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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7: Anyone else getting excited?

« Last post by Darwin on February 08, 2010, 09:11 AM »

Josh - I imagine it's because TLB has been mentioned in this thread a number of times as a means to restore Vista and earlier Quick Launch Bar functionality to Win7.

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

« Last post by Darwin on February 08, 2010, 09:09 AM »

Hey! I mised Edvard's note about his leet posts - Congratulations, Edvard 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 11:47 PM »

Hi Armando - I should have mentioned that the initial scan took quite a while (I left it running and did something else, so can't be exactly sure of the duration, but 40-50 minutes is probably about right). After that, re-building the index is quite quick, as noted. I first had a scheduled rebuild set up and it took 7 minutes. Earlier today I went into the properties of the scheduled rebuild and selected the option to have Archivarius index only changed and new files and it went down to about 5 minutes.

I'm running a laptop, too - 2.5 GHz core 2 duo.

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

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 05:51 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-Stephen66515 (February 07, 2010, 05:35 PM)

Wow, Stephen! You're on a tear this month! Keep 'em coming  

EDIT: corrected the spelling of Stephen's name 

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 05:48 PM »

Yup. Fair comment, but I'm stuck in my ways! I just can't be bothered to learn how to do it all in FF, not that it would be so difficult... Sigh, colour me LAZY!

-Darwin (August 28, 2007, 01:14 AM)

I did MaxThon for awhile and recommend it to those who use IE and want customization.  What scared me off though is the BHO possibility. I got burned once by an IE BHO and I don't like having that hook hanging there.  When I can uninstall IE then I do.  If I can't, I take other measures to auto kill it if it rears its ugly head.

For those that like IE though, there are a ton of cool plug-ins, addons, whatever you want to call them, for MaxThon.

-MilesAhead (February 07, 2010, 04:21 PM)

Heh, heh - jumped ship to Fx not long after I posted that. I recently returned to a vanilla install of IE8, though, because I got fed up of Fx's habit of crashing explorer.exe repeatedly in Windows 7 64 bit. I've not been near Maxthon since 2007...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 01:58 PM »

Thanks Darwin for taking the time to answer.
Direct Access takes between 9-10 full minutes, even when the DB has already been indexed. Quicker, yes, but still very slow considering that Outlook needs to be closed etc. I usually leave Outlook open, and if I unadvisedly start the indexing and Outlook is open, it'll just plainly and simply render the last index unusable which is a pain. I don't why it does it but... it does and that's why I had to revert to OLE a while ago.
Mailstore seems to be an interesting option. I'll check this out -- it may mean that I'll have to rethink a bit the way I organize my emails.

-Armando (November 30, 2009, 12:02 PM)

I reinstalled Archivarius a couple of builds back and recently updated to build 4.27. It indexes my 1 GB worth of pst files in about 5 minutes WITH Outlook 2007 open. I'm not sure when this was fixed, but I'm quite impressed  

PS This is using the default settings when creating an E-Mail index, BTW...

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 01:24 PM »

Heh, heh - sorry to have badgered you into confessing that, Sarah  Seriously, though, I don't think the titles are that  embarrassing 

I'm a father of two, a husband, and I've spent a fair amount of time in middle management - I know all about the desperation that comes from trying to get others to do things!

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 10:15 AM »

I'm also reading 2 David Lieberman books which have titles too embarrassing to post - which is too bad, because they're simply about human nature, & how to turn bad (or potentially bad) situations around.

-SKesselman (February 07, 2010, 05:12 AM)

?? How can a book title be too embarrassing to post?!  

You're among friends here, let 'er rip!

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Recent folders" in the open/save dialog box

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 10:13 AM »

I bought Piky Suite last time it was on Bits. Piky Folders is the only part I use though. Doesn’t do much except allow me to create a list of Favorite folders which I can access from most Open and Save dialogs.

-J-Mac (February 07, 2010, 01:20 AM)

BTW, you can add Favorite folders to the Favorites section of the left hand pane in Windows 7's Open/Save dialog by right clicking the Favorites folder and selecting "Add current location to Favorites". It took an embarrassingly long time for me to "remember" that one - I kept finding myself looking for Win98/2k/XP era links to the same feature. Old habits die REALLY hard 

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Recent folders" in the open/save dialog box

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 10:10 AM »

It doesn’t have "Recent" folders but Win7 already has that so I don’t need a 3rd party app for that anymore.

-J-Mac (February 07, 2010, 01:20 AM)

Ha, ha! I forgot about that - Vista has it, too. My problem has been that it populates with so many folders that they keep changing as I am trying to select the one that I want. I suppose I should get off my duff and research how to get it to show, say, only the top 12 or something folders, instead of everything I've used in the past week!

NOTE: MS really needs to release TweakUI for Vista and Windows 7 

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Recent folders" in the open/save dialog box

« Last post by Darwin on February 07, 2010, 12:46 AM »

No problem Darwin. It was my fault! 

-jity2 (February 02, 2010, 12:43 PM)

It was?!?  So it was you that stopped development then?   

Jim

-J-Mac (February 07, 2010, 12:41 AM)

 

I installed DirectFolders under Windows 7 64-bit and uninstalled it shortly thereafter. Sadly, other than the information pane that appears above the Open/Save dialog, I couldn't see much that DF added (and I've never really liked the information pane to begin with!). Admittedly, I didn't really play with the settings very much, but from looking them over, I didn't see much that would compel me to keep it around.

Pity...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Darwin on February 03, 2010, 10:59 PM »

Obviously i like Directory Opus the most.

-lele0124 (February 03, 2010, 09:14 PM)

Er, why should this be obvious 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 03, 2010, 04:12 PM »

Yes, that's a shame. There is always the Lastpass Bookmarklet, but I realize it's not an adequate solution. Stupid, stupid Opera devs! Their lack of extensions seems to be considered a "feature" (and not in the "bug we don't intend to fix" sense, but in the "we're proud of our lack of extensions" sense). Yeesh.

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (February 03, 2010, 02:45 PM)

My problem is that I have at least 200 passwords and, as a result of having used Roboform for the past 7 years, Most of them are unique, high security passwords that I don't have a hope of remembering! Thus, I am lost without Roboform. I've already exported my passwords to LastPass, but as you note, it's just not the same!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 03, 2010, 02:36 PM »

The main things that always attracted me about Opera were speed and built-in features. I hear with 10.5 "pre-alpha" Opera once again takes the speed crown in all respects, not just regular browsing (i.e. javascript too).
http://www.betanews....-Chrome-5/1265150085
That's pretty exciting. Has anyone tried it?

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (February 03, 2010, 02:06 PM)

Yes, I have it installed and in fact it is the version that I tested against Fx (!), Chromium, IE8 and Safari. If only it supported Roboform... (sigh!).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 03, 2010, 11:25 AM »

Yes, this is fine, tuxman, but you're missing the point entirely. A photocopier manufactured by Ricoh is a photocopier upon which one makes photocopies, not Xeroxes, no? Likewise, a paper tissue into which one blows one's nose is a tissue, not a Kleenex, and yet in the first instance people the world over refer to making Xeroxes and xeroxing and to carry around Kleenex. The "right and the wrong" of the terms is secondary to the way in which people have become accustomed to referring to products and categories of products. In the case of Firefox the preferred acronym, the correct acronym, is Fx but the reality is that people consistently reduce it to FF. I gather that you're trying to educate people about the correct acronym. Bravo! I have learned my lesson and henceforth shall endeavour to use Fx when I'm too lazy to write Firefox (most of the time), but this does not in any way alter the fact that the most commonly use acronym is FF.

Run a google search for FF and you'll find it in the top five hits as an acronym for Firefox. Type in Fx and It's not in the first 100 hits (that I could see)...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 03, 2010, 11:10 AM »

Fx is actually the least used acronym for Firefox as most people shorten them to the first letter of each word, now even though Firefox is, in its own right, a singular word, it is separated by the 2 known fords, Fire and Fox, hence the more used term FF.

-Stephen66515 (February 03, 2010, 02:13 AM)

1. It's not FireFox.
2. FF is wrong.

-Tuxman (February 03, 2010, 09:54 AM)

Stephen acknowledged that it's not FireFox here

even though Firefox is, in its own right, a singular word

and I have NEVER seen Fx used anywhere as an acronym for Firefox. Indeed, the one and only time I have ever seen it used is in this thread. So, right or wrong, FF is much more common in usage than Fx.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 12:51 PM »

I do love Opera, but the lack of 3rd party add-on support is a deal breaker for me, so much so, that I've never spent any time using it as my main browser. I'm not sure what I'd think of it if I set it as my default browser for a week... A worthy experiment, probably. Might just have to do that one.

FWIW, to elaborate a bit on my earlier post, I tested Safari 4, Chrome and Chromium 3, Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 against each other with the same set of tabs open. Opera was much, much faster than anything else and used the least amount system memory as well. I finally settled on IE 8, thereby ending a year-long relationship with Firefox. I just couldn't take the explorer.exe crashes that it produces under Windows 7 64-bit any longer. Had them at least once a day with Firefox installed and haven't seen one since I uninstalled it. Chrome/Chromium have special spots on my hate list because of their useless uninstall routines that leave themselves set as your default browser even after you've uninstalled them.

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Living Room / Re: Just how many Hitler videos does the world need?

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 12:43 PM »

For those interested in the dubbing-as-humor genre, Woody Allen was ahead of his time in 1966 when he made an entire comedy movie called "What's Up Tiger Lilly" by dubbing a japanese movie.  I saw it as a kid and found it profoundly unfunny -- so i can't vouch for it.

-mouser (February 02, 2010, 09:16 AM)

I had the same experience as a kid! Mostly, I sat in front to the TV going "WTF"?! I think I found it unfunny because I simply didn't understand what he was doing. What I *did* find hilarious was SCTV in the early '80s doing this with a western, the only line I can rembember being "It's only a flesh wound!".

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Recent folders" in the open/save dialog box

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 12:41 PM »

jity2 - oops 

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Living Room / Re: Just how many Hitler videos does the world need?

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 08:45 AM »

I love these parodies. Some are better than others - for example, this one, Watchmen - Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending was excellent while I thought that Hitler responds to the iPad fell flat in places...

Thanks for re-linking to the "Hitler finally declares war on Hitler Parodies", wr975. I've ignored it before but watched it this time - very funny, and nice to see a different scene from the original movie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Recent folders" in the open/save dialog box

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 08:35 AM »

Direct Folders should do this as well. Caveat: I've not used it under either Vista or Windows 7... However, according to their web page it should work. Note that I am basing this on having used this in the past AND on one of the screenshots from the page to which I linked. The Recent Folders option appears to be available via the context menu. I'm not sure if this option is functional in the free version or not. On the plus side, if you buy the Pro version, you get a lifetime license.

Note: some members (I believe Renegade is one) have had MAJOR issues with Codesector WRT support.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Web-Browser Review: Opera 10.00

« Last post by Darwin on February 02, 2010, 08:20 AM »

Two points:

1. Pro - Opera 10.5 beta is SVELTE compared to all others WRT resource utilization.
2. Con - No Roboform. Need I say more...?

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« Last post by Darwin on January 31, 2010, 03:14 PM »

EDIT: corrected some atrocious grammatical errors introduced in my last edit!

-Darwin (January 31, 2010, 12:50 PM)

If you don’t want to make atrocious grammatical errors, don’t post!!         

Jim

-J-Mac (January 31, 2010, 02:09 PM)

Damn! I walked that into one, I didn't?

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« Last post by Darwin on January 31, 2010, 12:50 PM »

You can perfectly go through the city without being hit by a car. Leaving the house doesn't imply death.

-Tuxman (January 31, 2010, 11:30 AM)

Of course! But you can also install software on your computer without polluting your registry. This is an English language thing, I think. There is a saying in English that if you want to avoid the negative consequences of some action you should simply avoid that action altogether. For example, if you don't want to die in a plane crash, don't fly! To make some other examples: if you want to avoid slipping and hurting yourself in the shower, don't shower! Don't want to choke on a chicken bone? Don't eat chicken. Scared about a paper cut? Avoid paper.

I suppose, really, I read your comment in haste and interpreted it in light of the English saying described above. So I read it like this: ANYTHING we do on a Windows computer is going to affect, and potentially pollute, the registry. Therefore, if you want to avoid polluting your registry you shouldn't install any software on your computer. Now I realize that you probably meant it in the way that I rephrased it: just be careful about what you install on your system.

EDIT: corrected some atrocious grammatical errors introduced in my last edit!

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Living Room / Re: What's the best registry cleaner? Ask Leo says: none

« Last post by Darwin on January 31, 2010, 11:26 AM »

The best way to clean the registry is to avoid polluting it.

-Tuxman (January 31, 2010, 11:18 AM)

Well, yes, obviously. But this is a bit like saying that the best way to avoid getting hit by a car is never to leave the house! I would modify your advice and say that the best way to clean the registry is to be careful about what you install on your system.