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THat would be Stick A Note from Anandcoral.
Haven't used it myself.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by tomos on August 09, 2014, 06:11 PM »
^enjoyed, especially the first one :-*

You may have heard this one too, NSFW I guess (no video so I just give the link) Gin and Juice - The Gourds (cover Snoop Dogg)
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Brett's Title Log (Link to most recent version) was also make in AHK ...
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by tomos on August 09, 2014, 01:57 PM »
Hah, you got in ahead of me Ren -
I wanted to post yesterday about my latest aquisition but the connection went:
it's a similar adjustable safety razor from Gillette. They were made from 1959 up to '86. Not sure how old my one is - I got to say I was amazed by the shave - clean, easy, very smooth; I'd have to try hard to cut myself with the thing (I used use an older similar style no/unknown-brand non-adjustable razor, if you didnt 100% focus while shaving, you'd take a chunk out of yourself...)

(Took a nice pic of it but it's on main machine, will post tomorrow or sometime.)

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yes, you weren't looking for something like Anuran when I was suggesting it :)

So I suppose this is the solution for the time being -- or is anyone aware of a tool that combines the features of Anuran ("nag me for descriptive text regularly") and a Titlebar tracker ("record the time spent in your projects' files") into ONE application?

this would be very nice - wonder would Skwire be interested...
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YESS! Anuran most probably is THE tool I am after. Thank you wraith!

as I suggested twice already :P
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Living Room / Re: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords
« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2014, 01:13 PM »
In total, more than 420,000 web and FTP sites were robbed.

Robbed? :huh:

We really have to come up with a better word to describe digital "theft" that leaves the original unharmed and intact. If someone stole my refrigerator by making an exact copy of it and leaving me with my own copy... would I really care? Would I consider it theft?

I get your point, but,
in this case, it could depend on whether they could empty your copy of the fridge, or not :-\
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And to add a tool that's been mentioned here before (and I've had it installed for eons, but hardly ever actually, actively, use) Manic Time
IMHO it has the features you ask for, though I've not investigated much.

I've not used Manic Time, but looking at a feature summary, it, and TitleLog - that I mentioned above - both prompt you to 'explain' what you were doing if away from the computer.

Like David.P, I'd like to keep better track of what exactly I'm doing, also within individual projects. I like the idea of being prompted when leaving a window - what exactly was I doing there?
When I think about it, in my case I could be working on any number of aspects of a job within the same file/window, so maybe something like Anuran that pops up every X minutes would be the thing for me...
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Here's an old thread - I suspect you wont find exactly what you want but there may be something of interest there:
Best way to track the time you spend on each project. Some people on second page there combining two apps - Anuran from Skwire, and an app - like your one I think that keeps track of window titles and time spent - FWIW there's two of those on dc, old, but may still work:
WorkCoach
Title Log
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Living Room / Re: New "censorship" technique on Youtube
« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2014, 08:01 AM »
The Youtube message:

This video previously contained a copyrighted audio track. Due to a claim by a copyright holder, the audio track has been muted.

I've not seen that before, and assume it's relatively new.

They used do that a few years back - but maybe that was just here in Germany. I've also seen videos where the music was replaced by YT with copyright free music.


oh yeah,
Miles! you've been hanging around with too many skinny models !! :P
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Living Room / Re: Malwarebytes self-start problem
« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2014, 01:24 AM »
Seems like these BSODs started sometime about when I began running MalwareBytes, or when I switched to a slightly newer video card....

video card seems the more likely culprit -
but it is easier to replace mwb and see how it goes.
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by tomos on August 07, 2014, 05:34 AM »
Snowden's lawyer announces a three year extension granted to asylum.
Just heard it on the radio  - dont see any reports online yet, hang on here's one:
http://www.wsbt.com/...enextension/27349448
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Living Room / Re: Everyone is brokenhearted.
« Last post by tomos on August 07, 2014, 02:04 AM »
...It's a powerful image, the tall grey man...
Yes, perhaps it could be a powerful image - if you allowed it that - but it is still just a simple metaphor (a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable - a thing regarded as symbolic of something else), and thus it would seem irrational to enlarge the import of an imagined and intangible thing so far as to use it as a putative explanation for something somehow shaping mankind's perceptions throughout the course of our modern history.

In this thread it was used as a symbol of what can/did happen to the individual during the growing-up process. In the 'did' case at least, it is not symbolic of anything 'imaginary' - but yes, I agree: it's not an "explanation for something somehow shaping mankind's perceptions throughout the course of our modern history".

The writer of the article definitely has an "external locus of control", he doesnt seem to realise that his problems (of being depressed/jaded with life) can only be solved within himself. Otherwise I think his article is a fairly brilliant rant against the dark sides of our society, and a good description/example of disillusionment with ideals. He comes across to me as completely genuine btw.

Re the history bit in your post Iain - and the in-depth sermon on religion:
  • 1) if I know the history, should I then not be personally affected by war and everything it involves?
  • 2) let's see, this will involve a few sub-items:
    • a) off-topic in this depth for this thread
    • b) off-topic for dc (religion and politics - even worse: the two combined)
    • c) are you trying to persuade us, or yourself, about Israel's can-do-no-wrong reputation? (the author doesnt even seem to be picking on Israel, so I'm not really sure why you're posting all this stuff)

(For the record, I am no fan of Hamas.)

See now what I mean about your man's article being brilliant: he even has aspects of my post covered:
And, maybe most poisonous, maybe most soul-crushing: somebody said something I don’t like that makes me feel frightened and threatened! It’s time to put on my superhero costume and forward unto battle!

Except it doesn’t matter. Because you’re not really changing anybody’s mind. How often does that little skirmish end with anybody changing their mind at all, even a little bit?
- See more at: http://zenarchery.co...sthash.y4fzgYlF.dpuf
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Living Room / Re: My cat needs your thoughts | RIP Saffron my dearest cat
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2014, 05:54 PM »
Saffron survived anesthesia and just got back home to begin some rest and recuperation  :up: :up: :up:

I'm happy :-* :-*
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR's launch history cleared on full shutdown (win8.1)
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2014, 01:22 AM »
Using /t 0 implies the /f (force) switch for shutdown, that may probably be why it doesn't send the pre-shutdown event to all active applications?

I dropped the /t 0 part and FARR was okay after reboot - it remembered the launch history :up: :up:
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Living Room / Re: Malwarebytes self-start problem
« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2014, 02:58 PM »
I didnt get a chance to read any of those^ links yet, but I remember when 2TB drives came out, reading an article saying that if you made a smallish partition, say 150GB, that the speed of that partition would be a lot faster - the claim was along the lines of: the bigger the drive, the faster that partition would be. But I dont know how multiple platters fit into that.

I have two internal  drives on my desktop - the OS on the first drive has about a 150GB partition, the remainder is used for backup of data from the second drive - which means it gets used very seldom. I'm happy with the setup, but I've never compared it to any other setup in the same machine.

Will look for that article - I may have saved it on that machine.
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Living Room / Re: Everyone is brokenhearted.
« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2014, 02:49 PM »
Not sure whether to post or not, but...

I'm glad you did.

me too :up:


As adults, we're prepared to deal with these things much better (and continue skipping). We can reject that tall man. As kids, it's not so easy - he frames your reality in ways that you cannot understand or reject.

I think he/it** still frame most peoples' realities when they are grown up - without them even being conscious of it.

** whatever those experiences were.

It's a powerful image, the tall grey man...
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Living Room / Re: My first 408...
« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2014, 02:32 PM »
https://en.wikipedia...of_HTTP_status_codes

 :D from that:

418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324)
Spoiler
This code was defined in 1998 as one of the traditional IETF April Fools' jokes, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and is not expected to be implemented by actual HTTP servers.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR's launch history cleared on full shutdown (win8.1)
« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2014, 11:13 AM »
FARR's launch history cleared on full shutdown Windows 8.1 / x64

I've noticed that FARR's launch history gets cleared when I do a full shutdown** (had to do a couple today) - a 'normal' shutdown doesnt seem to have any effect on it.

** Full shutdown done via desktop shortcut:
C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

I dont think I've changed any history options - let me know if you want any details (I couldnt find any that would do this but may well have missed something).
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Living Room / Re: Everyone is brokenhearted.
« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2014, 10:18 AM »
I think the cause of the malaise is much simpler.  Think back to when you were a kid skipping down the street.  You were happy for no particular reason.  In fact it was your default state of mind.  Adults smiled to see you skipping along so care free.

Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat.  He gave you such a disgusted look.  You slow down in reaction.  Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.

[...]

The only way to turn back the clock on the downfall [...] is to go back in time and skip down the street no matter what anyone thinks or says about it!

sounds good to me :up:
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Living Room / Re: Big savings PayPal Germany Customers-Hard Goods
« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2014, 12:40 PM »
^ thanks for the recommendations :up:

:)
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Living Room / Re: Big savings PayPal Germany Customers-Hard Goods
« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2014, 12:17 PM »
Thanks cmpm,
FWIW I'd be slow to buy anything from that site for various reasons -

  • too far away (Hong Kong)  in case there is a problem
  • outside EU, customs & excise may get involved with the delivery
  • most [many] of their products are no-brand
  • I looked at routers - one on offer had a review saying first they couldnt find the firmware, when they did, it was only in Chinese
  • ...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Real RAM amount consumed
« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2014, 08:39 AM »
Process Explorer
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Living Room / Re: My cat needs your thoughts | RIP Saffron my dearest cat
« Last post by tomos on August 02, 2014, 02:09 AM »
Saffron seems to doing better today.. she seems much more herself.  Keep the positive thoughts coming.

yaaay! will do :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create a modern version of Lotus Agenda
« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2014, 01:37 PM »
I dont know the origin of InfoQube (IQ), but believe it's inspired by Ecco Pro.
Pierre Landry, the developer, (PPLandry here on dc) has recently 'discovered' Lotus Agenda, and is looking to add some of it's features to IQ.

I'll post a link to this thread in the IQ one, so I'm sure he'll checkin here to see if you have any suggestions.

I never owned a license of Agenda, but as it is now public domain (download link here), I installed it on an XP machine.
 
Apart from a antique DOS UI, and as with Ecco Pro and InfoQube, it is build on the following 3 principles :

    Information is stored in items
    Items can be assigned user-defined field values (categories in Agenda)
    Views show a sub-set of all items in the database. Users can customize / create views. Views can have a few columns which show field values

In my spare time (!), I plan to play with it, read about it, and add some of its features to InfoQube.
If there are Agenda users out there, please feel free to share with us what Agenda killer features you'd like to see implemented in InfoQube.

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