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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on April 30, 2010, 10:13 PM »

You're a lucky man, Innuendo! I reverted back to IE8 because when researching what was going on with Fx and Win 7 I determined that this is a known issue betwist and between the two... IE8 is a sod, too, though...  

PS part of my troubleshooting included winnowing out all unnecessary add-ons and then turning off all that remained and adding them back in again. Didn't seem to make much difference what add-ones I was running 

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Living Room / Re: Geek gadgets - Calculators...

« Last post by Darwin on April 30, 2010, 10:11 PM »

Crap! Now I'm fixated on slide rules (in addition to calculators).

My Kingdom for a Dietzgen N1725 and a Faber-Castell 2/83  

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by Darwin on April 29, 2010, 06:49 PM »

Just FYI, I note that GoodSync is billed as being able to connect to and synchronize with Amazon S3.

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Living Room / Re: In the "What the Hell?" department...

« Last post by Darwin on April 29, 2010, 11:25 AM »

in that case maybe they should also offer a Kama Sutra merit badge?

sex is a very important topic for my two 12 year old nephews. even if it is just something to talk about.

I hope.
   

-Gwen7 (April 29, 2010, 11:22 AM)

You posted this while I was pecking out my missive, above, Gwen. Hysterical!

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Living Room / Re: In the "What the Hell?" department...

« Last post by Darwin on April 29, 2010, 11:24 AM »

I'd say that this is indefensible... having said that, it seems to me that when I was a cub scout there were all sorts of merit badges for activities such as stamp collecting and model building, activities that have tenuous relationships with the outdoors and survival skills. Having said that, I dimly recall being disappointed when I got to Scouts and all the merit badges were for things like first aid and orienteering. So... video gaming doesn't really strike me as being an outdoor survival skill, but then, what do I know? Recent headlines have proclaimed that video gaming is good for hand-eye coordination, teamwork, and problem solving. Maybe we just have to keep up with the times? Still, scouting means camping in the snow to me!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 Requests

« Last post by Darwin on April 27, 2010, 03:34 PM »

Heh, heh - after contradicting you here, I've noticed that file copying with Windows 7 when Teracopy ISN'T enabled DOES take a long, long time 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by Darwin on April 27, 2010, 09:22 AM »

PS I tried to use SFFS to sync my Roboform data with Roboform's online backup service (https address) and SFFS couldn't handle it. It did ask for my login credentials and I've confirmed that it's set up correctly. Don't know if this is to do with Roboform wanting to get people to buy their own GoodSync software as well? At any rate, I mention this in reference to the S3 query. I *suspect* that this will be an issue with S3 as well, though I have no way to test it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by Darwin on April 27, 2010, 09:19 AM »

Free? Wow - that's amazingly generous! So V.5 is working good for you? Stable?

-J-Mac (April 19, 2010, 01:34 AM)

Yeah, sorry, I managed to miss the "5" when I typed SFFS above. I've been running SFFS 5 preview for months with no problems at all.

Here's the posting about the upgrade (hope I've interpreted it correctly!):

http://www.backupcre...de-options-t105.html

-Darwin (April 19, 2010, 08:06 AM)

Mike, have you installed the beta separately from your V.4 install - or on top of it?

Re the upgrade cost he does say
"any license includes at least two years of free upgrades and updates" so it may depend on when the license was bought...

-tomos (April 27, 2010, 07:25 AM)

I installed the beta over top of v.4 (a long while ago) and have not had any trouble since.

Here's what the developer says:

Yes, v5 will be a free upgrade if you have v4, including all revisions. It will take the same registration codes as v4. Independently, any license includes at least two years of free upgrades and updates.

My reading of the above is that it won't matter when you bought your v4 license. He does state that his mention of the two years of upgrades and updates is independent of his first statement, that if you have a license for 4 you're good for v5, too. Very generous, really, as I purchased v3 at least three years ago and was given a free upgrade to v4 in March of 2008.

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by Darwin on April 26, 2010, 10:55 PM »

But Darwin is primus

-rjbull (April 26, 2010, 04:24 PM)

Seldom camp but often on fire!

-cranioscopical (April 26, 2010, 08:12 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Here we go again with false positive antivirus actions bricking computers

« Last post by Darwin on April 22, 2010, 03:37 PM »

Blurs the line between the guys writing the virii and the security companies...

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General Software Discussion / Re: HyperSnap now installs toolbar, without asking?

« Last post by Darwin on April 22, 2010, 11:20 AM »

An old Yorkshireman...
"If I wanted a flaminng mayonnaise sandwich, I'd ask for a mayonnaise sandwich"

-Darwin (April 22, 2010, 08:23 AM)

Is it not true that, in some parts of Yorkshire, mentioning mayonnaise remains a hanging offense?

-cranioscopical (April 22, 2010, 11:14 AM)

Clearly! Two other of his pet peeves were peanut butter ("muck") and pasta ("I don't want no flaming pastas (sic)")... No one DARED suggest that he eat peanut butter. Verboten.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HyperSnap now installs toolbar, without asking?

« Last post by Darwin on April 22, 2010, 08:23 AM »

I hate installers that install these toolbars, even if it is "optional". My feelings about it remind me of an incident with my grandfather. An old Yorkshireman (he would have been around 92 at the time), I was making him lunch - a cheese sandwich. I asked if he would like mayonnaise on it and he barked at me:

"If I wanted a flaminng mayonnaise sandwich, I'd ask for a mayonnaise sandwich"

Says it all, really.

Miss my grandfather dreadfully... though I was scared Witless of him when I was young!

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove ">>>" characters from mail and rewrap mail text?

« Last post by Darwin on April 21, 2010, 08:23 AM »

Both mouser's own Clipboard Help and Spell and Clipmate offer much the same functionality as TextMonkey.

Clipmate:



Clipboard Help and Spell:



EDIT: added images

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Tamer speeds up my games & internet speed!

« Last post by Darwin on April 20, 2010, 09:51 PM »

Curt - I found Vista Services Optimizer to work really well...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by Darwin on April 19, 2010, 08:06 AM »

Free? Wow - that's amazingly generous! So V.5 is working good for you? Stable?

-J-Mac (April 19, 2010, 01:34 AM)

Yeah, sorry, I managed to miss the "5" when I typed SFFS above. I've been running SFFS 5 preview for months with no problems at all.

Here's the posting about the upgrade (hope I've interpreted it correctly!):

http://www.backupcre...de-options-t105.html

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by Darwin on April 19, 2010, 12:56 AM »

Sorry, Jim, I'm not using SFFS with S3. SFFS is still very solid here... As far as updating goes, I was in the same boat - checking the download page to find out if any were available. With the beta of v.5 there is a "check updates" feature from the help menu. Just FYI, author has stated that v.4 licences will work with v.5 (ie, it's a free upgrade).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Tamer speeds up my games & internet speed!

« Last post by Darwin on April 17, 2010, 11:39 AM »

What Curt and Shades said 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by Darwin on April 16, 2010, 02:35 PM »

1: Agreed, a thread split is probably advisable. Incidentally I did take advantage of the "pay what you want" sale - $20 - mostly on the basis of how nice and informative the dev is.

-JavaJones (April 16, 2010, 01:30 PM)

Me too! Of course, I also purchased Helicon Filter when it was on BDJ 

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Living Room / Re: Apple Attacks Adobe

« Last post by Darwin on April 14, 2010, 10:32 PM »

Ryan - I just read your blog  I've missed you.

My new credo in life is: GSD!

You could be the next Anthony Robbins!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by Darwin on April 13, 2010, 06:32 PM »

I suspect it's more of a "gentlemanly" thing... Don't slam the competition.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Helicon Filter won't work on my computer!

« Last post by Darwin on April 12, 2010, 08:22 AM »

btw, the BDJ offer is for a lifetime license (so it's still tempting aaaaghh!):

-tomos (April 12, 2010, 07:23 AM)

You're an evil little man, Tom! I'd managed to walk away from the BDJ offer and you've got me scurrying back over to review it (yet) again 

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for April 10th, 2010 - "Nesting Feathers"

« Last post by Darwin on April 11, 2010, 11:36 PM »

Great work, Mouser 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Agent Ransack 2010 freeware lightweight - Desktop Search

« Last post by Darwin on April 10, 2010, 11:04 PM »

Beethoven - Agent Ransack doesn't index your files, so it works in a very different way from Copernic. It will (likely) search much more slowly and will find fewer "hits" in comparison to a file indexer.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O DiskStat 2 Pro (Easter promo)

« Last post by Darwin on April 09, 2010, 07:28 AM »

No -I'm sentimental... Actually, I have 3.11 Windows for Workgroups setup as a VM and occasionally set it up a play with it. Haven't done so in a couple of years, mind you!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O DiskStat 2 Pro (Easter promo)

« Last post by Darwin on April 08, 2010, 10:57 PM »

Me too, though I admit I have been purging a lot of stuff from there lately. I mean, after all some of the apps won't run on any OS past Win 98SE!

Jim

-J-Mac (April 08, 2010, 09:38 PM)

  I've got folders for Win 3.x apps and for DOS 5 and 6 programs in that directory. Neither of them are more than about 5 MB in size, though... Amazing!