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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by anandcoral on September 08, 2015, 02:29 AM »

I've been using AVG and have been satisfied with it.. Here's what I'll say:

• 1. I'm using AVG as antivirus and firewall. I want a combined system.  I previously used ESET and was very happy with that except for a known bug that was bluescreening me on removal/insertion of external drives, which caused me to switch.
• 2. I haven't noticed it slowing down my system -- if i had then i would drop it.  It's possible of course that it is doing so on occasion but that I am not noticing it or not properly blaming it.
• 3. As far as being a resource hog, I haven't noticed it being so. Any tips on how to compare it (or web pages comparing it) would be welcome!

As a more general answer I should say that I'm more of a satisfactionizer than an optimizer when it comes to system tools -- once a tool works well enough i tend to stop looking for the best tool..

-mouser (September 06, 2015, 01:38 PM)

Ditto. Even with AVG Free.

The fun part is, when I give my pen-drive to the photo printing shop, they scan it with anti-virus (name withheld) and then copy the images to print. Back at home when I put the pen-drive in my machine, AVG stops and reports virus and I format it. This is a routine.

Regards,

Anand

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Developer's Corner / Re: Double Clicking, Force Touch, and other strangeness

« Last post by anandcoral on September 07, 2015, 04:18 AM »

I agree.

After burning my fingers in maintaining codes for newest UX, I now keep things simple in all my programs. In fact they all look and behave similarly.

Main menu bars then dialog box and buttons. That's all. I do make features which are not the main purpose of the program, say changing color of dialog window, in right-click menu. It is like testing features which do not affect the day to day working of the program, if useful, then may put it in menu bar or button.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by anandcoral on September 06, 2015, 03:55 AM »

bit, the message looks like from 'internet security' option of AVG which is in AVG PRO and can be enabled for 30 days in the free version.

AVG Free does not give any message for expiry. I have been using satisfactorily AVG Free since early days of AVG.

You may try this link http://www.avg.com/i...antivirus-protection to compare and download the free version, which will auto update but not expire. I have now AVG 2015 Free.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on September 04, 2015, 02:21 AM »

I am happy with new DC now and posting more messages then DC1 time. May be this new layout and colors attract me more.

I am using the "Print" option to read threads now. I have not-so-good net connection and sometimes get to check DC after 2/3 days. So the "print" option gives me all in a long scrollable message view to search and read.

Now the problem is, if I want to quote a message and reply, I again have to go back to normal per page view of messages and search in each page for that message to view and quote.

I hope I could explain above, I myself feel it became complex sentences.

Anyway, my suggestion is if we can give an option like "-allmessagesinonepage" in custom options, and show all the messages in a thread in one long page, without page breaks, it will solve the problem.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on September 02, 2015, 10:09 AM »

Thanks for the images Anand -- they are perfect in style -- but if i had my preference it would be nice to have one that was gender "neutral" if you know what i mean..

-mouser (September 01, 2015, 01:11 PM)

Well these looks "neutral".

      

Or both, if preferred.



Now it is your take and obviously if other members agree too.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free portable pdf editor with these features?

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 11:51 AM »

From the website http://pdfrider.codeplex.com/

PDF Rider is made upon the utility pdftk and can be used to:

* Merge PDF documents
* Insert pages from another pdf file
* Extract pages from a PDF document to a new document
* Delete pages
* Rotate pages
* Crypt and Decrypt a pdf file
* Burst a document into single pages

You have to check if it works as per your requirement.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 11:44 AM »

2. The guest image, if temporary then ok, else I will suggest some blank face type image there.

im happy to get a replacement!

-mouser (August 31, 2015, 12:01 PM)

These and similar I use for staff / user photo place holder in my apps. See if they can change the current big smiley, as it does not indicate that it is the guest image. The images are as an idea and can be reduced or similar small image used.

      

Further if I press Enter after user name in Forum, then it asks for password but shows 259200 minutes to stay connected. I think it is six months converted to minutes, but looks, well...too mathematical.

BTW inserting attachment is big hurrah now 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any free portable pdf editor with these features?

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 11:34 AM »

Not one but you can achive these by using two or three free alternatives.
PDF XChange for editing, stamping, text etc.
PDF Rider for add, delete pages etc.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: How are we all getting by with our reading organization/tracking post-RSS?

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 06:24 AM »

RSS is alive, yes 

After Google Reader died, I looked around and settled with commafeed. All my feeds work and am happy with the clean and lean interface.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 04:13 AM »

Another more general point: the first thing I do when I visit the forum is scroll down to the very bottom to see what's latest in the "Info Center - Active Topics" section. I don't know how many other forum users do that, but if a lot or most of them, then from a usability point of view it might be better to have that section at the very top, so there is no need for all that scrolling. Just a suggestion.

-dr_andus (August 31, 2015, 09:22 AM)

You are the 2nd person who has told me that's how you read the forum. I had no idea people did this.

-mouser (August 31, 2015, 09:24 AM)

The first things I do on login in is look at the bottom of the home page to see the recent Active Topics

-rjbull (August 31, 2015, 04:57 PM)

That makes 3 of us now... 

-dr_andus (September 01, 2015, 03:50 AM)

me too. 

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2015, 02:42 AM »

Hmm...looks like the points I mentioned got lost in between. It happens in exitement.

Here is the link and hope some replies on them https://www.donation....msg387883#msg387883

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by anandcoral on August 31, 2015, 07:17 AM »

Got the new Forum look today. Looks good. Color combination also soothing. Congratulation to Mouser and all members.

Went around the forum and found some points as below,

1. Minor spelling mistake in "Still have questions?  Don't hesitate to context us ([email protected])."
https://www.donation...&action=register

2. The guest image, if temporary then ok, else I will suggest some blank face type image there.
Why he is happy so much in this era of privacy concerns from NSA to Win10 ? Or is he "she" ?

3. The thread page numbers make difficult to click, at least for me.  Pages: prev | 1 2 [3] | bottom | last
I find difficult in positioning my mouse cursor at '1' or '2', say. Can we make it bit wider with space, box etc. ?

I found the "Print" option of message thread very useful. All messages in one long page and one can find any text too.    Many times I needed to find my apps name for any bug fixes mentioned in another thread, say.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: The joy of seeing a first time forum poster

« Last post by anandcoral on August 27, 2015, 07:28 AM »

It does give joy to see the first timer with us

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Living Room / First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design

« Last post by anandcoral on August 25, 2015, 11:42 AM »

To keep DC forum mesg small, I have made webpage with the supportive images.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd2lfEe_IG5H-JFbg6fvVeCki7RyQvP4fetLh7lS6dw/pub

First impression of Win10. Google - Material Design.
Yes this is what I saw from login screen to desktop. MS is following Google.

First good news.
FARR runs, hurray.
All my apps run without any error, I can sleep peacefully.

Now not so good news.
Login photo now in round frame just like Google+. Why ? MS following Google !!
Tray icons black and white clipart. Hard to understand which is what. Who told MS that users are color blind ??
Windows title became white, same as body, no separation mark / line etc. Looks like MS is copying material design of Google but forgot that Android apps do not have a title bar which user need to click and drag to move the window.
Start menu looks like a dark menu bar attached with a WinPhone with those tile apps.
All icons in task bar now show smaller in size. Bigger icon in Win 8.1 was easier to see.
Settings looks like a webpage, flat. This is advancement ??

But the the killer is child window display. My program which has a main window and child windows for entry, report etc. show very odd. It shows WinXp button in child windows !!

More news.
Solitaire exist and it is free.
Cortana disabled in India, so will know after I meet her.

I understand that Win10 is work in progress. So many of the problems may get fixed in auto updates. I also understand that MS think most user are in Android so are habituated to seeing such windows.

But like most users, I also request MS to understand desktop users too.
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5114704#xx5114704xx

Regards,

Anand

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

« Last post by anandcoral on August 24, 2015, 06:39 AM »

Watched "Edge of Tomorrow" yesterday.

The concept of the story hit me "live - die - restart". Isn't that we all have been doing with our WinOS all these years, install - use - reinstall. Did the director got the idea from Windows ?

Now MS is forbidding that. No more reinstall, as we will not have the CD or copy of the latest Win10 which will auto get updated to 10.0.12345677... , like Chrome.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by anandcoral on August 19, 2015, 03:11 AM »

 

does this mean that the previous problem has been solved?

What should I do ? Wait till "Get Windows 10" enables "Upgrade" option ?
I am afraid to click "Get started" in "Windows update" 

-anandcoral (August 16, 2015, 11:42 AM)

-Curt (August 18, 2015, 08:08 AM)

Yes.

Since I did not got any reply on that, I clicked on "Get started". It turn out that it will start downloading the Win10 updated then. I prayed to GOD to give stable connection for at least 3 hours to get it done, as I found out on each disruption of net connection, the Win10 download starts from zero.

The Cortana mesg I wrote while still in Win8.1, as my location shows far west at Mumbai in IP search.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by anandcoral on August 18, 2015, 06:41 AM »

I think MS had made the mobile team to work on desktop versions. May be cost cutting from mobile development.

These chaps assume that the "program" will always have the net connection, location, voice etc. (true for mobile device). So they code that way.

I am saying this from my 20 years experience in our organization. Our company put one team on another type of project and it takes another six months to figure out and clean up why a DBF/NTX database program crashing if the machine do not have net connection. 

Or MS is saving on developers money by making same Win10 code to run for both mobile and desktop. My desktop location says Mumbai due to ISP server, though the desktop is at far east Kolkata. Let me see what Cortana offers me in "my" location she sees. 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / win10 auto upgrade - confusing mesg

« Last post by anandcoral on August 16, 2015, 11:42 AM »

The "Get Windows 10" shows "still downloading",
"Windows update" shows "Start installing Win 10" !!

What should I do ? Wait till "Get Windows 10" enables "Upgrade" option ?

I am afraid to click "Get started" in "Windows update" 

Anybody faced this situation ?



Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: Apologies for my sparse presence lately -- have been working on dc upgrades

« Last post by anandcoral on August 16, 2015, 05:53 AM »

Enjoy your vacation. Do not worry. We all are here to take care of DC forum.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone running Firefox 40.0 stable release?

« Last post by anandcoral on August 12, 2015, 06:39 AM »

Choosed menu Help > About
It showed downloading 40.0 and updated OK
Running 40.0 now.

Maybe they have different server for different location of the world.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by anandcoral on August 07, 2015, 02:48 AM »

I'm also sure someone will make an app that will reliably suspend the Windows Update service & hopefully, allow us to pick & choose which updates to install & which ones to blacklist. Until MS makes the registry a black box users cannot pick apart and analyze, there will always be intrepid souls who will work to leverage it in the users' favor.

-Innuendo (August 06, 2015, 08:40 PM)

Yes. It has happened before and it will happen now.

Already we have blogs and website giving steps to disable all those nasty privacy options, and program to automate them have started coming up.

I use 3rd party firewall, anti-virus, cleaner, uninstaller, video player etc. to keep my peace of mind in Win8. I will do same in Win10. I like to use an OS as OS only.

I hope, like we used Windows Blind to fully convert in visual and action a Win95 machine like Mac, some program comes like say, 'Better Win10' which runs as layer over Win10 and let us have our peace of mind.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by anandcoral on August 05, 2015, 12:05 PM »

TaoPhoenix, when I search DC I get columns with relevance, date posted etc. Generally for lasted I try date posted. Since I do not come to DC frequently I sometimes miss queries put for my NANY apps, so I try to check if any post for my NANY apps is there.

There is no smooth way but I get to it. I do not know anything about this change, I mean server, search logic etc. But I will be happy if there is some better way to search. May be some advance filter etc.

Regards,

Anand

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by anandcoral on August 05, 2015, 06:49 AM »

Will both DC and DC2 be online at same time ?

If I am unable to find something on DC2 but remember it was there, I may search in DC. I use DC forum a lot for googling, if I am allowed to say that, when I am stuck and it had helped me.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by anandcoral on August 05, 2015, 04:41 AM »

Hmmm... as I said and expected, the tool is here.

DoNotSpy10 free is here to cure all Win10 privacy concerns. As per GHack http://www.ghacks.ne...10-privacy-settings/,  It provides you with options to set privacy settings from within its interface with just a couple of clicks.

PCWorld gives steps to cure from p2p update of Win10 http://www.pcworld.c...tems.html#tk.rss_all

I haven't got my WIn10 yet, but I have the tools to make it as per my liking.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by anandcoral on August 04, 2015, 11:45 AM »

As wraith808 said "It's much ado over nothing."

Yes this is what I mean to say. We are unnecessarily fussing over something which will be same at the end.

I still remember there was much hue and cry over iPad. One can not type on it, keeping it on their lap. Every blogger or writer thought since they can not type easily on it, so it is useless. What is now ?
IPad remains as it is, the writers learnt to use IPad.

Same for Google reading our emails. Even MS highlighted it and assured they were not reading our email, see their ads. What happened ?
GMail still rules and we still use it.

Now we are worrying over something which MS has given option to disable. Well I know we all will be using Win10, sooner than later.

Keep in mind due to this logic of MS, we small developers are making our living by making tools to change the default of MS. Remember Start menu for Win8, how much fuss it created. Now we have so many tools to get the start menu in Win8. Similar tools will follow for Win10.

Cortana will be less useful to me, as I do not have steady network for her(?) to look into neither I use much of MS programs like outlook etc. I may use her as speech to text as Dragon dictate was too costly for me and now I am getting old. I will like to code by dictating. 

Regards,

Anand