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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor running 2 instances on Windows startup

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2012, 09:52 AM »

thanks mouser

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor running 2 instances on Windows startup

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2012, 09:40 AM »

After the last update (via dcupdater)
I was offered the option to start with windows for all users.
I clicked yes without particularly thinking about it (it was already set to start with windows, whether with all users or not, I cant say)

Next reboot I got this



the only app I currently have installed for checking on startup programmes is Winpatrol(Pro). It says:



I tried disabling one of them, seemed to work (but I didnt check too closely to be honest). Today though I notice there were two instances of SC showing in the tray.
I closed both and used FARR to open it to take screenshot for this post. It was an older version (2.xx.xx).
I closed it and used the same entry in FARR to open it again, and it was the most recent version.

so things are getting weird around here

Not sure even if this is SC's fault, but maybe you have an idea or a recommendation?
__________________
Win7 64bit

PS I notice CH&S also has the same two entries in Winpatrol & that works fine here...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble Botanicula Debut

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2012, 10:39 AM »

Very pretty and quirky but I am really not sure what you are trying to achieve.

-Carol Haynes (April 20, 2012, 08:43 AM)

You just defined my entire life!

-cranioscopical (April 20, 2012, 09:45 AM)

pretty boy, huh?

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Living Room / Re: Thoughts in remembrance of the 6 million (est.) murdered in the Holocaust

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2012, 02:50 AM »

mouser has always said that he feels that dc is not the right place for political and religious subjects. He's often ignored, but that wish does keep most of those discussions in check, which is helpful imo. I dont consider that censorship.
I've never seen a post censored here in the sense of removed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 06:33 PM »

Thanks, I'm up at 5.5GB mainly due to lots of large Tiff attachments.

How long did it take? Slow here...
It stopped a couple of times but seems to be running okay now.

It's a bummer that you cant just remove attachments in gmail...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 02:12 PM »

there was a request lately: IDEA: Application memory limiter

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Living Room / Re: Arrested and Convicted for Tweeting in the UK!!!

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 08:59 AM »

To add to the dabate here is another Twitter Jail Sentence:

http://www.guardian....mp;CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
[Student jailed for racist Fabrice Muamba tweets]

-Carol Haynes (April 18, 2012, 04:17 AM)

a couple of related articles since then on the Guardian

Student who abused Fabrice Muamba on Twitter 'should not have been jailed'
Thomas Hammarberg, the European commissioner for human rights, calls Liam Stacey's 56-day sentence excessive

Don't jail tweeters – that's not where the real racist problem lies
The criminal justice system is targeting racist individuals while endemic discrimination in Britain is allowed to prosper

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General Software Discussion / Re: MuPDF-based enhanced GUI

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 08:10 AM »

Does it really make such a big difference with load time?

I rarely open large PDFs, certainly with "normal" sized ones I'd stick to Adobe Reader these days (in spite of having no love for Adobe). It opens quickly, loads quickly, displays well, and is the best reader I know in terms of navigating & zooming around/in/out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for web program

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 05:07 AM »

also, is there any other better alternative?

-kalos (April 19, 2012, 05:01 AM)

FireFox and Adblock plus, with filter set for your region, is what I use.
Dont know if it's better, but I'm sure it's a whole lot easier...

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Survival Tricks for When the Zombie Apocalypse Hits :: Lifehacker

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 04:38 AM »

Shaun Of The Dead is worth watching for a few tips,
... and a few giggles

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Living Room / Re: Stop CISPA - Petition

« Last post by tomos on April 19, 2012, 04:00 AM »

Are there any congressmen who are tech literate, or are we doomed to suffer the consequences of their ignorance?

-zridling (April 19, 2012, 02:20 AM)

I suspect that even if they were tech literate, we'd be suffering the consequence of their indifference.

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General Software Discussion / Re: can any explorer alternative do this?

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 04:17 PM »

I didn't say above:
XYplorer does *not* create an index - so something that indexes the files, like locate32, will be faster.

How about Locate32?

-DerekHal (April 18, 2012, 04:12 PM)

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Living Room / Re: I'm Comic Sans, A**hole

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 03:37 PM »

I enjoyed this by the same author:

In Which I Fix
My Girlfriend’s
Grandparents’ WiFi
and Am Hailed as a
Conquering Hero.

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General Software Discussion / Re: can any explorer alternative do this?

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 03:14 PM »

XYplorer has a bunch of tabs for searching. So you can search for various things - e.g. a filename (or part of it) and content from within the file.
See where the mouse arrow is? You select which aspects you want to search for & the relevant tabs are highlighted with blue text

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General Software Discussion / Re: can any explorer alternative do this?

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 11:04 AM »

- xplorer² is more powerful than XYplorer? or XYplorer can do everything xplorer² does?

-kalos (April 18, 2012, 10:35 AM)

They are both very respected -
each file manager is going to have some pros and cons...

It would be interesting to see an objective feature comparision of the major file managers...
This wikipedia article will give you some idea - http://en.wikipedia....son_of_file_managers

I like XYplorer a lot but am not a "power" user so cant really comment (also I'm not familiar with xplorer²).

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General Software Discussion / Re: can any explorer alternative do this?

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 07:12 AM »

XYplorer has a very fast search - a bit more advanced than a box in the corner though!
But can also be used fairly simply...

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Living Room / Re: I'm Comic Sans, A**hole

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2012, 07:04 AM »

 

Enough of this [BS]. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Zoom Magnification Panel In Selecter Region Capture Mode

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2012, 08:38 PM »

And for those who like to do precise cropping after the capture, from within the Screenshot Captor interface, comes this new screencast video, teaching you how to use keyboard shortcuts to nudge the selection in different ways:

(see attachment in previous post)
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc25/sc25.html

-mouser (April 14, 2012, 02:35 PM)

wow, that just makes it really easy, very nicely done

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2012, 08:27 PM »

AOL had a couple killer ideas. They got washed out by the forces of time. I don't recall a screen ever like that, I was as loyal as they came.

-TaoPhoenix (April 14, 2012, 07:51 PM)

if you look closely at the screenshot, it says Kids only -
I dont know what exactly it was, but that's maybe why you missed it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New Zoom Magnification Panel In Selecter Region Capture Mode

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2012, 04:38 AM »

very impressive mouser

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2012, 03:21 PM »

We had to put my dog Molly down today. She started having siezures, went blind, could barely breath on her own, and was in a constant state of panic. And all of that happend in just the last 2 days. She was a rescue so we don't know her exact age, but I'd say she was 3-ish when she came to us ... and we've had her about 13 years.

-Stoic Joker (April 13, 2012, 11:48 AM)

I'm sorry SJ...

had to go find her:

And Here's Molly (She's a rescue) by our pool:

Molly was only supposed to be visiting for a weekend, but she curled up in my lap that Saturday morning ... and never left. To be honest, I caved in less than 20 minutes.

-Stoic Joker (October 10, 2010, 11:47 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2012, 06:07 AM »

This is just hilarious:

-Renegade (April 13, 2012, 12:20 AM)

hadnt heard him before, he's great

here's another from him including the topics:
heavy metal and comedy; the British riots; the "war on terror"; global warming; the Xfactor on the news, and music

http://www.youtube.c...&feature=related

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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship

« Last post by tomos on April 12, 2012, 08:56 AM »

Oh... @IainB - Thanks for finding that~! 

-Renegade (April 12, 2012, 08:38 AM)

+1

Develop limits on the ability of the fossil fuel industry to influence policy debate.

There's a phrase for that... It's called "silencing the opposition".

The woman is advocating censorship.

-Renegade (April 12, 2012, 08:38 AM)

maybe.
She's referring to PR campaigns by the fossil fuel industry to influence public perception of global warming and related science (she gives a link in the Wired Science link from Iain above - [PDF link: "How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science"]

(Again, I dont subscribe to censorship, but I dont subscribe to Exxon's tactics either - but I think the best "solution" is simply to publicise it.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: detect color in pdf

« Last post by tomos on April 12, 2012, 08:09 AM »

I'm curious why you need this kalos.

Related:
A few years back I sent a PDF for publication, it was vector "line-art" (black only) with "Black" text - it should have been treated as a one colour (Black) print, but for some reason the file insisted on been treated as full colour at their end (or maybe it was their layout software that insisted on treating it so). I dont really have much experience in this field, and the person I was dealing with at the publishers didnt really seem to be much of an expert either. We narrowed it down to the text, but couldnt figure out why it was so (as said, it was simply black text). To be honest I cant remember what exactly our solution was, we converted the file to "greyscale"/Black in some manner.

So, anyways, just curious
Also, if there is a solution, I'll certainly have a go at checking some PDFs... out of cusiousity :p

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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship

« Last post by tomos on April 12, 2012, 06:57 AM »

I didn't really mean to point out her out so much as censorship - which has been reversed, so that's a good thing.

And no matter how nutty anything she has to say is or isn't, I'm certainly glad that she CAN say it.

-Renegade (April 12, 2012, 06:42 AM)

yes, very true