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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrade to Windows 64-bit

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 20, 2013, 10:48 PM »

It's only a guess, but I'd be unsurprised by some hassle over activation.
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: software recommendations - photo/graphics editors

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 19, 2013, 09:13 AM »

She might expose too much

-Shades (December 19, 2013, 05:14 AM)

There might be a way to dodge that.
 

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Living Room / Re: PB&J with Potato Chips... One of Nature's Most Perfect Foods[

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 17, 2013, 06:48 PM »

A chocolate sandwich.

This is created by placing one piece of chocolate between two others.
 

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Living Room / Re: PB&J with Potato Chips... One of Nature's Most Perfect Foods[

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 17, 2013, 06:47 PM »

at least one person here is on the same wavelength necessary to decode the joke

-IainB (December 17, 2013, 05:45 PM)

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: software recommendations - photo/graphics editors

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 15, 2013, 07:07 PM »

ever tried to put a cap on your wife?

safe to say the result will probably be a negative...

-Target (December 15, 2013, 05:01 PM)

You never know what might develop.
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a Foto Resizer that follows (multiple) shortcuts

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 15, 2013, 11:12 AM »

Here you go.  I used vlastimil's PhotoResize for my tests.

-skwire (December 14, 2013, 08:45 AM)

Nice one 
 

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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 1.10 - Dec 15, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 15, 2013, 11:11 AM »

you can make progress bars that you can freely adjust just by clicking on them.

-mouser (December 15, 2013, 09:26 AM)

My progress just improved enormously. Three clicks and my most-dreaded deadlines have been met 

When can I expect the complementary life-adjustment module?
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: software recommendations - photo/graphics editors

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 13, 2013, 09:45 AM »

You could take a look at Real-World Paint.
The author is responsive here, at DC, and otherwise.
Or, why not save a lot of trouble and keep the lens cap in place?

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General Software Discussion / Re: New to Forum

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 13, 2013, 09:38 AM »

Good point! ...But if we're doing one flew over the cooko's nest ... Who get's elected as Full Goose Loony, Chief?

-Stoic Joker (December 12, 2013, 06:09 PM)

Hmmm, I don't suppose anyone on DC wants to throw their hat into the ring?   

-MilesAhead (December 13, 2013, 09:28 AM)

Not to be too unoriginal but I've done that twice before, so this time it's a tri-corn...

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General Software Discussion / Re: font request

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 12, 2013, 10:26 PM »

You could try here: http://www.abcteach.com/font_details.php

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 10, 2013, 04:42 PM »

I don't know what to call it to adequately communicate what it's for.  Any ideas?

-wraith808 (December 10, 2013, 12:56 PM)

suspend/resume ImageFloat? Lock/unlock current image?
 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 08, 2013, 08:55 PM »

Hey, that's really nice!

It's great to have on-the-fly reference material posted to the screen so easily, with the ability still to see what's happening on the desktop. I know that would have been possible previously by playing with the opacity of various windows but this way is so much better.

Now... how do you plan on enhancing CH+S? 
 

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 07, 2013, 11:10 AM »

I happen to really like NZ and hope, at the very least, to visit it someday. I pray it doesn't get completely mucked up before I do.[/i]

-40hz (December 07, 2013, 07:33 AM)

In order that you.... 

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Living Room / Re: Network/website problem 1+1+1=0. Seeking a solution.

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 02, 2013, 10:26 AM »

as curious bystander, i was wondering what router/modem are you using, do you mind sharing the brand/model?

-lanux128 (December 01, 2013, 07:53 PM)

Not at all, it's a D-Link DIR-615.
 

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Living Room / Re: Network/website problem 1+1+1=0. Seeking a solution.

« Last post by cranioscopical on December 01, 2013, 02:25 PM »

Thanks Deozaan and 40hz.

I had flushed the cache and tried the Google DNS settings, with which I prefer not to stay for obvious reasons.
Now I've switched to OpenDNS. Of course, at the moment everything is out to lunch as my ISP is having weather-related problems.
My site did seem to come up reasonably quickly, though, so I'll get back on it when things smooth out again to the point where more testing makes sense. By then I'll have a chance of reaching my ISP's support people by phone.

Boy, I've flushed so often that I'll be the poster boy for hygiene!   

Thanks for everyone's participation, much appreciated!
 


 

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Living Room / Re: Network/website problem 1+1+1=0. Seeking a solution.

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 30, 2013, 10:18 PM »

I had another idea that might help narrow it down a little, what happens if you use an online HTTP proxy to load the site?

eg. kproxy

-4wd (November 30, 2013, 08:57 PM)

Just tried it. It's still slow but it's not broken UK newspaper loads much faster. Right now everything here is slow, unfortunately (especially me) we had some snow and that is so surprising here, in Canada, that everything's gone into panic mode. Just like Christmas, always sneaks up and takes one unawares.

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Living Room / Re: Network/website problem 1+1+1=0. Seeking a solution.

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 30, 2013, 10:09 PM »

This is what I see:
Is that right?

-Renegade (November 30, 2013, 09:43 PM)

Yes. Click on one of the images and it should tile up to a bunch of other stuff.
I just clicked on Birds-1 and Birds-2. After a loooooong wait Birds-2 opened and a click inside that produced a severely broken format.
 
 
 

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Living Room / Network/website problem 1+1+1=0. Seeking a solution.

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 30, 2013, 08:04 PM »

Networks are a closed book to me — heck, I have trouble even reading the title on the cover.

I have three facts here that I think state my problem. After testing under WIndows 7 and 8.1, and with a plethora of browsers, the three statements resolve to these:

• On my own desk-top computers I can load any site except my own.
• The same is true on my Android tablet (entirely different o/s).
• Other people can load my site just fine.

What happens when I try to load my own site from the web is interminable load times, and 'not available' content, and badly-formed layouts.

A few more details

• The site is hosted by a small-ish, fairly local ISP. My previous site there had no problems.
• My feed comes through a satellite modem and thence to a router.
• tracert info for the site is poor, but not as poor as that for other sites that load just fine.
• I put up a minimal, unfinished site to play with at barbarabickell.ca

I've been banging my head against a wall trying to understand why the site doesn't work properly for me (from the web) but does work for just about everybody else. If nothing else, it makes revisions tricky as I've no way of knowing their real-world effects. Whenever I have what I think is an 'aha moment' a review of the three statements rules it out.

I'd welcome any insights that might help to resolve the problem.
 

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Living Room / Re: DCIRLDD Thanksgiving Dinner and Board Game Night - Sat Nov 30, 2013 - Chmpgn. IL

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2013, 05:35 PM »

It's difficult to resist when you make it sound so compelling 
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard help and spell program to work with my android phone

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2013, 05:34 PM »

You are right, Clipsync is useful. It saves me from a lot of typing on tiny keyboards. 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2013, 11:29 AM »

Ok it's official:
v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

-mouser (November 22, 2013, 06:26 AM)

And very nice, too!

Thank you fro enhancing a long-time favorite! 
 

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Living Room / Re: The Amazing Video for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 21, 2013, 01:41 PM »

Can anyone think of any other music video of any kind, where people were lip syncing the song but in a context where the words had no relation to the activity they were engaged in, like this video does?

-mouser (November 21, 2013, 05:18 AM)

Can't think of another video but my wife and I have conversations very much in this manner... almost every day!
 
You're not surprised, you say?
 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 21, 2013, 01:25 PM »

Yeah... I plan to add some sort of setting for that next

-wraith808 (November 20, 2013, 11:11 PM)

Excellent!

FWIW, also works fine on W8.1 32- & 64-bit versions here.   
 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge and Alpha: ImgFloat (a tool for Screenshot Captor)

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 20, 2013, 11:02 PM »

That's nice!

Works fine here on W7-64 SP 1.

Re opacity, it would be handy if there could be a toggle (double-click?) between transparent and opaque.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 19, 2013, 05:27 PM »

Just when I began to wonder if CH+S could get any better... it did! Works very nicely.

I must say that the options panels in CH+S (and others of mouser's programs seem to be growing more difficult to navigate). The demo movies help with that, fortunately.