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To me the functionality is more important though, and the standard orthogonal file manager interface with NC compatible keyboard shortcuts+1-Jibz (November 10, 2014, 01:24 AM)
And now it appears that The Master has... undergone gender reassignment...The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords. I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?Because there aren't any Time Ladies?-MilesAhead (October 26, 2014, 04:47 PM)
The Clipboard Bar's main purpose is a clip viewer window.... and I don't use it. Hence a "no" from me.
This mouse-friendly window also acts as a Drag and Drop target, a Popup
trigger, and clipboard manager.
My first post made the point, not very explicitly perhaps, that there's no "need" to make downloads of CHS that only contain updated files (which is what I understood the OP to want) when one can rely on a good file manager to overwrite new/changed files and ignore the rest. Unless, of course, one is on dialup and really, really wants to minimise download size. I have been in the habit - for about 15 years - of using Total Commander for my file management needs, and almost never use Windows Explorer, so don't know what it offers. I imagine most frequent PC users do likewise....I wouldn't know. As I wrote, I use the much superior Total Commander...Eh? Misses the point.-rjbull (October 20, 2014, 03:13 PM)-IainB (October 20, 2014, 04:16 PM)
@rjbull and @dcwul62: If you open the .ZIP file for the latest portable version and then select and copy all its contents to the installed portable proggie's folder, doesn't Windows Explorer check first and ask you if you want to install newer/older versions and/or overwrite, etc.?I wouldn't know. As I wrote, I use the much superior Total Commander-IainB (October 19, 2014, 05:19 PM)
The well-liked Win7 and hated/despised Win8 seem to make the unloved Vista Win6 and well-liked XP Win5. So I wondered if there was some kind of ju-ju related to odd vs. even version numbers, and what Microsoft were thinking of to take the risk of jumping over Win9...I run Vista Home Premium, ...-rjbull (October 19, 2014, 04:31 PM)
Every second version of Windows... Darn that meme just keeps on giving!-TaoPhoenix (October 19, 2014, 04:42 PM)
But don't you want to hear that awesome logoff sound?Is there a "smiley" for apoplexy?-mwb1100 (October 19, 2014, 04:33 PM)
Concordance software for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOSFreeware. Found via Mark Wieczorek's "My Favorite Smallware".
TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. The new news-reader, too, puts news messages in a TextSTAT-readable corpus file.
TextSTAT reads MS Word and OpenOffice files. No conversion needed, just add the files to your corpus...
In TextSTAT you can use regular expression which provides you with powerful search possibilities. The programme is multilingual. Because it uses Unicode internally, TextSTAT can cope with many different languages and file encodings.
Breevy is a text expander for Windows that helps you type faster and more accurately by allowing you to abbreviate long words and phrases -- saving you time and money.
Simply define an abbreviation for a longer piece of text, like eml for [email protected].
Then, in the future, instead of typing that longer piece of text, type the abbreviation you associated with that text in any application, and Breevy will automatically replace it for you, instantly.
Xnview (freeware) has a compare toolThanks - are you using XnView or XnViewMP?-tsaint (October 09, 2014, 06:22 PM)
As for me, I am using a 3rd party tool (Beyond Compare) to do a foldercompare of the existing portable version with the new, extracted folder and only update what is necessaryWhy not use an unarchiver that checks for new/changed files? I use the one built into my favourite file manager, Total Commander. It gives various options, a particularly useful one being Overwrite all older.-dcwul62 (October 10, 2014, 11:44 PM)
I find sometimes certain clipboard managers give me problems, such as freezing, etc. I have lots of 3rd party utilities running in the background, so I assume there's sometimes a conflict. ArsClip was one of these.In earlier versions of Windows the clipboard chain sometimes broke, but I wouldn't blame the clipboard manager for that. I haven't had any problems with clipboard managers in Vista. The only other conflict I've seen is with some versions of Typing Assistant, a text expander that appears to work solely through the clipboard, but they seem to have cured that problem with the very latest full release (6.1).-kunkel321 (October 06, 2014, 03:53 PM)
> ArsClip bloated? When its .exe is under 4 MB?I'm surprised, because I've always felt that ArsClip hits the sweet spot. Basic features are quick, easy and fuss-free. The many advanced features, critically, don't get in the way of the basic ones. Indeed, you have to go looking for them, and I've even wondered if advanced features are too well hidden.
While this probably is good programming, it has tons of features and settings that I don't need,-David.P (October 06, 2014, 03:06 PM)
and OTOH it is not able to simply show a no frills popup next to its own tray icon, but instead puts its window all over the place on my triple monitorsHovering over the tray icon shows an abbreviated copy of the current clip, as does the Clipboard Bar if enabled. I agree that I would prefer popup location to be predictable, as I find its jumping about seemingly at random disconcerting. The location of the Clipboard Bar can be fixed and I would like that extended to the popup.-David.P (October 06, 2014, 03:06 PM)
Delving into Configuration, I find various settings I didn't know about that may help fix the popup location. Viz.:Show Popup ...
[X] when mouse button is held Right Click / Middle Click / Left + Right Click
Short Delay ----X---- Long Delay
The [Per-Program Options] can override this setting.
Show Popup ...
[ ] on foreground window when icon double clicked
[ ] on foreground window when icon single clicked
[X] on icon when double clicked
[ ] on icon when single clicked
Display Method
[X] Automatic (Recommended)
The popup is shown as dose to the pasting location as possible.
[ ] Mouse Cursor
The popup is shown near the mouse cursor.
[ ] Program Corner
The popup is shown near the corner of the foreground program.
Drifting off topic, but I had to respond - this is one of the subtle uses of AdBlock - it lets you hide pictures you don't like. There are a few people whose avatars annoy me too. Fine - just adblock them away and then they just vanish!I use the DC forum profile setting to not see avatars and sigs. Saves lots of screen space, as well as avoiding annoying animated avatars.-TaoPhoenix (October 06, 2014, 11:58 AM)
And just for the record, if you lost your stylus, you could use any old object that had a tip with the Palm. Not that it saved them from ending up on the scrapheap of technological historyI'm still using my Palm T3... and if you want styli, take a look at Cult Pens stylus search-dr_andus (September 25, 2014, 06:31 PM)
