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Living Room / Re: Sherlock Holmes and Texefex

« Last post by Curt on April 26, 2008, 06:33 PM »

Someone has stolen our tent!

-Curt (January 01, 2007, 07:53 AM)

A far more simple but gratis version for HTML only comes from the site altarsoft:



http://www.altarsoft.../gradient_text.shtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Curt on April 26, 2008, 05:39 PM »

No, even the BareGrep PRO version cannot search special characters.

"æ":
 


- but it is fast!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Laplink (PCMover) 30% off

« Last post by Curt on April 25, 2008, 06:09 PM »

Again 30% off the listed prices. $35 instead of $50.

Special "Thank You" Savings:


It's our way of thanking you taking the time to update your communication preferences.

Enter coupon code YA34F on your next purchase from Laplink and save 30%*

* Expires May 1st, 2008.
Discount cannot be applied to Laplink RemoteAssist or any other volume license products from Laplink.

-Amanda Marcus, Customer Service, Laplink Software

YA34F on http://www.laplink.c...80422Policy_EN_OptIn

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General Software Discussion / Re: XPPro SP3

« Last post by Curt on April 25, 2008, 10:13 AM »

I haven't yet checked if SP3 already is available in Danish as well, because I am still more concerned if all of my programs will keep on working or not. Please tell if 'you' had any programs stop working, after you updated to SP3??

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: False Positive on Software (Generic.Dx) by McAfee Today: McAfee Response and Fix

« Last post by Curt on April 25, 2008, 09:26 AM »

Microsoft mistakes Skype for a Trojan

-nosh (April 25, 2008, 01:37 AM)

Mistakes happens, okay, but it took Microsoft four days to correct the error - I mean, 4 days are like forever for the Skype users caught in between! I would have been extremely disappointed had the same fault taken ESET (makers of NOD32 antivirus) this long to get right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best free audio track INFO editor?

« Last post by Curt on April 24, 2008, 02:32 PM »

I never took any interest in tagging, and now I realize I had no clue what it meant - I guess I thought it was all about genre. Is this really all media info is about: tagging? Hmm... well, I am glad to hear it is that simple - now I have the final reason to use (and learn to use) my MP3tag... right now its' first greating said "this version was released quite some time ago, do you want to update?"   

Thanks for enlightening me!

Edit:PS!
I would say MP3-Info also sounds interesting (though it too "was relased quite some time ago"). Edit2: There really are a lot of interesting apps mentioned!

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General Software Discussion / What's the best free audio track INFO editor?

« Last post by Curt on April 24, 2008, 11:44 AM »

Some friends of mine have recorded and published a music CD. When I tried to transfer it to my PC the first problem was that RealPlayer 11+ didn't fully recognize the files as being audio format at all, so I had to use Nero. However, this is not important right now. But the second problem was that there were no informations at all to see. No track name, other than Track1, etcetera, and no info on the artists, no nothing. And in my little head this is now an important problem.

So I wanted to edit these infos myself, but realized that I have no editor to do so. Of course any of my Windows Media Player 11, RealPlayer 11, WinAmp 5.5 Pro, can do so, but the informations these apps can edit are too 'poor', if you know what I mean. I want to give it all the infos that normally are required on a music CD: Who wrote the text, who did the music, and when, and where, and so on - all it can have!

So I came here to ask you guys:
What is The Best gratis audio track INFO EDITOR, please??

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General Software Discussion / Re: title bar shortcuts

« Last post by Curt on April 23, 2008, 01:56 PM »

Sure, PowerPro can do it, but ....
I (too) gave up understanding how to use this weirdo!
Take the advice and visit their userforum!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: XPPro SP3

« Last post by Curt on April 23, 2008, 01:42 PM »

http://www.majorgeek...k_3_Final_d4323.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: title bar shortcuts

« Last post by Curt on April 23, 2008, 10:13 AM »

FileBox eXtender will only do it's tricks inside Explorer - in third party windows the only options are On Top and Roll Up.

The Barnacle version that I just have tried wouldn't extract script from exe. (?)

Because you want this feature in third party programs, I would guess it is impossible - though skrommel's Barnacle implies it can be done. My suggestion would be to get a launcher program (study this DC thread) with a auto-hiding toolbar at the edge of the screen. This way the links will never be too far away, though not at hand, but they will always be there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo remove links from smileys?

« Last post by Curt on April 23, 2008, 02:31 AM »

Interesting little app from Microsoft. I've never heard of it, though - maybe one reason is that it has not been updated for eight years?

Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Windows 2000
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows 95

- but of course, it seems to work okay with XP as well.

But you were right, it won't batch edit
- and we are talking about thousands of smileys...

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General Software Discussion / HowTo remove links from smileys?

« Last post by Curt on April 23, 2008, 02:09 AM »

Thanks to Phill66 I've found the small and nice JPEG & PNG Stripper [JPS], and it made me once again wish for some app that will remove links from certain types of smileys. I think it is 'enough' that I once purchased "their" smiley program, I don't need to also advertice for them, do I. JPS will handle .PNGs but not .GIFs.

Do you know of a program that will batch remove links from a folder of images, please? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon or Avant?

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 05:04 PM »

Ohh.. yes... I forgot to think of the many add'ons I have installed in Maxthon. Sorry!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 04:34 PM »

Turns out I already had registered, but obviously forgot... 

Other than that, I think Mozilla has replaced an acceptable site map with a far worse one. Thousands of add'ons will stay undiscovered because of this stupid design.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 01:21 PM »

Hmm..., cmpm, this Image Tweak is experimental and for logged-in users only. What other advantages are there, being logged in ? Does it take something special?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 08:25 AM »

Right now I am testing both Auto Context Extension and HyperWords. They are sort of dubbing each other, but after an hours trying out the various options, I have managed to make them integrate nicely with the default Firefox 2 context menu.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon or Avant?

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 06:45 AM »

I use both Avant and Maxthon (both 1.6 and 2), but prefer Maxthon 1.6 Classic.
However, I would say Avant surely is the lighter one on resources, and also the fastest.

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Firefox Extension Coding Contest / Re: Avant'age addon for FF

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 06:19 AM »

 

- the TIMING!!! 

Automatic Context Menu in Firefox

Posted: 19 Apr 2008 03:05 PM CDT

Do you find yourself using the right-click/context menu in Firefox rather frequently? If so you might benefit from having the menu automatically appear whenever you highlight some text on a site. For some people, including myself, that can be a huge time saver.

If that sounds like something you’d like to setup just take a few seconds to install the Auto Context extension in Firefox. You can completely customize the menu that automatically appears, which is a great opportunity to break free of the menu items that you never use. The menu that you’ll see by default is already quite slim though:



As you’ll notice in the screenshot above this extension also makes performing a search faster by listing all of your search engines in their own menu. Your default search engine is show as its own entity, but again this is all customizable in the options.

Get the Auto Context Extension for Fireofox: https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/5714

Copyright © 2008 CyberNet |

-CyberNet Technology News

- but it won't install on my pc! 

Edit2: Oh, I am too slow to understand, and typing too soon...: 
Auto Context Extension is not needed, when you have HyperWords. Wow!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 05:03 AM »

I have removed Quick Locale Switcher, and installed HyperWords
- I wonder how I forgot about this addon in the first place 

- Hyperwords 3.7
   {9A752782-D706-479b-98F8-3F66BF921692}
   http://www.hyperwords.net
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3pre
   Makes every word on the web interactive.

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Firefox Extension Coding Contest / Re: Avant'age addon for FF

« Last post by Curt on April 20, 2008, 04:50 AM »

HyperWords really is good, and I am surprised that I had forgotten about it. 
Thanks for reminding me! 

Hyperwords for Windows (including Internet Explorer/IE) will be available Summer 2008.

However, in my opinion a floating tollbar would out-manoeuver HyperWords. 

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Firefox Extension Coding Contest / Avant'age addon for FF

« Last post by Curt on April 19, 2008, 06:38 PM »

I am confident that Mozilla will set up yet another Firefox Extension Coding Contest later this year, so I was thinking it would be fine to start out early, in order to maximize the chances of winning the contest! 

There are so many useful addons for Firefox. Never the less, I will often choose to use Avant or Maxthon instead. The feature, I want to encourage 'you' to write for Firefox, is a default feature in Avant: the floating toolbar that will show up when you mark something on a page - you do not have to right-click; just mark and point!

The floating toolbar looks like this:




And the options are, from left to right:

Copy Highlighted Content - Search the selected text in Internet - Search the selected text in the current site - Find the next occuremce of the selected text in the current page - Highlight the selected text in the current page - Save to local disk - Copy URL to the clipboard - Open in new window - Send in an e-mail + (in tab): Save selected region as image.

"Save to disk" will auto- create, insert & pre-name the file:



I know you can have some of these features in other addons, but no-one else has (as far as I know of) combined so many useful feaures into a single extension - and no-one else has made them available in a floating toolbar, except of course for the Image Toolbar extension; the others all use the context menu instead. In my little head Avant is way ahead Firefox and everyone else, when it comes to this little market, so I would very much like to encourage 'you' to author an extension for Firefox to match this Avant'age!
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 19, 2008, 05:21 PM »

I had PicLens for a couple of days, but it made my browser a little sluggish.

---

Edit: I have of course also added Restarter.

- Restarter 1.0
   [email protected]
   http://bazzargh.blogspot.com/
   Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
   Add 'restart' to file menu see bug 336050

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vista’s ReadyBoost benefits on your Windows XP machine with eBoostr

« Last post by Curt on April 19, 2008, 06:42 AM »

New eBoostr 2

eBoostr 2 Released
April 16th, 2008 |

What’s new in version 2 -
Here goes a quick list of the additional features with more details "below":

Memory caching (if you have plenty of RAM installed);

Exclude list (the most requested feature);

Power saving mode;

More than 4GB cache file size (on NTFS file system only);

One flash drive use on different computers;

Unlimited number of files in cache;

Build cache process improvement (including initial statistics used from XP prefetch information);

Load balancing mechanism improvements;

And many small fixes and enhancements;

And finally 16 new languages added: Portuguese, Ukrainian, Finnish, Czech, Danish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, Korean, Swedish, Sinhalese, Lithuanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Japanese and Thai.

-eBoostr

I have been using it for 3 days, and have a small improvement in performance
- I did not try the first version.

http://www.eboostr.c.../eboostr-2-released/

Select your license type Price (USD) Price (EUR) Price (GBP)

PRO Version:
Includes all available functionality: RAM cache, exclude list, cache viewer, power saving mode, up to 4 devices.
$39 €26 £20

Laptop Edition:
Includes: battery saving mode, exclude list, cache viewer, up to 4 devices. No RAM caching functionality.
$29 €19 £15 -

Desktop Edition:
Includes: exclude list, cache viewer, up to 4 devices. No RAM caching and power save mode.
$24 €16 £12

Lite Version:
Limited to single USB thumb drive. Does not contain cache viewer and exclude list functionality.
$19 €13 £10

- I now know from experience that the prices are plus VAT

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on April 18, 2008, 05:48 PM »

I am trying out Firefox again³. Forgive me for some Danish phrases, please:

Applikation: Firefox 2.0.0.14 (2008040413)
Operativsystem: WINNT (x86-msvc)

Totalt antal elementer: 20

- British English Dictionary 1.19
   [email protected]
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0pre

- Dansk ordbog 1.4.67
   [email protected]
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b4pre
   Dansk stavekontrol i tekstfelter - gør dagen nemmere!

- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.1
   {D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}
   http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b5pre
   View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar

- DownloadHelper 3.0.3
   {b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}
   http://www.downloadhelper.net
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b4
   Download videos and images from many sites

- Extension List Dumper 1.14.0
   [email protected]
   http://sogame.awardspace.com/
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
   Dumper en liste over alle installerede udvidelser.

- Extension Manager Extended 2.6.3.2
   [email protected]
   http://extended.spanglerco.com/
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0pre
   Use the extension manager to view the id and the folder of an extension.

- Fasterfox 2.0.0
   {c36177c0-224a-11da-8cd6-0800200c9a66}
   http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
   Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
   Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.

- FavLoc 1.1
   {472f4ef0-a825-11da-a746-0800200c9a66}
   http://favloc.fligtar.com
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a2
   Nemt download til ofte brugte steder.

- Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0
   {e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}
   http://www.greasespot.net/
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b3
   A User Script Manager for Firefox

- IE View 1.3.7
   {6e84150a-d526-41f1-a480-a67d3fed910d}
   http://ieview.mozdev.org/
   Firefox 1.0 - 3.0b4
   Åbner sider i IE via Firefox-menuer

- Image Toolbar 0.6.4
   {A4732521-77D9-447E-A557-B279AC923F06}
   http://www.cusser.net
   Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
   Provides easy access to common image functions.

- InFormEnter 0.5.5.2
   {5546F97E-11A5-46b0-9082-32AD74AAA920}
   http://informenter.mozdev.org/
   Firefox 1.0 - 3.0b5
   Helper for form filling in semi-automatic mode.

- Popup ALT Attribute 1.3.2005092702
   {61FD08D8-A2CB-46c0-B36D-3F531AC53C12}
   http://piro.sakura.n...ul/_popupalt.html.en
   Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
   Popups alternate texts of images or others like NetscapeCommunicator(Navigator) 4.x, and show long descriptions in the multi-row tooltip.

- Quick Locale Switcher 1.6.5.1
   {25A1388B-6B18-46c3-BEBA-A81915D0DE8F}
   http://www.captaincaveman.nl
   Firefox 1.0 - 3.0pre
   Skift præferencen general.useragent.locale hurtigt.

- RichScrollbar 0.1
   {9859aa37-9d17-4558-8ddd-11042c6f3390}
   http://dafizilla.sou...ge.net/richscrollbar
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b2
   Add to scrollbars some buttons to simplify common scrolling operations

- Save Session 1.3.1.3
   [email protected]
   http://diary.noasobi.net/
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b4pre
   Save Session can save the session only once.

- Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2.2
   {61D0D7AF-4FF6-476a-B68F-6531F613A6D8}
   http://v2studio.com/k/moz/
   Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.*
   Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one. When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button. (Like Safari)

- Talkback 2.0.0.11
   (Deaktiveret)
   [email protected]
   http://talkback.mozilla.org/
   Firefox 2.0.0.11 - 2.0.0.*
   Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla.

- Unicode Input Tool/Converter 2.1.1
   [email protected]
   http://brettz9.blogs...icode-converter.html
   Firefox 1.5 - 3.0b5
   Converts character references, etc. into Unicode and back

- United States English Dictionary 3.0.1
   [email protected]
   http://www.blogzilla.info/spellchecker/
   Firefox 2.0 - 3.0b5pre
   English United States (en-US) spellchecking dictionary

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General Software Discussion / Re: My foxes are not on fire. Any HELP?

« Last post by Curt on April 18, 2008, 05:42 PM »

How (not) to spend an evening: Remove your Firefox browser(s), and make a fresh install and add twenty extensions (yes, a much more slim version than I used to have)! To make a terrible long story short; i am typing this post in Firefox 2 - and I won't update to version 3 until the fat Elvis is final&stable.

Thanks for your help, guys!