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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 09, 2012, 09:48 AM »
...and as regards the "history/memory", do you mean referring to a particular line, like "line 3"? ...
-Twinbee (April 08, 2012, 10:29 AM)
  No, what I meant by 'history' is that a session would automatically be saved upon exit.  I do see that you already have a "Save" function, which is nice, but I often don't think I'll need to re-visit a calculation when, later, I then do.    For example yesterday I calculate 2+2, but don't think I need to save it.  Then, sure enough, today I run in to 2+2 again, or worse, I can't even remember what the two numbers were that I had needed to sum.  It would be nice if OC saved those in memory, then I could just activate the "Show history" command and it would show me.  I guess there'd need to be an option to tell OC how many days to keep history items before purging them.  Otherwise you'd get hundreds accumulated, slowing down performance.  Also, (my thinking is) as long as the data was saved at exit, it could be pulled off of disk by OC when needed.  Therefore it wouldn't need to affect startup performance (i.e. it wouldn't get automatically loaded into RAM). 

Also, RE that 'Saturation/Tint' slider:  I see what you mean about it working as both "Saturation" and to change color...    Pretty cool implementation!
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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 07, 2012, 08:12 PM »
Hmm..  Beats me.  Anyway, thanks for the reply.  Glad you're not a robot. 
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 07, 2012, 07:02 PM »
OpalCalc is AWESOME!  I registered it a few weeks ago after using the free version for a long time  (years?)
Mostly I can only say good things about it.  It works the way my brain thinks.  I guess the only feature that I'd really like to see is a history/memory of previous calculations.  This should only be implemented if you can do it without causing a performance lag, though.  

Another "what if" idea I had was to implement a "workday" function.  The idea would be to have an .ini file of holiday dates in the program folder.  Then you could have a function like in spreadsheets.  =WORKDAY()  Would be cool.  In truth, I probably wouldn't use it often.  I would use a history function though  :)

EDIT:  I just installed the newest version, and yes, it is faster!  I like the new Volcano skin.  I think that we can all agree it looks awesome with the Jupiter skin I have going http://i.imgur.com/7zvzP.jpg  <wink>  ;)    I'm not sure if the 'Saturation' sliders work as expected though.  They seem to change the tint somewhat, rather than "saturation" per se.... 



(note: The inner colors are the OpalCalc skin and the window border is a WindowBlinds customization based on my wallpaper--which is a pic of Jupiter I scored on Reddit.  The extra window border buttons are ActualWindowManager, which I won in a drawing here on DC.)
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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 07, 2012, 06:34 PM »
Hi Chris!
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General Software Discussion / Re: xls to png
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 06, 2012, 02:57 PM »
Cool.  I didn't even know about the "copy as..." feature.

I know Office 2003 does have "paste special" options (in think in the Edit > Paste menu). 
Maybe there are some "copy special" items too..
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General Software Discussion / Re: xls to png
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 06, 2012, 12:34 PM »
Excel does have the ability to "paste as image."
http://i.imgur.com/Vtrp3.png
Though it might only work from within an Office app....  I'm sure you'd be able to "paste special" into an Outlook message.
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General Software Discussion / Re: web dir in excel
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 05, 2012, 07:45 PM »
Yea, I use ASAP..  It's VERY cool!
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General Software Discussion / Re: web dir in excel
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 05, 2012, 12:56 PM »
      position of [space]       position -1 (i.e. last letter of first word)    [constant] and first word
                =FIND(" ",A2)       =LEFT(A2,(B2-1))                                    ="www.somesite.com/"&C2
apple pie          6                      apple                                                      www.somesite.com/apple
banana split      7                      banana                                                      www.somesite.com/banana
cherry cola         7                    cherry                                                      www.somesite.com/cherry
ant poo           4                        ant                                                              www.somesite.com/ant

Not sure if this will display correctly...
This would be a possible setup where there is a list of cells and you want the first word of each cell attached to the end of another text string.
Col A is the text
Cols B and C are "behind the scenes" and should be hidden. 
===
My guess would be that this could be used in conjunction with Excel2Html.
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General Software Discussion / Re: BULK Rename Utility
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 02, 2012, 06:38 PM »
Does anyone know how BRU compares with ReNamer http://www.den4b.com...&product=renamer ?
I actually use xplorer2 for 99% of my renaming... 
Recently I needed to remove a string of text from multiple file names.
x2 wasn't able to do it, but RN was.  It was also nice because it "pre-checked" all of the files and told in before the actual rename, if there were going to be any conflicts...  (x2 will preview the first 2 or 3, but doesn't show errors).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redacting PDF Scans
« Last post by kunkel321 on April 02, 2012, 06:27 PM »
FYI there's a PDF OCR tool on http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ today...
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Living Room / Re: how to find the oldest (=original) file on the Internet?
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 25, 2012, 07:50 PM »
Didn't the internet start at some university?  That would be the 'original' stuff, I imagine...
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Living Room / Re: Old Hard Drives
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 25, 2012, 07:47 PM »
I recommend you take the magnets out and play with them...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 22, 2012, 10:41 AM »
Hover Zoom.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for image stitching software without processing image content
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 20, 2012, 03:20 PM »
Actually I was just playing around with some disjointed screenshots of my computer.  The fancypants one that I referenced above from GAOTD (which supposedly retails for $99!!!) doesn't even handle PNG files.  It just causes an error.  However ICE stitched everything together quite nicely.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for image stitching software without processing image content
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 20, 2012, 02:57 PM »
..., they perform blending and distortion because they cannot map the pixels 1:1 (different perspective projections, different brightness and contrast on different photos). If you actually feed them "ideal" pictures where 1:1 mapping is possible, would they still distort the result? My naive guess would be that they won't.
-vlastimil (March 20, 2012, 02:07 PM)
  This is also what I was thinking...  Especially the Microsoft ICE one.  It lets you choose how flat the image should be.  I would imagine there could be problems though, if different sub-components don't have enough visual info (such as a near empty space in the ocean). 
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Living Room / Re: Looking for image stitching software without processing image content
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 20, 2012, 01:56 PM »
No doubt you've tried Right-Clicking the map and choosing "Save Image As..."
You might actually be able to take the overlapping shots (if there aren't too many), crop away any window boarders, Make the canvas in SSC really big, then drag the different images around next to each other (manually) until the edges line up.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for image stitching software without processing image content
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 20, 2012, 12:04 PM »
Coincidentally, there is a stitcher at GAOTD today.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
It might have the same color-blending problem you're describing above though...

Is there a way you can using the new 'Scrolling Capture' mode in ScreenShot Captor to achieve when you want in one capture?
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Find And Run Robot / Happy B-Day FARR
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 19, 2012, 09:39 AM »
Happy late birthday! (For some reason I have in my calendar that FARR turned 10 yesterday.  In terms of software, that's pretty old!)   :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature idea: Smart preselect...
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 17, 2012, 10:18 AM »
Excellent!  Another that I've recently found (via nonags.com) is TextMorph  http://www.ssesetup.com/textmorph.html Has some cool customizability.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redacting PDF Scans
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 09, 2012, 11:07 AM »
If they started as paper docs and got converted to a PDF, I'll bet you can use a PDF tool to black out the parts, then REprint as a new PDF file and the blacked out info would be permanently gone.  I saw a PDF tool at dottech recently
http://dottech.org/f...-limited-time-offer/
that probably can do the blocking.
I'm not sure if it does virtual printing, but you probably already can do that.  If not, check out the free http://www.cutepdf.c...s/CutePDF/writer.asp

EDIT:  I'm not positive, but I think that even a Word file saved as pdf, then redacted as above and sent through a virtual printer would be secure.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: DrawPlusX5 50% on BDJ
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 08, 2012, 02:33 PM »
DrawPlus usually requires a reboot during instillation.  I'm not sure why.

It does do pretty well with flow charts.  The areas that it doesn't cover so much are "photoshopping" pictures.  For example complex masking is not a strength.  Also it doesn't really do much in terms of filters.  These things are done via the sister product, PhotoPlus, which costs about the same.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SnagIt 11
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 08, 2012, 10:56 AM »
RE Curt
http://www.techsmith...load/oldversions.asp
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Found Deals and Discounts / DrawPlusX5 50% on BDJ
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 08, 2012, 08:54 AM »
http://www.bitsdujou...oftware/draw-plus-x5
Just saw this.  I've never seen it on sale for 50% before.  Good app.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SnagIt 11
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 07, 2012, 11:22 AM »
Big difference in resource usage with Screenshot Capture idling at around 300k.
The others are usually much more.
-cmpm (March 07, 2012, 06:13 AM)
This is true.  Snagit 11 sitting idle is never below 50MB.  You'll probably want the Editor running in the background.  That's another 50MB.   It does have some nice features that are not present in ScreenShot Captor, but SSC also has some nice features that are not available in SnagIt.   SSC is definitely more customizable, and plays nicer with other apps.  SnagIt is very proprietary--for example a fellow wrote a plug-in to do Imgur uploads https://github.com/hmemcpy/SnagitImgur but it can't be installed directly because the SnagIt security is so high....   Pretty frustrating, and not geek-friendly.  
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Screenshot Captor / SSC reviewed by dottech
« Last post by kunkel321 on March 07, 2012, 09:24 AM »
fyi http://dottech.org/f...h-screenshot-captor/
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