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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.

-mouser (August 01, 2014, 03:27 PM)

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.

http://www.sqlnotes....ndex.php?q=node/2921

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Living Room / "Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers"

« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2014, 12:41 PM »

From the BBC:
Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media

If you get over 3,000 visits per day in Russia:

• you will have to register (you cannot remain anonymous)
• you must "conform to the regulations that govern the country's larger media outlets" (not sure what exactly they are)

On the radio here they were saying that you will also be held responsible for comments made on your site (not sure what consequences involved) - I dont see this mentioned in the BBC article, but maybe that's covered by the "regulations that govern the country's larger media outlets".

^ This last bit ties in with Ren's recent post about the trial of Ross Ulbricht (the "Dread Pirate Roberts"):

tl;dr - This fight is about the transfer of intent, e.g. I post something potentially illegal on your site, then you get charged for it. Good discussion there though, and worth a listen.

-Renegade (July 24, 2014, 09:58 AM)

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Living Room / Re: I bought a pineapple today...

« Last post by tomos on August 01, 2014, 04:31 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Celluloid vs digital: what are the REAL differences?

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 02:36 PM »

With photography you hear about certain film 'types' where digital attempts to reproduce the celluloid version. The colouring of an image can vary a lot between cameras. Every camera has it's weakness's and strengths. I think digital in general does have weakness's too (especially with reds) - I have no idea if film was better that way or not.

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Living Room / Re: Celluloid vs digital: what are the REAL differences?

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 02:36 PM »

I guess what I'm a little sensitive about is this attitude that technology is "bad" because it has made things easier.  And every time I look into the issue, it's not the technology that's the problem, but the way it's being used.  And really, ultimately, i don't really care.  So what if hundreds of people are making bad movies.  I don't care.  I will find the good one, whether I'm in 1950 or 2014.

-superboyac (July 31, 2014, 01:10 PM)

^ this sounds good to me

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

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 11:33 AM »

If you like "Homeland" this is the "original", and much, much better if you ask me. The Israeli low budget TV series "Hatufim" (Kidnapped) is the TV series that later was adapted into "Homeland".

Article in The Guardian

-lindberg (July 31, 2014, 11:21 AM)

sounds interesting - I fixed the link here (an extra http at the end of it)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 25 Free Windows Utilities

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 11:05 AM »

^ thanks Cuffy

I plan to try Auslogics Duplicate File Finder - it's at
http://www.auslogics...plicate-file-finder/

LOTS, and I mean LOTS of caveats about malware in the setup files

-Cuffy (July 31, 2014, 10:41 AM)

he's a bit hypocritical -
he completely refuses to use one piece of software because it uses Open Candy, yet warns abut the alternative option trying to get you to download some piece of crap instead of the app itself. And he recommends a few that do try to install other apps (he warns about it) - but this is exactly what Open Candy can be/is used for (so whether they use Open Candy to do it or not is irrelevant).
It's almost like he doesnt know what Open Candy is

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AoMei Backupper Pro lifetime 72% off

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 03:43 AM »

See IainB's review of the cloning capabilities of the free version, (he also uses the partition manager):

AOMEI Backupper FREE + AOMEI Partition Assistant FREE - Mini-Review

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Living Room / Re: My cat needs your thoughts | RIP Saffron my dearest cat

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 03:27 AM »

I would appreciate it if everyone could send her calm and positive thoughts.

-mouser (July 30, 2014, 07:54 PM)

to her, and also to you mouser...

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on July 31, 2014, 02:59 AM »

I've enjoyed learning more about 'ironic'
I hadn't realised that she was using the word incorrectly - had never given it any thought before, to be honest.

As pointed out here, my grammar in that sentence was atrocious.

-Edvard (July 30, 2014, 07:45 PM)

lol,
I meant that grammar comment for myself After watching the video, I was getting self-conscious about my grammar - it's not my strong point, e.g. is it grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with 'after'? I have no idea (and it doesn't really bother me either way). I find a lot of it illogical: simply a case of someone dictating that this is correct, and this not. And we're not exactly somewhere formal that it might be considered necessary to write 'proper' like ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 06:04 PM »

^no worries!

PS I enjoyed it in the context of making an effort to learn what irony really is ;-)

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:39 PM »

^

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:37 PM »

^ I guess that qualifies as irony (?)
Undeserved here imo - might be worth making a new thread and suggesting it in general to people?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cyberfox Anyone?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:29 PM »

[..] What is FEBE? What is Classic Theme Restore? What is SyncPlaces?

-Deozaan (July 29, 2014, 05:22 PM)

I guess ^these^ ones are all addons. (I know the Classic theme restorer is and the others sound familiar)

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:26 PM »

I haven't seen a legitimate spam message in...6 years now. I love it!

-Josh (July 29, 2014, 04:48 PM)

no illegitimate spam either?

PS how come?

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Living Room / Re: Godmode

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:22 PM »

This dc search will get you how to add godmode to mouser's FARR and LaunchBar Commander

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Living Room / Re: Made in Italy

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:18 PM »

Not sure if this the right place to be posting this stuff (?)
I believe I understand though, why you want to post it.

FWIW, second link in OP ('worldwide cancer') is a 404

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 05:03 PM »

Well, the last 'thing' I got here, I dont honestly know what it was - nothing too serious, and I got rid of it fairly quickly and didnt keep a record; (anti-virus missed it; I've installed mbam since).
But what I wanted to say was that it came from an ad. I didnt even have to click anything. And that has happened me before - load a webpage and that's it: wham bam thank you ma'am...

FWIW, after getting rid of the ransomware from a friend's machine (it was the porn/police/blackmail one, not the one that encrypted all data), I removed Java completely from my main machine.

... maybe a more productive approach would be to look at what our anti-virus has stopped ???
In my experience, Avira stopped a couple of things; MSE nothing yet - but I think I've only had one attack since I started using it (probably a couple of years ago now).

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX: Pipelight has a new website - plus new version available

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 10:12 AM »

 
good thread

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Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 08:02 AM »

Minor icing-on-the-cake type request:
F2 to edit list name

-tomos (July 22, 2014, 05:12 AM)

Added in the latest build:

Website | Download
v1.0.6 - 2014-07-28
    + Pressing F2 now works to edit a checklist name.  (Thanks, tomos)

-skwire (July 28, 2014, 12:13 PM)

very nice, works a treat

Keyboard navigation works lovely as well I see (hadnt tried it before)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 07:27 AM »

When I think about it, what I would want from an image organiser would be:

• reasonable speed
• ease of organising, adding categories etc.
• good search
• ease of opening in my choice of external editor - maybe photoshop for this one, Sagelight for the next

• ease of use

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 07:22 AM »

I still havent bought anything to organise images

Just got an email offer** for Photo Supreme (which still gets called idimager on it's webpage - why change the name if you are not going to change the name ).
Anyways, the offer works out @ 20% off of 80 US$

Buy Photo Supreme now and receive a free upgrade to V3 as soon as it hits the release date.

intro video - from end of 2012:

I did see some good comments about it a while back, in a forum I can no longer find...
Did anyone here move on from IDImager to Photo Supreme ??

**

NEWSSUMMER2014

valid till end of August

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2014, 06:33 AM »

FWIW I removed ransomware from a machine last year - it had the full Avira suite installed. I'm not writing this to knock Avira which I still think is one of the best conservative** anti-virus's out there. I suspect a lot of these things would get past most, if not all anti-viruses. (Maybe 40's combo above would work.)


** by conservative, I mean it errs on the false-positives side

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Living Room / Re: Director wants his film on The Pirate Bay, pirates deliver…

« Last post by tomos on July 28, 2014, 04:20 PM »

-wraith808 (July 28, 2014, 04:12 PM)

the Dutch are getting a reputation here, where's Shades when you need him...