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General Software Discussion / Re: IE is working, Firefox is not. Why?
« Last post by Grorgy on October 01, 2007, 12:37 AM »
Actually i just noticed on your settings the DNS server is your router, I was doing that for a long time and it worked ok, but then it stopped, i had no idea why, after a brief call to my ISP support they told me to change the DNS to the one they recommend, so I did, no more trouble.

May not be your problem but could be worth a try
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General Software Discussion / Office 2007 Compatability Pack
« Last post by Grorgy on September 30, 2007, 11:44 PM »
I recently installed the above mentioned pack and discovered that on my laptop, a celeron 1.5 with 764mb ram, that word ran very very slowly and was using heaps more resources than usual. processor usage at times reached 100%, it wasnt all word of course but it was a big player, it also would go "not responding".  I've uninstalled the pack and its back to normal, hardly leaps around for joy on my laptop but works ok. :)

Any one else had this problem? and if you did, did you find a way to overcome it as I can see more and more documents being produced in these formats soon.
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Official Announcements / Re: Site experiencing glitches due to high server load - SEP 29 UPDATE
« Last post by Grorgy on September 30, 2007, 12:04 AM »
yeah only had mild withdrawl symptoms, a bit of twitching cold sweats that sort of thing  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements
« Last post by Grorgy on September 28, 2007, 10:27 PM »
ohh nice find Zero3K, it actually works better for me than the PSTrayFactory trial i tried ever did  :Thmbsup:.  It puts a link to their sponsors in the start menu (and program folder) but it doesnt seem to download anything.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker
« Last post by Grorgy on September 27, 2007, 07:52 PM »
Its all good,, glad to see such a great program get some recognition, at least more people can have a look and see if its what they need.
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General Software Discussion / Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker
« Last post by Grorgy on September 27, 2007, 07:27 PM »
Freeware application Screenshot Captor is an advanced, full-featured screenshot application boasting an impressive feature set that rivals the shareware favorite, SnagIt. For example, Screenshot Captor has tons of options for capturing your full screen, specific regions or selected windows; it has excellent callout functions, like standard arrows and highlighting tools along with the excellent blur effect you see in the screenshot above; and it can automatically open screenshots in your favorite image editor or email screenshots as soon as you take them. In all, Screenshot Captor may be the most full-featured screenshot app I've seen, freeware or otherwise. On the other hand, it does have a slightly steeper learning curve, so if there's a downside, that may be it. Screenshot Captor is donationware, Windows only.

http://lifehacker.co...ot-captor-304548.php
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Kaspersky Internet Security 7
« Last post by Grorgy on September 27, 2007, 03:35 AM »
lol i hate the squealing pig noise, but i must say, it always grabs my attention and makes me look at what has happened so i don't change it or silence it in anyway
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General Software Discussion / Re: iTunes... 'nuff said
« Last post by Grorgy on September 26, 2007, 08:38 PM »
Thanks Darwin, I had forgotten about the alternatives.  I wouldnt mind using the apple apps except they are so intrusive, i hate that.
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General Software Discussion / Re: iTunes... 'nuff said
« Last post by Grorgy on September 26, 2007, 08:12 PM »
ahhhh an apple free computer, well almost, the quicktime alternative does have some apple components, but hey, as close as ya can get  :-*  Just hope it all works now  :huh:   ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: iTunes... 'nuff said
« Last post by Grorgy on September 26, 2007, 06:54 PM »
From memory i found them in the individual user directories (the documents and settings\user\) as well as the all users one.  It makes me think tho that quicktime installs the installation files for iTunes as well, will check that next time quicktime is updated. (if i remember) but it also explains the size of the download files, they always did seem excessive to me, going off what other media players are.
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General Software Discussion / Re: iTunes... 'nuff said
« Last post by Grorgy on September 26, 2007, 05:18 PM »
I discovered that iTunes leaves install files in application data folders and will reinstall if you aren't careful, I've deleted it a few times from my system now, i now even go through the registry and take out all references to it, but it reappears at intervals last time was just a few days ago :mad:    It wasnt installed but the installation files were there lurking
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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« Last post by Grorgy on September 26, 2007, 05:02 PM »
Hmmm an awful lot of them aren't there  ;D  I'm using FARR, I haven't discovered many of its uses yet, its mainly a program launcher for me still, and I dont understand these aliases or regex and all the techie mumbo jumbo  :-[ , looking forward to the packs when that is all set up.
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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for September 25 - Codename "Chatty Kathy"
« Last post by Grorgy on September 25, 2007, 06:59 PM »
Yep, another good one Darwin, but is this further procrastination??  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements
« Last post by Grorgy on September 25, 2007, 05:05 AM »
Would seem to me if anyone does make a freeware tool that will put all the icons in one list then PStrayfactory will very quickly disappear, seems way too much to pay for that functionality in my opinion,
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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...
« Last post by Grorgy on September 23, 2007, 11:15 PM »
Salamander looks good, I do like xplorer2 but it has a problem with, of all things, windowblinds, now its not the only program to have problems, but it sure is the only one i have met so far that telling window blinds to ignore it doesn't work, the blame on the forums is all put down to windowblinds, but if that were really the case why doesn't everything else have similar problems?  Its also intermittent and not on all systems so since i really like my nice dark skin  ;)  xplorer2 has to be consigned to the RIP section of the start menu to be dusted off maybe if they ever fix it or deleted if it dies
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Official Announcements / Re: September Drawing Winners
« Last post by Grorgy on September 22, 2007, 08:24 PM »
Congratulations winners, and well done Carl, another great giveaway and some nice discounts as well.   :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...
« Last post by Grorgy on September 22, 2007, 02:43 PM »
Configured out of the box, but its some big box it comes in  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: really good spell check tool wanted
« Last post by Grorgy on September 21, 2007, 05:07 PM »
Has anyone had any success finding an alternative dictionary for tinyspell+ ?  The help files and forum are less than helpful  :huh:  I would like to try it but its no good to me if i cant get it to check at least in British English 
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General Software Discussion / Re: Help with finding accurate software.
« Last post by Grorgy on September 20, 2007, 03:57 PM »
If you use firefox, zotero is an interesting extension, will take snap shots of pages, build, libraries, bibliographies and so on http://www.zotero.org/  you may find it useful
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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?
« Last post by Grorgy on September 20, 2007, 03:47 PM »
Not free but PDF annotator prides itself on ummm annotating pdfs.  http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/  its specifically designed for tablet use but does work on a normal pc, with a mouse and keyboard, i tried it briefly but it wasnt something I do enough off, but maybe just what you are looking for
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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« Last post by Grorgy on September 19, 2007, 09:19 PM »
I like the gee whiz neato factor, seems to play a large part in purchasing decisions  :-[
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General Software Discussion / Re: 13 Reasons Why Linux Won't Make it to a Desktop Near You
« Last post by Grorgy on September 19, 2007, 09:12 PM »
A few things come to mind, if Linux is to be used more widely then it needs to get into a reasonable number of large corporations, places with 30 thousand or more workstations.  This is going to be a hard slog.  Those sort of companies are not going to pay huge amounts of money to teach people to use a new operating system when they can employ people off the street who have a basic knowledge of MS windows.  After all the cost of training 30000 plus people for a day is quite significant, if enough could be done in a day to make the users feel comfortable doing the work they need to do.  The amount they pay for a licenced windows copy is small compared to these costs. 

And then there is the the user support areas, and the folk who are going to implement software changes throughout the organization.  Lots of training required there.

Then there is compatibility with the people they do business with.  Lets face it, a word processor that wont open .doc files is pretty useless, so they all can, and the support these big companies get from microsoft is, or was, when i was involved, quite good. 

One company I worked for spent over 1/2 a billion dollars on a system to do their billing for them, all staff had access to this on windows PCs, probably not an insignificant cost in changing it to run on linux.

And i think its safe to say people will buy computers with operating systems they at least feel they know a bit, and those are the ones they use everyday at work.
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General Software Discussion / Re: CCleaner 2.0 Beta Released - Clean the Crap off your Computer
« Last post by Grorgy on September 19, 2007, 12:21 PM »
When i first used CCleaner i had those sort of problems, Armando, very quickly learnt to untick boxes for the stuff i didnt want to lose  ;) Actually i tried that other one , clean up, and failed to remember to untick things so had to reset a few things  :-[  Oh well, we live and learn, or die trying
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager
« Last post by Grorgy on September 17, 2007, 08:01 PM »
 :) Thanks laughing man, i was sure I had changed that ages ago and had forgotten all about it  :-[, anyway, thanks, it now shows up  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager
« Last post by Grorgy on September 17, 2007, 06:32 PM »
I havent been able to see how xyplorer can find my mp3 player, its a sansa, and in xplorer2 and windows explorer it appears as 'sansa' and can be opened and all normal file and folder tasks can be carried out, but it doesnt show up in xyplorer :huh:
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