stephen

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 02:10 PM »

FWIW
I moved from 32 to 64bit:

After installation, I was given the option to remove the 32 bit version -I was unsure so I kept it.
Next reboot it was back to the 32bit version again.
When I closed that, and launched the 64bit version, I was again given the option to uninstall the 32bit version, and went with it this time. Careful what you click during install - the option to delete previous profiles (or whatever it calls saved jobs) was a bit lowkey for my taste.

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Living Room / Re: Mandatory Work Activity (UK) - Stupidity Beyond Belief. [DEBATE]

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 01:58 PM »

Yes, in fairness it also goes on here (Germany). I have come across people working 'ein-euro-jobs' (€1 per hour) for a 'social' project (good cause etc.) but apparently there is a lot of abuse - basically gettting them to do work that would otherwise be paid at a 'normal' rate.
Germany does have low enemployment but an ever increasing amount of 'working poor':
2005 - 4.8% of workers "likely to experience poverty"
2010 - 7.8%
(source: Reuters) Insight: The dark side of Germany's jobs miracle
There's a lot of people here working multiple part-time jobs to survive. And survive you can - you have to have health insurance here, but if you're on a low wage you pay less. They are restricting this insurance though e.g. I am unable to get on that type health insurance myself (no matter how much or little I might earn). Food prices are the amongst the cheapest in Europe. (Yaay Lidl Aldi etc - it's a vicious circle of cheaper stuff > lower wages > cheaper stuff > - and for a lot of people it's going downwards).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 01:31 PM »

OK, thanks Supe! BTW, mine only checks manually; can't find any setting to auto-check for updates. Same for you?

Jim

-J-Mac (November 17, 2014, 12:17 PM)

yeah, oddly it doesnt even seem to notify of updates.

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Living Room / Re: Mandatory Work Activity (UK) - Stupidity Beyond Belief. [DEBATE]

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 01:28 PM »

Sounds about par for the course for the UK? (Not trying to be offensive - but looking at successive UK governments' records does not inspire.)
Prime basement material, this is Stephen ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: MBAM: how is it starting automatically with windows??

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 12:34 PM »

well under Windows 7 I'm still using Codestuff Starter for startup stuff (hasnt been updated in a while) -
it doesnt allow me to disable MBAM,
but it does show 3 x mbam exe's under Processes:

gui
scheduler
service

Then under Services there's the

Scheduler
Service

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General Software Discussion / Re: MBAM: how is it starting automatically with windows??

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 12:20 PM »

^ that's what you get (ya boyo) :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: MBAM: how is it starting automatically with windows??

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 11:48 AM »

Why not make contact with the source?

-tomos (November 17, 2014, 11:21 AM)

Heh it was just a silly joke. An Anti-Malware program that lists itself as Malware ... 

Douglas H. is the guy into self referential stuff : )

-TaoPhoenix (November 17, 2014, 11:44 AM)

might not be the first time even
but note that my comment was for Superboyac - that he ask MBAM directly (I could have made that clearer ;-])

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 11:40 AM »

Syncovery (SFFS) has been upgraded to Version 7 -
as usual, very generous with upgrade pricing: if you paid for version 6, then #7 is free

https://www.syncovery.com/syncovery7/

What's New

What’s new in Syncovery 7

•    Available as native 64-bit and 32-bit versions (for Windows only). The Mac version remains 32-bit but runs fine on all Intel Macs, including the latest Mac OS 10.10.
•    All Internet connections with security now use TLS by default and avoid the vulnerable SSL v2 and v3 (especially due to the POODLE vulnerability). You can go back to the older protocols if necessary.
•    Editable colors and predefined color sets for the Profile Overview and Sync Preview
•    New Profile Overview setting: “Show Scheduled Profiles Only”
•    All libraries updated, i.e. new code for many features such as Zipping, FTP, SFTP, HTTP, as well as all other Internet Protocols
•    Includes latest OpenSSL libraries v1.0.1j on Windows, and SSL is now compatible with all known SMTP servers. On Mac, OpenSSL is part of MacOS, so Apple determines which version to include.
•    Simultaneous file deletions, renames, moves etc. (similar to files being copied in parallel, it will also be possible to have them be deleted in parallel to save time)
•    Multithreaded reading of folders in all cases except where a file list cache or a remote lister or one of the new cloud DLLs is used.
•    New Performance tab sheet on Program Settings dialog, as well as a threading option on the Files tab sheet in each profile.
•    Syncovery can now detect your Internet connection and run jobs only when a specific connection is active. See the Program Settings dialog, tab sheet “Startup”. The detection works based on the reverse DNS names which Syncovery gets by querying https://www.syncovery.com/whoami.php. You can click this link yourself to see which DNS name your Internet connection has.
•    File copying up to 100 files in parallel per job is allowed although not recommended. Folder scanning up to 500 threads, but performance may degrade substantially if using more than 50 threads.
•    Multithreaded multipart upload to Amazon S3 in order to maximize bandwidth usage. You can specify the number of threads on the Program Settings dialog, tab sheet “Cloud”. This setting will also be used for uploads to Glacier and Azure.
•    Support for MTP devices. You can now sync with any smartphone or camera including Android devices and iPhones. See the new “Device…” buttons below the left and right-hand paths when editing a profile in Advanced Mode.
•    Support for Windows Event Log and SugarSync cloud storage. Windows Events can be configured on the Program Settings dialog. Containers (buckets/vaults) can be chosen via a Browse dialog for Amazon S3, Glacier, Microsoft Azure, and SugarSync.
•    Support for Email as Internet Protocol that can be used for syncing, i.e. you can send and receive files via email using a Syncovery profile. All of the new cloud services are now compiled into the main exe files, so that fewer DLLs are required, and the Setup program is now smaller than version 6.
•    A button “Alternate Data Streams” has been added to the Special tab sheet, which will show a dialog allowing to choose whether Alternate Data Streams should be copied along with the files or not (Windows only). Stripping them from the files may have the advantage that Windows forgets that a file was copied over the network and removes the security prompt when opening it. However, in other cases, Alternate Data Streams may contain valuable information. The default is to copy them along with the main data in the file.
•    Folders for deleted files can now be relative to the base folder, and you can also use a separate Deleted folder in each subfolder. Examples are shown on the “Folder for deleted files” dialog.
•    When synchronizing with a server or any network folder, a configuration file can now be imported at the beginning of the sync. That way, members of work groups can be forced to all use the same profile settings. Please see SyncoveryV7serversidesettingsimport.pdf for details.

Planned features (planned for version #7)

Intended new features after the initial release of v7.00

•    Native support for Sharepoint / Office 365 / OneDrive for Business
•    Improve support for each cloud service to make the best use of its features.
•    Real-time two-way syncs and downloads with some cloud services.
•    Speed up reading of folders (“building the file list”) thru code optimizations as well as multi-threading for all situations including file list cache and remote lister.
•    Filename Encryption
•    Support for Additional Encryption Algorithms
•    Support for Additional Compression Formats other than ZIP
•    Allow the Monitoring Tool to monitor other Syncovery installations outside of the LAN by communicating via an Internet server.

Installation (there's now an x64 version)

Installation Questions

•    Syncovery V7 can be installed on top of an existing version and will use the same configuration and database files.
•    The 32-bit version 7 will replace an existing V6 unless you specify a separate installation folder.
•    The 64-bit version will automatically be installed into a new folder and can be used side-by-side with any 32-bit version.
•    You can always go back to version 6 without any issues, because all configuration and database files are 100% comptible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MBAM: how is it starting automatically with windows??

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 11:21 AM »

Why not make contact with the source?