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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Curt on August 30, 2010, 02:13 AM »

@Edvard - your post confused me quite a lot. Van Canto is of course a thousand times better than Metallica, and I *like* their album, but totally dislikes Metallica's music, (except for Mamma Said). And opposite of my opinion about Metallica, I can take Van Canto seriously; they are not a joke, but well educated singers. So, keep banging your head...


http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=XCGQiGEYl4Y

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Found Deals and Discounts / MajorGeeks discounts

« Last post by Curt on August 29, 2010, 07:09 AM »

If you are in the market for a program, but has not been offered a discount, always check Major Geeks Software Store! As an example, Online Armor Premium's list price is $40, but Major Geeks is offering it for $20. Major Geeks Store are always offering some fine discounts, like "BitDefender Total Security 2011 [1-PC, 1-Year] RRP: $69.95 Save: $30.00 (43%) Our Price: $39.95",  or  "Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 [1-PC, 1-Year] RRP: $59.95 Save: $18.00 (30%) Our Price: $41.95",  or  "CyberLink PowerDVD 10 Standard RRP: $49.95 Saving: $16.96 (34%) Our Price: $32.99",  and many others.

http://store.majorgeeks.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Digital Defender Pro for free

« Last post by Curt on August 28, 2010, 04:40 PM »

http://www.techishar...ivirus-pro-for-free/

here is a chance for you to win Digital Defender Antivirus Pro for free. Below is a comparison chart between digital defender Antivirus Pro and free version.






Developers of digital defender are kind enough to give us 15 licenses of digital defender Antivirus Pro, each valid for one year. In order to win digital defender Antivirus Pro, follow these simple steps below :

   1. Subscribe to Tech I Share
   2. Comment "below" – Why do you want digital defender?

Winners will be announced in a week. Until then, play hidden object game at What’s in Nelsons Dojo and get lucky to win a Bitdefender Internet Security 2011, plus a license for the business products, BitDefender Client Security and BitDefender Security for File Servers.

-techishare

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General Software Discussion / Readability and Wikipedia

« Last post by Curt on August 27, 2010, 10:39 AM »

ATTENTION, all Readability users! Readability does not like Wikipedia's info boxes. Not only does it not display the box, it doesn't even grab the text inside the box!

This box simply became nothing!:




 

http://en.wikipedia....ki/AFI%27s_10_Top_10

Edited:
Yes, I am aware Wikipedia has a printable version, but that also has to be remembered by every other user of Readability.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Minefield(Firefox) 3.7Pre seems to work

« Last post by Curt on August 27, 2010, 05:37 AM »

it doesn't have the promised super glass effects.  
However if you apply Glasser to the default theme it doesn't look half bad.

-MilesAhead (October 25, 2009, 09:06 PM)

I have really come to like the Glasser extension (not a theme):

click for large:




However, the author has so far failed to keep a homepage.

Edited:
The wallpaper 'behind' Firefox: http://www.flickr.co...s/viamoi/3545100197/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Readability - Get rid of the clutter so you can read!

« Last post by Curt on August 27, 2010, 03:47 AM »

You mean like this      https://addons.mozil...firefox/addon/46442/

-ljbirns (August 26, 2010, 01:21 PM)

-thank you! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010 Advanced at GAOTD (Aug 26, 2010)

« Last post by Curt on August 26, 2010, 08:46 AM »

"Advanced" has already been offered for free more than once, including via the German chip.de: https://www.donation....msg214399#msg214399

If "free" is the main reason for getting this offer, the new user will want to disable the "Look for updates" option:

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General Software Discussion / Re: at last: NirSoft + SysInternal launcher!

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2010, 03:54 AM »

You may also be interested in WSCC, a launcher and updater for all NirSoft and Sysinternal apps. 

-jaden (August 23, 2010, 11:36 PM)

WSCC = Windows System Control Center

Wow. From reading, I expect WSCC is at least equally as good as NirLauncher 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Kingsoft Office

« Last post by Curt on August 24, 2010, 03:45 AM »

maybe it is merely because the company is Chinese. So they don't know about the typos, because they can't read English!

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General Software Discussion / Re: at last: NirSoft + SysInternal launcher!

« Last post by Curt on August 23, 2010, 09:30 AM »

• NirLauncher tools package..

-lanux128 (August 23, 2010, 07:49 AM)

-yes, but the thread here is for ALL us people that did not see the first post!
 

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General Software Discussion / at last: NirSoft + SysInternal launcher!

« Last post by Curt on August 23, 2010, 06:12 AM »

Thanks to Ashraf at dottech: http://dottech.org/f...eeware-reviews/17960 "NirLauncher: Portable application launcher for 100+ portable NirSoft (and SysInternals) programs"

click for large:






http://launcher.nirs.../utilities_list.html 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: iCare Format Recovery v2.0-Free until June 16 2010

« Last post by Curt on August 21, 2010, 03:55 AM »

Firefox > VTzilla Firefox Plugin > Scan... ( scan file / link / site! )

You will need to first sign up for an account, and install the add-on:

http://www.virustotal.com/advanced.html > the "Browser Addons"-tab
http://www.virustota...munity/register.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: iCare Format Recovery v2.0-Free until June 16 2010

« Last post by Curt on August 20, 2010, 02:19 PM »

Thanks for telling!

It should be noted that it is version 3.8.3, not "v.2.0".

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General Software Discussion / Kingsoft Office 2010

« Last post by Curt on August 20, 2010, 08:57 AM »

It has been quite a while sine we last spoke about Kingsoft Office. I am trialing their version 2010, and was wondering if any one upgraded from 2007/2008/2009 to 2010? Are you satisfied?
 
It still looks Microsoft Office 2003, only like an updated version. The asking price is $70 for the suite, Presentation, Spreadsheets, and Writer. No email client.



The homepage is http://www.ksoffice....soft-office-2010.htm
The office suite is not mentioned in any way at http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/


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Edited:
Unfortunately Kingsoft has their own presentation template extension, named .dpt, the same as my Better File Rename droplets.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you use to warn you of disk limits being reached?

« Last post by Curt on August 20, 2010, 07:31 AM »

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As you can see, the colours of each icon shows how much space there is on each disk. If you point at an icon, it will pop up and tell the exact size. No other features. Perfect!?

-Curt (August 19, 2010, 07:06 PM)

As seen on the screenshot, the icons from Disk Space Monitor are displayed in a "wrong" order. I wrote the author and asked if this could be 'fixed', even though the program is very old. To my surprise he answered me in a couple of hours:

Hi Curt,
 
DiskMon will try and add the icons in a sensible order, but ultimately it is up to Windows how they end up being displayed.  You might want to try manually tweaking the order, by changing the Registry entry where DiskMon stores it's settings..
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Jon Grieve\DiskMon - DefaultDrives
 
DefaultDrives stores list list of drive letters ("FEDC"), and you need to specify them in reverse order - again, this is due to the way that Windows adds system tray icons.
 
Beyond that, I think it is out of my control, and I don't really update these utilities any more.
 
Regards,
Jon

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you use to warn you of disk limits being reached?

« Last post by Curt on August 19, 2010, 07:06 PM »

The one you really might be wanting could be another Disk Space Monitor; jongrieve.net's Disk Space Monitor. It hasn't been updated for several years, but works all the same. At least it does on my 32-bits Vista:



As you can see, the colours of each icon shows how much space there is on each disk. If you point at an icon, it will pop up and tell the exact size. No other features. Perfect!?

111 KB, freeware. No installation. http://jongrieve.net/software/diskmon/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Agnitum 50% Off Sale

« Last post by Curt on August 19, 2010, 04:05 AM »

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

Special offer
Just for the month of August — 50% off all Outpost products    
     



You can still catch some summer blessings with Agnitum’s special offers this August! You can now purchase a 1 year Outpost Firewall Pro License for as little as $19.97! Outpost Security Suite and Outpost Antivirus 7.0 are also currently available at 50% off. Protect up to 3 PCs for a year with Outpost Security Suite for just $29.97 — unbeatable value for money.

Just visit our special offer page and take advantage of this exceptional offer today!

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

« Last post by Curt on August 17, 2010, 01:32 PM »

We are sharing the news about SideWinder with others and we also want you to participate in this campaign. In addition to that, 25 lucky participants will be given $19.95 worth SideWinder personal lifetime licenses! (including A Free Gift Pack of over 150 Crystal Icons and full Free Updates for Lifetime)


I think our main intention is clear to you by now, still obscure? Share the news about good products (like SideWinder). Now it’s clear I think. But the main problem comes here. Sharing about good products is OK, but how to share is a big problem? One can tweet, share it on facebook, forum or on social bookmarking sites. But, is that sharing effective? For example, consider yourself only, if you want a software, will you search it on facebook or Download.com? Definitely on Download.com, right. So, sharing on software portals will be effective than tweeting.


Based on these kind of observations we framed these 3 simple rules :

   1. Download the SideWinder from any one of the sites below
          * Download.com (Recommended) :
            http://download.cnet...2344_4-75115544.html
          * Softpedia.com :
            http://www.softpedia...WiJ-SideWinder.shtml
          * Freedownloadscenter.com :
            http://www.freedownl..._Quick_Launcher.html
   2. Submit a user rating to all the three sites.
   3. Submit a fairly sized and professional review (could be a paragraph or more) to all three sites.

Once you fulfill the above rules, email to “supportATswij.com” (replace AT with @) mentioning your Username/Nickname (of all the above three sites) and Full Name and the same email address that you used to write reviews in above mentioned websites, with subject as SideWinder – TechiShare Promotion – August 2010.

Reviews has to be submitted on or before August 31st and winners will be declared in September.

-techishare

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« Last post by Curt on August 17, 2010, 01:25 PM »

thanks, Carol, you've made me realize that I really NEED to watch those Xara tutorials...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you use to warn you of disk limits being reached?

« Last post by Curt on August 17, 2010, 07:35 AM »

hmm... I imagine you are looking for an updated version of Disk Watchman. It *seems* this specific kind of tools died with the arrival of Vista? I have not been able to find any new ones, only big multi-tools like FreeMeter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: automatically sort taskbar

« Last post by Curt on August 16, 2010, 05:22 PM »

curt, thanks, checking truelaunchbar now.

-azgarth (August 16, 2010, 04:46 PM)

Just to give you a hint of what can be done, besides all the plugins and tools: I have shortcuts to my 250 most used programs, and shortcuts to my 30 favourite folders, in my quick launch bar, all just a click away and never taking up more than two icons. I could even merge them into a single icon. Also, if I want, I can make the folders virtuel, like I have done with "Downloads" (="Hentede Filer (1)") When I have downloaded something, the file is never more than a click away!:


click for large:




Edited:
To get even more available space: StartKiller and PresStart, and TrayFactory.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review and Discount (Sep 2010): USB Safely Remove and Zentimo

« Last post by Curt on August 16, 2010, 03:27 PM »

@mauzer_tim / Igor Tkachenko, Crystal Rich Ltd:

Will drive speed test auto-disable the screensaver?

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General Software Discussion / Re: automatically sort taskbar

« Last post by Curt on August 16, 2010, 09:07 AM »

http://www.truelaunchbar.com/ may be even better than what you asked for ;-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« Last post by Curt on August 16, 2010, 08:12 AM »

I have Xara, and I will not recommend it.
Besides, Xara was Corel was Xara; they are siblings / cousins.

Next stop: Adobe!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« Last post by Curt on August 16, 2010, 01:32 AM »

The joke goes on, but now Americans must pay a little extra ($10) not to get PC Tune-Up. I think that is okay, because I tried it, and it sucks. I might just pay not to have it, because I have had it! (ehh?)

euroland with extra extras (normal price):




dollarland without any extras (normal price plus $10):