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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bits - Ultra Recall

« Last post by J-Mac on July 11, 2012, 09:13 PM »

at Bits du Jour again today, 11 July 2012: http://www.bitsdujou...ware/ultra-recall-2/

 (see attachment in previous post)

-Curt (July 11, 2012, 03:20 AM)

Good deal if you don’t have UR and want it. But this is a so-called "major upgrade" for which existing users are asked to pay $50 while the release has NO new features - unless you consider Windows 8 compatibility a new feature. Blah.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to prove which Firefox add-on is trying to access 128.127.110.10 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on July 07, 2012, 08:39 AM »

I'd say that you are infected. Take a look at  http://www.scumware.org/report/128.127.110.10

Might want to run a few online scans, like Eset's and Kaspersky's. It appears that a lot of malware sites are based at that same server/host.

Jim

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: InfoRecall - $5.99?!?!

« Last post by J-Mac on July 06, 2012, 08:21 AM »

I haven't purchased it - and I probably won't! Like I said above, I already have a few too many in this category!!

Oh! I should have also mentioned Pierre Paul Landry's ambitious undertaking, InfoQube (formerly SQLNotes). That is a PIM in the true sense of the word, though like most I don’t believe it has - or will have in the foreseeable future - mobile versions available. Still it definitely deserves a good, hard look.

daddydave, I must add to your definition of a PIM as far as many users are concerned: A PIM should also have the ability to store any and all data that you consider important, and to make it easily retrieved when needed. Several of the users over on outlinersoftware.com use PIMs to manage their Windows files and folders; to collect and store all their research including web pages, entire web sites, bookmarks, papers, essays, articles, etc. Forexample, if Ultra Recall, InfoSelect, and the rest only handled tasks, calendar, contacts, and notes, they wouldn’t be in business very long! The term (acronym) PIM, for Personal Information Manager, at one time did pretty much cover only those four points you mentioned. In the last several years however PIM has been expanded to also cover a heck of a lot of other information that is important to the user.

Here's a decent thread that tries to distinguish between what many of the folks over at outlinersoftware.com consider to be outliners vs. "personal knowledge systems". (Many attempts at delineating between the specific terms of "outliner" and PIM):     http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/1522

Thanks!

Jim

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: InfoRecall - $5.99?!?!

« Last post by J-Mac on July 06, 2012, 12:12 AM »

Nah - I'm pretty much done with UR. Kinook is one of the least responsive developers I've encountered. And while UR is certainly advanced and has plenty of features, it hasn’t really been developed in any way except to make it compatible with Windows 8 since back when he announced he was stopping all development of UR. Guess we should have believed him! The "roadmap" still has the exact same list of featured that was on it three years ago. And now $50.00 for a "no-new-feature" so-called upgrade? Just Windows 8 compatibility?

I don’t need it anymore. And InfoRecall isn't what I am replacing itwith - I just find the sudden low price interesting. I am now using both RightNote Pro and MyInfo, running them in parallel to see which does what better. Both are pretty impressive and they both handle most of what I need.

Jim

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: InfoRecall - $5.99?!?!

« Last post by J-Mac on July 05, 2012, 10:27 PM »

Yep! Been there - actually over there still.     Sounds like they've seen a few bugs already. I don’t know, it just feels like the dev is about to walk away. How else can you read a price cut like that?

Thanks Iain.

Jim

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: InfoRecall - $5.99?!?!

« Last post by J-Mac on July 05, 2012, 09:12 PM »

Well, then which PIM/Outliner is compatible with Windows and iOS/Android (or maybe Windows Phone if that's your flavor?) I have OneNote 2010 - had to put it in SkyDrive in order to sync with the Android OneNote app, which is OK but doesn’t sync all the time as it should; I have to manually sync it most of the time. And OneNote on the iPad/iPhone is terrible. I have an iPad and gave up on it for now. And I also have Evernote on all devices. But both OneNote and Evernote are great for notes, not so great as PIMs or outliners. Not like Ultra Recall was or InfoSelect. I don’t know of any serious PIMs that work across all those devices.

Thank you.

Jim

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Found Deals and Discounts / InfoRecall - $5.99?!?!

« Last post by J-Mac on July 05, 2012, 02:00 PM »

I have never used this software and I only see one mention of it here on DC in the old Note-Taking review back in 2006! But I was looking around at PIMs and outliners, mainly because Kinook recently released a new version with nothing to speak of in it and is charging $50.00 for an upgrade.

So as I said I was looking around at other such programs and saw that InfoRecall - which once sold for $99.99 and more recently cost $59.99 is now only $5.99. Definitely sounds like it is heading for the "abandonware" heap to me, but who knows? Maybe the developer is trying to lure folks away from Ultra Recall and similar apps? I'm tempted to just go ahead and purchase it anyway, even though I am already overloaded with similar programs.

Anyone ever use this program?

Thank you.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Help me pick a midrange Android phone?

« Last post by J-Mac on July 05, 2012, 11:00 AM »

I'm not concerned about getting ICS on my Razr. From what I read on the XDA Developers forum the folks who have installed private versions of ICS aren't that impressed with it compared to the Razr rooted and modified that way.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to ONLY search bookmarked/favorited pages?

« Last post by J-Mac on July 04, 2012, 01:48 PM »

Hey Supe - have you tried writing to Tom at Outertech? Not saying that Linkman can do this but maybe they could come up with something? Just an "out-loud" thought... Probably not feasible, but worth an email.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Petition - This Week We Kill ACTA - Or Get Locked Down In Monopolies For Decades

« Last post by J-Mac on July 04, 2012, 01:44 PM »

I really hope that the Europeans can stop it - or at least cripple it, because we don’t seem to be able to do a damn thing about it on this side of the pond unfortunately. And it's our reps/companies/idiots that are trying to impose their collective will on the rest of the world.

I am so disheartened that the powers-that-be are now more powerful than ever, or at least it appears that way. They seem to revel in their power more publicly now, as if to show-off that they have no fear of the American public at all. Sickening. I've been disillusioned with our reps for a long time but never quite so much as now.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Google's "Take action" - Celebrate freedom. Support a free and open Internet.

« Last post by J-Mac on July 04, 2012, 01:35 PM »

... I wouldn't hire her to wipe the dog's backside.

-zridling (July 03, 2012, 11:00 PM)

Why not? Sounds like the perfect job for her!!      

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Help me pick a midrange Android phone?

« Last post by J-Mac on July 04, 2012, 01:33 PM »

I have a Droid Razr from Verizon Wireless. It's OK..  kinda. But I am disappointed in Motorola. They seem to have gone in whole hog with Verizon on trying to lock you in to a lot of junk. I rooted mine and immediately vanquished a bunch of Motorola's and Verizon's apps, but it's still a PITA when they send an update and try to force it all back on the phone. Plus there can be NO hardware hacking on this thing. The battery and a lot of the guts are soldered in place and can't be removed/replaced without destroying the damned thing.

I wish I had selected a Samsung phone instead. I thought I had done enough homework on this droid - but I apparently didn't.   

Good luck!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Excel - Templates to perform Pareto Analysis easily

« Last post by J-Mac on June 26, 2012, 07:38 AM »

Odd that he deems Pareto charts to be "complicated"; I've always considered them to be the simplest charts used in TQM programs. I must be missing something there!

Thanks!

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Do we need other programs?

« Last post by J-Mac on June 22, 2012, 07:02 PM »

I often wonder the same thing; developers keep reinventing the wheel over and over. And usually the added features aren't enough (IMO) to justify an entire new program. How many more text editors do I need? Why are there so many anti-viruses? Text expanders?

Seems like overkill to me; but of course that's just me.   

Jim

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Living Room / Re: LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by J-Mac on June 19, 2012, 09:56 PM »

Well... at first only the "premium" credit monitoring wasn’t active till you enabled it; free was automatic. Then they backed off after a lot of backfire. However my form-filler identity cards have the credit monitoring enable/disable checkbox on it. And it was checked by default right after the update this morning. wasn’t supposed to be but that's what I hate about this shit. It's that I now don’t trust the a-holes.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by J-Mac on June 19, 2012, 04:10 PM »

Yeah, I trust them almost as much as that Nigerian guy who has $11,438,00 waiting for me as soon as I send him my bank account number.

-J-Mac (June 19, 2012, 11:38 AM)

Oh man, you should get in touch with the Nigerian barrister who contacted me! He told me there was a lot more money than that waiting for me. Maybe I'll just do you a favor and send your details to him.

-Deozaan (June 19, 2012, 01:57 PM)

 

I have to say, my all-time favorite is the FBI agent - whose writing style seemed eerily similar to the Nigerian official! Him was coming to arrest me unless I sent...  well, you get it.   

Jim

BTW, here's the text of my FBI Warning Email: (Notice that near the end it warns me "...not to try any thing funny because you are been watched."    I love that email!

From:  FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)
AGENT RONALD T. HOSKO. <[email protected]>
To:  undisclosed-recipients:

THIS IS THE (F.B.I)
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
E=MAIL: ( [email protected])
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)

ATTENTION DEAR THIS IS THE FINAL WARNING YOU ARE GOING TO RECIEVE FROM ME DO YOU GET ME????
I HOPE YOURE UNDERSTAND HOW MANY TIMES THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU?.

WE HAVE WARNED YOU SO MANY TIME AND YOU HAVE DECIDED TO IGNORE OUR E-MAILS OR BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE WE HAVE NOT BEEN INSTRUCTED TO GET YOU ARRESTED, AND TODAY IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND BACK TO US WITH THE PAYMENT THEN, WE WOULD FIRST SEND A LETTER TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY WHERE YOU RESIDE AND DIRECT THEM TO CLOSE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN JAILED AND ALL YOUR PROPERTIES WILL BE CONFISCATED BY THE FBI.

WE WOULD ALSO SEND A LETTER TO THE COMPANY/AGENCY THAT YOU ARE WORKING FOR SO THAT THEY COULD GET YOU FIRED UNTIL WE ARE THROUGH WITH OUR INVESTIGATIONS BECAUSE A SUSPECT IS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT OR ANY PRIVATE ORGANIZATION.
YOUR ID WHICH WE HAVE IN OUR DATABASE BEEN SENT TO ALL THE CRIMES AGENCIES IN AMERICA FOR THEM TO INSET YOU IN THEIR WEBSITE AS AN INTERNET FRAUDSTERS AND TO WARN PEOPLE FROM HAVING ANY DEALS WITH YOU.

THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED ALL THIS WHILE IF YOU HAD GOTTEN THE CERTIFICATE SIGNED, ENDORSED AND STAMPED AS YOU WHERE INSTRUCTED IN THE E-MAIL BELOW.
THIS IS THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) AM WRITING IN RESPONSE TO THE E-MAIL YOU SENT TO US
AND AM USING THIS MEDIUM TO INFORM YOU THAT THERE IS NO MORE TIME LEFT TO WASTE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN FROM THE 3RD OF JANUARY.

AS STATED EARLIER TO HAVE THE DOCUMENT ENDORSED, SIGNED AND STAMPED WITHOUT FAILURE AND YOU MUST ADHERE TO THIS DIRECTIVES TO AVOID YOU BLAMING YOURSELF AT LAST WHEN WE MUST HAVE ARRESTED AND JAILED YOU FOR LIFE AND ALL YOUR PROPERTIES CONFISCATED.YOU FAILED TO COMPLY WITH OUR DIRECTIVES AND THAT WAS THE REASON WHY WE DIDN'T HEAR FROM YOU ON THE
3RD AS OUR DIRECTOR HAS ALREADY BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT YOU GET THE PROCESS COMPLETED YESTERDAY AND RIGHT NOW THE WARRANT OF

ARREST HAS BEEN SIGNED AGAINST YOU AND IT WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THE NEXT 48HOURS AS STRICTLY SIGNED BY THE FBI DIRECTOR.
WE HAVE INVESTIGATED AND FOUND OUT THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHEN THE FRAUDULENT DEAL WAS COMMITTED WITH YOUR INFORMATION'S/IDENTITY AND RIGHT NOW IF YOU ID IS PLACED ON OUR WEBSITE AS A WANTED PERSON, I BELIEVE YOU KNOW THAT IT WILL BE A SHAME TO YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY BECAUSE AFTER THEN IT WILL BE ANNOUNCE IN ALL THE LOCAL CHANNELS THAT YOU ARE WANTED BY THE FBI.

AS A GOOD CHRISTIAN AND A HONEST MAN, I DECIDED TO SEE HOW I COULD BE OF HELP TO YOU BECAUSE I WOULD NOT BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU END UP IN JAIL AND ALL YOUR PROPERTIES CONFISCATED ALL BECAUSE YOUR INFORMATION'S WAS USED TO CARRY OUT A FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS, I CALLED THE EFCC AND THEY DIRECTED ME TO A PRIVATE ATTORNEY WHO COULD HELP YOU GET THE PROCESS DONE AND HE STATED THAT HE WILL ENDORSE, SIGN AND STAMP THE DOCUMENT AT THE SUM OF $400 USD ONLY AND I BELIEVE THIS PROCESS IS CHEAPER FOR YOU.

YOU NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WITHIN TODAY AND TOMORROW TO GET THIS PROCESS DONE BECAUSE OUR DIRECTOR HAS CALLED TO INFORM ME THAT THE WARRANT OF ARREST HAS BEEN SIGNED AGAINST YOU AND ONCE IT HAS BEEN APPROVED, THEN THE ARREST WILL BE CARRIED OUT, AND FROM OUR INVESTIGATIONS WE LEARNT THAT YOU WERE THE PERSON THAT FORWARDED YOUR IDENTITY TO ONE IMPOSTOR/FRAUDSTERS IN NIGERIA LAST YEAR WHEN HE HAD A DEAL WITH YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFER OF SOME ILLEGAL FUNDS INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WHICH IS VALUED AT THE SUM OF $10.500,000.00 USD.

I PLEADED ON YOUR BEHALF SO THAT THIS AGENCY COULD GIVE YOU THE 2011/02/16 SO THAT YOU COULD GET
THIS PROCESS DONE BECAUSE I LEARNT THAT YOU WERE SENT SEVERAL E-MAIL WITHOUT GETTING A RESPONSE FROM YOU, PLEASE BEAR IT IN MIND THAT THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THAT I CAN BE ABLE TO HELP YOU AT THIS MOMENT OR YOU WOULD HAVE TO FACE THE LAW AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ONCE IT HAS BEFALL ON YOU.YOU WOULD MAKE THE PAYMENT THROUGH MONEY GRAM TRANSFER OR WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THE BELOW

DETAILS.
RECEIVER NAME ==== FRANK OBISI
COUNTRY========== NIGERIA
CITY============== LAGOS
TEXT QUESTION==== URGENT
TEXT ANSWER===== MATTER
AMOUNT=====$400 USD
SENDERS NAME======
SEND THE PAYMENT DETAILS TO ME WHICH ARE SENDERS NAME AND ADDRESS, MTCN NUMBER, TEXT QUESTION AND ANSWER USED AND THE AMOUNTSENT.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU DIDN'T HESITATE MAKING THE PAYMENT DOWN TO THE AGENCY BY TODAY SO THAT THEY COULD HAVE THE CERTIFICATE ENDORSED, SIGNED AND STAMPED IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY.
AFTER ALL THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN CARRIED OUT, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO PROCEED TO THE BANK FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS WHICH IS VALUED AT THE SUM OF $10,500,000.00 USD WHICH WAS SUPPOSE TO HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO YOU ALL THIS WHILE.
NOTE/ ALL THE CRIMES AGENCIES HAS BEEN CONTACTED ON THIS REGARDS AND WE SHALL TRACE AND ARREST YOU IF YOU DISREGARD THIS INSTRUCTIONS.

You are given a grace TODAY to make the payment for the document after which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try any thing funny because you are been watched.
THANKS AS I WAIT FOR YOUR RESPONSE
RESPECTIVELY
AGENT RONALD T. HOSKO.
EMAIL: [email protected]
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI)

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Living Room / Re: LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by J-Mac on June 19, 2012, 03:58 PM »

I use 1Password and have been very happy with it.

-wraith808 (June 19, 2012, 01:20 PM)

Thanks wraith. I remember looking at that back when I dropped Roboform but for some stupid reason I went with LastPass. I'll go take another look.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by J-Mac on June 19, 2012, 12:30 PM »

Thanks 40hz.

Not exceptionally paranoid yet - but it feels like I'm working on it!

BTW, I've considered that but I do have some trepidation about Dropbox - they really do seem more geared toward sharing and not so much on privacy/security. Also. I'd have to go to copy/paste I think; Keepass doesn’t do form-filling well. At least it didn't the last time I tried it. Maybe they've gotten better.

One more thing I need to do - get all the logins I have added recently to LP and get them into Keepass. I initially made sure they were identical but adding stuff on the fly to LP was easy; replicating that same info to Keepass not as easy. I know there's stuff that never made it into KP.  Whatever I do I think it will be a lot of manual entry.   

Thanks again!

Jim

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Living Room / LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by J-Mac on June 19, 2012, 11:38 AM »

Here we go. I've been a "Premium" subscriber to LastPass almost from the start but it looks like I will now be hunting for another password manager very soon. After I opened Firefox this morning a page opened announcing that LastPass had been updated and was now also offering..... credit monitoring?! WTF!

First of all, IMO credit monitoring is a huge fraud itself. It doesn’t really protect people at all; it just funnels even more money to the organizations that cause a lot of the credit fraud in the first place: the credit reporting companies. Credit monitoring alerts you AFTER someone has fraudulently opened an account in your name. What it does not do is prevent it in the first place. And in many cases the fraud perpetrator used information garnered from that same credit reporting company you're paying for the monitoring service. What a racket! These are the same companies that sell you a peek at your credit report for $10 - $12 but sell that same report to corporations for about $0.20! Yeah, I trust them almost as much as that Nigerian guy who has $11,438,00 waiting for me as soon as I send him my bank account number.

Why the hell does LastPass think I would want them to push credit monitoring on me? This is apparently part of their plan to extract some more of my money from me. Makes me wonder what's next... a "free" coupon printer from Coupons.com?

I wish Keepass had a viable password filler function. OK, so who wants to start recommending good password managers to me? Oh no... does this mean I will shortly be crawling back to Siber Systems? I think I am going to throw up... 

Jim

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Living Room / Re: The Zombie Apocalypse starts now....in Miami

« Last post by J-Mac on June 10, 2012, 10:06 PM »

Or of course if you have limited time and resources, you may opt for the Zombie Survival Guide Flash Cards! What a thoughtful product!

And then there is the Zombie Attack Survival Kit, which no home should be without.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: The Zombie Apocalypse starts now....in Miami

« Last post by J-Mac on June 10, 2012, 09:52 PM »

‘Dead' boy in Brazil wakes up in his coffin at his funeral and asks his father for water. Everyone screams, and he lies down dead again.

-app103 (June 10, 2012, 04:29 PM)

This story would be so much cooler if he had woken up and asked for "brains."  If I ever get pronounced dead, then wake up, I'm gonna ask for brains   

-kunkel321 (June 10, 2012, 06:24 PM)

Why would he ask for brains?! Zombies aren't that fussy - they just eat. Haven't you read The Zombie Survival Guide??       

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« Last post by J-Mac on June 07, 2012, 06:52 AM »

I have a lifetime license for DVD Profiler but when I got this new computer in January this year I didn't reinstall it. I always had a problem with how nasty a lot of members could be over the content of their DVD "Profiles". Many of my DVD sets - mostly TV series - had no profiles available for the individual episodes. Plus, as I posted a while ago here, back before I knew better - when I had first purchased and installed the program - I foolishly allowed the program to auto-update my DVDs. I had created many of the missing episode profiles for my DVDs and the update wiped out almost all of them. I didn't allow the program to auto-update anything after that.

Wraith - surely you have read some of the 20 page threads in their forum arguing violently over whether certain crew members' middle initials should be included in the DVD profiles. Really obsessive folks there! I had clicked Yes to submit some of my episode profiles when I created them and the program prompted me to upload them to their database. You should have seen the nasty comments/PMs I received because I included info beyond what was on the DVD case! Of course I never submitted anything again!

I didn't realize that the program was sold. For the better or worse? I should reinstall it and give it another look. Currently I use CATVids, from the developer of SoftCAT, BookCAT, etc. Not as flashy but the data is infinitely more customizable. Plus it searches more than just their own database, like IMDB and Amazon for example. Much better reports available from DVDProfiler though I admit.

Sorry for any spelling or formatting errors; I'm posting from this damn iPad again (POS IMO!)

Thanks,

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« Last post by J-Mac on June 06, 2012, 12:08 PM »

Actually, I did spot that post, but my google search didn't find any similar posts
So, having moderators vet first posts really wouldn't help much if all moderators are so easily fooled as I am

[edit] and now since I removed the spammy post, this thread has stopped making sense [/edit]

-jgpaiva (June 06, 2012, 10:42 AM)

I searched Google with the terms "axcent myfilms -accent" and found almost the exact same post at several dozen - maybe even a hundred - different forums - one was in 2007! Most had only 1 post by axcent and it said that his/her favorite was "MyFilm" plus of  course the link. Searching the username alone was tough because an unrelated company named Axcent filled most of the first page. Adding "myfilms" eliminated that company results but then Google insisted on "correcting" me and adding results for the word "accent" - bastards! - so I had to add "-accent" to remove those results.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: EMDB: Eric's Movie Database

« Last post by J-Mac on June 05, 2012, 11:44 PM »

"Axcent" is obviously associated with the link he provided. He has posted the same post all over the web for at least the last year.

Spam.

Jim

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: DonationCoder.com on an iPad is Kinda Weird

« Last post by J-Mac on June 05, 2012, 08:49 PM »

I'm on an iPad 2 running 5.1.1, though the behavior has been like that at least since 5.0. No, I haven't tried the WAP browser; I usually allow the sites to determine whether to serve me their desktop or mobile versions rather than seek out either one myself. To be honest all the iPad browsers I have used have been served the regular desktop browser modes. Only the smart phones usually see the mobile pages of most sites.

DC is not unusable at all; it's just that the inability to scroll if your finger lands on the text of a thread is a bit weird and does take getting used to. I haven't gotten used to it. Doubt I will but then again I haven't gotten used to anything on the iPad. (Doubt I will there either!)

Jim