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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 30, 2010, 12:50 PM »

My Vista system doesn't have a "Helvetica" font, but all Windows systems do (or should) have "Arial". Maybe your system has a font named "Helvetica" installed that doesn't work as well as Arial for this page?

-mwb1100 (May 30, 2010, 12:53 AM)

I have seen (and not fully understood) in some programme that listed fonts in a file I created, that Arials 'Postscript name' is actually Helvetica - this was with the Arial font that came with XP (SP2) which is some sort of mongrel TrueType/OpenType
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Curt,
you dont need to buy a font manager (unless you have big plans!) there's a bunch of free ones out there - Veign has a free/donationware one - Cfontpro
http://www.cfontpro.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: print to PDF stationery / merge files?

« Last post by tomos on May 30, 2010, 12:41 PM »

hi brotherS,
this is a great idea.

You say it's the original stationary part that goes fuzzy - I suspect the software doesnt really merge the documents 'properly', but converts the original to an image (of poor quality) and adds the word text as actual text.

Curious to see if anyone knows an easy way of doing this (that doesnt cost an arm and a leg)

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Living Room / Re: New Wheels

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2010, 02:31 PM »

Congrats CleverCat
it was nice to see the video as well !

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 29, 2010, 02:27 PM »

mwb1100; your's are fine.
But what font do you have for default in that browser?

-Curt (May 29, 2010, 12:36 PM)

I dont think the default font makes any difference with that site - maybe I thought the font in your screenshot was different to mine because the kerning is so bad on yours: it makes the font look a lot narrower

zoomed in a little on your screenshot:



definitely something odd going on there - was it after you installed that gdippy thingy for the type?

I see 40hz says:

Kerning is a little dodgy at times. Primarily in web browsers  (FF and IE).

-40hz (May 29, 2010, 11:47 AM)

Curt's screenshot is more than a *little* dodgy though imo...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Name your own price on Caster until Monday 5/31

« Last post by tomos on May 28, 2010, 10:41 AM »

this one works better
http://www.elecorn.c.../caster3d/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 28, 2010, 06:14 AM »

hmm looks a lot better in mine Curt !! (also FF - 3.6.3)

the spacing between the letters on your shot can only be described as, eh, very bad

I think it's a different font - they look similar but yours is definitely narrower
What's your default font in Options>>Content ?
(Verdana here but I dont have time to check if that Verdana in my screenshot..)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 28, 2010, 06:06 AM »

here you go!

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by tomos on May 28, 2010, 02:04 AM »

... Alarms can now Chime the Hour.

-Stoic Joker (May 27, 2010, 09:59 PM)

that sound like fun  ;-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Have default printer set differently from within different applications

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2010, 05:36 PM »

Thanks mouser,
what's the FARR printer plugin again - ah, PrinterList (it allows you to easily change default printer)
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9061.0


Edit: I added your font post here Curt:
https://www.donation....msg206987#msg206987

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 27, 2010, 05:30 PM »

should we start a new thread >> My Least Favourite Font << ??  

Does ghacks have the most ugly font display on the Internet?

in my Firefox 3.6:
 ()

-Curt (May 27, 2010, 05:03 PM)

Anyone know what font it is? Something narrow. I find it difficult to read (@ 1680 x 1050) but I like it at about 300% of that ... FWIW  

[edit] oups   forgot the link to the lifehacker page http://www.ghacks.ne...nters-automatically/ where you can actually see the font [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: church song software

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2010, 08:03 AM »

Oh, I realize that Cpilot.  But out of 215,000 members and I am the only one who has an interest in something like this?  This forum gets a lot of posts for many different types of software, why not some church software too.  Besides its not like it is related to a certain denomination.  

-techidave (May 26, 2010, 05:46 AM)

There's been a share of religion related software/ideas for software talked about here in past

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pdf tools-Getting Better

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2010, 04:05 AM »

I think it's okay to post this here (more PDF tools):

I found a couple of interesting looking PDF tools here the other day (CHIP.de)

it's in German but with screenshots (& download links) so you'll get a fair idea of what you're looking at
&
I havent tried any of them yet :p

Numbers listed here are of image (a bit stupidly, image #1 = 20th place in the list. Full list doesnt seem to be shown anywhere)
1) Adobe Reader speedup
2) scan2pdf
3) image extraction
4) PDFTK Builder
5) PDF Unlocker
7) PDF Explorer
11) PDF Split and Merge
13) Word to PDF
14) PDF to Word Doc Converter

I think all download links are to freeware or to free versions
The others in the list are more obvious choices mentioned here elsewhere

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thunderbird 3 Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by tomos on May 26, 2010, 03:37 AM »

I was hoping for was ability to mark mail as Unread - it's the best way of attracting my attention I find. [With Keyconfig extension] 'R' marks mail as Read but unfortunately doesnt toggle status.
You can customise keys so I'll have a go at that - see your link & here.  - Unfortunately MarkasUnRead doesnt work or even seem to exist (nor does toggle markAsRead)

-tomos (January 20, 2010, 01:15 PM)

I only noticed recently on the default TB shortcuts page that 'M' toggles read/unread status

Also Shift+C will mark all messages in folder as read

[edit] I notice that page linked to is out of date (2005 last update) e.g. it says Ctrl+Shift+C to mark all read - this no longer works in version 3 [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Categories of life?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 03:25 PM »

Hmmm...I like it because it rhymes also.  But I thought it would lose some of it's humor.  Ok, I'm changing it.  I'm a sucker for systematics.

-superboyac (May 25, 2010, 03:11 PM)

it wasn't even that I preferred it - was just throwing it into the mix...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best software uninstaller tool?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 02:55 PM »

So I found out another free uninstaller Advanced Uninstaller Free 10.1.1
 http://download.cnet...bj=dl&tag=button

-ha14 (May 25, 2010, 12:39 PM)

ha14, did you get to try it out ?
I couldnt find any info on their website about the free version (was trying to figure out the differences between the $40 pro version & this one)
Home page:
http://www.innovative-sol.com/index.htm

the Forum doesnt inspire, yet. There only two replies & one says that it's not working on 64bit Win7. The official looking intro post says The author of this program appears to be "Innovative Solutions" which seems a bit odd - my emphasis btw... )
http://www.innovativ...x.php?showtopic=4941

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Living Room / Re: Categories of life?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 02:53 PM »

That sounds like a good back story 40hz!

I very much like the look of the other combo though
Professional  Personal  Nonsense
&
I think "Madness and winks" would work better on it's own (it would overpower the other two IMO)

An variation on first would be
Professional  Personal  Nonsensical

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Alcohol 120% 5.0 Blu-ray - free by CHIP Online

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 02:27 PM »

Did you try it out? The website says it's the German language. Is there an option for other languages, like English? I still have some non-Windows 7 PCs this thing could work on.

-Deozaan (May 24, 2010, 01:03 AM)

i didn't try it because i have no Blu-ray drive.

-lanux128 (May 24, 2010, 02:03 AM)

From my understanding (the logos on the picture in your original post) the Blu-Ray version of Alcohol 120% also handles DVDs and CDs as well.

-Deozaan (May 25, 2010, 02:12 PM)

true,
but unfortunately the promotion is ended now

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best software uninstaller tool?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 09:22 AM »

So for half a year I have been using the free REVO only. For some reason Revo will always stop and wait for the user to click 'next' - which I really think is needless and a total waste of time - so I also tried the Revo_Pro version. But what is it with the Pro version? It is a like a completely different program! Tedious and tiring, I think.

-Curt (May 25, 2010, 06:58 AM)

I too have been using the free version of Revo for quite a while.  Can you say briefly what's so different about the Pro version? 

-cyberdiva (May 25, 2010, 08:35 AM)

I havent used the Pro version but I know that if you're on Windows 7, the regristry 'cleansing' is only offered by the pro version

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 09:19 AM »

Here's an interesting one. Looks like there's no upper case characters.  Still, it has kind of a cool look:
http://www.softpedia...Download-160055.html
One thing for sure, you don't need Bold with this!

-MilesAhead (May 24, 2010, 11:07 PM)

It is hard for me to believe from the readme that the author is a Dane, since the font doesn't include any of the special Danish characters. Weird!

-Curt (May 25, 2010, 09:07 AM)

Curt, are you familiar with Aller?

Dalton Maag design team designed a beautiful sans-serif Aller Sans, sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name). The typeface was designed as part of the Danish School of Media and Journalisms new CI and is now available for free use and download

it's first on this list
- it's lovely printed, probably not a display font though (but I'm no expert in these things)

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 04:52 AM »

Here you go, OpenWiff (source/binary included): http://skwire.dcmemb.../snacks/OpenWiff.zip

For a samply hotkey in AHK, you could use something like this:
[...]

-skwire (May 25, 2010, 02:02 AM)

well, I wasnt sure how that was meant to be used but I set it up as a button in Dopus
"F:\Portable\ ...\OpenWiff.exe" {filepath}

and that works nicely (XP)  

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 04:14 AM »

Aha! I found an open-license alternative.
The League of Movable Type
[...]

-Edvard (May 24, 2010, 10:09 PM)

wow, nice site with the motto "No more [BS]. Join the revolution" 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 04:04 AM »

I had missed the last few
lol to Becks, the Internet Bible and "Waking Up is Hard to Do*"

* The followup is (maybe) Breathe

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by tomos on May 25, 2010, 03:55 AM »

Regarding anything custom, I'm wondering if it might be well-suited as a FARR plugin.  Do you use FARR?

-skwire (May 25, 2010, 02:02 AM)

I had thought of mentioning FARR but didnt as the focus here (mine included) was on File managers.
In FARR you would have to search for the file presumably?
or
could it recognise what file is selected in File Manager and work from there - that's asking a lot though I suspect

Love the name btw  ;-)

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2010, 03:30 PM »

1) As an executable that you can pass a filename to.  The user will have to determine how to get and pass the filename.

-skwire (May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM)

I'm a bit lost there - I suppose it could probably be done fairly easily with dopus - but if someone is using Explorer?

2) As a slightly more complete application that includes a hotkey and path-getting capabilities.  For this, though, the utility will need to stay running.

-skwire (May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM)

I dont see having it running all the time a problem.
- When you say "there is no one good way to get a filename/path so that's why I like to leave it up to the user (and their computer)" do you suspect it wont work for a lot of people; and / or that it would mean it very awkward to code ?

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by tomos on May 24, 2010, 02:18 PM »

nudone,
you misread my post - I was describing how XY worked* & saying I would like to see that via AHK - Dopus is my main file manager as well

* I think XY's implementation is very good - it allows you to associate various filetypes with different programmes - again I'm saying this because I would love to see something like that via AHK (or some way it could work universally). It's the same idea as the open-with menu but much tidier...

[edit] I just wanted to make the point I'm also interested (& I'm sure there would be a lot of interest) if someone's thinking of coding [edit]