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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 09, 2018, 08:55 AM »

if you don't like deskrule's talking error messages, use OPTIONS toolbar button to turn it off

-umeca74 (December 07, 2018, 02:58 AM)

thanks, no, I dont like it, but what bothered me most was that it was there -- and then it wasnt there -- this may well have been something to do with my system rather than deskrule. I cannot now reproduce that problem, and have disabled the voice.

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Living Room / Re: Does Al-Tubaigy Has Free Dates?

« Last post by tomos on December 08, 2018, 03:21 PM »

@ital2, you mention the other thread here, so I'll comment here about that here: I often notice here on dc that people have a problem with directness, misunderstanding it for rudeness, or as being 'loaded' with something or other, as opposed to simple and straight-forward. You are very direct yourself, but having already jumped to conclusions, and seeing protagonists as opposed to someone who is trying to add value to the topic, you destroy most chances of actually reaching any understanding or having any meaningful interaction of value. Of course things are sometimes not completely simple and straight-forward, but the point remains valid: jumping to conclusions, putting someone in a box, and attacking them just kills any possibilities -- and generally just makes for a shitty mood.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sChecklist

« Last post by tomos on December 06, 2018, 05:17 PM »

The ability to edit an existing entry would be great. I suffer from 'fat fingers' and am forever making typos. It's frustrating having to delete/recreate an entry just 'cos I've made a single typo.

-Rick998 (December 06, 2018, 04:08 PM)

hi Rick,
pressing F2 works to edit currently selected entry

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 06, 2018, 03:33 AM »

"computer says no" means that nothing can be found matching your search parameters

-umeca74 (December 06, 2018, 01:34 AM)

it is an odd way of phrasing it (I realise that's Microsoft's responsibility).
Why did it first work with voice and later just with an error message in the statusbar? I don't recall any error message in the statusbar when I got the voice message.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for December 3rd, 2018 - Codename: Wedding Feathers

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2018, 04:40 PM »

One last thing.. It really is nice to see replies to the newsletters, and get some encouragement about them.  For whatever reason, it's not my favorite thing to do so every bit of positive reinforcement helps!

-mouser (December 05, 2018, 04:29 PM)

well it is great to get the overview

I was wondering: do you sit down at some stage and start trawling dc to find relevant threads, or do you keep an ongoing record of possible candidate threads between newsletters?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2018, 12:57 PM »

Not related to offline capability:
you appear to have three different names for the app -- I had trouble finding my notes from my last usage of the software :p

• Deskrule
• Desktop (search) rules
• desktop rulez

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2018, 12:17 PM »

okay:

-------------------------- desktop rulez --------------------------- Added 311430 files in the offline catalog Now you can search for them even when the device isn't connected Do you want to add another folder? --------------------------- Yes   No    ---------------------------

If now search offline:
I add text used in multiple filenames to the [Name] field, the first field gets filled with [dr::catalog] and I get the voice message:
"Computer says no"

Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT// it's working now:
the voice is gone, even when I search for the same term as used above -- I havent changed anything beyond doing some other stuff for a while. Oh, and restarting DeskRule.
Could be that first run after booting doesnt work properly -- I always shut down this computer so will check again next time I reboot it (in the next couple of days).

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Living Room / Re: Good video on climbing Mt Everest

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2018, 03:07 AM »

^ thanks mouser.
People often love to come down on one side or the other (e.g. the negative reviews on amazon for either book); good to get an objective perspective.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: --> PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST <--

« Last post by tomos on December 05, 2018, 03:02 AM »

(workaround) for editing/writing BBC code use BBCeditor
https://www.donation....msg420408#msg420408
(Link is to post with review, go to first post for download link)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2018, 03:04 PM »

^ will try Opera. Thanks Miles

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2018, 11:40 AM »

Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10

-Arizona Hot (December 04, 2018, 10:07 AM)

my small experience of Edge is that it was/is actually a great browser -- never used it much though as not much in the line of addons. (I'm still avoiding Chrome myself, fwiw)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2018, 10:55 AM »

This appears to require windows indexing to be enabled (?)
even if I add an external drive as a catalog, it cannot find anything on it (indexing not enabled here). EDIT// may well be user error -- I'm figuring it out as I go along... //EDIT

(If it doesnt require windows indexing, I will have a bunch of related queries.)

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Living Room / Re: Good video on climbing Mt Everest

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2018, 08:34 AM »

interesting video

One of my favorite books is Into Thin Air, about a serious tragedy on Mt Everest: https://www.amazon.c...saster/dp/0385494785

-mouser (December 03, 2018, 05:02 PM)

re the book:
I've read about it before -- that he gives another guide a lot of the blame and accepts none for himself. The other guide wrote a book in response. Dont know if you knew all that (or read the other book). If the one star reviews are to be trusted though, the response book was very poorly written.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 04, 2018, 07:10 AM »

There is a free "Lite" version, for comparison:
https://www.zabkat.com/deskrule/lite.htm

-tomos (December 03, 2018, 03:21 PM)

My eyes show me "Lite version Cost per user: $19.95"

-KodeZwerg (December 04, 2018, 03:32 AM)

sorry bout that!

However here I'm not trying to sell a program, just to get beta testers!

Here is the beta direct download link: https://www.zabkat.c...krule_setup_beta.exe

-umeca74 (December 04, 2018, 02:18 AM)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Deskrule v2.0 beta featuring offline search catalog

« Last post by tomos on December 03, 2018, 03:21 PM »

There is a [free] "Lite" version, for comparison:
https://www.zabkat.com/deskrule/lite.htm

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.154.01 - Nov 17, 2018

« Last post by tomos on December 01, 2018, 10:25 AM »

The wording "QL folter temp" Sounds like it could be Dutch or Deutsch, I guess.

-mouser (November 17, 2018, 10:58 AM)

'folter' means torture (!) in Dutch and Deutsch -- probably does mean folder in some other language though..

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Living Room / Re: is there life without Microsoft Store?

« Last post by tomos on November 29, 2018, 06:51 AM »

  very good post Curt
I'm still on win 7 myself...

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Living Room / Re: Happy Thanksgiving to DonationCoder folks - 2018

« Last post by tomos on November 23, 2018, 05:00 AM »

That's thanks giving
I mostly forget to be grateful, thanks for the reminder :-)

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Living Room / Re: Android and web app for unified inbox?

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2018, 08:26 AM »

@moderators:
Propose this be merged with posters previous thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46691.0

MS Outlook web app is not blocked but it is very slow using PaleMoon.

-kalos (November 21, 2018, 08:17 AM)

have you tried other browsers?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: DropFolder

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2018, 04:27 AM »

just change the paths and picture, but nothing happened when i drop a file into the float pic
it seems doesn't work on windows 10

-chashnniel (November 14, 2018, 05:06 AM)

hi chashnniel
there appears to be two different apps for download in this thread -- along with some modifications.
What did you use?

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 Promo Video

« Last post by tomos on November 15, 2018, 05:18 PM »

Silly Promo Added to Main Post! 

-Stephen66515 (November 15, 2018, 03:58 PM)

Day 4:

-Stephen66515 (November 12, 2018, 03:45 PM)

now you're getting going

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Living Room / Re: Energy cost of mining crypto more than the cost of mining precious metals

« Last post by tomos on November 07, 2018, 04:24 AM »

But the intent was for the transaction payments to increase as the BTC production dropped off. However the transaction payments (e.g. cost...) part has turned into a rather total shit show that nobody is happy about.

-Stoic Joker (November 06, 2018, 03:59 PM)

I thought the promise was low-cost (and fast) transactions ... maybe that's why nobody's happy about it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release

« Last post by tomos on November 01, 2018, 03:55 PM »

AudioMarker Update:
V: 08:36GMT - 01/11/18 (E14-779Q)

See the following link for changelog information:
https://www.donation....msg424540#msg424540

-Stephen66515 (November 01, 2018, 03:55 AM)

also working on the Win 7 laptop here

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2018, 02:51 PM »

@tomos

Can you drop the files from this ZIP (attached) in to your AM folder (overwrite the files that are already there) and tell me if this worked

-Stephen66515 (October 31, 2018, 02:42 PM)

sorry... no joy

Spoiler

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:   AudioMarker.exe
  Problem Signature 02:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:   5bda04f3
  Problem Signature 04:   AudioMarker
  Problem Signature 05:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:   5bda04f3
  Problem Signature 07:   1b
  Problem Signature 08:   1
  Problem Signature 09:   System.IO.FileNotFoundException
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   6153
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Read our privacy statement online:
  http://go.microsoft....288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
  C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - AudioMarker: Language Learning - Pre-Release

« Last post by tomos on October 31, 2018, 02:22 PM »

Okay, I tried on my desktop which is also Windows 7 Professional.
Same problem :-( **
Desktop had NET 4.7.2 installed already -- are you sure it works with 4.7.2? (I dont know which prior NET versions were installed.)

but when I check via this:

[Select]

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP"

it only lists up to version 4.0

-tomos (October 30, 2018, 04:52 PM)

gives:

^this appears to only list round numbers (or 'half-numbers' e.g. 3.5) -- it's possible the existence of '4' and '4.0' suggest that version 4 has been updated.

(Control Panel &) Windows Updates show 4.7.2 NET to be installed:

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 for Windows 7 for x64 (KB4054530)   Installation date: ‎2018-‎08-‎10 16:59   Installation status: Successful

The link you gave for the MS tool to test NET does not say it works with more recent versions of NET -- probalby does. (But not tonight for me.)

Dont worry about this Stephen unless you really want to get this working on 7.
I will continue to test if you want. I was thinking I might be doing something stupid, but with the same problem on two machines... who knows

** ie. get message AudioMarker has stopped working immediately with following details (look similar to last):

Spoiler

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:   AudioMarker.exe
  Problem Signature 02:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:   5bd8c6fc
  Problem Signature 04:   AudioMarker
  Problem Signature 05:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:   5bd8c6fc
  Problem Signature 07:   1b
  Problem Signature 08:   1
  Problem Signature 09:   System.IO.FileNotFoundException
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   6153
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789