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Screenshot Captor / Re: how get better resolution?

« Last post by tomos on February 26, 2013, 04:05 AM »

I tried capturing at 700 px wide and inserting in Word to get a quick look at it in a document.  I reduced it by half, and it looks much better than the next capture I took, at 350 px wide (with the browser zoomed out appropriately).

-aparente001 (February 25, 2013, 12:35 PM)

I'm used to working in dpi which is a different approach (thinking more for printing).
I might well be wrong here, but I believe that if you 'reduce' it thus in word, the image file is not actually being reduced. Well I'm not sure what you're doing with Word, but if it was simply saved as a word doc, it would show the image smaller size with higher resolution which AFAIK means it's not modifying the image at all. If you're doing html in word, try saving the final product and check how it looks in browser.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: feature request: zoom buttons (+, -) - not urgent

« Last post by tomos on February 26, 2013, 03:44 AM »

mouse wheel alone should zoom in main SC window, regardless of size of image in relation to viewing area.. maybe an issue with new versions of windows that I'm not seeing? What OS do you have Tomos?

-mouser (February 25, 2013, 09:47 AM)

Ahh, I had presumed it needed Ctrl pressed !

mouser, this is one I've meant to report for a long time:
I have the same issue with just the mouse wheel:
image zooms till it is slightly larger than the window, then the wheel just scrolls it the couple of pixels up or down (or right/left depending on shape of image).
OS is Windows 7 pro 64bit

(Note, I see it works properly on Windows 8 64bit)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: help with automatic file naming

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2013, 10:15 AM »

RE changing folder:

You can change the folder in preferences - it says 'you can also change this from the main file menu' but I dont see it    - found it, it's under the 'GoTo' menu (you can also configure move-to and go-to folders under the 'go-to' menu

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

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2013, 10:06 AM »

Yes, his humor was disquieting because it was so self-deprecating, but that was his whole schtick; summed up in his famous tagline "I don't get no respect".  It's funny because we all have some degree of insecurity, and in some smaller or larger way can then sympathize; thus it becomes cathartic to laugh at those small insecurities brought larger than reality via the guise of absurd theater.

... or something like that.  

-Edvard (February 24, 2013, 03:33 PM)

Can't forget his adventure in rap music...

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=FLGxWPtgodo

-app103 (February 25, 2013, 09:01 AM)

"I got a kidney shaped pool with a stone in it"  lol

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Screenshot Captor / Re: fancy border question, not urgent

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2013, 09:50 AM »

Not exactly the same but almost I think:

(note the tooltip)


and a screenshot with shadow:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: feature request: zoom buttons (+, -) - not urgent

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2013, 09:40 AM »

not in any way against this idea, but a "just-in-case" post -
have you noticed on the right-side, along the vertical toolbar, there is a slider to increase/reduce size?



I used SC for a couple of years before I noticed it (it's very discreet over there - btw I notice the % symbol is cropped there mouser)

I hope you dont mind me posting this below in your request thread aparente - it is related to the 'zoom' topic:
-
The way I most commonly zoom is Ctrl+MouseWheel. It's very easy and intuitive - as used in browser or PDF viewer (less commonly I use Ctrl++/Ctrl+-).
In SC, if the image is smaller than the viewing area, it will zoom with Ctrl+MouseWheel. Once the image is slightly larger than the viewing area, Ctrl+MouseWheel will scroll.
This seems like a bug to me (?)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2013, 02:58 PM »

my suggestions:

+ 1 for removing print
Then you could keep the two copy buttons seperate (preferable to me at any rate)
Halve the width of the "Send To" drop-down, and add the "Help Me" button beside it.
You'd still have one row less than now

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Living Room / Re: When is your birthday?!

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 05:29 PM »

lol

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Living Room / Re: When is your birthday?!

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 05:25 PM »

Mine is today x

-Hally (February 23, 2013, 04:49 PM)

Happy Day Hally !!!!  

-tomos (February 23, 2013, 04:56 PM)

You forgot to say when yours is!

-Stephen66515 (February 23, 2013, 05:00 PM)

April 9th*


* {discreetly ignores tiff}

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Community Giveaways / Re: Giveaway Rule Suggestion.

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 05:21 PM »

I totally agree, and contacted llc_silly in that regard.  That was what he had meant, and had set that as a rule on his giveaway.

-wraith808 (February 23, 2013, 04:47 PM)

wraith can I suggest you point this out in the post (or am I missing something?) - one of the posters seems pretty sure they won it - or maybe better let them sort it out between themselves...
FWIW he did say 'members', which isnt 100% clear ('participants' used be called 'members' - but I presume he meant supporting members)

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Living Room / Re: When is your birthday?!

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 04:56 PM »

Mine is today x

-Hally (February 23, 2013, 04:49 PM)

Happy Day Hally !!!! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Pre-generate thumbnails for images in selected folders?

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 01:02 PM »

^You're right Don

I had Super-fast thumbnails selected - when I deselect that the thumbnail quality is super.
As you say though:

Speed and quality is a trade off, of course.

-DonL (February 22, 2013, 03:32 AM)

~~~~~~
There's even very few image viewers that are *really* quick in loading images.
I used use ExifPro but havent used it properly in a while - it does now have a
64bit version. Okay, just checked it -when the thumbs are cached, it's almost
instantaneous display  
www.exifpro.com -
(shareware I think ~$20)

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

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

  very good Ren lol

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 11:07 AM »

My current car is a 1996 Mercedes-Benz E230
[...] They go forever if you take care of them.

-Renegade (February 23, 2013, 06:43 AM)

mine is '96 too - just a *little* smaller ;-)
Toyota Starlet. Reached 300,000km a couple of months ago. Had it ten years now. Things wear out but I've never been let down by it (knocking frantically on wood here). Cant push it as much as before, but it still does a steady 90mph okay. Will have to dig out a pic, or take a new one.

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Living Room / Re: Google Glass

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2013, 10:21 AM »

woweee, dont want, but a fascinating new 'thing' ...

Here's the video from the article:

In the video he seems to be a bit negative about the design, in the article he raves about it:

The design of Glass is actually really beautiful. Elegant, sophisticated. They look human and a little bit alien all at once. Futuristic but not out of time — like an artifact from the 1960’s, someone trying to imagine what 2013 would be like. This is Apple-level design. No, in some ways it’s beyond what Apple has been doing recently. It’s daring, inventive, playful, and yet somehow still ultimately simple. The materials feel good in your hand and on your head, solid but surprisingly light. Comfortable. If Google keeps this up, soon we’ll be saying things like "this is Google-level design."

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Living Room / Re: Chinese Cyberattacks

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2013, 03:11 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2013 Version: Browser Wars

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2013, 11:35 AM »

With people - the more partners in the ménage - the greater the risk of picking up an infection. 

The same goes for software. 

-40hz (February 22, 2013, 10:15 AM)

a suitable note to start the weekend on

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Living Room / Re: Chinese Cyberattacks

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2013, 05:50 AM »

^ deo the 'shop expert

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Pre-generate thumbnails for images in selected folders?

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2013, 02:52 PM »

You might have to change file manager - or use an image viewer.
XYPlorer is quick to load thumbs (their quality isn't great though).

I dont know if any file manager copes really well with this.
I use directory opus - it has the option to load all thumbnails for the folder once opened. In spite of the fact that it caches thumbs, it is very busy for a good while on opening a folder with say a few hundred images. (I should check settings again, maybe it has used up all the space allocated to thumbnails).

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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.12.01 - Apr 22, 2015

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2013, 02:33 PM »

This doesnt have a 'mouser' board of it's own so I'll post here:

Freshly installed:
Ran the exe, created a random sized frame/box.
Hit F9
It seems to start recording but after a second or so,
the screen (sometimes) blacks out and then I get this message:
--------------------------------------------------------
VideoRecorder ERROR: graph can't run: 80070016
--------------------------------------------------------



A file is saved but it just shows black in the mini-preview player at the end.

option to change settings - any suggestions?



EDIT/ win 7 pro 64bit  // install version of esr

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Batchfile can't recognize long file name...!!!!

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2013, 11:29 AM »

a message from 4wd

Not me, rjbull made it clear back here, (which I must admit I completely overlooked otherwise I wouldn't have posted - sorry rj   ).

-4wd (February 21, 2013, 10:03 AM)

(i reckon he got the wrong thread when posting...)

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Living Room / Re: Chinese Cyberattacks

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2013, 08:05 AM »

He was snapped in a university Computer Science class photo

-IainB (February 21, 2013, 04:04 AM)

Knowing the wonders possible with Photoshop...and at the risk of being called "politically incorrect"...is it just me...or does it look like all the faces in that picture might actually be the same face?
 

-40hz (February 21, 2013, 07:59 AM)

I guess you could get caught out at worse things than political correctness

it's quite well done, had me looking twice (or three times!) ...

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Living Room / Re: Create Your Own Pirate Bay?

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2013, 03:17 AM »

Was this the 'usb' one?
PirateBox - Portable FLOSS file sharing network

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2013, 02:59 AM »

Josh -
you know there's a 25% DoCo discount? -
verified as of Jan 2013

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: DropZone auto-hide, auto-show while dragging?

« Last post by tomos on February 19, 2013, 03:16 PM »

I put my post in a spoiler cause I'm not sure what's correct - I *think* that this board ("Finished Programs") is not actively reviewed - AFAIK it's more for requests that have been finished so it might not be checked often.

According to Skwire's dropzone page, the discussion thread for it is here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25410.0
You might get more attention Elancore if you post there

Spoiler

Hi Elancore - you posted this in the wrong section - it's on the "Finished Programs" section which many people dont look at.

Can some moderater move it to Post New Requests board?
(It might get some more attention then)

EDIT/ what is DropZone anyway Elancore?
Is it from this site? No doesnt seem to be... (some more info + link might help ) Funny - I didnt find it in dc search but it's an app of Skwires