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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Windows 8.1 "Show Desktop" to do "Win + M" from "Win + D"

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2014, 10:50 AM »

^That one looks interesting.

OP does say they want to use the 'Show Desktop' button on the right of the system tray -
are you open to other options summersyed?

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Living Room / Re: posts on facebook

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2014, 05:06 PM »

Similar to what app says
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Why I’m unfriending you on Facebook

-tomos (September 30, 2014, 01:08 PM)

I've gone back and forth on this.  I do want to completely stop using facebook, but it's also the main way a lot of people i know keep in touch.  Ultimately, I may not mind keeping in touch in this fashion, no offense to anyone.  But it is nice to check in and see the pics now and then.

-superboyac (September 30, 2014, 04:28 PM)

well, the focus is on joining groups. 'Dont' seems to be the advice - and pray that no-one else joins you to any groups you dont want to be associated with.

Yup, even if you don't voluntarily join those sexual fetish groups, a friend of yours can add you to one of them as a joke, and all your friends & family will see your face and name associated with that group, recommending that they join too, on their right sidebar

-app103 (September 30, 2014, 03:48 AM)

It's such a weird idea - to allow other to add you to a group without your consent...

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2014, 03:44 PM »

If MS uses #9 for an upgrade  numbering the next completely new O/S #10 seems perfectly logical.

-Cuffy (September 30, 2014, 03:20 PM)

well, if you put it like that ('logical'), I'll have to mention this:

Vista is NT 6.0.

Windows 7 was indeed a polishing of Vista, that's why it was NT 6.1.

-db90h (March 22, 2012, 05:09 AM)

not sure where that leaves 8, or 9 or 10 ...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture?

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2014, 03:14 PM »

OK, I will try that.  

How about gluing multiple clips together into one?

Thanks.

-jojo99 (September 30, 2014, 03:11 PM)

in the main SC window, drag an image from the side panel (thumbnails) onto the main image - again, you'll get a dialogue with options.

=> Note that you will need the most recent version (just released today).

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License Key

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2014, 01:14 PM »

https://www.donation...er.com/Help/entry/1/

-wraith808 (September 29, 2014, 06:24 PM)

do you atomatically get a key when you register in the forum?

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Living Room / Re: posts on facebook

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2014, 01:08 PM »

Similar to what app says
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Why I’m unfriending you on Facebook

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2014, 01:32 PM »

thread

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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2014, 01:28 PM »

I suspect it's not going to be any major change/s, and hopefully they will finally get the desktop aspect 'in order'.
That should have been done long ago under the Win8 unbrella anyways.

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Living Room / Re: new blackberry passport runs android apps "without delay"

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

I questioned the square screen when the Passport was 1st being talked about. After seeing it in action it makes sense. I'm talking more for business users.
For anyone interested in seeing it, here is the link to the North American kickoff. They show and talk about the square screen and why at 22 mins in. 

http://live.blackberry.events/

-bob99 (September 27, 2014, 02:46 PM)

watched about 20 minutes of that (from the 22min mark) - sounds & looks very impressive. Whachamacallit it touch/swiipe keyboard (?), if it works well, is a brilliant idea.
Amazon reviews seem quite positive (apparently the price *should* be $599 but sold out so some sellers trying to get $899).

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Living Room / Re: Help, I need somebody

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 04:22 PM »

Okaaaaay

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

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 03:07 PM »

Beautifully filmed, lovely bike, great music.
"'72 Harley Ironhead AMAZING CUSTOM"

This is a tribute video to Evolution Cycle's Custom '72 Harley Ironhead "# 22" . It contains video clipped from Stories Of Bike episode 'Forge' which I've set to 'Baby Please Don't Go' by Bob Dylan. No copyright infringement intended. Incredible bike, awesome tune. That is all.

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

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 02:18 PM »

Track of the day for me: Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Live Stockholm '69

music only starts @ 0:58 (direct link, cued)
Powerful bass there too; there's a drum solo towards the end - I always have to think of Nick Hornby claiming to have left a Led Zepplin concert during a drum solo for a quick pint and a game of pool in a pub next door - when he came back, the solo was just finishing. I can relate to that approach myself ;-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Changing the path to save screenshots

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 01:15 PM »

I know that in theory a "." in a file or foldername *should* be fine, I never use them though & I know I'm not alone. You're going to run into problems somewhere, eventually.

SC is definitely not thrilled with dots in filenames.  Can you confirm that is the problem?

-mouser (September 26, 2014, 11:10 AM)

I tried (one time) with the same foldernames as Contro used (09.2014 & 10.2014) and it didnt work. Browsing to the folder was fine, but as he said, changing the folder path from one to the other didnt work. (In Win8.1 x64; it worked fine with 'normal' folder names.)

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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 08:21 AM »

At this stage, I suspect this is a combination of pure incompetence, and an unwillingness to let go of the ideal of having gmail and g+ and YT using the same name.

-tomos (September 09, 2014, 12:48 PM)

I'm going to go with incompetence.

-Renegade (September 10, 2014, 04:24 AM)

that was funny with Chrome

hasn't improved since either (with FF/win7 at any rate):

• I can like a video, but not someone's comment
• if I try to comment, it tries to get me to create a new g+ page (with my 'real' name as per gmail account)
• but, I just discovered, if I share the video and click the g+ button - I'm able to post as expected (i.e. with the g+ account that I am logged into and viewing the YT page with)

so, definitely seems like incompetence

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General Software Discussion / Re: Smart Edit (for Novelists & Creative Writers)

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 06:09 AM »

There is a new version of SmartEdit for Word:



http://www.smart-edi...word-mainwindow.html

(I'm not a user of SmartEdit, just on their mailing list)

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

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2014, 04:43 AM »

Well, I have a much better understanding of where you're coming from Iain, after your last post.

FWIW (possibly because I was brought up Catholic - and haven't heard it before) I find App's joke very entertaining, but sadly also inappropriate for dc.

@IainB, you responded to mouser's labeling of your post, but you did not respond to the general desire to keep religious (and political) topics out of this thread - and out of dc in general (exception basement). There was a general agreement to avoid political and religious topics in dc, so what I dont understand is this: why post something where it is not wanted?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2014, 01:14 PM »

^ Yeah, I neglected to say that startpage also suggests the 'correct' spelling

so definitely better than google in this case. And miles better than duckduckgo. I find I use mostly the two alternatives (duckduckgo, startpage), and occasionally google or bing. I can never remember which ones are better at what, so it's usually trial and error for me...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on September 25, 2014, 09:08 AM »

^ https://startpage.com/ works better I find - but very occasionally, I do have to go back to google or bing.

With StartPage, this thread was #3 (!) and this was #6 when I searched mo lay tau:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_lei_tau


EDIT// and ^that's^ better results than google

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Living Room / Re: new blackberry passport runs android apps "without delay"

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2014, 04:08 PM »

with apologies for giving you a hard time

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Living Room / Re: new blackberry passport runs android apps "without delay"

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2014, 03:53 PM »

I just read the above line.

-superboyac (September 24, 2014, 03:40 PM)

You wrote it too (no link?)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2014, 03:40 PM »

^ maybe it's just me, but there's something weird and unattractive about the word 'phablet' - why not go the whole hog and call them fablets...


EDIT// someone agrees with me:
Phablets Are Officially A Thing, With 20M Shipped In 2013

God help us. Phablets are officially a thing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Changing the path to save screenshots

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2014, 09:35 AM »

How can I try to explain this to make certain is my situation ?

-Contro (September 24, 2014, 09:22 AM)

Screenshots :-)

FWIW, changing the folder by changing the path works here


EDIT// I think it doesnt like the "." in the foldername

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

« Last post by tomos on September 24, 2014, 03:57 AM »

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-Edvard (September 24, 2014, 01:20 AM)

haven't listened yet, but I'll bet it's way out whacked


[edit] lovely stuff [/edit]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SUGGESTION: Maximum Screen Size

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2014, 09:58 AM »

If I 'open' an image file via the SC thumbnail panel (double-click, or press enter with thumbnail selected), it opens in my windows default viewer.

Could that be used to view a large image full-size in another monitor?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 4.8.7 beta feature: drop file onto current image to combine

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2014, 09:51 AM »

Would you consider an option to not resize, but e.g. centre one image beside the other, using the existing option "transparent etc" to fill in the 'background' ?

already done. redownload beta.

-mouser (September 23, 2014, 09:32 AM)

lol, you're like roadrunner there -
did you just whip that up in 13 minutes ?? (is that a dc record ????)

Well done, works a treat