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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2010, 09:31 AM »

Xion Player from the same company was updated today, and a great audio player it is becomming.

-Curt (February 16, 2008, 03:54 AM)

The free r2 Xion is still being updated.

Xion Audio Player version: 1.0 build 126
Last Updated: 2nd November 2010
View Release Notes
Free portable version also available. U3 version: $10 (via PayPal)

r2 is also the maker of the fine, free & favorite Startup Delayer.

http://xion.r2.com.au/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2010, 09:04 AM »

So far Soluto is freeware and maybe it will stay free. However, if you look at their About-page, there is a list of investors. Serious inverstors. I *guess* the product to make money will be the coming PC Genome - whatever kind of program that will turn out to become.

But what I really am hoping for is a Soluto PRO version with the features I spoke about in my previous post, making me able to adjust the startup in micro details, down to tenths of a second, in a fixed order. I would gladly pay to have such an option.

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General Software Discussion / Re: And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2010, 06:57 AM »

Link to LibreOffice 3 Beta 2: http://www.documentf...dation.org/download/

----

[joke]
Features:

Filters for the legacy StarOffice binary formats are missing.

[/joke]
 

Okay, in Real Life the headline was "known issues being worked on:"

-LibreOffice

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« Last post by Curt on November 02, 2010, 04:05 AM »

The biggest advantage Soluto has, over Startup Delayer and Chameleon Startup Manager and (all?) others is, the ability to delay a hole bunch of system files. No other program, that I know of, will offer this feature.

But another problem is, that the user has nothing to say about the length or order of the various delays, but can merely chose between 'delay' or 'pause'. Nor can the user order what program to start all last. The absence of these features is why I have ditched Soluto, and still am using R2 Startup Delayer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« Last post by Curt on November 01, 2010, 06:43 PM »

also read IainB's Measuring PC boot-up time by component - and tweaking it with Soluto

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any third-party Outlook 2007+ tools to Auto Accept meeting requests?

« Last post by Curt on November 01, 2010, 04:41 PM »

$24 http://www.sperrysof...ntments-By-Email.asp

Appointments By Email Outlook Add In : schedule appointments from received email messages:

Highlights:

    * Accepts emails that have appointment times and adds them to the calendar
    * Monitors any folder so that it integrates with Outlook Rules Wizard
    * Allows the computer to respond to the appointment email

click to enlarge:

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Found Deals and Discounts / giveawayoftheday.com

« Last post by Curt on November 01, 2010, 10:41 AM »

"This domain is expired". Oops!    

(829x712 pixels):

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General Software Discussion / Re: install many fonts with one click

« Last post by Curt on October 31, 2010, 03:07 PM »

even easier: go to "downloads" (or where the files are) and mark them all. Right-click and click "install". End of story.


Did I get that feature from some third-party application?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Phone Disk-Until September December 1st 2010

« Last post by Curt on October 31, 2010, 12:53 PM »

... Why windows 7 instead of android though?

-Armando (October 31, 2010, 11:23 AM)

-ehh... I know NOTHING about mobile cell phones, but even I know android is both all google and all java. And of all that is supposed to be evil, I have just mentioned two of the worst of the kind!
  

Besides, the Archos is andoid.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer Lifetime License 51% discount on BitsDuJour

« Last post by Curt on October 31, 2010, 05:10 AM »

PS: Those of you who find FlexyFiles idiotic: You don't need to tell me. There is no way to please all, and I won't revise the decision anyway.

-DonL (October 31, 2010, 04:03 AM)

-fair. 


Are you launching a new company name at the same time, like Acme Inc. ? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« Last post by Curt on October 29, 2010, 03:40 PM »

-oh, such an uncertain route to go; he might end up becoming a supporting member!

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« Last post by Curt on October 29, 2010, 10:09 AM »

-zoom out, all you want, and use your screen capture application.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« Last post by Curt on October 29, 2010, 09:27 AM »

Wire Pilot/Wire Pilot Lite are designed to remove linear objects.
http://www.colorpilot.com/wire.html

-sajman99 (October 26, 2010, 03:42 PM)

But if you ask if you will need both Retouch Pilot and Wire Pilot, the answer is:

Dear Curt,

Thank you for your letter.
We advise you to by only Retouch Pilot (not both these programs), because the
programs have similar algorithms. Retouch Pilot can do things that Wire Pilot
can not do. And Retouch Pilot has more abilities than Wire Pilot.

Sincerely,
Katerina Zhdanova
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

Retouch Pilot is $40
Wire Pilot is $30

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool tip from KMPlayer forums - Disable menu items

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2010, 10:31 AM »

"delete file playing" is one of the best features in a media player.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which is the real KMPlayer?

« Last post by Curt on October 28, 2010, 09:58 AM »

Daum is already reasonable good, without being finished. The 'worst' feature not yet in place is the lack of auto-adjusting to the video's proper size and dimensions. But I expect it one day will become a really fine player.


http://www.dvbsuppor...?act=view&id=230 :



Edited:
When removed, Revo found 35 registry items and 4 files, after Daum!

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2010, 04:40 PM »

-both in the same download. Last updated March 2009.

I use the new Inpaint 3 http://www.theinpaint.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open Icon Library

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2010, 04:30 PM »

... a free icon editor that can handle 256x256 Vista icons: http://icofx.ro/

-MilesAhead (October 27, 2010, 12:03 PM)

IcoFX is quite good.

Be aware that it hasn't been updated for 2 years; it may have been abandoned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which is the real KMPlayer?

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2010, 12:54 PM »

All your links are to the one and same program. But Beta information is in Korean only, so you can't find that page on their site, unless of course you read that language.


There is the Korean KMPlayer, and the German KMPlayer.

Furthermore some more confusing were added by a sale of the Korean program:

In December 2008 KMPlayer was bought by Pandora.tv, and continues to be made available as freeware.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the heck am I doing wrong with MS Word page numbering?

« Last post by Curt on October 27, 2010, 03:01 AM »

Maybe The WORD.MVPS Site can help you:
1) Word's numbering explained http://word.mvps.org...mberingExplained.htm
2) http://word.mvps.org...ng/pagenumbering.htm
3) http://word.mvps.org...stRestartMethods.htm
etc.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Ashampoo Office 2010 $20

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2010, 09:36 PM »

-now $20:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool Media Player

« Last post by Curt on October 25, 2010, 11:39 AM »

I didn't understand Quuk; I guess it would use some 3 days to import my Music directory. I must have done it the wrong way, I guess.

Having been removed, there were still 26 registry items and 2 file/folders left.

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General Software Discussion / Re: graphs software

« Last post by Curt on October 24, 2010, 05:41 PM »

, its google's first result

-kalos (October 24, 2010, 05:44 AM)

-oh, you do use google?!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SideWinder for Windows...

« Last post by Curt on October 24, 2010, 01:19 PM »

I should point out that Revo didn't find any leftovers at all, after SideWinder. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Phone Disk-Until September December 1st 2010

« Last post by Curt on October 24, 2010, 01:10 PM »

-I would imagine Win Phone (6.5 and) 7 would offer just that?





http://www.microsoft...eatures/default.aspx

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SideWinder for Windows...

« Last post by Curt on October 24, 2010, 12:59 PM »

-hmm... Darwin, you really have changed!   

This little question of yours, how do I like SideWinder, made me of course download and re-install the thing right away. And it is as I said, really quite good, but too loud. However, there are 7 themes, and if I had a brand new computer with almost nothing yet installed, like you, I would consider SideWinder, in order to save on the final number of installed applications... It can do a lot. 

Thanks for reminding me that I don't use CopyWhiz. I am removing it now, thus making me reach down to 333. Heck, even 332, in a couple of minutes, when I have re-removed SideWinder!