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General Software Discussion / Re: create a new entry in the main contextual menu : a new txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 23, 2014, 07:54 AM »

Ok.  I already had Text File in New menu.  Here's what I did to get a template file.

This key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.txt\ShellNew

I added a new string named FileName and for value Template.txt


In the folder C:\Windows\ShellNew I made a file named Template.txt.  The contents is:
This is a text file template.

Now if I right click the desktop or in a folder, select New text document, name it, then double click, it has the text from the template.

One thing I notice I can't do it directly under C:\

It has to be in a folder.  The permissions situation with W8 seems even worse than W7 now.  Every move is hamstrung. I can't even save a file from Editpad directly into C:\Windows\ShellNew.  I have to save it somewhere else, then drag it.  Really asinine.

Anyway, I hope the template text default was what you were interested in.  If not then, Never Mind.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQRL (Secure Quick Reliable Login)

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 22, 2014, 04:05 PM »

This is starting to remind me of a sci/fi story(can't remember the title offhand) where the secure physical lock took a thumbprint. But it didn't stop there.  It scraped a tiny layer of skin and performed a DNA analysis to determine the owner was the one opening the lock(similar to Gattaca but predates it I think.)  Anyway the author stated the big drawback to this "key" is that you cannot give it to someone else.  "Here, go fetch my stuff out of my locker" doesn't work. 

As it goes on I think more people will end up locked out of their own accounts.  The true break-in pros will likely go to a deeper level to get in.  (Everything has some kind of diagnostic mode.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: create a new entry in the main contextual menu : a new txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 21, 2014, 03:33 PM »

http://www.techrepub...ws-new-command-menu/

At least in AutoIt and AHK they use the name Template.au3 or .ahk.  I think you can do the same with a text file.  Have it start with some default text.  But I think you have to put the name of the template file in the reg key.  For example C:\Windows\ShellNew\Template.txt

I tried just creating that file with some text in it.  Didn't work.  So it must need the registry key.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Adding link to webpage when using cut and paste into notepad from a website

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2014, 12:38 PM »

Pasting in the link is much easier if you use EditPad Lite 7.  For example in Pale Moon I just left mouse drag the "moon" on the left of the addressbar and drop it in EditPad.  Also you can set the word wrap to 72 or another value in Options File Types, Editor Options.  When you copy paste from the web page it will add the end of lines.

I took a look around for "web clipper" type AddOns but they seem to be designed to work with online accounts rather than text files.

EditPad also has an Edit option to paste the date.  As for the naming perhaps an ahk macro could do that part.  Double clicking a link in EditPad launches the default browser so it's not a bad way to get back the the source page for the snippet.

It's free for personal use.

http://www.editpadlite.com/

Edit: I think most web browsers will drag and drop the address this way. At least Opera and Chromium do.

Hmm, word wrap seems to be damned if you do and damned if you don't.  It can cause long urls to be broken.  There's always a fly in the ointment it seems. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2014, 09:28 AM »

With pspad

Edit-sort-delete duplicates-Accept

That's all !!!!

Best Regards

-Contro (February 17, 2014, 07:02 PM)

EditPad Lite 7 can do the same thing.  I used PsPad for html since it has a previewer that simulates IE.  That way I don't have to bring up IE just to test.  But anyway, PsPad is ok.  A bit quirky though. I've used EditPad Lite for plain text for years.  The font settings can be annoying when you forget how you got there. I don't know why there's no button to permanently set the font on the toolbar.  But other than that it's ok for a freebie.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 16, 2014, 02:12 PM »

@tomos it may not be noticeable with ordinary desktop programs but there seems to be a chink in the linkage when performing desktop window action taken for granted on XP to W7.  My guess is that Metro is the fly in the ointment.  Hotkey/Window class/clipboard code just seems to be much less reliable.  It's hard to define.  That makes me suspect there are lots of intermittent quirks that will be difficult to diagnose and adjust.

Maybe I'm just too pesimistic but it seems we just started catching up to the Vista/W7 differences and the house of cards gets knocked over again.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the Heck is Happening to Windows? Article on Windows 8 Disaster

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 16, 2014, 02:04 PM »

@40hz I'd add to your list that developers don't like coping with Owner
Draw code just to have controls look normal on Glass only to have the rug pulled out with Windows 8.

Windows 8 seems pretty stable.  But I think Dos with the TurboVision character mode UI looked better than the Windows 8 Desktop programs.  It looks like somebody bleached the window components.  Really lame.

I also notice an obsession with forcing things to be run with elevated privileges.  Just because a program is installed under Program Files it cannot modify files in its own folder without either being run as administrator and/or the user taking ownership.  It's just silly.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 16, 2014, 10:01 AM »

Pretty funny.  But babes with big boobs in hot tub would've put it over the top...less. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 16, 2014, 08:03 AM »

I've never used pspad.  Also I'm not skilled in RegEx.  I'd ask on ahk forum or use one of the RegEx Tester programs.  There's a ton shows up in search.

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 03:39 PM »

I don't know why you want to do it the hard way.  In Opera Manage Bookmarks, File, Inport Firefox bookmarks, browse to .html file.

Other browser, export as html.

in AutoIt3 compile as a console app and it will output the urls to the command line.  Put exact path of "bookmarks.adr" file

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#include <File.au3>
Dim $array
If Not _FileReadToArray("C:\bookmarks.adr", $array) Then
MsgBox(0,"Bookmarks", "Error " & @error)
Exit
EndIf
For $x = 1 To $array[0]
$array[$x] = StringStripWS($array[$x],1)
If StringLeft($array[$x],4) = "URL=" Then
ConsoleWrite(StringMid($array[$x],5) & @CRLF)
EndIf
Next

Edit: Changed StringMid start pos to 5.  That should be the char after the "URL=" to the end of the string.

Edit2: new copy strips leading WS to get rid of tabs

Edit3:  seems to work now.  At least it spits out some urls. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 02:04 PM »

Is there a Firefox plugin that exports out the bookmark lists?

-TaoPhoenix (February 15, 2014, 09:36 AM)

I haven't heard of one. I'm using Opera Import of Firefox bookmarks.  But Opera would do the same for anything it knows how to import. It will end up as part of bookmarks.adr.

I think there are converters that go between several formats.   But they are stand-alone programs. But if you find one with Opera as output it should generate the file.  I don't know if it will complain if it doesn't find opera.exe anyplace on the drive.

Edit: I seem to remember Transmute worked pretty well.  But it's not free.  Also I still ended up with all the Firefox bookmarks in a folder.  I ended up editing bookmarks.adr just as if I imported with Opera.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 02:00 PM »

For what it's worth I find Firefox 27.01 Portable very snappy. Of course I'm on a Laptop not a quad or 8 core machine. But I really can't detect the difference.  I use Pale Moon more because it's installed and can be easily set as the default.

http://portableapps....net/firefox_portable

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 09:10 AM »

Heh.  Speaking of fanboys... I didn't make many friends on Opera forum when I suggested that a triple mouse click just to select a line contributed to CTS.    But them I'm not a mouse gestures guy.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 07:58 AM »

They seem to start with "url=" so it should be fairly easy with any script that has the equivalent of If StringLeft(urlstr,4) = "url=" then yadda yadda

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2014, 07:53 AM »

Miles, I too use Pale Moon 24.3.2 and have not had any problems.  I switched from Firefox to Pale Moon
about a year ago and have been very happy with it, both with the program itself and with the active participation of the developer in the Pale Moon forums. 

-cyberdiva (February 14, 2014, 10:38 PM)

I know what you mean about the forum.  I posted a couple of times and got replies from the developer.  A nice forum there.  I didn't notice any sarcastic replies.  Although I didn't read a statistically significant sample. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 14, 2014, 02:55 PM »

When you import into Opera, it adds bookmarks to its bookmarks.adr file.  It's plain text.  Then it's cut and paste, not export.

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General Software Discussion / Re: List bookmarks url's to a txt file

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 14, 2014, 12:58 PM »

As far as I can tell the Opera bookmarks file, bookmarks.adr, is ordinary text.  You can import, say Firefox bookmarks, then open bookmarks.adr.  All the Firefox bookmarks will be under a heading Firefox Bookmarks, or something similar.  When opened by Opera all the imported Firefox bookmarks are in a folder of that name.  I have many times, just deleted that header and a couple of lines above it, to make the Firefox bookmarks become all the Opera bookmarks.

But anyway, for now as a stopgap, you can import with Opera then just copy and paste with a text editor to save as a plain text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 14, 2014, 10:59 AM »

I have been using Pale Moon for a couple of months, and am very pleased with it.

I see you are running the latest. I'm using 24.3.0.  It seems fine so I've been reluctant to update.  But if you don't notice anything funky then I guess it's time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2014, 02:16 PM »

I shutter to think what may happen next. 

-MilesAhead (February 13, 2014, 01:17 PM)

Chris will come along and flash us.

-wraith808 (February 13, 2014, 01:25 PM)

Yeah.  Puns are a reflex with him. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2014, 01:17 PM »

Dang it! The Secret Photo Contrast Cartel has been exposed!

Heh heh!  I love the play on words.  

I shutter to think what may happen next.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2014, 10:26 AM »

It would be interesting if they were all downloaded from the same place.  The old sneaky single pixel image hidden in an email comes to mind.  Although one would think it should be difficult to just come into the PC and play with the images.  Even if the sneak knew your IP how would he know the image file location?  Unless it somehow "called home."

The other thing I'm thinking if the pics are layered then maybe something in the system is used to set the base layer value somehow.  But I don't know enough about layered images etc..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photos that spontaneously change

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2014, 10:15 AM »

Where did you get the photos?  Is there a common denominator?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2014, 10:04 AM »

Did you try Waterfox 26? Please tell!!

  I'm using it now.  At least on my Laptop Windows 8.0 it is really herky jerky.  Unusable really.  Just now when I logged in it took 3 letters of my user name, then sat there for 10 seconds before echoing the rest.

Seems it is totally out performed by Pale Moon and even FF 27.0 32 bit portable.  In fact now that Pale Moon is stable again I should uninstall it.  The only reason I put it back on was to have a "default" browser.  And doing that with portables just doesn't work right.

I think I'll take it off now. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 10, 2014, 12:56 PM »

I have to wonder if the Start Screen/Desktop setup will peacefully coexist.  I don't know what they do under the hood.  But I do notice stuff that works without issue in W7 that's a hassle in W8.  A simple example I have a PastePath tray utility.  Very simple. It just copies the path from the last active Explorer Window.  You can hotkey the path into file open, save, command prompt or even to paste in an editor.  In W8 to get it to work I have to run it as Administrator.  Even then it seems to work only half the time.  In W7 there's no issue.  Strange.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why didn't anyone tell me I could make the Windows 7 taskbar height non-obscene?

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 07, 2014, 09:53 AM »

I have a "Laptop' Desk clock...

That's the one thing I do like about Win8 UI.  Mouse to the corner to bring up Options sidebar.  Hover on Options. It displays time and other info nice and large.