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General Software Discussion / app crashes due to Adobe + Windows 10 update December 29

« Last post by Curt on January 03, 2016, 02:50 AM »

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3132372
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2053723

Microsoft security advisory: Update for vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge: December 29, 2015

Summary
Microsoft has released a security advisory for IT professionals about vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in the following web browsers:

Internet Explorer in Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, and Windows 10 version 1511
Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 and Windows 10 version 1511

To learn more about the vulnerability, see Microsoft security advisory 2755801.

More information:
Important

All future security and nonsecurity updates for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 require update 2919355 to be installed. We recommend that you install update 2919355 on your Windows RT 8.1-based, Windows 8.1-based, or Windows Server 2012 R2-based computer so that you receive future updates.
If you install a language pack after you install this update, you must reinstall this update. Therefore, we recommend that you install any language packs that you need before you install this update. For more information, see Add language packs to Windows.

Known issues in this security update

We are aware of limited application crashes that occur after this security update is installed on Windows 10.

Microsoft is researching this problem with Adobe and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.

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

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2015, 06:22 PM »

Kiki Dee has always done alright by herself, but it took Elton John to make her famous to the masses (Don't Go Breaking My Heart). Her friendship with Carmelo Luggeri has made her take another Walk Of Faith and play this different (traditional) style of music, compared to her younger (jazzy) days.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Magazine creator

« Last post by Curt on December 31, 2015, 09:13 AM »

I don't know, but Liquid StoryBinder XE can do almost everything else, so why not this as well... It is however not updated any more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 43.0.2 stable release

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2015, 07:14 PM »

Supposedly this is the last FF that will let you opt out of signed AddOn enforcement by using the about:config setting xpinstall.signatures.required
-MilesAhead (December 14, 2015, 06:04 PM)
Watch out for this one though, if I recall, this is the one it stops being a warning and "auto -blocks" unsigned add-ons so I dunno what that means for various people. I certainly haven't examined my addons in detail ...
-TaoPhoenix (December 14, 2015, 09:15 PM)

NOW 43.0.3 is available.
-jadinolf (December 29, 2015, 11:34 AM)

it went well; all my addons are still working (because of xpinstall.signatures.required=false) in 43.0.3

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Word seems the most stupid thing

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2015, 04:45 PM »

$everal programs can merge pdf files. [deleted]. I do hope 2016 is going to bring you some money at last.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Word seems the most stupid thing

« Last post by Curt on December 29, 2015, 09:07 AM »

Celebrating New Year a little (too) early, wrong IainB? Most people are aware that such killer app was first introduced by Slartibartfarst, but it turned out to merely be a killer nap.

I agree with Renegade, PDF is not to play with, only to fight with.

When I once had a printing job like the one Contro described, I printed each document (1 Word + 3 Pdf) - and only afterwards, I manually mixed the printed papers, to make it look as if it all was one big printing job.

If I had to do it again, I would first convert one or the other format. All pdf, or all Word.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 43.0.2 stable release

« Last post by Curt on December 24, 2015, 01:58 AM »

43.0.2 has not yet been localized, so around "here", 43.0.1 is still the newest

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Living Room / Re: Japanese (?) character readers - please tell me what my sake mug set says!

« Last post by Curt on December 23, 2015, 04:48 PM »

My ABBYY Screenshot Reader would not recognize it as Japanese, Chinese or Korean - simplified or traditional.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 43.01 available through Firefox but no release info

« Last post by Curt on December 22, 2015, 02:34 AM »

Thank you, Miles, again. You have been donated for the sake of a spanking free world! (ehh?!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 43.01 available through Firefox but no release info

« Last post by Curt on December 21, 2015, 03:36 AM »

you should be whipped, all of you. How dare you talk about this update without telling that 43.0.1 will disable any addon not signed! I want to whip certain people right now. Whip! whip! whip!

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General Software Discussion / WinAntiRansom from WinPatrol finally launched

« Last post by Curt on December 17, 2015, 04:43 PM »

https://www.winpatrol.com/WinAntiRansom/

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Detects and blocks known Ransomware from multiple industry sources!
Detects and blocks most Malware and other suspicious programs!
Gives you the to power to block any program you want. (Like the annoying Windows 10 update programs so many of you have asked us for help in blocking.)
Uses whitelisting technology to prevent unwanted programs from touching the data you place in your SafeZone.
Kills programs behaving badly... But gives you the ability to easily allow (whitelist) any programs(s) with the click of the mouse.

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Why the Doberman mascot?
Andy

When creating WinAntiRansom we realized the power of what we were writing and the fact that we were treading into uncharted territory. With this in mind, we began a search for our mascot. We wanted a dog up to such a challenge.

Upon reading about the heroism of the Doberman's used in World War II, we knew we had found the one! Now to pick a name. All of the stories we read were inspiring, but we had to decide on just one name. It was not an easy decision, but after much consideration we chose Andy, in honor of the Dobe who led "the Raiders" inland on the first day of the attack on Bougainville.

Now, he is leading us in our fight against Cyber Criminals and Ransomware.

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General Software Discussion / AIMP4 has been released!

« Last post by Curt on December 17, 2015, 09:47 AM »

AIMP4 (Artem Izmaylov Media Player, version 4) has been released! | 2015-12-15 23:05:59 | http://www.aimp.ru/index.php

Freeware for Windows - they also have AIMP2 for Android.

What's new in AIMP 4.00 vs 3.60?

What's new in AIMP v4.00 in comparison with v3.60?

Common

Hints are now displayed when changing the slider in the DSP-Manager dialog via mouse wheel or keyboard
Formatting templates - list of available functions moved to sub-menu
Version number of application has been removed from names of binaries
Macros - one-letter / two-letter names of macros are replaced with friendly names
Macros - names in menu with macro list are highlighted now via bold font
Macros - list of macros for playable file has been expanded, following macros have been added: %AlbumGain, %TrackGain and %Lyrics
Macros - list of functions for text manipulation has been expanded

Interface

New design of application
Windows animation no longer inhibits UI
Scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone

Sound Engine

Added an ability to specify the 352.8 KHz sample rate (for devices that support this sample rate)

Player

An ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost

Playlist

Performance of builder for shuffle queue has been increased at 3 times
Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
Added an ability to rescan tags for selected files only
The "move to..." functionality has been introduced
The "Find in Music Library" command has been added
The "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on data from Music Library with an ability to filter and group data
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on one or few directories
Smart playlists - synchronization with pre-image is now works in separate thread
Playlist files are now imports each into separate tab if the "open files from external applications" option set to "create new playlist".

Playlists Manager

An ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
Drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added

Audio Converter

An ability to switch off grouping
Support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
MP3 Encoder - added an ability to select target sample rate

Tag Editor

An ability to select all types of tags by one click
Added an ability to copy / paste album art images to / from the system clipboard
Added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
Added an ability to store custom values to list of the "Genre" edit field

Music Library

Integrated into the main application
"The" article isn't cut out when adding files in a DB any more
An ability to save user mark to tags of file automatically (optional)
An ability to combine an empty levels in grouping tree in the "no grouping" mode
An ability to find misplaced files automatically
An ability to delete automatically non-existed files from data base
An ability to specify different columns set for table and card views
An ability to adjust height of the alphabetic index control
An ability to set user-defined filter for grouping preset
Added an ability to send selected files from grouping tree to selected playlist
An ability to drag album by its album art
An ability to scroll song list via mouse wheel without focusing of it
An ability to fast scroll via mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
Report generator - support of fields with multiple values has been added
The "move to..." functionality has been added
File name column displays a name of file without path now
Alphabetic index is now supported for all fields
Skin support has been added
The "no grouping" mode - an ability to fill song list from current folder only (without sub-folders)
Now the data are loaded for visible columns only
Support of network files has been improved

Skin Engine

Potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)

Plugins

API for plugins has been updated to v4
Scheduler - sleep timer - an ability to fade out volume
Scheduler - the "OK" button has been added
SACD - ISO - now the plugin displays both stereo and 5.1 tracks

options:

Features and screenshots (in English): http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=features
-other than this, forum, blog and FAQ или ЧаВо are all in Russian...

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas 2015 (Feliz Navidad 2015)

« Last post by Curt on December 16, 2015, 04:37 PM »

and because the thread started early, Christmas is just that, future

Glædelig jul.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: award-winning calculator

« Last post by Curt on December 15, 2015, 10:17 AM »

http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/

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If you are purchasing a gift for someone just let me know and I can "adjust" the registration accordingly if needed

This voucher will work until 2 Jan 2016.

We are aiming to have new versions of ESBCalc Pro and ESBUnitConv Pro out over the next few weeks - and the major update to ESBDateCalc Pro will
hopefully start Beta Testing (for Suite and Date Calc Owners) in Jan 2016.
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ESB Calc Pro Suite - this provides all the ESB Calculators and Unit Conversion Utilities at a bargain price. When buying the suite you get licenses to all the calculators - currently ESBCalc Pro, ESBProgCalc Pro, ESBFinCalc Pro, ESBDateCalc Pro and ESBUnitConv Pro - plus you get additional calculators as they are added to the suite.

You only need to register once - all upgrades are free for the life of the product.
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-Curt (May 13, 2015, 05:49 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Low Audio Levels

« Last post by Curt on December 14, 2015, 05:58 PM »

It's quite important if your audio files are recorded with the same volume level. As you can see in attached photo, the volume levels on these two collections are different from each other with more than 14dB (from 83.9 to 98.2 dB). Such a difference is noticeable.

I am surprised how you focus on getting a high sound pressure / loud volume. Your computer's amplifying system is analogue and not of high quality (if it's a normal PC), and very often the digital output to the amplifier is 'over-steered', so the louder you play, the more distortion you'll get. But maybe your computer is a Hi-Fi version? (Does young people of today even know what "Hi-Fi" means? Maybe they think it's a version of hi' five?)

On my PC I record at approx 89 dB (which is 6~10dB lower than most CDs are recorded) and have the digital volume output set at 70~80% => this low signal gives my external amplifier and loudspeakers the best sound quality. If I want to turn up the volume, I will never turn up the computer's digital signal, but the external, analogue signal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by Curt on December 13, 2015, 02:48 AM »

oh, Thanks a lot, 4wd!

You have been donated...

Looking in task manager's log, it was easy to see that the right solution not is to quarantine a program; the log was full of >> RuntimeBroker.exe 1660 terminated, worked 0:04, CPU 0:00 C:\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe <<-lines.

Still having "Open in RegEdit" installed (Mozilla is wrong, the addon is not too old, but works absolutely flawless, when finally installed) in Firefox, it took a couple of seconds only, to use your quoted trick.
Again, Thank You!

Problem solved, the right way.

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General Software Discussion / Runtime Broker problem solved?

« Last post by Curt on December 12, 2015, 07:24 AM »

hm... In my AnVir task manager I right-clicked Runtime Broker, and selected Block Process (Quarantine)
-and then recorded a full album online, without any problems.

Problem solved? $:-\$ Time will tell

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by Curt on December 12, 2015, 04:42 AM »

Since I don't use any Windows apps, (only a local account), I disabled the Time Broker service which kills Runtime Broker.
-4wd (December 11, 2015, 06:44 PM)

^ I didn't respond to this, because I have not yet been able to find this Time Broker service.
Probably because names on services are translated into local language.

modified
Can I do anything to TimeBrokerClient.dll or TimeBrokerServer.dll

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by Curt on December 12, 2015, 03:59 AM »

Heres a microsoft article about Runtime Broker on windows 10 using too much memory. http://windows.micro...sing-too-much-memory
-hamradio (December 11, 2015, 03:09 PM)

^thank you for finding this, hamradio!
Another good link could be https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3fe1lx/runtime_broker_cpu_usage_fix/

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Turns out the owner is Trusted Installer. I wonder if I should take ownership, and maybe rename Runtime Broker to prevent it from starting in the first place? I have never had any connection (that I know of) to Windows_Store. My Win_10 is like a new Win_7, I don't have any "apps"; everything "for your comfort" has been disabled.

Can my laptop live without Runtime Broker?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by Curt on December 11, 2015, 04:59 PM »

I should of course have told that I am using Streaming Audio Recorder [SAR], to record the audio in question. So maybe the sinner is SAR?

Also, I am on a 32-bits Windows_10_Pro 4GB_RAM Dell laptop.

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General Software Discussion / What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by Curt on December 11, 2015, 12:41 PM »

What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?
It's using half the CPU, when I have played maybe a dozen audio files online!

I have not yet checked if the problem is global, or if it only is when I use my local ISP, (musik.yousee.dk).

I can play the first 10 numbers, with no problems of any kind. Suddenly the sound will start stumbling and the computer will use 100% CPU. When I fight my way to have a look in task manager, Runtime Broker is using at least 48% CPU - and Firefox another 40% and some container 10% Anything left?

Unfortunately you cannot play the full numbers, (http://musik.yousee....mp;albumId=115607586) so there is no easy way to replicate the problem.

Or am I the only one having major problems with (Firefox and) Runtime Broker? $:-\$

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Modified
SORRY!! I should of course have told that I am using Streaming Audio Recorder, to record the audio in question.

Also, I am on a 32-bits Windows_10_Pro 4GB_RAM Dell laptop.

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Found Deals and Discounts / FineReader 12

« Last post by Curt on December 10, 2015, 04:20 PM »

for two weeks the price via Bits du Jour is 30% off:

ABBYY FineReader 12 Professional
Capture This Amazing OCR Program
30% Off
$118.99 ~~$169.99~~
-Bits du Jour

http://www.bitsdujou...ader-12-professional

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Found Deals and Discounts / 75 Monotype fonts 90% off: $49 until Dec 11

« Last post by Curt on December 08, 2015, 10:24 AM »

The Foundation Collection ~~$490.00~~ $49.00 = 90% off until Dec 11
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/the-foundation-collection/
Various licensing options available (Desktop, Web, App, eBook, Server)
So, 75 fonts, yes, but not any font.

The Foundation Collection
by Monotype

75 fonts: ~~$490.00~~ $49.00

About this font family:

The Foundation Collection provides 75 versatile fonts spanning the most essential serif and sans serif categories—along with a functional set of script and display styles.

This carefully curated type collection draws from the acclaimed Monotype, Linotype, ITC, Bitstream and other libraries to provide a strong foundation for any designers' type library—be it beginning creatives or seasoned typographic professionals alike.

The Foundation Collection is a go-to typographic tool that will empower you to create effective designs across a myriad of projects, all without breaking the bank.
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