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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 12:36 AM »

There I was thinking I am keeping up with firefox changes 

-rgdot (August 29, 2012, 11:32 PM)

While you're trying to keep up with FF versions, could you do me a small favour and count the drops of water in the ocean, and grains of sand in the desert and tell me which is more?

-Renegade (August 29, 2012, 11:51 PM)

 

-rgdot (August 30, 2012, 12:12 AM)

Yeah. Soon they'll be switching to scientific notation.  Get ya' Firefox here! Get ya' Firefox 1.23 x 10 to the 12th new today!!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: CD jewel case insert file list

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 12:11 AM »

I just noticed this thread. I think CDBurnerXP default insert printer does a track listing. I think if you burn as a "data" disc then it may copy the filenames and not convert the mp3 to CD audio format.  The default font is pretty small. You may be able to get 70 or 80 lines/filenames on the print out.

But if what you found is ideal then so be it. Other's looking for something similar may want to try CDBurnerXP since it's free.

btw even though it says "XP" I've had no trouble on Vista64 or W7 32 bit.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2012, 12:01 AM »

I think I'll stay with 14.01 for a while. Seems pretty solid.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 29, 2012, 11:12 PM »

As in my edit above. I had to go back. I have to stay with LastPass compatible across chromium,ff, and opera or it gets all screwy.

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General Software Discussion / Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 29, 2012, 10:50 PM »

Firefox 15 less of a memory hog.  Speed-dial got hosed. But I didn't like it much on FF anyway.  LastPass I had to update to 2.02 to get it going again.  At least now it uses a lot less memory than Chromium.

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.

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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 29, 2012, 10:04 PM »

Glad you found a use for it.  Doing the FF session save macro thing was good for me anyway. Saves draggng each url from location bar.  Also I can open a set I already have with Browser Bunch in FF and change a tab or add a couple and save to a new file.  Better than editing by hand esp. with all the illegible whatever in url search strings. Worked out all around.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 29, 2012, 06:39 PM »

Browser Bunch 1.4.0.0 - with FFSS Zip file now includes FFSS.exe which is a way to automate collecting a URL set using Firefox.  See the Readme.txt section "Automatically using Firefox" for usage.

It's just a Tray Hotkey macro utility that cycles through the open tabs and captures the url text. These urls are then written to a text file that may be opened using Browser Bunch.

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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 29, 2012, 05:02 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. You can then open that text file as a set using Browser Bunch.

For now the text file name is hard wired.

The zip attachment has FFSS.au3 AutoIt3 3.3.8.0 source code. Compiled .exe and custom icon.

edit: Clipboard text content before the hotkey hit is saved, then copied back to clipboard after URL collection.

edit2: updated to 1.01 contents of the text file are overwritten.  Rename the file to use with Browser Bunch. I'll probably add an option to open a SaveFile Dialog and change the hotkey in the future.

edit3: now that this seems to work I think I'll add it to the Browser Bunch download package. To create a text file of URLs the user will be able to hit the hotkey on Firefox and save it to a text file with FileSaveDialog.  Then it can be opened with Browser Bunch either using SendTo menu or in Windows Seven, pin the file to the taskbar Browser Bunch icon. Once the set it created it can be opened in any browser supported by Browser Bunch.


edit4: Browser Bunch download now includes the latest version of FFSS in the zip file.
http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: FreeBASIC 0.24 Released

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 29, 2012, 04:53 PM »

If you look around I think you'll find some open source or free implementation of QB.

For command line apps the FBIDE that comes with FreeBASIC is good. But it's not a drag & drop designer.  There's Firefly that works with FB 0.23. I don't know if it's so great for kids as the WinAPI calls are collected into a wrapper library. But you can drag and drop edit boxes buttons etc.. to do the Gui part.

But I think I would take a look around to see if you can find QB open source clones. I know I've seen them around. I don't know if they come with IDE or any details really. There are open source implementations of TurboVision for Pascal.

But for simple command line apps FreeBASIC FBIDE is fine. You can compile and run out of the editor. And FB does have some "compatibility modes" that help it tolerate QB syntax as well as VB etc..

The online forum people are pretty friendly.  They don't rip your guts out before helping with your problem.

edit: if you still have the real Dos QB compiler you may be able to run it on top of DosBox free dos emulator.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FreeBASIC 0.24 Released

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 29, 2012, 03:09 PM »

FreeBASIC 0.24 Released  Has interesting new features and fixes including: Type info for objects inherited from Object; launch routine as a thread etc..

See this link for info and downloads:

http://www.freebasic....php?f=1&t=20252

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 28, 2012, 08:53 PM »

Oh well. Not exactly a trade secret. So I guess it's ok. Glad to get another satisfied customer.

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 28, 2012, 07:47 PM »

You can compile the script as an exe.  Then you won't need AutoIt3 interpreter on the PC. The library is built into the exe.  But you'll have to run it in the tray.

What is this program? From what you are saying it sounds like you're trying to hack some game or other software. Why is it so important to change the title?

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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 28, 2012, 06:25 PM »

A stop-gap work-around for Firefox until you get something that saves/loads sessions for multiple browser instances.

If you have EditPadLite7 open and drag the icon from the start of the address bar, and drop it on EditPadLite7, it will enter the link. Press End Key then Enter to start a new line. Repeat for each Tab you want in the set.

Set up your sessions to 2 different text files.  Open the first text file using Browser Bunch selecting firefox in the Gui with firefox not running.  The URLs will open in new tabs(if you have FF set to open links in new tabs.)  Now with FF window active press Control-n.  You get a new window with no site open.  Open the 2nd text file of URLs using Browser Bunch.  Those URLs will open in FF in new tabs in a new window.  The blank window you got from Control-n is superfluous. It just makes FF avoid tacking the new URLs onto the first browser instance.

From what I read getting the urls from individual tabs in various browsers is non-trivial. And I don't know if there's really much demand for it.  This method may get the job done until you can find something fully automated.

edit: perhaps if you have one set of tabs that changes often, you can use a Tab Manager AddOn for that one, and just use the txt file approach for a tab set that doesn't change much to put through Browser Bunch. The first FF comes up to the tab set using the AddOn.  Then hit Control-n as described above, before using bb.exe to open the other tab set etc..

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

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 27, 2012, 06:22 PM »

If the window is an ordinary window with caption bar and a unique title, then this may be good enough in AutoIt3

[Select]

AutoItSetOption("TrayMenuMode", 3)
TraySetClick(8)
$exititem = TrayCreateItem("Quit")
$oldTitle = "EditPad Lite 7"
$myTitle = "The Tile I Want"

While 1
$msg = TrayGetMsg()
Select
Case $msg = 0
If WinExists($oldTitle) Then
WinSetTitle($oldTitle,"",$myTitle)
EndIf

Case $msg = $exititem
Exit

EndSelect
WEnd

If the program changes the title as an editor does when you load a file or a browser does when it goes to a page, you may have to use the window class name to detect it. See WinExists in AutoIt3 help.

You can get AutoIt3 stuff here:
http://www.autoitscr...te/autoit/downloads/

Forum programming help here:
http://www.autoitscr...com/forum/index.php?

 

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Living Room / Re: Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To...

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 26, 2012, 04:21 PM »

So in layman terms that particle or organism farts oxygen and intakes something else? if nothing else it could be used for the underwater diving and also for terraforming or say in space.

-mahesh2k (August 26, 2012, 02:26 PM)

Now if I could only find a goat that eats tin cans and craps gold bullion!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to RecentX

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 26, 2012, 03:47 PM »

Apparently - it gets the job done.

-DerekHal (August 26, 2012, 12:54 PM)

I don't remember much about it. But apparently I tried it back in 2009

http://www.autoitscr...er-menu/#entry728150

Seems like it insisted on opening the new folder in the current window when Explorer is set to open in current window. At any rate, the auhor never responded to my post. If you're happy with it then it's all good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to RecentX

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 26, 2012, 11:49 AM »

As far as I can see it tracks any recently use file, folder, program, and website.
...

-DerekHal (August 26, 2012, 05:39 AM)

That's interesting. When I was looking into doing MRU stuff I thought to hook ShellExecute. Turns out that's deprecated as of Vista. Also the Registry has some MRU lists. I noticed on one site a programmer found from testing that the start menu "frequently used" mechanism favored some MS apps even if they were only used once recently over some 3rd party apps launched 30 times. The docs on WMI which can do performance and some other monitoring are kind of vague.

Due to these complications I went with the simpler active window monitoring approach. It would be nicer if there was a simpe way to get notified every time the system launched something. But maybe because of malware it's discouraged.

From what you say it sounds like RecentX hooks ShellExecute, but that's just a guess. I'm reluctant to hook into that function since it does most of the app loading and a bug would be system wide. Also it's the type of thing probably better done in a c/c++ based language or asm rather than script. Better done by a software team with resources, esp. since they get some income to offset the risks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ginger free spell/grammar checker extension for chrome

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 26, 2012, 03:06 AM »

Interesting .. my only immediate reservation is where do they make their money if the software is free?

-Jibz (August 26, 2012, 02:37 AM)

http://www.gingersof.../ginger-for-schools/

Evidently the one I'm using is a loss leader.

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Living Room / Re: Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To...

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 26, 2012, 12:26 AM »

Makes me think of Godzilla vs. Destroyah. Some scientist invents "micro oxygen." Naturally Godzilla sparring partners appear.   

-MilesAhead (August 25, 2012, 09:36 PM)

Well, yeah ... but it's the sparring partners that make it more believable.  Without refutation, defense if you will, there's less believability  .

BTW, thanks for the link  ... cannot believe I missed that many Godzilla movies  .  He (she?) is my hero.

-barney (August 25, 2012, 09:47 PM)

Same director did The Mysterians and Battle In Outer Space. Those are a couple of my favorite SciFi flicks. The Ray Gun demonstration in Battle was about 10 years ahead of the Laser and was very similar to a demo I attended of a real pulse Laser. Of course the Laser demo I saw didn't penetrate an inch thick steel plate. It was a thin slice of brass.  Still kind of cool though.

It's hard to believe those flicks were released only recently in the original language. I saw The Mysterians in the theater when it came out dubbed in the US.  Literally got in with cereal box tops. It was a toss-up which would happen first.  Toho SciFi US releases in Japanese or Red Sox winning the series.



Er, sorry for the thread hijack.
     

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Living Room / Re: Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To...

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2012, 09:36 PM »

Makes me think of Godzilla vs. Destroyah. Some scientist invents "micro oxygen." Naturally Godzilla sparring partners appear.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ginger free spell/grammar checker extension for chrome

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2012, 09:27 PM »

I've only given it a cursory try. My main objective was to see if it made the editing "hinky" like the last inline grammar checker I tried.

Trouble with spell checkers is my typos are too often words. Also if the 's' is left off the end they have no way to know I wanted the word to be plural.

But what I really need is something that would get rid of passive voice and clauses. When I learned grammar in school that Hemingway simple declarative sentence stuff was taught as the "new fangled" revolutionary way of writing. Of course they had to teach us the old fangled way or we wouldn't be capable of appreciating it. Typing "I walked to the store" makes me feel like I'm writing "See Spot run."  Just seems too simple to be goodest.
 

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General Software Discussion / Ginger free spell/grammar checker extension for chrome

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2012, 06:35 PM »

Ginger Free Grammar Checker

I'm using chromium 23.x snapshot now. A cursory trial of Ginger seems to indicate it's not flaky. It picks off grammar errors such as what it be, and spelling errors using a wavy green underline. There aren't many free grammar checkers around that don't require pasting into a web site.  So far I haven't detected any side-effects typing with Ginger active as I have with some other checkers. For these reasons I'd say it's worth a test drive.  Especially if you use a chrome based browser as default.

There are also desktop versions of Ginger for non-chrome browsers.

Note that when I first started typing, Ginger didn't seem to do anything even though I deliberately typed in some "dis and dat" verbiage. However once I clicked the toolbar button it seemed to wake up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to RecentX

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 25, 2012, 06:12 PM »

I haven't used RecentX. Does it only track files opened by it, or does it track all files opened by Explorer/command line?

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General Software Discussion / Re: VLC - Is it worth it still?

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 21, 2012, 09:23 PM »

It never freezes or locks up. When I touch it with the mouse, or sometimes even on mouse over, it goes away with no error dialog.  The window just closes.  I've been updating versions and trying it for so long now that it ceases to matter. I just use SPlayer Portable.

edit: but I appreciate you trying to help though.

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Living Room / Re: Coffee Mug or when Plastic is done right!

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 21, 2012, 06:17 PM »

Probably the same guy who believed they were going to stop making Coke Classic has the Blockbuster mugs in an underground bunker along with Mickey Mouse watches and a few decommissioned nukes.

-MilesAhead (August 21, 2012, 02:57 AM)

Isn't that the fellow with crates of Snickers? Last I heard he was going to Mars.

-cranioscopical (August 21, 2012, 05:41 PM)

I heard Mars is red because that's where everyone in the universe dumps Cherry Coke. One taste and it's a waste!