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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by tomos on September 23, 2014, 05:33 AM »

since you asked nicely...

-superboyac (September 22, 2014, 05:54 PM)

  wish it were longer

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Living Room / Re: What is the logic of bezier curves? (for Illustrator pen tool)

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2014, 04:10 AM »

In FreeHand if I create a point in a line, I can move the location of that point before I move on to the next point.**
This might seem like a minor thing, but it isnt :-) it means you can fine-tune and correct your line while drawing it.
If you draw a lot, this is a huge timesaver.

I miss that in the game above. And, I dont know have they changed it since, but up till Illustrator CS4 anyways, you *cannot* do this -
you have to draw your line, and then go back and select and drag each point that needs to be adjusted.

One could argue, with reason, that the illustrator method encourages more accuracy in the first place, but to me, ease of use wins here.

** how that works:

• make your point
• if desired, drag to form curves
• keeping the mouse button pressed, press the Control key and drag - the point moves

3303

Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on September 17, 2014, 06:26 AM »

Review by RGdot

sChecklist For Fast And Easy Lists

3304

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: force Common File Dialog instead of Common Item Dialog?

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2014, 04:25 AM »

No solutions here, but this and reply (in the Bvckup thread) about open/save dialogues might be of interest.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I cannot move Office 2010 windows to another Grid in GridMove.

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2014, 04:18 AM »

Hello there,

I found the reply: I can "pick up" the Office 2010 windows with the mouse. They seem to behave different than the rest but if you take the mouse to an edge and wait long enough (you can define that time in Options / Set Edge Time) the window will move.

Great product!

Luis.

-lsanchez (September 12, 2014, 01:06 AM)

thanks for the update
I use GridMove myself - but only with shortcuts so had no ideas here.

PS if you do have any further problems with gridmove, it would be better to post in this board: JGPaiva's Ahk Tools (he's the author, and would then get notification of the post).

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Living Room / Re: rant! new features

« Last post by tomos on September 11, 2014, 12:12 PM »

I thought it was going to be a rant about new-features-bloat...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Ideas wanted for celebrating 10th Anniversary of DonationCoder.com

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2014, 07:43 AM »

A new banner is a must 

-mouser (September 09, 2014, 04:43 PM)

post # 333333

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

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2014, 07:41 AM »

mouser gets all three's

3309

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

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2014, 07:08 AM »

Funny or unfunny?

-Renegade (September 10, 2014, 06:14 AM)

Stupid as opposed to silly, and I guess funny in the saddest way possible

[edit] you did ask ... [/edit]

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Font in Options Dialog

« Last post by tomos on September 10, 2014, 03:13 AM »

It depends, based on resolution vs. screensize...

-Ath (September 09, 2014, 03:25 PM)

Yeah, I should have mentioned this:
on that machine I have exactly the same resolution/size monitor as JXS, but only one (JXS has two)

2 x 22" Displays with resolution of 1680*1050 each

-JXS (September 09, 2014, 02:45 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: security of MS Office files

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 03:25 PM »

I edit a doc/docx/xls/xlsx file and I send it over email to another person
is he able to view the previous editions before I edit the file?

-kalos (September 09, 2014, 02:51 PM)

This is like the verbal equivalent of an Escher illustration :-/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Font in Options Dialog

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 03:20 PM »

As written in my first post, the zoom is set to 100%:

-JXS (September 09, 2014, 02:58 PM)

It's interesting that the "Default" label is after the 125% in your screenshot there.

Here (win7 pro, x64) it's after the 100%



possibly has no significance, but it did stand out to me.

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

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 12:48 PM »

Well, they fixed my last problem and seem to have introduced a half-dozen others...

I've read that they have recapitulated on the realname thing, but I've got to say I'm not sure what they're at.
This has been going on for a while now:

Machine #1:
Windows 7; Firefox/PaleMoon; logged into gmail account; in g+/Youtube with my Youtube name; no Java installed:

• I am completely unable to post in YouTube - it always opens a popup offering to start a g+ account with my gmail name suggested
• [edit] I'm unable to view my 'notifications' when in YT
• *but* I am able to thumbsup a video or add it to one of my playlists [/edit]

Machine #2 (differences are: Java *is* installed, and OS):
Windows 8.1; Firefox/PaleMoon; logged into gmail account; in g+/Youtube with my Youtube name; Java installed:

• I *am* able to post in YT using my g+/YT name
• Whenever I load someone else's g+ page, I get an error in loading circles: i.e. I am unable to follow anyone new

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.

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Living Room / Re: Meta-data

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 12:30 PM »

Sounds interesting Cuffy

Any chance of a couple of screenshots

While I'm at it ;-)
would you consider doing a mini-review? The mini-review board is here:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=42.0

When starting a review-thread you select the appropriate template:

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Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 10:37 AM »

Tom, would you mind giving this a test and see if you can trigger that freeze-whilst-resizing bug?

Website | Download
v1.0.7 - 2014-09-09
    * Made some changes to, hopefully, fix the freeze-while-resizing bug.
    ! Choosing File, Exit from the menu only minimized to the tray.

-skwire (September 09, 2014, 07:22 AM)

You'll be happy to hear Jody that I'm unable to crash or freeze it

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Living Room / Re: Google playing dirty, or being a nice guy?

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 05:34 AM »

Ah, okay - if I simply search google here for:
Queen ‘horrified’ that Scotland might go it alone
and click the link provided, I then get the full article.

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Living Room / Re: Google playing dirty, or being a nice guy?

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 02:38 AM »

Should I have hit a paywall for either of those links?  Because I get the full article regardless which I click.

-Stephen66515 (September 08, 2014, 11:15 AM)

hah, exactly the oppoisite here - have to click out of the register box on both; get the first paragraph on both; and then the 'Premium content' notification.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: BYOBU - Even more fun with Screen and Tmux

« Last post by tomos on September 09, 2014, 02:31 AM »

Here in Paraguay I get a message that says the video is not allowed to be accessed on certain sited. And the message offers a link to watch it on YouTube itself.

-Shades (September 08, 2014, 03:28 PM)

thanks, it's 'local' then, because I get the same message on YT as well (i.e. "Video not available").
(The content is over my level anyways I was just curious.)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2014, 10:34 AM »

This is funny... but way too esoteric for the silly humour thread:
[...]
You have to watch it to the end though.

-Renegade (September 08, 2014, 09:55 AM)

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Non-Windows Software / Re: BYOBU - Even more fun with Screen and Tmux

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2014, 10:31 AM »

"Video not available" - or is that just here?

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2014, 04:38 PM »

gawditssometimessohardtousejustoneword

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Living Room / Re: Tech/Science News + Some Other Things (From Around The Web)

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2014, 04:35 PM »

Thanks Stephen

Have opened a few links in new tabs, but not read them yet. Just wanted to note:
you've used the title "Intel launches first 14-nanometre processor for thin fanless PCs" twice, I think that's a mistake.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Beyond Compare v4 Open Beta

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2014, 03:04 AM »

• 2. BC is unable to "detect" changes in paragraph order.

[..]
For point.2, how far should I read to get that para order has changed

-anandcoral (September 06, 2014, 02:38 AM)

this seems like a reasonable wish to me: simply indicating somehow that the block of text is elsewhere in the other file would be very helpful.
(Note: I dont use BC - not yet anyways)

(I'd imagine that this could be problematic with comparing code though, or files where stuff gets repeated/duplicated a lot.)

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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2014, 02:39 PM »

plain

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2014, 04:07 AM »

^
reminds me of a video a year or two ago, where the new technological idea of 'the book' gets introduced. Two monks, I think, one showing the other how it works. (I *think* it was another one from Scandanavia somewhere.)

Anyone remember that one?