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General Software Discussion / Re: Duplicate Finder 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 22, 2009, 02:17 AM »

- you may think that now I am contradicting myself, but I am in no way a fan of Ashisoft - I like the program, Duplicate Finder 2009, not the company. As a matter of fact, I wrote the owner&author half a year ago and yelled at him that he did not respect his own product!

I agree that there has been some very less-than-fine tactics; I just wanted all to differ between father and son, so to speak!

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of the best available software

« Last post by Curt on June 21, 2009, 04:57 PM »

The list has two parts and is available at:

http://muntealb.orgf...i/links-software.htm

-muntealb (June 20, 2009, 10:31 PM)

- the link will trigger some pop-up advert of a kind:

http://optimizedby.r...2Flinks-software.htm

-pop-up advert

My safety settings won't let me know what the pop-up is about.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

« Last post by Curt on June 17, 2009, 05:52 PM »

... too much to hope it would really work like a word processor...

-rjbull (June 16, 2009, 03:48 AM)

It doesn't even work like a pdf viewer!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Duplicate Finder 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 17, 2009, 01:23 PM »

In general it is a very good idea to TEST a program before spelling out any conclusions about it. DF2009 is far more advanced than any previous version, and gives a much better result. You may dislike it for any or for no reason, but Duplicate Finder 2009 is among the very best of the kind.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Duplicate Finder 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 17, 2009, 02:57 AM »

Any company that releases the same program in updated form with a new name, but isn't eligible for upgrade pricing, because its "a new program" or name rather! is shady enough to not be worth a download. 

-vegas (June 16, 2009, 10:56 PM)

You may think the way you did, but you really shouldn't have said it out loud, at least not the way you did it, implying all sorts of things, without knowing.

Besides, comparing Clonespy with DF2009 is like comparing apples and pears, they are not the same, for the very simply reason that Clonespy doesn't read tags.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Show Center of monitor screen

« Last post by Curt on June 16, 2009, 08:32 AM »

- thanks for the extra offer, but I am changing default apps much too often ;-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Show Center of monitor screen

« Last post by Curt on June 16, 2009, 07:40 AM »

- inside my little head I answered and thanked you long ago, but now I realize that I wrote nothing! Sorry!!


Yes, of course I've tried it, and it works fine.  

There are some behaviours that I don't fully understand, when I have a window of a kind open, but for the time being I have simply minimized all windows before I press the hotkey and only then maximize the IrfanView window, to see where the center is. Within this frame, ShowScreenCenter works just perfect.

Thanks, lanux  

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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

« Last post by Curt on June 15, 2009, 10:44 AM »

- yes.

Title by itself, headline by itself, and all the 'normal' text as a section by itself:




Infix does not understand that the text may continue on the next page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Liquid Resize (free utility) for content-aware photo resizing

« Last post by Curt on June 14, 2009, 05:05 AM »

see demo at http://www.crystalxp...id-resize-image.html

Written on April 7, 2008

onOne Software, Inc., announces today the availability of its Liquid Resize product preview. Available for immediate download at http://www.ononesoft...are.com/liquidresize, onOne Software's new Liquid Resize software is a ground-breaking way to resize images using a technique known as "seam carving" to reduce the distortion that typically occurs when manipulating the aspect ratio of an image.

"Since acquiring Liquid Resize earlier this year, our engineering team has been hard at work developing what will become a new Photoshop® plug-in for photographers and graphic artists," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "We're looking forward to hearing what our customers have to say about this new image resizing tool that allows users to maintain the original aspect ratio of a digital image when they resize or adjust the composition of their images."

- however:

The product preview for Liquid Resize, the "content aware" image resizing application for Mac OS X and Windows is no longer available. We had previously intended to have released a final version of Liquid Resize as a Photoshop plugin by this time, however we have not been able to improve the speed and quality of Liquid Resize to the high quality standards that we hold ourselves to and those that our users have come to expect and deserve. At this time, there is no published release date for an updated preview or final release of Liquid Resize.

-onOne Software

You can still get the last version that I know of, 0.67, from http://www.crystalxp...-resize-software.htm (2.05MB Zip).

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

« Last post by Curt on June 13, 2009, 12:35 PM »

Just found this - it's great!

https://addons.mozil...policy/0/12059/54100

-CleverCat (June 13, 2009, 02:13 AM)

Our primary revenue source is our search partners, Yahoo! and Ask, so please give them a try. Brand Thunder includes Yahoo! Search as the default search engine and the popular search-enhancement extension from Surf Canyon. By clicking Accept & Install, you are accepting the Brand Thunder License Agreement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

« Last post by Curt on June 12, 2009, 01:59 PM »

- Infix is editing per page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: COMPLIMENT: Liquid Story Binder XE - Black Obelisk Software

« Last post by Curt on June 11, 2009, 01:17 PM »

The tech support / bug fix response time is more than just excellent - it is actually better than anything I ever imagined from any company.

-raybeere (January 15, 2009, 12:25 PM)

- Yes, the support and the update speed is fantastic. But for a slow learner like me LSB is actually updated TOO OFTEN!!! I can simply not cope with such speed. Well before I have learned how to use it, it is updated with even more features. I'll have to credit the author that he has become much more aware over time that a good help section is important, but still I would like him to hire a pedagogue to redo the GUI - LSB can do a lot of things, but I am having serious troubles understanding how!


The latest update gives you this welcome screen:

Liquid Story Binder XE by Black Obelisk Software
Welcome to Liquid Story Binder XE
Software for writers, authors, poets, and novelists
http://www.blackobelisksoftware.com
contact(at)blackobelisksoftware.com

Liquid Story Binder XE gives you the tools and freedom to write.

Please try our example workspaces to view Liquid Story Binder XE in action.  From the main menu, choose ‘Workspaces’.

To learn how to create your own Liquid Story Binder XE book, see our help documentation.  Choose ‘Help...’ from the main ‘About’ menu.

Books
Any folder on your computer that contains your work.  Create a book that covers an entire series of novels, or a book just for magazine articles.

Manuscript
Multiple Chapters combined into a single document.

Planners
A flexible table of contents that combines notes and chapter titles.

Listings
Listings organize files in a collapsible tree.

Associations
A simple list of files.  Like-named files access the same association.

Chapters
A rich text editor where you write your novel.

Notes
Quick reference notes.

Outlines
A collapsible tree of ideas.  A wonderful place to brainstorm.

Checklists
A list of titles and captions with checkmarks.

Builders
Multiple rich text documents sorted into a single file with titles, descriptions and color indexing.

Timelines
Plot multiple characters across the length of your story using colored timelines and cards.
   
Storyboards
Text and Images combined

Journals
Create a writing journal, or even fictional journals for each one of your characters.

Sequences
A list of horizontal columns with titles and descriptions.

Dossiers
People, places and things.  Adjectives with descriptions and a portrait.

Images
Reference pictures, the photos that inspire writing, images that create a comfortable writing workspace.

Songs
The music that inspires writing.  MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV file types.

Galleries
Grouped Images viewed by a series thumbnails.  Position thumbnails to highlight importance or effect.

Playlists
Grouped Songs for quick and easy listening.

Recording
Sound recording using a microphone.  Create audio notes, or, for flow and tempo, listen to yourself reading.

Shortcuts
Any external program or file useful to your work.  Quickly access your favorite software.

Workspaces
A way to save window positions and files.

By the way;
the newest feature is a typewriter with no backspace or delete, etcetera.

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General Software Discussion / Re: INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

« Last post by Curt on June 11, 2009, 12:23 PM »

Coming up on BitsDuJour is a PDF editor called e-PDF: http://www.bitsdujou....com/software/e-pdf/

-mwb1100 (May 28, 2009, 02:04 PM)

- I don't think it can edit the pdf's original text, only add new text.

-Curt (May 28, 2009, 06:35 PM)

Of course I had to try out e-pdf. I cannot remember why I didn't keep it, but I didn't. What I wanted to tell, now, is, that together with e-pdf came this little info box, basic rules, which might explain certain pdf editing problems, in general:




,,,,

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: White Smoke 70% off

« Last post by Curt on June 11, 2009, 06:49 AM »

- yes, I too are happy with mine white smokes. It have safed my writing totallity.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need to downsample multiple page .tiffs - any suggestions??

« Last post by Curt on June 10, 2009, 02:29 PM »

- I would say IrfanView should be able to batch convert the collection, but I don't know, as I don't have any .tifs.

File > Batch Conversion/Rename... > Output Format + Use Advanced Options > set DPI Value > Miscellaneous > Apply Changes To All Pages if TIF saving

 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: GUI enhanced start up delayer

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2009, 02:46 PM »

- yes, so am I. But I *expect* the expressed need is to immediate add those program you disabled some previous time the editor was open. This you cannot do, for now, until the ongoing startup procedure had ended.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HyperSnap: impressive screen-capture app, today's Bits du Jour

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2009, 02:34 PM »

I have both Snagit 9 and HyperSnap 6, but am using FastStone Capture instead!

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Post New Requests Here / [SOLVED] Show Center of monitor screen

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2009, 11:58 AM »

Solved (https://github.com/l.../releases/tag/v3.1.5)
Original text:

Editing a wallpaper photo, I need this little dot to be situated at the very center of the finished photo = the center of the screen. So I fumble around with my calculator and papers, but it would be so much faster if I could only press a hotkey and up comes some crossmark of a kind, illuminating the exact place at once. Then I could maybe hit the same hotkey again, and the crossmark disappears. Or how it should be done.

It could very well look just like Skrommel's MouseMark, or whatever 'you', dear coder, will like it to.

Any takers?

---
Just an example:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Duplicate Finder 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 04, 2009, 10:48 AM »

Some Ashisoft users could not use ShareIT, so here is an offer exclusively to be used via Avangate:

...many of our customers are not able to purchase Duplicate Finder 2009 from ShareIT.com. Therefore, we tie up with Avangate and requesting all our customers who have not been able to purchase it from ShareIT.com to purchase Duplicate Finder 2009 from Avangate using the below coupon code.

Existing Customer 30% Discount Coupon : existing-ashisoft

http://www.duplicate...uplicate-Finder-2009

or:

http://www.duplicate...pro.com/purchase.htm

Again: "Please note this is not an update version of Duplicate Finder.
Duplicate Finder 2009 is the new product of our company."

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General Software Discussion / Re: HyperSnap: impressive screen-capture app, today's Bits du Jour

« Last post by Curt on June 04, 2009, 09:08 AM »

Once again HyperSnap is on offer at Bits du Jour. It is still version 6, but the change-log proves "continual attention".

List Price: $35.00
Today Only: $17.50
http://www.bitsdujou...ftware/hypersnap-v6/

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UrlSnooper / Re: very confused: downloading youtube with urlsnooper?

« Last post by Curt on June 02, 2009, 02:20 AM »

... does not get spyware infections. This has been one of the crappiest applications I have seen for a while.

-kartal (June 01, 2009, 10:55 PM)

1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader from eurekr.com may be a little bad but certainly not all bad. It is probably not very well written, and it really is disappointing with this new TubeGotChi forum, but that can sometimes be expected from this kind of applications, can't it. When they started some years ago, there weren't any commercials or any forum, but people didn't donate, so the company didn't get an income from 1-Click, which may be why they added the forum and the ads. 1-Click is however not dangerous or all crappy. First of all its behaviour on your computer is accepted by the anti-spyware parts of both NOD32 and Outpost Pro. Secondly it is one of the easiest applications for downloading an user's entire channel of videos. I have downloaded a couple of thousand videos with 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader from eurekr.com, and I have not met any problems or received any spam.

One thing they should change, though, is, to make 1-Click download from lot more ports at a time. For now, one video at a time, it is simply too slow, because YouTube uploading never uses my connection's download capacity. On the other hand, it doesn't use any CPU, so the user can just leave it to download while he is working.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SnagIt 7.25 - free until June 5, 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 01, 2009, 04:20 PM »

to M8 Spartan 3. And to ClipCache Pro. And Visual Clipboard Pro. Why can't these fellows write a clipboard

-Curt (June 01, 2009, 03:11 PM)

- hmm..; lack of concentration, I guess. I went back to FastStone Capture.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SnagIt 7.25 - free until June 5, 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 01, 2009, 04:11 PM »

- oh, thanks a lot, Chris; I'll really appreciate such a helping hand! 

Wake up you people out there and come to DC and take a lesson! This is what any forum should be all about; helping each other out! (all "out"...)



Anyway; when I tried to donate you, mouser's robot told me some kind of funding would first be necessary...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: SnagIt 7.25 - free until June 5, 2009

« Last post by Curt on June 01, 2009, 03:11 PM »

I used the offer to get version 9 for half the listed price. I must say that it probably is too 'advanced' for me! For the moment I have returned to M8 Spartan 3. And to ClipCache Pro. And Visual Clipboard Pro. Why can't these fellows write a clipboard to my liking? My money is flying out the window!

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. IrfanView - integrity issue examined

« Last post by Curt on June 01, 2009, 08:57 AM »

And we're back to the beginning and bothering an author

-fenixproductions (June 01, 2009, 07:27 AM)

- that's what we do, around here