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General Software Discussion / Re: SUPER © updated, download from Major Geeks

« Last post by Curt on March 13, 2011, 12:48 PM »

SUPER © 2011 Build 47

http://majorgeeks.com/Super_d5117.html
or
http://www.filehippo.com/download_super/

Edited:
My installer wanted to install a third party program named Registry Reviver. It seems you may need to click "Do NOT install..." even though "install" appears to be unmarked.

WARNING:
You may not want to get build 47 anyway! The installer was unable to download "something", and I was forced to abort installation. So now I have no SUPER © at all!
 

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Living Room / Spaceships A-Z, LEGO

« Last post by Curt on March 13, 2011, 12:38 PM »

Andertoons is obviously quite fun of Star Wars spaceships. So much that he now has made and photographed a copy of each A-Z spaceship! It is not really for me, except for the boyish tech beauty, maybe - I was never a fan of Star Wars or anything newer than Moon Base Alpha - but you may like it, so I thought I would tell about it ;-)

LEGO Alphabet Spaceships A-Z

When I was a kid growing up on Star Wars, I thought the X-wing was the best spaceship I'd ever seen. Of course the Millennium Falcon was great, and goodness knows the good old NCC-1701 was awesome, but the X-wing and its letter inspired brethren the Y-wing and A-wing (what the hell was with the B-wing?! It looked nothing like a B!) were just the coolest.

So later on as I got back into LEGO and was building spaceships I thought revisiting the idea of alphabet shaped ships would be fun.

It's taken me almost two years (I have kids and a job after all), but now I've done all 26 letters of the alphabet in glorious spacey LEGO. Click on each pic to be taken to more pics on Flickr. (BTW, you can download them via the "view all sizes" link in the Flickr light box.)

http://www.andertoon...-spaceships-a-z.html

http://www.flickr.co...s/72157621953646058/

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Found Deals and Discounts / JetDrive Defragmentation Suite

« Last post by Curt on March 12, 2011, 11:36 AM »

Brand new version 5, intro offer: 75% off the normal listed price: €10 instead of €40

http://www.abelssoft...?t=28&coupon=kck
http://www.abelssoft.net/jetdrive.php

JetDrive is offered in two versions; Professional and a feature-rich Ultimate version.

JetDrive - Feature Overview

    *
      JetSmart II
      JetDrive defragments your hard drive. It does a far better job than Windows Defrag and -- depending upon the condition of your hard drive -- can result in a 20% gain in performance.
    *
      Automatic or Manual
      JetDrive defragments your hard drives manually or with an automatic process called AutoJet. Defragmentation couldn't be easier.
    *
      Defragments your Registry
      JetDrive defragments all hard drives, single files and even the Windows Registry with a special registry defragmentation algorithm.
    *
      Checks your Drives for Errors
      JetDrive recognizes errors in your hard drives, and can even detect and fix errors automatically if you prefer.
    *
      Detailed Reports
      JetDrive creates detailed reports of your hard drive defragmentastion process. It displays the current state in an easy to read 3D view and summarizes all operations.

JetDrive 5 is all new.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by Curt on March 12, 2011, 09:10 AM »

Curt: where's that from? I don't see ... RarLabs own shop listing such addons?

-f0dder (March 12, 2011, 06:48 AM)

https://shop.win-rar.../16/purl-shop-1984-1

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by Curt on March 12, 2011, 05:57 AM »

I don't trust it to be a free update!
In their shop, WinRAR Maintenance Package is another $10 which will :

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General Software Discussion / Re: How can I tame Microsoft Speech Recognition?

« Last post by Curt on March 11, 2011, 07:53 PM »

Refer to the Speech Reference Card to learn which commands are available. To access the Speech Reference Card, right click the microphone control bar.

To log bugs, use the instructions on the (June 2007) Microsoft Beta Web site (: 'Windows Live ID' needed). We are also interested in feature requests and general feedback about Speech Recognition.

You may request additional support for Speech Recognition by sending emails directly to the Speech Recognition team at [email protected].

-MSDN

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by Curt on March 11, 2011, 09:14 AM »

1. WinRAR 4.0 Final Released!

win.rar GmbH and rarlab.com are proud to announce the final version of the new WinRAR 4.0. This is yet another step ahead for the most complete archiving software on the market.

Highlights of Version 4.0

    * RAR decompression speed is improved. Depending on data type, decompression can be up to 30 % faster than in previous versions.

    * A new password manager feature has been added to 4.0. Users can define and save their frequently used passwords with the password organizer function. This way, the passwords can now be applied and retrieved easily and comfortably for file extracting purposes at any time.

    * Numerous Unicode support improvements allow to process non-English file names more smoothly, such as Cyrillic and Chinese ones.

    * WinRAR offers better Blu-ray Support: UDF support has been upgraded to UDF 2.50 revision, now making it possible to unpack most Blue-ray ISO files.

      The whole list of all improved items and fixed bugs can be found here:

      http://www.win-rar.com/whatsnew.html

      Be the first to download the trial version at: http://www.win-rar.com/download.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by Curt on March 11, 2011, 07:07 AM »

-your scepticism is justified, Paul; I said it wrongly - eBoostr will not use the "C" drive. But I have two internal harddrives, and eBoostr will use the secondary drive ("D"). This is much faster than using the external drives.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A LOUDER Internet

« Last post by Curt on March 11, 2011, 03:01 AM »

3½ years ago I was searching for a video decompiler, picture extractor, and found one at http://www.softwareclub.ws/ The site is still as it was then, nothing has changed. Terrible muzak, unless maybe if you are a (censored for the sake of world peace).

scroll down and click the microscopic "sound on/off" - it will always be on when you enter:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 04:18 PM »

Is IrfanView still shipping (well, downloading) with an old version of RIOT, so that you have to go to the RIOT site and download the current one from there and install over it, or is it now up to date?

-rjbull (March 10, 2011, 03:47 PM)

According to IrfanView's homepage, plugins in general should be up to date, but RIOT is not specifically mentioned, so I don't know, and, forgive me, since I don't compress (image dimensions are much more demanding to the computer / monitor, than size), I don't bother to look. It is version 0.3.3.0
 

http://www.software....nview-plugins-9374-1

Edited:
The default RIOT 0.3.3.0 plugin in IrfanView is a lite version, not an old version per definition. RIOT's "extended" plugin for IrfanView (uses a modified version of FreeImage.dll also) is version 0.46, and is not part of the default package. But maybe that was what you meant.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 03:03 PM »

thanks for telling, sajman99. I always use IrfanView for downsizing my pictures, but never for a second did I stop to wonder if it was done by IrfanView itself or by a plugin. RIOT is installed (comes with the default plugin's exe), but do you know if I have to activate it, (in some hidden way), or is the resizing per defintion done by RIOT?
 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes 2 Deluxe/Portable

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 12:39 PM »

if "you" are new to Softbuy, you may need to know that you have to log into your Softbuy account, in order to get the license key Edited: a voucher code. I first forgot this and was just about to write a very impatient email. Luckily I remembered in time, when I surfed their site for the address ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 09:01 AM »

Beware. This program caused my XP to hang when I restarted.

I guess this program is java based that's why it is taking resources and hangs irrespective of how much RAM you've on machine.

-mahesh2k (March 10, 2011, 08:03 AM)

-Paul Keith (March 10, 2011, 05:39 AM)

No Java.

But maybe the external drive is reading a little too slow?:

USB 2.0 ... flash drive with minimum 2.5MB/sec random read

-System Requirement

Edited: you may find an improvement if you use the internal drive instead.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: iResizer

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 02:24 AM »

http://www.giveawayo...theday.com/iresizer/

now fully worth the price.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes 2 Deluxe/Portable

« Last post by Curt on March 10, 2011, 02:09 AM »

 

okay, so now I have two of this! Is it that good? I obviously didn't use the one I already had....

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Living Room / Re: Recommendation for removing eye flash

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 06:41 PM »

Sorry I took so long to get back to thank you ...

-bob99 (March 09, 2011, 01:53 PM)

Post #100 : https://www.donation....msg240877#msg240877

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

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 06:38 PM »

bob99 made one more bob (??!)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes 2 Deluxe/Portable

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 05:42 PM »

A third thread about AllMyNotes here in DC is at : https://www.donation....msg240798#msg240798

---------

2 more buyers are needed ;-)  Come on: $5 !
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo duplicate scanner

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 05:21 PM »

Dup Detector used 22% CPU for 22 minutes, in order to "Build" a data file from my 5.772 medium sized JPGs. The following analysis was both fast (a few seconds) and exact. This is a keeper!

Thanks for telling 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 04:48 PM »

Earlier versions of Serif PagePlus were criticised for not handling PDF files properly (or at all), but "now" Serif is making a big noise about the "new" (almost half a year old) PagePlus X5's PDF capabilities:

Impressive PDF Editing

Import and edit documents from anywhere and enjoy real compatibility with customers, colleagues, business partners, web browsers and print shops!

Edit Everything in PDFs
Break the mould for a desktop publisher and edit PDF documents as if they were regular PagePlus publications: change text, fonts, layout, colors, images, page order, add and delete pages, merge PDFs, add new content, correct changes in PDFs you receive, and more!

Publish Designs as PDF for Professional Compatibility
PDFs made by PagePlus can be optimized for professional printing, desktop printing, viewing online, highly optimized for email, and can be viewed on other PCs, Macs, tablets, laptops, netbooks and smartphones. Plus you’ll get accurate prints thanks to PDF/X-1a compliance for commercial presses and print shops!

Create Interactive e-Brochures, Forms and Documents
Add hyperlinks and more to traditional documents to make attractive electronic brochures you can publish as efficient PDFs for easy sharing or hosting online. PagePlus’ forms are also printable PDFs so a design can be filled in by hand and sent by post, or completed electronically… with the completed form data sent to you by email, for free.

...

-Serif PagePlus

The offer's link included my email address, so you will have to find the proper page yourself.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes 2 Deluxe/Portable

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 01:09 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: AllMyNotes or Notezilla - Looking for a Comparison

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 12:31 PM »

The really are quite different from each other, so my advice would be to buy both! NoteZilla ($18) is for sticky notes only, while AllMyNotes ($5) is kind of a 'PIM'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 11:43 AM »

-oh, I really must try the new version of ArcGIS Desktop!
Thanks for the recommendation! 


I too need to figure out why our Carol is pleased with Xara Designer Pro 6.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AllMyNotes 2 Deluxe/Portable

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 11:11 AM »

what an affordable way to upgrade my 1.37 de luxe! Excellent! 

--------------------
Another thread about AllMyNotes here in DC is at : https://www.donation....msg186860#msg186860
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: powerful screen capture-----ACA capture PRO

« Last post by Curt on March 09, 2011, 10:29 AM »

Dear Curt...,

I am very glad to notice you that we released ACA Capture Pro 6 on March 03, 2011, this is a major update:

    + New interface, support skin.
    + Compatible with Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit.
    + Support for configure the video compressor.
    + Support for adjusting the video quality.
    + Add PDF format help document.
    + Add online help document.
    + Enhance the screen recording performance.
    + Display the size information of EMF files in listview.
    + Avoid the memory leaks when enabled the effect of wave edge.
    + Support mouse wheel in full screen.
    + Bug fixes.

More details, click here: http://www.acasystem...turepro/?refa=1-mail

Your license covers the version or versions of the software as specified at the time you received it. All versions of the same ´master´ number (the number before the first dot, for example, 2.0, 2.11, 2.5 -- all 2. anything) are covered by your license. If you download and install a ´point´ release and need a new license key because of changes to the program, we´ll provide you with a free upgrade to the ´point´ release. In most cases your older license will still work, without a need to re-issue a new key.

You purchased ACA Capture Pro on Jan 02, 2010, if you want to upgrade to version 6.00, you should pay a small upgrade fee with 50% off upgrade discount, the price is $19.98,

-ACASystems