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5926
Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 12:57 PM »
I think it would be fairly easy to have a cycling set of banners that change and that allow the colours to be changed to match. There is no reason why a global variable couldn't be used to hold the current banner and then a 'switch' type structure used in the above functions to select the forum palette ...

Whether Mouser actually wants to do this is for him to comment ;)
5927
Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 12:13 PM »
Just checked and actually it is very easy to change the forum colours (you just have to specify the hex values for all the items) thus:

/* Normal, standard links. */
a:link
{
   color: #000000;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited, a:hover
{
   color: #323232;
   text-decoration: underline;
}

/* Navigation links - for the link tree. */
.nav, .nav:link, .nav:visited
{
   color: #000000;
   text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav:hover
{
   font-weight: bold;
   color: #cc3333;
   text-decoration: underline;
}

/* Tables should show empty cells. */
table
{
   empty-cells: show;
}

/* By default (td, body..) use Tahoma in black. */
body, td, th
{
   color: #000000;
   font-size: small;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

/* The main body of the entire forum. */
body
{
   background-color: white;
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 0px;
}

/* Input boxes - just a bit smaller than normal so they align well. */
input, textarea, button
{
   font-size: 9pt;
   color: #000000;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

/* All input elements that are checkboxes or radio buttons. */
input.check
{
}

/* Selects are a bit smaller, because it makes them look even better 8). */
select
{
   font-size: 8pt;
   font-weight: normal;
   color: #000000;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

/* Standard horizontal rule.. ([hr], etc.) */
hr, .hrcolor
{
   height: 1px;
   border: 0;
   color: #666666;
   background-color: #666666;
}

/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
.quote
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #C3B8D0;
   border: 1px solid #000000;
   margin: 1px;
   padding: 1px;
   font-size: x-small;
   line-height: 1.4em;
}

/* A code block - maybe even PHP ;). */
.code
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #cccccc;
   font-family: "courier new", "times new roman", monospace;
   font-size: x-small;
   line-height: 1.3em;
   /* Put a nice border around it. */
   border: 1px solid #000000;
   margin: 1px auto 1px auto;
   padding: 1px;
   width: 99%;
   /* Don't wrap its contents, and show scrollbars. */
   white-space: nowrap;
   overflow: auto;
   /* Stop after about 24 lines, and just show a scrollbar. */
   max-height: 24em;
}

/* The "Quote:" and "Code:" header parts... */
.quoteheader, .codeheader
{
   color: #000000;
   text-decoration: none;
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: x-small;
   line-height: 1.2em;
}

/* Generally, those [?] icons.  This makes your cursor a help icon. */
.help
{
   cursor: help;
}

/* /me uses this a lot. (emote, try typing /me in a post.) */
.meaction
{
   color: red;
}

/* The main post box - this makes it as wide as possible. */
.editor
{
   width: 96%;
}

/* Highlighted text - such as search results. */
.highlight
{
   background-color: yellow;
   font-weight: bold;
   color: black;
}

/* Alternating backgrounds for posts, and several other sections of the forum. */
.windowbg
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #E1E1E1;
}
.windowbg2
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #F0F0F0;
}

/* These are used primarily for titles, but also for headers (the row that says what everything in the table is.) */
.titlebg, tr.titlebg th, tr.titlebg td, .titlebg a:link, .titlebg a:visited, .titlebg2, tr.titlebg2 th, tr.titlebg2 td, .titlebg2 a:link, .titlebg2 a:visited
{
   color: white;
   font-style: normal;
   background-color: #6B8EAE;
}
.titlebg a:hover, .titlebg2 a:hover
{
   color: #dfdfdf;
}

/* This is used for categories, page indexes, and several other areas in the forum. */
.catbg, .catbg3
{
   background-image: url(images/catbg.jpg);
}

/* This is used for a category that has new posts in it... to make it light up. */
.catbg2
{
   background-image: url(images/catbg2.jpg);
}

.catbg, .catbg2, .catbg3
{
   font-weight: bold;
   background-color: silver;
   color: #000000;
}

/* This is used for tables that have a grid/border background color (such as the topic listing.) */
.bordercolor
{
   background-color: #828181;
}

/* This is used on tables that should just have a border around them. */
.tborder
{
   border: 1px solid #828181;
   background-color: #FFFFFF;
   padding: 2px;
}

/* Default font sizes: small (8pt), normal (10pt), and large (14pt). */
.smalltext
{
   font-size: x-small;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}
.normaltext
{
   font-size: small;
}
.largetext
{
   font-size: large;
}

/* This is the white header area where the title, menu bars, and header boxes are. */
#headerarea
{
   background-color: white;
   border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
}
/* This is the main area of the forum, the part that's gray. */
#bodyarea
{
   background-color: #D4D4D4;
}
/* And this is the bottom, where the copyright is, etc. */
#footerarea
{
   color: black;
   background-color: white;
   border-top: 1px solid gray;
}

/* This is for the special header boxes on the top (user info, key stats, news box.) */
.headertitles
{
   background-color: #6B8EAE;
   border: 1px solid #6B8EAE;
   height: 12px;
}
.headerbodies
{
   border: 1px solid #7A7777;
   background-color: #EFEFEF;
   background-repeat: repeat-x;
   background-position: bottom;
}

/* Posts and personal messages displayed throughout the forum. */
.post, .personalmessage
{
   width: 100%;
   overflow: auto;
   line-height: 1.3em;
}

/* All the signatures used in the forum.  If your forum users use Mozilla, Opera, or Safari, you might add max-height here ;). */
.signature
{
   width: 100%;
   overflow: auto;
   padding-bottom: 3px;
   line-height: 1.3em;
}
/* No image should have a border when linked */
a img{
   border: 0;
}

By the way these aren't the settings for this forum - I can't acces sthat page, but they are from my own SMF forum (which isn't live yet - I'm too lazy/busy to get my website sorted out at the moment.
5928
General Software Discussion / Re: Searching4: print PDFs as Poster
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 12:09 PM »
You could buy a cheap Canon printer for that and use their drivers (which do everything on that list as standard) ;-)
5929
Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 12:07 PM »
Actually SMF forums can have different styles applied - not sure how easy it is to specify colours but it shouldn't be rocket science.
5930
Living Room / Re: What to do in case of a terrorist attack
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 12:05 PM »
I quite liked this one on the real US GOV website ...


Cover your mouth and nose with layers of fabric that can filter the air but still allow breathing (my emphasis).


LOL - I always thought you were supposed to stop yourself breathing when under chemical attack - that way you decide when you die!
5931
Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 07:49 AM »
I see what you mean - I also think the 3D lower edge should continue from edge to edge. The left edge needs a shadow (as the light is coming from top right) but the right edge needs to be seen hi-lighted in 3D (and possibly the top edge too) to give the object enough thickness to actually cast a shadow.
5932
Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 28, 2006, 05:35 AM »
Trouble is that IFPI are bound to argue that as their case (whether it is correct or not). They are hardly going to say ROMS and FAIR are the ideal model - otherwise all companies would be dashing off to Russia !! (Including iTunes and MSN who would probably still charge the same prices!)

Allofmp3 may be illegal/immoral (though we can only take at face value what they say about fulfilling their legal obligations in Russia) but I wouldn't trust the record industry to be any more moral - they certainly haven't been in the past. They not only rip of their own artists all the time (which is why so many are now going independent) but stifle all creative musicians in favour of commercial pap.
5933
Interesting the first demo movie says it doesn't need a beefed up CPU - he actually describes the computer he is using a stanrd laptop. Now I know that can mean anything but it is lightening quick on his machine. Presumably there is a fair bit of caching going on to acheive those speeds - certainly the contact sheet printing is pretty much instant because it uses cached files.

I do think this is aimed at the photographer so if you want to use other types of file then it probably won't be the solution you are looking for. The best features (by far) is the total transparency of use for JPEGs, TIFs, BMPs, and RAWs (first time I have seen this in any package) plus the totally non-destructive nature of its use.
5934
Have a look at video 2 - it has all of the RAW image processing capacity of PhotoShopCS2 plus some more, and add to that you canapply all the same options to other formats too !!

The huge plus to my way of thinking is that everything you do in this app is completely non-destructive - it doesn't touch your original files at all. All editing and correcting that you do is stored as scripts within the database and only applied as you output a fresh copy to load in Photoshop. This all happens transparently so it means you can edit and change a photo and save copies of it without ever altering the original in any way at all (whilst still retaining all the processing you have worked out). It is really cool and ACDSee doesn't do anything like this.

The other really cool feature is the library organisation. You can leave all you images in the folders they are in at the moment or allow the app to reorganise everything (the way you want because it is completely customisable). Either way the internal organisation for the app is held in its own relational database meaning that you can organise your photos into 'shoots' and 'collections' as you want, apply multiple tags really easily (by drag and drop) etc. To me this gives real multidimensional flexibility (and not just a tree structure like most othe picture browser setups including ACDSee).

Don't get me wrong - I have bitten the bullet and upgraded to ACDSee Pro not so long ago, and they seem to ironed out the problems I experienced before but Lightroom looks to have the potential to make ACDSee look like DOS compared to Windows.

Maybe I am getting overexcited (especially since I haven't played with it) and doubtless it will be horrendously expensive (which will be really frustrating as a lot of the RAW workflow functionality is from code lifted straight from Adobe Bridge which I already have).
5935
Well maybe not quite yet but this looks really cool ...

Adobe is developing a new product called AdobeLightroom and it is currently open to public beta but unfortunately at the moment only for Macs.

This prog looks set to be just about as flexible as anything I have seen out there and they are rapidly responding to beta users requests for features.

There will be a Windows beta (you can sign up to be told when it is available) and I will definitely be one of the first to download it!!

Check it out here: http://labs.adobe.co...hnologies/lightroom/

There is also a great set of onscreen videos on that page worth checking out to see what is available see http://labs.adobe.co...ies/lightroom/video/

I guess this will be at Adobe prices but it looks REALLY cool.
5936
Site/Forum Features / Re: Show new threads?
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 06:40 PM »
I wonder if he is looking at the RSS feeds - the recent topics there only show 10 items. (You can alter that by editing the RSS feed URL)
5937
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a budget plan software
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 06:38 PM »
If you find one let me know! MS Money can import HSBC files (but not credit card statements) but I found I really can't be bothered with MS Money !!
5938
Official Announcements / Re: User Profiles ... a request
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 04:16 PM »
Well done ;-)
5939
Official Announcements / Re: User Profiles ... a request
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 03:35 PM »
LOL - true, true
5940
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a budget plan software
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 01:27 PM »
You can't buy Quicken in the UK anymore - it is not licensed over here - or at least it wasn't last time I looked.
5941
Official Announcements / User Profiles ... a request
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 01:25 PM »
It is really nice to know something about people who post on the forum.

Can everyone consider filling at least a few details about themseleves as part of their user profile.

To do this click the "Profile and Membership" button on the toolbar at the top of the page and then on the left click on "Forum Profile Information".

Feel free to fill in what you want, but it would be really useful to know:

  • if people are male or female (you can't always tell with nicknames)! Currently the forum stats say there a 9 males for every female on the site and I am pretty sure this isn't true. I think the forum software assumes you are male unless you say otherwise
  • your location. I realise that some people like to remain relatively anonymous but you can be as general as you like in your location, but it is sometimes useful if you are answering a question to know if the answer you are giving is relevant.
.

If you haven't set up an avatar please do. You can use any small JPG or GIF image of your own, or there are a selection of ready to use avatars.

You can also add a link to your website if you have one, and a signature for your forum posts (which can include BBCode to add images and URLs)
5942
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a budget plan software
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 01:06 PM »
Depends where you are from - Quicken only supports US bank accounts.
5943
General Software Discussion / Re: EditPad Pro 6
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 27, 2006, 07:55 AM »
Great editor - I'm a big fan too. Upgrade prices are a bit on the high side though given the free alternatives out there.
5944
Welcome aboard guys - sorry I must have missed this thread first time round ...
5945
General Software Discussion / Re: Vista, Up Close and Personal
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 26, 2006, 12:31 PM »
Spot on the sugar, baby!

Does that make you my sugar daddy?
5946
That's how you close tabs in firefox, I guess I got used to it and would like to see it applied to the taskbar.

Strange - my mouse doesn't do that. Must be different drivers. Middle click on Firefox tabs has no effect, middle click elsewhere cycles though open apps (which I find quite useful). I'm using an MS IntelliMouse Explorer optical.
5947
Another Outlook 2007 related "feature" - did you know that to use the search facility you now have to install MSN Desktop Search before you can search your PST file contents ... great eh?

Another example of MS trying to force the use of its own unrelated products and shut out the competition ...

There is also a new beta available of MSN Desktop Search (at version 3) - presumably released to coincide with the Office Beta launch.
5948
I have abandoned Google mail since I saw what happened when you upload your address book.

Did you know if you import your address book every single contact gets an email from Google with multiple Google ads (without telling you). A friend of mine just did this and came in for some serious abuse from a forum we both belong to.
5949
Yes ... GoBack is great, I used it for a long time ... until something goes wrong and then you find you have a scrambled and unrecoverable hard disc. It happened to me (when it was still Roxio).

It also seems like a dead product as far as Symantec are concerned - it doesn't appear to have been updated since they bought it off Roxio.

Great while it works but you don't want to be caught when it gets itself in a knot.
5950
Further info on Outlook ...

Just installed Outlook and downloaded some email (leaving it on the server so my old install in another Windows installation can still get to it).

It all looks very nice but just one problem ...

Outlook 2007 (beta) .PST files are NOT compatible with Outlook 2002


If you want to try Outlook make sure you backup all PST files first otherwise you will not be able to go back to 2002/2003.

Furthermore unlike the other apps I can't find any settings in Outlook 2007 that let's you choose to use older formats.
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