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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2012, 05:32 AM »

Veering slightly off-topic:

# The creation of the humerous/offensive video (Alex Jones) serves to
a large extent to make people more sympathetic to the person/cause
it so personally attacks. (I'm talking about people who are not already
supporters of that cause **)

# YouTube/Google OTOH, by censoring the video, ironically serve to
create sympathy for the person/cause they censor.


This could be called my opinion - but to me this is patently obvious.
I see it again and again and again and again. People who think they
are helping a cause actually damaging it and thereby supporting
whatever it is they're fighting...


** I'm a good example of a casual fairly neutral person watching the
vid - and I am honestly neutral in this climate debate because I'm
so totally confused by it at this stage. I see what this woman has
written as offensive and stupid. I watch his video and I sympathise
with her -because of the personal attack on her looks/facial expression-
and thereby his (Alex Jones) cause is weakened in my eyes.

Similarly with Google's censorship..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by tomos on April 06, 2012, 04:58 AM »

Hi crabby3
how exactly did you try to open the file in WordPad?
Was it a file that was previously opened and you just clicked it in the recently opened list?

If you feel it didnt work properly I see this in the comments for that page you link to:



link above is actually for XP so not sure if helpful
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147

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Living Room / Re: More YouTube Censorship

« Last post by tomos on April 05, 2012, 01:50 PM »

This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy
prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten

Dunno what google are thinking - **
I presume they were put under (a lot of?) pressure to remove this, but even so, what kind of response did they expect...

I saw the video the other day, and all he did was poke fun at this professor:

-Renegade (April 04, 2012, 11:09 PM)

looks like you're poking fun a bit at the professor as well :p
She does seem to mostly have a fairly quirky expression, but I cant help wondering if the first pic you show is photoshopped (*not* saying you had anything to do with it if it is!)


** [edit] then again, I havent seen the video - is it on show anywhere else? [/edit]

[another_edit] here it is. I'd censor it for not being funny; for being very personal (harrassing bullying?); but I dont believe in censorship myself, &, I suppose it's besides the point - but I've seen lots worse on youtube [/another_edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone testing Daminion Media Manager ?

« Last post by tomos on April 05, 2012, 01:26 PM »

thanks K.Murat
will have to update my first-impression comments for version .9

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by tomos on April 05, 2012, 12:58 PM »

-yes, Windows will see "My (your) Pictures" as one system folder, even if you split it ;-)
you just need to tell it to.

-Curt (April 05, 2012, 12:35 PM)

anyone know how exactly that's done in Vista? (moving My Docs etc)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by tomos on April 05, 2012, 04:35 AM »

Can I move stuff that's stored on C: drive to D: drive ?  Will this cause any problems or issues?  

I'm almost out of memory (disk space) on C: but D: is mostly unused.  I want to move everything to D: except the Users folder.

-crabby3 (April 05, 2012, 12:34 AM)

"My" Documents/photos/etc are often moved to the second partition - that is possible, but I'm not a Vista user, so not sure how difficult it is in Vista.
Hopefully someone else will chip in with more info there.

When you say "I want to move everything to D: except the Users folder" were you thinking of moving all the software? That's not so possible. Or is there other stuff on C: ?

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Living Room / Re: Publishers shoot toes off again

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2012, 09:46 AM »

An interesting article  in Wired provides yet another example of how content providers would rather protect their intellectual property from theft than make it worthwhile for people to pay for it.

-xtabber (April 04, 2012, 08:46 AM)

in particular, how font foundries were afraid of their fonts being ripped off, so they didn't give licenses for html5 or PDF - so many magazines used PNGs until now...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Unwanted move to OLDER

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2012, 08:14 AM »

But perhaps it would be a good idea to have it off by default?

-Deozaan (April 04, 2012, 06:11 AM)

I do remember getting a big shock when it was introduced - wtf happened all my files

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on April 04, 2012, 08:08 AM »

"50 Words for Snow" - Kate Bush's album from last year - it's growing on me -
it's very, eh - meditative I guess you could say...

that's in a playlist - the first 7 vids are the tracks from the album.
I especially like the first four tracks myself. The 4th video is blocked here, probably cause it was a single - here's another link for it (the single version), seeing as it's one of my favourites

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Living Room / Re: I'm Going to Build a PC. Suggestions?

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2012, 02:58 PM »

I'd spring the extra $35 and get the i5-2500K - these things are probably the best 'bang for buck' CPU around, you can go up to 4.3GHz by just changing the multiplier, all on the stock HSF.

-4wd (March 27, 2012, 06:54 PM)

I'm no expert, but when buying myself (autumn last year) I read a few times that this one was best value/"bang for buck". The extra $80 (comparing with Carols link above) will get you more, but not really a whole lot more by the sounds of it.
So unless you really plan to use that extra, or if you just have the dosh...

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2012, 05:39 AM »

lol Deo
god, I always feel so sorry for those hairless cats

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Living Room / Re: Those "Boy's Own" type comics from the 40's & 50's

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2012, 05:36 AM »

I was never a big comic fan growing up, but a friend of mine used get The Victor in the 70's so I read a bit of that (all I can remember now are the dramatic war stories, very propaganda-ish in retrospect).
and of course -veering off-topic I guess :p - The Beano
with
Dennis the Menace (no, not the US one!) http://www.beano.com...no/dennis-the-menace
and Gnasher http://www.beano.com...27s-tale?decade=1970

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Swift To-Do List 7 Standard FREE today 2012-03-26 Only on BDJ

« Last post by tomos on April 03, 2012, 03:10 AM »

dextronet is repeating the upgrade offer they also gave via Bits du Jour:

-Curt (April 02, 2012, 04:45 PM)

just to remind any trigger happy purchasers of the possible cons to this purchase:

seems very expensive to me, especially in the context of the pro version being demeaned.

-tomos (March 26, 2012, 12:31 PM)

It's extremely expensive, and now those who shelled out for the Pro version are left hanging, as new features will go into the Ultimate version mostly. In a three-tier scheme like this, the top version is usually geared toward enterprise environments (multi-user database, security, advanced connectivity or various data exchange options, etc). But to add a spell-checker module (most likely just a third-party component) and some icons and call it "ultimate" is quite... wrong IMO.

-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 12:46 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: TicTac 1.7.0.0

« Last post by tomos on April 02, 2012, 10:21 AM »

TicTac Lite is available from the same page. It works the same as TicTac, but instead of using a Tray Icon Menu, it just uses an invisible window and hotkeys. I implemented it as a vc++ Win32 message loop with no icons or other resources to keep it small.

When run, if it loads successfully you should hear a chime. Press Alt-F1 for About box(with opportunity to donate.)  Press Win-NumberPad0 to get a Quit confirmation dialog.  Win-NumPad1 - 9 moves the active window same as TicTac.

-MilesAhead (September 10, 2010, 07:23 PM)

I'm not very familiar with the hotkeys to move windows in Windows 7, so I dont know if it's worthwhile using TicTac/Lite (?)

Anyways - on Win7 64bit - I tried running TicTac Lite

• "normally"
• as admin
• in XP SP3 comaptible mode

each time, I got this message:

---------------------------
TicTacLite
---------------------------
Could Not Register Win-NumPad 0 Quit Hotkey - Aborting!
---------------------------
OK  
---------------------------

what do you reckon?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9... cm vs. in

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2012, 03:01 PM »

So, (the plot thickens?) -
I guess it could also be possible that PSP is just guessing the size - especially if it's in inches, but also even if shown in metric...

You could test it by opening PNGs with a different resolution/dpi to the standard that you're always seeing in PSP.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9... cm vs. in

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2012, 02:58 PM »

After a quick look, it seems as though the png image that crabby has that shows info in inches in PSP is actually lacking any DPI info in it, making PSP use a default and not showing dpi.  I think that's what's happening.

-mouser (March 30, 2012, 10:50 AM)

so the programme just desnt know the actual size of the image and is just guessing/using a default setting, say 96dpi, or 72dpi ?

FWIW, I realise now that my ancient Photoshop (5,5) does not recognise any dpi info in PNGs. Screenshots from mouser's SC - show at 96dpi in SC but at 72dpi in Photoshop...
If I change the dpi in SC it still doesnt change in Photoshop.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCode In A Box | Preview

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2012, 02:50 PM »

looking forward to this

(...will wait till later in the weekend, see if there's anything here, if not will contact then...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9... cm vs. in

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2012, 06:57 AM »

^ thanks Crabby, but my problem wasnt with screenshots at all (but *was* with PNG files.) Not important to me anyways as it's not a current problem for me.

The solution was meant to be vague... there didn't seem to be much interest in my this problem...  

-crabby3 (March 29, 2012, 09:12 PM)

Not sure where you get that from - you got lots of replies (I've started threads that have gotten no replies lol)
We just thought (incorrectly) that the problem was with PSP, until Jibz pointed out above, the way that PNGs are either set to "no-units" or metric.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Poor Planning for Services from Companies - HTC, Apple, MS, etc.

« Last post by tomos on March 30, 2012, 06:31 AM »

Anyways, like I said... A bit ranty...

-Renegade (March 29, 2012, 11:02 PM)

understandably!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9... cm vs. in

« Last post by tomos on March 29, 2012, 08:37 AM »

Found a solution to this PNG-Metric-grabbing issue... and the problem doesn't seem to be related to my Paint Shop Pro.   

-crabby3 (March 29, 2012, 07:26 AM)

aren't you going to tell us what it is
- I could actually use a solution for that (I have had the problem of my Photoshop not being able to read size of image files (I think it was with pngs) - it just showed them at 72dpi.

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

« Last post by tomos on March 27, 2012, 12:38 PM »

You can't make this stuff up!

-Renegade (March 27, 2012, 02:11 AM)

smoking for a cough is another one I've seen - from 40's or 50's

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General Software Discussion / Re: SCRIBUS - Open Source Desktop Publishing

« Last post by tomos on March 27, 2012, 12:30 PM »

my artistic side sleeps during the day so it won't get me in trouble at work.

-superboyac (March 27, 2012, 12:16 PM)

lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone testing Daminion Media Manager ?

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2012, 02:27 PM »

I edited post above re importing files, but I also wanted to bump the question:

what are the implications (pros/cons) of turning on/off "Auto-Syncing Metadata"?
I presume,
for photos that have not been catalogued in another programme, it will only sync tags etc added manually in Daminion?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Swift To-Do List 7 Standard FREE today 2012-03-26 Only on BDJ

« Last post by tomos on March 26, 2012, 12:31 PM »

Dextronet has recently sent me this (I'm a registered user of the Pro version):

We've recently launched new Ultimate edition of Swift To-Do List. Compared to
Professional, it adds these new features:

1) 100 new tree icons (so there is no 244 in total in Ultimate!)
2) Two-line displaying of too long task names
3) Spellchecker for notes and memos
4) Multi-level numbered lists in notes and memos (outlines)
5) Other extra Ultimate-only features that will be added in the future as free Ultimate-only upgrades.

I started with the Standard version in 2007, later upgraded to Pro. That was already quite expensive. Now in a classic bait-and-switch, they are offering a new "Ultimate" version... which has more icons and a spell-checker and a promise... for $199.95 (regular price).

-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 08:12 AM)

seems very expensive to me, especially in the context of the pro version being demeaned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor... cm vs. in

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2012, 12:37 PM »

Perhaps there is some misunderstanding and you think that someone is upset about your question/request -- not at all.

-mouser (March 25, 2012, 11:50 AM)

yes - not at all here too

I think (especially after mouser's experimenting) it's actually got nothing to do with the image, but has to do with the programme settings. In my ancient version of photoshop I can choose to look at the resolution in terms of pixels-per-inch (dpi), or pixels-per-cm.