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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PDF-XChange Viewer ($FREE version) - Mini-Review (as at 2012-10-04)

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2012, 05:49 AM »

Wow, it has OCR.
Can even be added to the portable version:

   Visit the Download site
    Check “Portable Version (OCR Lang Files) | 8 MB”
    Click Download Now
    Extract the folder inside “ocrdats” into the application directory

This program is dramatically better than OCR available from Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional. Really lucky the X-Change team put this in the free version: this is a big win for freeware.

Note: some documents will not accept OCR conversion with the default "Preserve Original Content & Add Text Layer". Still, this option is much faster, so it is recommended trying this first and then "Convert Image Content to Image Only -- Add Text as a Layer" option.

quote from 'webfork' in the portable freeware forums:
http://www.portablef...c.php?p=45021#p45021


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One slight annoyance is that ctrl-scrollwheel does not zoom!

-kfitting (October 04, 2012, 05:27 AM)

I'm currently using 2.5 build 197 (portable/free version - not the most recent) - it works in that (Wn7 64bit)
Might be worth reporting it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2012, 03:28 AM »

I remember being freaked myself when this was introduced (where are all my screenshots gone!). My file manager can show contents of all subfolders in one view so it was not such a problem to restore them.
In the end I opted for an 'older' folder for each year.

No idea what kind of work it would be: but I wonder could it be implemented on install, (or first start up after install) with some sort of 'wizard' -
please chose these settings a, b or c, notifying the user what will happen etc etc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2012, 03:22 AM »

There's is the cleansing of a good scream or yell.  But just because it is, doesn't absolve you of responsibility if you direct it at someone else.  I think that's what 40 was objecting to... and I find myself agreeing.

-wraith808 (October 03, 2012, 10:33 PM)

That's an excellent distinction. Venting anger/frustration usually isn't productive when targeted at people. Well, unless the person can shrug it off and address the real issue, which is rare.

-Renegade (October 04, 2012, 03:18 AM)

mouser has it

Hey, if I woke up and thought all my pictures were gone I'd be pretty mad too.. I'm sympathetic to people who occasionally come on here to curse me out because I do plenty of cursing and screaming at software myself..

-mouser (October 03, 2012, 06:21 PM)

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Living Room / Re: New software uses smartphone camera for spying

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2012, 03:12 AM »

already being discussed here - the title is not so descriptive though


Cool New Malware/Spyware

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General Software Discussion / Re: extract data from pdf

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2012, 05:29 AM »

For the record -
this seems to be more or less a repeat of this thread:

extracting info from pdf

edit/
There may well have been major advances since then, but imo it's worth looking there so it doesnt all get repeated ;-)

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Coding Snacks / Re: Dual Restart Program

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2012, 05:25 AM »

Related thread (by Contro)
Program restarts, hibernations and shut downs software

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

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2012, 05:11 AM »

Belated posting of mwb1100's 1,001 post
(from yesterday)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: farr gmail google mail plugin

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2012, 03:12 PM »

Yay, it's working thanks!

Sorry about that FScript2 business - the info about FSubScript on the forum is very confusing.

In the end I got it from CZB here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=17153.0

I discovered there is a more recent Fscript.dll so I replaced that in the FSubScript folder with this one:
http://e.craft.free....r/farr/FScript/1.20/
i.e. the latest version from this page:
http://e.craft.free.fr/farr/FScript

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Living Room / Re: Judge Lifts Ban on US Sales of Samsung Tablet...funny

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2012, 01:19 PM »

aaagh



* tom runs off to mark thread ignore

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Living Room / Re: Judge Lifts Ban on US Sales of Samsung Tablet...funny

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2012, 12:58 PM »

Just so long as ye dont bob your heads up & down like those bleeding replicating dogs.
I'll be getting seasick soon, am already in fact :p

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

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2012, 12:49 PM »

This is very popular on Amazon

-tomos (October 01, 2012, 01:49 PM)

Did you see the other pictures?

-Arizona Hot (October 02, 2012, 12:20 PM)

lol, no I hadn't

act like this:


this follows:

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Coding Snacks / Re: Single click focus, double click bring to front

« Last post by tomos on October 02, 2012, 11:38 AM »

you might be aware of katmouse -
I used use it in XP to scroll windows that dont have focus. I *think* it also *might* have had an option to keep window on top (I know I had that option on xp but not sure how).
I'd recommend Katmouse anyways

http://ehiti.de/katmouse/

For what purpose do you want the Window to get focus? Mouse-wheel scrolling ?

-Ath (October 01, 2012, 05:12 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2012, 04:33 PM »

In terms of everyday use, it's definitely a lot worse than previous versions (here).
I've disabled a few extensions and plugins and it's still acting up - to be completely fair to it I should try it with no add-ons.

(Firefox without Session Manager and Tab Mix Plus though, would leave me no particular reason to be still with firefox...)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: farr gmail google mail plugin

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2012, 04:21 PM »

hi wjamoe, no joy yet...

you need to install fsubscript in the plugin folder first

-wjamoe (September 30, 2012, 01:59 PM)

I tried installing FScript2 (seems to be the most recent), and got this message:
---------------------------
Impossible to create in Plugins/FScript2/proxy.
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Maybe it needs to be not in the default programme folder in Win7?
Again I'm veering away from the gmail plugin -
if you think this needs to be followed up in another thread, let me know (thanks for your help! )

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

« Last post by tomos on October 01, 2012, 01:49 PM »

That's just traumatizing Renegade! 

-TaoPhoenix (October 01, 2012, 03:07 AM)

I thought it was rather cute~!

Kids these days just don't understand why they are so dangerous... Why not combine education with funtime~!

-Renegade (October 01, 2012, 04:14 AM)

This is very popular on Amazon (read the reviews )

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: farr gmail google mail plugin

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2012, 09:27 AM »

2) that should not happen, maybe because of the override string (conflict with yahoomail)
     the override string yhm should not be there, please clear that field

-wjamoe (September 30, 2012, 09:20 AM)

this change (removing yhm) isnt saved either - maybe it's a FARR (Plugins Manager) problem?


EDIT/ FARR version is 2.200.01

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: farr gmail google mail plugin

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2012, 09:00 AM »

I tried this out yesterday myself, and couldn't get it to work either:

Here's the plugin manager, gmail plugin is selected and advanced options opened.



Possibly relevant:
1) should there be advanced options?
2) the tickbox beside the plugin is unticked when I open the manager. I ticked it - but it was unticked again next time I opened the manager.
3) does it not somehow need to get my gmail details?

I tried relaoding plugins and restarting FARR with no change.

Win7 Pro 64bit

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nuance PDF Reader - Acresso-FLEXnet agent is Annoyware/Adware WARNING.

« Last post by tomos on September 30, 2012, 08:37 AM »

I've settled on the following PDF reading solution after I got tired of Adobe Reader's increasing instability and getting caught out by some malware in a PDF that my "AV" software didn't catch:

  - STDU Reader (free for personal use) as a stand-alone, tabbed reader
  - Sumatra PDF for the browser plug-in

It seems neither of these bits of software engage in deceptive marketing practices, and neither of them support Javascript execution in the PDF (AFAIK), so I figure they should be pretty resistant to PDF-bourne malware.

I'm not sure if they're lacking in features that people might want, but they let me open and read PDF files, and that's pretty much all I need from a PDF reader.

-mwb1100 (September 29, 2012, 06:14 PM)

Well, yeah, they are lacking in a lot of features.  I'd say that someone trying to use a program like Nuance pdf reader is trying to do more than "view" pdf's, which is basically all that the free ones provide.

-superboyac (September 30, 2012, 03:26 AM)

I was kind of wondering why you were mentioning bluebeam earlier - I presumed Nuance Reader was just that - a reader. But I see it does do a lot more...

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... "Why is it" Websites/services

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2012, 05:08 PM »

Take a look at The Straight Dope for an example of a Web site that does some of what has been mentioned.

-barney (September 29, 2012, 04:46 PM)

Didn't think of that - it's very informative, entertaining, (and the main man can be very, eh, judgemental at times). I'd say roughly the same about the very active associated forums.

I actually mean that as a fairly positive review ;-)

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

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2012, 01:00 PM »

Ooooops... Did I just say that I was full of shit?

-Renegade (September 29, 2012, 12:58 PM)

no comment(s)

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

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2012, 12:57 PM »

However, the average human does NOT poop two pounds a day!

-TaoPhoenix (September 29, 2012, 12:47 PM)

if I think of two pounds of butter, it does seem like a lot
Mind you I've never weighed....

Now a 26 foot OTOH, that's impressive!

-Stoic Joker (September 29, 2012, 12:12 PM)

there's a South Park episode about that (there would be, wouldn't there!) -oh no, wait- that was about the heaviest


And keeping on topic I couldnt help thinking about this line from this song (youtube)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nuance PDF Reader - Acresso-FLEXnet agent is Annoyware/Adware WARNING.

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2012, 11:10 AM »

Thanks Iain for the report

Nitro PDF reader is actually pretty good and no hidden gifts that I know of. Quick to start, has print-to-PDF and a few editing features http://www.nitroreader.com/

-iphigenie (September 29, 2012, 05:21 AM)

veering off-topic -
Nitro PDF also have a helpful Firefox add-on: 
http://www.pdfdownload.org/

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Developer's Corner / Re: DVD Burning

« Last post by tomos on September 29, 2012, 02:52 AM »

I wanted to burn a DVD from an MP4 file
I tried using Ashampoo Burn (using the first option in Renegade's screenshot above) without success.

Via this thread What is best program to create a DVD from any video file? I just tried DVD Flick -
is easy to use, it seemed to work (I dont have tv/dvd player so cannot test it myself). There was at least one other recommendation on that thread for ease of use, but I cant remember the name now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Antivirus-less setup

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2012, 04:54 PM »

WHY is our forum now again saying "Your session timed out..."???!!!

-Curt (September 28, 2012, 04:45 PM)

dunno - I've had some trouble connecting today. Wasn't sure if it was just my connection or what.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: sort of launcher for command lines with parameter in a pre-defined place

« Last post by tomos on September 28, 2012, 03:44 PM »

did I do anything wrong in the way I asked ? :/

-ConstanceJill (September 28, 2012, 01:37 PM)

no,
it's very clearly laid out!
Hopefully the bump will help get a response.

Selector[/url] first seemed close to that, but still, somehow lacks some things for my needs.

-ConstanceJill (August 23, 2012, 02:27 PM)

might be an idea to ask MilesAhead in that thread if he'd consider adding additional functionality to Selector.