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Living Room / Re: Am I the only person that has a real big problem with software like this?

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2013, 07:15 AM »

I think we have a serious scale issue going on here, between black and white/all or none assertion.

-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2013, 06:47 AM)

^
I'd agree.

Have we really sunk to the point where Orwellian monitoring of our children is considered proper? Instead of taking the time to build a rapport of respect and trust with them??!?

-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2013, 06:47 AM)

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I have mixed feelings about this whole issue - but in fairness SJ, monitoring does *not* exclude "taking the time to build a rapport of respect and trust with them".
I think if your kids dont talk to you about things that they see/experience that they might find uncomfortable or worse, you're both in trouble anyway, monitoring or no :-(

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Post New Requests Here / Re: GridMove Portable 7Lite | Windows 7 ready, combine w/ Aero Snap | XP/Vista Supp.

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2013, 05:37 AM »

I made it primarily as an "out of box solution" which can be combined perfectly with the Windows 7 built in Aero Snap. It extends the built in Windows 7 Aero Snap functions.
(Since v1.3.2 it works very well for XP and Vista too)

-helloall (May 13, 2010, 02:57 PM)

hi Helloall,
could you elaborate a little on what this one does - or on how it is different from the regular Gridmove ?
thanks, Tom

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Heuristic Scoring for previous search term.

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 01:10 PM »

See where the pointer is below - each item in the list has a score



Right-click your item and select "Add scoring rule..."



Add a couple of hundred as appropriate to the score field



tbh I'm not 100% sure how the scoring rule works,
but the above should help you sort out the problem

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Living Room / Re: Silk Road Seized - Dread Pirate Roberts Arrested

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 12:58 PM »

Teaser: Prohibition is the Morally Reprehensible Part, Not Buying and Selling Drugs

-Renegade (October 03, 2013, 12:33 PM)

I'm almost suprised that I more or less agree with you & the author here. (Well, 'morally' has nothing to do with it for me.)

I know that the huge majority of people dont want to try heroin/or-whatever-very-addictive-drug-is-on-offer. But also that the people that do use these drugs, are the people that contribute a huge amount to 'everyday' crime levels.

Okay, so let's say we just legalise everything. Should we allow advertising then? You know how our world works....
I dunno, I was just following the idea a little - maybe the question is a bit like - who will build the roads? - but related to regulation. Refer me to a thread explaining anarchy if appropriate ;-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveaway of the Day - InPaint 3.1 (for Windows and Mac)

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 12:38 PM »

There is no reason to vote for a feature already being default, I would say; it is not even possible to save a picture other than "Save as..."
 

-Curt (October 03, 2013, 09:00 AM)

odd request then
I've downloaded today, but have not tried the software myself yet.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 07:51 AM »

Stoic Joker @ 4x4 -- or something like that :p

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveaway of the Day - InPaint 3.1 (for Windows and Mac)

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 06:06 AM »

^thanks Curt

btw, this seems like a good request to vote for:
> Be able to save the edited pic with a different name . . .
http://inpaint-5-5.i...r.com/proj/?ia=76137

You can add other requests on the giveaway page ("Share your Ideas")
http://www.giveawayo...day.com/inpaint-5-5/

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Living Room / An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2013, 04:45 AM »

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer did a kickstarter a couple of years ago -
I dunno much about it but I know he has a few fans here, so I'm posting.
Now released generally (triple CD costs $20; digital down load $10).
http://amandapalmer.net/

Kickstarter details.
http://www.kickstart...an-and-amanda-palmer

An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer
Track listing:

Disc 1 (neil gaiman reads things)     My Last Landlady     The Rhyme Maidens     The Day The Saucers Came     Feminine Endings     The Winter Gardens     In Relig Odhrain     The View From The Cheap Seats     I Will Write In Words Of Fire     The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury     Making A Chair     100 Words Disc 2 (amanda and neil....do things)     Margaret Cho Introduces the Show     Makin’ Whoopee     (Introduction To The Problem With Saints)     The Problem With Saints     Jump (For Jeremy Geidt)     Ask Neil And Amanda     (Introduction To Broken Heart Stew)     Broken Heart Stew (By Amanda)     Poem for Amanda (By Neil)     Poem for Neil (By Amanda)     Electric Blanket (A Duet. Amanda Palmer And Jason Webley)     Psycho     (Introduction To I Google You)     I Google You Disc 3 (amanda sings things)     I Want You, But I Don’t Need You     (Introduction To Dear Old House)     Dear Old House     (Introduction To Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic)     Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic     (Introduction To Judy Blume)     Judy Blume     I Don’t Care Much (With Lance Horne)     Map Of Tasmania     (Introduction To Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass)     Do You Swear To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass     (Introduction To I Will Follow You Into The Dark)     I Will Follow You Into The Dark (For Ashlie Gough)     Look Mummy, No Hands     Ukulele Anthem

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Living Room / Re: The Earworms Music Thread!

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2013, 05:32 AM »

Went to this crowd lately, hardly having heard any of their music - actually I heard this track once before the gig, and then during the gig - it's been stuck in my head/ear since.
So, a nice mellow ohrworm

Hattler - Dimitri

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Looking for somebody to write simple photoshop plugin

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2013, 05:38 PM »

That's odd, that Photoshop has different colour values to other apps - who's at fault there?
And which colour value is *actually* correct?


edit// maybe this is the answer:

BPC and rendering intent change color values too. So to get the same color values as photoshop, it needs to be exported from it.

-smilem (October 01, 2013, 02:42 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2013, 10:41 AM »

A crow and a dog and a pingpong ball...

the crow comes when called (towards middle of video).
The story of the crow is in the "About":

MAY 2012..ok...a lot of questions...here are some answers :
the wings are NOT cliped (see that in "tin can, i love you").....i did not trained the crow, i just found it near the woods as a very little bird and no parents seen for over 1 hour...
told the dog (yes, she is old but NOT fat...its a lot of hair...) that we have a new friend...showed it how to fly (no, i did NOT run over the grass flapping with my arms...) wenn it could fly, it was gone for a wile, but then cam back nearly every day for playing and asking for food..(sometimes it brought stolen things from the neighbors and i had to bring it back ;-)
and YES, i am a bad@ss ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Hating on new Google Maps

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2013, 05:38 PM »

Any other problems Google should be addressing?

-CWuestefeld (September 30, 2013, 05:01 PM)

I dont know because I went back to the old version...
I was excited about trying the new version, but got *so* frustrated with it that I left it (and didnt keep track of my complaints). In fairness that was a while ago now (a few weeks at least).
I guess I should try it again and see how I get on - but you're not inspiring me

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Living Room / Re: Recommend free image hosting site?

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2013, 02:17 PM »

Alternatively you can also use Dropmocks.

http://dropmocks.com/

-Deozaan (April 19, 2013, 04:21 PM)

thought that was Dropsmocks for a minute...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sagelight Image Editor

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2013, 07:39 AM »

BTW, the new noise removal tools in sagelight provides first class quality results!
http://sagelightedit...uction-beta-release/

-Lutz_ (September 30, 2013, 12:57 AM)

that's great news! downloading, thanks



Re the HDR,
I like his approach (mostly more naturalistic - see his blog post about it).

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2013, 07:30 AM »

^enjoyed both versions

I mean rhyming h-o-o-o-rse and m-o-o-o-rse,
I just had to laugh at that meaningless connection :-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: CPU use

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2013, 01:44 PM »

No answers, just noting: on my machine (i5) it uses a fairly steady 0.16-0.19 when in the tray, and goes briefly up to almost 20% after taking a screenshot.

Maybe it's the Quick Capture bar? hmmm - does makes a little difference - down to .14-.16

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2013, 11:08 AM »

consistent with the post-medieval/pre-modern usage of the archaic 'long s'^w.

-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)

I guess that would be related to the German "scharfes S" (= "ß" ~ "ss"/"sz").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

Even though long s has otherwise disappeared from German orthography, ß is still used as a ligature and is replaced by 'SS' or 'SZ' in capitalized spelling. Its German name is Eszett, the lexicalized expression for "sz", from "es-zed") or scharfes S, "sharp S").

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seems to indicate that it co-existed with the "long s"...

I've a spelling-nazi streak in me that would have been driven to fits...

-Edvard (September 29, 2013, 02:52 AM)

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and here I thought all along that you were this real chilled out kind of guy ;-) :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which MP3 tagger do you use?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2013, 02:07 PM »

1) Yes.
2) I'd recommend Similarity for that.

-Tuxman (September 28, 2013, 01:43 PM)

thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which MP3 tagger do you use?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2013, 01:39 PM »

Picard has a reason to live on my hard disk as it can find tags by checking the fingerprint

-Tuxman (September 28, 2013, 08:15 AM)

like Tuxman I keep MusicBrainz Picard around for its fingerprint capabilities.

-Vurbal (September 28, 2013, 10:32 AM)

I was going to ask what this meant, but I found this in the documentation:

Scanning (fingerprinting) files

Instead of using release-oriented and metadata-dependent lookups, Picard can try and tag your files 1-by-1 based on their audio fingerprint. If you select a set of files in the left-hand pane and click "Scan", Picard will find PUIDs for your files and query MusicBrainz to find a track that matches them.

-http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard/Documentation#Scanning_.28fingerprinting.29_files

1) so IIUC, that's mainly used to identify unknown tracks?
2) Can it be used to identify similar tracks?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Where are comments stored?

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2013, 11:14 AM »

Depending on available time, I figure it might be a fun little NANY project for me to do a mini-search program. I need it anyways, so might as well. It's also a nice kind of project as I can GPL it or WTFPL it as I won't need to use any proprietary components like I've had to do for some other stuff.

-Renegade (September 27, 2013, 11:48 PM)

could this tie in with the SC viewer idea?

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on September 27, 2013, 05:37 AM »

^from the Guardian link for Sir David Omand

David Omand is visiting professor in the War Studies Department of King's College London and a former director of GCHQ, permanent secretary of the Home Office and UK security and intelligence co-ordinator. He is author of Securing the State

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Developer's Corner / Re: SHMUP, A Löve2D story

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2013, 05:02 PM »

That's looking great! Nice work!

-Deozaan (September 26, 2013, 03:57 PM)

+1 looks really good

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2013, 04:54 PM »

Here's some fun:

http://vimeo.com/75260457

TRIPPY! Super trippy!

That is definitely worth a watch. It just gets better & better.

-Renegade (September 26, 2013, 12:20 PM)

that was amazing
is that like "just" projections on a screen? Like a *very* updated version of an old fashioned slide-projecter
I've seen stuff like this (on film) projected on buildings and was totally gobsmacked, but this one is just *so* sophistacted...

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2013, 05:28 AM »

spoiler

It's a good example in ways: he'd have to shoot the complete population of Ireland for the way they pronounce 'H' ;-)

Haven't heard that one about ignorami vs. ignoramuses before...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.7.2 - Sep 13, 2013

« Last post by tomos on September 26, 2013, 03:42 AM »

hi Selt
in preferences: post capture options: