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General Software Discussion / Re: Tray Icon "Stuck" on Purple

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 02:53 PM »

Sorry... I meant to post this to the existing post "Linkman 8.80 released ".

-Jim20132013 (April 26, 2013, 05:33 PM)

can some moderater attach it to the other thread? (or is it only mouser can do that? - in which case, can mouser do it )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problems after you install Microsoft's security update 2823324

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 02:51 PM »

^In my experience, 'quarantine' without warning or explanation is often the default

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Contest" - The most difficult Opt Out screens on installs!?

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2013, 02:48 PM »

Any way, here are the screenshots, which the choices were slightly different this time, compared to what I described above, but still just as annoying.

-app103 (April 26, 2013, 05:21 PM)

especially sneaky the way the [cancel] button is greyed out as if it's not an option

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Contest" - The most difficult Opt Out screens on installs!?

« Last post by tomos on April 26, 2013, 09:47 AM »

I just updated PDFcreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/ -
(all updates have to be manually installed)
it is a really great PDF printer - as good as Adobe distiller in my experience - mind you I havent used more recent versions of that.

But they've taken to fairly sneaky opt-out options which vary from one update to the next. With one recent update, you were led to believe that you had reached the final "install pdfcreator" window, then they snuk in another opt-out - I actually clicked yes to that one and had to do a system restore afterwards (didnt trust anything else).

So here's todays experience:

Advanced are now called "Expert settings / set server mode, etc. ..."
Mind goes - I dont need server mode - next!



this one is okay - nothing pre-selected



this one is kind sneaky too I think:
the untickbox is for terms and conditions - only after that do they say: "and want to install xyz"



In spite of this messing around I'll repeat my recommendation -
if you need control of your PDFs and a printer that works well with vectors, this is the one for you.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help with Hotkeys to tweak selection area [SC]

« Last post by tomos on April 26, 2013, 09:17 AM »

Thanks mouser -
I hadnt known about the Control one(s) -
that way why I was getting unexpected behaviour
(I had thought that the other ones worked with control).

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Screenshot Captor / Help with Hotkeys to tweak selection area [SC]

« Last post by tomos on April 26, 2013, 04:35 AM »

What are the shortcuts for tweaking the selection area?
They may be in the helpfile but I coulnt find.
(I think these shortcuts might be working a bit wonky - or maybe it just me)

To be 100% clear:
Select an area.
Hold mouse over one edge and check the "zoom-box" bottom left in main pane.
Various shortcuts work to move that edge, one pixel at a time.

TBH I can never remember them and chance my arm and usually figure it out.

I tried Ctrl+Arrowkeys and Ctrl+Alt+Arrowkeys and Crtl+Shift+Arrowkeys.
All seemed to work, but today they appear to affect the frame at both sides, i.e. the selection-box moves, instead of becoming one pixel smaller (or bigger) on one side.

So maybe if someone could tell me which shortcuts I *should* be using, hopefully then I'll understand better/explain better what's happening.
Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

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

2" Neodymium Bar Magnet

-Stephen66515 (April 25, 2013, 09:06 PM)

what do you use the magnet for Stephen?

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

« Last post by tomos on April 25, 2013, 08:23 AM »

^ It's like this deep proverb is almost understandable [...]

-kyrathaba (April 25, 2013, 07:00 AM)

that's the thing,
I dont think it was meant to be (a) a proverb; or (b) deep

... but that was *your* joke, wasn't it



edit/ can you read it nosh? (if so, rough translation please!)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Save pdf as image jpeg/jpg/bmp formats

« Last post by tomos on April 24, 2013, 04:19 AM »

-seems to belong to "Announce Your Software/Service/Product"

-Curt (January 05, 2013, 05:05 AM)

or maybe to "spam" (moderators?)

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2013, 05:28 PM »

Blow
it gets 7.5 on IMDB - I'd give it about a four, if that (maybe that's harsh, there were some good scenes...)
About George Jung -
the guy who got cocaine flowing in the US in the 1970's. Apparently he was basically a really nice guy who left it all behind, and all his problems were really caused by other people - especially the women in his life.
I dunno where they got the story (possibly from George Jung himself?) but it was like a propaganda film for him - left me doubting the storyline again and again. And the main dealers were just too good looking to be quite convincing...


Actually I saw a reasonably good drugs related film lately:
Snitch



reviewers on imdb seemed suprised about the lead guy being good because he was a profi-wrestler. I didnt know that when I saw it.
Based on the mandatory sentencing laws, where if you're caught with over a certain amount of drugs, the only way you can reduce your sentence is to implicate or setup someone else. A desperate father tries to setup someone to help reduce his son's sentence.
A good film - lots of action, but convincing story line and very real dealers in this one compared to the one above...

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Living Room / Re: What to do with an SSD after it fails

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2013, 05:05 PM »

FWIW I was checking the warranty on a Lenovo laptop lately - it was confirmed (online and per telephone) with just the model and serial number. On that basis I got a replacement battery sent out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dirpy lives!

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2013, 03:54 AM »

pwnyoutube.com

-Deozaan (April 22, 2013, 05:10 PM)

you broke it

It's not just you! http://pwnyoutube.com looks down from here.

http://www.downforev...e.com/pwnyoutube.com

good news about Dirpy (I occasionally use clipconverter.cc but not overly impressed)

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Living Room / Re: The Coffee/Caffeine Thread!

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2013, 08:21 AM »

^I was curious how coffee is decaffeinated. I find I often dont react well to the dacafs I've tried but that could be more to do with me than the coffee.
Came across this site talking about the various processes - methods are interesting, worth a read:
How is coffee decaffeinated?

(FWIW apparently they're aiming to produce a GMO decaf coffee.)

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Living Room / Re: How to open a can with a spoon

« Last post by tomos on April 22, 2013, 07:51 AM »

Further OT...
Not happy,Edvard!!!! Just followed your link and my initial happiness turned to dismay when I saw that a "care less"defender wroe " It's too wide OF a word." (emphasis mine).
 English was a fairly good language - maybe not the best, but up there, until the Americans got their hands on it.
I'm going to take an aspirin and have a good lie down.

-tsaint (April 21, 2013, 10:03 PM)

not like yous Australians done anything funny with English - nor us Irish neither
Mind you, there's a lot of native (England) English speakers that most of us would have little hope of understanding. Not knocking them, I love the diversity of language and accents myself. Any attempt to pigeonhole any language can never fully succeed, so I suppose having a good lie down probably *is* the best approach to grammatic 'errors'...

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

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2013, 06:04 PM »

re-edited because of nothing but "invalid link" messages:

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=I2JIO1JWlWc

There is of course "nothing wrong" with the link
- but there is, so what was my mistake?

-Curt (April 20, 2013, 03:41 PM)

FTFY Curt
(https links dont work with the youtube tags)


edit// enjoying

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Living Room / Re: How to open a can with a spoon

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2013, 06:02 PM »

It's harder than he makes it look, practice would probably make a difference.  Strength is also a factor.

It took me a while but I had to see for myself.   

-AndyM (April 20, 2013, 11:27 AM)

  A much easier way, but I won't post any videos.....  Two Big Rocks....Take it from there.... 

-Tinman57 (April 20, 2013, 05:03 PM)

Splat!!!
How'm I supposed to cook those doggone beans Tinman

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

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2013, 10:23 AM »

^2002 looks good too kyrathaba




edit/ oops missed this page - and app's 4500 

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

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2013, 11:47 AM »

LOL! Iain, you're a treasure-house!

-kyrathaba (April 19, 2013, 08:31 AM)

plus one there -
I couldnt stop laughing at the "George The Would-be King Bush" one

-tomos (April 19, 2013, 08:49 AM)

I think I like the code one best, because it nails other people than just Bush to the humor tree. Plus it sounds like the kind of awesome thing that could be a great party joke etc.

-TaoPhoenix (April 19, 2013, 11:31 AM)

I'm not sure if I fully understood the intention of the last one, but I really enjoyed it too.
Is the punchline delivered completely innocently? (in which case we're also laughing at George's simplicity) -
or is it a fully barbed dig at [at least one] Clinton?

Either way, Clinton seems to come out "the worser" at the end of it.

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

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2013, 08:49 AM »

LOL! Iain, you're a treasure-house!

-kyrathaba (April 19, 2013, 08:31 AM)

plus one there -
I couldnt stop laughing at the "George The Would-be King Bush" one

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

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2013, 04:05 AM »

*EDIT*[/color] Actually, this one is better:
http://www.molleindu...daythesamedream.html

-Edvard (April 18, 2013, 10:07 PM)

pretty dark though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2013, 02:21 PM »

TagSpaces Beta firefox 17-20 add-on, latest_1.2.1284 (2013.03.29).
Add tags easily to local file system filenames in chosen directory. 
Search, filter display. Drag&Drop tagging and moving. 
See videos, youtube, features, evernote-alternative, comments
by ugg, uggrock, UggRock, tagstrator. Started Aug. 2012.

-sword (April 18, 2013, 02:13 PM)

not sure what you're saying there sword (?)
Had a look at the TagSpaces addon page, and I'm still not sure what it does - any more clues?

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Living Room / Re: When Geekery and Parenting Collide...

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2013, 07:26 AM »

Thought I was in the silly humour thread for a bit
But it is logical - I mean cold wet cloths work too.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Actual Window Menu - 24 hour Giveaway.

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2013, 04:36 AM »

^gotcha - many thanks mitzevo

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Weather Alert (As service or tray apps)

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2013, 04:41 PM »

(I know... I know... using IE yuk!)

-BigVent (April 17, 2013, 04:21 PM)

seems logical enough, at least you're fairly sure most people have it

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Living Room / Re: When it comes to EA, it just keeps getting better - or worse...

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2013, 04:36 PM »

Just in case you have no idea what disgruntled players look like...

https://www.facebook...osts/638679509479839

-app103 (April 17, 2013, 10:27 AM)

Care to summarize? Some of us don't have Facebook accounts. And never will.

-40hz (April 17, 2013, 04:24 PM)

I was going to post a screenshot but I'm not sure of, eh, the etiquette :-) - is it okay to post people's thumbnails from FB etc.

Summary:
the message from "SimCity Social" is:

For players who have enjoyed our games, we will be making a special offer to introduce you to a PopCap game.
You’re a valued fan and we want to make sure you get a smooth transition to PopCap.

the response from *everyone* and their mother is very upset, and/or impolite - the general vibe is it's the end of the world for "SimCity Social".
And all those negative posts are getting hundreds of thumbs-up's (one has 477).

It's very entertaining - having a FB account has it's compensations