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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Requests

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2010, 12:57 PM »

I have only one request:
Do whatever it takes to get it as fast, responsive, and lightweight as possible.  That's all I care about.  No extras.  I have third-party software to do just about everything better than anything that comes with Windows.  So just focus on OS speed, responsiveness...stuff like that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2010, 12:05 PM »

I was just thinking, if ACDSee didn't change their interface in the latest version, it would still be the one for me.  but they changed it so that they have their 4 main modules in the upper right hand corner now.  What used to take one or two clicks now takes 5-6 clicks and is slower doing so.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on April 01, 2010, 09:35 AM »

I don't think it's right because when people go buy software like this that has updating involved (think anti-virus software) it's usually one total price that they are presented with.  For example, if I want to buy Kaspersky I have the following options:
--$50 for one year of updates
--$90 for two years
--$120 for three years

-superboyac (March 31, 2010, 07:32 PM)

I love Ad Muncher...but my perspective is coming from someone who bought it 'back in the day' when less than $20 got me a lifetime license. It's still the best & most configurable ad-blocking program available today & I've seen signatures updated up to 8 times in one day, but I don't know if I'd pay $80 to get the functionality I have now.

On the subject of AV programs, these 'nickel and dime me to death' pricing structures is also why I jumped on a deal a year or so ago to buy a security suite for one flat price with lifetime updates as well.

-Innuendo (April 01, 2010, 08:58 AM)

Yeah, i wish I had bought it back then also.  Just out of curiosity, which security suite were you able to get a lifetime license for?  That's a great deal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by superboyac on April 01, 2010, 08:47 AM »

Picasa's a cool program, but I also never liked the workflow.  It's almost like an apple product:  everything looks and moves really cool, but when it comes down buckling down and getting stuff done, it's not the best.  I do usually recommend Picasa to friends and family who aren't computer people.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 10:08 PM »

What's worse is that I have an existing license that will expire once v5 comes out.  But i get no break on the lifetime license.  I have to buy the lifetime license as if I was buying the program for the first time.  I have to pay for a license plus the lifetime.  I don't think that is fair.

-superboyac (March 31, 2010, 07:39 PM)

All that being said, I emailed the developers and they are very responsive and quickly modified my license to be upgradeable.  So that is not bad at all!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 08:11 PM »

I don't think this program has been mentioned here:
http://www.camerabit....com/site/index.html

It's called Photo Mechanic.  It sounds like it's a little known secret among pro photographers.  it's supposed to be really great at handling big, raw files fast.  A photographer friend of mine told me about it.  It seems like a good idea.  I haven't really tried it yet, but it sounds promising.

[edit] i've just been trying it out.  Now I don't have a lot of raw images to test it with, but it is pretty fast.  One thing I noticed is that there is no thumbnail database option in the program, like in most photo organizing programs like ACDSee.  The database is used, I think, to make thumbnail generation faster since they are stored in the database rather than having to create the thumbnails live every time you open a directory.  However, Photo Mechanic is really fast DESPITE not having a database.  That's pretty cool.  But my friend said it's real strength is the speed with which it handles RAW files.

Also, I know in the beginning of the thread, the OP was talking about keywords and such.  Here is an excerpt from the website:

According to David Riecks, author of the Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog (CVKC), “Photo Mechanic’s new Structured Keywords feature is the most elegant and efficient means of applying a hierarchically based set of keywords that I’ve seen so far. I am pleased to have worked with Camera Bits to make Version 3 of the CVKC compatible with this popular software.”

So that may be something to consider.  I haven't tried it, but I also never use keywords so I don't know what to be looking for.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 07:39 PM »

What's worse is that I have an existing license that will expire once v5 comes out.  But i get no break on the lifetime license.  I have to buy the lifetime license as if I was buying the program for the first time.  I have to pay for a license plus the lifetime.  I don't think that is fair.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 07:32 PM »

J-Mac is right.  They are being a little shady about what is exactly involved with the purchase.  i'll try to clear it up here:

--There are TWO things you are buying:  the license AND the additional renewal length, they are separate.  Let me explain.  If you only buy the license, you get one year of renewal.  If you want more years in addition to this, it is extra.  So, if you want to buy the lifetime license (like I do) you have to pay for two things:  the normal license and one year renewal that comes with it, AND the lifetime renwal fee.  So I'll be paying for two things, which even with the discount comes to around $60.

So they are being a little clever with what they are doing.  I personally don't think it's right.  A lot of people have complained about it on their forums, because it is deceptive.  For many pages in one thread, it seems like the developers are playing dumb about the deception (at least that's how it comes off to me), but they consider it a misunderstanding or a miscommunication.

I don't think it's right because when people go buy software like this that has updating involved (think anti-virus software) it's usually one total price that they are presented with.  For example, if I want to buy Kaspersky I have the following options:
--$50 for one year of updates
--$90 for two years
--$120 for three years

Unfortunately, what Ad Muncher is doing is saying that the license alone costs $30, which comes with one year of updates in that price.  But if you want more years, then one extra year costs $20, two years extra costs $40, and a lifetime of updating costs an extra $80.  So it's pretty confusing and, in my opinion, a little deceptive.  They claim it makes sense, but it's not the normal way of selling this type of thing.

What's even more confusing is that before you are ready to pay, you see two items in your basket because you added additional years.  Only then do you realize that the payment is a two item process for really one thing.

Again, a lot of people have complained about it.  The developers see nothing wrong with it.  It's a little disturbing to the customers because most of them (me included) don't realize how much it costs until right before you have to submit you're payment.  So the whole time you're thinking it costs $80 for a lifetime license, but then you realize it's $30 + $80.  It's not good what they are doing.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 07:11 PM »

Is it well behaved if you try to uninstall ?

Thinking of a trial tonite.

Thanks

-Steven Avery (March 31, 2010, 06:53 PM)

I think so, though I'm not positive.  It's one of my favorite programs.  Just really well done all the way around, so if I were to guess, I would assume the uninstallation is good as well.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 02:47 PM »

To get the lifetime license, you have to click on one of the buy or continue buttons and go to the next page.  There, you'll be able to choose the lifetime option.  I'm probably going to get it later tonight.  I'm guessing with the discount that it will be around $40-50.  It's a really great program.  It blocks a lot of stuff adblock can't, and is well made.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ad Muncher On Sale at Bits duJor Wednesday, March 31, 2010

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2010, 09:16 AM »

i may have to get the lifetime license for this.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2010, 03:20 PM »

i'm fairly positive what's happening is the screensaver is kicking in on top of the away message executable.
try right clicking on your display and checking out and previewing your screensaver settings.  try setting the screensaver to something else other than MPQ.

-mouser (March 29, 2010, 11:42 AM)

Ah!  That makes sense.  Well, I just tried what you suggested and it worked.  But, I'm still having a problem with the fonts.  It's using the default white font still.

I don't get the font thing.  Here's what's happening.  I have a history of away messages now.  Some of them abide by my custom font settings and some don't.  The ones that don't go to the default white font.  I can't figure out why some messages do it and some don't.  It seems random to me.  Like my lunch message will always be in white.  My meeting message always works ok.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2010, 11:30 AM »

More updates:
I came back to my cubicle and saw the screen was blank.  I don't know what's happening.  Last week if I came back, I would see a different message.  Now it's blank.  Something is happening after a few minutes that is strange.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2010, 08:52 AM »

Ok...I think I know what the problem is.
In the message override settings, there are two boxes, one for the normal message override, and the new one you did for this -away option.  Well, I had text in both of them, which I think confuses the program.  So what would happen is that while the program was running under the -away message, I would come back after an hour and see the normal message override text showing in the defualt font.  Now, I just tried watching it, but didn't see it do that under my watch.  but it happened last week.

So I removed the text from the top box and now it's working fine with the font settings and not changing the message.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 29, 2010, 08:45 AM »

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the program (but I did keep the ini settings).  I'm still having the same problem(s).  First, when I launch the screensaver with the message dialog popup, it shows the message in the default white font which is not in my settings.  Secondly, even though I haven't sat through the whole thing yet, I have a feeling when I come back after 10 minutes, the message will be different (cycling through the other override messages).

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to watch folders and perform certain actions automatically?

« Last post by superboyac on March 27, 2010, 12:04 AM »

I'm also interested in this, now that you mention it.  PAR Buddy is good for me, but I'd like one that does the same thing but also works with other archive formats (other than RAR) and without PAR files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to watch folders and perform certain actions automatically?

« Last post by superboyac on March 26, 2010, 11:53 PM »

Tuxman, in that list of 5 programs, it looks to me like #1 (Unpacker) will do what you are asking.  What doesn't it do?

Another one that I know of is called PAR Buddy.  However, it focuses more on PAR funcionality than archives.  Meaning, it does watch folders and extract the archives, and deletes the archive files.  However, if the archive doesn't have PAR files, i don't think it extracts.  I also don't think it works with zip files.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 07:30 PM »

OK.  Not only that, but when it shows the other messages, it shows it in the default font that is not in my settings.

maybe because its the old version running as screensaver? (what are you trying to fool me twice!!!)

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 06:08 PM)

hmm...I don't know what is happening!  Ok, I'm not at work anymore.  When i go back, I'll make sure to uninstall everything cleanly and start over.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 06:03 PM »

i have a theory about what might be happening..
you launch the exe with commandline parameters to set away message right?

and then what might be happening is after some delay.. the screensaver is kicking in -- on top of MPQ running as a standalone app.

i'll fix.

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 04:46 PM)

OK.  Not only that, but when it shows the other messages, it shows it in the default font that is not in my settings.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 03:00 PM »

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure it was...

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 02:57 PM)

Ok!  It did it again, so now I now for sure.  Somewhere while the screensaver is going, it chooses other messages.  It looks like it cycles through the list.  Maybe it shows the first message a few times, and then the next, until it reaches the end.  So, would it be possible to have only the chosen message stick the whole time?

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 01:21 PM »

you were using old version weren't you.. 

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 10:39 AM)

No!  it was the new version...I don't know why.

Actually, I just went to a meeting, set my away message, and came back, and it was showing another message saying I was somewhere else.  I don't know why it was doing that.  I just tried it again and it is working fine.  But I swear when I came back it was showing something else.  I'll let you know if it happens again.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 10:31 AM »

damn that is really strange.. so it's not even sometimes using the quote fonts? if you press spacebar to randomize and generate new layouts, it's always using the default white font for your quick away message?

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 10:13 AM)

Actually, my bad, it seems to be working now.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 09:23 AM »

can you try re-downloading the new version, i can't reproduce the problem any more so it seems fixed to me:

https://www.donation...PhotoQuotesSetup.exe

-mouser (March 25, 2010, 12:16 AM)

It's still all default white for me.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: (another) Linkman Review

« Last post by superboyac on March 25, 2010, 09:07 AM »

The review is very much appreciated.     More motivation to spend some time learning how to use the somewhat complex beast that is LinkMan.

-Lutz_ (March 24, 2010, 10:40 PM)

Excellent.  It doesn't have to be much of a learning process at all, especially the way I use it.  All I did was import my powermarks bookmarks, changed some settings to make it behave the way I wanted in Firefox, and that's it.  I barely spent any time even organizing or doing anything with the bookmarks.  The search makes it so easy to find, I just dump everything into a big list.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Changed settings don't all get implemented?

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2010, 07:19 PM »

yes. you can also just hit down arrow and enter.

-mouser (March 24, 2010, 02:55 PM)

Ah!  ok, that's good also.