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General Software Discussion / Re: HomeFolder Updated to 2.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 24, 2014, 04:45 PM »

HomeFolder Updated to 2.3.2.0

Updated Donate and Visit Hotkey Page menu commands to navigate to the new domain.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 24, 2014, 11:39 AM »

Thanks for the suggestions.  I ended up getting it to work with win7 compatibility.

-kippg (March 23, 2014, 10:15 PM)

I didn't think of trying that on my programs.  I'll give it a shot. 

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 23, 2014, 02:56 PM »

Hi jgpaiva,

I am finding that its not working very well in Windows 8.  I have a donation ready to go.... can you fix it?

-kippg (March 23, 2014, 12:13 PM)

Just one thought.  Have you tried running as administrator? I find some of my programs don't want to work on W8 without it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ResizeExplorer 1.1.0.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 22, 2014, 04:24 PM »

Updated download link in first post to new domain.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 22, 2014, 03:17 PM »

have to disagree with your reading it as a comedy.  I love those fake comedy documentaries (This is Spinal Tap remains the pinnacle of the genre).  This movie may have been funny to you but I don't think there's a chance in hell the film makers intended it as a comedy.

-mouser (March 22, 2014, 02:12 PM)

Speaking of Mockumentaries, one of the funniest I've seen is Fear of a Black Hat It's kind of in the realm of CB4 but funnier and more profane.

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 22, 2014, 01:47 PM »

I felt the whole thing was pretty ridiculous and implausible.

  Hmm, after reading the basic plot line on IMDB I have to check it out at some future opportunity.

But I gather it's not on a par with Three Days of the Condor. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Child board set up for discounts and deals found on the web

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 22, 2014, 09:36 AM »

So any kind of special offers or discounts relating to software are acceptable in that section (and only that section).

Just to clarify.. if I have a legally obtained freebie(such as a license) is it okay to post an invitation to swap?  Something like "I have this.  PM me to swap if you have that."  It's likely to be a one shot thing.  I don't foresee dozens of people gifting me licenses in the future. 

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General Software Discussion / HomeFolder Updated to 2.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 21, 2014, 02:32 PM »

HomeFolder Updated to 2.3.1.0.  It should now work on both 32 and 64 bit English Language versions of Windows XP and later.  The new download page is here:
http://milesaheadsoftware.tk/

Just to refresh the memory what it does.  Press Shift NumpadSub to open the Home Folder of the process that owns the active window.  For example if you want to open an Explorer window in the folder where Firefox.exe is, click on the Firefox window to make it active, press Shift NumpadSub hotkey.

Doing the same on an Explorer folder window should open C:\Windows on most systems as that's where explorer.exe file is.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Interesting tool for generating WMI queries

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 21, 2014, 06:08 AM »

WMI is slow compared to WinAPI calls.  But it can get around some hairy obstacles.  One example I ran into was getting the "home folder" of the program that owns the active window.  Just a hotkey convenience toy that gets the path of the executable that owns the window and chops it at the last '\'.  Easy except for 32 vs 64 bit clash.  The WinAPI calls match up with either 32 or 64 bit depending on the caller's compile.

WMI can get the answer whether the caller is 32 bit or 64 bit.  Not good for tight loops such as enumerating all the window owners.  But you can't have everything. 

Thanks to both of you for posting these links.  I'm sure I'll find some interesting stuff using these tools.  

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Living Room / Re: Literal Videos - Hilarious!

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 19, 2014, 05:07 PM »

To be forewarned is to be forearmed.  

-MilesAhead (March 16, 2014, 08:11 AM)

Shiva the Destroyer is coming!
 (see attachment in previous post)

-TaoPhoenix (March 19, 2014, 04:34 PM)

Hmm, 4 more appendages and she could switch to the James Bond title. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 19, 2014, 05:03 PM »

I don't understand what happens in my PC. It seemes possessed by the devil...

That may explain the preference for lots of red.  btw I wouldn't get into a flame war with him.  

But all seriousness aside, have you done lots of virus scans?  Maybe you have some prankware floating about.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Add a File/Send/Link to Word or Notepad++ or other program to IE 11

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 19, 2014, 09:54 AM »

This shows add to OneNote.  I'm not sure if there's a way to add more commands than are in the list.  I only have IE 10 and don't use IE.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 18, 2014, 02:45 PM »

Yeah, Steve Allen did plenty of schtick.  But what I liked as a kid were the "man in the street" interviews.  He had quite a crew with Tim Conway, Louis Nye, Tom Poston and several others who went on to do TV comedy for quite some years.

Later on I appreciated the jazz musicians he had on.  Also talent like Lenny Bruce, Jack Kerouac etc..

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 18, 2014, 02:39 PM »

Like the old kid TV show host (Sandy Becker? Chuck McCann? Fred Hall? Sonny Fox? - it was one of them) used to do with his character Mr. Backwards.

-40hz (March 18, 2014, 01:08 PM)

What was the joke?  Professor Backwards was killed in a mugging today in NYC.  Passers by ignored his cries of "pleh, pleh."

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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares 20 Drive Imaging Tools

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 18, 2014, 11:32 AM »

It would have been interesting if GPT support was noted on the chart.  As drive sizes increase I think MBR is going to fade away fast.  Seems as I get new systems there's always some factor that limits my choices.

On XP Paragon Drive Backup Personal seemed great.  But it messed up my partition table in Vista.  I moved to Macrium Reflect.  I got another PC with a software raid controller.  Macrium didn't like it.  Moved to EaseUS ToDo Backup.  EaseUS also had USB 3.0 support with the Linux rescue CD. No need to use WinPE.  Now I'm on a Windows 8.0 Laptop with GPT partitions and secure boot.  It seems at the moment Macrium Reflect is the way to go as the free version includes WinPE and GPT/secure boot support.

I guess the way to have more software to choose from is to stay with something like Windows Seven MBR systems?

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 18, 2014, 11:13 AM »

There's probably more sophisticated freeware out there for Windows.

-MilesAhead (March 17, 2014, 01:18 PM)

Lots of freeware for Windows out there but I couldn't find any for real-time video... just pre-recorded stuff.
I did read about one that flips a video, plays the frames in reverse order, from the end to the beginning.  Who the hell would want that?  

-crabby3 (March 17, 2014, 01:36 PM)

That reminds me of a regular feature on the old Steve Allen Show.  He would do some stupid stuff, like slide down a rope, shoot arrows into a target, break a dozen eggs, throw jugglers pins behind his back into a basket etc..  then play the film backwards.  The pins would jump out of the basket into his hand behind his back, eggs come together, arrows jump from target to the bow, then he'd put them in the quiver... when done he slid up the rope.  Pretty cool because he always had in mind how it would look backwards.

Read your profile but I couldn't tell if you're old enough to know who Steve Allen was.  

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General Software Discussion / Fat Sorter works on Windows 8.0 Home

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 18, 2014, 10:53 AM »

Fat Sorter is a free Desktop Program for sorting the FAT.  The main benefit is to get mp3 to play in order as discussed in this thread: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=23047.0

I have been going bonkers trying to force Artie Lange Show podcasts to play in order.  Then I remembered the thread above.  Anyway, it seems to work in as much as dir commands show the files in the order intended.  I just downloaded the program and tried it on Windows 8.0 Desktop.  It seems to install and run without issues.

Just thought I'd mention it as that thread is about 4 years old and some of you running W8 may be ripping your hair out like I was. 

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 17, 2014, 01:18 PM »

I installed YawCam.  It doesn't give the 16x9 of the App. But the image is the right way around at least. 

-MilesAhead (March 15, 2014, 09:25 AM)

So is your non-mirror self looking better?  My test video of me was alarming.   Guess you're satisfied with YawCam?  I see one needs Java for it to work.

-crabby3 (March 16, 2014, 09:24 AM)

I don't really do anything other than check how good a shave I got that morning.  I haven't seen how the output looks from another computer.  One criticism, it seems like unsupported resolutions cause it to just go away.  There's probably more sophisticated freeware out there for Windows.

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Living Room / Re: Literal Videos - Hilarious!

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 16, 2014, 08:11 AM »

To be forewarned is to be forearmed.  But I'm not sure what it means to be foreheaded.

Other vids must've been funny since they're banned. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 15, 2014, 12:07 PM »

Thanks. I'll give it a go.  

Edit:  Save with Pale Moon and open with Firefox works fine. But I cannot open the file in Opera or Chrome.  But I don't use them often anyway.  

Edit2:  The maff format seems to work with every page I've tried except gmail inbox.  None of the links are external to internet.  When you click it's just no response.  So far that's the only dud though.  

Edit3:  My bad. I see the generated file has an embedded external link to the source at the top.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 15, 2014, 09:49 AM »

I have been using built-in Firefox "save tabs as MHT archive file"

Is this a new thing?  I'm running FF 27.0 and can't find it anywhere.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 15, 2014, 09:25 AM »

I installed YawCam.  It doesn't give the 16x9 of the App. But the image is the right way around at least. 

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 12, 2014, 03:26 PM »

If I try that my camera just shuts down — it's too frightened by what it sees 

-cranioscopical (March 11, 2014, 10:33 AM)

Aiiyyy!!  I just had my picture taken this morning.  It's more horrible than anything you can imagine.   All I can compare it to is if Clint Eastwood had a mustache, was deceased, allowed to rot for 2 months, and propped up in a chair.  Then he'd look almost as bad as this photo. 

-MilesAhead (March 12, 2014, 10:32 AM)

Perhaps you should have checked yourself in your "webcam mirror" first. :-P

-app103 (March 12, 2014, 03:22 PM)

The opportunity was not extended.  They click you at your worst.. like when you blink.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 12, 2014, 10:35 AM »

My first inclination is to suspect the webcam software may be flipping the image for local display but sending it the right way around to other programs. That would be the first thing I'd check anyway.

If that's the case, hopefully there would be some sort of settings you could adjust to control that behavior, although that doesn't appear to be the case for a Dell webcam under Windows 8. A quick search suggests they dropped their Webcam Central program for Windows 8 in favor of reliance on the Microsoft Camera app.

-Vurbal (March 11, 2014, 02:02 PM)

Unfortunately the settings consist of Video Mode on/off and the bit depth.  That's it.  No flip or rotate.  I guess I need to download some desktop freeware.  But it definitely is a mirror image. 

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Living Room / Re: Dumb question but ...

« Last post by MilesAhead on March 12, 2014, 10:32 AM »

If I try that my camera just shuts down — it's too frightened by what it sees 

-cranioscopical (March 11, 2014, 10:33 AM)

Aiiyyy!!  I just had my picture taken this morning.  It's more horrible than anything you can imagine.   All I can compare it to is if Clint Eastwood had a mustache, was deceased, allowed to rot for 2 months, and propped up in a chair.  Then he'd look almost as bad as this photo.