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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 04, 2011, 03:07 AM »

http://www.screenplay.com/t-returns.aspx

All programs and books purchased directly from Write Brothers, Inc. include a full money back guarantee less shipping charges incurred on the original order.

Movie Magic Screenwriter, Outline 4D, and Word Menu have a 30 day refund guarantee. Dramatica Pro and Writer’s DreamKit have 90 day refund guarantee.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2011, 05:18 PM »

-app103 offered the same (in reply #3). He didn't take the offer...

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General Software Discussion / Re: online-convert (incl. HDR)

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2011, 04:58 PM »

http://blog.online-convert.com/
Their blog is really interesting to read. Much upfront technique seems to be used:

How to copy a video file and MP3 to your mobile phone (QRcodes!)

Extract a still image from a video without installing software

Rip audio from a video clip, the easy way

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if you don't see what you need:

The free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another. We support a lot of different source formats, just try. If you can't find the conversion you need, please let us know and write us an e-mail. We probably can help you...

but if you like what you see:

Our website allows you to convert files from one format into another at no charge.

However, if you like our service and want to support us, we would be glad if you donate some money using the link below. We will use it to work even harder on this project ;-)

http://www.online-convert.com/donate

but they want to also make a living:

Advertisement options on online-convert.com

Welcome to the advertisement area of online-convert.com. On this page you will discover all the advertising solutions avaliable on our file converter website which will allow you to promote your products effectively.

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General Software Discussion / online-convert (incl. HDR)

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2011, 01:26 PM »

http://www.online-convert.com/

I wanted to read what other DC members have said about online-convert, but to my surprise there were no search answers to my query! So I thought I would tell.

For a couple of days I have been testing several programs, in order to convert a couple of HDR photos into JPG. It is really not as easy as it may sound, very few programs are supporting HDR. Of course, every time I made a new query on Google for HDR Convert'ish topics, I was also given results to online solutions. In the beginning I didn't care to give them a second thought.

Finally, I tested online-convert. The speed of the procedure was a total surprise to me. This was all set and done much faster than I could have done it on my desktop computer! The result was fine.

No, this link is not the converted  photo...:




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HDR photos are two or more photos (of the exact same motive) blended with each other. If on your desktop computer, the tone of the final result is very depending of the chosen settings - the same HDR series can easily vary between dark or light, depending on your settings. On the online converter you will not have these options; their system's fixed settings will decide the result.

As I said, the result was fine. The final JPG pictures were a little too dark for my taste, and the red colour a little too dominant. But, hey, HDR photos are meant to be tone-mapped! At least the fake ones... (fhdr).

My conclusion is that online-convert is surprisingly fast and easy to use, and gives good quality.

Web: http://www.online-convert.com/
Blog: http://blog.online-convert.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2011, 02:54 AM »

Just to shift gears a moment: ...

-40hz (January 02, 2011, 07:58 PM)

No, not just for a moment. Your post is on the right original track, Thanks!, this is what I intended the thread to be about :-)

Reading about the companies' many programs, I realize the hardest part to begin with may be figuring out what program I need. I have purchased quite a number of the kind that I don't use, because I never had the patience to thoroughly first study the market. The price tags on screenplay.com's products makes it important (for me) to pick the right version from the beginning!

However, I do like the idea behind their relative cheap "Word Menu", it sounds as a fine way to improve on my English-skills. The WhiteSmoke that I have, never really made any difference to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Just to understand better, do you have a knowledgebase open when you try that operation?

-cranioscopical (January 02, 2011, 10:30 AM)

do you need to have a file open in order to clip from the web? (just checking - it's not clear to me from the responses)

-tomos (January 02, 2011, 11:45 AM)

-oh... I had closed the "MyKnowledge"-tab.
Now I opened it and made a new clip, and all is well.

-Curt (January 02, 2011, 12:39 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 12:39 PM »

Just to understand better, do you have a knowledgebase open when you try that operation?

-cranioscopical (January 02, 2011, 10:30 AM)

do you need to have a file open in order to clip from the web? (just checking - it's not clear to me from the responses)

-tomos (January 02, 2011, 11:45 AM)

-oh... I had closed the "MyKnowledge"-tab.
Now I opened it and made a new clip, and all is well.

Hmm... MUST I really study the ####ing manual?!! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 11:36 AM »

-I marked the article's text on this Danish page, and right-clicked Surfulater: Add new article.

Nothing else.

I guess it may be due to the lack of Unicode. 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Allow input commands to be sent to background windows.

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 10:23 AM »

WriteThere works in my setup, but is buggy: NO spaces at all. Everythingisoneverylongword.

Did any one use it with success?    I like the program's idea very much.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NoClose - and how to change hotkeys to alt & something

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 09:36 AM »

and of course there is the payware solution http://www.actualtools.com/windowguard/ that will do what you need.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NoClose - and how to change hotkeys to alt & something

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 09:27 AM »

The author of NoClose is not likely to read this thread. But of course you have a chance if you can persuade skwire to edit skrommel's NoClose one more time.
However, you may want to check out Dkmy instead:

Title: Dkmy
Programmer: Ethan
Requester: mouser
Download Version 1.00.00 (2/06/06)

Hide or show the close box of a window to avoid accidental closure
New In This Version: C++ source code included(!).




"homepage": https://www.donation...dingSnacks/index.php +scroll almost all down

Yes, this one too is old. But I would be surprised if it doesn't work for you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 08:50 AM »

Is Surfulater's license transferable? If so, you can have mine, Curt. After waiting for more than a year, it still doesn't support unicode, on top of other issues.

-mwang (January 02, 2011, 06:35 AM)

-I am surprised, because Surfulater does support my special Danish characters, so I didn't wonder if Unicode was fully supported. However, I already have seen this message box too often:




Thank you for your fine offer, but No thank you. Wasting money is part of (my) life ;-)

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Did you purchase Surfulater.. Yes, I have version 3, I have not upgraded to the newest version - yet.

-sazzen (January 02, 2011, 08:37 AM)

-the newest version 3.40 is a free update for any owner of a version 3 license.

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General Software Discussion / Quizo QTTabbar

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 08:09 AM »

homepage: http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/
downloads: http://sourceforge.n...t/projects/qttabbar/

QTTabBar 1.5.0.0 Alpha 5 Released
By ShiningMasamune, on December 30th, 2010

Greetings everyone; I hope you all had a great Christmas.  I’ve got a belated present for you all today: our hopefully-last alpha, QTTabBar 1.5 Alpha 5.  I had grand visions of releasing it on Christmas day, but alas, I ran into some trouble with the new installer.  Oh well.

Difficult as it may have been to get right, the new installer should greatly streamline the process for new users.  The bars are activated upon installation automatically, which should alleviate a lot of confusion.  MSI also provides much better logging then Inno Setup did, so installer problems will be much easier for me to diagnose.  

Also, the bars are now automatically hidden on uninstallation, which should effectively solve the problem of the unhideable menu bar.  I noticed that someone left a Thumbs Down on SourceForge because of this “bug,” ruining my perfect score! (For those unfamiliar with this problem, the bug is actually Explorer’s: the menu bar becomes unhideable if any toolbar is uninstalled while still in the “shown” state.)

Unfortunately, the new installer means that this update will be a bit rough for existing users.  Please note that Alpha 4 must be manually uninstalled and Explorer must be restarted before installing Alpha 5. I’ve tried to include some code to check for this, but apparently it doesn’t work on x64.  So I guess I’ll just post it here and hope for the best.

QTTabbar may become even better supported and further developed in 2011:

I’m still alive!
By ShiningMasamune, on October 23rd, 2010

Hey guys,

I just wanted to post and let everyone know that I’m not dead, even though I haven’t touched QTTabBar in the last few weeks.  My workload this semester has turned out to be absolutely brutal, leaving me little time for anything else.  Alpha 5 has actually been almost ready for a while now, I just need to find the time to stabilize it just a bit more so I can push it out the door.  I appreciate your patience, everyone.  The good news it that my next semester is looking like it’s going to be very light, so I will have a lot more free time to devote to this project once the current semester is out of the way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 02, 2011, 05:31 AM »

My two cents:   WordWebPro,   ,   and my favorite word processor,  Atlantis.

-sazzen (January 01, 2011, 11:38 AM)

Thanks for telling, sazzen. Your post made me install Atlantis, and what a fine surprise it has already been. However, I also have WordWeb Pro 6, and when I (right-click a word in Alantis and) click 'Thesaurus', WordWeb will pop up and flicker extremely fast (more than maybe 10 times a second) and be useless. I must click Escape, to stop it. Do you have any problems integrating WordWeb Pro and Atlantis?

Besides, Atlantis gave me the same disappointing message that many other word processors also will give: "Sorry, our hyphenation module does not support your (Danish) language".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 05:55 PM »

Thanks for the recommendations of surfulater, cranioscopical, cyberdiva, and J-Mac.

Am I the only one to be sadly surprised that it doesn't close on Escape?

Ctrl+F4 and Alt+F4 are simply not my understanding of fast-to-use hotkeys!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 01:29 PM »

Surfulater is not free--indeed, at USD $79,

-cyberdiva (January 01, 2011, 11:14 AM)

Holiday offer right now is 50% off, plus VAT.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 01:23 PM »

Surfulator ... It's web page rendering ...

-J-Mac (January 01, 2011, 12:57 PM)

sorry, I couldn't help it, it just flew out of me ;-)
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I was also very tempted to get the Local Website Archive, but then I saw their bundled offer, and suddenly it all summed up to a very large amount of money for a program I might never use... The painful truth is that when I had purchased and installed surfulater, the register box said (before I pasted anything into it) that my key was for an older version... Yeah, I already had version 2, but never used it and forgot about it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: iDeparted - For when you die.

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 12:51 PM »

Welcome to DC, Nick, and hope to see you come back again.

While I can appreciate that CoffeeCup has made you a wealthy man, I really think the iDeparted homepage should tell the potential customer why we should trust iDeparted to have everlasting a MUCH longer lifetime spand than usual web companies, and if there is some kind of trust fund to take over when uDepart.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 12:08 PM »

yes, tomos, your link was accurate! Indeed it was April's sentence "Surfulater really spoiled me rotten" that started me! :-) However, still waiting at their store, I realize it still says version "3.0", and I froze. Is development still going on, or has the program reached a satisfying level of perfectness(!!), or is it dying?
- I am asking any SURFuLATER user  

Edited:
The price right now is $39.50 (50% off)

even further edited:
Oh... on their blog the version number is called 3.4 ("Google Chrome integration and more in Surfulater V3.40.0.0"), so I guess everything is all right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 11:43 AM »

@sazzen or any other surfulater user: I am right now waiting at surfulater's store, thinking should I or shouldn't I? Do you have version 3? If yes, what do you think of it? If you were to purchase today, would you go for the same (I am not talking about price, but quality and user-friendliness)?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: iDeparted - For when you die.

« Last post by Curt on January 01, 2011, 05:31 AM »

While it is the last thing you will ever use,
it is the first thing you need to do!

- Melanie E.

Young people always think they are going to live forever, but I have actually lost quite a number of friends and relatives when they still were young, and I don't think I am going to live for long myself. $10 / $15 / $19 per year seems reasonable ( https://www.ideparte...hart-comparison.html ) for the provided services, but how can the customer feel assured the company will still honour the deal if iDeparted.com gets into financial problems in the future? Or when the owner has died...?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SyncBreeze Pro – File Synchronization Utility - 24-Hours Giveaway

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2010, 05:51 AM »

Six months may be a very long period of time, hoping to save ten bucks.
I sure hope you may prosper in 2011 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Lightcraft Aurora - intuitive image editor; free- today only! (no longer active)

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2010, 05:37 AM »

I have now been using Aurora for a month, and I must say it is getting more and more disappointing. I will not recommend this program in general. Of course I still like the afore-mentioned editor features, but they are so alone. On top of the already mentioned ASCII file names problem, there have been so many photos that Auroa could not handle properly.

    

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Compare It! and Synchronize It 25%OFF

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2010, 05:24 AM »

Then you have probably missed the announcement on the Grigsoft frontpage that you can get a 50% discount, during this holiday season, using the coupon code 'MY-XMAS' in the ordering process. That's an even better deal

-Ath (December 30, 2010, 03:24 PM)

-no, I didn't miss it, but I missed it in time...
It is not a valid discount code! Probably ran out right after Christmas.

-Curt (December 31, 2010, 04:51 AM)

The MY-XMAS code is valid. When I came back and used my credit card the code was accepted. When the code was rejected the first time I was using PayPal.
 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Compare It! and Synchronize It 25%OFF

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2010, 04:51 AM »

Then you have probably missed the announcement on the Grigsoft frontpage that you can get a 50% discount, during this holiday season, using the coupon code 'MY-XMAS' in the ordering process. That's an even better deal

-Ath (December 30, 2010, 03:24 PM)

-no, I didn't miss it, but I missed it in time...
It is not a valid discount code! Probably ran out right after Christmas.