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Living Room / Re: Cheap LED torches/flashlights - any good?
« Last post by rjbull on July 22, 2013, 02:49 PM »
I'm not a real fan of the Ultra white LED light either. I just don't trust that I'm really seeing everything that I could.
-Stoic Joker (July 22, 2013, 01:10 PM)
I don't think you are.  I'm sure I read (somewhere on the Web, so it must be true...) something to the effect that you can't really use LEDs for hunting at night, because their limited spectrum messes up the human eye's depth perception.

There is a tool store chain called Harbor Freight [...] I've been carrying one of their ~ 3" x 1" round flashlights in my pocket [...]They usually come 2 in a pack for $3, have a metal case, and are more impact resistant than any other flashlight I've ever had.
Website has them on sale now for $1
-Stoic Joker (July 22, 2013, 01:10 PM)
That looks identical to the ones that started me asking the original question!  There appear to be several variations on the case; with/without binocular-style rubber armour, or a plastic case.  Mine has a photoluminescent green plastic case that glows in the dark like a ghost train.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: An app to highlight a list of words in an MS Outlook email w/ html format
« Last post by rjbull on July 15, 2013, 02:42 PM »
You might want to look at Hilitext.  Be sure to try before you buy, though, as while it says "Windows 8/7/Vista/XP 32-bit," it doesn't appear to have been updated since 2005.  Also be aware that when you use the "highlight a text in a file" feature, you have to save your search text as Unicode.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!
« Last post by rjbull on July 15, 2013, 02:25 PM »
I'm slightly surprised not to see any love for EditPad Lite here, given how popular EditPad Pro has historically been.  Maybe "Free for Personal Use" is too much limitation?
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!
« Last post by rjbull on July 14, 2013, 03:39 PM »
I would probably have bought emeditor at some point if they hadn't stopped offering lifetime licenses, but I can understand why they did it.
-Jibz (July 10, 2013, 04:17 AM)
EmEditor Free for personal use, but you might find the limitations too great.  Besides, good though it is, it's a bit big for this thread?
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Living Room / Re: How to concatenate a number of text files which may have different encoding?
« Last post by rjbull on June 30, 2013, 03:16 PM »
Batch file method should work, but I've sometimes used ports of the Unix cat command:
Usage: cat [OPTION] [FILE]...
Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.

  -A, --show-all           equivalent to -vET
  -b, --number-nonblank    number nonblank output lines
  -e                       equivalent to -vE
  -E, --show-ends          display $ at end of each line
  -n, --number             number all output lines
  -s, --squeeze-blank      never more than one single blank line
  -t                       equivalent to -vT
  -T, --show-tabs          display TAB characters as ^I
  -u                       (ignored)
  -v, --show-nonprinting   use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB
      --help               display this help and exit
      --version            output version information and exit

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

  -B, --binary             use binary writes to the console device.


Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!
« Last post by rjbull on June 23, 2013, 11:00 AM »
(but this post made with NoteTab 7 Pro because of the "Clipbook" macros system)
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General Software Discussion / LinkStash bookmarks/favorites manager updated to 3.0.0
« Last post by rjbull on June 17, 2013, 03:53 PM »
LinkStash v3.0.0 - The best of the "Favorites"
The Ultimate Bookmark Management Tool
Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000 (32-bit and 64-bit support)

LinkStash Overview

LinkStash is an outstanding bookmarks/favorites manager that works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Netscape. Just 5 minutes with LinkStash and we are betting you will never want to use any other bookmark manager again!

  • LinkStash can open and close with your browser
  • Using LinkStash means you can store and organize all your favorite links in a familiar Explorer-style tree arrangement
  • With fields for tags, comments, ratings, passwords, date last visited and so on, your links are easily edited, maintained and kept up to date
  • Clean up your links with the dead link checker
  • You can make your bookmarks visible and easy to find by using color highlights
  • A customizable toolbar allows you to arrange all your favorite commands in a sensible, custom arrangement of your choice
  • You can also keep your LinkStash bookmarks synchronized with IE Favorites
  • If your bookmark collection contains sensitive data then you can encrypt the whole bookmark file using strong encryption
  • You can take your bookmarks with you on a portable flash drive using LinkStash portable
  • A single-user license can be used on both the portable and the installer version - no need for an extra license

For a complete history of changes see the changelog.

Summary of improvements since version 2.1.3.

  • Bookmarks can open in a new browser tab (Internet Explorer and Firefox), new window (Chrome.)
  • Greater search precision, search by date added, date visited, number of visits, rating.
  • The bookmark fie is monitored for changes and is reloaded if changes are detected, this is useful is you have two computers using the same bookmark file. You can even use this with cloud storage like Dropbox.
  • Built-in special searches for recently added or recently visited bookmarks.
  • The website title and description fields in the bookmark dialog can be fetched from the website.
  • Drag bookmarks from LinkStash to the desktop or Window Explorer to create internet shortcuts.
  • Customizable font size for the bookmark pane and folder pane.
  • Bookmarks can be copied as text in many ways: URL, name, URL & name, HTML link.
  • Bookmarks can be opened with Safari, Maxthon2 and Maxthon3.
  • Bookmarks can be added from from Maxthon2.
  • LinkStash starts/stops with Safari and Maxthon browser.
  • Greater password flexibility allows you to submit the website logon after sending the password without the need to send the user name.
  • You can apply the current sort order to all folders or only the sub-folders.
  • Editable saved search criteria.
  • Import URLs from a text file.
  • Export and import tags.
  • LinkStash can automatically Sign Out when the computer goes to sleep.
  • Improved and reorganized the layout of the options dialog box and menus.
  • Option to show or hide obsolete browsers in LinkStash.

Buy LinkStash

When you buy LinkStash, you are buying a license to use the product. The license is delivered to you as a serial number by email once the order has been completed. When you receive your serial number, enter it into LinkStash by clicking 'Purchase or register LinkStash' in the Help pull-down menu.

  • 30 day money back guarantee
  • All updates to version 3.x are free
  • If you have a LinkStash 3 serial number you don't need to buy again, just download
  • If you have a LinkStash 2 serial number you qualify for a discounted upgrade
  • If you have a LinkStash 1 serial number you can still upgrade
  • The same serial number can be used on both regular and the portable package

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$24.95 per license

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Living Room / Re: Serif PagePlus X7, on time or too soon?
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2013, 03:20 PM »
Once you buy a Serif program, they continually send you emails with upgrade offers after a new version comes out.  So the apparent newness may be a "perception problem."
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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2013, 03:03 PM »
  Sorry, it's an English cricketing metaphor/term.
-IainB (June 10, 2013, 09:18 PM)
I suggest you don't confuse non-cricketing nations further by explaining how to bowl a maiden over  ;D

Iain Banks was apparently only 59 years old when he died - well below the typical "three score and ten"
-IainB (June 10, 2013, 09:18 PM)
There've been news bulletins about a Web site that reports life expectancy in different parts of Britain.  They apparently used an average span of 75.
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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2013, 03:00 PM »
I don't recall reading anything by Iain Banks. He didn't have a very long innings, did he?
-IainB (June 10, 2013, 05:16 AM)
(Actually, Walking On Glass was sort of sf too, but I might be the only person in the world who liked it -- it's often forgotten.)
-oblivion (June 10, 2013, 09:45 AM)
I read a few of his, including Walking On Glass.  He seemed to specialise in odd, unsettling novels, but in some cases, they stick in your mind.  In the case of that one, the "matrioshka doll" creatures.

Oh, and you might remember the fuss about Feersumm Enjinn.
-oblivion (June 10, 2013, 09:45 AM)
No, but I remember having fun decoding Bascule the Teller's spelling  :)

Against a Dark Background was a good one (IMHO).  But, I remember reading a review which commented that he "gleefully" killed off his characters.
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Living Room / Re: Jack Vance has died.
« Last post by rjbull on June 12, 2013, 02:55 PM »
Jack Vance (the science fiction writer
-IainB (June 02, 2013, 10:02 PM)
I think there's a project to bring all his work back into print.  I haven't read very many of his; last one I read was the entertaining Night Lamp.

[Edit at UK time 2013-06-12, 21:51:-] There is such a project: see the Jack Vance Wikipedia page [/Edit]
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on May 24, 2013, 02:50 PM »
Berry, NoteFrog's author, has amended his blog post to include
Please note – NoteWindow is designed to accommodate a mobile, platform independent, browser-based, touch interface. It is not a windows (or any platform specific), desktop program. (and, a black background helps to conserve battery life on portable devices.) :)
which gives the reason for some of its appearance.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013
« Last post by rjbull on May 23, 2013, 04:24 PM »
Is it just my system, or is there something slightly odd about 2.18.01's accelerator keys?  The first time I press the hotkey then W to bring up the main window, they don't work as expected.  That is, if I press Alt+F, nothing happens, even though the File menu is underlined.  I have to press Alt and release it to highlight File, then press Enter to drop down the menu.  This is with the cursor on All clips in the tree, but, CHS 2.18.01 starts with All coloured grey, not blue to indicate it's active.  If I click on it to make it go blue, or likewise on New clips, the accelerator keys work as expected, i.e. Alt+F immediately drops down the File menu, Alt+L the layouts, etc.

I don't know if this happened before, but I don't remember it.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: NoteFrog Pro (clipboard information manager) - Mini-Review
« Last post by rjbull on May 22, 2013, 03:49 PM »
NoteFrogBlog.com

NoteWindow Free Personal Information Manager
Posted by berry – May 22, 2013

The NoteFrog mobile stack capability, mentioned in an earlier post NoteFrog goes mobile is now available as a Free Browser based, Personal Information Manager, similar to NoteFrog. It is available here.

Let us know your impressions.

Screenshot shows what the control panel looks like (in Firefox).
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UrlSnooper / Re: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours!
« Last post by rjbull on May 19, 2013, 02:58 PM »
Brief passing mention on TinyApps blog:

Download and combine F4F files into FLV
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: myBase Desktop 5.x + Addons Pack discounted on BitsDuJour.com (2010-01-25)
« Last post by rjbull on May 05, 2013, 02:44 PM »
Bits du Jour deal again today, Sun, 5 May 2013, with 11 hrs left to run at time of posting: myBase Desktop 6.x + Addons Pack $39.50 instead of $79.
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Living Room / Re: One year without the internet: An Interesting Read
« Last post by rjbull on May 02, 2013, 03:52 PM »
Simple research? THAT's the gold mine we all take for granted! Print a quick map of new places, check the service hours, menus, shopping, etc etc etc, save *weeks* of your life in twelve days.
-TaoPhoenix (May 02, 2013, 03:22 PM)
Up to a point.  Now we're in a world where everybody and his dog has to have a Web site.  It seems to be easy enough to get one set up (I assume; I've never tried it myself)  But then there's a big problem - maintenance.  Smaller businesses just don't have the resources to put their every change immediately on their Web site.  I know a garden centre like that, where their Web site doesn't lead anywhere, their e-mail doesn't work.  It's no more than an electronic poster stuck on a virtual wall.  One of the local photography clubs has a dire Web site because nobody's got the know-how or the time to make it any better.  In other words, the Internet favours bigger and better-resourced operations over the small ones, even though small ones are often excellent.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to stop Firefox page-opening sound?
« Last post by rjbull on April 30, 2013, 04:20 PM »
NoScript.png

Thanks   :-[
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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Count Number of Pages in PDF Files
« Last post by rjbull on April 30, 2013, 04:06 PM »
This only gets you part way:

Command-line pdfinfo from the XPDF suite will print the page count of an individual file, amongst much other data.  So can
PDFTK, but again one file at a time.

You could put either in a batch file for multiple PDFs, but you'd have to massage the output data to make it tidy.
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General Software Discussion / How to stop Firefox page-opening sound?
« Last post by rjbull on April 30, 2013, 03:51 PM »
Lately Firefox (16.0.2) has been making silly noises each time it opens a Web page.  It didn't used to do this, and I haven't even had any recent updates that I know of.  I badly want this irritating sound turned off, but I can't see where to do it under Options.  Please can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks...
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Living Room / Re: Google forbids resale or lending of Glass
« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2013, 02:21 PM »
This is about Google's always-on spectacles, right?  Which allow users to video anything and upload it, regardless of privacy concerns?

A writer in a UK magazine suggested that users should be termed "glassholes..."
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General Software Discussion / PromptPal (command line replacement for power users) Version 2 Now Available
« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2013, 02:17 PM »
PromptPal Version 2 Now Available!
05 April 2013 02:32 PM

PromptPal Version 2.0

PromptPal - our popular command line replacement for administrators and power users - has finally been given a major update. There are many changes in v2, but here are the highlights:

    Totally rewritten internally to put you closer to the underlying command shell. Commands that formerly required special treatment in PromptPal v1 just work normally in v2, e.g. More, Telnet, NSLOOKUP etc.
    Support for Windows PowerShell and other shells of your choosing.
    Integrated support for "Run as different user", which can even be combined with "Run as Administrator"
    Optional initial command for all new tabs
    Toolbar control over command completion options (simple on/off toggles)
    Command history is separate after tab creation.
    Pass-thru for CTRL+D and any other key combos not mapped to a menu item.
    Windows 8 compatibility improved

If you make a lot of use of the command line or find it a daunting but necessary evil, then give the new version a try. You'll be surprised how much time and effort it will save you!

Existing PromptPal customers who bought on or after 1st June 2012 have already been sent out free upgrade licenses for version 2. Those who bought version 1 prior to that date can upgrade at a 50% discount. Emails about this will be sent out on Monday 8th April 2013, but if you'd like upgrade earlier or have any questions, please either submit a ticket or email us here: mailto: [email protected]
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours
« Last post by rjbull on April 22, 2013, 10:03 AM »
Except they call SSC Snapshot Captor, though they get it right in the main review.
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Living Room / Re: Recommend free image hosting site?
« Last post by rjbull on April 18, 2013, 02:43 PM »
Just again for discussion, how many images do you have? I'm close to hosting them myself.
-TaoPhoenix (April 17, 2013, 08:34 AM)
Only a handful - I think I ended up with four.  My immediate problem is solved as it turns out that only one's first contact with eBay's customer service has to be made through their Web site.  Replies are sent to your ordinary e-mail, and of course it was easy to attach the images to my reply to that.  Would you believe that eBay UK(?) customer service "don't have the option to open the links you provided?"  Security gone mad, I suppose.  So for my current task, external image hosting turned out to be unusable anyway!  :wallbash:
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Living Room / Re: Recommend free image hosting site?
« Last post by rjbull on April 17, 2013, 08:25 AM »
What features do you need is the question.
-mouser (April 16, 2013, 07:42 PM)
Nothing much.  I'm having a problem with my eBay UK account, which has suddenly started sending "New items that match:" messages in an odd format.  eBay UK seem impossible to contact by normal means, only through their Web site, so you have to use the online messaging system.  Tech support wanted a screenshot, but there doesn't seem to be a way of attaching anything to the messages, which only have a limited text space anyway.  Hence needing an independent image hosting service.

I used TechSmith's freeware Jing, which hosts images online, but whined about updates, and I felt I wanted more freedom in what screenshot/annotation program to use.
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