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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 01:48 PM »

I updated to FF11, and get the same results so far in any webpage or PDF file tried:

no response to a Control+Click within the red frame.

If I right-click the red frame/title and select "Capture selection now", I get the dialogue where I can choose scrolling capture.
Testing the window, so far, I always get this message:

Application being captured: firefox.exe (MozillaWindowClass)

ATTENTION: A number of methods were attempted to scroll the contents of the target window, but nothing worked.

Sometimes when this happens it simply means you have to first click inside the actual content area of the window to be captured.

You could try clicking inside the target window where the content is, and then click the "Re-test" button; or choose manual scroll method below.

Alternatively, if you selected a full application window, click the "Back" button and re-select a more specific scrollable content area.

clicking &/or scrolling within the window doesnt help.
I didnt take it any further.

so,
there does seem to be a bug in connection with FF 11

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 01:26 PM »

This example is different again in that it's a PDF within the browser - presumably in Adobe Reader?

-tomos (March 17, 2012, 11:31 AM)

Assuming you addressed me:
No, I don't have Adobe reader installed, but Foxit PDF reader. AFAIK that doesn't have a plug-in for Chrome (in contrary to FireFox), so I guess Chrome handles pdf display itself.

-Ath (March 17, 2012, 01:12 PM)

Sorry for the confusion, Ath - that was directed at peterlonz's Firefox 11

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General Software Discussion / Re: System tray to be on the top:

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 11:52 AM »

@hulkbuster  you say "ubuntu skin pack" - is that something for windows?

drag the taskbar to the top should work in windows (you may have to unlock it first)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 11:40 AM »

But as I have said this simple vertical scroll capture should nevertheless be dead simple in SC or there is little purpose in learning how to use it; MHO of course.

-peterlonz (March 17, 2012, 01:23 AM)

Thanks for the details peterlonz
FWIW I have heard that all (or almost all?) screen capture tools have problems with scrolling capture with one app or another. Which is why mouser developed this new scrolling capture. I dont find it particularly intuitive to use, but it has worked extremely well for me, with some quirks at times (like in my previous post).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 17, 2012, 11:31 AM »

With browsers, mouser actually recommends using a browser add-on to capture large web pages.
This example is different again in that it's a PDF within the browser - presumably in Adobe Reader?
see the first minute of
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc21/sc21.html

In FF 10.0.2 I was able to get a good screenshot - but not easily:

I tested window & it couldnt scroll - recommended I click in the window & retest - that worked. I started the capture,
in the next dialogue, I clicked:

1. "START HERE: guess margins"
and
2. Guess overlaps...     #2 gave me this message:

[Window Title] Screenshot Captor

[Content] ATTENTION:

The vertical overlap value could not be guessed.  This means that either that the page
 contents have no overlap, or, more likely, that the overlap was too small to
 reliably detect or that the contents changed while scrolling.

Please check the stitched image and manually adjust the margin and overlap values.

Tip: After changing margins you might try pressing the "2" button to re-guess overlaps.

[OK]

I then had to change the Vertical value under "Trim & Show" (top-left in screenshot below)



I've had that experience before - and this was the last value I tried changing (it isnt really covered by the suggestion in the message above to change "margin and overlap values" - to be honest I'm not sure what it is or does...). So, this time it was the first value I tried changing ;-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on March 16, 2012, 03:17 PM »

Do you know if it has to be installed/registered within the remaining download time ?
(1 day & 03:42 as I write)

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

« Last post by tomos on March 16, 2012, 03:10 PM »

^ laughing out loud at that one

Liked the Universe listening to Adele too, seems somehow apt

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on March 16, 2012, 04:52 AM »

I couldn't even get to the website with Google Chrome! Opera got me there and download was fine.

-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2012, 04:46 AM)

thanks Carol

edit/ on Opera it's actually downloading - but at rates that vary between predictions of taking 6 hours up to 14 days ;-)

-tomos (March 16, 2012, 04:41 AM)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara Xtreme 5 Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on March 16, 2012, 04:41 AM »

Download failed, dont know if it's them or me/local (I seem to be having problems here with some sites yesterday & today)


edit/ on Opera it's actually downloading - but at rates that vary between predictions of taking 6 hours up to 14 days ;-)

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Living Room / Re: A change I've seen in the forum

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 06:22 PM »

^ lol


As someone who is often fairly off-topic, and who at other times complains about other people going off-topic - I kind of think it's just up to people to say if they think things are going to far off course for each particular thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 03:28 PM »

^ you can get 3 terabyte disks now Curt - the drives are the same size as usual.


edit/ - if your machine has no more space for drives, you could always replace one of your drives...

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Living Room / Re: New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 10:38 AM »

My opinion on the system itself - I was kind of meh. All that build up for some top-secret method of organization that has been refined over 10 years? I just expected more. I don't know exactly what I expected, but I expected there to be more of whatever it turned out to be.

-Innuendo (March 15, 2012, 10:24 AM)

I suspect part of why he wants contact per newsletter is because of such responses - I'm not knocking your response Innuendo! but if he had it up on his web page, I suspect the majority of responses would be similar.

But hey, think about it - why should it be more complicated?
I actually think , the simpler it is the better. No I actually think: it either works - or it doesnt. I'm gonna give it a go, starting it today.


PS/edit/  thanks Wraith!

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Living Room / Re: New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 10:07 AM »

Eh, I dont really want to talk about copyright here -

I didnt want to post ithe email in total as a matter of respect. He didnt say anywhere that I shouldnt, but he *did* say it would not be up on his site, and would only be available through his new newsletter. (FWIW I havent even seen a copyright symbol.)

If you want to discuss the copyright issue I'd personally prefer if it was in another thread. Thanks ;-)

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Living Room / Re: New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 09:35 AM »

Ok. Finished reading the first installment. It's ok as far as it goes. I'm not sure what exactly the author feels is so different about this scheme.

-40hz (March 15, 2012, 08:12 AM)

It is very simple, isn't it. But I believe the simplicity has evolved from thrashing out two previous versions with a very active user community. Re experts and opinions - I think the only way of properly judging it is to try it out.

I think it's fair enough (?) to quote this bit from the email:

"Why It Works"

Why It Works ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the beginning of this newsletter I said there were three factors which every time management system needs to address: urgency, importance and psychological readiness. Let's see how FV deals with each of these. Urgency. Because of the nature of the preselection process, urgent tasks tend to get selected - generally speaking the human brain wants to do things that it knows are urgent. If things come up that are particularly urgent they can be added to the preselected list at any time. Importance. Generally speaking the human brain is a bit less keen on doing important stuff than it is on doing urgent stuff. This is particularly the case when the important stuff is difficult. However the FV preselection process ensures that tasks towards the beginning of the list are given as much attention as tasks towards the end of the list. Psychological Readiness. This is where FV really enters new dimensions. By using a pre-selection process, the brain is softened up towards the selected tasks. But this isn't all. The selection process is based on what you want to do. This colours the whole preselected list so that even the first task, which you may not have wanted to do at all, gets affected. In addition, doing the list in reverse order, with the least wanted task last, uses structured procrastination to get the tasks done.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by tomos on March 15, 2012, 09:19 AM »

So here I am with the most frequent & difficult task, for which I sought out Screen Capture, & I can't make it work.
Surely I don't have to watch an instruction video for something so fundamental?

-peterlonz (March 15, 2012, 02:39 AM)

You shouldnt need to:
Here, I press the Control key and left-click the mouse anywhere within the red square.

If that's not working for you, you must have found a bug (maybe you could give more details if it doesnt work).

I would recommend watching the videos for scrolling capture anyways - at the end of the day, you'll save yourself time, as it can be complex. But it works great ;-)

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Living Room / Re: New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 14, 2012, 11:59 AM »

Oh, I didn't mean the contents of the e-mail (and totally agree with you), but the impressions of the system once you have time to peruse it more closely.

-wraith808 (March 14, 2012, 11:47 AM)

edit/ If I get the time to have a closer look I'll report back.

Much appreciated. Now that I'm more fully coherent (and in an admittedly less cranky mood now that my allergy meds have started working) I'll probably subscribe too.
 

-40hz (March 14, 2012, 11:38 AM)

Well, with my record with these (organisational) things, someone else is bound to try it out (properly) before I do

But, OTOH, a new system - especially a simple one - is tempting

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Living Room / Re: New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 14, 2012, 11:06 AM »

I'm always amazed that some people feel the need to make you jump through hoops just to get some straight information out of them about something.

-40hz (March 14, 2012, 09:46 AM)

Yeah, I'm not really sure what that's about.
Normally I wouldnt post something so obscure, but he got a fair bit of attention during the Getting Organised Experiments here.

I could copy and paste his email but I think that would probably be against his wishes. Hopefully he'll "out" it on his site soon.


edit/ If I get the time to have a closer look I'll report back.

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Living Room / New Time management system from Mark Forster

« Last post by tomos on March 14, 2012, 09:10 AM »

Like the title says, there's a "New Time management system from Mark Forster"
called FV (the "Final Version")

Currently he's only giving information about it per newsletter - so you'll have to sign up if you're interested. For some reason, even if you are already receiving his newsletter, you still have to sign up again.

I haven't looked at it that closely, so cant say much about it - does seem very simple though, even simpler than it's previous incarnations as AF (AutoFocus).

Some info here
http://www.markforst...version-is-here.html
(Signup on the same page.)

FV Forum here
http://www.markforster.net/fv-forum/

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Living Room / Re: Quickly see if DoCo is up or down

« Last post by tomos on March 13, 2012, 01:33 PM »

^ but I can access now...

-tomos (March 13, 2012, 12:43 PM)

You make a good point...My Argument is Invalid 

 

-Stephen66515 (March 13, 2012, 01:15 PM)

ahhh...
can I give you this back then ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Quickly see if DoCo is up or down

« Last post by tomos on March 13, 2012, 12:43 PM »

^ but I can access now...

Will bookmark it for next time I have problems

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Independent ragged edges application

« Last post by tomos on March 13, 2012, 12:40 PM »

PierrL, do you use mousres FARR launcher?
minicap can also be used from within FARR via an alias (I posted about it here lately)

My favourite *easy* screen capture "programme" was minicap via FARR (as an alias). I lost track of it after my last hardware update. Was my favourite - would be nice if it came with FARR by default (dont know if that would cause other headaches). Just re-"installed" the alias, it came with an outdated minicap so I wont link to it (I replaced the minicap with up-to-date files, will see how I get on...)


Edit/ although I see there's an Alias only download that presumably works with an installed minicap
http://tuckndar.dcme.../download.php?list.3

-tomos (March 09, 2012, 01:03 PM)

If you're lucky, mouser might be able to transfer the effect you want from SC programme to minicap...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to become Admin' for real?

« Last post by tomos on March 13, 2012, 12:38 PM »

I had none of these problem with a standalone machine.

Possibly because of my settings (?) -
After a bit of discussion I took the advice in this thread -
I run an admin account and have UAC cranked up to the highest level.

I also have machine setup so I dont have to add the password at all - but I'd have to say that is dangerous - I almost forgot it once and still havent backed it up properly

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Living Room / Re: Quickly see if DoCo is up or down

« Last post by tomos on March 13, 2012, 12:10 PM »

A lot of sites were inaccessible for me today.
I tried Justice's link earlier and it said it was "just me" - but it obviously wasn't "just me" if this thread is here ;-)

Oddly enough, it now says google (it's default site) is down, even though it isnt...



http://www.isup.me/google.com

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Living Room / Re: URGENT Board Mod Request: Sobriety Mod

« Last post by tomos on March 12, 2012, 10:37 AM »

Well, while I've had a few, let me post a few thoughts:

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=-ztJpFE6cfo

Definitely one of the best.

-Renegade (March 11, 2012, 03:18 PM)

I'm not a Judas Priest fan, but I love that track, it just sounds so ... fresh
wish it went on for a bit longer though ;-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: screen capture secure-eBook and print

« Last post by tomos on March 10, 2012, 03:56 PM »

The better way would be for me to add a feature that's been requested before -- an option to have SC save each page as a separate file -- or even a multi-page pdf.  That seems like it would be a good feature to add.  I will try to find the time to add it soon.

-mouser (March 10, 2012, 09:16 AM)

I came across another situation lately where it could have been helpful - I didnt like the export options from a PIM, and wanted to get multiple-page screenshots of the (long) list in the PIM, that could then be made into a multi-page PDF.
i.e. +1, if the time is available :-)