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General Software Discussion / Re: color area

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

is there a simple way to quantify the pixels of these skin moles?

http://www.gulfmd.co...images/skinchart.gif

also, how will I know that all the pixels are selected? a line that will mark the area would be helpful

-kalos (February 11, 2012, 05:38 AM)

I suspect you need photoshop (or equivalent, Gimp, etc.) for what you want. Each of those moles has probably dozens of colours - so trying to select by colour, you will need to vary the "tolerance" of the selection - a bit like making a search "fuzzy". (As I described above.)

In fact I wonder if selecting automatically (using colour) is even fully possible, as all moles have highlit areas which will not be selected when you select by the main colour...

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

« Last post by tomos on February 10, 2012, 04:45 PM »

[...] Katzenjammer [...]

-40hz (February 10, 2012, 02:02 PM)

They're great quality 40 (all round)
Dirhael posted about them last year two years ago now (time's flying here...) so here's another couple by them - one of them's blocked/censored here, the other is live on a boat

[...]
Let's start with some bands from my country, Norway

A couple of tracks from the great Norwegian folk band Katzenjammer, adds +2 to you mood, guaranteed:

Katzenjammer - Ain't No Thang (Live...in a small boat)
http://www.youtube.c...IdYoMpINQ&fmt=18

Katzenjammer - A Bar In Amsterdam
http://www.youtube.c...bdCDeKSoI&fmt=18

-Dirhael (March 23, 2010, 05:30 PM)

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Living Room / Re: A nice bit of profanity from "Apple Scotland and Siri" (video)

« Last post by tomos on February 10, 2012, 02:39 AM »

Reminds me of the Taysiders in Space:
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=KoBk8bxU1rs
Ach awae, n dinnae talk pish!

-Edvard (February 09, 2012, 04:10 PM)

 
that one needs subtitles, or at least a second listen

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

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 02:54 PM »

I can see the attraction - even for a once off use - rather than reinstall (+ all programmes) or do a repair install (if that's even possible, still need to apply all updates afterwards).

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

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 02:48 PM »

does that actually happen Ath?
or,
have you been busy with photoshop...

... have you seen What's "leet" got to do with posts?

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 11:08 AM »

^ or move machines and realise that your backup programme - which remembers the password - is on the old (dead) one...
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor "best in class" on FreewareGenius

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 07:26 AM »

Is their any option to autosave the screenshot taken to be placed in the Desktop, i downloaded the portable version and its default location seems to be.c:\ScreenshotCaptorPortable\Screenshots\

-hulkbuster (February 09, 2012, 06:29 AM)

in preferences,
"Screenshot folder & tools" for location of screenshot folder
"Interface Options 1" for choice of automatic save ("stay minimised") or pop-up dialogue (read the "Tip" there)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 05:20 AM »

EDIT/ new version 3 does *not* change the last modified date when rotating an image

-tomos (January 13, 2012, 04:56 PM)

I modified the images toolbar so that it now does *not* change the last modified date when rotating an image.
Download from quoted post above.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus 10 : Some question about it.

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 05:03 AM »

^ hmm...
you're using "List" view arent you - there's no columns in that view, so my instructions are useless

Try the 2nd link in my post above - will show you another route to get there

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General Software Discussion / Re: screenshot of big windows

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 03:54 AM »

Screenshot Captor from mouser:
https://www.donation...hotcaptor/index.html

there's portable and install download link on the left there.

The (new) scrolling capture is sophisticated, but it can be a bit complicated, so have a look at the second video on this page:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=29821

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dopus 10 : Some question about it.

« Last post by tomos on February 09, 2012, 03:38 AM »

I'm no expert with changing folder layout format. I know it was very complicated in past versions, but I presume one of these options would work for you:

right-click a column header ->Select "More" at the bottom of the list.
Adjust your settings, click save; you then get these options



I presume the last option is what you want - but note that this might remove custom-default formats for e.g. music (maybe someone else could confirm that?)

Dopus FAQ thread on the topic here


EDIT/ I'm not actually sure what exactly they mean by a "layout"...

EDIT2/ this FAQ guide might be better Folder Formats: Quick Guide

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General Software Discussion / Re: color area

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2012, 03:18 PM »

With my ancient version of photoshop, I can select pixels of similar, or the same colour.
If I set it to same colour (Tolerance=0) it mostly only selects a handful of pixels.

I presume that's not what you want - but I'm not sure.
Maybe you could explain a bit more?

-tomos (February 08, 2012, 11:57 AM)

this is what I want exactly, but I need to quantify this selection as a percentage of the whole photo or as an absolute square inches etc

or maybe I can create another photo with only this selection of pixels and then count the pixels?

-kalos (February 08, 2012, 12:24 PM)

I'm not really sure where to go from there... (my version of photoshop is no help in getting the percentage)

anyone else got any ideas?

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General Software Discussion / Re: color area

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2012, 11:57 AM »

With my ancient version of photoshop, I can select pixels of similar, or the same colour.
If I set it to same colour (Tolerance=0) it mostly only selects a handful of pixels.

I presume that's not what you want - but I'm not sure.
Maybe you could explain a bit more?

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Living Room / Re: Just like the MPAA didn't learn from the RIAA, the games industry is next

« Last post by tomos on February 08, 2012, 07:22 AM »

Finally have a 'none of the above box' on every ballot paper and force a new election if that box wins!

-Carol Haynes (February 08, 2012, 02:59 AM)

I like that one

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Living Room / Re: A nice bit of profanity from "Apple Scotland and Siri" (video)

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2012, 05:08 AM »

nice # 4000 nudone

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

« Last post by tomos on February 07, 2012, 05:07 AM »

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AnVir Task Manager Pro 60% off Today Only

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2012, 04:16 AM »

^
wow Curt, that's appalling for a paid piece of software (50 dollars at that)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.0 (!) - Feb 5, 2012

« Last post by tomos on February 06, 2012, 04:11 AM »

The current download doesn't seem to be renamable to .zip...

...well, that's nonsense, actually. I can rename it to screenshotcaptor.zip all I like, I just can't open it and extract its contents. 

-oblivion (February 06, 2012, 04:01 AM)

there's two versions of it now, see the download page

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Living Room / Re: Who needs SOPA? Website accused of defamation is closed by judge

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2012, 05:05 PM »

^
^no worries Tao ;-)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor v3 beta

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2012, 04:52 PM »

... if you try to capture horizontal content and there is none, it shouldn't cause any problems just some wasted time trying to horizontally scroll when there is no content.  can you elaborate what didnt work?

-mouser (February 02, 2012, 12:54 PM)

This is probably a bit gratuitious as SC seems to have Horizontal scroll turned off by default (even if set to "on" the previous time), but here goes:

I try capturing a dopus window with only vertical scrolling content.
In SC I set horizontal scrolling to default/pages
The screenshot is not long, will be done in two screenshots. Lets call them
A
B

The initial screenshot is actually:
AA
BB

Now when I press #1 Guess Margins - there is no change.
#2 gives me the following message:

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.

I tried changing various margins & overlaps with strange results, i.e. without success =STOP PRESS= I figured it out:
increasing the "trim and show" horizontal setting from 3 to 4 removed the doubled up image.

Again this is done without using "Test Window" - that works well, so if unsure I'll stick with it in future (maybe that's what I was supposed to do all along?)

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Living Room / Re: Who needs SOPA? Website accused of defamation is closed by judge

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2012, 07:48 AM »

Well, that article was British/Irish...

-TaoPhoenix (February 02, 2012, 07:33 AM)

fixed that for you there :-)
with apologies I seem to be giving you a hard time today (FWIW, I'm irish...)

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Living Room / Re: Main hard drive in my PC died today suddenly

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2012, 07:30 AM »

...but I am trying to use my second drive as a curated save space for everything but the OS.

-TaoPhoenix (February 02, 2012, 07:19 AM)

and if that one goes? (asks the guy with a chaotic backup system...)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor v3 beta

« Last post by tomos on February 02, 2012, 07:15 AM »

I just did a scrolling capture of dopus with horizontal and vertical scrolling.
It doesnt work well with default settings (scrolling "by pages"), but once I do a "Test window...", settings are changed to "by rows" & it works absolutely perfectly without me having to adjust anything.
It's very impressive

Some comments/queries, mainly on options & interface (- I'm not loking for answers, just throwing ideas out)

1) "Rows" being better than "Pages" (as said above) makes me wonder should default scrolling be "by rows" ? (I know I'm basing this question on one capture, but just thought I'd ask anyways).

2)
~ if horizontal scrolling is activated when there is no horizontal scrolling in the window, it doesnt work
~ if horizontal scrolling is *not* activated where there *is* horizontal scrolling in the window, it doesnt work.
I think that initially this is not clear - I wonder could it be indicated in some more definite way? (one possible option could be to say: if there's horizontal scrolling, please do a "Test Window..." as that seems to work well. Or Please turn Horizontal scrolling on/off as appropriate. Or...

3) Not important I guess: I have no idea what "Capture until max below" means...

I think improved layout/display of options for the scrolling capture would be helpful -
wouldn't need any big changes, I dont think. Some suggestions:

4) First window once scrolling capture selected:

a) maybe move [Test windows & guess Settings] above "Miscellaneous options"

b) Could VERTICAL and HORIZONTAL SCROLLING be emphasised more?

c) Could [OK begin scrolling...] be emaphasised more - made double height maybe? stronger icon maybe?

5) Second Window

move Steps 1 & 2 above the more detailed margins settings?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr freezes : solved but...

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2012, 07:44 AM »

I only had a very short delays - no freezes (Win7) - but excluding it from MSE fixes that -
thanks Armando

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: New: USB Safely Remove v5.0, and with a discount for 'free' users

« Last post by tomos on February 01, 2012, 03:49 AM »

If you already have a license for USB Safely Remove, the cheapest option is to upgrade right now to Zentimo = 50% off! 

-Curt (January 31, 2012, 04:32 PM)

I was going to ask about the difference between the two.
But then I found Chris's review:
Mini-Review and Discount (Sep 2010): USB Safely Remove and Zentimo