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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 06:30 AM »

I've found atlantis to be killer for notes. Having the filesystem do indexing and versioning is the right way. You are not locked in, and the features for writers are beyond anything I've seen. Totally worth paying for, and displacing scrivener.

-urlwolf (May 07, 2013, 05:26 AM)

I'm finding that a difficult search topic - any links?

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Living Room / Re: Adobe drops the gauntlet - going forward it's cloud - or nothing.

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 06:26 AM »

^ah okay, I thought ye were comparing with Photoshop (just in case not clear: I was talking about Photoshop's capabilities when exporting *paths* - not pixels).

I havent heard much positive about Corel unfortunately over the years. I do know of people who were using it professionally but not for publication.

FWIW when creating PDF's, I've also had trouble *with certain fills* with the supposedly dream combination Illustrator and Acrobat/distiller (CS4 & CS3 respectively). My solution was to (successfully) use the free PDFCreator (which is also unfortunately included in the "Contest" - The most difficult Opt Out screens on installs!? thread).

I dont often get stuff published/offset-printed but have had no problems with the PDFCreator PDF's.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Collaborative online outliner recommendation?

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 03:57 AM »

CheckVist looks nice and friendly - but it only has English



(shows on right of working outline page)


when I think about it I could also use a German-language-only site (if one exists)

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General Software Discussion / Collaborative online outliner recommendation?

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 03:47 AM »

[edit] the project this was planned for has fallen through so I wont be spending too much time testing - but feel free to still contribute suggestions [/edit]
Looking for help here - I cant find a clear recommendation myself.


Need to be:

• a collaborative online outliner
• user-friendly (working with some people who are fairly basic users)
• show each person (individually) what is new since their last visit (*important*)
• each user can set their choice of language for interface - choice of English and German would be enough (or even just German is such a site exists)
• preferably free, or not requiring payments for each user (but this at the bottom of the list cause it isnt so important!)

If a spreadsheet meets all requirements apart from outliner, I would consider

THanks in advance


Checkvist sounds good so I'll get an account there and check it out myself:
https://checkvist.com/auth/pricing

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Living Room / Re: Adobe drops the gauntlet - going forward it's cloud - or nothing.

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2013, 03:09 AM »

... and being able to open/save vectors in a format that is acceptable for professional use ...

-app103 (May 06, 2013, 09:37 PM)

I assume you mean .pdf or .ps ? Or am I wrong?

-vlastimil (May 07, 2013, 02:54 AM)

I could well be wrong as I havent used more recent versions, but I thought that Photoshop only exported paths to illustrator, i.e. in .ai/illustrator format.
I guess like the doc format for word-processors, any serious graphic software has to be able to open that though

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2013, 07:57 PM »

Can you put the link in for us? Did PCWorld smash it into one of those infested installer packages or is it a direct link to here?

-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2013, 05:21 PM)

their download link is a pcworld one, but I dont know what exactly the download is.

New PCWorld review:

http://www.pcworld.c...-your-clipboard.html

[...]

In truth, most Clipboard Help+Spell users probably won't scratch the surface of this complex and powerful beast. But even if you only use 10% of what it has to offer, you'll still end up with a more powerful and flexible, clipboard. Try it out.

-mouser (April 22, 2013, 07:16 AM)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Sort OneNote 2010 Sections

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2013, 02:19 PM »

^that's a possibility - jpijper was last active on 2012-09-20,
but s\he presumably has notifictions turned on for this thread
(I guess you could also try sending them a PM)

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Mohoro OS?

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2013, 02:13 PM »

  all round

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Living Room / Re: Your weekend cheer: Russian dashcams capture human kindness

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2013, 02:01 PM »

thanks mouser! that was just what I needed now

I remember being puzzled why so many (majority?) Russians have dash-cams on their cars during this year's meteor event, which was captured by dash-cams from multiple angles.

The story of why it's almost necessary to have dash-cams isn't as heart-warming obviously, but they certainly do increase the chance of capturing positive moments as well.

-gentk (May 04, 2013, 07:54 AM)

(my emphasis:) it's a great way of bringing about change though

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Strange Behavior With Picasa

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2013, 01:51 PM »

The real question is, what's the option to turn off this behavior, and if there is no option for it? Surely they would have an option for it.

-mouser (May 03, 2013, 06:48 PM)

at the time when I installed Picasa (Nov. 2011) there was no option. Which was pretty bad (I found the permissions-workaround via search at the time). I havent updated Picasa since (never use it) so dont know current situation...

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Mohoro OS?

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2013, 06:36 AM »

^arranged that for you app



(what can I say - I *should* be doing something very boring...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ghost - a new "just blogging" platform now fully funded on Kickstarter

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2013, 04:44 AM »

markdown - isn't that what Wikipedia uses?
(if so, go to a page there Tao, and click edit to see what it looks like)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Strange Behavior With Picasa

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2013, 03:36 AM »

Where is Picasa getting the file from?  Some temp directory?

-skywalka (May 02, 2013, 05:52 PM)

I presume it steals the printscreen key, and either makes the screenshot itself, or uses wiondow's screenshot capability (probably the latter, which makes a bmp and places it on the clipboard).

Why do you ask?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Strange Behavior With Picasa

« Last post by tomos on May 02, 2013, 06:05 AM »

This is Picassa being helpful whether you want that help or not...

On my older Picasa install is made the folder under My Pics. There's no related settings in Options. I forget how I stopped it, and I dont have the most recent Picasa version - best do a search about how to stop it.
(I think I had to completely stop access to the folder - I see Folder Properties>Security/Permissions is set to 'deny')

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 03:12 PM »

Ok, here's my latest try: (see attachment in previous post)
Too much more warning and we're going to get into the silly zone..

-mouser (May 01, 2013, 12:50 PM)

lol

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 11:23 AM »

I'm sorry to be just negative, but the only way this can be made acceptable imo, is, if the warning were to have a bigger font and a better colour than the download button (red preferably):

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 09:00 AM »

^What's up with these Google AdSense robot pseudo-posts in the forums?

Something new DoCo is doing?

-40hz (May 01, 2013, 08:48 AM)

see Google ad test
doesnt seem to be going very well... (scroll down to the screenshots)

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 08:29 AM »

Here's what the thread Weather Alert (As service or tray apps) (about flooding in the Philipines) looks like:

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Living Room / Re: Educational resources for developing Critical Thinking skills.

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 07:55 AM »

In the video on that page they very sensibly start by defining their terms. I was a bit suprised at the definition though:



"The use of cognitive SKILLS and STRATEGIES to increase the likelihood of a desirable outcome"

It gives the impression of it being more about manipulation than about objectivity.


Did a search (duckduckgo) -
here was the first result (www.criticalthinking.com):

Critical thinking is the identification and evaluation of evidence to guide decision making. A critical thinker uses broad in-depth analysis of evidence to make decisions and communicate his/her beliefs [..]

-
in this definition the objectivity comes first and the decision (desirable outcome?) comes after.

Not saying anything against the site or anything - just suprised.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by tomos on May 01, 2013, 07:35 AM »

I thought they were just going to be text ads

Here's what it looks like with FF + adblock extension:



 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares antivirus memory usage

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2013, 05:09 PM »

My biggest problems with AV's are when downloading - they tend to not only check the download but also the contents of the download folder which tends to be over-full - or simply when navigating within any file dialogue (save/open).
I guess those two overlap.

MSE used to really slow things down as per above, but it has improved and stabilised the last few months.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OneNote 2010 Sort Utility Startup Problem

« Last post by tomos on April 28, 2013, 12:27 PM »

I believe this was meant to be added to this thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=23629.0
("Sort OneNote 2010 Sections")

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

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 04:20 PM »

I like this track and the video (I tend to forget this thread is "music videos")
track is from 1971, probably most of the footage too (some is slightly and briefly NSFW I guess).
Video made/edited by the uploader.

Keith Christmas - Forest and the Shore

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

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 03:37 PM »

^oops

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Living Room / Re: If you have a Wordpress blog and are using a caching plugin, please update NOW!

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 03:07 PM »

April, the topic title is a bit squitty.

Wordpress blog and are using a caching pluging

Seems like that should say plugin, not pluging

Anal as always

-Stephen

-Stephen66515 (April 26, 2013, 03:36 PM)

lol, you get an honourable mention *here* - "more for the content than for the number"