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

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2014, 10:36 AM »

Blast from the past (1978). Genya Ravan, a lady who set the tone and look - and raised the bar - for a lot of what came after.

Not a video proper. But still a great song. Here's Genya and Lou Reed doing Aye Co'lorado from her Urban Desire album:
...

-40hz (November 08, 2014, 07:50 PM)

thanks for that tip - there's not much of her stuff on YT - and I didnt actually get to hear that one (I've been seeing "This video is not available" a lot lately :-/)
But I did get to hear some of her other stuff - e.g. a great version of Coney Island Baby (I get the impression it's recent)
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=GWr0fvkRNls

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2014, 09:09 AM »

-Stephen66515 (November 16, 2014, 04:45 AM)

brilliant Stephen

CATMANTOO 3 months ago (edited)
 
Hello, thanks for all the "likes", shares and comments! You have questions? here are some answers.  Didga [CAT] is a girl, I adopted her from a shelter. I'm a dog trainer, without my own dog, but she grew up with dogs, (all dogs are clients dogs or just dogs on the beach) she is at the ocean/river a lot, she does lot's of tricks and "dog like" behaviours, including rides on my stand up paddle board and swims from time to time. Yes, She's the famous skateboarding cat (2.6 mil views, look for video), I use a GoPro Camera & 'final cut' editing software. More Q? Cheers, Robert & Didga
Reply · 954

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2014, 09:03 AM »

www.themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/trans-pacific-partnership-a-recipe-for-corporate-dictatorship-mun-loong-won

Highly relevant info there.

-Renegade (November 16, 2014, 04:30 AM)

yes, that's a scary one.
There's also the related EU/USA version TTIP or TAFTA :-(
https://en.wikipedia...vestment_Partnership
https://en.wikipedia...tnership#Controversy

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Coding Snacks / Re: The Best Way to handle finding and removiong Duplicate Files

« Last post by tomos on November 16, 2014, 08:47 AM »

Good to get a couple of recommendations for duplicate file finders

@questerflora, any chance you could change the title of the thread to something more topic-related?
That would be helpful (I think it needs to be changed in first post to stick)

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Living Room / Re: Where do you buy your printer ink?

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2014, 04:27 AM »

Unfortunately I cant help with supplier - the one I use only ships in the EU & .ch
The ink I can recommend though, if you can find a good supplier over there:
Peach, consistently tests good and I've been very happy with the quality for years now (w. Canon printers).

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pre-Release: The OEMer

« Last post by tomos on November 14, 2014, 01:02 PM »

hi lugosi, oups, you posted in between...

How you've done it is probably fine - normally the info & file are added to the first post, and the file is updated there.

There is also a Nany 'template' that is often used - see e.g.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=39172.0

When editing, you can access that template thus:



but I'd say the app itself is the most important part of it all

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on November 14, 2014, 05:54 AM »

MilesAhead on 5,000 - does he get a mug for that?




and shortly after, post 5,001 was worth catching too ;-)

Spoiler

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Living Room / Re: ESA Rosetta comet landing being streamed live 12-NOV-2014 @ 11:00AM EST

« Last post by tomos on November 13, 2014, 05:11 PM »

Some nice photos here
http://www.esa.int/s...mages/Images/2014/11
+
some older images via YT
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=2wqxGhN6bxU

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

« Last post by tomos on November 13, 2014, 04:35 PM »

Chill-out time
"Flying over Cool Cumulus Clouds.." - with nice ambient music

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

« Last post by tomos on November 13, 2014, 04:13 PM »

This is is stunning! A scifi short for the ESA sponsored Rosetta Mission. It shows a far future, with a post-human apprentice planet builder and her mentor...

[...]
Unlike NASA, the ESA understands the importance of spreading the dream...    

-40hz (October 25, 2014, 11:29 AM)

Interesting watching that after the fact

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 04:01 PM »

I'm not sure what others think, but I would *much* prefer one post per topic.
Find it gets annoying when I dont know where one topic ends and the next begins.

Thanks either way :-)

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Living Room / Re: ESA Rosetta comet landing being streamed live 12-NOV-2014 @ 11:00AM EST

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 01:47 PM »

Missed all the live fun -
found this from the BBC:

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Living Room / Re: Mailpile [Beta]

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 08:38 AM »

^thanks wraith for that clarification.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 06:46 AM »

I notice that the plus symbol "+" disappears when I move from focus from one note to another.
This doesnt bother me much but thought I'd report in case


And a request:
would it be possible to make full filepaths into links in the same manner as weblinks?
e.g.
D:\Downloads\wxyz.exe

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBay AddOn via FF Update?

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 03:53 AM »

I've been avoiding FF auto updates so perhaps everyone else is already aware of it, but I was dismayed when I tried updating to 33.1 via the help menu and got an eBay Button on the Toolbar.  Yuck.  

-MilesAhead (November 11, 2014, 03:44 PM)

I notice I've a few new buttons placed on the toolbar - but for extensions that I already have - no ebay one added.

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Living Room / Re: Mailpile [Beta]

« Last post by tomos on November 12, 2014, 03:48 AM »

So IMAP can download all the mail from the server, and then remove it from the server, but keep it locally? The way POP accounts (used to) work?

-Deozaan (November 11, 2014, 04:10 PM)

IMAP can download all the mail from the server - but it cannot remove mail from the server *and* keep it locally.
Think of it more as a sync: gone there, gone here ...

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Living Room / Re: Mailpile [Beta]

« Last post by tomos on November 10, 2014, 02:05 PM »

I had a look at the demo. It reminds me of gmail - it also appears to have the limitations of gmail:

• I can only look at twenty mails at a time - this may be expandable to 50 or more? (I would still find this a limitation)
• sorting does not appear to be possible (?)

I tend to use sort and scroll a lot when working with emails (using Thunderbird). Why I never used gmail much in the browser - although I like their new way of sorting the inbox a lot (different tabs for 'Social' 'Promotions' etc.), and often use of late it when first checking new mail.

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Living Room / Re: Ripple - A touching and awesome movie

« Last post by tomos on November 08, 2014, 02:47 PM »

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: OEMer

« Last post by tomos on November 06, 2014, 03:42 PM »

But I was also playing on how we all are proud of our snacks (or other programs!) and like to add awesome and/or obscure features.

-TaoPhoenix (November 06, 2014, 03:14 PM)

didnt really mean to supress - good response

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: OEMer

« Last post by tomos on November 06, 2014, 02:58 PM »

DC is one of the BEST sites out there in internet-land

-lugosi84 (November 06, 2014, 02:36 PM)

we agree
(hush hush there Tao )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by tomos on November 06, 2014, 01:51 PM »

There's still some good info in this thread so I'll post here:

Gizmo's Best Free Font Manager is still there, last updated this year, still showing NexusFont on top (but note NexusFont was last updated mid 2012).

I'm prompted to post because MainType has just released version 6.
Now has Pro & Standard versions - tbh I dont fully understand the differences (yet):


http://www.high-logi...type/comparison.html

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

As per email, the improvements in v.6 are:

Font Tags
Over the years numerous customers have asked us to provide better support for searching and categorizing their font library. Previous versions of MainType already came with several ways to group and categorize font collections, but the new font tagging functionality adds another dimension to managing your font library. It allows you to provide meaningful tags to your fonts, so you can easily find and use the right fonts for every occasion.

Synchronization
With font folder synchronization it is a breeze to use shared fonts on a network drive, so a team can work with exactly the same group of fonts as part of their font collection. Of course it's also possible to synchronize local font folders.

Other Improvements
Several existing features have been improved. The backup and restore features are accessible through the Tools menu. Numerous new toolbar icons have been added, and several dialogs have been redesigned.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by tomos on November 06, 2014, 01:19 PM »

I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but since Windows 7 there have been shortcut keys to fit a window to the right or left of the screen: Windows Key + Left Arrow and Windows Key + Right Arrow.

-shmuel1 (November 06, 2014, 05:01 AM)

There's also an app from MilesAhead here on dc, let's see, here's a review I wrote:
MoveIt - windows management app - Mini-Review

I use it in conjunction with GridMove (and Windows' default Winkey + Arrow keys) in Windows 7.
(I dont know if Moveit works in Windows 8.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Pledge: OEMer

« Last post by tomos on November 06, 2014, 01:00 PM »

^ my Dell OEM (that I installed myself) just has this:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Please recommend a clipboard & note manager with the following features

« Last post by tomos on November 05, 2014, 05:00 AM »

Maybe its ethically wrong, and i am a man of ethics.

-hulkbuster (November 05, 2014, 03:58 AM)

thanks hulkbuster
it's very much a greyzone - and I know if I found the key for myself I'd use it. Was just wary of the sharing part.

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees

« Last post by tomos on November 05, 2014, 03:38 AM »

Not exactly. 

-app103 (November 04, 2014, 08:07 PM)