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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.5 - July 8, 2013

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 03:15 PM »

not sure what's happening here (in two browsers - FF 22 & Opera 12) **
I see this:



but when I quote it, I get this:

I am having a difficult time finding this new feature "•[Feature] New options to customize the post-capture dialog to use it in faster one-key dismissal mode and with one key copy-to-clipboard action.
I really need the copy-to-clipboard functionality -- either by setting it up as the default capture output, or, some way to easily select it as the desired output after the capture occurs.
Right now I must have accidentally changed a setting because it's saving every capture to "Screenshots" folder even though I do not want it to, and I am not selecting "Save Image As", or "Save image and show", or "Save image but hide".  I am selecting "To clipboard: Image" and then clicking "X" to close the dialog.  Then another window appears with the image in it; but I don't want this window either and I don't know what I've done to make it pop up.  Then I go and delete where the image was saved on disk.
I tried searching the forum for "clipboard" trying to find clues about how to send the output to clipboard but can't see any.
If you could please explain where to find it and turn it on, or what steps to take to make it happen when doing a capture, I would be grateful.

Thanks.

-squishy (July 09, 2013, 02:48 PM)

so I'll post in case others have the same problem


** I had to add [nobbc][/nobbc] tags within the quote in order to display it - otherwise I just see:

I am having a difficult time finding this new feature "•[Feature] New options to customize the post-capture dialog to use it in faster one-key dismissal mode and with one key copy-to-clipboard action.
I really need the copy-to-clipboard functionality -- either by setting it up as the default capture output, or, some way to easily select it as the desired output after the capture occurs.
Right now I must have accidentally changed a setting because it's saving every capture to "Screenshots" folder even though I do not want it to, and I am not selecting "Save Image As", or "Save image and show", or "Save image but hide".  I am selecting "To clipboard: Image" and then clicking "X" to close the dialog.  Then another window appears with the image in it; but I don't want this window either and I don't know what I've done to make it pop up.  Then I go and delete where the image was saved on disk.
I tried searching the forum for "clipboard" trying to find clues about how to send the output to clipboard but can't see any.
If you could please explain where to find it and turn it on, or what steps to take to make it happen when doing a capture, I would be grateful.

Thanks.

-squishy (July 09, 2013, 02:48 PM)

 

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2013 - Codename: Summer Slowdown

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 02:29 PM »

Thanks mouser 

(I've already found a couple I'd missed)

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Living Room / Re: digitising slides

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 02:24 PM »

Software for use with a scanner: see brahman's review: Review/Tips: "Scanning - VueScan and Associates" Pt.I: Intro & Bookscanning.

Flatbed is what's usually used for reasonably high-quality scanning of negatives or slides - but dont the better ones use a holder as opposed to just laying the negatives directly on the glass?
(No, I've no experience here either :p)

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DcUpdater / DCupdater no longer checking for updates (I think)

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 02:00 PM »

I've never paid much attention to dcupdater but have always been happy when it offered me updates
- so I havent changed any of it's settings. I havent seen it in a while but didnt actually realise that till today:

I saw today's update to SC in the forum, so I right-clicked it's tray icon to check for updates. Then I checked the other dc apps - and see there was a CHS update - v2.18.01 - May 18, 2013 which I missed out on.

Is there anything I can check with dcupdater?
Here's my settings:



win7 64bit


edit/ I was also given an update for trout - I didnt notice what my previous version was, but the most recent version was released in February:
v1.0.6 build 67 - 2013-02-02

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Cool Cinemagraphs Here!

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 01:36 PM »

From here.

-4wd (July 08, 2013, 09:22 PM)

from there:

Developed in 2011 by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, cinemagraphs are GIF images that combine still photography and video to produce a stunning effect. Typically, the entire GIF is motionless except for one or two elements, providing a brilliant juxtaposition between the motion and the motionless. For your viewing pleasure, we’ve collected 43 beautiful cinemagraph GIFs:

I dont like most of the ones that use a still image of a person - where one part of their body moves, but the rest is frozen.
Although, here's an exception

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Living Room / Re: Your thoughts wanted: The right way to honor the passing of a DC forum member

« Last post by tomos on July 09, 2013, 01:20 PM »

Agreed, a thread in the living room would seem most fitting.

I do find the idea of an indicator under the user's forum avatar indicating that the member has passed on, quite touching.. It conveys the fact that their spirit is still with us here virtually, just in a different form.

-mouser (July 09, 2013, 08:53 AM)

- agree very much with both.

I found Edvard's post (OP), and reading Thunder's profile, and seeing some of his pictures - I found it all very moving; but also he and the topic came into my mind in quiet moments in the last two days.
Also maybe because I was born in the same year as him, it's made me think - I'm not sure what exactly, but it's rattling around back there... on that note I hope no-one will mind if I post a link for Ralph Stanley's "Oh Death" -

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=krIVsZP-YaY

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by tomos on July 08, 2013, 07:42 AM »

Depending on the power and distance from the laser, you can even be permanently blinded by laser light.

-Tinman57 (July 07, 2013, 07:56 PM)

I presume they use led lights(?) - they come with a warning that they will damage your sight if shined directly in the eyes. A lot of cyclists dont realise their power - I've had to flash my lights at a few that were blinding me with a lamp at the wrong angle.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Cool Cinemagraphs Here!

« Last post by tomos on July 08, 2013, 07:32 AM »

enjoyed

what exactly is the difference between a "cinemagraph" and a good old-fashioned "gif" (I know these are saved as gif's anyway).
To me they look like 'intelligent' gifs - I mean that they use a series of images, and then reverse the same images, so as there is no jerky end/beginning.

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Living Room / Re: What is safer for data -- a hard disk or a blue ray disc?

« Last post by tomos on July 08, 2013, 07:14 AM »

I wonder how the "M-Disk" is getting on?
new DVD "M-Disc" perfect for archive material (dc link)


edit/ scratch that - they still dont have blue ray discs...
http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/

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

« Last post by tomos on July 07, 2013, 04:03 AM »

People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!

-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)

  So I guess, as a small example, these are OK then:
https://www.donation....msg326591#msg326591
https://www.donation....msg297249#msg297249

-Tinman57 (July 06, 2013, 09:23 PM)

Tinman, I do apologise for the tone in my post - I definitely got that wrong.
Re the message: out of a silly humour post there were a *bunch* of people posting about their guns - which I for one thought didnt fit in this thread.
Hence my post.

Re my posts - as you point out, I have no problem with going off-topic. I'm trying to think have I ever been asked to stop going off-topic - I'm sure I have - but probably much more tactfully than I have done here ;-)

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

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 08:14 PM »

People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!

-tomos (July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM)

In cases like these, sometimes a well placed PM works wonders rather than open season.  

-wraith808 (July 06, 2013, 07:22 PM)

it's not meant as open season wraith -
at this stage I'd have to send a half a dozen PM's as the gun talk has been going on for a while here (which is why I said "people") -
so I thought being direct was the best approach (and I honestly didnt mean it in any aggressive or offensive way).

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 04:43 PM »

I made Sloe Gin one year:
Gin, Sloes, a fair of sugar, and six months to mature.
It was great for presents, but I didnt drink it myself - I ended up just using a dash of it in fruit salad, that was delicious. (I do drink, but dont like sweet alcoholic drinks.)


PS no-bake cookie recipe sounds interesting (at some stage!)

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Living Room / Time lapse video (thread)

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 04:33 PM »

I thought there was already a timelapse video thread here but couldnt find any -
so have a look at this absolutely amazing video, with the option to post any others if you want

Oh yeah, there's the option to run it at "Original" quality (4k?), or see it on vimeo

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 04:19 PM »

^^^ just btw,
the green lasers have been getting very popular in Egypt.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 04:17 PM »

^Looks great Deo -
what are your plans for it?
- no need to give full recipes for them, well not straight away anyway

I'm wondering would it be too overpowering in cocktails, but then I'm not much of a cocktail drinker...
and I see it's not an original idea:
http://www.barnonedr...lla-extract-933.html

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

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2013, 03:17 PM »

People!
please take gun conversations to a relevant thread,
thanks!

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Coding Snacks / Re: re-map capslock function

« Last post by tomos on July 05, 2013, 09:59 AM »

I may well be misunderstanding, (and my grasp of AHK is minimal), but if Caplocks key becomes Shift, wouldnt your second request be the same as asking for Control+Shift to toggle Capslock?
(if so, I wonder would that mess up some Ctrl+Shift+____ hotkeys?)

My solution for the problem is in some obscure Windows dialogue (I think it's languages in Win7) you're allowed to make the Shift key disable Capslock. Provided you start a sentence with a capital using Shift key, Capslock is immediately disabled. CAPSLOCK STILL WORKS SO LONG AS I avoid the shift key - which is very difficult I find but I never use it anyways, so fine for me...

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General Software Discussion / Re: This week's episode of the suicide of Microsoft: Helping gov't exploit your pc

« Last post by tomos on July 05, 2013, 03:47 AM »

More good advertising for Linux etc.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WaggleImage on Bits du Jour (Nov 18 2008)

« Last post by tomos on July 05, 2013, 03:44 AM »

ha ha Curt -same here!
July 5th here though, so could squeeze it in today, but ...

But surely it will still install anyway for you/me after the date ?
And FWIW I dont see that there's been much action in terms of updates.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by tomos on July 04, 2013, 12:18 PM »

Acquisition and reallocation of materiele.

-
=> should that be "materials" ? or is he Dutch

-tomos (July 04, 2013, 05:33 AM)

With that particular instance I was of the mind that Sethra was throwing in a bit of foreign language to make it sound more exotic, hence the italics.  The way some people will throw in the odd word like faux, instead of using just boring old 'fake' - they think it sounds a bit upper class.  (Usually has the opposite effect though.)

-4wd (July 04, 2013, 11:24 AM)

Ah okay, I'm reading from the current link which is plain text with no indication of formatting.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by tomos on July 04, 2013, 05:33 AM »

With apologies, this here is a hit and run criticism - the only reason I think it's still worth posting is because it's about first impressions.

I've just read the prologue and most of the first chapter - and I'm hooked
The thing is when you start reading, you're not hooked, so you're much more critical. With that in mind, my criticism is aimed mainly at the prologue. Note that incidences do seem to reduce after that anyway.

Excessive use of comma's was the thing that disrupted my reading most (and that mainly in prologue): I'm no grammatical expert, so your use of commas may be technically correct - but I found a few examples in the prologue where, if I read the text out loud, it would sound quite stilted. Maybe I read different to others, but I find I notice that without actually reading it out loud, and it distracts me from the content.

All my opinion and FWIW!
Where I remove something below, I put empty square brackets []

1

But when it happened, I was a lad
of sixteen. I’m one of the few survivors of that Tuesday’s viral, then nuclear,
holocaust that swept the globe on June 6th, 2276.

-
this above ok, but I think this flows better:
But when it happened[] I was a lad
of sixteen. I’m one of the few survivors of that Tuesday’s viral, [and] then nuclear[]
holocaust that swept the globe on June 6th, 2276.

2

Apparently, the aliens were able
to leverage that fact.

-
the comma makes it too slow
Apparently[] the aliens were able
to leverage that fact.
Also, why apparently? - it sounds like it was very definite)

3

“How can you be sure? Have you tested it?”
“Not fully, but it’s the genuine article, alright.”

-
try the read-out-loud test - the "..., alright" bit fails for me
“How can you be sure? Have you tested it?”
“Not fully, but it’s the genuine article[] alright.”

4

“As sure as I can be, Byron, considering that...

-
*for me* fails the read-out-loud test
“As sure as I can be[] Byron, considering that...

5

Acquisition and reallocation of materiele.

-
=> should that be "materials" ? or is he Dutch

6

But the humor was lost on
Byron, whose mind obviously had drifted.

-
suggestion (flows better imo)
But the humor was lost on
Byron, whose mind [had] obviously [] drifted.

7

Jerking to his
feet, he vomited a stream of expletives.

-
suggestion / "vomited" is too graphic and thereby distracts from content I find
Jerking to his
feet, he [spewed] a stream of expletives.


edit/
sorry I didnt add paragraph details - all in prologue or first half of chapter one

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Living Room / Re: 10 signs you may have OCD

« Last post by tomos on July 04, 2013, 04:26 AM »

omg, I was not expecting that.  beautiful story, dude.  Thanks for sharing.

-superboyac (July 03, 2013, 05:35 PM)

+1 

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Living Room / Re: Samsung Galaxy Android Camera EK-GC110 Anyone have real-world experience of it?

« Last post by tomos on July 04, 2013, 03:40 AM »

is this the same camera?

-tomos (July 03, 2013, 01:36 AM)

Close enough. Thanks for the link. Having tried one now, I'm not sure that I agree fully with the reviewer. Does one ever?

-cranioscopical (July 03, 2013, 03:04 PM)

it's also possible there's a newer model out. The zoom is very impressive. And, if you take all their cons (in all their reviews) into account, you'd never buy a camera ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel due on Amazon and B&N in August or September

« Last post by tomos on July 03, 2013, 10:16 AM »

Is it too late to give a few comments?

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

« Last post by tomos on July 03, 2013, 06:30 AM »

^I'm not sure that they're "cowed" - they've always pretty much just played along with most of what the US wants. But that *is* shocking - and they searched the plane in Vienna!!! Oddly, the Bolivians deny this - I wonder do they consider it an embarrasment that it happened. I mean why would Austria say the plane was searched if it wasn't