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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 03, 2013, 01:36 AM »

is this the same camera? - Samsung Galaxy Camera - imaging-resource.com
Here the pros & cons from bottom of that page:

Spoiler

Pro:    

    Powerful 21x optical zoom lens; bright at wide angle, too
    Bright, vivid LCD monitor with very good anti-smudge coating
    Very sensitive touch panel
    Recent Android version feels modern and stable
    Large library of available apps for download from Google Play store
    Third-party apps allow functionality unheard of in closed-OS cameras
    Integrated 3G or 3G/4G data plus Wi-Fi for almost-anywhere photo sharing (or Wi-Fi only to avoid data plan costs)
    Same processor and graphics as Galaxy S II smartphone, easily up to gaming etc.
    Good prints to 13 x 19 at base ISO, and 8 x 10 at up to ISO 400
    Internal memory is pretty generous (but may vary by market / carrier)
    Good viewfinder accuracy
    Reasonably fast full-res burst shooting with exposure / focus locked from first frame
    Minimal shutter lag if prefocused
    Shutter button returns you to camera mode from launcher, some apps
    Third-party camera apps can access full resolution, optical zoom, compass sensor
    Reasonably fast USB transfers
    Battery charges in-camera via USB
    Unlike many smart devices, battery is actually interchangeable
    Can still use camera / Android features while battery charges
    Headphone jack


   Con:

    Relatively expensive for a fixed-lens, small-sensor camera
    As big as many large-sensor cameras, before you consider the lens
    Pretty heavy for a fixed-lens camera
    Popup flash mechanism feels coarse, catches sometimes when pushed down
    LCD monitor's PenTile matrix gives the impression of lower resolution than it actually has
    Uses tiny, easily lost microSD cards instead of much more common SD cards
    Smudging of low-contrast detail even at base ISO
    Strong noise and blurring above ISO 1,600
    Colors aren't the most accurate, and saturation is very high
    Tends towards very warm color under incandescent light
    Higher than average pincushion distortion at telephoto
    Flash coverage poor in macro shots
    Cant't force flash on (Auto and Off are the only options)
    Can't shoot photos before Android finishes booting up
    Slow startup even if Android isn't shut down
    Very sedate continuous shooting unless autofocus and autoexposure are locked from first frame
    Slow autofocus
    Stock camera feature set is limited, eg. you can't adjust step size for bracketing, etc.
    Very obtrusive user interface in camera mode
    TouchWiz interface in Android mode breaks with normal Android UI conventions
    Dedicated battery charger is optional
    Strong division between Android and camera features
    Android confusingly refers to internal memory as "SD card"

Compact cameras are dropping the viewfinder, and I dont know if any are particularly visible in sunlight (? - not saying they arent, I just dont know)

What attracted you to this particular model?

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Living Room / Re: EU Court - Piracy Tax On Printers

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2013, 08:48 AM »

^ wow, hadn't heard that one before
(& thanks!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Roundup of Free OCR Software at FreewareGenius.com

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2013, 02:57 AM »

what's this?screenshot captor```is it a computer monitoring app?

-brownjason (June 28, 2013, 02:33 AM)

Takes screenshots
https://www.donation...er/screenshotcaptor/
by mouser here at donationcoder.

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Living Room / Re: EU Court - Piracy Tax On Printers

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2013, 02:47 AM »

 

Can anyone 'translate' this:

The court does however limit the amount that can be levied. "The overall amount of fair compensation must not be substantially different from the fixed amount owed for the reproduction obtained through the use of one single device," the ruling said.

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

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2013, 02:43 AM »

Strange he's staying so long in that airport... (that is if he is still there)

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Official Announcements / Re: New Visitors to Our Forum - Please Read This First

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2013, 09:11 AM »

1) Does this site maintain an IRC channel?
2) I thought I saw something about a donation chart?  Where is it?
3) Do you have a "Follow this thread"?

hi DM_Deleter

1) web IRC is here
https://www.donation...ndex.php?action=chat

This channel is located in #donationcoder on the efnet network.

2) dunno

3) If you open a thread on the top right of first post are a series of options (they also show bottom of page)



[I see allen got there first...]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Standalone colour blender.

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2013, 05:24 AM »

Yes, this looks really nice

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Screenshot Captor / Re: taking screenshot WITHOUT saving to file

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2013, 05:18 AM »

The latest beta gives a couple of options that would make copying to clipboard easier (using the post-capture dialogue).

Can you try the new beta i've uploaded just now (download link on this thread).

And try these new options: (see attachment in previous post)

-mouser (June 21, 2013, 02:11 AM)

You're probably aware of this one: I dont use it myself but IIUC the screenshot can be automatically saved to clipboard -
Post-capture options: Copy to Clipboard: [Image Bitmap]
-
there is the option to copy file there as well - I'm not sure what exactly the difference, possibly no file is saved when using image bitmap (?)

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2013, 03:48 PM »

^ I dont qualify there but I'll post anyway

A very simple snack here; ingredients need to be reasonably good so I'll concentrate on that aspect.

Avocado snack

# Avocado(s) - best get with a thick skin for this - Haas variety are good here. I usually buy underripe and allow to ripen (I think if you put in a paper bag and wrap it tight it ripens quicker) - of course you've got to remember to check them regularly
# Cider vinegar - it's worth (with apologies) splashing out and buying a good organic unpastuerised vinegar. Be sure and store it out of light with the lid well closed.
# Soy or Tamari sauce (I'm not anti-sugar, but if it has sugar in the ingredients it's not real soy/tamari sauce). Careful with soy sauce, it's very easy to overdo it and there aint no way back.

Avocado needs to give when you press the main part. Takes a bit of practice I guess to know if they still hard in the middle. (If you cut it and it is quite hard near the stone, it might be better to make guacomole with it.)

# Slice the avocado long ways.
# Stick the knifetip in the stone and push it out
# Score each side long and cross ways till you've got it cross-hatched - be careful to not cut the skin
# about two-thirds fill where the stone was with vinegar
# add soy sauce very slowly so it goes dark, but you can still see the lighter colour at the edges. Squeeze the avocado a bit each way so the liquid goes in the scores.
# eat with a tea spoon - careful not to spill on your clothes :p or spoon it out on to well toasted bread and eat with knife and fork to avoid disaster ;-)

Cider vinegar can be a bit of an aquired taste (I dont use any other vinegar at this stage myself) - if it's too strong, add another bit soy sauce

If the avocado is quite hard when you cut it - it wont be great for this recipe, so you could make a Guacamole of sorts - I'm no expert there so maybe look up your own recipe, but I just mash up the avocado with a fork or potato masher and add lemon juice and ground cumin or spice(s) of choice to taste, plus a tiny bit of soy sauce (too much and it gets murky coloured - so just using salt might be safer).

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Living Room / Re: WTF? A serious news story about 50-foot tall humans on a planet??

« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2013, 01:47 PM »

late reaction to op:

But is it a serious news site?
- it's not from the Manchester Guardian in case anyone thinks it is...

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

« Last post by tomos on June 01, 2013, 10:30 AM »

+1 to walking being very good - great for the breathing and metabalism, and the general mood too.

Still not eating enough veg. nor salad myself (that was my plan). Otherwise fairly healthy food-wise.
Was bouldering last week, that was good fun - was a bit achy afterwards but not too bad. Doing physical work this week, so left the exercise out :p
I tend to avoid exercise where you really gotta use those lungs - swimming (local outdoor pool still bloody freezing); jogging I never got into; could get into cycling again.
Will see

edit/ when I say bouldering - I wasnt doing any overhanging rocks type of thing - just 'easy' routes straight up...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 04:47 PM »

Directory Opus Pro 10.5.1.0 (4848) x64
OS 6.1 (B:7601 P:2 T:1) SP 1.0 "Service Pack 1"

and

Your version is current

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 03:42 PM »

Perhaps you have an older version Tomos.
I don't see the option
 

-Contro (May 31, 2013, 03:26 PM)

No, I have the most recent - did you check my screenshot?
https://www.donation...0;attach=75899;image

Right-click column header then as said above (can be seen in screenshot):
Columns >General >Full Path

Or maybe you've found a bug on your OS or something cause I can see 'Full Path' where you cant ...
https://www.donation...0;attach=75908;image

Something weird going on - is the trial limited? (I dont think so).
I dunno Contro, cant really help beyond that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 01:23 PM »

There's something funny going on - Full path is actually there but because it didnt show in your screenshot I presumed it didnt exist
See:

Right-clicked column header and selected the columns (under 'General'):
 (see attachment in previous post)

-tomos (May 31, 2013, 07:27 AM)

Columns >General >Full Path

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 11:24 AM »

^it's called 'Location' there

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 07:27 AM »

I have download a demo of Directory Opus
How can I obtain a txt file with the target field in the list ?

-Contro (May 31, 2013, 06:43 AM)

There may be another route but I -
Right-clicked column header and selected the columns (under 'General'):



then when printing see 4WD's post - or if you select "Current" in the Format section, it will show the current columns with the current column width

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Living Room / Re: Best USB/Bootable recovery and "utility" tools

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2013, 02:54 AM »

^hi S. Ramsey, you double-posted there

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 30, 2013, 05:54 PM »

I wont edit that post above again

Dopus also has a column to show target of shortcut

Spoiler

Name                            Ext     Location                        Target

New Folder                              Z:\Temp\TERST
ExifPro 2.1                     lnk     Z:\Temp\TERST                   C:\Program Files\ExifPro 2.1\ExifPro.exe
Illustrator                     lnk     Z:\Temp\TERST                   C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe
NoisewareSE portable            lnk     Z:\Temp\TERST                   C:\Portable\Noiseware Standard Edition\NoisewareSE.exe

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General Software Discussion / Re: Personalyzed directory tree listing

« Last post by tomos on May 30, 2013, 05:20 PM »

Have a look at this one Contro - mini-review of SysExporter by IainB:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32887.0
- I dont know can it do what you want though...


I think Directory Opus could do all this - then again maybe not - see Note3 below
flat view will show sub-folder contents
filter for filetypes
add relevant columns
menu: Tools >Print Folder Listing => filter for filetypes in this dialogue

*.txt files in CHS install

Name                    Ext     Location                                                       Modified

Backups                         C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
  README.txt            txt     C:\Program File...\Clipboard Help+Spell\Backups        2005-08-08 23:16
Database                        C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2011-07-25 17:19
  README.txt            txt     C:\Program Fil...\Clipboard Help+Spell\Database        2005-07-21 02:28
Dictionaries                    C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
PresetFormats                   C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
PresetViews                     C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
Sounds                          C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
Tools                           C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell            2012-11-29 22:31
  README.txt            txt     C:\Program Files...\Clipboard Help+Spell\Tools         2011-10-09 19:16

Note1: folders seem to get included anyway
Note2: need to allow lots of space for the filepath - or they get corrupted as above
Note3: I re-read your post and this doesnt work with shortcut files as you want - i.e. shows path to shortcut

but of course it's far from free ...

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Living Room / Re: Quick blog/site (for images) where I'm contactable *without having to join*

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2013, 04:10 PM »

Update:
app offered to setup a site for me, - it's all done now
 I'll quote myself from Cranioscopical's thread:

I have become an expert in setting this stuff up.

-app103 (May 29, 2013, 09:42 AM)

I'll vouch for this: app has setup a site for me.
When I say 'setup', I mean everything from domain name to hosting to Wordpress plus a contact page (all free) - and all I did was be a fussy beggar when it came to choosing a theme :-)

I'm very happy with it

-tomos (May 29, 2013, 04:06 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best method for a dead simple web site?

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2013, 04:06 PM »

I have become an expert in setting this stuff up.

-app103 (May 29, 2013, 09:42 AM)

I'll vouch for this: app has setup a site for me.
When I say 'setup', I mean everything from domain name to hosting to Wordpress plus a contact page (all free) - and all I did was be a fussy beggar when it came to choosing a theme :-)

I'm very happy with it

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

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2013, 12:05 PM »

a great cover of The Damned's "Neat, Neat, Neat"

Beatsteaks feat. Tom Schwoll - Neat Neat Neat

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Problems (4.03) OS Win 7 64bit

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2013, 11:12 AM »

Found it. Oh my.

I didn't realize that I need to press "Alt PrintScreen" not only "PrintScreen".

But that's dangerous.I want to write a story in a game forum and I really hope I do not forget the ALT key if I want to make a quick screenshot during a combat.

-Bad Bank (May 29, 2013, 10:10 AM)

PrtScr *should* work - but might not with fullscreen games. As Ath says though, you can change hotkeys

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

« Last post by tomos on May 28, 2013, 03:23 PM »

Chris on form (as ever )

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

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2013, 08:06 AM »

^a couple of nice ones there Tinman

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

-Tinman57 (May 26, 2013, 06:10 PM)

I seem to have missed that step