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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on June 01, 2011, 02:41 AM »

you're looking at images in the viewer and you see one you want to open in your image editor - you have to take note of the name, go back to the main window, find the file. A simple open [current image in viewer] in external app, or even just copy filepath would solve this.

-tomos (May 31, 2011, 03:21 PM)

I just checked in the viewer. I right click and one of the options is open. You would need to have set your editor up as the default program for that file type, of course.

-Dormouse (May 31, 2011, 05:51 PM)

hmmm, I missed that
I have DOpus viewer as default programme for all images, but can it be the case that I dont have to, in order for the viewer to be the default image viewer from within dopus?
Will experiment. I suspect a Catch22 situation but may well be wrong. ~ note to self: must stop having negative expectations ;-)

Problems zooming into images - on my machine I often cant get over 200%, I have no problem with the same images in other viewers. I have yet to report this officially (but it was reported in the forum in 2009).

-tomos (May 31, 2011, 03:21 PM)

Checked this too. No problems going up to 800% with any of the images I tried.

-Dormouse (May 31, 2011, 05:51 PM)

thanks for the report Dormouse,
Leo doesnt have the problem either no-one else has reported yet.
Because every other viewer I have works fine, I'm presuming this is a dopus problem - even if it is a dopus problem with my hardware (or maybe just with my OS: XP SP3)

Especially this one:
you're looking at images in the viewer and you see one you want to open in your image editor - you have to take note of the name, go back to the main window, find the file. A simple open [current image in viewer] in external app, or even just copy filepath would solve this.

-tomos (May 31, 2011, 03:21 PM)

Would it work for you to set the thumbnails value to 256x256 for image browsing? If so, a simple double-click will launch the image in whatever you have set as the default system viewer.

-cranioscopical (May 31, 2011, 08:09 PM)

I could also use the Viewer pane (as opposed to the standalone viewer).
I'm slow to do so cause zoom is not very usable there. Whether I'm looking at drawings, scans, or photos I want to be able to zoom in and read the text &/or check the quality before I actually open in photoshop. If I'm working on a batch of photos I'll use another app than dopus, but if I just want to quickly find & open a photo/scan/image it's a file manager I want. I work a lot with scanned images but again, it's a file manager I need. Dopus is almost there as "perfect" for the job, but just because of that, I can tend to get a bit über-frustrated with it's drawbacks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 10

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2011, 03:21 PM »

Man, I know DOpus is pretty expensive, but it does everything!  I spend more time in DOpus than any other application by far.

-superboyac (May 31, 2011, 10:39 AM)

While I'm a fan of Dopus (& enjoying having the 'usb' version), I'm unhappy with the viewer. I made a few suggestions a while back that I hoped would be implemented in 10.
Especially this one:
you're looking at images in the viewer and you see one you want to open in your image editor - you have to take note of the name, go back to the main window, find the file. A simple open [current image in viewer] in external app, or even just copy filepath would solve this.

Problems zooming into images - on my machine I often cant get over 200%, I have no problem with the same images in other viewers. I have yet to report this officially (but it was reported in the forum in 2009).
If anyone can confirm this as a bug could you please post in that thread?!

Also problems with one bit Tiffs only showing as an enlarged thumbnail. Again, yet to be reported officially but reported in the Dopus forum here.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on May 31, 2011, 02:49 AM »

kyrathaba 777

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Living Room / Re: Which is more important: the gadget, or the software and apps that runs it?

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2011, 04:34 AM »

I'm not anti-capitalist, but I am for highly regulated capitalism.

-zridling (May 28, 2011, 11:12 PM)

a big +1 there

Excessive profit is when it's never enough[/b]. To squeeze another drop of money out of iPads, Steve Jobs is perfectly willing to let FoxConn workers die, or should I say, commit suicide. Really?! Necessities such as energy, food, healthcare, often government-sponsored, charge far more profit than they need to be richer than rich.

-zridling (May 28, 2011, 11:12 PM)

would be nice if there were more awareness and less acceptance of "this kind of thing".
In "fairness" to Apple though, I think most big companies work this way. Some are more blatant about it (e.g. Nike).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Restore programs that were running at system shutdown (with selection)

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 04:47 PM »

To completely save state and restore on next power up

-MilesAhead (May 27, 2011, 02:02 AM)

Isn't that what's called 'hibernate' in Windows???

-Ath (May 27, 2011, 03:46 AM)

I dunno' what they call it.  But I know it's the first thing I get rid of on a new machine.  I've never tried it.  Does it actually work if you hibernate then restore with unsaved files in editors?

-MilesAhead (May 27, 2011, 04:27 PM)

For me, yes
it's definitely worth a shot imo - I've consistenly used hibernate on two computers for about 8 years now ;-)
I had minor related problems on both - sleep didnt work well on the first - cant remember if I even tried that on the second; but did have problems on the second with a dodgy soundcard (I think) driver - it worked okay after a driver reinstall anyways (- it's at least two years ago, my memory doesnt bother remembering the details at that stage).

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 03:45 PM »

How are you all getting it to sit *below* the windows taskbar?

-caveatrob (May 27, 2011, 02:48 PM)

If you look at the clock end of the image for the link below you'll see that it's actually sitting in front of the taskbar - which is double height.

here's mine.  It's docked to the bottom of the screen. It's uses two docks one on the bottom and one in the tray. (see attachment in previous post)

-surftwo (June 24, 2009, 03:49 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Mr. Jelly

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 09:41 AM »

his van is a hearse....
click on the book now link while you're there...

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyDrive 1.8.0.0

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 07:02 AM »

your AHk would not start

-tomos (May 27, 2011, 06:19 AM)

You should just run the KeyDrive.exe, it will hide in the systemtray. Right-Clicking on that icon, selecting About shows the configured hotkeys.

-Ath (May 27, 2011, 06:31 AM)

the exe wasnt working properly for me so I wanted to test the AHK script as well

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyDrive 1.8.0.0

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 06:19 AM »

edit#2/ something weird going on: AutoHotkey refuses to start. Havent used it in a good while - will go get an update

-tomos (May 27, 2011, 03:07 AM)

something was wonky here - your AHk [file] would not start. I added AHK to the exclusion list in MSE; computer was being a little quirky so I rebooted. I then tried to test using the AHK.exe which (I found out on the AHK chat page) does nothing without a script...


Anyways, back on topic:-
same problem with the AHK file. I dont know will I use this app cause I use dopus and it opens in an explorer window - but just wanted to give you a heads up,
Tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyDrive 1.8.0.0

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2011, 03:07 AM »

hi Miles, I tried this out on XP SP3.
The first Ctrl+up-arrow works, but the shortcut doesnt work here after that.


edit/ using the exe - will try the ahk file and if it works I'll be back promptly

edit#2/ something weird going on: AutoHotkey refuses to start. Havent used it in a good while - will go get an update

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2011, 02:24 AM »

Still a very big picture.

-Arizona Hot (May 25, 2011, 05:29 PM)

yup,
takes quite a while to load here in FF - nice to see the desert

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] FadeTop - a visual break reminder that fades the desktop

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2011, 11:54 AM »

Another little bug -

if I change focus to Firefox during a fade (using alt+tab or clicking on minimised window on taskbar), the fade process will stop.

Changing focus to FF during a fade, also reintroduces the bug where you cannot do a test-fade afterwards.

XP SP3 / FF 4.0.1


edit/ added FF version

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Living Room / Re: Phone scam - pretending to be Microsoft Engineer

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2011, 03:14 AM »

^ great to hear someone got their money back. I would have thought that if they are able to debit your credit card that they would have to at least have a business address. But I guess that probably wouldn't mean much anyways...

Trouble is it is difficult to tell where the scammers are based as I have come across a variety of accents!!!

-Carol Haynes (May 24, 2011, 08:48 PM)

accents wouldnt necessarily indicate location anyways.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] FadeTop - a visual break reminder that fades the desktop

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2011, 03:49 PM »

Notes:
[1] I can only test the fader (via the tray icon) once - it doesnt work after the first go -  this makes it difficult to test custom colours etc.

[2] My taskbar autohides - you say I can right click the tray icon and choose "Exit" from the shortcut menu to get out of  "fade" mode -
my taskbar menu does not show though while Time Clue is dimming the screen.

-tomos (May 20, 2011, 04:57 PM)

this was sorted per PM, but just in case anyone else was wondering about them:
 
[1] is now fixed
[2] is actually only a problem when doing a test fade - click anywhere on the screen, move cursor to the bottom of screen - the taskbar gets shown

Tip: left-click tray icon to do a test fade

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Living Room / Re: Phone scam - pretending to be Microsoft Engineer

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2011, 08:35 AM »

I visited my mum last week (Rep. of Ireland) and answered one of these calls. He was saying something along the lines of - you have a computer with microsoft windows number xxxyyxxyyxxyyy and that there was a problem with - I said straight away that there was NO computer in the house, and he hung up very quickly.

I was very sorry afterwards I didnt play along a bit to see what exactly he was up to but it sounds like it was the same crew.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] TimeClue - a simple time reminder that fades the desktop

« Last post by tomos on May 20, 2011, 04:57 PM »

Very nice app  

Notes:
I can only test the fader (via the tray icon) once - it doesnt work after the first go -  this makes it difficult to test custom colours etc.

My taskbar autohides - you say I can right click the tray icon and choose "Exit" from the shortcut menu to get out of  "fade" mode -
my taskbar menu does not show though while Time Clue is dimming the screen.


Edit/ just in case:   OS is XP SP3

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Living Room / Re: William Shatner Sings "O Canada"

« Last post by tomos on May 20, 2011, 04:34 PM »

enjoyed thanks

off-topic:-
there's some nice films there, I enjoyed the documentary of Buster Keaton + crew making Railrodding - Buster Keaton Rides Again and then the film itself

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Living Room / Re: What's your experience with 3rd party color inkjet ink replacement?

« Last post by tomos on May 20, 2011, 04:28 PM »

On some if you pull off the tape it loses the vacuum and ink starts making its way out the cartridge before you can get it into place. I think I remember having good luck disregarding the instructions and snapping the thing in before pulling the tape off the top.

-MilesAhead (May 20, 2011, 04:24 PM)

back on-topic - I have had that problem, thanks for the tip

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Living Room / Re: What's your experience with 3rd party color inkjet ink replacement?

« Last post by tomos on May 20, 2011, 04:26 PM »

A very level-headed response…

-cranioscopical (May 20, 2011, 12:19 PM)

Tanks for that.

-Stoic Joker (May 20, 2011, 02:40 PM)

I'm sure you could ink in a reservoir of knowledge... or perhaps write an ess eh?

-cranioscopical (May 20, 2011, 04:10 PM)

sometimes I just havent got a clue what yous people are on about...

[revenge] manchmal denke ich, dass die ein andere Sprache sprechen, da drüben - oder ist es nur mich? [/with apologies to native speakers for any errors :p]

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Living Room / Re: What's your experience with 3rd party color inkjet ink replacement?

« Last post by tomos on May 20, 2011, 03:26 AM »

I'll just note here - some newer HP inkjets claim to print very cheaply - cheaper than laser (colour laser I presume).
I cant remember the figures but it is pretty cheap for text pages, with original ink.
I'll also note that I presume you only gets the cheap price per page if you prints a lot - otherwise there's always (lots?) ink wasted every time you start the printer...

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Living Room / Re: Superboyac's backup strategy revisited (revised for 2011)

« Last post by tomos on May 19, 2011, 06:45 PM »

Then I saw Apple's Time Machine program.  I really liked it, so I'm going to model my imaging setup to mimic that.  So what does that mean?  Here's the explanation (from Wikipedia):
"Time Machine saves the hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month"
That's what I want to do.

-superboyac (May 19, 2011, 12:57 PM)

there's a few windows backup apps that do that - just dont ask me names


(have backup4all introduced something along those lines? I've lost track of it lately)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [CH&S Beta] Quick Paste list "empties" regularly

« Last post by tomos on May 19, 2011, 03:35 AM »

Go to the main window, left "tree" panel, right click on the Quick Paste group, and choose "Edit this Group"

Then in the SQL edit box you'll see something like: "NOT (IsInRecyleBin) AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusOneHour"
The offending part of the sql that is causing what you are experiencing is the "AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusOneHour" part.

Try maybe changing it to
"NOT (IsInRecyleBin) AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusSevenDays"

-mouser (May 18, 2011, 06:47 PM)

thanks

~ if the default is to only show 15 clips (I think that was default, maybe it was even less), would it not be better to have the default "AND CreationDateTime" to be a lot higher than "> DateTimeMinusOneHour". More like minus 24 hrs?
It will only show X number of clips anyways, but if you're not copying much (or if you've simply taken a break) your last clips wont disappear so quickly.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / [CH&S] Quick Paste list "empties" regularly

« Last post by tomos on May 18, 2011, 11:14 AM »

using the latest beta, on XP SP3:

My quick paste list "empties" regularly, seems like every couple of hours the list starts again from scratch (with no restarts, no sleep, etc of PC)

Settings are




other related settings:





edit/ removed "Beta" from the title

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows equivalent to GNOME's typing break?

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 04:25 PM »

Workrave is a good programme but I found it far too intrusive (in fairness it was aimed at people who already had problems so it forced them to take a break) - but maybe it's evolved since I tried it a few years ago (yes, I see it has - I will try it again)

Instant Boss I used for years, it is a great app, but I did have a problem with it that if I hit spacebar, or return, when it's "break" window shows - it gets dismissed in a manner that it doesnt show again (IIRC it went to something like 'extend the break'). Hours later I'd be (probably surfing and) wondering what happened. This was a big problem for me cause I work with a drawing programme where I'm constantly hitting return and the spacebar... (also a big problem cause if I didnt get the reminder again, I'd just end up surfing instead of working)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by tomos on May 07, 2011, 04:46 AM »

I dont know if this is a beta issue:

everytime CH&S restarts it reselects the bottom two options under Backup maintainance/Automatic filing
(I had them deselected)




it's working well here otherwise