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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by Grorgy on June 18, 2007, 08:11 PM »

mystery and anticipation , you'll enjoy it even more when you finally get it

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Living Room / Re: FYI - links to a CompSci quiz and a good Wallpaper site

« Last post by Grorgy on June 18, 2007, 06:56 PM »

some excellent walls, thanks for the link, ive got the rubiks cube in front of me now 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you a hardcore software fanatic or a poseur?

« Last post by Grorgy on June 18, 2007, 12:08 AM »

That self help group for addicts looks like it might be a good idea  Close to a 150 and I cleaned the ones i never use out.  350+ would make for a really scary start menu lol

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD #2: DonationCoder Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 7/14, Champaign Illinois

« Last post by Grorgy on June 17, 2007, 09:27 PM »

One day I'm thinking I must travel to all these parts of the world where I find I now have lots of friends I've never met    One day time and money will hopefully conspire and the world tour will be on 

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by Grorgy on June 17, 2007, 09:23 PM »

Was just browsing through this thread looking for something in firefox to behave a bit like the notes option in opera, and thanks to Curt I now have flashnote installed, what a great little program, but i gotta stop, too many more programs running all the time i'll have no room for anything else.  Thanks Curt 

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Biased

« Last post by Grorgy on June 17, 2007, 07:41 AM »

Isn't personal bias part and parcel of any review? Film reviews, book reviews, all are subjective and very much depend on the reviewers interests, life style and other prejudices and preferences that have developed over the years, but it does not detract from the review, in my opinion it adds the background to the review.  If the reviewer expressed no opinion and no preferences software reviews would end up a list of features (positive and negative), somewhat dull in my opinion.  Zaine's preferences seemed apparent without having read much of anything else he has reviewed so then its up to the reader to agree or disagree with the suggestions given in light of their own needs and preferences, but it certainly gave a good starting point for someone looking for a word processor or two.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thinstall - Have You Worked With IT?

« Last post by Grorgy on June 16, 2007, 04:19 PM »

There was some mention of FREE for home use for something on the site??!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TextAloud @ Giveaway of the Day 6/16

« Last post by Grorgy on June 16, 2007, 06:44 AM »

thanks tinjaw, i've been going for a look there lately but hadnt got around to it, so i might have missed this, was never too sure i wanted it, so i never bothered but as a freebie i will surely give it a try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DAZ Bryce 5.5 now free (Windows and Mac versions).

« Last post by Grorgy on June 15, 2007, 05:52 PM »

Now this is not a dialup friendly download lol, if you havent looked its 122mb, but it looks really nice, i used 3d studio max in a course i was doing once, and its hopelessly out of my price range, this sure looks like a good alternative for me. I'll get to try it in 10 hrs or so   

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General Software Discussion / Re: teracopy: copy your files faster

« Last post by Grorgy on June 15, 2007, 04:03 PM »

Just a note, supercopier sent Kaspersky internet suite into a frenzy, reports intrusions everywhere, after you uninstall does the same thing (in reverse i spose since its now gone) , so if you really want it, be prepared for a bit of noise lol 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Free computer help online (tune-ups, customization, etc)

« Last post by Grorgy on June 15, 2007, 03:11 PM »

must be a grand thing to be young 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Überwallpaper!

« Last post by Grorgy on June 15, 2007, 05:04 AM »

hehehe well maybe there are some but then there are others, me?, well  i like eye candy, and even use window blinds lol got sick of dull silver and moved to basic black 

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Official Announcements / Re: Zaine Ridling's Massive Word Processor Review is now Live (Jun 14, 2007)

« Last post by Grorgy on June 15, 2007, 12:46 AM »

yeah, well done Zaine, excellent review from someone that sounds as if they actually have used the applications.  This will be an excellent resource, well until all the programs get outdated and disappear anyway lol.  and pretty screenshots are good   gotta  pretty screenshots

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General Software Discussion / Re: Endnote XI is released...

« Last post by Grorgy on June 14, 2007, 05:33 PM »

It sounds like you have it all pretty much sorted out in a way that works for you already Darwin, I'm becoming a firm believer in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' (especially after 2 reinstalls of windows in around a week lol grrrrr) and unless there is a compelling reason to change I wouldn't, and as you say it inst free, though given its functionality i don't think its over priced at all (and they have it on sale at the moment and with student discounts to)  So if someone is just starting out, its certainly worth a look and if your system just inst working for you then yes, again worth a look, but if your system is working for you you can spend the money on other more exciting programs and the time taken to learn it looking for those programs 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Endnote XI is released...

« Last post by Grorgy on June 14, 2007, 05:09 PM »

I sure can but not a lot yet, I've bought IdeaMason and I really like it, it is however a complex beast and I havent worked it all out, It has options to do just about anything I might want to do in the way of idea sorting tagging and so on, but I don't see it as a replacement for those tools like endnote certainly as it stores data in a proprietary format that requires Ideamason to be on the computer you are using. (endnote may use its own format to, i don't know, but it seems to be a common application around universities and the like).  So far I've only used it on one essay but like Douglas Adams, I seem to like the sound that deadlines make as they whoosh past, so i went back to just finishing it off in word, only a day late  ) After the exams are over I'm going to have another go at it without the pressure of actually trying to meet a deadline and will be able to dig through its options, but my initial impression as an undergraduate student it will, i think, meet all my needs for sorting tagging categorizing references and so on that i need and of course it can be used as a journal keeper to do list, all of those sort of things, though you wouldn't buy it to do those functions alone, once i've moved on from studying (if i do, might retire as a student yet lol)

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General Software Discussion / Re: The GIMP, thoughts...

« Last post by Grorgy on June 14, 2007, 08:37 AM »

A lot of people use paint.net from http://getpaint.net/index2.html which has layers and heaps of plugins written by a fairly active community of users. worth a look and its free

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: High and Low?

« Last post by Grorgy on June 14, 2007, 06:13 AM »

And while there are other ways of changing the priority of a program, setting it in process tamer means you can forget about it then.  It will do it whenever process tamer is running.  i like the tamer lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: teracopy: copy your files faster

« Last post by Grorgy on June 14, 2007, 02:03 AM »

I used it to copy 11 gb of music from my external drive to the internal one and it was great for that, but mostly i just move 1 or 2 little files at a time and waiting for teracopy to start up and then going through all its set up was sooo slow, it would have to be able to time tra vel to get back the time lost doing that for little files.    so i uninstalled it.  might reinstall it if i have a big copying job to do tho

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Grorgy on June 13, 2007, 05:26 PM »

Actually a lot of the reason i printed so many of them was that I had no idea of all the tools available to do things with them, notes and so on, this thread has really given me a whole new area of usefulness for the computer.  Thanks folks 

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Grorgy on June 13, 2007, 05:15 PM »

I print about 75% of the ones I use, tho I am only using a smallish number, say 100 during a semester (4 mths)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend Vista CD Burner

« Last post by Grorgy on June 11, 2007, 04:28 AM »

It was on the disk from Australian PC User June 2007

[Edit ... added link to Australian PC User, Carol. Note June 2007 is current issue, they only seem to stock back issues for 2006 ???]

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Grorgy on June 11, 2007, 02:21 AM »

ooops, my mistake, that offer on eXpert pdf expired last year, oh well no worries, no doubt something similar will appear soon 

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by Grorgy on June 10, 2007, 05:24 PM »

 I tried to get eXpert PDF 3 (for nothing, feeling cheap today  , so whats different from most days you may well ask lol) and i cant get the thing to extract its files, wants a password, so i use the one they sent me, says ts invalid, anyway i sent them an email, telling them this, but havent heard anything yet.

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Living Room / Re: Humour - The End of the world

« Last post by Grorgy on June 10, 2007, 07:34 AM »

hmmm thinking about this i think we need some commando kangaroos and attack echidnas with wombats to provide the heavier 'infantry' and get the emus running in for quick strike actions

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Living Room / Re: Humour - The End of the world

« Last post by Grorgy on June 10, 2007, 07:27 AM »

only if they are working tho fred, and it isnt a weekend of course