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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zabkat i-DeClone and DeskRule deals coming on Bits du Jour

« Last post by rjbull on May 12, 2022, 05:40 PM »

I like the power it offers; some features I don't remember ever seeing in any other program, which would make it worth persevering if you really need them. But, I genuinely found it hard going.

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Zabkat i-DeClone and DeskRule deals coming on Bits du Jour

« Last post by rjbull on May 12, 2022, 03:49 PM »

I am curious if anyone is using Deskrule? It looks like it can search the contents of a file [...]
-sphere (May 12, 2022, 10:50 AM)

I was interested in Deskrule because it can do obscure searches like finding which of your JPEGs does not have your name in the copyright field of its EXIF data. The problem is that I find Deskrule one of the most impenetrable programs I've ever tried to use. A GUI where you can tear bits off and dock them somewhere else does not help me, and I think it makes Help more confusing, because there's no guarantee your version will have the same appearance as is shown in Help. I hate online Help anyway, the more so when it forces Edge, a browser I never use, and which isn't even set as my default. It wasn't just me that had problems with the UI, either. At one point the author revised Deskrule to offer an alternative interface that was supposed to be easier. I didn't find it much improvement, or maybe I was just jaundiced by then and didn't persevere. Hence it may be the most powerful search engine ever made, but remains a mystery to me. I'd rather have the relatively simple and straightforward UIs of programs like Nir Sofer's SearchMyFiles or the search part of XYplorer or maybe Binary Fortress' FileSeek.

Found Deals and Discounts / Zabkat i-DeClone and DeskRule deals coming on Bits du Jour

« Last post by rjbull on May 06, 2022, 04:45 PM »

Zabkat, best known for the xplorer2 file manager, are soon to offer Bits du Jour deals on two of their other programs:

i-DeClone 50% promotion
<http://zabkat.com/stsil/lt.php?id=Yh1WAxhRC09RCFFTUA>
May 7 & 8
(Search and remove duplicate files)

DeskRule 50% promotion
<http://zabkat.com/stsil/lt.php?id=Yh1XBBhRC09RCFFTUA>
May 12 & 13
(Advanced desktop file search)

General Software Discussion / Re: WinPatrol appears dead

« Last post by rjbull on April 04, 2022, 03:33 PM »

There's still Chameleon Startup Manager, which has been mentioned several times in rather old DC threads.

General Software Discussion / Re: Best way to cull old browser bookmarks?

« Last post by rjbull on March 26, 2022, 05:45 PM »

Maybe look at AM-DeadLink?

Freeware to detect dead links and redirections.
AM-DeadLink can check URLs for dead links and redirections from the following sources:

Text files
Tab delimited files
CSV files
HTML files
Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox
Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, IE

But note this:

Why bookmarks cannot be deleted directly in AM-DeadLink

Browser bookmarks should only be deleted within the browser user interface, not via external tools. Changing bookmark databases outside of the browser will be in conflict with various functions and will also produce side effects when synchronizing bookmarks between devices.

General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by rjbull on March 14, 2022, 06:45 PM »

For what very little it may be worth, the Zufuliu fork of Notepad2 now does Markdown, but not I think WYSIWYG.

The recently-released Notezilla 9 can do Markdown, and now has hyperlinks that point from one sticky note to another. I don't know if you can collapse a group of linked notes into a single document.

General Software Discussion / Re: Does this "blog/shared notes" exist?

« Last post by rjbull on February 12, 2022, 03:49 PM »

Maybe Simplenote? It's a "free" cloud service by Automattic (the people behind WordPress?) that you can access by browser or by their own (Electron behemoth) Windows app, or their Android app, but it can also be synchronized with CintaNotes (free and payware, I think even the free version will sync with Simplenote now) and ResophNotes (free, mentioned by wraith808 of this parish) on Windows, and with Glance Note on Android. Certainly CintaNotes and Glance Note, and I think ResophNotes, keep their own local databases.

It's possible to use Simplenote collaboratively.

Big caveat; as a cloud service, you are at the mercy of their policies. The ResophNotes site has a note that Simplenote might remove the API for third parties, though that hasn't happened yet, as far as I know. Also, at present anyway, you can export from Simplenote to plain text files.

General Software Discussion / Re: How to check several sites daily with ease?

« Last post by rjbull on February 12, 2022, 03:28 PM »

Website Watcher: https://www.aignes.com/
-mouser (February 12, 2022, 08:38 AM)
That won't work since half of the sites are password-protected.
-brotherS (February 12, 2022, 08:43 AM)

The Personal edition of WebSite-Watcher can do passwords.

General Software Discussion / Re: Tool to find where a hotkey press goes?

« Last post by rjbull on February 04, 2022, 04:51 PM »

I could swear there was a tool that was discussed here years ago with the need to do just that (the mapping)... I don't think there was complete success at that time but I remember the discussion!
-x16wda (February 04, 2022, 05:50 AM)

There was New program: Ethervane ActiveHotkeys (freeware), but the entire thread is dated 2009.

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on February 01, 2022, 04:43 PM »

Are any of you hold-outs who stick to the older version of K-9 Mail, with its better accounts list, having any problems with it? Two of my accounts (with GMX) no longer work; K-9 hangs or crashes now. This happens to me both on my old Android 4.2.2 (!) tablet and on my Android 11 phone. I presume the webmail provider has changed something, because my other accounts still appear to work.

Admittedly, I'm mostly using FairEmail now on the phone (thanks to 4WD for the recommendation) ~~but it doesn't, as far as I can see, use Android Share~~. ~~Pity;~~ K-9 Mail ~~does that, but~~ doesn't always render HTML email properly. I wish people would stick to plain text, but they don't

Correction: FairEmail does have Android Share enabled, but it's well hidden.

General Software Discussion / Re: Please suggest compact, lightweight email client

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2022, 03:57 PM »

+1 for Pegasus Mail. Note that the developer has been working on the 5th major version for quite a while now, version 4.x is not quite contemporary in look&feel*. (Which is OK for me, but less OK for other people - especially as you come from The Bat!.)
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)

I dabbled with Pegasus long ago. I much prefer The Bat!'s permanently-visible tree of accounts, but the thing I hated about Pegasus was its default of deleting all mail on the server. It felt like a deliberate attempt to lock you in. Still, forewarned is forearmed.

I, personally, also own and primarily use a license for Pandora Mail which I - incidentally - first saw on DonationCoder.
[...]
Pandora Mail 4.1 uses roughly 53 megabytes (plus the profile folder which can not completely be moved off %APPDATA% as far as I can see) of disk space, it seems to not have a portable mode (yet?). Of course, you should be fine with 90s GUI design... (you can configure some of that.)
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)

I briefly tried Pandora when I saw your earlier post, and couldn't make head nor tail of it! Software doesn't usually leave me baffled (though a trial disk of DOS AskSam did). But, I spent the 90s (and after) determinedly clinging on to DOS software, and I don't think it was until 1998 or so that changes at work meant I finally had to come to terms with WinGUI. Maybe I missed out on that era.

It has replaced The Bat! for me when RITlabs decided to use ribbon toolbars which I don't want to use.
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)

Nor do I. I'm still using The Bat! 9.1.18. Perhaps the new UI is responsible for some of the recent bloat:

thebat_64_9-1-18.msi 42,135,552
thebat_64_9-4-5.msi 143,663,104

If you like Alpine (which is good software, I admit), other interesting command line clients for Windows include NeoMutt and a few others, but note that usual "ported to Windows" software mostly requires jumping through quite a few hoops to use the file system over Cygwin...
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)

Ouch. That could be a disincentive

General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by rjbull on January 24, 2022, 02:57 PM »

zim https://zim-wiki.org/
It's everything I wanted from a notetaking tool.
-urlwolf (January 01, 2022, 09:03 AM)

Sadly, no mobile version, despite several for various flavours of Unix/Linux/BSD.

General Software Discussion / Please suggest compact, lightweight email client

« Last post by rjbull on January 15, 2022, 03:19 PM »

I use The Bat! Pro on my main laptop, but now have a budget ultraportable (Xidu Tour Pro) as a back-up. It only has a 128Gb SSD (though it has a slot for a second one, which I haven't looked into). I'm looking for a compact, lightweight email client for it. A quick search turns up TheBat! as "lightweight", but recent versions have jumped from about a 40Mb download to 120Mb. I could use The Bat! Voyager on a USB stick as the Pro license covers this, but I'm wondering if there are other recommendations. I briefly tried i.Scribe / InScribe and didn't get on very well with it, but might take another look. Otherwise, the commonest suggestions seem to all be ports from Unix/Linux:

Alpine
Sylpheed
Claws Mail (a fork of Sylpheed)

Is there anything else I should consider, please?

General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by rjbull on January 02, 2022, 03:23 PM »

Came here after years of inactivity to say : zim https://zim-wiki.org/
[...]
-urlwolf (January 01, 2022, 09:03 AM)

Are pages stored internally to the app? Or on your disk in text format?
-wraith808 (January 01, 2022, 12:16 PM)
@wraith808: what happened to your interest in Ema Personal Wiki, which you mentioned earlier in this post?
-rjbull (January 01, 2022, 05:03 PM)

Same thing as this - it uses WikiWords, but it's still bespoke. I like the idea, but I'm firmly in the markdown camp now.
-wraith808 (January 02, 2022, 01:22 AM)

That's a pity, as Ema Personal Wiki has an Android version as well as a Windows one. I don't want my data in the cloud, but interoperability is a big plus.

General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by rjbull on January 01, 2022, 05:03 PM »

Came here after years of inactivity to say : zim https://zim-wiki.org/
[...]
-urlwolf (January 01, 2022, 09:03 AM)

Are pages stored internally to the app? Or on your disk in text format?
-wraith808 (January 01, 2022, 12:16 PM)

@wraith808: what happened to your interest in Ema Personal Wiki, which you mentioned earlier in this post?

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

« Last post by rjbull on November 19, 2021, 04:23 PM »

From Private Eye magazine, No. 1560, 12 Nov.- 25 Nov. 2021.

General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Book Catalog

« Last post by rjbull on October 27, 2021, 10:01 AM »

If you don't want a web based catalog, Readerware (not free)
-xtabber (October 14, 2021, 06:54 AM)

"Not free" is putting it mildly!
-rjbull (October 26, 2021, 04:29 PM)

$50 isn't as much as I'd expected from that response.
-wraith808 (October 26, 2021, 08:01 PM)

Apologies - looks like I clicked too far in the dropdown and lighted on the Client/Server edition, which at $89.95 would be a bit much.

Android Apps / Re: Google sent me email today saying all my apps are removed from the store

« Last post by rjbull on October 26, 2021, 04:30 PM »

resubmitting so the google god's will deem them worthy.
-mouser (October 26, 2021, 08:05 AM)

Google algorithms presumably

General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Book Catalog

« Last post by rjbull on October 26, 2021, 04:29 PM »

If you don't want a web based catalog, Readerware (not free)
-xtabber (October 14, 2021, 06:54 AM)

"Not free" is putting it mildly!

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on August 05, 2021, 03:53 PM »

the main dev that took over and busted the app is paid €4000 every month
-Attronarch (August 04, 2021, 12:44 PM)

I began to wonder if the devs had been 'got at' in some way, to make K-9 into just another me-too app that didn't attract users away from big-name and proprietary ones that paid to be in the store, something like that. Not that I'm paranoid or anything.

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on August 05, 2021, 03:43 PM »

EDIT: v5.6 has disappeared from F-Droid [...]

Old versions here: https://k-9-mail.en....com/android/versions
-4wd (August 03, 2021, 06:21 PM)

I grabbed in from F-Droid just in time, then. Thanks for the more comprehensive link.

Living Room / Re: Who here makes ice cream?

« Last post by rjbull on August 05, 2021, 03:40 PM »

I've done snow cream before (snow, vanilla, sweet cream) but never started from scratch.
-wraith808 (August 05, 2021, 11:31 AM)

Cue Frank Zappa: WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO AN' DON'T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW!

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on August 02, 2021, 03:12 PM »

[...] Bluemail [...]came across a comment that it saves your mail in its cloud
-rjbull (July 29, 2021, 04:27 PM)

According to their privacy policy, they don't save emails on their servers.
-4wd (July 30, 2021, 03:07 AM)

Well, that's good, at least.

K-9 Mail:

You can get previous versions, (don't know how many), on F-Droid.
-4wd (July 30, 2021, 03:07 AM)

Thanks, grabbed a copy of the last one that will run on my old tablet.

People on Play aren't really happy with the new version.
-4wd (July 29, 2021, 07:05 AM)

I gave it a quick look, and it seemed about 9 to 1 against the new interface. Seems no point in turning it into another me-too without distinguishing features.

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on July 29, 2021, 04:32 PM »

Android play store update's scheme is not my favorite.
-MilesAhead (July 29, 2021, 09:21 AM)

Mine neither. Worse still with the new UI that doesn't show what apps you've just updated, only the ones you haven't. Hides apps that won't run on your device as if they didn't exist, doesn't keep old versions for older devices. The app store search feature is hopeless too. No way to sort the results by my sort of criteria that I can see, and often pushes irrelevant crap at you. Just like Google.

General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by rjbull on July 29, 2021, 04:27 PM »

Yeah, there's no longer an account list like in the old interface, if you hit back you exit. To get to other accounts you have to go through the menu.

People on Play aren't really happy with the new version.
-4wd (July 29, 2021, 07:05 AM)

I wouldn't be, either. I once played a bit with Pegasus Mail, and couldn't for the life of me see how to add a second account, until somebody pointed out a discreet little dropdown. I much prefer TheBat!'s interface with all accounts in a tree.

I grabbed 5.6 and reloaded it ...
-4wd (July 29, 2021, 07:05 AM)

One of the annoyances with Android is they demand you use the 'latest', regardless of whether it fits your needs best, and only put the latest on view. Where did you actually find 5.6?

EDIT: Sideloaded apps aren't linked to the Play store so they'll never update, is this correct?
-4wd (July 29, 2021, 07:05 AM)

Don't know, but doubt it. Google are very keen on their walled garden.

Had a look awhile ago for another email app but all the ones I could find went for the hiding multiple accounts under a menu and trying to get you to use a Unified inbox.
-4wd (July 29, 2021, 07:05 AM)

Does that go for Bluemail, that you mentioned before? I tried it - not the new version - on one account only, so didn't see multi-account behaviour. It's pretty, but I came across a comment that it saves your mail in its cloud, which I would much prefer to avoid.

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