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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 11:29 AM »

In my mind, the zettelkasten works like having my own room in the Bodleian, with my current activities laid out on a large table in the middle, surrounded by small bookcases with the books needed for immediate references.
If I want more, or am moving on, then I can wander round the main library collecting books and other materials as I need. And if I need to do a detailed trawl into less familiar materials, I can ask the librarians to bring me stuff that might be relevant from the stacks.

Concentric circles. The more intensely worked material on the table in the middle, with all my notes; linked books and journals nearby. Associated material a little further away and stuff I might conceivably available after a little search.

-Dormouse (December 22, 2019, 10:53 AM)

somtimes it's hard to understand the system when reading about the details, this a very helpful description

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sagelight Image Editor v4 and is Pay-What-You-Want

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 10:22 AM »

Looks as if it is very nearly 10 years since I bought v4.

-Dormouse (December 22, 2019, 10:13 AM)

yeah, just had a look, nine years ago he had some sort of lifetime deal via gizmo (techsupportalert?)
Curious to see the new one.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 09:51 AM »

I think the only time you might see a tray message is if the program is already running in the system tray when you launch it again -- and it reminds you that it was already running.

-mouser (December 22, 2019, 08:56 AM)

I think it shows that greeting message once in a session (after reboot or login) -- it hasnt shown it since.
A couple pics explain:





I'm pretty sure CHS also shows that message on login, not sure about SC etc.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 09:47 AM »

I'll make a separate post per topic:

so that's where the options are
I saw File > Edit and moved on to the next item

You gotta admit though that normally an 'Edit' is not added before Options/Preferences/whatever :p

I'll look through them when I get a  chance. Note the text is very small:
FHD screen (1920 x 1080)
Text etc. is @ 125% (default)

Here SC options on the left -- not a big difference but SC is near my limit (but good), the other is a strain



EDIT// for some reason that screenshot shows (here) a lot bigger that the actual size of those dialogues. But at least the comparision is helpful

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 06:26 AM »

I preume it's intentional that the thubnails are a lot smaller in the grid view as in the thmbnail panel. (Seems logical to me.)

One thing I'm not a fan of is the pop-up message in the tray on start. This can be a helpful reminder when the software is starting minimised (e.g. with windows) but otherwise seems gratuitious to me. It steals the focus and forces the taskbar to display.

EDIT//
OTOH maybe the logic is if the browser is called from one of your other apps?

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2019, 06:19 AM »

Updated with some improvements to thumbnail sizing.

-mouser (December 21, 2019, 06:51 AM)

looking good -- that resizing thumbnail bug is fixed

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 19, 2019, 07:12 PM »

At the moment I'm focused on -- and loving, the virtual date hierarchy.
This does sound great though:

What I will probably try to add soon, is a feature that will be a little smarter about rescanning -- so that if you have a giant folder you are working with, AND you let it do an initial completed scan of that folder, it will thereafter (on the same run) not have to rescan as you pop in and out of subdirectories.

-mouser (December 19, 2019, 09:00 AM)

As said I'm loving virtual date hierarchy -- finding amazing screenhots of images (older photos mostly) that I made years ago.
Also, for what this is doing, it's really fast

I currently have the virtual hierarchy in a narrow column on the left; I increase the size of the thumbnail pane to most of the screen, leaving a small token column on the right for the actual preview/viewer pane.

Reproducible bug:
Using that slider I reduce the size of the thumbnails to below 30. The thumbnails go from showing maybe 25 thumbnails to showing just one image in the pane.


FWIW using keyboard to navigate gets confusing:
when focus is in thumbnail pane, focused file is highlighted blue -- this remains the same when focus is moved elsewhere (via tab key) which makes it difficult to know where one is when nothing else is highlighted. I can see when focus is in the hierarchy -- virtual or real, also when in one of the filter fields and the root but then I lose it and find I have to use the mouse to get back to the thumbnail field.
In fact I dont think I can tab to the thumbnail pane at all(?)

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2019, 03:14 PM »

^ That looks very impressive mouser

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2019, 11:54 AM »

^would it be any easier if it just stuck for one session -- or even for one viewing of the folder.
Here's a scenario:
scroll through a few hundred images, finding a couple here and there you want to e.g move or edit or both. Tag them as you view them. Before moving on to another folder, you copy/move/whatever tagged images.
You move to another folder, those images now no longer tagged.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2019, 11:44 PM »

Meant to ask before --
what is the slider, you can see it in my screenshot here:

https://www.donation...;attach=109827;image

It doesnt seem to have any affect (I think it should affect size of thumbnails?)

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2019, 11:39 PM »

Any more feature requests?

-mouser (December 16, 2019, 10:46 PM)

This may be too big a request:
the ability to mark files. Just on or off. I guess you'd need to be able to filter for them or show in a virtual folder, or sort by them. Would be a great feature for this imo.
(There are workarounds, e.g. temporarily rename a file, adding a character that will sort to top or bottom in alpha sort.)

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Skwire Empire / Re: When will epcheck be fixed skwire ?

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2019, 06:35 PM »

Can I contact skwire ?

-sportman12 (December 16, 2019, 05:39 PM)

He's moderator of this board in the forum, so he will get notification of your posts

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2019, 03:47 PM »

If there's a note in the zettel, it I regard it as part of that process not an independent file; otherwise not.

-Dormouse (December 16, 2019, 05:32 AM)

think this sentence got mangled (I *think* I know what you mean -- but not sure...)

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Skwire Empire / Re: When will epcheck be fixed skwire ?

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2019, 03:43 PM »

SkyHighatrist, I couldn't have said it better myself.  I'm extremely grateful for all of Jody's work on epCheck.  It has been invaluable to my television viewing but we can't expect him to fix what TVDB has broken. 

-msteph (November 25, 2019, 08:36 AM)

I want to fix epCheck, because it's an app that I enjoy using myself.  Right now, it's a matter of finding time to do it, and I hope to find time this holiday week.  =]

-skwire (November 25, 2019, 10:48 AM)

see above thread

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2019, 06:40 AM »

Updated with dramatically improved sorting speeds.  Let me know if you see any oddities.

-mouser (December 15, 2019, 12:29 AM)

'Sort' is sorted

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Living Room / Re: laptop temperature fluctuations

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2019, 04:01 AM »

Edit: I will try the vacuum cleaner to air intake port, as per IainB's ^'overheating or noisy fan' post.

-holt (December 15, 2019, 03:06 AM)

Note Shades's comments in related thread re static and being careful not to force fan blades to turn the wrong way.
I have used vacuum cleaner inside a desktop computer: I worked barefoot and half covered the nozzle with my fingers to minimise chances of static building up.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2019, 06:39 PM »

^ tried it in a folder with 75 files -- it shows *after* all the files starting 'Screenshot...'
All the files starting 'Screenshot...' sort correctly A-Z in both folders.
In the folder/screenshot above there's two files that are out of correct sort (the other one is 'rscreenshot...')

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2019, 06:32 PM »

the file seems to be showing for me..

-mouser (December 14, 2019, 04:34 PM)

turns out it's a problem with sort -- in the screenshot the files are sorted alphabetically (A-Z).
We have files starting with: W | F | R | W | etc
... something's not right ...



EDIT// this in a folder with a lot of files -- over 3K I think (I'll try it in smaller folder)

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2019, 04:07 PM »

v1.11.1 - Dec 14, 2019

• [Improvement] Image dimensions shown in statusbar.
• [Improvement] . . .
• [Improvement] Faster scanning speed.
• [BugFix] Exiting while running scan was needlessly slow.
• [BugFix] . . .
• [BugFix] Was reporting wrong folder search count.
• [BugFix] . . .
• [BugFix] In large folders after sorting, sometimes thumbnail showed wrong image.

-mouser (December 14, 2019, 04:55 AM)

tested the above, all seem to be okay now, here.

I attach a file/screenshot that the browser cannot see -- formerly it was one that disrupted the thumbnails of the following files (it 'stole' a thumbnail). Currently it is simply not seen (much better).
Is visible in SC FWIW.
It's a jpeg file (I usually use default png for screenshots -- other SC jpg files show fine). It has a silly name (frog :p), I think I may have been testing reading SC comments in other viewers at the time.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2019, 05:17 AM »

[Improvement] New age filter

-mouser (December 14, 2019, 04:55 AM)

does the new age filter have dreadlocks

Will try it out later 

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Living Room / Re: laptop temperature fluctuations

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2019, 11:46 AM »

Usually it runs lukewarm but sometimes it gets quite warm for no discernible reason; could that maybe be Norton running in the background?

-holt (December 13, 2019, 09:50 AM)

you can check the Task Manager or get something like Process Explorer (I use the portable version).
See screenshot, it will show the biggest user in tooltip, but while the CPU or memory is actually being hogged, you can sort by either of those columns and see which are the biggest users

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Living Room / Re: laptop temperature fluctuations

« Last post by tomos on December 13, 2019, 11:41 AM »

How do you clean internally?

-holt (December 13, 2019, 11:06 AM)

I have a dual core laptop -- it's a few years old.
Just this week I installed extra memory for it (upgraded from 8 to 16) -- bought a set of screwdrivers suitable for that kind of thing, and found a youtube video showing how to do the deed and went and did it.
Worked fine, I was surprised how little dust there was in it, but one of the intakes *was* clogged. There was another protective layer -- for the CPU etc -- underneath the back cover. I didnt bother taking that off (but what I could see under it looked fine...)

It now uses less memory than it did before (that stumped me) but more importantly, it has enough memory for me to e.g. play/stream a couple of videos simultaneously (note the CPU is an i5-5300U). The fan kicks in a lot less so the machine is definitely cooler, less stressed.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.08.01 - Dec 12, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 12, 2019, 12:53 PM »

[Improvements] Reports scanning progress on large (recursive) directories and allows cancellation of scan; especially useful for large recursive directory trees.
[Improvements] Exponentially faster refresh after deleting files from large directories and refreshing after removed files.
...
[Improvement] Program remembers last subfolder selected on exit and restart.
[Improvement] Remembers selected image even after rescanning.
...
[BugFix] Deleting a file left deleted image in viewer.

-mouser (December 12, 2019, 01:08 AM)

these ones I, eh, interacted with: all good

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.08.01 - Dec 12, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 11, 2019, 06:21 PM »

A minor request -- it doesnt remember last viewed folder, would be nice if it were to start with last view, or have that as an option

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.08.01 - Dec 12, 2019 beta

« Last post by tomos on December 11, 2019, 06:14 PM »

Delete is now instantaneous (even within large folders) -- there is a quirk in that the actual view of the deleted file remains in the viewer pane until focus is moved to another file.

Well that's a bug then, it shouldn't stay in the viewer, so I must be overlooking something..

Can I ask how you are triggering the delete?

-mouser (December 11, 2019, 04:51 PM)

I simply use the delete key (focus on thumbnail)
with latest version:
delete in folder with <100 works perfectly: focus moves to next thumbnail, that file shows in the viewer pane
delete in folder with >100 works imperfectly: delete is fine; focus moves to next thumbnail, deleted file shows in the viewer pane. As soon as i click in thumbnail panel, viewer shows correct file



EDIT// this doesnt bother me, just reporting!