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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: YoutubeGet Free till 12/10/10

« Last post by cmpm on December 02, 2010, 10:15 PM »

Youtubeget does conversion as well.
Haven't tried it yet.
I used to download a lot, but I have not downloaded anything in a while.

I have Dirpy bookmarked but use the add-on 'downloadhelper' for firefox.

edit- dottech is hosting this freebie too,
but no review yet...

http://dottech.org/freebies/18794

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Found Deals and Discounts / YoutubeGet Free till 12/10/10

« Last post by cmpm on December 02, 2010, 10:36 AM »

http://www.techno360.in/youtubeget/

If you need another youtube downloader.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fastest Audio Converter

« Last post by cmpm on December 02, 2010, 10:13 AM »

VLC can convert, don't know if it's fast or has enough options for you.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_vlc/

Also mp3 Convert Master may help.
A trial period, then $15 and I'm not sure if it will do what you want.
Just have to check it out I suppose....

http://www.mp3convertmaster.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fastest Audio Converter

« Last post by cmpm on December 02, 2010, 04:06 AM »

You have to agree to this to install it.

In order to provide this free download, RelevantKnowledge software, provided by TMRG, Inc., a comScore, Inc. company, is included in this download. This software allows millions of participants in an online market research community to voice their opinions by allowing their online browsing and purchasing behavior to be monitored, collected, aggregated, and once anonymized, used to generate market reports which our clients use to understand Internet trends and patterns and other market research purposes. The information which is monitored and collected includes internet usage information, basic demographic information, certain hardware, software, computer configuration and application usage information about the computer on which you install RelevantKnowledge. We may use the information that we monitor, such as name and address, to better understand your household demographics; for example, we may combine the information that you provide us with additional information from consumer data brokers and other data sources in accordance with our privacy policy. We make commercially viable efforts to automatically filter confidential personally identifiable information and to purge our databases of such information about our panelists when inadvertently collected. By clicking Accept, you acknowledge that you are 18 years of age or older, an authorized user of this computer, and that you have read, agreed to, and have obtained the consent to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Statement and User License Agreement from anyone who will be using the computer on which you install this application.

Nod32 caught it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Sync Alternative?

« Last post by cmpm on November 28, 2010, 03:11 PM »

You can mount skydrive with Gladinet if that helps.

http://www.gladinet.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Sync Alternative?

« Last post by cmpm on November 28, 2010, 03:08 PM »

I was thinking to get logged into skydrive from the W7 computer,
and sync from there. If you can do skydrive and mesh on w7.

GoodSync is my recommendation (again), if that don't work.

http://www.goodsync.com/

$30
#3 I haven't tried in your requirements.
The rest works.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Live Sync Alternative?

« Last post by cmpm on November 28, 2010, 01:05 PM »

You can use 5gb of skydrive*works on XP* to sync with live mesh.
I've not tried but this says it can-

https://devices.live...torage?wa=wsignin1.0

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Date/Time and Battery Status Bar

« Last post by cmpm on November 26, 2010, 10:06 PM »

here is some battery care programs
configurable to save battery life in battery mode

http://batterycare.b...com/en/download.html

http://www.powerplan7.com/

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Living Room / Re: Homeland Security Shutting Down Web Copyright Violators

« Last post by cmpm on November 26, 2010, 09:37 PM »

that's what they do with the billions they take from us?

they should all be arrested for treason

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General Software Discussion / Skrommel’s one hour software

« Last post by cmpm on November 26, 2010, 01:48 PM »

http://www.freewareg...stance-of-a-program/

All the work he put into these are still some of the greatest simple programs I've seen.
Useful for many things, most of all, common sense items that make the computer so much easier to operate.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Seeking a truly functional software KVM ...

« Last post by cmpm on November 25, 2010, 08:36 AM »

As far as loading at boot, most programs I have loading at log in-
Even if that option is in the program to 'start with windows'.
I uncheck that and put a shortcut in the start folder.
Including Synergy.
Seems to work better for me anyway.
The loading sequence seems to run much smoother.

That may help...or not.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Advice Needed: Optical Storage

« Last post by cmpm on November 22, 2010, 06:55 PM »

You could create a partition on your current hard drive, and store it there.
Unless a failing hard drive is the problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any SIMPLE dvd audio ripping software out there?

« Last post by cmpm on November 22, 2010, 01:22 AM »

http://dottech.org/freebies/18289

http://www.pazera-so...cts/audio-extractor/

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by cmpm on November 21, 2010, 07:18 AM »

Possibly...maybe.... I'm close....
Gunpowder was what they were refining to a better product.
I get my History Channel Shows mixed up sometimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont#1802

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by cmpm on November 21, 2010, 01:15 AM »

Interesting to note is that Dupont developed dynamite and nitroglycerin.
They were labeled warmongers at one time.

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by cmpm on November 20, 2010, 12:14 PM »

The point of such legislation is the 'seeds'.

This is being done to protect the original seeds of food by those who own them.

It's a big subject,
that has a lot of info,
you get hybrids or 'children' of any seeds you buy in a store.
Not the pure original seeds.

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Living Room / Re: The conflict of interest that is Google

« Last post by cmpm on November 20, 2010, 08:16 AM »

I really don't understand why there can't be a neutral position. That's what I'm trying to take here. Trying to be objective and stick to facts, evidence, and reason. Like I said, I like what Google provides me, but I'm not blind to its issues nor the simple reality that it is a large corporation and, existing in the US capitalist system, it will naturally tend toward certain negative behaviors.

At the same time I don't want to take the position that big automatically equals bad, or that anyone (or anything) who is successful must be regulated, reduced, resisted, removed for fear of abuse. Excellence should be rewarded, and that's certainly how Google started out. If that's no longer the case, then things should change over time, but I still find Google's search and other services to be pretty much top of the heap. If nobody has solved the spam problem yet, it's hard to be mad at Google alone for that.

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (November 20, 2010, 02:18 AM)

I think you could exchange 'Google' for multiple corporations in that post JavaJones.
Still have to watch out for the smaller companies as well, in any business.

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Living Room / Re: The Story of Stuff - Cosmetics, Bottled Water...

« Last post by cmpm on November 16, 2010, 07:37 AM »

With all the colleges and universities we have, I've often wondered why they have not applied their minds and resources to find answers to the trash/garbage problem.

It's almost like the oil business here in the US. Big money involved in trash collection...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple specialized sites

« Last post by cmpm on November 13, 2010, 10:45 AM »

Gizmo has probably the best site about this thread's idea.

http://www.techsuppo...haring-site-ever.htm

Easiest photo sharing site.

what i dropped in it to test it-

http://min.us/mvnHkxp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nitro updating is too clever for me

« Last post by cmpm on November 12, 2010, 10:05 PM »

1st hit from google (remove nitro pdf) on how to remove Nitro.

http://forums.techar...software/1194404.htm

Might work, but that first link is a direct download of a zip file.
Don't know what is in it, so be careful.
I didn't download or try the other suggestions cause I don't need to.
Just FYI, or anyone.

Hope it worked for you Curt.

edit- I meant to add that when I click check for updates, it always said it was up to date.
Even when I knew there was an update. So I don't know why it didn't find the correct update.
Of course now that I've updated manually, it says 'up to date'.
Have to wait and see when the next update comes out if it fixed itself.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nitro updating is too clever for me

« Last post by cmpm on November 12, 2010, 08:37 AM »

If you registered it, you should have an account.

http://www.nitropdf....rt/support_login.asp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nitro updating is too clever for me

« Last post by cmpm on November 12, 2010, 08:17 AM »

I just downloaded the new version from my Nitro account page.
And that worked, hope that helps.
I just have Nitro 6-whatever, not the OCR version.

I received a letter about the update,
but Nitro will not update itself through it's own update command.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple specialized sites

« Last post by cmpm on November 11, 2010, 10:03 AM »

or will you like the sites to be about more seldom, almost obscure subjects?

I like the word "obscure"(should be in the title maybe).
The nature of the subject is not as important as finding a site that is devoted to things we didn't think would be on the net.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple specialized sites

« Last post by cmpm on November 11, 2010, 09:43 AM »

would a site like http://www.guitar-museum.com/ qualify

Certainly, a good find as well! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple specialized sites

« Last post by cmpm on November 11, 2010, 09:13 AM »

Yes, I thought of that one, but I was looking more for content rather then design.

I almost put it in that thread, but I'm thinking for it to be about sites with software or any hard goods that we come across and find very interesting and some may not know they are here on the net.