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

« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2012, 03:27 AM »

Temporary And Eternal [Happy Rhodes]
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVVkbUwprc[/youtube]

-40hz (January 05, 2012, 09:54 PM)

enjoyed that especially - there's a link to a better quality version of the same video here. It is kind of shocking when she starts singing deep after all that high singing!


oh yeah, FWIW, the Bowie cover is Space Oddity

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

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2012, 04:13 PM »

Sorting files:

these arent buttons - they're just shortcuts so AFAIK they cannot be exported:
They're especially helpful when you want to change the sort in Thumbnail or List modes, but are also nice and zippy in details.
Each one will toggle ascending and descending i.e. just press shortcut again.


Sort by Filename Alt+1
Set Sortby=Name SortReverse Toggle




Sort by Last-Modified Date
Set Sortby=MODIFIED SortReverse Toggle



Alt+1 (by name) sorts A-Z initially (a on top of the list - ascending I guess)
Alt+5 sorts with most recent date to top initially


I got these on the dopus forums years ago, cant remember from who - the actual shortcuts were based on an earlier filemanager

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

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2012, 04:04 PM »

^ another view one I use a lot:

Toggle Thumbnails and Details views with one shortcut:
Set VIEW=Details,Thumbnails




EDIT// note the Shift+[letter] no longer works in Dopus 11
so you will want to use a different shortcut
EDIT2// ^Listary uses the Shift+T shortcut here for searching current folder - I use Shift+F for flatview - that still works without Listary popping up, so not sure what's going on. Not a Dopus problem anyway, I dont think.

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

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2012, 08:20 AM »

I should also mention Steve Banham for starting the Opus Resource Centre web forums (which I admin these days,...)

-Nudel (January 05, 2012, 05:47 AM)

Leo, "admin" doesn't begin to get at the amazing work you do on those forums.  You provide an immense amount of help on everything from newbie questions to complex problems, and always graciously.  I thought I'd take this opportunity to express my thanks. 

-cyberdiva (January 05, 2012, 08:17 AM)

+1

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

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2012, 07:53 AM »

^ Christmas-date is based on the older winter solstice festivals (and the celebration that the days are getting longer).

was Samhain/Halloween/All-Souls-day not related to the equinox? No, that's earlier - seems to be as you say end-of-summer/start-of-winter fest.
Okay, I see from wikipedia, they do say that Samhain might have been considered as the start of the year. Hadn't known that before

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: FINAL: The Official WriteUp for the NANY 2012 Event!

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2012, 03:44 AM »

Great work all round, thanks and congrats!

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

« Last post by tomos on January 04, 2012, 01:33 PM »

anandcoral @ 100 posts with two NANY entries

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Living Room / Re: The Christmas arms race

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2012, 05:31 PM »

But take it with a sip of vodka - because I'm not a "real" vodka drinker.

-40hz (January 03, 2012, 05:22 PM)

... me neither - thanks!

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Living Room / Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2012, 05:13 PM »

Happy (late) New Year everyone!

-JavaJones (January 02, 2012, 08:36 PM)

+1

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release : Qatapult

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2012, 04:25 PM »

Nice logo!

-ewemoa (January 01, 2012, 07:13 PM)

yes, very nice

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Living Room / Re: The Christmas arms race

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2012, 04:22 PM »

I vastly prefer Chopin [...]

-40hz (January 02, 2012, 02:02 PM)

must try that - wheat, rye, or potato though??
I cant imagine potato being much good tastewise, but that's based on my expierence with poitín before it was legalised - which isnt very fair I guess.

Vodka is good with food I find - saw some programme a few years back about an old russian guy and they were saying that it was traditionally drank with meals - I mean before people started drinking it around the clock

I'm suspicious of any drink that requires freezing in order to be palatable (jeez, am I getting snobby now )
I had fond memories of Moskovskaya vodka, got a bottle of it lately - it was good, but didnt pass the drink-it-like-a-whiskey test very well (not chilled, tiny dash of water). Tastes reasonably good, nice marzipany aftertaste, doesnt smell great though. But maybe that's not fair if it's meant to be drank cold... (it is cheap - for the price I'd say it's very good).

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Living Room / Re: For the Facebook Haters ;)

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2012, 03:03 PM »

I'm particularly annoyed by the new arm-twisting (blackmailing?) going on in software circles where you're now required to "like" a piece of software on Facebook (or Tweet it) before you're allowed to download a lite or evaluation copy.

-40hz (January 02, 2012, 02:48 PM)

did it once, and undid the "Like" after - but probably wouldn't bother again

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Living Room / Re: A Merry Christmas card

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2011, 05:11 PM »

a bit late now, but still entertaining

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make a music mix for burning on audio disc - software?

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2011, 08:43 AM »

Hope this helps.

-distance (December 21, 2011, 07:57 AM)

yes it does!
I've heard a lot about foobar over the years but never tried it - now seems like a good time

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: A-Pdf 90% off: $199

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2011, 07:06 AM »

I think it's important to note that their pricing is pretty ludicrous.
Things that would be features in another app are given individual app status here with "full" price to boot.
Certainly a lot of these features can be done by free or donation software.

In fact I wouldnt even advertise this unless I felt there was something worthwhile there (maybe there is?)

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 19, 2011 - "Snowy Feathers"

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2011, 05:21 AM »

you know what's nice?

after a newsletter goes out, there's a lot more activity, and a lot of the threads mentioned in it get new posts.
(mind you, I think everyone's pretty busy this week...)

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early beta: Qatapult (was QSLL )

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2011, 05:14 AM »

I'm not sure what you mean with the possibility of selecting text. I don't think I'll allow to select text from the UI, I'd prefer to add commands to paste it and use it in various way. What's your need for that ?

-ecaradec (December 21, 2011, 04:48 AM)

Stepping in and speaking for myself -- it's likely I'd use this type of thing for editing paths -- full paths to files, directories, and URLs.

-ewemoa (December 21, 2011, 04:59 AM)

I havent even started using it for paths yet but can see that it would be a big help there.

sometimes there was text there I wanted to remove, say I search for something & it's not there, I then have to use the back key to delete before I start again. I'm just so used to using keys like Shift+Home or Ctrl+Shift+Arrowkey to select text in order to delete or cut or copy...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make a music mix for burning on audio disc - software?

« Last post by tomos on December 21, 2011, 05:06 AM »

try here:
https://www.donation...g/MixTape/index.html

-elvisbrown (December 20, 2011, 09:35 PM)

~
next on my list, thanks ;-)

I have been using WMP12 as a player, but it does exactly what Techidave said - indexes so hard it locks the damn machine. When it does that I kill it in Task Manager. The service restarts it but by then the app itself is closed. If it didn't do that it would be great.

-J-Mac (December 20, 2011, 10:20 PM)

~
that was me complaining about the indexing and the hidden instance running after closing - will try it again at some stage & see if that can be turned off...

If I ever get around to ripping my CDs, I'll look at Easy CD-DA Extractor. At the moment, for a couple of mixes I'm not willing to spend much - donate is okay, naturally :-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early beta: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2011, 06:10 PM »

Icons are pretty!
 (see attachment in previous post)
...but some are small

-ewemoa (December 16, 2011, 05:20 AM)

icons are all large here - but small icons often enlarged - i.e. poor pixelly quality (e.g. FARR as in ewemoa's screenshot)
(just reporting FWIW - I know you're aware of the problem, but I didnt have same results as ewemoa)

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early beta: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2011, 06:04 PM »

After reflexion, I think I'll go with Qatapult, your first proposition tomos, as you like it it's even better.

-ecaradec (December 20, 2011, 05:35 PM)

Looks nice - I finally getting around to trying it

Some start-up problems/requests:
[1] it seems to have a few focus problems - originally when I started it, it didnt have focus at all - I typed, nothing showed, I had to click on it and then it works. I could not escape out of it - these both seem to have resolved themselves through use will report again if a problem
[2] would be nice if space+shift worked - I find it easier to type than shift+space (I'm no typist)
[3] would be nice if I could alt+tab away from the app (FWIW, I think FARR closes when I alt+tab away)
[4] would be nice if I could select typed text using Ctrl+Shift+Arrowkeys
  
Win7 64bit


EDIT/ my focus problems could possibly have been related to trying out alt+tab. Even though it stays on top, it no longer has focus...

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 19, 2011 - "Snowy Feathers"

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2011, 07:10 AM »

thanks mouser

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2011, 06:30 AM »

^ Rajnikath 1.25 million x

I buy landscape paintings at yard sales and Goodwill.  And then paint monsters into them.

-http://imgur.com/a/okxmD

-Deozaan (December 19, 2011, 05:42 PM)

they're great!

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General Software Discussion / Re: AdBlock Plus To Not Block All Ads

« Last post by tomos on December 20, 2011, 06:23 AM »

Thanks app for the fix. By the way I do have issue like IanB with regional google domain. I'll see if i can fix that. In between ABP autoupdated itself and this message popped up.

-mahesh2k (December 20, 2011, 01:05 AM)

yeah, got that message too

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early beta: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2011, 03:03 PM »

ah okay,
then it would be better spelt like one of these:

• Q-tapult
• Quetapult
• Queuetapult
• Q Tapult

you're getting into weirdly-spelt-name territory there - from the point of view of ease of remembering, I wouldn't recommend any of those - but I dont know how important that aspect is to you?

you could also play on the Q-t thing and spell it cuteapult or cuetapult - either of those would work better than the "Q" versions imo

edit/ i dunno though...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early beta: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2011, 02:20 PM »

do you mean Qatapult ?
I think the Q works fine (with a vowel after it at any rate), it generally (always?) gets pronounced as a hard C or like a K.

btw forgot to say: I like it