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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Get a free office suite from SoftMaker AND they donate money for each download

« Last post by tomos on December 19, 2012, 03:44 AM »

On a second screen it tries to ask for your address and phone number and more.

-TaoPhoenix (December 18, 2012, 09:09 PM)

Your details are saved locally - then when you open a template (e.g. letter), your details will be automatically filled in. I love that myself
There's also a database where you can fill in details of other people you regularly write to - havent used that one much.

I'd highly recommend it, but this one does have the disadvantage of not being able to open the more recent MS office formats.

Over the years I've gotten various free versions and a couple of paid ones too - mostly via Ashampoo & then upgrade to the Softmaker version. I get very little mail - update notifications and occasional upgrade offers for older versions.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Expert PDF 8 Professional

« Last post by tomos on December 19, 2012, 03:33 AM »

thanks cmpm!

Via Avanquest.
When you get an email (html), you have to click on the link to get your serial number.
Also allowed for business use

(havent tried it - wont be able to either for a while)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some skins converted from XP .msstyles

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2012, 04:48 AM »

they look really good oumu

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Living Room / Re: Renegade: A Hero In Our Midst

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2012, 04:45 AM »

Well done Renegade

one for the Stranglers innit

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Living Room / Re: Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2012, 04:37 AM »

^ 5,000

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2012, 04:36 AM »

Another biggee

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Living Room / Re: Bouncing Tits

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 05:32 PM »

Another Robin, eh, redbreast:




PS, for the uninitiated:
I believe what Stephen is talking about are called Chikadee^w in the Americaes.
they're called Tits in the UK & Ireland, originally titmouse. In Germany they're called meise which I guess relates to the 'mouse' part of the english name - easier to keep a straight face if you want to tell someone you had a close encounter ;-)

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Living Room / Re: it's about ... oldish films - again

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 03:02 PM »

Prompted by the previous thread, I watched a series of Barbara Stanwyck films a while back.
(I'm a fan at this stage )

Cant give half stars so these roughly graded:

***** Ball of Fire (1941)
***** Always Goodbye (1938)
**** Midnight (1939)
**** My Reputation (1946)
*** So Big!

Even made some brief notes (no, no spoilers here, just didnt want to overload the post with info)

Spoiler

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Ball of Fire (1941)
Director - Howard Hawks
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper
A great film. Classic feel-good comedy. Intellectual world meets the working class - and the Mob.

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Midnight (1939)
Director -
Starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche.
French taxi driver meets American woman who lost every thing in the casino.
Good fun, and interesting.

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So Big!
Director -
Barbara Stanwick
Bit of a tear jerker. City girl used to living reasonably well, ends up in the poor part of town.
Very dubious ideas at times, but still a good film.

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Always Goodbye (1938)
Director -
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Ian Hunter. With Cesar Romero.
Woman in trouble. Lots of funny (peculiar) relationships. The one that appears to be presented as the real one didnt quite convince me as 'the real thing', but that just added to the complexity of the film for me. Good fun too.

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My Reputation (1946)
Director - Curtis Bernhardt
Starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent.
Expectations and propriety and what's-the-opposite-of-that, and supression and fear of commitment - all stirred up in a nice drama. One aspect was totally unconvincing (boys lack of response to their father's death)

=======================

there was at least one more I saw, but I cant remember the name now

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Configurable Backup Utility

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 12:53 PM »

I love the idea.
I remember Backup4all had something similar using plugins - IIRC apps could be added, yes:
http://www.backup4al...ckup-plugin-161.html

I think this is a great idea, almost as if I came up with it myself.

-mouser (December 16, 2012, 08:00 PM)

mouser usually only thinks his own ideas are truly great

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Get a free office suite from SoftMaker AND they donate money for each download

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 09:13 AM »

They've donated €2,000 so far.
There's been over 30,000 downloads so far (since December 12th I think) so they'll be having to donate a lot more by Christmas eve.

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Living Room / Re: Cyber Cody & Zombie Cody...My mrs is slightly...odd?

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 09:09 AM »

as for the "aged paper" its not its just a really shitty camera on my phone lol

-Hally (December 16, 2012, 04:58 PM)

damn, we'll have to use that then


I'm no photoshop expert but an aged look can be added there.
(I saved a tutorial somewhere on that - will dig it out.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Media Transfer

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 09:02 AM »

All I could see that you were doing was trying to help the guy and I didn't see anything "pompous".  ______ ________________________________________________________________

-Tinman57 (December 16, 2012, 04:51 PM)

jeez dude, we're all just people. Havent you ever misinterpreted someone's actions or statements? Or maybe overreacted to something? I know I sure have - I usually dont online cause I use the preview button a lot before I click the post button - but in the 'spoken' world it's different... LOL, I'd hate to have you looking over my shoulder + coming down like a ton of bricks if I ever made a mistake

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Site/Forum Features / Re: new forum feature coded - ability to inline link attachments!

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 08:51 AM »

I think I understand what you mean...so here is a video...if I am wrong...tell me, and I shall re-do it

-Stephen66515 (December 16, 2012, 07:28 PM)

  very slick video Stephen (what do you use?)
The tip with the numbering is superfluous (it wont screw anything up though!) - the only reason it would be necessary to add numbers would be if you had, say four attachments, and you realised you had attached them in the wrong sequence -
then you could use e.g.
[attachimg=1]
[attachimg=4]
[attachimg=2]
[attachimg=3]
- in this example, the fourth file attached would be shown as the second image in the post.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: new forum feature coded - ability to inline link attachments!

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2012, 08:46 AM »

Select your image and post. The image will show where the [attachthumb=#] text is.

-tomos (December 16, 2012, 11:55 AM)

Now I understand why it seemed to not work: every time I looked at the preview of my messages, I always saw the code only ([attachthumb=#] or similar), I never saw the image in the preview, therefore I believed it didn't work. I'd have never imagined that to see the image it took to post the message.

Thank you Tomos.

-Giampy (December 16, 2012, 07:34 PM)

Good point Giampy (and you're welcome).
I'll edit my post to note that.

@mouser -
it might be good if that was made clearer to the poster when previewing their post?

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Living Room / Re: DRAFT: Dear British Government, The BBC & TV Licensing.

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 04:19 PM »

I have mixed feelings -and thoughts- there.
The reality very probably is, that the radio stations I do often enjoy listening to, would not exist if there were no license. As said above, I'm out of touch with TV, so I cant comment about that.
If the license wasn't there, we would only have advertising supported stations. Reminiscent of the internet craze for 'free' resulting in  lots of ad-supported apps - and adware.

-tomos (December 16, 2012, 11:39 AM)

One good thing about ad based tv & radio stations, you don't have to pay for the crap you don't want to watch or listen to.  If the station wants to be profitable they have to compete for good entertainment which brings in advertizers to pay for it all.

-Tinman57 (December 16, 2012, 04:10 PM)

That's exactly what I see as not necessarily good.
The result?
Generic crap with tons of advertising. Lowest common denominator entertainment. I'm not saying your money should pay for what I listen to - but I am complaining about the alternative.
Last time I saw Amercian TV was scary - and that was years ago - I cant see it having gotten any better since.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: new forum feature coded - ability to inline link attachments!

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 01:17 PM »

^ my 'method' gives you more time ;-)

Quick question - why aren't the extended options available from the initial reply screen?

-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2012, 12:58 PM)

hmmm
"quick reply" could well include images without taking up too much space

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [Bug] Menu displaying

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 12:01 PM »

FWIW, not happening here with exactly same OS details "(Windows 7 Pro x64, SP1)"

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Site/Forum Features / Re: new forum feature coded - ability to inline link attachments!

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 11:55 AM »

I have tried in any way but I don't still succeed in publishing an image stored in my PC.

-Giampy (December 16, 2012, 11:01 AM)

if you use 'quick reply' (bottom of the page) click the 'preview' button.



Click 'Link inline image' (see cursor in next screenshot)



Select e.g. "inline thumb attachment" which shows this text: [attachthumb=#] - to show the image as thubmnail that enlarges when you click on it (recommended especially for bigger images)

Then, go to Attach:[______________] [Browse] below the textbox



Browse to the image on your HD. Select your image and post. The image will show where the [attachthumb=#] text is.
NOTE: the image will *not* show when you preview the post!



If it doesnt work, try to figure out and explain where it fails (thanks!)

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Living Room / Re: DRAFT: Dear British Government, The BBC & TV Licensing.

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 11:39 AM »

Why must people be forced to pay? Why not just have the radio/TV stations actually have a business model other than stealing from people? Why not just give people the freedom to pay for what they want? Is that too much to ask? To not have the fruits of your labour stolen from you?

-Renegade (December 15, 2012, 06:29 PM)

I have mixed feelings -and thoughts- there.

The reality very probably is, that the radio stations I do often enjoy listening to, would not exist if there were no license. As said above, I'm out of touch with TV, so I cant comment about that.

If the license wasn't there, we would only have advertising supported stations. Reminiscent of the internet craze for 'free' resulting in  lots of ad-supported apps - and adware.

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Living Room / Re: Cyber Cody & Zombie Cody...My mrs is slightly...odd?

« Last post by tomos on December 16, 2012, 11:20 AM »

Some thoughts:

Hally's illustration(s) could be incorporated into a mug design by someone with design talent - which might be herself, but could be anyone.

I can technically do that kind of thing - but unfortunately, I dont have any real talent in that direction (design). Actually when I think about it, I'd say some type of hand drawn/inked calligraphy would go super with these images.

One Two of the things I love about the illustrations are the hand-drawn/painted quality, and the use of an aged looking paper. (Trying to convert them to vector images would lose a lot imo.)

With an illustration like that the most important thing initially is to get a really good quality and fairly high-resolution scan (or photo).

Till now all DC/NANY mugs are printed on a brilliant white -
an off-white or ivory mug would suit these images much better I think

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2012, 02:18 PM »

via dangerous minds (I also added their contribution link in the quote)

Who would have thought that the highlight of the Hurricane Sandy benefit would be an absolutely badass performance by Sir Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear (a Germ meets The Beatle)?

The helter skelterish song is “Cut Me Some Slack” and it was written collectively by the group during a jam session. McCartney, playing a cigar-box guitar, does some amazing solo stuff. This really did exceed my, and most people I’ve talked to, expectations.
[...]
Contribute here.

[skip to 1:15 if you want to avoid the intro]

complete with cigarbox guitar for 40 ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 PLEDGE - Contractor's Work Log

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2012, 01:18 PM »

Editing the time (minutes worked) should modify the End Time, after putting "10" for 10 minutes, look over the end-time and confirm if it is actually 10 minutes. If you are satisfied, press enter

-relipse (December 14, 2012, 09:36 PM)

What didnt work for me before was editing the 'Time duration' - but I just tested it again and it works now

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Living Room / Re: DRAFT: Dear British Government, The BBC & TV Licensing.

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2012, 01:13 PM »

As of Jan 1st, it's the same in Germany.
Everyone has to pay for radio already (unless you could prove you had none - not even in your car). I dont mind that myself - I actually listen to some of the funded radio stations and find them often very good.
 
Now, as of January, everyone must pay a flat rate per family for radio *and* TV. The people who benefit (i.e. pay less than before) are those with more appliances and more cars and more homes, i.e. the better off. And Renegade - please do not call that socialism, it is not socialism by any name :p (but let's not get bogged down with that either, it's just semantics at the end of the day).

Most people currently pay for TV here, but many opt out for various reasons, could be low income; or you just would prefer to have a holiday (or whatever) for the money you would have otherwise spent on license + hardware.
Last time I moved I actually gave away my tv and receiver - I was simply watching too much (now I go on the net too much  ). As of January I'll be paying the full whack again. I'm angry too.

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Living Room / Re: Greatest shipping ripoff ever?

« Last post by tomos on December 15, 2012, 12:46 PM »

I'm very wary of buying stuff from abroad -
Last year, I bought a smallish set of speakers from a seller on Amazon market (amazon.de). I didnt take any notice where it was coming from, the delivery costs were unusually high but the price was very low.
Here you have the legal right to send something back within two weeks - no reason required.
But I dont know if that is vallid for stuff coming from abroad.
Also, as noted already, if you're returning it abroad, you will have to pay high delievery costs again.
(I have no idea if you get any of the original delivery costs back.)

I complained to Amazon because it was the main offer for the item -if they dont sell it themselves they used just put the cheapest offer on the item's page- but there was no indication that it came from abroad on that page, and only a small mention (they claimed - I didnt notice anything myself) on one of the following pages when you go to buy.

In fairness to them:
I complained heartily, and since then, they dont put an offer that is being delivered from abroad on the item's main page (not that I've seen anyway). They will favour a more expensive 'national' offer.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In ebay.de I've often seen supplier using a german address but if you look further you will see that the company is abroad and it is not at all clear from where the product is being shipped.
I avoid.

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Living Room / Re: Cyber Cody & Zombie Cody...My mrs is slightly...odd?

« Last post by tomos on December 14, 2012, 04:57 PM »

I think the Robo Cody is the best of the three. Would your fiancé mind if I tried to convert it to a more computer-friendly version and posted it here? Not that there is anything bad about a scanned paper, but I am a perfectionists  and it looks like a fun thing to do.

-vlastimil (December 14, 2012, 09:59 AM)

<GrammarNazi>
Fianceé
</GrammarNazi>

 

-Stephen66515 (December 14, 2012, 04:35 PM)

that sounds like Stephen talking