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Living Room / Re: Facts about Facts?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 24, 2012, 01:56 PM »

Eastern Age Reckoning

I don't know if I agree with the Lunar New Year aspect. But 1 year of age at birth seems more reasonable than 0 since the gestation period is 9 months.  Maybe on the first anniversary of one's birth a person should be considered 1.75??

Also your method has the detrimental effect of requiring a husband to get his wife an anniversary gift on his wedding day.

Instead of kissing the bride he gives her a gift certificate to Bloomies.  

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Living Room / Re: Facts about Facts?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 24, 2012, 12:21 PM »

And at my age, some of the prosthetic stuff is starting to look really attractive!  (Sixty-ninth birthday today, so I'm now officially sixty-eight (68)(and, fortunately, still counting)

-barney (December 23, 2012, 06:48 PM)

Sounds like you are counting down. Do you have some kind of Benjamin Button thing going on? 

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Living Room / Re: DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 24, 2012, 12:12 PM »

Thank you.

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Living Room / Re: DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 11:36 PM »

Thanks for the info.

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Living Room / Re: Facts about Facts?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 09:27 PM »

  And then there are all the science "facts" that they taught us in school years ago that are now science "fiction"....

-Tinman57 (December 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

Maybe more like science friction ... it just slows things down  .

-barney (December 23, 2012, 09:00 PM)

That reminds me. It's time to take a brake.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstalling Google Chrome can mess up your PC(if it was set as default browser)

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 09:15 PM »

I would try installing Chromium, not google chrome. It's compatible chrome.exe and all the folder locations are the same. The extensions work the same. But it does not have some of the intrusive stuff google chrome has, like trying to install toolbars.

You could try this one

I don't know if there's such a thing as a chrome "removal tool" like Nero and Norton have. Might be worth a search if installing Chromium in place of it doesn't work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Join Clips

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 01:44 PM »

This simple script seems to do it.  The filename is hard wired though

Script

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 10:18 AM »

Check out Link Alert, looks similar but different icons.

https://addons.mozil...ox/addon/link-alert/

-AndyM (December 22, 2012, 10:36 PM)

I like this. Nice and simple. I can customize icons too.  Very cool.

edit: Hmm, can't seem to figure out how to show my icon substituted for the default.
They never include help for the UI in these things. Fumble and error.

edit2: ok, got it.

edit3: seems to work smoother with the defaults.  As might be expected.  But with large icon setting there's no squinting. (I know you guys under 30 don't know what I'm talking about. You'll get there eventually.) 

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Living Room / Re: DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 23, 2012, 09:51 AM »

Thanks for the reply. It is strange. I found one table top radio with RDR-1 model name. None of the features listed record to memory or HD off the air. But the reviewer said the record function makes it. Maybe he meant would make it if it had it? I don't understand.  Seems like some MP3 players with FM radio can record to the memory, but hand held the reception is likely to go in and out.

edit: plus I'm not sure if the MP3 kind have the rewind buffer feature like a DVR has. That's what I'm looking for. The radio show recorded often can be downloaded later.
end edit:

Ideally I'd like to get a digital tuner with keypad so you punch in the number. Not seek to next strong signal.  My Kenwood FM receiver has direct frequency input. But it's wicked obsolete.  Only plays the old standard audio CDs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 09:31 PM »

A cursor indicator. Hovering over hyperlinks will show a different cursor based on the targets file extension.

-Cursor Indicator On Link Hover - with large icons

(see attachment in previous post)

-Curt (December 19, 2012, 03:09 PM)

So?
Enable the status bar and watch the hover text. Done.

-Tuxman (December 22, 2012, 09:13 AM)

I have to admit. I thought it was a cool idea. Until I tried it and saw the icons. Would be a lot cooler if the icons looked cool.  But it was easier for me to read the status bar text than to squint and see that little zipper that meant it was a zip file. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 09:27 PM »

thanks miles, glad you like it.  i'll update the help file.

-mouser (December 06, 2011, 12:10 AM)

I just updated to the latest version. It still says to check option in the General Tab to copy selected text on startup. I had to find my post in this thread to find out how to do it again.

The Option is in Hotkeys, Pause/Break

Edit: I used the zip file. Perhaps it was updated in the installer. I don't know.

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 07:22 PM »

Thanks for the suggestion. I have it working now. Only took 7 hours to do a 15 minute job. 
Also I turned on forwarding for awhile. Just to make sure I don't lose emails until I see everything is stable.

I really don't like web mail. Might be great for traveling salesmen or support people who are on the road. But to me it seems flaky.  Just awhile ago I backed up in Thunderbird by moving stuff from a folder where I save mails to Inbox.  Thuderbird downloaded them all fine.  But even though you select all the items in Hotmail with the blue link to really really select everything, when you move to another folder, they don't always get moved.  But by then I already had them backed up so I deleted.

That one page at a time web access just bites in my estimation.

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 05:30 PM »

I think I found the issue.  I use [email protected]

I have another account with no underscores in the name.  Set up and worked first time.  Looks like I'm screwed unless I can figure out how to get around that problem.


Edit: that wasn't it.  Somehow my password got killed. I was getting in via the browser because of the cookie. Boy I really love Captcha'. Only took me 1/2 to get it to accept it.  What fun they've made of the web now!

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 04:40 PM »

I tried thunderbird 2 3 16 17 with and without WebMail AddOn. It won't accept password.  All I can think is the POP3 is not enabled on my account.

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 03:39 PM »

Wait, what is the problem? I just added Hotmail account to Thunderbird and exported all e-mails.

-Attronarch (December 22, 2012, 03:25 PM)

Won't let me log on. What settings did you use?  What version of Thunderbird?  Are you using an AddOn?

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 03:20 PM »

They only do POP3. It's hard for me to believe that a technology company that puts a menu for cloud storage on your email page whether you want it or not, doesn't have a command in the menu to copy a folder over.  Geez! It would take like 1 millisecond to go over the backbone.

Guess I'll have to go through the messages and forward the important ones 1 at a time. I'd be done by now if I did that at the start.

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 03:13 PM »

I take it you don't have Outlook?

-40hz (December 22, 2012, 03:04 PM)

Nope. I use Thunderbird.  I read all these articles how I can stick these addons and proxies on TB to use it. None of them work. I can't believe I've wasted 4 hours on this already. There should be a way to just zip up the whole folder and download it.

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Living Room / Re: Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 03:03 PM »

Have you tried using Windows Live Mail?

-40hz (December 22, 2012, 02:42 PM)

Isn't that another online deal? I'm trying to get my stored email to my PC without forwarding one by one.  I tried setting up Thunderbird to access hotmail following guides but I get not accept password.

I don't know why they don't just have right click on folder to move it in one shot.

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Living Room / Hotmail backup without POP3 crap?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 02:21 PM »

Seems like the easy way should be to copy email folders to SkyDrive, then download.  But I see no clue anywhere how to do it. I've wasted about 3 hours screwing around with POP3 AddOns that claim to access hotmail but don't work.

Has anyone found the easy way?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video rant against Windows 8

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 08:04 PM »

I wish Microsoft would have taken the boatload of money likely spent on Metro and instead given it all to... Mouser! MS should have simply brought in FARR and used it as start menu replacement.

-Nod5 (December 21, 2012, 02:37 PM)

That is just ... terrifying! Because it might just work!
(Some restrictions apply. I have never tried FARR.)
But it's still funny.

-TaoPhoenix (December 21, 2012, 06:33 PM)

Not to mention all the puns it would generate. Like FARR-fig-newton,Lew-is-FARR-akan, FARR-a-fawcett etc..

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Testing waters for radical dc ideas - feedback wanted

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 05:37 PM »

I have an idea.  We could have something similar to a Scavenger Hunt. Every week a new clue is posted. The first one to find Skrommel gets $100 donation credits.  No fair Skrommel "finding himself" to cash in though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video rant against Windows 8

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 03:14 PM »

Did anyone get the major version number?  It's probably still 6 in reality anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video rant against Windows 8

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 02:37 PM »

I don't have any experience with touch screen/smart phone/tablet.  But from everything I've read on forums the thing should have been released as an OS for the above type of devices. Not for Desktop PCs. Then the controversy would be non-existent.   Any technical advances for the desktop could just have been included in W7 SP2.

Hmmmm, controversy >= free publicity?  Look how they survived Vista!!!  They must have direct electronic transfer from everyone's Swiss Bank Accounts to draw on.  Evidently there ain't no tip to the iceberg. Just just iz de iceberg period.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SrtStrip 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 02:28 PM »

SrtStrip 1.3.3.0 I reworked this to output filename.srt.strip as it avoids clashes with wild cards. Also it now expects .srt files to be dropped on the program shortcut.  This makes it easy to strip .srt files in an entire folder sub-tree via Explorer search. The output file will end up in the same folder as the input but with .strip appended.  See Readme.txt for details.  Run with no params for usage dialog.

At present the program reports no count of files processed. Since it is written in AHK_L it's not a true console app. The processing is done silently.  But it is just a hack after all.

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Living Room / DRR ?? - Like DVR only for FM broadcast radio?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 21, 2012, 10:29 AM »

I know there are web radio capture apps. But what I'm curious about is portable FM broadcast radio with memory. Just like DVR it would have buffered the current station. If you miss what was just said, hit the back up button for a few seconds, then resume. Seems like it should be out there with the cheap memory available these days.

Anyone heard of it not costing arm + leg??