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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest/oldest file in the folder

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 04:39 AM »

^Great job, thanks

I linked to app and instructions in the dopus thread: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

Minor correction to the text dcwul62 (with apologies for pestering you!):

7. Enter title: Adjust Timestamp (A),
click on Drop down menu (B)
select "Run an Opus function (not supported in Explorer), (C)
click on "OK" (D)

B/C are incorrect (both are B there - C is actually missing). It should read:

7. Enter title: Adjust Timestamp (A),
click on Drop down menu & select "Run an Opus function (not supported in Explorer), (B)
click on Commands and select Adjust Timestamp (C)
click on "OK" (D)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2013, 04:34 AM »

Here's another one from 4wd
DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest [or] oldest file in the folder

and
here's dcwul62's instructions for how to add it to the conext menu - or to a button in Dopus:

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest/oldest file in the folder

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2013, 03:35 PM »

dcwul62 - your instructions for incorporating with dopus were a great help!
... but I did get stuck on a couple of occasions (note: if something can be done wrong, I usually seem to manage it )

#2. make sure Commands tab is selected

#6C. double-click
#7. comes before 6G (i.e. 6G should be left out - otherwise one is trying to figure out how to get back to the "Edit new Action etc" dialogue)

I figured it all out in the end anyways (how often can someone be embarrassed in a single post )
and
it's working nicely :Thumbsup: all round

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Living Room / Re: FallingFalling is useless in a very impressive way

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

looks great (and brilliant thread title btw Curt )
but it makes me very seasick...

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Change (sub) folder(s) date based on newest/oldest file in the folder

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2013, 10:24 AM »

completely off-topic -
I've gotta say it dcwul62 - you make the classiest screenshots on dc!


Going to try this out, hopefully later, with dopus.
Thanks 4wd (and dcwul62)  

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

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2013, 06:09 AM »

great mix here lately

@TaoPhoenix my favourite older Bee Gees track is the very schmalzy "To Love Somebody"
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=ykU8iSKkJR0

@40hz, do you remember that book 'Supernature' - it claimed plants responded to people just *thinking* about cutting the plant. No idea if true. Would be interesting to see the same experiment (as in the video!) tried with humans or other animals.

Finally,
I came across this video by serendipity - the way the keys are shown seems to tie in with my last two days work, trying to display information *meaningfully* in bar charts. Music takes a moment to start:

variation here (non-fading bars)

he's got a whole bunch more of very interesting visual "presentations" of music.

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Living Room / Re: Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2013, 05:28 PM »

Perseid Meteors 8-12-2013 All-Night Fisheye Timelapse (Composited Ver) V12851x

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

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2013, 04:48 PM »

I don't get it.

-wraith808 (September 04, 2013, 12:57 PM)

It's silly.

-IainB (September 04, 2013, 03:36 PM)

well, it's taking the piss, isn't it?
hopefully more out of sexual repression, [often fueled by religion], than out of religion itself (or that's how I'd read it anyway, seeing as "the man" has never been quoted saying anything like that).
Note to self and everyone else though: religion related discussions belong in the basement ;-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2013, 04:41 PM »

I wasn't sure if the greyscale needed to happen before the invert colors thing.  I didn't know if a color image inverted very well.  I think the author of the abandoned PrintScreen32 software had the invert as a sub-option of the greyscale option because it might be strange if someone inverted an actual color image ...

-jhines97 (September 04, 2013, 04:30 PM)

yes, it is

But I just noticed, you can also use this option for inverting colours of screenshots (see mouse pointer in screenshot below).
(I say this also for mouser's benefit - he's been known to forget what his programmes are capable of )

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2013, 04:23 PM »

In the scanner side of things, there's the option "reverse colours". I realise that's not the same - and that it doesnt work for screenshots, but just thought I'd point it out in case it's helpful.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by tomos on September 04, 2013, 10:40 AM »

I'm not sure if you're able to include in the fix the come-to-front behaviour of the main window,
as you describe -

It only happens if the Screenshot Captor is actually on the screen (not in the tray), right?
That is, SC may not be in the foreground, but it's not minimized right?

-mouser (September 04, 2013, 08:05 AM)

if you could stop this behaviour I would be very very grateful
if not, I can live with it too ;-)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review of Zeus Edit

« Last post by tomos on September 03, 2013, 03:27 PM »

Another note: Due to the generosity of Jussi, ZeusEdit is on special for 49% off for members only.  Please check the thread in the discounts area for more information.

-wraith808 (September 02, 2013, 05:22 PM)

 

(just in case anyone missed it!)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by tomos on September 03, 2013, 03:25 PM »

Well, to be more consistent, shouldn't it just be referred to as "Image" instead of "Image bitmap", or "Image / region Bitmap", or "Bitmap"? Bitmap to me implies a *.bmp filetype. If you don't have bitmap set as your default image filetype, then it could be confusing. Why not just refer to it as "Image" in the Edit>Copy to Clipboard menu and Post Capture Options settings?

-bubbajunk (September 03, 2013, 01:56 PM)

there are inconsistencies in the world of images - the use of 'bitmap' is one. It is often used to imply a pixel image - as opposed to a vector one. To me 'image' could also be a vector image. But as you say this leads to confusion due to the bmp format...

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« Last post by tomos on September 03, 2013, 05:57 AM »

I fell a bit off the ladder.. can we do another 30 days of September? Who's up for it starting TODAY?

-mouser (September 02, 2013, 10:28 PM)

I've been eating reasonably well lately, but would still like to improve a lot: get more active/fitter, earlier to bed, earlier to rise ;-)
Had a phase of doing light exercise in the morning, that helped a lot in terms of state-of-mind during the day. Would like to restart that.
So, yes, I'm up for starting today

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General Software Discussion / Re: scan a folder and subfolders for compressed files....

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2013, 05:14 PM »

I was going to suggest any file manager that will give you a "flat" view - i.e. in one pane it will show you all files in a folder *and* all it's sub-folders.
Then sort by filetype.
In Directory Opus you can then filter the files - probably in other managers too.

But why dont you simply use some quality search programme? e.g. XYplorer does both - possible that the last free version will do flat view as well but I dont know (I think in XY it's called something else)

best of luck ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: scan a folder and subfolders for compressed files....

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2013, 04:28 PM »

what file manager do you use?

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

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2013, 02:00 PM »

Some great images there Arizona
The one with "please remove ski masks before entering the bank" - that bank was robbed to the tune of £26.5 million pounds sterling ($41 million) in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia....orthern_Bank_robbery

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General Software Discussion / Re: List all subfolders on multiple drives to text of csv

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2013, 09:31 AM »

Matter solved[/b]: added root folders to library.
I can now generate a print from all folders using the library.
Have to confess, did not think of this before as I have never been using the library sofar.

-dcwul62 (September 02, 2013, 02:14 AM)

is that with directory opus? (I presume, but thought it better to check!)

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Living Room / Re: HELP PLEASE

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2013, 09:25 AM »

Best of luck with it jschelagh!

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by tomos on August 30, 2013, 06:58 PM »

^no worries,
just thought I'd give others a heads up.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on August 30, 2013, 06:35 PM »

http://www.youtube.c...watch?v=deLIcUOjszwp

-mouser (August 30, 2013, 04:31 PM)

nice,
- below from the same 'stable' (I've seen it before but I think it's not been posted here):

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by tomos on August 30, 2013, 06:19 PM »

Just wanted to pass along sort of a PSA: there are still 46 days left in my Goodreads' Giveaway of two copies of my book. Thought some of you who haven't signed up may want to do so. That way, if you later decide to read (and then, of course, review) my book, you've already got a free copy.

Here's the link:

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/61946

-kyrathaba (August 25, 2013, 09:16 AM)

for non-US residents:

Enter to Win
Kyrathaba Rising by William Bryan Miller

* This book giveaway is open to members in only the following countries: US.

EDIT/

Everyone, please LIKE my Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00EVVHU8Y

-kyrathaba (August 30, 2013, 05:14 PM)

-
done!

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by tomos on August 30, 2013, 05:16 PM »

I think the Oxford dictionaries work on "historical principles," which means that they record how the language is being used and include new words as soon as they are established.  They aren't trying a top-down enforcement of Proper English.

-rjbull (August 30, 2013, 03:45 PM)

I read an article from Slate yesterday about the Oxford dictionaries - they've diversified :-) These words were added to the Online dictionary (and maybe the next "Shorter" Oxford Dictionary?), but not to the main "Oxford English Dictionary" (OED).

• The dictionary content in ODO [Oxford Dictionaries Online] focuses on current English and includes modern meanings and uses of words
• The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and it forms a record of all the core words and meanings in English over more than 1,000 years, from Old English to the present day, including many obsolete and historical terms. Words are never removed from the OED.

THe OED one has about 20 (or whatever) volumes. The OED 'style' is based on Johnson's English dictionary. (I know that from Henry Hitching's book about Dr. Johnson's Dictionary - which was a suprisingly entertaining read btw).

the slate article was relevant to this thread, but I didnt bother posting it at the time cause the tone was just too self-righteous Reminded me of people who insist the system tray should actually be called something else...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: A new section for Linux, cross-platform code, embedded, mac, android, ios, etc.

« Last post by tomos on August 30, 2013, 03:28 PM »

Come on gothic, there's plenty of room for everyone.

Actually, as it stands now on most of the unmoderated internet, there isn't.
Postings related to popular technologies and platforms drive out the more obscure things (which is logical because they are popular).
The problem with this is that there is no place for people who are actually interested in these obscure things.
When anything is allowed, the "wisdom" of crowds governs, which in practice drives everything towards monoculture.

-Gothi[c] (August 30, 2013, 01:28 PM)

but dc hasn't typically been like that, has it?**


**edit/ or maybe that's the way you see the current software board - what with it being windows focused lol

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by tomos on August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM »

who'd want to kiff onef fifter?

-cranioscopical (August 29, 2013, 05:02 PM)

slightly initial confusion here - because kiffen (to kiff) means something else here :-)

But seriously,
why would I want to kiff *my* fifter, maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?