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Official Announcements / Re: November Discounts and Giveaway

« Last post by Grorgy on November 06, 2007, 03:38 PM »

I just tried cpuidle over night and one thing that i noticed is that if you use copernic desktop search set to index when idle, it doesnt when cpuidle is running, dont know how it checks for idleness but thats what what happened.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use Desktop Widgets?

« Last post by Grorgy on November 05, 2007, 04:27 AM »

I've tried all sorts of widgets gadgets and what have you.  I have found them all to be more or less useless to me, the ones that are useful, things like ram and cpu usage and disk space are more easily and to my opinion better sourced through other means, i don't want to know all the time what is going on in there, I just want to use it lol.  And while i do use some of the object desktop suite, i limit it pretty much to the window blind, which seems to have no impact on the system, most of the time anyway, the right click which provides a useful, configurable program launching option and sometimes i use object dock, i sort of like it but its a bit time consuming to set up decently, easy enough, just time consuming, so i've got rid of it for now to.

But like housetier says, find what you like.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A rant about how I finally ditched iTunes... :D

« Last post by Grorgy on November 04, 2007, 03:49 PM »

Me too, I also hated that installer thing it had, i thought, somewhat foolishly perhaps that it would install only the apple products you had, ohh nooo, it installed all itunes and quicktime which, at the time was a bigger problem to me than now, as then i had a 1 gb download limit and itunes and quicktime took a tenth of that almost blahhhh.

As apple free as i can be now 

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by Grorgy on November 03, 2007, 10:31 PM »

maybe it was a possible new 'feature' that didnt appear 

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General Software Discussion / Re: instant on-demand translation needed

« Last post by Grorgy on November 02, 2007, 06:09 AM »

http://www.lingoes.net/  these people offer a free translator program, worth a try, i dont know how good it is but it seems to work as far as i can tell.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting: Tag2Find, Tagging for All Filetypes for Windows

« Last post by Grorgy on November 02, 2007, 04:35 AM »

And its worth noting that while I use and like Archivarius, it isnt without its indexing problems.   I knew i had a file but archivarius wasnt finding it.  I eventually found it through just looking everywhere, fortunately it wasnt far away from the place it should have been, so then i double checked my search criteria, tried other words, and then i rebuilt the index, and it found it.  I have less than 10000 items in that index at this time so size shouldnt be a problem lol.

Anyway just thought i'd let you know that it to has its little quirks.  Ahh for a perfect system, and one that would make the coffee to,

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Living Room / Re: Fantastic Job Opportunity

« Last post by Grorgy on October 31, 2007, 05:17 PM »

lol  this nigerian scammer can have my bank account, the red type and numerous 0s may make them want to donate 

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General Software Discussion / Re: You MUST See the Price for this Software

« Last post by Grorgy on October 29, 2007, 10:30 AM »

The difference to donationware tho is that you do have to pay something, according to the page you only get a trial version with limitations unless you do.

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Living Room / Re: Teledildonics — build your dream (virtual) sex machine

« Last post by Grorgy on October 28, 2007, 10:23 PM »

many a new use for screenshot captor too 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Auto-renew fees just slammed me!

« Last post by Grorgy on October 28, 2007, 05:51 PM »

feed demon do that, i was trying to find a solution to a problem on their website and discovered i was signed up for an auto renew, while i havent actually removed their product yet, i havent sorted out the problem either, and dont use it anymore, but the only reason i was looking was a suggestion on their forum telling us to go to non existent options so i was looking everywhere lol

Edit  I did cancel auto renew

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail rolling out IMAP Support?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 26, 2007, 03:41 AM »

Hi tomos, lifehacker had an article about that here's the link http://lifehacker.co...mail-imap-314565.php
And a quote

If you've set up Gmail IMAP using Google's instructions, you may have noticed a couple of snags—namely that your Sent Mail, Drafts, and Deleted Mail aren't necessarily matching up as you'd expect between your email client and Gmail. To remedy this, you'll have to tweak a few advanced configuration settings in your client,

Hope this helps

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synergy: Sharing your keyboard and mouse

« Last post by Grorgy on October 24, 2007, 12:30 PM »

I origiinally couldnt see a nexessity for this type of thing either, though I was on the prowl for a way to share mouse and keyboard to cut down on clutter without it being a big priority for me.  Stardock then sent me an offer on multplicity pro, so i gave the trial version a go.  It was so easy to set up and the pro version lets you copy and paste files and folders from one computer to the other, (it supports up to 6 computers I think but i only have 2 so I dont know how well it works in greater numbers)  It has made sharing of files and folders and just text snippets an absolute breeze.  You can be writing in word , say on one screen, have your browser (or any other app for that matter) on the other and cut and paste when you need to

My opinion is that these apps may not be necessary but having used one I would not like to have to go back to not using one, saves soo much time.  So whether its multiplicity or some other similar app I would recommend giving them a try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Have any web-based applications replaced desktop apps for you?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 24, 2007, 02:54 AM »

Good news! GMail IMAP Support

For some, not all, ive tried all ways mentioned to bring it up but it didnt arrive    oh well in the fullness of time no doubt.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unique way to make Firefox load faster

« Last post by Grorgy on October 23, 2007, 03:24 PM »

You can also use Minimize to Tray extension to stop firefox closing, its one of the options.

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Living Room / Re: Clever Programmerisms

« Last post by Grorgy on October 22, 2007, 02:21 PM »

"I don't care if it works or not, I want it on time and on budget!"

Team leader to programming and design team.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a small dockable, auto-hide notepad

« Last post by Grorgy on October 21, 2007, 11:51 PM »

not quite what you are after but flashnote is small and convenient http://softvoile.com/flashnote/  worth a look if you havent already.  lives in the system tray either a click or a k/b shortcut to bring it up

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synergy: Sharing your keyboard and mouse

« Last post by Grorgy on October 19, 2007, 03:46 AM »

Ive been using multiplicity for a while now, and it works great.  I only use windows so thats not an issue for me.  I read some reviews on it and they all said there are freeware ones and so on but if you want it easy, want it to work out of the box, probably, they did mention some people had trouble with firewall permissions but that was all, then multiplicity takes care of it all.  It does to, i just installed it, it asked me to choose what computer was what which side and so  on and i've been able to ignore it ever since. Installed and working in ohh 10 minutes or less (well i had to figure out dhcp once i started using wireless a bit but that wasnt multiplicity's problem  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mouse software

« Last post by Grorgy on October 16, 2007, 06:24 PM »

However, it does not have a nifty method of scrolling windows that aren't in focus.

I use KatMouse for that, I dont know if you have tried it but it works great for me http://ehiti.de/katmouse/

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« Last post by Grorgy on October 16, 2007, 11:01 AM »

Gotta love these newsletters, and i do so love buttered scones for tea, i lurk around DC for hours when i should be doing other stuff, but I always find something I've missed in the newsletter, thanks Darwin and all the rest who help put it together 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Direct Access - text expander and application launcher (and much more)

« Last post by Grorgy on October 16, 2007, 04:21 AM »

ok i might give that a try, probably got a bit of time left on the trial. 

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Living Room / Re: (Webfind) Oddity of the day: Prime number shitting bear

« Last post by Grorgy on October 14, 2007, 06:34 PM »

hehehe some people just have far too much time, still it was pretty funny lol thanks gjehle

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 14, 2007, 06:06 PM »

No privacy policy, though Angry

They do have a privacy policy, but its a bit hard to find lol.  If you start signing up for an account it has a link to terms of service, in there is a link to its privacy policy.  here is the link direct to the policy http://www.exalead.c...m/about/document/27#

Hope this helps

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 13, 2007, 07:17 PM »

IMO, locate shouldn't be put in the same category as software like X1 or Archivarius. AFAICT, Locate doesn't index content at all. No?

Thats really what I was getting at Armando, they do different things, but i like locate because thats really all i need for most things, and I find archivarius so easy to use and so configurable that it suits me perfectly.  I got so sick of the constant indexing and always running nayure of X1 and windows desktop search, i think they have some options for changing those things but i never found them and now i am happy with the solution i've got, works for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 13, 2007, 03:16 PM »

I voted for locate, because its the general purpose all in one file folder finder for me, but i use archivarius for document i just know are there somewhere but cant remember the name but remember what they are about, gets quite a bit of use really 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Grorgy on October 13, 2007, 03:03 PM »

just downloaded and installed it Darwin, ran kaspersky on it as an individual scan on exe file and the whole directory.  No threats detected.