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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 3.5.0.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 20, 2009, 01:32 PM »

ReOpen 3.5.0.3 Now middle mouse click on empty desktop or in an explorer window will bring up the window.  This can be toggled using the Tray Icon Menu.

Softpedia has been updated to this latest version if you prefer to download from there:
http://www.softpedia...agement/ReOpen.shtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 20, 2009, 11:46 AM »

I guess my last suggestion would be try a few on your local machine, then see what you have to do to modify it.  Unless you are doing some server side scripting, you should be able to load the whole "site" out of a folder on your hd to see how it looks in various browsers.

Another reason I recommend staying with html/css for simple sites is many, including myself, run with JavaScript blocked unless okayed for the current page. If you rely on scripting just to do simple stuff anyone running a blocker is likely to just move off.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Choose which browser will open a url from external app

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 06:31 PM »

I need a way to specify the browser that will handle the opening of URLs per application.

For example I want all links in outlook to be opened in Maxthon where as links in other applications should continue to be opened w/ my default browser, Firefox.

Possible?

-sri (September 15, 2009, 01:45 AM)

If you've done any batch programming or are game to try it, you could probably code a few lines in AutoIt3.  There are forums where you can get help here:
http://www.autoitscr...com/forum/index.php?

The AutoIt3 tools are free.  Once you debug your script you can compile it to .exe.
The easiest way would be to set a hotkey.  Select your link or copy to clipboard and hit the hotkey.  The app would check the active window title to see if it matches apps in your list.  The pseudo code would be something like:
If active window title has "outlook" use browser a
else if active window title has notepad use browser b etc..

If you want to launch the link normally and have an .exe intercept it then you'd have to make it the default browser and that's a can of worms you probably don't need.  The hotkey scheme is the easiest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 06:16 PM »

All I'm saying is most free or even other web page designers that don't require you to know html are either named Front Page, make a front page or use cookie cutter templates.

Even if you get something that looks great, if you don't know any html how do you modify it?  You go into the front end of the designer app and generate it again in most cases I would think.

Free + snazzy + different + easy is kind of a tall order.

Neat + boiler plate + free can probably be done.  But if you have to maintain it, you might as well learn some html.  There are forums to get pointers and help. I don't claim to be a web page designer.  My interest is programming my stuff, so I can identify with the "I just want to get something up there that looks good without spending 6 months learning stuff" anxiety.

For a one page site you going to buy a $500 tool? Nice if you can afford it.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Remove duplicate files, folders and archives - DupeTrasher 2009

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 04:45 PM »

With computers it's garbage in = garbage out

-MilesAhead (September 18, 2009, 10:58 PM)

Computers, you guys are using computers?

-cranioscopical (September 19, 2009, 04:01 PM)

I know it's cheatin' but after awhile those 3x5 index cards get heavy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How "laplink" Win98SE and Vista Home Premium laptops?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 04:43 PM »

btw what kind of drive is in the Win98 machine?  Might be easiest to just copy all the contents onto a new Sata drive if you have a USB port.  I have one of those USB Docking stations.  They even come in flavors with multiple connectors so you can leave more than 1 PC hooked up.  For a one time copy though, you can get the plain vanilla USB one for about $35 new.  Makes it easy to rotate backups too.  Nothing you can't do with external drives but I find I'm more enthusiastic about making more frequent image backups if I don't have to plug in the power supply, the data cable etc.. I just dig the drive out of the box and swap it with the one in the dock and store that one.  That way I have recent backups not hooked to the machine so the virus can't jump on 'em.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How "laplink" Win98SE and Vista Home Premium laptops?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 04:35 PM »

rjbull you may be better off using "sneaker net" for the time being.  I can remember mixing flavors of Windows for simple file and printer sharing and before XP it was really a pita.  You had to have a "master browser" meaning the machine that was the master browser was like the server and had to be started first.  So if the other machine happened to be running, you had to shut it down, start the master browser machine, then start the "slave" or "client" machine etc...  not worth the trouble.  XP is not as smooth connecting to Vista or W7 as to another XP machine, but at least you can get it to go and stay stable.  Before XP it's not worth the trouble unless the other machine is also Win98.

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Living Room / Re: How to use a parallel port printer on a PC without a parallel port?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 04:28 PM »

That's part of how they make cheap printers so cheap...

I hear you. It is a nice printer for non-demanding occasional use though. Fine for printing out a photo or a map on plain paper.  I had Stylus C-60 before.  That one had one black cartridge and one color cartridge.  As soon as one color was empty you had to replace the color cartridge.  This one they broke out the colors to all separate cartridges.  As I say though, it works on everything XP or later as long as you are not using a Lan.  The refurb cartridges are the way to go on these Epson Stylus types.  With my C-60 and now this one, out of maybe 50 or 60 cartridges purchased at that site, I think I got maybe 2 dry ones.  For $5 it's just chuck it. Not worth trying to get a credit.  I just chalk it up as the cost of getting the big discount on all the rest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 01:17 PM »

I tried Kompozer for a bit too. On my page I wanted navigation panels so naturally the first thing I did was create frames.  Then I found frames were deprecated.  I found instead a navigation button panel maker tool on the web.  It used all html and css to do the buttons.  The current page is highlighted and it hot tracks the mouse.  Slick.  Anyway, since I had to learn some html and css to modify stuff, I eventually got all my pages to be html and css just using PsPad(that's why they are simple blocks of color.)  The other thing is if you use a complex tool to make your page(s) make sure you have them triple backed up because when you look at the source chances are it won't mean anything to you.

The front end tools are ok if you want your site to look like the front page of the newspaper.  That's how they are designed.  So all the stuff on the web pretty much looks like the New York Times web site.  If you want something unusual you either have to get a guy to do it who won't use the same tool you were going to use, buy a really slick expensive tool, or learn the stuff and do it yourself.

There's nothing wrong with the front page of the newspapers except it's just what they all are.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Remove duplicate files, folders and archives - DupeTrasher 2009

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2009, 01:09 PM »

patteo freeCommander has a similar utility called Favorite Programs.  You create an entry with an editor similar to Visual Studio external tools.  It has variables to indicate selected file, active file, selected folder,active folder.. once you have it set up you can drag the icon onto the toolbar. If I want to open an .avi file in AviDemux to unpack it or whatever, I just select the file and hit the AviDemux button I made on the toolbar.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Remove duplicate files, folders and archives - DupeTrasher 2009

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 10:58 PM »

I'd rather be trashed than thrashed!

-cranioscopical (September 18, 2009, 02:21 PM)

It's when they thrash you, then throw you in the dumpster that it really hurts!!

-MilesAhead (September 18, 2009, 02:28 PM)

Bin there, dump that.

-cranioscopical (September 18, 2009, 05:52 PM)

With computers it's garbage in = garbage out 

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Living Room / Re: How to use a parallel port printer on a PC without a parallel port?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 04:05 PM »

If you are going to shell out $20 for the cable adapter you might look around for a deal on Epson Stylus C88+ Printer.  It has both Parallel and USB connectors.  The only proviso is the Vista driver is on the machine.  No CD. I have it on my Vista64 machine and it prints from remote Windows7 and XP fine.  As long as you host it on Vista you are good. When you plug the USB cable into the Vista machine it hot loads the driver.

Also you can get rebuilt cartridges on 123injects.com wicked cheap(I'm talking $5 or $6 ea instead of $20.) If you only print occasionally that may be the way to go.  It may be "obsolete" soon but there are so many of that model Stylus in circulation you'll be able to get ink cartridges for the foreseeable future. About the only thing you can't do with it is print on those printable CD/DVD blanks.

edit: btw you can plug it into a Windows Seven or XP machine and it will work.  It just won't serve the drive over the network to a Vista or Windows Seven from XP.  If you're not running a Lan it doesn't matter.

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General Software Discussion / Firefox 3.7 pre default theme has glassy border

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 03:50 PM »

What's new in Firefox 3.7 pre?


http://mashable.com/...refox-37-screenshot/

I tried the nightly build on Windows Seven but it didn't like TabMixPlus. I reverted to 3.6 pre Aug 5 nightly build.  Looks like I'll be staying with that until 3.6 final comes out, unless something startling shows up in 3.7.

If you have Minefield 3.6 pre this installs to the same folder and updates it.  The good news is, I uninstalled without erasing settings, and just installed 3.6 Aug. 5 build again and it seems ok.  Nothing hosed afaict.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Website Creator For Dummies?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 02:34 PM »

Hello all:
I've tried searching through the forum, but was unable to get the right combo of keywords. I'm looking for a freeware website creator. Something that is for complete dummies. I know nothing about creating a website. If it helps, I essentially want to create a one-page with my bio and a pic or two. As usual, I look to you for your sage advice!

-siouxdax (September 17, 2009, 10:34 PM)

For something that simple you may want to try PsPad Editor.  It's free and can create html from .rtf file.  You can use WordPad for example, to create various size text of various colors.  When done, convert it to html in PsPad. It's very quick to get something up there, then if you want to get rid of the spaghetti code later, you can read up on html and css.  If doing one page you don't need navigation sidebars or anything.  The css just makes it easy to create uniform colors and fonts for various sections.  If you google you can find sites where people will help you do specific things.  It's just easier to maintain later and easier to modify if there aren't 50 "br" (line break) tags stuck together.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Remove duplicate files, folders and archives - DupeTrasher 2009

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 02:28 PM »

I'd rather be trashed than thrashed!

-cranioscopical (September 18, 2009, 02:21 PM)

It's when they thrash you, then throw you in the dumpster that it really hurts!!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinPatrol PLUS $10 off through end of September

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2009, 12:25 PM »

Is this the same one that is going to be on bitdujour for $14.95?
http://www.bitsdujou...ware/winpatrol-plus/

Keith

-keiffer (September 11, 2009, 09:03 AM)

I've been using the free version for years.  I saw some references on the web, but not explicit on the site that I could find, that one license is good for all your home PCs, so I went for it.  Activated on both my machines.  Not bad for $14.95!  I haven't tried the online database info thingy yet.  That's about all of the extra features I'm likely to use.  But I figured I've been using the guy's program forever. Might as well chip in a bit.

edit: tried the "Plus Info" thing on a few services.  Seems to work ok.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinX DVD Ripper Platium - free for the rest of Sept.

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 17, 2009, 12:59 PM »

Thanks, Miles, for this find.  It looks really interesting.  I've now downloaded it and hope to try it out soon.

-cyberdiva (September 16, 2009, 08:00 PM)

Please let me know what results you get.  I have some other similar tools but they are a bit long in the tooth.  If this works really well I may opt to uninstall the old stuff.

One thing to consider also, it's my understanding, although I'm not heavy into the subject, that DVD copy prevention schemes use space on the DVD that would otherwise be devoted to data redundancy/recovery/correction whatever you want to call it.  If this is true, then the same video material burned to a DVD blank should be more error tolerant than the original copy protected disc.  It sounds reasonable anyway.  I mean the copy protection stuff must take up some space and go somewhere.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request : hightlight pen feature

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 16, 2009, 04:19 PM »

tool       : round pen with diameter size.

-nsp6 (March 26, 2009, 07:43 AM)

If you mean quickly draw like a red loop lasso circle around an area to highlight it I'm with that.  Most screen shots I see for htmlhelp usually use a red loop to show where to click a button or whatever.  It would be nice to use a colored brush/pen, directly in SSC.

(edit: some edits to clean up my sin tax.  I should go back to school to avoid mixing tense, getting tense, whatever.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / WinX DVD Ripper Platium - free for the rest of Sept.

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 16, 2009, 01:19 PM »

GHacks has an article for WinX DVD Ripper Platinum:
http://www.ghacks.ne...ee-offer/#more-16392

I haven't tried it myself yet but I downloaded it.  The download page gives the impression no registration is required.  May be worth a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.9

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 16, 2009, 12:54 PM »

Hmmmmmmm, just as an aside, it's amazing how many schemes there are to do aliases. There's an executable that runs on Windows and when you feed it an alias definition, it creates a batch file.  Run the alias from it, it runs the batch file.
http://stahlforce.co...index.php?tool=alias

Of course there's also Linux/Unix style shells that have alias capability.
http://gnuwin32.sour...ge.net/packages.html

But the one I didin't know about was Windows registry.  Apparently there's a App Paths under HKLM windows current version that lets you substitute whatever name for the path of the executable.  I think it's just straight substitution though.  Doesn't give you any glomming or param substitution like the Bash shell type. Probably passes any params just tacked on the end of the command line like "Open With" drag & drop onto a desktop icon.
http://www.pctools.c...registry/detail/111/

(Of course there's also FARR and SlickRun but I think most here are familiar with those programs already.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 16, 2009, 12:44 PM »

I just installed the Womble freebie.  There's a guide on this site where Wombler has a forum:

http://forum.digital...owthread.php?t=91867

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea - Whats in my fridge?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2009, 11:27 PM »

... and before you know it, there's a whole series of screencasts  

I'm still looking for a screencaster that substitutes Eric Cartman's voice.  Sweet!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA small script to set a timer to startup jkdefrag.exe when computer idle for

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2009, 06:36 PM »

btw I did hear back from Auslogics support.  They claim currently a threshold of 5% fragmentation is hard-wired into the program. I haven't seen it fire on my Vista64 or W7 32 bit machines other than to analyze even with fragmentation of 25%.

SmartDefrag seems to actually trigger a fragmentation stage but I don't really like what it does.  Looks like for the time being I'm going with MyDefrag Fast Optimize now and then with Auslogics manual defrag for day to day defrags inbetween.

So far I haven't seen anything automatic I really like.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.9 - stupid pet tricks

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2009, 05:24 PM »

Here's a "stupid pet trick" you might enjoy with Selector.  I'm using Vista here so XP start menu may be slightly different, but anyways...

1) Go into Start Menu => All Programs => Accessories and drag Command Prompt onto the desktop and select Create Shortcuts Here to have a command prompt icon on the desktop.

2) Right click the icon, select Properties then Shortcut Tab.  In Target leave a space after the cmd.exe at the end and add /k (forward slash k) and click Apply.

3) Hit the Selector Hotkey and drag this desktop shortcut onto the Selector ListBox.

4) Close the Selector popup window.

Now you are all set up for the stupid pet trick.
In notepad, editpadlite, whatever is your favorite plain text editor, type a command line.
For example "dir *.txt" and select the text.  Now hit the Selector Hotkey and double click
on Command Prompt or whatever you used for the command prompt short name.

A command prompt will open with the results of the command.

Why bother?  I dunno' .. that's why I called it a stupid pet trick!  But as a practical use, say you have commands with complicated parameters and switches that you use maybe with NirCmd or for net use shares or whatever.. stuff that's a pain to type.  Instead of making a .cmd batch file for each one, just copy them all into one file of commands you use a lot.  Or you might find a command line on a web page that's cool but complicated... just paste it into your command snippet file.

Go to the snippet in your editor, highlight the snippet, pop up Selector and run it.

Or you can type in commands in your editor and save the file as a log file in case you want to go back and see why something unexpected happened.

Just something I found playing around with Selector.

Also once you have the command prompt in the selector ListBox, you can enter a command line in the Text Param input control and double click Command Prompt to run it.  Kind of a weird popup command prompt indirect action thingy.

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Tooler-like GUI and shortcut maker for NirCmd

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2009, 03:06 PM »

I wonder if Visual Command might be useful since NirCmd can have complex params.  Looks like it's basic idea is to have a bunch of param sets and you click on an app and the param set to do a particular thing.

Here's a screen shot:

http://www.softpedia...reenshot-138278.html