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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 04:18 PM »

where do I get them? I'm not sure what you mean by the names.

-moerl (April 12, 2006, 03:50 PM)

When you open the normal window the names are the ones you select in the drop down menu. Actually they are listed in your original post LOL

The first letters are S (Senheiser) and R (Realtek) - the script above already has the right letters.

All you need to do is download and install autohotkey (http://www.autohotke...utoHotkeyInstall.exe) save the script above via a text editor with .ahk as it's extension and then doubleclick the script file to toggle your sound card.

(I have attached the AHK script to this post in a zip file)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Real time disk space monitor required

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 03:35 PM »

Speed Fan can read SMART temperatures.

On the specials page there is HDDlife with a discount making it quite cheap.

Incidentally I have HDDlife installed and it doesn't work brilliantly with Western Digital Caviar drives. HDDlife say there is an issue with WD drives reporting the wrong temperature.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 12:58 PM »

I like the fact you can toggle it on and off too with the numerical keypad . so I only need to see it when I want to.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 12:00 PM »

Ah, I see - I have to use the mouse LOL !!!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 11:53 AM »

Being dense here - how do you get the options windows for this? I can't see anythingin the menus or toolbars ??

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 11:44 AM »

@Carol: Huh? Just try it (if you are using Firefox) - it might look complicated, but it's great fun to use!

-brotherS (April 12, 2006, 06:35 AM)

OK since you're keen 

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 11:41 AM »

I use it on my lap, lying on a coach

-urlwolf (April 12, 2006, 07:50 AM)

did you mean couch? 

-LuckMan212 (April 12, 2006, 10:38 AM)

Depends on whether it is a laptop or not 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 07:04 AM »

I'm using Perfect Keyboard from www.softwareutilities.com

It's been around for many years now. At least 10+ years if I remember correctly.

Apart from shortcuts to replace text, it does a lot of other things like allow you to record keystrokes, and for the more adventurous, it has a lot of other functions in it and even a VBA like scripting language depending on which version.

It is very powerful indeed provided one taps the power.

Of course there are many such programs around.

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 03:49 AM)

Actually it orginates from http://www.pitrinec.com/ (I presume he must also have aquired the new domain name too - which was a good buy I guess!).

If you want a good Macro program MacroToolWorks (http://www.softwareu...s.com/toolsworks.htm) is not cheap but includes everything you could ever want out of a macro  apps, also PerfectMenu allows you to enhance all right click menus in Windows and add macro buttons to them etc. They work well together.

MTW Advanced Scripting Edition also includes Visual Basic scripting style support.

If you are going to buy any of these utilities it is worth considering Macro tool works as it includes the functionality of pretty much all the other utilities (except Perfect Menu).

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:57 AM »

Right now, I use a macro program that allows repeats except that when you press the trigger (<space>) there's a popup that gives you the possible choices.

ap=approach
ap=appraise

The popup in this case would be
1. approach
2. appraise

To select appraise, all You have to do is press 2 and appraise would be inserted where the cursor is.

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 01:07 AM)

Try http://www.clasohm.com/lmt/en/ which does exactly this as you type. It learns your vocabulary as you type documents or you can feed it text documents to train it to your vocab. Don't go mad though if the dictionary gets too big it slows down. It doesn't expand abbreviations though (as far as I remember) just gives choices from the first few letters. IIRC you can include phrases though.

It has been a while since I used it but it worked pretty well.

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Living Room / Re: Can some one put me out of my misery - prog to expand words as you type

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:51 AM »

Thanks - it was Let Me Type !!

Phew - it was driving me nuts!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:25 AM »

What ever lights your candle 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:24 AM »

Actually it should be trivial to organise this to have a hotkey to do the swapping ... no time at the mo (I'm sure someone can write it in 2 secs but I need to scour the helpfiles) maybe later if no one has done it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:15 AM »

Can you assign specific numbers or are they generated page by page? If they change all the time it looks like hard work to me!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:09 AM »

Thanks - trouble with AHK is that there are just too many damn options for everything!

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Living Room / Can some one put me out of my misery - prog to expand words as you type

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 06:04 AM »

Ages ago we talked about (and I installed but can no longer find) apps that help you speed type by trying to anticipate what you are going to type and presenting a popup list of words and phrases for you to choose from. There was one free one in particular which I tried and liked but I have reinstalled since and can't find the installer.

I have searched the forums, searched my hard discs and searched in google and I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Anyone help? PLEASE

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 04:56 AM »

e.g. this command below opens the Audio tab in your Multimedia Devices applet.

[Select]

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl,,2

-lanux128 (April 12, 2006, 01:36 AM)

Great start ...

Once the window is open you can use ALT D to make sure the device field is highlighted.

If the device names start with different letters just press the first letter to select the device and press return to close the window.

An AHK script to do this would be:

[Select]

Run, RunDll32.exe shell32.dll`,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl`,`,2
Sleep, 1000
send, {alt down}d{alt up}m{enter}

where m (in the last line) is the first letter of your device name.

If you make two scripts, one for each device you can just double click the correct device when you need to swap.

You may need to fiddle with the sleep delay too on your system depending on how quickly the window opens.

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Jazper's Software / Re: What is ShoutcastConcierge?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 12, 2006, 04:25 AM »

I almost never listen to streaming music mainly because there is so little I like, esp. the lack of classical music streams. The ones that do exist are 'popular' classics (which basically means stuff you've heard in TV ads or in film music).

Just a shame there are no serious classical streams (at least that I can find).

I don't listen to music radio much either for the same reasons. BBC Radio 3 used to come close but they have 'dumbed down' in recent years to try and compete with Virgin and ClassicFM's offerings.

I like lots of other kinds of music but I don't like to listen to what's on just for the sake of it.

Shoutcast Concierge comes close to solving some of the problems because I can at least have a pile of streams and look to see if there is anything I fancy listening to without having the stuff I don't want to listen to pootling along in the background. Having said that I am amazed that www.shoutcast.com don't have a 'my favourite streams' feature which would have saved the need for extra software!

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Living Room / Re: Happy birthday Carol H.

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 06:17 PM »

Thanks all, much appreciated.

Surprised no one wants Belgium though - think of all the chocolate and chips ...

(but I suppose Peter Mandelson* might be off putting).

*

Political comment - don't read if you are sensitive

For those who don't know he is a crony of Tony Blair. He was sacked for being corrupt umpteen times from the Bristish Cabinet but TB kept bringing him back after he thought everone had forgotten. After the final debacle he offered PM the ultimate insult (ha ha) an unelected gravy train for as long as he wants as a European Commissioner.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 05:00 PM »

Neat - well done

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Living Room / Re: Giant devil rabbit terrorises village

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 01:53 PM »

Do they really think a woolen rabbit will survive for 20 years in the open? Anyone taking bets on it?

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 01:06 PM »

Not sure about elsewhere but iTunes is generally 79p a track or £7.90 an album in the UK (presumably ~99c and $10 in the US?). You can listen to a clip to preview tracks but they are very short - otherwise you buy it or don't is there moto.

One really annoying thing about iTunes is that you can't redownload a file if it gets lost or damaged so you do have to back up your library religiously (you can in MSN etc). Also iTunes only provides AAC format which can only be played in iTunes and on iPods.

In the UK Tesco is OK too, and at least you get MP3s rather than WMA or AAC with DRM crap.

AllofMP3 lets you stream the whole album before downloading if you want to so you could just treat it as a free jukebox, especially with the AllofMP3 Explorer software (which I only discovered yesterday and is really neat).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: w.Bloggar - Blogging Power

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 11:41 AM »

Oops - don't know how I didn't notice that (I think the website is out of date so I didn't look).

Now that feels easier to use than Ecto!

Brilliant.

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Jazper's Software / Re: What is ShoutcastConcierge?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 11:38 AM »

Thanks that makes sense.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: w.Bloggar - Blogging Power

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 09:43 AM »

Tried this out a little bit now and really quite like it. If you use one of the Blog sites it supports then it is well worth a look.

One very nice feature is that you can set up your ftp upload site within the program to automatically upload images etc. to includin your blog. I bought a copy of Ecto a while back but that doesn't seem to support that (though it does support Drupal which w.Bloggar doesn't).

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Jazper's Software / Re: What is ShoutcastConcierge?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 09:36 AM »

What is a "shoutcast audio stream"?