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General Software Discussion / Re: Open parent folder in a new window utility for w7

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 07, 2012, 04:41 PM »

[Select]

GroupAdd,ExplorerGroup, ahk_class CabinetWClass
GroupAdd,ExplorerGroup, ahk_class ExploreWClass
#IfWinActive ahk_group ExplorerGroup
; alt winkey p
; 250 sleep is about 1/4 second. adjust up or down as needed on your PC
!#p::
  Send,^n
  Sleep,250
  Send,!{UP}
return

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open parent folder in a new window utility for w7

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 07, 2012, 01:36 PM »

After you hit Control-n and the new window opens, hit Alt-Up Arrow. It will go up to parent folder.
Alt-Up Arrow moves to parent folder in the same window in W7 and Vista.

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Living Room / Re: It's about ... why is the left seat the command seat?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 06, 2012, 08:54 PM »

Senior officers are seldom right and have to settle for what's left.
 

-cranioscopical (December 06, 2012, 08:49 PM)

Just don't let them assign you to the rear guard. You know where you're gonna' take it then!!

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Living Room / Re: It's about ... why is the left seat the command seat?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 06, 2012, 08:38 PM »

I think if you invent something or dominate in a field, you exert influence on the customs/implementation. Like the dominance of English in programming and Internet. Hitler was hip to this ploy. That's why he insisted on naming the Telephone Fernsprecher instead. They had to come at him through France to straighten him out.

With the helicopter thing it may be less ingrained since it takes off vertically. You don't have to drive it down a runway to get up speed.

Then again it could be if you are the boss you have to have a "right hand man" and it's just not the same if the subordinate is on the left. (Many executive types are suspicious of leftists to begin with.)

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Living Room / Re: Warp field mechanics 101

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 05, 2012, 01:08 PM »

Some may be tempted to travel a great distance into the future, believing if they exist thousands of years from now, they cannot be killed in the present.

Therein lies the trap. You race forward in time until you no longer exist.  Your whole life from the start of the journey consists of sitting in a stupid time machine waiting to see how far into the future you can go.  When you hit your limit you just wink out.  Rather ironic.  Those most greedy to have it all end up with nothing but a boring ride.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WizTree - Free NTFS only disk space analyzer

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 04, 2012, 03:11 PM »

Both installed and portable upgraded to 1.04.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Create dll file to change title bar of a software forever

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 04, 2012, 11:13 AM »

If you change the title bar of Windows, will you cease to exist?

-Arizona Hot (December 03, 2012, 02:20 AM)

I dunno'. But on the headstone it will probably say
"MilesAhead has stopped responding..."

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Living Room / Re: Patenting Human Genes

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 04, 2012, 09:39 AM »

Although if it's a clone I believe you have to Copyright it. No Dupes of this Defensive Back will be made without the express written consent of the NFL.

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Living Room / Re: clever google: httpS <--ok ad blockers, you have your hands full now

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 03, 2012, 05:39 PM »

No. I just ran it out of the box, with the exception I unchecked "allow" as I noted. The Updated one I just posted about shows the same on google search as ABP. No improvement there. I just tried a couple of searches to compare. But it did cleanly block the ad on VideoHelp. There's no box with 'x' or any trace I could see.

edit: Ok, now I see what you mean. At the top of the page there's a double lined text about using an ad block. That still shows. But the ad on the right is cleanly excised.

I've been going on VideoHelp for so long, some things I just don't see anymore.

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Living Room / Re: clever google: httpS <--ok ad blockers, you have your hands full now

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 03, 2012, 03:28 PM »

Is there a better alternative to AdBlock+ ?? I'm wondering because I just installed it. I turned off the "allow not so bad ads" option.  Then I run it enabled, restart, disabled,restart. I can't tell the difference. Seems like it does nothing but placebo on my setup. If I go to videohelp.com as example, the ad on the right hand side is showing. If I open chromium to the same page, it's totally not there. Even google searches have the same yellow paragraphs in results in exactly the same places if Block is enabled or not.


edit: just from preliminary trial, this one seems to just work
Updated AdBlock

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Open Registry by selecting Registry Path

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 03, 2012, 01:15 PM »

skwire, I think you mentioned that once before. Thanks for reminding. I have SysInternals Suite.  RegJump is a good candidate for Selector.  Once I drag regjump onto the Selector Gui, I can hit Shift / keys then double click RegJump to open RegEdit to the key that's selected in the active window. I forgot to add it to the list in Selector the last time you mentioned it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PastePath 1.5.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 03, 2012, 12:55 PM »

PastePath 1.5.0.0  Added ability to paste into command prompts.  Paths containing space(s) are wrapped in double quotes.  See Readme.txt for details.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Open Registry by selecting Registry Path

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 03, 2012, 10:53 AM »

Try RegScanner

One of the features listed is Open Regedit to key in the clipboard.

Just close the search box(press Esc) and hit F7.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for adding subtitles to an AVI, FLV or DVD movies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 02, 2012, 10:50 PM »

Tool Search

Use the "Select section" drop down. Select "Subtitles." There's tons of mostly free tools.

Forum where you can ask questions which also has stickies with subtitle download sites

For conversion of graphical subs you would use one of the OCR tools.  But I think most of them are designed to work with English text.  There may be some for other languages. But I haven't had a reason to search them out.

The only OCR I tried that I would consider using is the one built into DVDSubEdit. I've had good luck with "edit free" results a high percentage of the time. I can't stand to sit typing in characters. Maybe it works for some people. But it seems that no matter now many times I type in a character it still does not recognize it the next time it's encountered in the sub. If I'm just going to type the stuff in I might as well use a subtitle edit program.

edit:

Also there's a Doom 9 Subtitle Forum where you might pick up a few extra tidbits. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: WizTree - Free NTFS only disk space analyzer

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 02, 2012, 07:04 PM »

I like the portable version. I think I'll copy the folder onto a USB stick since it's so small.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 06:11 PM »

Thanks for the info Curt.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 02:55 PM »

I dunno'. It's like everything is a separate post. No thread of topic. It's not really worth it to me to log into the issues/bug list over it.  It's very disorganized for such a large project. At the moment stuff seems to work so I ain't gonna' fix it.

Don't know if this really does anything. Maybe it's a placebo. 

https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/checkcompatibility/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Putting a Classic Menu on Windows 7 - Redux

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

Seems like neither the cascade or the drill down were done right. I didn't like how XP kept covering more and more of the desktop as it expanded across.  But it's a pita getting the All Programs arrow thing to open.  I liked the idea of Vista Start Menu since it was free and did stuff like avoid rearranging everything just because you delete a shortcut. One thing I hate is stuff shifting around to make yet another search when the thing is in front of you but not exactly where you're habituated to seeing it.  That's the main drawback to Stand Alone Stacks.

But I use that and RocketDock to minimize start menu access. On Vista Start Menu page there's a nice write-up about what a time-waster it is to reposition shortcuts just to keep strict alphabetic order. There's an algorithm to tolerate some blank spaces before rearranging is triggered.

Although I see Stand Alone Stacks has a sort option modification decending, which would put the stuff I added most recently closest to the Taskbar in grid mode. I think I'll try that instead of searching the shortcut name.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 01:48 PM »

Unless of course the author doesn't bother to submit it. Like Andy Halford. In which case I added and AddOn that disables the AddOn max version check. It must work because I looked inside it, and it's max is set to 10.xx something or other.

It's just getting to be more and more less and less.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 01:39 PM »

Directly on the servers. 

-Tuxman (December 01, 2012, 01:28 PM)

I don't know what that means. What I hate about searching for any Firefox info in particular or mozilla in general, the hits you get on the subject have some small print about 6 paragraphs down that mention a version number. It's usually lower than 4. Super time waster.

Oh well. I guess I'll delay ActivePython install a bit longer.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 01:28 PM »

Can it still be used to bypass FF addon version check?

-MilesAhead (December 01, 2012, 01:25 PM)

This is pretty much pointless nowadays that Mozilla automatically bumps compatibility for add-ons.

-Tuxman (December 01, 2012, 01:26 PM)

What's the cut-off version where this happens?

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 01:25 PM »

What's the verdict on Mr Tech? Can it still be used to bypass FF addon version check? So far the only script I've found to change the AddOn maxVersion in install.rdf is a Python. But I'd rather not install ActivePython unless I find more use for py scripts that at present.

I know how to do it manually. Just don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't need to.
( Or maybe there's an about:config to disable maxVersion check altogether? )

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General Software Discussion / WizTree - Free NTFS only disk space analyzer

« Last post by MilesAhead on December 01, 2012, 11:15 AM »

I noticed WizTree on Addictive Tips and decided to give it a try.  It is NTFS only because it uses MFTs to get the info.  The description wasn't exaggerated. This thing is lightning fast.  It doesn't have the pretty graphics of WinDirStat, that I've used for years.  But you can watch the progress bar slide across in seconds rather than minutes.

Here's the article

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General Software Discussion / Re: df 1.0.9.1 free disk space command line utility

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 30, 2012, 03:01 PM »

I think the top of the thread said what it is well enough.

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General Software Discussion / df 1.0.9.1 free disk space command line utility

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 29, 2012, 05:13 PM »

df 1.0.9.0 command line app displays free disk space in one of B KB MB GB.

That's all it does. I wrote it because when I do a dir command at the prompt it shows me the free disk space in bytes. I'm sick of counting the digits.  df shows the largest denomination of B KB MB or GB automatically.  IOW, it should never display more than 1023 B free on x:

df /?  for help. Also there's a readme.
It's a compiled AutoIt3. No .ini file or Registry entries are created.

You may get it from my Downloads page.