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Living Room / Re: Windows system "aliases"?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 11, 2012, 07:58 PM »

Shortcuts... seriously.
Make shortcuts with the full command of what you're trying to do, and place them in a folder that you add to %PATH% (putting them in c:\windows\system32 was kinda rude, IMO, albeit effective...).
I did it all the time, worked well as long as the options were there.  Fer example, to open firefox and have it open to Donationcoder.com:

[Select]

c:\path\to\firefox.exe "https://www.donationcoder.com"

http://kb.mozillazin...mmand_line_arguments

You'd have to look up how to do it on other browsers, and programs that don't accept parameters you want can be dealt with by using a script automation thing like AHK.

-Edvard (September 11, 2012, 04:04 PM)

A variation of this technique I've seen is put them in the Quick Launch folder. Especially if you have W7 and don't use quick launch bar, you can type the name of the shortcut in the Run or Search box and it will launch. I think I tried it in XP or Vista. Haven't tried it on W7 but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Or use an alternative shell with native alias functionality such as bash for win32. Just enter the aliases in bash start-up config script similar to DosKey alias=command.  Usually the ls command comes configured as an alias with a bunch of options so that the options are specified just by typing ls and the file pattern into the bash command shell.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: File Change Log

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 11, 2012, 05:04 PM »

This one was just updated. It claims to enable launching an app on an event. That may be the hook to run a text file diff app. I haven't tried it myself though.

http://www.softpedia...ectory-Monitor.shtml

Requires .NET 3.5 SP1 framework.

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Living Room / Re: Windows system "aliases"?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 10, 2012, 05:01 PM »

Something similar with stuff already on your system. Not batck, but DosKey Aliases

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 08, 2012, 01:58 PM »

That Ghostery looks interesting. I think I tried it in the past. Don't remember why I stopped using it.  But I'm checking it out in FF 14 and chromium now. One thing I notice is the bubble that shows the alerts, the font and background are both black. I have to drag the mouse to read it.

-MilesAhead (September 06, 2012, 03:26 PM)

Weird - it's grey-on-purple here.

-f0dder (September 08, 2012, 07:37 AM)

If you have flat screen I guess there's contrast on those funky color combinations. On CRT it's black on black crime.  Eventually I'll have to give up the SVGA connector. I'm using an old kvma switch and Gateway VX900. Maybe when I get an OctaCore or whatever they call 8-core PCs, I'll step up to dual flat screens.


btw now I remember why I quit using Ghostery. At least on chrome it keeps crashing and pulls LastPass down with it.  I just took it off.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2012, 07:52 PM »

I know where the "off by one" bug is. In future I would suggest you make some specific references. It's not clear from reading your last post you are referring to my program since there was also a python script in play in the thread.  In any case, thanks for pointing out the off by one. I'll upload once it's fixed.

-MilesAhead (September 07, 2012, 07:29 PM)

Yeah, it's pure activity by BBSS. No Pythons or scripts were harmed in my testing.

-TaoPhoenix (September 07, 2012, 07:51 PM)

See above.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2012, 07:51 PM »

BBSS.exe has been updated to fix "off by one" error when collecting Titles from Tabs.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2012, 07:29 PM »

I know where the "off by one" bug is. In future I would suggest you make some specific references. It's not clear from reading your last post you are referring to my program since there was also a python script in play in the thread.  In any case, thanks for pointing out the off by one. I'll upload once it's fixed.

edit: BrowserBunch.zip with fixed BBSS.exe has been uploaded to my site.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2012, 03:26 PM »

That Ghostery looks interesting. I think I tried it in the past. Don't remember why I stopped using it.  But I'm checking it out in FF 14 and chromium now. One thing I notice is the bubble that shows the alerts, the font and background are both black. I have to drag the mouse to read it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2012, 01:52 AM »

Seems like this google search would be self-evident:

search with terms "combine 2 text files alternating lines"


http://www.computing...ing-order/19292.html

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2012, 05:17 PM »

Just scanned this.  Don't know that the link is really germane  , but OpenUpper.com is a service that seems to do what's requested.  Only problem is, it's an online service  .  (And I may not grasp the request.)

-barney (September 03, 2012, 05:05 PM)

Glancing at it, it looks like an applet to generate a home page with a bunch of links. Some people like that for a start page.  Likely a lot more efficient than Speed-dial. But I like the thumbnails.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2012, 03:46 PM »

I think I like the alternating approach, because then I think it works well towards my usage of importing into spreadsheets.

-TaoPhoenix (September 03, 2012, 01:07 PM)

I think you can figure out how to mix 2 text files. Line from file one, line from file two, repeat.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: convert html tags/attributes to lowercase

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

Another approach may be to go on AutoHotkey forum and request a regex that will do the conversion. Regular expressions are not my forte.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SrtStrip 1.31

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2012, 02:58 PM »

SrtStrip 1.31 SrtStrip has been updated.  Changes:

1) if the input file is named subs.srt the output file will be named subs_strip.srt  rather than the old way of tacking on .strip as another extension. This gets rid of the Explorer warning dialog when renaming the output file and changing the extension back to .srt.

2) Angle bracket tag removal was limited to single character tags such as italics.  Now any tag beginning with a less than bracket and ending with a greater than bracket on the same line will be removed. One example would be font size setting tags.

edit: same version number. I uploaded a new zip that contains source,exe,readme, and custom icon.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: convert html tags/attributes to lowercase

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2012, 12:24 PM »

If you have lots of input files then stream editing may be the way to go. I suggest you check out the sed stream editor available, with a lot of other Linux tools, to run on Windows:

http://gnuwin32.sour...ge.net/packages.html

Also you could search for Tidy. There are lots of variants around.  Many times command line tools for Windows don't bother with modifications after XP.  The command line approach doesn't really vary unless they are doing something via power shell.  Reading standard input and writing standard output has been around for a long time.

edit: searching terms:  sed lower case html tags
comes up with this sed script:

http://sed.sourcefor.../scripts/html_lc.sed

There's more of a command line filter heritage in Linux than Windows. If it's some common task reading input, filtering, and sending it to the output, chances are it's already been done in one or more of the Linux tools like nawk, sed, perl.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE change

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2012, 11:17 PM »

I prefer chromium to google chrome.  Essentially chromium is the open source browser that google uses as a starting point. Then they add some stuff to track you.  All the extensions for chrome I've tried have worked with chromium. Also you can get a chrome-win32.zip file that doesn't require an install.

There are always sites that work better with one browser than another. So I have Firefox for secondary browser and also have Opera. But I use chromium 9 times out of 10.
 
Chromium has a lot of functionality built in. That was what attracted me to Opera back in the day. I ran Opera 8.51 for years after everyone upgraded to newer versions.

Chromium has a nice feature where you can set it to block all plugins.  If you want to play a clip or sound sample, you just right click on it then click to enable playing that item.  Saves the trouble of white listing sites etc.. For the very few sites that don't like the delay while I right click, I just open Firefox.
 
The main selling point for me with chromium is it loads off the drive pronto! I set it to open to a blank page. Even if my HD is busy, such as dong a malware scan, chromium comes right up.  Firefox I used to run out of a ram disk to get a similar response.  There may be bad things about chromium. But it is fast. No doubt there.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: convert html tags/attributes to lowercase

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2012, 01:57 PM »

I use PsPad for html. I just do it for my site. I'm not a web programmer. It includes Html Tidy. But there's a command line version that may be good for batch.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/#binaries

I've only used Tidy on one file at a time inside PsPad. There may be settings to clean all pages in a project. But I'm not sure.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2012, 01:50 PM »

edit: hmm, mistake updating LastPass. Messed up Opera so it wouldn't even load. Had to do restore point. Turns out I don't see any big memory savings anyway. Back to 14.01 for me.

-MilesAhead (August 29, 2012, 10:50 PM)

I decided to set a restore point and then give Firefox 15 a try.  I'm happy to report that I did not have your experience.  After I installed FFx 15, I used Last Pass, and it worked fine.  I then opened Opera, and Last Pass worked fine there, too.  The Last Pass version that I have is 2.0, which I think I've had for several months.  I didn't need to upgrade to 2.0.2:  2.0 works fine with both FFx 15 and Opera 12.02.

I'm not sure why my experience was different from yours, but I'm glad it was.  

-cyberdiva (September 02, 2012, 12:15 PM)

I'm glad you didn't encounter a glitch. I have interactions with LastPass Firefox and chromium snapshots.  It's hard to tell which one causes the issue.  Could be the chromium snapshot. But FF 14.01, LastPass 2.0, Opera 12.01, and chromium 23.x snapshot I'm using now all peacefully coexist. The FF change to 15 upset the apple cart.

Of course whichever is the primary browser is the one favored when sacrifices have to be made. I'd rather use an old FF than an old chromium.  Opera I mainly use because it has a weirdy feature you can't get anywhere else that's handy on occasion, and for compatibility testing.

Likewise when I get an error in Chromium that the java plugin is out of date, chromium has that functionality built in. It's the one I install to use with FF that's old.

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Living Room / Re: How much soda (pop) do you drink?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2012, 07:42 PM »

That video was interesting. A world of products I had no clue existed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2012, 11:31 AM »

Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS Added options to ini file so that command line switches may be passed to each browser.  Use BrowserBunch.exe to open a browser with a set ot tabs.  This will cause it to write the .ini file with the new options. Under each browser there will be an option Brows_n_Switches where n is a number 1 to 6. For example to pass --renderer-process-max=8 to chrome, to limit the number of chrome.exe instances, paste it in without quotes directly after the equals sign.  If chrome is the browser for button1 it would look like this:

[Settings]
Left=78
Top=825
Brows_1=C:\Utils\Chromium\chrome.exe
Brows_1_Switches=--renderer-process-limit=8

You may even use the same browser for more than one button to launch with various switches.

(My web hosting outfit is doing some maintenance. My files are read-only access until then. I can't upload the latest to my page yet. So I attached it to this post.)

edit: they are making progress on my web hosting account. I was able to upload the latest zip for Browser Bunch.

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Living Room / Re: 2.5 GB for Opera - It's Not Running~! =D

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2012, 10:11 AM »

chromium has a switch --renderer-process-limit=n

I've tried it. It does cut down on the number of chrome.exe instances. Only thing is I don't know how to restore the default.  One one of the pages it mentions it being set to 42. So I tried running it with that. Seems to put it back to "normal" behavior.

Without the switch the 23.x snapshot I'm using is running 11 instances. I have 3 tabs open adn 5 extensions enabled.  The weird thing is, if I set it to something line 4, the number of instances is reduced. But I don't really see any difference with page behavior.

I just restarted chromium with --renderer-process-limit=4 and with only one tab open and 5 enabled extensions, I have 6 instances of chrome.exe.  I probably won't notice any difference unless I'm using multi-media stuff.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2012, 08:29 AM »

Latest Browser Bunch upload has it. You can download from this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

Run BBFF.exe once, then quit, so the .ini file will have the option to save titles. It's off by default.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.0.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 08:05 PM »

Browser Bunch 1.4.0.0 - with BBSS Changed the included macro program to BBSS.exe since it works in chromium as well as Firefox.  Added option to save titles of the tabs.  Run BBSS.exe once and quit it, to write new options to the .ini file.  The UseFileSaveDlg applies to both urls and titles.  In each case the urls or titles are written to the text file(s) one per line. If the file(s) already exist, they are deleted to avoid appending duplicate data.

I haven't tried it with Opera yet.  The macros, such as Control-tab to move to the next tab, may be standard for browsers.  One thing at a time.

edit: first attempt with Opera was really ragged. It just didn't seem smooth. Choice of 2 browsers should cover a lot of bases though.  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 08:02 PM »

Latest BrowserBunch upload has BBSS.exe with title set feature added.  The titles are saved to a separate file.  Run the program and quit once to add new option to .ini file. Title save is off by default.  Set it to True or 1 in .ini file to enable.  The UseFileSaveDlg option applies to both if title save is enabled. Otherwise it will take the filename from the .ini file.

The titles have " - Mozilla Firefox" or " - Chromium" removed from the end. The titles are saved one per line to the selected txt file.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Load a new browser instance with X tabs from previously located sites"

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 04:54 PM »

I have a first implementation of FFSS.exe which is Firefox Session Save. For now the hotkey is hard wired as Control-Shift F10.  The idea is you have FF open with multiple tabs. Make it the active window and hit the hotkey.  It uses macros to change tabs and copy the addressbar url to the clipboard, then save the list to a text file.

-MilesAhead (August 29, 2012, 05:02 PM)

would it be possible to save the tab title as well as the url?

-tomos (August 30, 2012, 05:24 AM)

I should be able to knock off a special.

I found the same macro works in chromium.  So I'm including BBSS.exe in the BrowserBunch zip.
(changing the name from FFSS since it also works in chromium. Hotkey is the same.)

How do you want to do it. Alternate url/title/url/title or urlFile.txt  titleFile.txt?  If the latter than I could add it to my utility without messing it up. I could just add an .ini option to save the titles to a separate file or not. If you want to do it another way I should be able to knock off a custom if it's not complicated.

In FF and chrome the active tab title is copied to the caption bar. FF might add - Mozilla Firefox but I can chop that off.
So it should only require cycling through the tabs and getting the window title at each position.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 03:34 AM »

I've been doing chromium snapshots since 16.x I think. Every now and then they shift the download page and I have to google until I hit the new one. I'm using chromium 23.x now.

Yeah, it runs a lot of processes and uses more ram than FF.  But man it jumps up even when the disk is busy. Nothing is free.