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General Software Discussion / Re: animated/flash graphs

« Last post by Curt on September 23, 2010, 04:31 PM »

http://www.brainybet...lashinpowerpoint.htm

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by Curt on September 23, 2010, 04:04 PM »

...are all existing licenses "lifetime" or only those sold during a specific period?

-Darwin (September 23, 2010, 01:55 PM)

I don't know but expect gizmo's edition really was an "exclusive edition" - there is no longer a version called by this name. Anyway, the lifetime site doesn't offer Sagelight, but has a link to buy it via the developer's site, at only $40 - apparently for a lifetime license, but the word "lifetime" is not used.

http://www.sagelight...or.com/purchase.html
http://www.lifetimeu...t-image-editor-trial

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by Curt on September 23, 2010, 12:41 PM »

-can you explain why on earth you keep using this program?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by Curt on September 23, 2010, 11:51 AM »

http://sagelightedit...rdpress.com/2010/09/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Oops!Backup?

« Last post by Curt on September 23, 2010, 10:40 AM »

-I *guess* the Genie forum has been replaced by the blog and the common support.

Anyway:

For a limited time you can get Genie Timeline 2.1 Professional for 25% OFF

http://www.genie-sof...line_Pro_25_OFF.html

-Genie PRO

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General Software Discussion / Re: what's wrong with my PC? (it's often soooo slow)

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 04:53 PM »

The thing that over time has slowed my pc the most, is real-time web protection. (maybe read superboyac's post: https://www.donation....msg218537#msg218537 ). Today I am using Outpost Security Suite 7 > "Relaxed"-setting, for the web. It has helped a lot on the speed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: what's wrong with my PC? (it's often soooo slow)

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 04:45 PM »

it could also be that some memory 'block' has died, leaving you with maybe half as much memory as you used to have.

("You", being the machine!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 04:35 PM »

... VideoLAN ... One thing about it that I dislike above all is the unbelievable UGLY icon! What the..., and so on, where they thinking?!!!

-Curt (September 21, 2010, 09:34 AM)

I must say, KMPlayer has helped a lot, solving the icon issue:








 

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 02:54 PM »

I don't have a problem with price, if a program can do what I want

-kalos (September 22, 2010, 12:18 PM)

-that is good.
I am sure more people than me are looking forward to read what you think of Solid Doc'


Good luck on your way to your post number 300  
Can DonationCoder's forum do what you want?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 02:42 PM »

I removed both K-Lite and MPC-HC when I installed KMPlayer
- and so far there have been no conflicts 

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« Last post by Curt on September 22, 2010, 07:29 AM »

-hello Thomas, and welcome back (again again!) :-)


Solid Doc's "WYSIWYG Content Extraction" really is quite impressive, (it sure made me consider a license for yet another program to be used once or twice a year... haha), it may actually be what was asked for by the starter of the thread. But another problem is that the same person seems to want everything for nothing, so I expect even the very mentioning of the price, was a turn-off!

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to pick up colors

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 11:35 AM »

.. the most accurate to pick up a color from screen, a graphics file, a screenshot, etc?

-kalos (September 17, 2010, 12:49 PM)

ZOOM close, or you might easily get a different colour than the one you were expecting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: extracting info from pdf

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 11:06 AM »

now let's be a bit practical
what is the best time to copy in order to have the graphics in best quality? when pdf file is zoomed at 150% ? at 200 % ? at 300 % ?

-kalos (September 21, 2010, 10:09 AM)

-neither.

1) Extract the pictures, if they actually are pictures and not just PDF generated background.
2) If they aren't genuine pictures, I would make a simple screenshot at 100%.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 09:46 AM »

which one of the two KMPlayers is it, nudone?
Edited: oh, you didn't mean KLMPlayer!?

Edit_2:
KMPlayer is maybe too big for my taste, a "media center", and has not been updated for a year.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 09:34 AM »

Thanks, nudone, that did the trick.  

But I find it a little strange that the clock now is displayed in different colours than before!?

I have had VideoLAN installed a couple of times before, but is not a huge fan of it. One thing about it that I dislike above all is the unbelievable UGLY icon! What the..., and so on, where they thinking?!!! Edited: and if I minimize to sys-tray, there will even be TWO of these motherehh.. ugly things! Well, VLC is playing, and that must be a good enough reason to keep it.

Thanks to both of you!

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 08:26 AM »

I also used to have K-Lite, on XP, so I installed it just now (including MPC-HC). The 12-seconds video avi file will now play with sound, Thank You!, BUT the video part is suddenly broken/unstable. I had no problem watching a 100MB video, in sync, but in this little 12-seconds clock video the player misses to show all of the seconds ("all", not "any"; sometimes 2,5, and 7, sometimes maybe 3, and 8.). AFAIK there is no option for "video acceleration" or whatever it is called. Is there some setting I must adjust in order to literally SEE ALL of this little 12-seconds movie?
 

---
It was disturbing to install K-Lite. It gave me a looong series of warnings about old codecs that it suggested to remove. I clicked Okay, so I am expecting at least one other program to now be useless!

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General Software Discussion / 12TONEt2.WAV

« Last post by Curt on September 21, 2010, 07:30 AM »

I have an animation (.avi) that seems to require 12TONEt2.WAV. My various media players will crash/close when I try to play it. The reason I keep trying is that it played without any problems on my previous computer, XP, but just not now on Vista.

The error message from Media Player Classic Home Cinema:

Warning

Media Player Classic - Home Cinema could not render some of the pins in the graph, you may not
have the needed codecs or filters installed on the system.
The following pin(s) failed to find a connectable filter:

(...)\12secondsClock.avi::Audio 1 Microsoft Waveform: 12TONEt2.WAV

Media Type 0:
---------------
Audio: DSP Group Truespeech 8000Hz mono 8kbps   —
AM_MEDIA_TYPE:   
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Audio {73647561-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}   
subtype: Unknown GUID Name {00000022-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}   
fbrmattype: FORMAT_WaveFormatEx {05589F81-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A)   
bFixedSizeSamples: 1   
bTemporalCompression: 0   
ISampIeSlze: 19200   
cbFormat: 50

WAVEFORMATEX:
wFormatTag: 0x0022
nChannels: 1
nSamplesPerSec: 8000
nAvgBytesPerSec: 1067
nBlockAlign: 32
wBitsPerSample: 1
cbSize: 32 (extra bytes)

pbFormat:
0000: 22 00 01 00 40 1f 00 00 2b 04 00 00 20 00 01 00 "...@...+... ...
0010: 20 00|01 00 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...ð...........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0030: 00 00                                           ..

Close

-error message

I have no idea what all this is telling.

When I searched the Internet, I was surprised to see that a couple of guys have had the same problem, (so the file 12TONEt2.WAV must be known), but no-one SOLVED the problem, and there seems not to be any "12TONEt2.WAV" to download from anywhere. But maybe the problem is something different than merely missing a file?
 


Do you have a 12TONEt2.WAV that I can have a copy of, please?

The 12-seconds clock animation.avi:
12secondsClock.avi (2736 kB - downloaded 387 times.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make a list of fonts you have

« Last post by Curt on September 20, 2010, 05:23 PM »

$35? I sent the programmers an e-mail offering one-tenth

-eleman (September 20, 2010, 01:26 PM)

-why not just USE the program? AFAIR, the trial doesn't limit the features.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Agnitum Sale

« Last post by Curt on September 20, 2010, 02:44 PM »

http://www.agnitum.c...lp/outpost-promo.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: references in PDF

« Last post by Curt on September 20, 2010, 03:14 AM »

it is about being able to have that 'reference feature' in every PDF file I read

-kalos (September 19, 2010, 07:25 AM)

-this was what I wrote.

This is an option that the author can/really should use, but rarely does.

-Curt (September 19, 2010, 07:15 AM)

So, the answer to your first question is 'No'.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MajorGeeks discounts

« Last post by Curt on September 19, 2010, 05:17 PM »

-thanks, Mike.
My first thought was, well, he have chosen the right username... ("Major Attitude")

--------- (partially deleted)
.....Edited:
What I really wanted to say is, that we ("I") forget we are addressing PEOPLE.

---------
The thread.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MajorGeeks discounts

« Last post by Curt on September 19, 2010, 04:47 PM »

I am totally tempted to change my attitude. Today I became a member of Major Geek's forum because I wanted to express my impatience with them, regarding their lack of a link to Q-Dir's Unicode version. I *might* (for certain) have sounded sour. This was the owner's answer:

We are an American based site, you don't like it go somewhere else. Q-Dir stays as well just to be a dick. Wake up and change your attitude. This ain't some corporation that needs to kiss ***, we're just 2 guys on our basement. Go away, I am sure some larger download sites would have to listen to your crap.

-and the he closed the thread,
leaving me no way to apologize, or otherwise answer!
 

I have not been able to find any way to cancel my membership.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make a list of fonts you have

« Last post by Curt on September 19, 2010, 12:10 PM »

$35: X-Fonter 
http://www.blacksuns...are.com/xfonter.html
http://www.blacksuns...m/xfscreenshots.html

X-Fonter
Advanced Font Manager / Viewer

X-Fonter is an advanced font manager, especially created for web-designers, graphic artists and font fanatics.

In a simple user interface you can quickly find the font that you need. Even with thousands of fonts on your computer, with X-Fonter they're just a few clicks away.
Try X-Fonter out now with our free trial version.

Preview:
• Quickly view all installed fonts • Search or Search for fonts on any drive • Compare fonts with custom text samples • Compare fonts in Dual pane

Install:
• Supports all Font Types • Truetype, Opentype, Postscript, Raster, Vector • Load fonts temporarily to save resources

Organize:
• Create your own custom collections • Load an entire collection at once

Print:
• Print Font overview or character maps • Up to 3 lines of custom text per font

and it will show both font and file-names:

click for 912x676 pixels:



With X-Fonter, you can create an awesome font book (in HTM).
It may not be updated until the next Windows version, or never, but it is bug free and well working.

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General Software Discussion / Re: photo editing help

« Last post by Curt on September 19, 2010, 11:28 AM »

I guess this means that is doesn't have to be a 'perfect' picture with extreme resolution? Normally they say that a fine photo cannot be in GIF format, but I say that if you can settle with a normal good picture, then GIF is a really useful format, because GIFs are not "big", but IrfanView's GIF format gives a very high picture quality. Much higher than the nominal 256 colours. MUCH much higher!

In IrfanView it is fantastic easy, because when you convert to GIF / save the image as GIF, IrfanView will ask you to click at any colour that should be made transparent (see attached screenshot). It is apparently also possible to make transparent areas in a PNG and JPeG, but I have never used these features.

If you install IrfanView (freeware) http://www.irfanview.com/ you really MUST also install the free BAxBEx Shell Extension for IrfanView http://www.baxbex.com/products.html (scroll ALL down). It is sooo useful, when converting.

When converting into / saving as GIF, in IrfanView, this box pops up:

>> Choose transparent color:
Click in the image to set the transparent color. Press ESC to ignore the transparent color. <<



Transparent colour chosen in a second with just one click!

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General Software Discussion / Re: references in PDF

« Last post by Curt on September 19, 2010, 07:15 AM »

This is an option that the author can/really should use, but rarely does. If he does, it will be a note showing ALL of the time, not merely when you point at it, it will be distracting, impossible to overlook, ruining the design, and it will not be very precisely positioned. On the screenshot, I have made a note to the words American Heritage Dictionary - these words were marked when I wrote the note. See however how it seems to be positioned in the next line, and see also how big and yellow it is. Maybe this are some of the reasons that so few are using the option. Another reason is of course that many pdf files were not first created in the pdf format, but maybe as Word files, and then converted - losing links & features.

However, if you want to, you can easily add these notes yourself, one by one.

click for 719x198: