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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 06, 2013, 01:37 PM »

What do you think of this?

-mouser (September 06, 2013, 12:10 PM)

An extremely good idea.     
I have to stop and think what to do every time either that happens to me or I want to use object editing mode (thinking hurts my brain).

Plus, I just mentioned another benefit of SC in this other SC topic, which is how to get a useful gallery view.
 

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Screenshot Captor / Poor man's 'gallery view' in Screenshot Capture

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 06, 2013, 01:33 PM »

Often, I read comments on DC from people doing things that seem perfectly obvious to them and yet are enlightening to me.  So, while I expect that many do already what I describe below, this feature of SC is so useful that I thought I'd mention it.

I refer to the fact that by setting the icon size for the left panel to the standard 96x96 and making the panel wider I get a pretty good 'gallery view' of whatever I want to look through. (The new search bar is an additional convenience.)
 

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.1, released 2011-10-01

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 04, 2013, 08:12 PM »

Insert Quote
When I put a WinSendKeys command in a TCC batch file, the shell changes the window title to append the currently running command. So now the windowname string I specified after the -w switch is also on the TCC console and WinSendKeys sends to wrong window.

Can't you have your TCC batch file specify what its (own) window title should be (WINDOW command, perhaps)?

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 29, 2013, 08:39 PM »

maybe *you* have a fifter I could kiff ?

-tomos (August 29, 2013, 06:20 PM)

fo forry, fad to fay no fifter. 
 

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Living Room / Re: Vocab tune-up

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 29, 2013, 05:02 PM »

English was in a state of flux around 1600, changing towards what we know today.

-tomos (August 29, 2013, 08:04 AM)

And thank goodness for that — I mean to say,  who'd want to kiff onef fifter?
 

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Living Room / Re: Off-brand li-ion camera batteries - personal experiences/recommendations, please

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 29, 2013, 09:06 AM »

Thanks to all for the new info. 

I picked up a couple of batteries that were very inexpensive. They claim to be the same brand as the original but the price denies this. So far, performance is the same as the original.

If/when these induce exploding camera syndrome I'll post again. At least I won't need expensive software to blow up my snaps.
 

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift and Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 26, 2013, 04:19 PM »

I see you've had a suggestion that might help you 

Depending on what you want to do, this topic also might be helpful to you (click here)
 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Database size

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 26, 2013, 08:50 AM »

Sigh sometimes i wonder how i find my feet in the morning.

-mouser (August 23, 2013, 02:16 AM)

Tried removing your socks before sleeping?
 

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift and Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 26, 2013, 08:44 AM »

Hi Vincent,

I have had the same experience myself where a coding snack no longer works.

I'm afraid that some of the older coding snacks were written before the advent of W7. Changes to the O/S will have broken those particular items. Since many users still employ older systems I assume that those 'snacks' remain for their benefit. You could try posting a request for someone to rewrite this item, always assuming that the functions are still available for manipulation.

Sorry that this one doesn't work for you but at least you now know that it's not an issue for you alone.

There is a lot more free material available that will work for you.  I hope you can have fun with some of that.
 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 25, 2013, 04:24 PM »

looks like you need to re-download (or i need to re-upload).

-mouser (August 25, 2013, 03:54 PM)

So, I did.


 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 25, 2013, 03:45 PM »

The new search bar may be useful to some (see View menu).

-mouser (August 25, 2013, 01:56 PM)

??

   

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina font in size 7, 6.5 or 6 ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 24, 2013, 10:49 AM »

Let me know what you think

-Jibz (August 23, 2013, 10:25 AM)

A veritable tour de force of fontmanship!

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina font in size 7, 6.5 or 6 ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 20, 2013, 05:28 PM »

But it is also very time-consuming

-Jibz (August 20, 2013, 08:23 AM)

Just a little appreciation...
 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Autographed Paperback copies of Kyrathaba Rising novel available

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 20, 2013, 05:22 PM »

My copy arrived in today's mail. 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Pet Peeves in Language in Games?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 19, 2013, 07:19 PM »

unrelated, but I was most amused to note the schoolkid in front of me on the bus this morning working on a page titled 'English Assingment'...

-Target (August 19, 2013, 05:38 PM)

Probably the kid was just assing about.

 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 18, 2013, 09:27 AM »

Good to meet you fredemeister, welcome!
I think you'll enjoy the community here.
 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Pet Peeves in Language in Games?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 17, 2013, 06:02 PM »

Anyone have any pet peeves (or general complaints) about the language they see in different games?

Games, newspapers, and just about every piece of software with a "spell checker" — I don't do magic.
 

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Non-Windows Software / Re: What Android apps do you use to read digital books?

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 10, 2013, 06:46 AM »

CoolReader.
About a week after I put CoolReader onto my phone my Kobo went into a drawer and hasn't been released since then.
 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Autographed Paperback copies of Kyrathaba Rising novel available

« Last post by cranioscopical on August 07, 2013, 11:03 AM »

The list, to date:

• mouser
• rgdot
• superboyac
• 40hz

-kyrathaba (August 07, 2013, 09:04 AM)

I'll be the fifth, having long nurtured a secret desire to be a wheel.

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Living Room / Re: Prim Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome (techcrunch.com)

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 28, 2013, 03:41 PM »

"ironing" - what's that

-tomos (July 28, 2013, 05:12 AM)

It used to be common but I can tell that you've developed a new wrinkle.

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Living Room / Re: Prim Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome (techcrunch.com)

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 26, 2013, 11:58 AM »

... and then there's Crim. Drop all your small valuables into a laundry bag, give them a call, leave your keys taped to the front door and they will come to unburden you of the goodies, even leaving you a thank-you note.
 
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Swapping Out Software?

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 20, 2013, 10:49 AM »

I went this year with the promo for Kingsoft Office. (I left the Writer on Libre, no qualms there.) But for spreadsheets, however they did it, they just managed to mirror MS's placement of features. Roughly I count about 20 simple things that I rely on in spreadsheets, and using the "muscle memory" I learned at work on the "real" MS package, just made the switch to Kingsoft easier.

-TaoPhoenix (July 19, 2013, 04:18 PM)

Kingsoft is a good option. I agree with the muscle memory thing.
While I still have MS Office (and some shares in MS) I'll continue to use it, mainly because I'm lazy. I doubt that I'll be upgrading it, however.
Anyway, with a one-day $32 billion loss as an example, the possibility exists that they might one day be losing some serious money.
 

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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.12.01 - Apr 22, 2015

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 20, 2013, 10:40 AM »

Very useful! Saved locally for reference 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Swapping Out Software?

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 18, 2013, 08:45 AM »

As I haven't the skills required for serious programming I've relied on various "languages" for scripting stuff. A bit of BASIC, some Rex, a smattering of Python etc. Over the past year or so I've switched to AHK_L for that kind of thing.

If Adobe doesn't amend its cloud-only subscription policy I'll be switching from Creative Suite to the first competitor to include the features that I want (I suspect that will take a while to occur).
 

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Living Room / Re: Off-brand li-ion camera batteries - personal experiences/recommendations, please

« Last post by cranioscopical on July 14, 2013, 09:46 PM »

Thanks both 

Food for thought.