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General Software Discussion / Extension List Dumper (Firefox add-on) - Quick overview.
« Last post by IainB on May 06, 2012, 05:16 AM »
Originally posted:2012-05-06
Last updated:2014-02-26

Looking for something to replace the Firefox Add-on Mr Tech Toolkit, I was browsing some earlier posts in another thread - Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful - and I saw @Curt's post:
« Reply #446 on: 2012-03-22, 09:52:05 ». In it he says:
After two weeks with Waterfox I am pleased with this setup:
Application: Firefox 10.0.2 (20120219181052)
Operating System: WINNT (x86_64-msvc)
...
- and then follows a list of all the Add-ons in his configuration.

I thought "How the heck did he make that list?", and rummaged through the list and discovered Extension List Dumper..
After downloading and installing it, and then playing about with it, I realised that it's a potentially hugely useful tool to help manage Firefox Add-ons.
Here are some a shots of its UI, showing what I selected to produce my list below, and the 2 drop-down menus:
Extension List Dumper 01.jpg
Extension List Dumper 02.jpg

After a minimal amount of learning time, I got it to make this list of my Add-ons. Note that I set it to display the ID, which is the extension's curly-bracketed file name in the user profile, as for example, in the path:
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2vuv8r8c.default\extensions\{bcd47b5a-43be-433f-9051-7ce2cdf94ac0}

If an add-on is giving me strife, and the inbuilt methods for turning them off are locked (as happens from time to time), then I now I have a tool for targetting the ID of that add-on's installation folder and I can just zap it. I've had to do that before, and it was really difficult not knowing the folder's exact ID.
Thanks to Extension List Dumper, I am now better-informed.
Spoiler
Application: Firefox 13.0 (20120501201020)
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

Total number of items: 101

  • (Disabled, Incompatible)
  • [email protected]
  • All your branding are belong to Firesomething.


Note on display/output: (a workaround)
To produce the list of extensions as per my list in the spoiler above, all I did was select the appropriate output (BBS was selected), and then press Copy to clipboard, and paste into the DCF spoiler field.
@Curt would have done the same in his post (per the link above), except he posted into the DCF comment field directly.
However, I also wanted to have a copy of the list of extensions in my OneNote repository, but there's no "Rich Text Format" output option in Extension List Dumper.
So I Posted the comment, then opened the spoiler, selected all the listed text in there, copied it and posted it into OneNote.
Bingo! Nice RTF output!

So whenever I want an updated extension list, I simply use the DCF comments field as an intermediate step to getting the list in RTF, by Previewing the list in a DCF comment field, and then copying/pasting the RTF text into OneNote, and then discarding the comment (i.e., not posting it).

Here's a sample of the output I get, in OneNote:
Extension List Dumper 03.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by IainB on May 06, 2012, 04:21 AM »
Are there still any users of Mr Tech Toolkit?
...
-------------
The latest version is marked October 18, 2011, but may be much older. It is not on Mozilla:  (see attachment in previous post)
-Curt (March 09, 2012, 10:29 AM)
I had Mr Tech Toolkit for years, and managed my add-ons through it, but I removed disabled it as it seemed to be not keeping up with the FF updates and started causing FF to crash in peculiar ways. I was sad to see it go.    :(
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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS feature request: smart copy/paste of hyperlinks
« Last post by IainB on May 06, 2012, 03:10 AM »
If I copy a hyperlinked piece of text from (say) OneNote or Firefox, and then paste it into (say) another page in OneNote or a MS Word document, then the paste results in the correct hyperlinked piece of text being pasted.
It's a two-step operation.

However, if I paste it into some other application that is not "hyperlink aware" (e.g., a .txt file editor), then the paste results in the text only being pasted, without the hyperlink.
This can be really tedious if you are copying and later pasting several links. It means you may have to:
  • copy the text and then
  • copy the link, and then
  • paste the text and then
  • paste the link
- each separately.
It's a four-step operation.

What could be really useful is a "smart copy/paste" feature in CHS, that, whenever it comes across one or more hyperlinks embedded in a piece of captured text, it saves it/them in the database as plaintext strings in the form:
   text of link to news - http://news.daily.com/ (but without the underline)

Then, either before or as you paste it out from a CHS record, you can preselect whether hyperlinks are to be pasted as one of the 6 forms below:
CHS Smart copy-paste request - options.jpg

The first one could be the default (say).

Hope this makes sense.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread
« Last post by IainB on May 05, 2012, 12:37 AM »
@J-Mac:
...I missed this thread altogether. As you know, mouser, I have never been able to get a scrolling capture with Screenshot Captor ...and you said you would be working on it. Apparently you have here but I didn't notice it...
...Youi have kept this way, way under the table though I'm not certain why. How the heck do I get scrolling captures now with SSC?
-J-Mac (May 04, 2012, 09:29 AM)

Take a look at this post I just made - it may be of some general use to you:
Keeping track of what you want to know about

Never miss a useful DCF post again!    :)
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Living Room / Keeping track of what you want to know about
« Last post by IainB on May 05, 2012, 12:30 AM »
Today I saw ths post on the DCF:
...I missed this thread altogether. As you know, mouser, I have never been able to get a scrolling capture with Screenshot Captor ...and you said you would be working on it. Apparently you have here but I didn't notice it...
...Youi have kept this way, way under the table though I'm not certain why. How the heck do I get scrolling captures now with SSC?
-J-Mac (May 04, 2012, 09:29 AM)

This struck a chord with me, because:
  • I am an information junkie. There are many computer-related and work/life-related subjects that I am interested in and want to gather information on.
  • In some of those subjects, it could be important for me to keep abreast of some information - for example, about new developments for work-related purposes, of for my or my family's health or my children's education.
  • I have therefore long held the objective: of keeping abreast with information regarding changes/improvements in these various subjects.
  • Being a computer hacker since programming on large mainframes used for solving scientific/linear programming, econometric modelling, and research-related data processing problems (e.g., PERT, census analysis, finite element analysis, market research, Ops. Research), I am always interested in, and on the look-out for, computer-assisted tools/techniques to help work towards achieving this objective in more efficient/effective ways.
  • If I didn't apply this to information-gathering, I know from experience that I could risk completely missing some highly relevant/important developments or new connections between events, on subjects/issues in which I am interested.
  • I variously don't have the time and/or am too impatient/lazy/ignorant to go directly to information sources myself, unless I absolutely have to.

So, since a rule of thumb in work-study is that, to make a process more efficient/effective, you should look towards greater automation, I applied that rule to the process of relevant information-gathering, and I put a bit of foundation work into automating things as much as possible.

What I do/did for this objective (and why):
  • I established a basic principle of information-gathering: that I make the information come to me in a relatively structured and easily reviewed manner.
  • I set up Google Reader with folders as "categories" for the types of information I wanted (e.g., Health, Education, Software, Hardware, Management Science), and subscribed to those blogs, discussion forums and news-sources that I came across, slotting them into existing or new Reader folders.
  • I obtained some add-ons for Reader (in Chrome and Firefox) that restructure/simplify it, and provide sophisticated additional filtering methods.
  • I set up Google Alerts to crawl around the Internet and catch news/information topics that I am interested in, and send me an email about it on a weekly basis. If these Alerts provide me with an interesting new blog to read, then I subscribe to the blog in Reader and filter that blog out of the Alert.

Organised this way, Reader becomes a major time-saver and really makes it easy to read only what I want/need rather than everything.
For example, it means that I don't have to go and read the DC Forum posts. They are brought to me, and I can just skim the subject and the first line to see what recent activity there has been (since I last looked) on any old or new discussion threads.
Successive posts in a thread are not displayed - I have the filter set such that it filters OUT all but the opening post and the last post at this point in time. If it interests me then I view it in Reader, and if I am interested in reading more, then I go directly into that post in the thread in the forum (auto log-in). There I can scroll to review the context posts before that post, to get the gist of the new posts so far.
(By the way, once you have read a Reader item, it is marked as read and drops from subsequent viewing. You can mark other items as read en masse if your skimming shows nothing of interest in them, whereupon they also drop from view. Only new items then appear in your view.)

I have used Google Alerts as an interesting proof to double-check that I am not missing stuff in the DC forum through channelling it to Google Reader. It proved OK - Reader works a treat, and if I miss anything it is always because I have skimmed through Reader too carelessly. And if I think I have missed something, I can always do a search through all the Reader items that I have had.
This cannot be improved upon at present - where it is human error. Human errors in a process cannot be eradicated unless you remove the human element.    ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 09:13 PM »
I dunno, I trust a nice honest email with an attachment more than "some ethereal link to the Cloud".
-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 07:31 PM)
There's no real reason (that I can see) to distrust the Cloud approach, and it is arguably a lot more efficient on several counts than the usual email+data attachment approach.

The thing to ensure would seem to be efficient and reliable backup/recovery of email and attachments.
For local PC backup: this can be achieved for Gmail and Gdrive by the use of:
(a) local backup of email via an email client app, and
(b) local backup of Gdrive via Gdrive Sync (though I am still trialling the latter in "discovery" mode, so it is not an absolute known quantity for me yet).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 09:02 PM »
...I needed to do a back up of everything anyway, so I decided to use Mail Store to download all mail and then delete the older mail. Unfortunately mailstore gave a bunch of error messages which I haven't had time to look at yet so I'm stalled.
-tomos (April 25, 2012, 12:01 PM)
Here's a thought - might be useful in your case. (See penultimate point in the list below.)
Some years back, being a bit paranoid about backup and security, yet occasionally needing to enable controlled and easy access to my email for coworkers on certain projects (for them to read/share/use some of my incoming email), I started to use Google Groups to cover both bases.

Google Groups can offer several potentially handy uses/advantages: (not a fully comprehensive list)
  • You set up a Google Group. The members of the Group will be yourself (as Manager/Owner) and anyone you allow to join as a member - people you want to have access to certain emails and their attachments. Managers can set/adjust membership rules, remove members as and when needed, and control their read/write access to the group, set up moderation, set public/private status, etc..
  • The Manager used to be able to simply set/enrol someone as a member, and they could be auto-emailed that they had been enrolled, but Google removed that facility (I think to avoid spamming) and members must now request membership of the Group - and then the Manager has to accept them first, before they can be enrolled.
  • You can delegate Management status to other members of the group, to share in the group administration efforts.
  • You can also delegate Ownership status to someone else (they become a co-Owner), and then remove yourself from a Group, thus effectively transferring the group to someone else and having nothing else to do with it.
    (Security note: This means that a co-Owner could remove you as a member of the Group too.)
  • You can set an incoming filter in your Gmail for certain emails, and forward them to the Group.
  • The email and any attachment are sent as-is, and become a post to the Group.
  • All members will be able to read the emails and view/download the attachments.
  • If links to the attachments have been used in the email - attachments which have been saved to Gdrive (say) or elsewhere in the Cloud - then that is the file that the users will be able to access.
  • Members can engage in discussion in the Group, regarding a particular email (post), and other members can elect to be automatically emailed with such discussions (so no-one gets left out of the loop) on an instant or daily or weekly basis.
  • Members can also select email addresses to be sent a copy of a post as they are making it - in a discussion thread - and those addressees will be sent a copy of that post.
  • There doesn't yet seem to be a defined cap/limit on emails and attachments sent to a Group, so the group could become a long-term archive. (Potentially very handy.)
  • Google Groups are not usually blocked by corporate security firewalls, so you can access a Group whereas Gmail or other webmail services are often blocked. (This could be convenient (say) when working on contract to a client with strict network access/security controls.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 07:58 PM »
I think I have over 160,000 in my total box. I inherited a colleague's email box as part of the total. Wheeee!   ;D :D
...
...40% of my emails have attachments! : )
-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 07:26 PM)

Wow. You need an automated bulk/batch operation to cope with that.
There is a script way to automate the sending of file attachments to Gdrive, which is roughly one-half of the manual backup procedure I described above. It is described here:

I haven't used this script yet, but it will at least automate getting all the files onto Gdrive, though the filenames will presumably be whatever they were in the email - so maybe not very meaningful for your file search/retrieval identification purposes.

The script's author, Amit Agarwal, often blogs about some really useful stuff. He's the guy who wrote the script about how to sort your Gmail Messages by size using Google Docs, which I did the opening post of this discussion on. I have had his blog subscribed to my Google Reader feed aggregator for a long time.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 07:24 PM »
Heh I have 87,000 messages in my *sent* box. Sky knows how many total! : )
-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 06:54 PM)
That's a lot.    :o
In my case, as soon as Gdocs enabled the file link capability in Gdocs some years back, I started using it to reduce my Inbox bloat - as detailed in my above post.
Every file that has an attachment that I receive gets this same archival treatment.
I press "forward", insert my email address, untick the attachment box and have an AHK script that types into the top of the email:
   For archives:
   File(s):
- and I just add the filename and link in Gdrive.
Then I press send, and delete the original email.
Fortunately I don't get too many such emails.
I would automate it further if I could. (Any ideas?)

As for sending, I rarely send an actual file attachment, just an email with a link to the file saved in Gdocs.
I think - but am not sure - that Gdrive could help to make this easier to do. Still experimenting with it though.

By the way, I have edited my previous post above and added a WARNING regarding the difference between Gdrive virtual "folders" and the logical folders that Gdrive sync turns those folders into on your PC. Potential duplication/confusion. (I'm sure I'm not the only person to have mentioned this to Google in their feedback form.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 06:17 PM »
I can delete them as is, I'd miss the searchability. I wish there was an app for "download all the attachments, print the email text itself to a PDF, throw all that into a folder".
-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 06:10 PM)
What I do:
I view each email shown in the spreadsheet, starting with the biggest.
If I want to keep the attachment:
(a) I save it to Gdocs (now Gdrive) and give it a useful/relevant filename;
(b) I get the link to that file as a Shared file.
(c) I select foward for the email, insert the filename and link in the text at at the top of the email, and untick the attachment box.
(d) Put my address as the "To" name for the email (I'm sending it to myself).
(e) send the email, now less any attachment.
(f) Delete the email with the attachment.

That way, you get to separate the email from the attachment, save them both, and keep them linked.

It's a bit tedious, so I do this in bits, over time. It's surprising what a dent you can make in your "fat" emails this way, and it makes for more orderly storage.
If you use the Gdrive app to sync to your PC (I recommend this), then you can have all the attached files (which are now detached and saved in Gdrive) backed up on your PC. If you want to do that, then select their Gdrive folders in the Gdrive sync app. (I sync all folders - the whole Gdrive - by default.)
The first time the sync runs, it takes a while (all files/folders selected get transferred to your PC), but after that it's not too busy.

Your email will thus eventually be just email with no/few attachments, and you can similarly back the email up using a client email package (e.g., Outlook) on your PC.
____________________________________________
WARNING:
  • Gdrive has virtual "folders" (they are really like Gmail labels  - "tags"), and you can place a file in several of these "folders". It's a great way to organise your files into categories. But there's always only one single copy of the file, no matter how many folders you have it in (unless you deliberately create a duplicate of it).
  • So, if you shuffle your files around in the folders on Gdrive or tick a file as being in more than one folder, then that will cause the sync app to save a duplicate of the file to each logical folder on your PC. All those duplicates could have the potential to become very confusing (e.g., which is the version you want to update offline?), a waste of disk space, and a bandwidth hog if you shuffle files around a lot whilst organising things.
  • So consider turning the sync app off until your shuffling has finished and experiment carefully to discover how offline update affects file updates to Gdrive after online sync.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 06:09 PM »
I've been trying out this script. It gets to about 235 entries on the spreadsheet and then it stopped finding anything else.
-TaoPhoenix (May 04, 2012, 11:45 AM)
is it that it keeps stopping?
- you have to restart it. Iain says above somewhere how he worked around it, but I didnt get that far myself...
-tomos (May 04, 2012, 03:33 PM)

Set the script to auto-trigger at 5 or 10 minute intervals (per thread above) and check the Gdocs spreadsheet the next day - that's what I did. You don't even have to have the spreadsheet open that way. All automated.    :Thmbsup:
-IainB (April 26, 2012, 09:52 AM)

To automate the script trigger:
  • 1. Go to the article: Sort your Gmail Messages by Size using Google Docs
  • 2. Go to the part with the subtitle: Scan Gmail Messages with a trigger
  • 3. To enable the trigger, follow the steps detailed there. (You can't "break" anything, so treat it as an experiment.)
  • 4. Leave the script running for a while (say) overnight. You don't have to be online for it to run.
  • 5. Check it to see your updated list of large emails.
  • 6. Disable the trigger, otherwise it will keep triggering the script forever.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 08:12 AM »
The FARR result is not perfect yet - does not show the .lnk name. How do I force that?
-IainB (May 03, 2012, 08:34 AM)
Oops, sorry. My mistuk. In my haste, I had not noticed that the Name column had closed.
It works fine. Have amended the post above.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?
« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2012, 08:07 AM »
(Post deleted - duplication.)
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Living Room / Re: Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox
« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2012, 04:08 PM »
...But one of the chips primary features is to prevent you from enquiring about things that might upset you. It's the new medication free way to maintain calm from the inside out!
-Stoic Joker (May 03, 2012, 03:25 PM)
Interesting point. Has potential.
Not a physical lobotomy, not a chemical lobotomy, but an electro-lobotomy.
Reminds me of the story about the Buddhist monk who didn't need Novocaine to have a root canal, because he could transcend dental medication.
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Living Room / Re: Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox
« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2012, 12:37 PM »
If you start accepting such monopoly as fair practice and then also dont mind google stalking you as annoying, or try to justify every act of your favorite brand then you're perfect candidate for chip implants in head.
-mahesh2k (May 03, 2012, 12:08 PM)
Are you suggesting there may be something wrong with having chips implanted in one's head?
Enquiring minds need to know.     ;)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?
« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2012, 08:34 AM »
I made the "god folder",
then I made the shortcuts here (by alt dragging contents of god folder):
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GodMode_Shortcuts
FARR can read them
 (see attachment in previous post)
-tomos (May 03, 2012, 05:54 AM)

Thanks for asking the Q @David.P.
I had been wanting to do this for some time, and this discussion and @Tomos (thanks also) told me how.
So:
  • I created the GodMode folder (A) with the name "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}"
  • I created a folder (B) at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GODMode folder shortcuts.
  • I dragged all the 272 items in (A) and dropped them into (B), where they took the extension ".lnk".
  • Then added the (B) folder to FARR search list:
(Sorry about the colours, but for some time I have been experimenting with my Window colours in "Change window colors and metrics". Makes my eyeballs ache sometimes.)

God mode links to FARR search list.JPG

The FARR result is not perfect yet - does not show the .lnk name. How do I force that?
(Corrected 2012-05-05 0107hrs NZT.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple means of joining images?
« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2012, 02:48 AM »
I need to do this sort of thing all the time, exactly as @rjbull describes, and I do it in my main PIM - Microsoft OneNote
-IainB (April 30, 2012, 04:54 PM)
Does OneNote allow you to save the composite as a new image, and/or send it to the clipboard?  Is there some "docking" tool that helps you line them up?
[Edit at UK time 2012-05-02, 20:49:-]You really had fun with that, didn't you?  :)
[/Edit]
-rjbull (May 02, 2012, 02:38 PM)

In answer to your Qs above:
  • Does OneNote allow you to save the composite as a new image, and/or send it to the clipboard? Yes to both, and in alternative ways. I could explain it but you'd probably be best off trialling OneNote and seeing how it works yourself. A video on OneNote could help - would you like me to point you at some? There are some good ones on OneNote 2007. (I only have the 2007 version and don't know about 2011, but that'd probably be at least as good.)
  • Is there some "docking" tool that helps you line them up? Yes, but I'm not sure I'd call it a "tool". It seems to be an inherent docking function, but it's difficult to discern how it works. OneNote uses sort of dynamic but invisible "canvasses"/containers for objects on a page. You can past or create image objects anywhere on the page and a container is created for them, so you can drag them around to overlap or align anywhere, at will. Very easy and smooth in use - redolent of Aldus/Adobe Pagemaker on the Mac, years ago. The user is largely unaware of this - the container concept in action seems to be unobtrusive and highly intuitive - e.g., it didn't hinder my doing all the things I did in the examples I created for you, above. So, for example, I could overlap objects, move an object to back/foreground, or butt join them on vertical or horizontal faces, etc.

Fun: Yes, it was fun! Your Q was an opportunity for me to play with OneNote's image and graphic (drawing) manipulation capability (which is also quite extensive).
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Living Room / Re: Apple Rejecting Apps That Use Dropbox
« Last post by IainB on May 02, 2012, 11:30 PM »
Sigh...
Does any of this surprise anyone?
-Renegade (May 02, 2012, 10:46 PM)
No.
And yet, people will probably continue to buy Apple toys whilst ignorant of this small fact.
Because, from the manufacturer's perspective, "lock-in" works, and "there's one born every minute".
This is arguably a form of industrialised victimisation of the consumer.
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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Collusion - Firefox "tracking" add-on
« Last post by IainB on May 02, 2012, 08:05 AM »
What happens if I set my browser to disallow all cookies period? I know I'll lose "a little functionality" but do y'all expect entire sites to break if they can't set cookies?
-TaoPhoenix (May 02, 2012, 12:26 AM)
Why not try it and see? You will at any rate discover which sites are designed not to work for you unless you let them set/read cookies.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download
« Last post by IainB on May 01, 2012, 08:49 AM »
@IainB, could it be that you have a virus?
It looks clean here...
-tomos (May 01, 2012, 07:08 AM)
I wondered about that too, but no. I have it sussed now. I made a mistake. I do have "Enhancements for Gmail" in Google Chrome and in Chromium - it replaced "Better Gmail" for Firefox - in Chrome/Chromium. There's a switch on it to "turn off the few ads". That was not ticked - so still enabled.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple means of joining images?
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2012, 11:27 PM »
Or something like this, maybe?
OneNote image demo 04 - 2012-05-01.jpg

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2012, 08:42 PM »
I opened the link in Opera and IE and the only adware/spyware related thing on that page is google analytics. No popups / ads.
-PhilB66 (April 30, 2012, 07:46 PM)
Interesting...I just tried it in Google Chrome, and it is partially visible there - almost dead centre. The button bar is inactive/dummy though - as it was in Chromium.
By the way, the ads didn't pop up straight away in Chromium. They weren't visible at first, then there was a ghostly (transparent) flash rectangle, and then the ads started to appear intermittently in that rectangle, ON TOP OF the webpage's content, but still transparent (you can see that in the sample clips I gave, above).
In Google Chrome that single bar displays (look carefully), but no ads appeared - just that one line as per this snippet:
Norton site spam 02 - 2012-05-01.jpg

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple means of joining images?
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2012, 08:04 PM »
Or you can have some fun with a couple of snippets and make people write what they never wrote:     :o
OneNote image demo 03 - 2012-05-01.jpg
___________________________________________
(This is based on the Penn.U "Trick" method.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple means of joining images?
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2012, 07:23 PM »
In OneNote, take 2 snippets (images) of this discussion thread and place them side-by-side:
OneNote image demo 01 - 2012-05-01.jpg

Then slide them together so they fit perfectly: (I have deliberately done it imperfectly so as you can see the join)
OneNote image demo 02 - 2012-05-01.jpg

Images can be scaled up/down (made bigger/smaller) to suit whatever you need.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Norton Identity Safe -- Free Download
« Last post by IainB on April 30, 2012, 06:55 PM »
Well then, judging from what @Josh, @joiwind @x16wda and I say in this thread, maybe we need a new term in the Internet vocabulary: "Nortonware" = "Dubiousware".

Out of interest, I took a look at the website in my Firefox browser and in my Chromium browser.
On the NIS features link, it lists 6 points: (which look very good):
Norton Identify Safe
From: https://identitysafe.norton.com/features

Save Passwords
Never again forget a username or password. Ever. Forget what it's like to go through tedious password resets.
Be Smart.

Fill Out Cards/Forms
Stop filling in the same forms over and over. Identity Safe can auto-fill your addresses, credit cards, frequent flyer numbers and much more.
Save time.

Store Notes
Securely save notes and quickly find them when you need them.
Remember Everything

Share
Found something interesting? Want to tell others? Share straight from Identity Safe.
Be Social.

Safe Web
Don't be tricked into revealing confidential information to the wrong crowd. Know whether a site is bad, before it loads.
Be Aware.

Safe Search
Avoid bad sites. Know whether a site is bad before you visit.
Be Selective.

Given that it was all about Norton security, it was therefore perhaps unfortunate that (in my Chromium browser), slap-bang in the middle of this page, there was site-spam. It looked very dodgy on https://identitysafe.norton.com/features - static, animated and flashing banners came up with all sorts of "click here" offers, some referring to free-choice.co.nz.
Webutation  called it:
"Phishing / Fraud / Badware"

Some samples clipped from the Norton website (and by the way, I don't have an extension "Enhancements for Gmail"):
Norton site spam 2012-05-01.jpg
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