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

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2012, 10:43 AM »

Sometimes I'll grab a photo of something and later, on closer inspection, I notice it has a choppy or saw-tooth look in different areas.  Before I start editing it I check the dpi amount.  This is when I see that it was captured in centimeter or inches.

-crabby3 (March 25, 2012, 10:28 AM)

Where/how do you check the dpi?
The dpi for the image is taken from the screen resolution information (e.g. 96 dpi here)
If that were expressed in centimetres it wouldnt change anything about the image itself.
Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something? - or everything :-)

sorry, overlapped with mouser's post...

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Living Room / Re: Google to Spy on Your Phone Calls Now...

« Last post by tomos on March 23, 2012, 03:37 PM »

Is this the same one -

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 12:01 PM)

yes, same one but just the animation is on app's link
(for once I can see something on youtube that others cant!)

- if so I want the chair NOW!! (Even if it does whisper at me)

-Carol Haynes (March 23, 2012, 12:01 PM)

cool chair all right!

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

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 04:22 PM »

Btw, is Daminion non-destructive, as in, can I safely let it catalog my image folder without it writing EXIF data to all images or something sinister like that?

-Jibz (March 05, 2012, 08:59 AM)

You can do it via Sync button (on the toolbar) > "Turn Off Auto-Syncing Metadata".

-K.Murat (March 06, 2012, 01:39 AM)

not sure of the implications of this - in particular for photos that have not been catalogued at all ? but also in general - what exactly happens with this option turned on?
... so I turned it off for the moment.


On another note:
I know that preferences have not been implemented, but it would be nice to be able to choose where the catalogue folder is located. For me, I think it would be logical to have it on the same drive as the photos.
[edit] I see if I had read the help file, I would have known to import via the Startup Wizard (menu/Help) where I would have gotten an option to say where the catalogue files would be stored (defaults to My Documents). I imported by clicking on a button bottom left of window (above the Daminion "Tray") but dont think I got the option [edit]

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 04:03 PM »

Mahesh 1111  



__________________________________________

1111 = Schnappszahl = "Schnapps-number" - the phenomenon whereby one sees something doubled (or more) after a few glasses of schnapps :-)

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Living Room / Re: Coding Government - (Ted.com video - very good)

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 01:58 PM »

That was very good Renegade

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 11:06 AM »

^ hah, good idea

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

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 11:04 AM »

Nerdy:

-justice (March 22, 2012, 10:42 AM)

Radiohead - that was it! I think it's brilliant.
From the original author here http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=pmfHHLfbjNQ
Gets going about the one minute mark in case you have a low tolerance...

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

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 10:17 AM »

Floppy disk music

What is Love on eight floppy drives

there was something similar posted on dc a couple of years ago, using old printers and harddrives - was it a version of something by Coldplay (not according to dc search), anyone remember?

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2012, 10:02 AM »

Here's my 2012 setup (there's a large Wacom Cintiq screen and machine/s somewhere else in the room under a load of crap). No doubt, this will seem quite inappropriate in another six years time; I suspect we'll all have giant fold out tablet displays running Micrsoft Metro XL.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-nudone (March 22, 2012, 09:03 AM)

Looks very nice
What's all the gradated colour lists on the left screen - if that's not a personal question!! - I mean what's making the lists

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2012, 09:01 AM »

but Ctrl+Click has no response

this can happen if you are trying to capture from an evil application that is intercepting keys it shouldn't be.
you could also try right hand ctrl key alone (no mouser click).

-mouser (March 20, 2012, 02:17 PM)

why am I not suprised at that from adobe...

Right-Ctrl doesn't work either.
A simple right click in the info part of the red frame works to show the menu - or clicking the icon, as suggested.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2012, 02:10 PM »

Sorry, I should have been clearer.
Ctrl+Shift+PrtScr has no effect when Adobe Reader is active window.
The SC tray icon goes red.
There was no red frame
BUT
now, after a reboot, there is a red frame, but Ctrl+Click has no response.

If I "manually" (via Right-click) start screenshot, "Test Window" works okay.
I get same message as in post #13 above, this time changing the two vertical overlaps gets it to show correct number of pages

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2012, 11:42 AM »

Still working fine here with Firefox 11.

-mouser (March 20, 2012, 11:08 AM)

My posts above were with version 3.
I just checked for updates and got 3.03.01, which did a perfect shot of this page, using "Test window" recommendations

-tomos (March 20, 2012, 11:37 AM)

doesnt work though on the PDF linked above (I have Adobe Reader installed 10.1.2) - neither within Firefox, nor if I save the file and open it. Doesnt appear to work with Adobe Reader at all (here).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2012, 11:37 AM »

Still working fine here with Firefox 11.

-mouser (March 20, 2012, 11:08 AM)

My posts above were with version 3.
I just checked for updates and got 3.03.01, which did a perfect shot of this page, using "Test window" recommendations

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Living Room / Re: Which decade was the most fun for you personally?

« Last post by tomos on March 20, 2012, 10:25 AM »

With me, each decade has it's ups and downs... thankfully more ups and downs.  But, it's been getting better and better.  So, no matter how relative things may be, my best times have always been the current times.

-wraith808 (March 20, 2012, 06:04 AM)

I'd say something like that for me too.
The 80's were memorable for me, especially the early 80's cause that's when I was in college and without responsibilities. It was kind-of fun being wild, but I'd choose more awareness and less baggage any day over those times...

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

« Last post by tomos on March 19, 2012, 10:13 AM »

There's a very nice review/summary here: Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell (from libregraphicsworld.org/)
including
What to expect in the future:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-tomos (March 17, 2012, 06:21 PM)

These links.

-IainB (March 18, 2012, 08:29 PM)

Thanks, I let them know.

-tomos (March 19, 2012, 08:44 AM)

I kind of thought it would be a false alarm - a site dedicated to open source software....

It's a false positive.

http://bit.ly/zOP3mM

I think I'll report that to
http://forums.malwar...dex.php?showforum=42, but in the
long run I'd rather not bother getting in touch with every anti-virus
software vendor out there

Thanks for reporting.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: IDimager Pro 50% off

« Last post by tomos on March 19, 2012, 09:28 AM »

I've tried this one...looks REALLY similar to acdsee pro.  What does it do that makes it unique or special?  I couldn't really tell.

-superboyac (March 19, 2012, 09:10 AM)

look here:
https://www.donation...;topicseen#msg196451

and probably best to scan through these posts in the same thread (Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?)
https://www.donation...rch2;search=idimager

Doesnt seem to win any prizes for intuitive interface...

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

« Last post by tomos on March 19, 2012, 08:44 AM »

There's a very nice review/summary here: Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell (from libregraphicsworld.org/)
including
What to expect in the future:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-tomos (March 17, 2012, 06:21 PM)

These links.

-IainB (March 18, 2012, 08:29 PM)

Thanks, I let them know.

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

« Last post by tomos on March 18, 2012, 12:11 PM »

The Scribus link above seems to go to what Malwarebytes tells me is a malware IP address, so I didn't check it out.

-IainB (March 18, 2012, 08:23 AM)

which link is that?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Ability to *up*vote a post

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 07:17 PM »

I'd upvote this post.

-mwb1100 (March 17, 2012, 06:40 PM)

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop sharing

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 06:26 PM »

TeamViewer gets a lot of reccomendations in this thread:
Easy Remote access to another PC?

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

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 06:21 PM »

This (layout etc.) isn't my field -
sometimes I wish it was, but that's another story.

Scribus 1.4 final was released in January of this year.

There's a very nice review/summary here: Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell (from libregraphicsworld.org/)
including
What to expect in the future:

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DC Website Help and Extras / Ability to *up*vote a post

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 06:10 PM »

I was going to post in another thread, but seeing as this would have been veering even more off-topic than the thread already was, and the thread is about threads veering off-topic, I thought  I'd better start a new one ;-)


I do like the idea of being able to give a post an "up" vote.
A down vote option only encourages colliseum type behaviour (you know, looking for blood etc.), as people have said already. But I often miss the option to give a very casual +1 to a post - good reccomendation, nice retort, whatever.

I wont lose any sleep about this one, and am not even sure it's a good idea, but I still miss it - often enough too.

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Living Room / Re: Auslogics promoting false speed tester?

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 05:56 PM »

Pluto (which will always be a planet to me)

-timns (March 17, 2012, 04:14 PM)

somehow I misread that as always a planet near me...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6 - $24.99 / £19.99

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 05:49 PM »

http://www.xara.com/...-graphic-designer-6/
Shipping is required to USA ($8), even though you can use the key on the trial version.

-NigelH (March 17, 2012, 05:36 PM)

thanks Nigel,
do you or anyone know if shipping is required elsewhere as well?
I have to give all my details before I can find out - I prefer to find out elsewhere.



edit/ I see they do have a shipping details link on Carol's link [UK/affiliate] from the other thread:

UK   FREE
Europe      £4
Rest of the World   £6

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Living Room / Re: On a lighter note: A Man Said to the Universe

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 05:39 PM »

It does now.

-app103 (March 17, 2012, 02:11 PM)

yes ma'am