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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on August 26, 2014, 03:53 AM »

^ and lovely accents too

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Living Room / Re: DOCX in html file?

« Last post by tomos on August 24, 2014, 01:13 PM »

Sorry, have no idea what this one is about ...

(PS... That link is from the DotTech list above)

-Cuffy (August 23, 2014, 03:03 PM)

Can you clarify - there's no link ??

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Living Room / Re: Let's have some weekend Science and Tech! (A bit of a roundup!)

« Last post by tomos on August 24, 2014, 01:04 PM »

  a good mix

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 08:39 AM »

Would not clearing the archive bit work, assuming your backuup method just copied everything without twiddling bits?

-MilesAhead (August 22, 2014, 08:34 AM)

I thought of that, and my backup (Syncovery) does allow *not* using it (I'll have to check what it does by default).
Any tips how I do that? (again, I searched unsuccessfully )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 08:36 AM »

For my purposes at the moment, read-only is ideal:

• quick and visible by anyone anywhere
• if I (or someone else) decide the file needs more work, it simply gets replaced by a new version (they're PDF's created from working files) - this new version will not be read-only, so I can see at a glance what is unfinished /not-checked /not-approved-yet

Me think, "read-only" is a file attribute and could be set even by accident.

Wouldn't be renaming (adding a tag. e.g. a leading or trailing underscore)
or moving to a folder (e.g. sub folder "\Done") be a option?
Your used file managers would do that by a script from a button click or a keyboard shortcut.

-AbteriX (August 22, 2014, 04:53 AM)

renaming is not an option (in this case, I'd have to change the names back);
but simply moving to a sub-folder could be the easiest solution
Funny how sometimes the easy ways are the ones you dont think of first


I was thinking today though:
ideally I'd have and use a cross between an IM and a file manager, that is fully integrated with a commentable versioning backup system :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 04:21 AM »

Thanks Don

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

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 03:26 AM »

How does downloading something for free fund anything? Please tell me that's photoshopped or somehow satirical.

-Deozaan (August 20, 2014, 11:12 PM)

Unfortunately, I don't think it is. But the insanity is still funny in a dark way.

EDIT: I did a bit of Photoshop analysis on it, and it looked like it was shopped (some lines were a bit straight). So I looked into it more. See here:

http://boingboing.ne...ng-the-london-1.html

-Renegade (August 21, 2014, 10:30 PM)

here's images of the original billboards (and commentary)
http://boingboing.ne...ne.html#previouspost

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 03:00 AM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Oldest examples of everyday objects

-Arizona Hot (August 21, 2014, 09:36 PM)

very interesting

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

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 02:45 AM »

^ Privacy Badger sounds good Iain -
and nice to know you can pretty much completely trust the source

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General Software Discussion / Re: [Solved] Easy way to mark file as done

« Last post by tomos on August 22, 2014, 02:36 AM »

It would still be nice to have an optional way of colouring "done" or read-only file differently from the rest.  Maybe there are ways to do that in advanced file managers...

-rjbull (August 21, 2014, 05:08 PM)

that would be nice. In this case read-only is a solution, but where it isn't...

If you commit to always using one of those heavy duty file managers you mention, they may have their own way of leaving notes or tagging files that will display them differently within that program.

-mouser (August 21, 2014, 05:17 PM)

yeah, I see they both support tags of some sort, must look closer there.

Maybe I'll remove the [Solved] prefix and see if there's any more suggestions.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: SuperDuperRoboPrinter

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 03:24 PM »

Anyone using this on Windows 7 x64?

I just had a go with PDFs, and didnt get any response...
(Adobe Reader X is default PDF prog.)

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 02:05 PM »

Thanks everyone. Now share yours!

-JavaJones (August 21, 2014, 11:15 AM)

well you might inspire me to get in gear and upload a few pics - which I haven't done in years. Did work on a batch lately but was nearly all with family.
Here's one though from July in Ireland (click for 768*1024):

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Living Room / Re: Talents and talent shows

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 01:48 PM »

Wow
I couldn't view either of those, but did find this one:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=w-VA0w_eX4Y

It's a brilliant idea and she is just great!
I cant vote over this side of the water, but wish her the best of luck !

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best keyword-powered program launchers for Windows: Find and Run Robot is on top

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 10:48 AM »

Yeaaay !! well done !!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fully automate screen shot to image

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 10:45 AM »

I guess the easiest way is via the quick-capture-bar which is docked on the top of the screen.
Click the button there with tooltip "Select post-capture options ..."
this menu will show:



that should do it !

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General Software Discussion / Re: [?] Easy way to mark file as done [/?]

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 07:31 AM »

Solved
should have used the brain a bit more before posting

Simply select the files:

• alt+enter to show properties
• press 'r' for read-only
• return out

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General Software Discussion / Easy way to mark file as done?

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 07:20 AM »

[edit] Note: I found a solution for this case (post#2 simply marking files as read-only), but very interested in any other suggestions - also those that will only work in one file manager! [/edit]

I'm looking for a simple way to mark files as "done".

I would like to use a method that is part of the file and visible in various file managers, so I guess changing one of the file attributes would be the way to go (e.g. archive it - is that the same as making it read only? that would be fine).
The attribute could be easily displayed in detail mode in any file manager.

So I reckon using a file manager would probably be the easiest route (?)
I currently have XYplorer and Dopus installed, so could use either of them, (or windows explorer).

I did do a search online, and in both help files, but my search-fu isnt very good, so didnt come up with anything helpful. (Note: I'm a fairly basic user.)

TIA for any suggestions

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 05:26 AM »

^ yeah, very nice

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Living Room / Re: High School Student Laptop Policy

« Last post by tomos on August 21, 2014, 02:58 AM »

^ that *is* often the case,
but these one's use Windows (and MS Office)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 7 Best Tools To Print To PDF (From The Web)

« Last post by tomos on August 20, 2014, 03:50 PM »

Been using PDFCreator for years and can recommend it.
http://www.pdfforge.org/

Pros:
# you can make PDFs up to publication standard on this (yes I've successfully sent stuff to press)
# great control over options
# it has gracefully managed graphics that even Acrobat struggled with (YMMV)

Cons:
# Terrible interface (although they've just introduced a completely new/different version that I havent yet tried)
# trys to install crapware (from that article, it sounds like it's not the worst)


I see PrimoPDF also makes pre-press PDFs, must have a look

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: PDFInfoGUI

« Last post by tomos on August 20, 2014, 03:36 PM »

I'm trying to find page-size of PDF's - PDFInfo shows the page size in points** - I found very little info in the Xpdf page - do you know if this can be changed to metric (or anything else) within PDFInfoGUI ?

-tomos (August 20, 2014, 06:48 AM)

I'd have to write the conversion routines myself in order to do that.

-skwire (August 20, 2014, 10:13 AM)

no, thanks Skwire, dont bother - it's not worth it - in fact it wouldnt even help me that much....
I have to print a lot of PDF's and can only print A3 or A4 at a time (only one tray in printer). I've worked out a workflow:
I open files and print the bigger ones; I copy the A4 ones into another folder for later printing. I think I can even batch print the A4 ones.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: PDFInfoGUI

« Last post by tomos on August 20, 2014, 06:48 AM »

Hi Skwire, thanks for another great app

I'm trying to find page-size of PDF's - PDFInfo shows the page size in points** - I found very little info in the Xpdf page - do you know if this can be changed to metric (or anything else) within PDFInfoGUI ?


** I reckon Adobe is probably responsible here...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls

« Last post by tomos on August 19, 2014, 04:51 PM »

Dunno. You see it or you don't. Or maybe it's just me? That seems to be the consensus, so I think I'm gonna drop it before it starts going in circles.

-40hz (August 19, 2014, 03:48 PM)

if we were having this conversation in a pub, you would have to buy at least the next two rounds

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General Software Discussion / Re: Frustrated Mom Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls

« Last post by tomos on August 19, 2014, 02:00 PM »

^ I get a sense this is leading somewhere?

Could it be plans to introduce surveillance of the parents to ensure that they do what you, or the government, or whoever, want and think correct?  

You're railing against things that I'm not reading in this thread. No one here said they're 'automatically qualified' (or did I miss something?).

If: "Parents. Only. Exclusively." :then: Why so?

-40hz (August 19, 2014, 12:37 PM)

Related:
# we all know that the state does intrude there occasionally, with mixed results.
# society has largely lost it's traditional structure where an extended family and close-knit community could compensate for parents' lack of experience.

I believe that most people at some level love their parents (even if they have reason to hate them too).

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

« Last post by tomos on August 19, 2014, 06:59 AM »

^nice find Arizona, some good one's there

Not sure if the comment below this one was being ironic or not - either way it's brilliant: