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General Software Discussion / Re: fully-free software for biz - the lists !

« Last post by tomos on February 27, 2012, 09:09 AM »

I'd have thought that most of them would still be valid (?)

For easier access:

OFFICE Notes - Pim  & To-do & Calendar & Reminder - Email WINDOWS UTILITIES Installers - Uninstallers - Screen Capture - Clipboard  Cleaners - Scheduling - Memory Zip - Utility Suite - Password Revealers - Icons - Desktop - Tray - Graphics DISK FILE MANAGEMENT File Managers / Explorers - Disk Space - Dups - Search - Compare Defrag BACKUP - COPY Backup - File Copy - Image / Cloning FTP & REMOTE ACCESS SECURITY Firewall - Anti-virus & Malware - Hips WINDOWS UTILITIES Startup - Shutdown & Restart - Process & Task Manager & Termination DATABASE DEVELOPMENT OPERATING SYSTEM Registry Compact - Defrag - Backup - Pagefile - Unidentified Devices - Driver Backup - Event Viewer & Log Files - Analysis & Real-time SYSTEM UTILITIES Boot Disk - Rescue - Partition - Data Recovery / Undelete IMAGE EDITING and VIEWING - PDF UTILITIES - PRINTING UTILITIES BIZ APPS Accounting - Inventory - Time Tracking NETWORK ADMINISTRATION - NETWORK TRAFFIC - TCP/IP BIZ-WARE What you are most likely needing to purchase (SECURITY) WINDOWS SHELL & DESKTOP SOFTWARE INVENTORY - VERSION UPDATES - SYSINFO - HARDWARE DIAGNOSTICS - MONITOR TEST - SET & FIX TEXT EDITORS Notepad Replacements - Programmer/Developer Editors WEB BROWSING - Research - Activities - Recreation HOME (OFFICE) SERVER - SCRIPTING / MACRO / PROGRAMMING TOOLS CD - DVD MISCELLANEOUS AND NOTES-DISCUSSION Donationcoder - Prolific Packages - Abandonware RESOURCE LIST FREEWARE PACKAGES WHICH NEED EULA and/or AUTHOR CHECK ONLINE TECH RESOURCES

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(from here)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by tomos on February 26, 2012, 08:00 AM »

I've made a new grid which maybe others would like... where do I upload it?

-orbidia (February 25, 2012, 06:39 PM)

  GridMove: Grids Here

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Living Room / Re: Moar lightsabers plz

« Last post by tomos on February 25, 2012, 10:15 AM »

Yaaay

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReImage: online Windows repair!

« Last post by tomos on February 24, 2012, 10:28 AM »

I have been offered a OEM disc at $180, the retail version is about $400 here in Denmark.

-Curt (February 24, 2012, 09:49 AM)

if you shop around can you not get it cheaper?
I see multi-language OEM versions here (de) for 60 euro:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit OEM DVD und Windows 7 Home Premium COA (Multilanguage).

I know you wanted an upgrade - they dont have any on that site... but for €60 I'd chance an OEM myself...

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General Software Discussion / Re: convert digital text to hardwritten text (sic)

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2012, 09:36 AM »

You need lots of time and/or money ;-)
(write it out by hand)

There are some fonts that have multiple versions of many letters to make text more interesting and/or "handwritten". I was looking at some lately, will see if I can find them. I dont know how they work e.g. how do you choose which "k" is used if there are three versions of it...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special File Recovery Software

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2012, 08:05 AM »

I think I smell spam.

-Innuendo (February 22, 2012, 09:36 AM)

(see attachment in previous post)

-4wd (February 23, 2012, 06:27 AM)

... that actually looks tempting.
Sure I could do a lot better though

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Living Room / Re: Today is Your Last Chance to Remove your Search History from Google's New Policy

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2012, 08:01 AM »

^ I'm often logged in (and using search), & I got the same results as you Bob...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a "virtual scanner' software in one pass, outputting in PDF.

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2012, 03:48 AM »

Can I ask why you want to do this? I find the structured nature of PDFs very useful and single image files a bit of a PITA. IS there a reason why the bitmap approach would be widely needed?

-Carol Haynes (February 23, 2012, 03:26 AM)

Edited : the reason I want to use an image format rather than a text format is to avoid any possible error when converting the .doc file to the .pdf format, such as font missing and substituted by another one, etc. .  So far, all "regular" word to pdf software show a few errors here and there.  I really want a 100% perfect copy within the pdf, whatever font/text/image is used in the source document.

-MerleOne (February 21, 2012, 09:12 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Today is Your Last Chance to Remove your Search History from Google's New Policy

« Last post by tomos on February 23, 2012, 03:31 AM »

It may be too late already.  I went to look at my history to see what was there and maybe clear it.  The only screen that comes up for me is:
 (see attachment in previous post)
I do not get the option like the screen shown in the EF example:
 (see attachment in previous post)
Oh well.

-bob99 (February 22, 2012, 09:31 PM)

same here

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by tomos on February 22, 2012, 07:04 AM »

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: App that keeps track of things that have been printed

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2012, 12:54 PM »

I havent used it in a few years, but IIRC, if you print through a programme like FinePrint* it will/can save everything printed. Can be reprinted etc.

* a virtual -is that the right word?- printer. There were other similar, but cheaper, apps recommended here within the last couple of years, so if something like that is what you want, you could do a search here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReImage: online Windows repair!

« Last post by tomos on February 21, 2012, 05:58 AM »

-no, I was just dreaming. The case is, I have a favourite program waiting for me on my abandoned XP. Now I see that the more pricey W7 versions will run XP "for free" - starting my imagination!
tomos talked about "xpmode", but I didn't understand it, until now.

-Curt (February 20, 2012, 05:06 PM)

The only reason xpmode is interesting is because it includes a valid license, but it should best be run in VirtualBox or VMWare solutions, not on crappy VPC as MS wants you to. In both alternate cases, it's still running on the same Windows 7 instance, and with the VirtualBox solution it's even nearly as seamless as the original VPC mode.

-Ath (February 20, 2012, 05:27 PM)

just curious:
if you did get xpmode, could you then use the XP key in "VirtualBox or VMWare solutions" ?
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This was also discussed in more depth here     Win 7, XP mode, & other first install queries


FWIW:
I thought I might need xpmode myself, I have two pieces of software from 1999 that I use daily, but they are now running (almost perfectly - they had minor bugs in XP as well) with a normal (32bit) install on Win7 pro 64bit. (I presume they would work just fine on home 64bit version as well.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O Defrag 14.5 Professional discount 81% on february 18, 2012

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2012, 12:31 PM »

What do you use for packed drives?

-superboyac (February 19, 2012, 02:39 PM)

Raxco's PerfectDisk is the only one I've found that will completely defragment a drive that's 95% full. This special offer aside, it's also cheaper than its competition.

-Innuendo (February 20, 2012, 11:14 AM)

I have done that in the past with JKDefrag, now MyDefrag (free/donation-ware)

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReImage: online Windows repair!

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2012, 12:29 PM »

Windows xpmode only comes with professional or higher. Might be worth having...

FWIW, I have professional on a standalone machine, I installed it myself and dont remember much about it - meaning it was *not* traumatic ;-) & not much in the line of questions.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature request: Sizable canvas.

« Last post by tomos on February 20, 2012, 12:23 PM »

For my own purposes, it would be nice if I could easily increase the canvas size by 100%.
[...]
Seems like I often am comparing to version of the same image side-by-side, hence I need it to be doubled.

-kunkel321 (February 20, 2012, 11:51 AM)

what you'd actually want then, would be double the height *or* double the width. I suspect it's nearly as easy to add the relevant pixel number (as shown in dialogue) to canvas height or width...


edit/ I not knocking the idea...

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Official Announcements / Re: I want to try an experiment on the site for March 2012

« Last post by tomos on February 17, 2012, 12:36 PM »

Also I'll add that it annoys me when sites have "paid premium" memberships that are add free--just bugs the heck out of me..

-kunkel321 (February 17, 2012, 11:33 AM)

I always thought that was fair enough...

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

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2012, 02:18 PM »

^ that was great Edvard

I've always been a big fan of Eastern Bloc Metal, but... accordians!  :Thmbsup

-Edvard (February 16, 2012, 01:27 PM)

have you heard Russen Disko? More brass than accordions - but I think there's a few of them too. I think there's a film (German language) but I havent seen/heard anything about it (first was a book, then a mix album, then the film - ah, I see it's not been released yet).

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

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2012, 10:06 AM »

why stop

The Pretenders ~ Stop Your Sobbing

(a Kinks song)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2012, 05:44 AM »

Amazon S3 is great for smaller amounts -
I back up my most important backups there using Super Flexible File Synchroniser.

Amazon have online access, or you can use free version of Cloudberry to check out the contents (I keep forgetting to check... )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service

« Last post by tomos on February 16, 2012, 05:41 AM »

JavaJones's review of CrashPlan:
Not-so-mini review of CrashPlan backup software

(mouser got there first)

This would bother me:

The file format it backs up to seems to be proprietary. This is understandable but a frustration for some, and a deal breaker for others.

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

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2012, 09:38 AM »

This is hilarious!

-Deozaan (February 14, 2012, 02:57 AM)

+1 there :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Thunderbird attachment processing

« Last post by tomos on February 14, 2012, 09:28 AM »

I think Attachment Extractor would cover your request - but I only use it manually (to a custom folder) so cannot say for sure.

He does give a warning on the add-on page that it might not be fully functionally.



It *is* working for me (as described) with TB 9.0.1

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Living Room / Re: Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker: Very cool article on why songs give you chills

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2012, 10:24 AM »

More on-topic ;-)

I'm reminded of a series of videos recommended here by app - it's a different slant:

"Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, scientist Daniel Levitin and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate musics note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions."

World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons

[...]

Full playlist here: http://www.youtube.c...t=PL5BD17DD8540C180B

-app103 (January 10, 2012, 04:03 AM)

it's slow to get going. 10 videos alltogether, all with the same annoying long intro... But it is interesting if you have the time (I mostly just listened to it myself).

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Living Room / Re: Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker: Very cool article on why songs give you chills

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2012, 10:04 AM »

^ yeah, thanks Renegade. I dont want to derail this thread, but I couldnt let that pass.
(I actually already have Adele's album "21", and Pink Floyd, well, I had it once, but it's one of those tracks you hear anyways...)

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Living Room / Re: Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker: Very cool article on why songs give you chills

« Last post by tomos on February 13, 2012, 09:47 AM »

[off-topic] with apologies, but I couldnt let this pass:
every single video shown here is blocked/censored here by GEMA Germany [/off-topic]




edit/ I guess I'd better go out and buy them all ;-)