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Living Room / Re: Cheap fountain pen shootout
« Last post by rjbull on May 22, 2014, 03:59 PM »
Maybe Cheap should be in quotes :) The Cult Pens site had one in the $1000's.
-1NR1 (May 21, 2014, 02:27 AM)
They also have cheap ones.  The baseline for the cheapest good fountain pen seems to be the Lamy Safari, or now the Lamy Nexx with same nibs and converters, which are affordable.

I'm on the lookout for a cartridge ink pen that allows different "nibs".  Any ideas?
-1NR1 (May 21, 2014, 02:27 AM)
Lamy Safari or Nexx...  if you buy them from The Writing Desk (TWD), you can specify whichever nib you want.  Quoting TWD's Lamy Safari page:
The Lamy Safari represents Lamy quality, reliability and style in an excellent value-for-money writing instrument, available as a fountain pen with either EF, F, A, M, left-handed (LH), B or 1.1/1.5/1.9mm italic nib sizes (mechanical pencil, rollerball and ballpen available to special order). The fountain pen comes with a Lamy T10 cartridge (blue) but bottled ink can be used if fitted with a Lamy Z24 converter. Although the converter is not supplied as standard we offer a bundle of Safari fountain pen plus converter which represents a saving over buying the items individually. See individual product listings for details.
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General Software Discussion / Re: AutoHotkey script to replace spaces in file names with underscores
« Last post by rjbull on May 22, 2014, 03:51 PM »
Do you use a clipboard manager like ArsClip or CHS?  If so, you could use their search-and-replace feature to do this.  Or, try Clippy or Text Monkey, which I mentioned in a previous thread: Explote a clip from the clipboard
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Best applications for Android (comparatives, Reviews)
« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2014, 05:03 PM »
Sorry  :-[

Meant these:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2014, 04:57 PM »
I'm a bit concerned about the future of NoteFrog.  The last update was almost a year ago, and the forum seems to have gone.
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General Software Discussion / Re: AutoHotkey script to replace spaces in file names with underscores
« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2014, 04:52 PM »
Just maybe this one?  IDEA: Standardize File Name With AHK Dialog Boxes

Does it have to be AutoHotKey?  Most of the free-standing mass file renamers will do this, if it isn't in your favourite file manager's mass renaming feature already.
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Best applications for Android (comparatives, Reviews)
« Last post by rjbull on May 18, 2014, 05:02 PM »
There's a whole DC section Non-Windows Software containing various Android threads.  Try these:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on May 18, 2014, 04:48 PM »
enthousiastic about
the Notefrog layout and colors.
-dcwul62 (May 18, 2014, 10:05 AM)
This has been said before...
Comparing that to AllMyNotes
-dcwul62 (May 18, 2014, 10:05 AM)
AllMyNotes has a particularly pretty GUI.  But, I wish it were more keyboard-friendly, and had hotkeys for adding whole/part webpages and other clips to new/current notes, like RightNote does.  Also, as far as I'm aware, AllMyNotes runs entirely in memory, which makes it fast, but if you have heavy-duty requirements you should probably consider something backed with a database, like RightNote.  AllMyNotes does have nice Google-like search features and display of postings.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Is DoOver dead?
« Last post by rjbull on May 15, 2014, 04:38 PM »
Crimson Editor has that feature, and is free; same for Notepad++ I think, though it's long since I tried it.

That link to Gizmo's site that MilesAhead posted seems mostly about hotkey programs.  You might be interested to review the short thread Anyone can recommend a good macro recorder for windows please?, where mouser gives this link to a Raymond.cc article, Top 10 Free Macro Automation Software for Computers to Perform Repetitive Tasks.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Send email from cmdline !
« Last post by rjbull on May 15, 2014, 04:05 PM »
the info you would need to use Blat would be exactly the same info you would need to set up an email client like Outlook or Thunderbird or whatever
-x16wda (May 14, 2014, 08:14 PM)
Agreed, though as I don't know much about it, I've found subtle differences between clients, anti-spam programs etc. hair-tearing, especially in their terminology regarding connection type and authentication.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 4 (Maybe more) Absolute top go-to programs
« Last post by rjbull on May 13, 2014, 04:11 PM »
My only real complaint about The Bat! was the proprietary format the mailboxes are stored in.
-Jibz (May 11, 2014, 03:19 AM)
It's worth noting that Archivarius 3000 can index and search The Bat! e-mail messages and their attachments, provided your TB installation isn't encrypted, of course.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 29 - soooooo similar to Chrome
« Last post by rjbull on April 30, 2014, 03:49 PM »
Firefox is no longer my default browser. Pale Moon it is.
-app103 (April 30, 2014, 12:03 PM)
Do you still use K-Meleon?
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Living Room / Re: Cheap fountain pen shootout
« Last post by rjbull on April 30, 2014, 03:45 PM »
thank you rjbull for recommending Stationery Art.
-Edvard (April 27, 2014, 08:25 PM)
Somebody on Fountain Pen Network recommended them when I was looking for a Pilot 78G as a good fine nib at an affordable price.  I would repeat, don't overlook the Lamy Nexx which has the same nib, cartridge and converter as the Safari, but a very different look; which, if course, you may like even less...

Looks like they've got a more or less complete offering of Baoer's line, which I've been eyeing lately, and I'm liking the slim look of the Hero 7015, which being stainless steel might have a bit of weight to it...
-Edvard (April 27, 2014, 08:25 PM)
I think you take pot luck with most Chinese brands.  Hero seem pretty reliable; my 329 is too fine for me for general use, but I'm happy with the way it writes.  No so my Jinhao X450 with its supposedly broad nib, which is too dry to be much use.  Fixes have been suggested on FPN but I haven't tried them; they don't seem to work for every pen anyway.  Why not take a look at FPN's pen review section to see if there are any reviews of the Hero 7015?  There are a number for Baoer, from memory, most of them favourable.

Check out Jetpens.com as well.  Great prices and I've heard their customer service is pretty good.
-Edvard (April 27, 2014, 08:25 PM)
I think Goulet Pens are good too.

And as for what inks you put in them, that's a whole new set of topics  :)
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Living Room / Re: Cheap fountain pen shootout
« Last post by rjbull on April 27, 2014, 05:33 PM »
I wouldn't call the Lamy Safari "cartoony," though it depends on what colour you choose (i.e., not some of the special editions).  Actually I prefer the Lamy Nexx, which has the same "works" in a body I find more comfortable to hold.  However, most Fountain Pen Network people seem to think the Lamy fine nib is just too broad.  The Hero 329 I have writes well; I think the Hero 100 is the same thing with a gold nib.  The 329 is good for a fine nib for general writing, but if you want a cheap pen that's spidersilk-thin for annotation or something, try a Pilot Namiki Gold Ring Fountain Pen FP 78G.  This may have the same nib as the Prera, but is much cheaper.

Resources worth knowing:

  • The Writing Desk
    UK.  Will sell you a Lamy Safari or Nexx with a nib of your choice, not just the standard "medium."
  • Cult Pens
    UK.  Incredible range of writing instruments.
  • Stationery Art
    Hong Kong.  Carry the Pilot 78G.
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General Software Discussion / Re: RightNote version 3.0.0 released
« Last post by rjbull on April 11, 2014, 04:36 PM »
I don't know about "love" for RN but I bought the Pro and use it extensively corralling text notes, web content, etc.
-terryowen (April 10, 2014, 05:19 PM)
I find its web clipping a bit fragile.  Some pages it will import without a murmur, but on some it locks up.  On those, it's sometimes possible to use the clipboard instead.  I've also found it too ready to crash when cutting a sub-tree with Shift+Control+X to move it to another page.

the only other program that is comparable is EssentialPIM.
-terryowen (April 10, 2014, 05:19 PM)
I wanted EPIM Pro for its ability to synch with my Palm, but that only seems to work reliably with an older Palm Desktop than I use.

Your other comments are interesting; I don't think anyone has mentioned the other two PIMs before.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stick-A-Note + Universal Viewer - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on April 11, 2014, 04:13 PM »
By the file's Comments field I mean the "Comment" column that you can add in Windows Explorer (Windows7).
[...]
xplorer² has this note about using Comments:
File comments rely on an advanced NTFS feature called “Alternate Data Streams”
[...]
-IainB (April 10, 2014, 06:27 PM)

I'm on Vista Home Premium, 32-bit, UAC On, user account, and can't see a Comments field in Windows Explorer.  Total Commander mentions "NTFS file comments, MS-Office embedded comments, comments from files.bbs and descript.ion, etc. if available."  Explorer comments are supposedly available by pressing Alt+Enter.  On a generic .TXT file that just seems to get me the standard Properties box.  On a PDF, the Properties box has an extra PDF field that says "Information on this page reflects the actual contents of the Adobe PDF file. This page may differ from other pages of this property sheet that display Information from the Windows file system."  Whatever that means.  I can't seem to add or change information.

One good thing about third-party solutions; they aren't dependent on the vagaries of the particular version of the OS  >:(

I am finding that the Comment field (for most files) and the Tag field (in image files) are potentially two very useful tools for increasing and storing file meta-data. I just wish they were easier to use and get into an information management database.
-IainB (April 10, 2014, 06:27 PM)

Agreed, and wouldn't it be nice if there were a universal standard.  DESCRIPT.ION has been the closest to that for years, though it's primarily text description, whereas you seem interested in more extensive metadata.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: today's giveaway challenges Revo Uninstaller Pro
« Last post by rjbull on April 10, 2014, 03:41 PM »
Is this more a competitor for Total Uninstall, i.e., monitoring/tracking installations?
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Stick-A-Note + Universal Viewer - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on April 10, 2014, 03:31 PM »
Thanks, anandcoral and IainB; I'll take a look when I get up enough steam...

- I have been unable to realise the first part (web pages) with SAN
-IainB (April 10, 2014, 09:26 AM)
Occasionally I get coupons for reduced price on something.  When that happens, I'd like to make a sticky note reminder that not only pops up on the Web site home page, but on other pages I visit within that site, so I don't forget.  Very mercenary, perhaps, but trying to be practical.

For files, I had been pondering the idea of somehow getting SAN to use the text in a file's Comment field, rather than just in a text file called (say) SaN_About.txt. The text would thus travel with the file, regardless of what application opened it.
-IainB (April 10, 2014, 09:26 AM)
I'm not sure what you mean by the file's comment field.  Some approximation of this may be had by software that understands the DESCRIPT.ION comment files originated by 4DOS.  Some programs, like my regular file manager Total Commander, honours these and copies the file description across when it copies or moves a file.  However, I think you mean some form of comment more embedded within the file itself?
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Living Room / Re: OneNote now on Mac as well, +FREE everywhere, + Cloud service powered.
« Last post by rjbull on March 18, 2014, 03:37 PM »
I've been spending some time setting this up in my OneDrive/OneNote.com account
-IainB (March 18, 2014, 09:47 AM)
You're a long-time user of OneNote, presumably the existing payware version.  Have you installed OneNote Cloud/free separately, or, how do the old payware and new free versions play together, please?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone can recommend a good macro recorder for windows please?
« Last post by rjbull on March 14, 2014, 05:56 PM »
Both Quick Macros and JitBit Macro Recorder are payware, but both can compile macros to freely-redistributable .EXEs.  That means you, or the license holder, would have to do the work of hacking out the macros, but there shouldn't be any copyright problems thereafter.  The features lists of both programs specifically mention software testing as a target use.  Quick Macros says upgrades are free; JitBit's license is one year of free upgrades.

@cranioscopical: Macro Express is a good program, but last time I looked it couldn't compile macros to .EXEs.  Do you know if that feature has been added now?
520
Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: On importing data into Clipboard Help and Spell
« Last post by rjbull on February 26, 2014, 10:57 AM »
As a minimum, plain text files; and, please, plain text files simply marked up?  For the latter, here's part of a similar request I made in the CintaNotes forum, following a similar suggestion (adopted) for NoteFrog, using a fragment of my acronyms list.  Each "---+++ CintaNotes +++---" would demarcate a new note.

---+++ CintaNotes +++---
CFL

Compact Fluorescent Lamp (one of the various types of low-energy lightbulbs)

---+++ CintaNotes +++---
PSA

Prostate-Specific Antigen

---+++ CintaNotes +++---
BMI

Body Mass Index

---+++ CintaNotes +++---
COBRA

Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
Hmmm...  maybe that should be "---+++ CHS +++---"   ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Does anyone know of a software that can record file modification times?
« Last post by rjbull on February 24, 2014, 04:08 PM »
Maybe File and Folder Watcher, not free.
User Benefits

    Monitor an unlimited number of folders, including subfolders
    Run unlimited actions per folder watching event
    Monitor folders on local disks, network drives, or FTP locations
    Monitor changed, renamed, deleted and created events or any combination of these
    Filter by file attributes, creation time, directory name, file name or type, size etc
    Never lose a file or folder event regardless of the level of disk activity
    Copy, move, email, print actions, and custom actions via VBScript/JScript integration
    Fully recovers from network location downtime.
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General Software Discussion / AJC Active Backup Version 2.0.0 Released 21 Feb 2014
« Last post by rjbull on February 24, 2014, 03:55 PM »
AJC Active Backup Version 2.0.0 Released 21 Feb 2014

From the e-mail:
We have just released AJC Active Backup v2.0.11 after successful beta testing.

If you are a v1 user please reply to this and you can get a 30% discount for v2.

Download it from our web site but we would prefer if you can get it from Microsoft here to help our download count:
http://visualstudiog...90-917e-40224827ba93
Just click on the purple "Get now" button.

If you feel appropriate you could give us a review on the "Reviews" tab which would be very helpful.

A few things have been added since our last news:
+ You can now pick an alternative external diff program.
+ A "saved me" button has been added to the toolbar so you can let us and your friends know if you have been saved from losing files.

For anyone who missed it, below are the AJC Active Backup details again:

Version control for your hard drive!  Protects you while you work, from mistakes, file corruption and gives great peace of mind.  A must for anyone who values their work.

AJC Active Backup constantly monitors your computer for changes to your files and archives them as soon as you save.  It keeps multiple versions of these files in a compact archive because it only stores the changes each time.  You can compare your files to earlier versions to see what has changed and go back to any version.  It does not slow your computer down because you only backup important files.

AJC Active Backup v2 has the following improvements over v1:

  • Complete rewrite with a modern UI.
  • Restore partial file changes back from your archives using built in AJC Diff v2. This lets you edit files while you are comparing them.
  • More visible overview of what folders you are monitoring for changes on the Home tab.
  • List of recently archived files is now kept when restarting the application.
  • Easier to set up and access file patterns etc.
  • You can change options live without having to stop monitoring for changes.
  • File patterns tester tool so you can test if a file will match your patterns.
  • New archives explorer lets you navigate through your backup archives more easily.
  • Its now easier to restore multiple files and you can see exactly where each file will go.
  • Includes the new AJC Revision Archive v2 archive viewer.
  • Compatible with AJC Sync backup archives.
  • For programmers: AJC Diff v2 offers code syntax highlighting.
  • For programmers: Visual Studio add in for you to access your archives more easily while you are coding.
  • Diagnostics mode lets you see what is happening when a file is detected. This helps if you don't know why a file is being backed up.

From the e-mail:
Read more here:
http://www.ajcsoft.com/active-backup.htm

IMPORTANT NOTE for Active Backup v1 users:
It is best to uninstall v1 before you install v2.  When you are asked to choose the archive destination base folder it will be best to pick a new location because v2 will upgrade the archives to a newer format that v1 cannot use.  This is just in case you want to go back to v1.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: AHK script to insert date and time to file name
« Last post by rjbull on February 17, 2014, 03:39 PM »
it would rather copy to the clipboard the ISO formatted timestamp
-metaDCoder (February 16, 2014, 04:37 PM)
You might like to look at Horst Schaeffer's freeware Calendar which allows you to roll your own formats and have them available from a drop-down.  E.g.:
Snap1.png      Snap2.png
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Seeking advice: Cadillac of "ClipBoard Managers" for Serious Research
« Last post by rjbull on February 12, 2014, 02:29 PM »
TaoPhoenix, does MyInfo have hotkeys for adding Web pages and parts of Web pages, like RightNote does, or is it whole-page and mouse only?  Also, does it have a Merge feature, something I found useful with EverNote 2.2 (the old desktop app) for combining sections of Web pages?
-rjbull (February 10, 2014, 04:07 PM)
You know you just posted a triple barreled question, didn't you? Didn't you? In a thread, asking about ... subtopics?
-TaoPhoenix (February 10, 2014, 07:51 PM)
:o  I wasn't clear enough.  I'm less interested in a note organizer than in a note keeper, something to replace EverNote 2.2 but that is likely to have a future, with particular reference to capturing, storing and finding information from the Web.  EverNote and CintaNotes are particularly convenient for that.  Here's a screenshot of the capture hotkeys I have set in RN to help clarify what I mean:
RN_capture_hotkeys1.png
the point being that you can clip a whole web page, clip part of a web page to a new clip, and clip part of a page to the current clip, all with RN minimised.  No constant back-and-forth shuffle of Alt+Tab, find note, Ctrl+V etc.  I must admit I can't get some of these RN hotkeys to work properly, or at least not the way I expected, but I hope you can see what I'm getting at.  As for Merge, that's probably only really relevant to EverNote, CintaNotes and the like, i.e. single-pane + notes-list note keepers.  In their case, you can accumulate multiple part-page clips, go to the notes list, mark the ones you want, and merge those into a single note.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Listary 4 released - tons of new features
« Last post by rjbull on February 10, 2014, 04:23 PM »
if I still have any old installers around to screw around with.
-Innuendo (February 09, 2014, 05:53 PM)
I still have these, if it helps any:
c:\Users\R.J. Bull\files\Windows\Dialog_box_extenders\
Listary.exe   2918752   2014.1.24   11:15.10
Listary_3.exe   997179   2011.3.31   21:14.30
Listary_3.01.exe   1013432   2011.4.21   22:35.10
Listary_351.exe   5841264   2012.5.8   19:49.24
Listary_3.01_portable.zip\   1201230   2011.4.21   22:35.16
   Containing:
Listary.exe   940032   2011.4.14   14:10.58
Listary_3_portable.zip\   1168079   2011.3.31   21:14.32
   Containing:
Listary.exe   921600   2011.3.31   19:30.56
Listary_portable.zip\   1164839   2010.8.15   21:49.36
   Containing:
Listary.exe   937472   2010.8.9   11:32.8
ListaryPortable.zip\   3377437   2014.1.24   11:15.10
   Containing:
ListaryPortable.zip\ListaryPortable\   0   2013.12.17   23:9.54
Listary.exe   3729648   2013.12.17   23:9.54
ListaryPortable_OLD.zip\   8223690   2012.5.8   19:49.38
   Containing:
Listary.exe   1196376   2012.5.8   14:49.54
ListaryPortableBeta1468.zip\   3418252   2014.1.8   21:13.8
   Containing:
Listary.exe   3786480   2014.1.8   11:49.54
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