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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2013, 04:33 AM »

Just got to it today - both working perfectly here, many thanks

hmm, twice now this morning though, I've had a problem with display when scrolling horizontally using the Ctrl+mousewheel combo. See shot - what has been scrolled disappears; also what I am scrolling towards does not show - so the visible area gets smaller all the time. Also, it jumps to ~23% CPU (i.e. most of one core).
I'm unable to reproduce it now though... will do if I find the trigger.
[edit] hasn't happened since - may have just been some weird once-off teething issues with the new version [/edit]



Dont know if the above will affect this request:
would it be possible to speed up the horizontal scrolling? I do tend to use it a fair bit because I often have files with the same name/different locations. And I like to keep the window a reasonable width (so I need to scroll to see the filepaths).

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2013, 02:49 PM »

Looks interesting. I've read some articles on mining bitcoins, but I'll need to dig deeper into it. Any recommendations?

-Attronarch (December 04, 2013, 09:57 AM)

there was a post lately in the basement that might give you a few pointers (NOTE: you're heading into a friendly, but not so family friendly zone there).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Daminion Basic 2.0.0.9 - gaotd

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2013, 02:34 PM »

For the record: according to the comments anyway, the difference between this and the free one is -
Free: 15,000 images per cataolgue
Basic: 25,000 per catalogue

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2013, 12:08 AM »

^ in the middle "a new puppy"; and down the bottom "and $50 cash"

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on December 03, 2013, 05:30 PM »

Yes, enjoying new version

Naturally, I blame my trackpad for not having broken the 50,000 mark

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on December 03, 2013, 05:10 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.9 - 2013-12-03
    + Drag-and-drop reordering in the listview is now possible.
    * Listview contents are now saved between sessions.  (Thanks, tomos)

-skwire (December 03, 2013, 04:15 PM)

Manual reordering sounds interesting!
Will get to try tomorrow, thanks Skwire

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on December 03, 2013, 02:37 AM »

^ meanwhile, some people, I mean rodents, have other plans...

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« Last post by tomos on December 02, 2013, 02:07 PM »

I think maybe Gus has depth perception issues.  

-Deozaan (December 02, 2013, 02:02 PM)

 

I think he bit a porcupine in a past life

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: PopUp Wisdom Love

« Last post by tomos on December 02, 2013, 07:53 AM »

Ok, sounds like i can go official with this then..

-mouser (December 02, 2013, 05:27 AM)

just tried unsuccessfully to reproduce problems. (I did try clicking [OK].) Seems to work fine on win 7 - or works find so far
No loss of letters when typing.
Doesnt kick YT videos out of full screen either (or didnt when I just tried).

 


EDIT//
and the quote only disappears on the up-click, more thumbs-up ;-)

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: PopUp Wisdom Love

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2013, 05:06 PM »

Will test tomorrow, thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2013, 03:03 PM »

Here's the latest test build, with changes below:
http://goo.gl/76xqb6

-Deozaan (December 01, 2013, 02:33 PM)

only played it once, but all round improved 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2013, 02:54 PM »

What does it mean to be kicked out of the game? Does it take you to another page? Does the game stop loading? Does the plugin just go all white/black?

-Deozaan (December 01, 2013, 02:33 PM)

on the trigger game page:

• start a game
• right-click with mouse
• select either "setup" or "about" - you will be sent to a new page
• Game over....

I suspect this happening arbitrarily is still to do with my wonderfully designed and lovingly crafted [dodgy] trackpad.


EDIT:
here's a screenshot -



I pressed escape to get away from the context menu which appeared out of no where and was blocking my view - the game stopped but the menu stayed. (I just went back to the tab and it's gone now, but it did disrupt the game and caused me to die).

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2013, 06:43 AM »

In Bitcoin's Orbit Rival Virtual Currencies Vie for Acceptance

-Arizona Hot (December 01, 2013, 03:57 AM)

an informative but weird article.
The author keeps referring to a "Lawrence Blankenship ... a software engineer from Springfield, Mo.", and his buddies, who are all fans of a particular currency. Almost seems like the author had no clue (a good starting point actually), but instead of researching in depth, decided to just mine "Mr. Blankenship" for info. Not saying the article is misleading. But wouldnt trust it much either. Really poor journalism...

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2013, 05:53 AM »

^ it didnt happen since deo - I changed my trackpad settings - I think it was to do with a certain are triggering the context menu and *possibly* a bug with the escape key triggering an option for the context menu.
If you click any of the two options on the context menu - it simply kicks you out of the game - you cant bet back to it. Not ideal, but shouldnt normally be a problem.


EDIT//
Okay, it just happened again - in spite of context menu activation being disabled in the trackpad :-(
But it could well still be the trackpad. I think it and it's driver were designed to drive people slowly but surely insane...

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: PopUp Wisdom Love

« Last post by tomos on November 30, 2013, 05:05 PM »

glad the timing is good

the farr plugin to search quote works well afaik.

-mouser (November 30, 2013, 12:00 PM)

thanks, will try it.

Re editing - I was thinking of something very easy, unfortunately I dont have it (Popup wisdom) installed here, so cannot check. Will try and have a look at it tomorrow.

With the quotes for example - I currently have two 'books' installed - a philosopher one, and the Eno one.
Sometimes I would simply like to delete a quote.
Sometimes I would like to add commentary to it.
Sometimes it makes me think of something else I'd like to write and add to a book of, say, "Quotes by me".

I know there's already a bunch of buttons there, and I dont know what could be possible from a coding perspective. But I think it would look better either with less, or without any buttons, and if we could access the current options, and any new ones (del/comment/new) say via a right-click or via a popup menu.
(I'm just firing off ideas here now)

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PopUp Wisdom / PopUp Wisdom Love

« Last post by tomos on November 30, 2013, 11:46 AM »

hi mouser,
I see you're on a roll with updates lately so I'll ask for at least a minor update here

But first,
popup wisdom is a great little app - it has a lot of potential too imo. I see you started a FARR plugin at one stage for searching 'quote' contents via FARR.
If it were easier to add or modify text/quotes, or simply add comments to existing quotes, it could be used in a much broader manner e.g.

• as a long term todo list
• for ideas/topics that are rattling around the back of your mind - get them down here, and get occasionally prompted to think about them
• add your thoughts to quotes
• simply easily easily add new quotes/text

I had plans to write a mini-review and expand on those ideas above, but dont seem to get around to it

But in the short term, what makes it almost unusable for me, is that it momentarily steals focus when a popup shows.
When typing, it disrupts normally to the extent that one letter is missing - I'm a look at the keyboard typist so this is particularly challenging.
Also,
with YT videos at any rate, it breaks full-screen view. Not sure if that the same with other full screen apps.

Dunno does that all happen everyone, I only use it on my Win7 machine btw.

Another thing, but a minor one:
when I click on a popup, it disappears on the down-click. Default in Windows is that something works on the up-click, which allows one to have second thoughts

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General Software Discussion / Re: Table/S'sheet: cells can be dragged up down w/out moving rows (Exist?)

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2013, 02:09 PM »

a spreasheet or table, where I can move the individual cells up or down *without* moving the row the cell is in.

-tomos (November 29, 2013, 07:22 AM)

TreeSheets can do something like that but with keyboard shortcuts, not the mouse (as far as I know).

-dr_andus (November 29, 2013, 10:54 AM)

even better (keyboard)

Works a treat, thanks

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Living Room / Re: Backing up data without any users logged on

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2013, 01:37 PM »

hi Armando,
I dont use Syncovery (SFFS) this way but it can do what you want (and I do have the service installed)

How can I make sure the scheduler starts automatically?
[...]
Method 2 (using the Syncovery Service – Windows only)

The main advantage of the Syncovery Service is that it runs even when no user is logged on. However, it is more difficult to set up and since it runs as an invisible service, it is less intuitive. For example, it can’t prompt the user in case an FTP password has changed, or when there is a SmartTracking conflict.

Using the service can fix some “Access Denied” problems because it normally runs with more privileges than the main program GUI.

You will find more information on the service here.
http://www.syncovery...ntation/faq/service/

-http://www.syncovery.com/documentation/faq/how-can-i-make-sure-the-scheduler-starts-automatically/

I imagine there might be other backup apps that do this as well.
Tom


EDIT// the beta of Bvckup 2 runs as a service too - only syncs though.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=36388.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Table/S'sheet: cells can be dragged up down w/out moving rows (Exist?)

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2013, 07:29 AM »

When I drag a cell upwards, it will displace the cells above it - in this example, it was dragged above [Football] - so that one moved down one cell.

-tomos (November 29, 2013, 07:22 AM)

or,
like one of those games where there's always a blank square to move into:
Create a blank column beside the column you want to modify - cells can be moved into this blank row.
There would be no automatic displacement, the user would have to manually move everything, e.g. in the example above:

• move the [Baking] cell into empty column.
• move the [Football] cell down
• move the [Baking] cell into the empty cell where Football was

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General Software Discussion / Table/S'sheet: cells can be dragged up down w/out moving rows (Exist?)

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2013, 07:22 AM »

Does something like this exist ? (or would it make a good NANY idea?)

a spreasheet or table, where I can move the individual cells up or down *without* moving the row the cell is in.
e.g.

John	Football
Mary	Baking
Pierre	Ice skating

I'm not happy with that, so I want to drag the cell Baking up.

John	Baking
Mary	Football
Pierre	Ice skating

When I drag a cell upwards, it will displace the cells above it - in this example, it was dragged above [Football] - so that one moved down one cell.

Export would be nice - simply the ability to copy & paste in a spreadsheet app would cover that though.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: looking for MS Word

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 02:03 PM »

update- Okay, picked one up from Amazon for about $9.98 grand total, and I'll be happy to report on the outcome when it arrives in a few days. Tnx.

-bit (November 28, 2013, 11:43 AM)

Good.
I was just going to say that it might be worth starting a new thread asking specifically about e-book creation. Hopefully Word can do that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 11:25 AM »

^enjoy your holliers in between

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my Firefox searching for updates when aut. updating not is enabled?

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 08:53 AM »

But I don't have any "update".

-Curt (November 28, 2013, 07:57 AM)

me neither FWIW

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 08:47 AM »

This is a great little app Skwire, thanks again


I was wondering would it be possible/not-too-difficult for it to remember the files listed on closing/reopening? Would suit my workflow better - but it would also be one of those icing on the cake things :-)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on November 28, 2013, 07:35 AM »

and the return version is Americans Try To Place European Countries On A Map
subtitled: :( :( :( :( At least the U.K. office didn’t fare much better with the U.S.
and
OK, in our defense, Europe is really complicated.
- which is true - I'd have trouble with a good few countries there myself..

http://www.buzzfeed....n-countries-on-a-map