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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: all Ashampoo: $10 !!

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2010, 12:58 PM »

-please try again, tomos! I think you may have clicked another line, the first time, because I cannot replicate this, with Office 2010; it will not accept the code.

-Curt (April 30, 2010, 05:46 AM)

I bet they didn't have the restriction in place at the check-out at first, but then changed it since tomos first tried.

-TucknDar (April 30, 2010, 06:56 AM)

I think that is the case as I'm sure it was Office 2010 I tried - I missed my chance !!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: all Ashampoo: $10 !!

« Last post by tomos on April 30, 2010, 03:53 AM »

-maybe, but that is not quite what they are saying:

 (see attachment in previous post)

But Office 2010 would be worth it, of course.

-Curt (April 29, 2010, 05:12 AM)

oh I missed that & went to buy page for Office 2010 and put in the "birthday" coupon & it went down to $10 - but I didnt actually purchase
so...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: all Ashampoo: $10 !!

« Last post by tomos on April 29, 2010, 04:58 AM »

it is ("of course"?) only for "old" versions who are just about to be replaced, such as Burning Studio 9, Photo Commander 8, UnInstaller 4, etc.

-Curt (April 29, 2010, 04:47 AM)

Curt
it includes Ashampoo Office 2010 (new version) for $10  

to anyone who doesnt have it already: go get it  !!!


[edit] see below - it looks like it doesnt include Office 2010 [/edit]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2010, 09:32 AM »

PS I tried to use SFFS to sync my Roboform data with Roboform's online backup service (https address) and SFFS couldn't handle it. It did ask for my login credentials and I've confirmed that it's set up correctly. Don't know if this is to do with Roboform wanting to get people to buy their own GoodSync software as well? At any rate, I mention this in reference to the S3 query. I *suspect* that this will be an issue with S3 as well, though I have no way to test it.

-Darwin (April 27, 2010, 09:22 AM)

hmmm

Just thinking I could test it by setting it up (SFFS => S3) and then simply continuing to use Jungle Disk to check the contents of the S3 'Bucket' & see if the backup is actually working (you could go this route as well Jim)
as to when I might get around to trying that, I cant say :p

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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 10

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2010, 07:48 AM »

thanks Stephen,

a slightly NSFW comic re boobquake @ Girls With Slingshots

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2010, 07:34 AM »

are either of you using SFFS with Amazon S3 online data storage? I use Jungle Disk for that now but since they were purchased by Rackspace they very much want users to switch to using Rackspace's Online Disks instead of the Amazon S3 Buckets. Twice now with updates they changed mine over to Rackspace and I went through a lot of crap to get it all back to S3. So I'd love to dump Jungle Disk and use SFFS. Apparently SFFS can be used with Amazon S3 but I don’t think it has a UI to browse your files and folders there directly. Or at least it doesn’t in V.4 - maybe V.5 has changed this.

-J-Mac (April 19, 2010, 12:43 AM)

I'm still using a pretty old version of Jungle Disk (2.10a - I was wary of updating after the change of ownership cause it wasnt at all clear to me how it would work and/or cost)

I dont think SFFS allows you to browse files on S3 (I'm sure that would have been written big in the new features!)
Are there currently any other ways of showing S3 locally?

( Fairly Off topic:- have you reasons you dont want to use Rackspace storage ? )

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Mini-Review

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2010, 07:25 AM »

Free? Wow - that's amazingly generous! So V.5 is working good for you? Stable?

-J-Mac (April 19, 2010, 01:34 AM)

Yeah, sorry, I managed to miss the "5" when I typed SFFS above. I've been running SFFS 5 preview for months with no problems at all.

Here's the posting about the upgrade (hope I've interpreted it correctly!):

http://www.backupcre...de-options-t105.html

-Darwin (April 19, 2010, 08:06 AM)

Mike, have you installed the beta separately from your V.4 install - or on top of it?

Re the upgrade cost he does say
"any license includes at least two years of free upgrades and updates" so it may depend on when the license was bought...

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by tomos on April 27, 2010, 03:37 AM »

hi esoito !
welcome to dc

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto copy information from clipboard to MS Word

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2010, 10:03 AM »

is this any help:

I'm looking for a simple clipboard programme for capturing multiple items of plain text such as web site URLs and so on to a single text file.
[...]
Each time I copy a piece of text to this clipboard it should be added to the end of the list without deleting the existing contents.

-jovejupiter (April 19, 2007, 08:21 AM)

You could try the last free version of ClipCache, 1.41, available from e.g. http://www.woundedmoon.org/ legacy Windows software links (other repositories have it as well).  It normally saves each clip separately, but once you have it running, right-click on the tray icon and select Append Text Captures.  If you want something simpler that does just what you want and no more, there was a 1994-vintage PC Magazine utility by Robert Lausevic called PasteBoard, and an unrelated 2005 one of the same name by Mike Sanders but that one seems to have escaped from my hard disk  - ah, found it online: http://fuzzbox.hyper...asteboard/index.html

You may also like to know that Horst Schaeffer's command-line utility ClipText for transferring text between files and the clipboard also has an append feature.

-rjbull (April 19, 2007, 09:19 AM)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto copy information from clipboard to MS Word

« Last post by tomos on April 23, 2010, 09:59 AM »

ClipX (www.clipx.org)
claims to be able to paste items 1 to 9 from the clipboard via shortcutkeys plus [1 to 9] but just trying it out now: it's not working for me...

It does paste the first two entries in the same order as they are copied
~ copy me first
~ copy me second

using shortcut Ctrl+Alt+V [then hitting enter] twice in a row, I get them pasted in the same order
~ copy me first
~ copy me second

I know there's been quite a few different mini-apps related to copy paste here at dc - have you done a search?

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Living Room / Re: Pure Boredom Post: The 3 Word Story Game

« Last post by tomos on April 20, 2010, 02:32 AM »

flying by slowly

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

« Last post by tomos on April 18, 2010, 05:11 AM »

I think there is.  Does the image in the following post help?

https://www.donation....msg200201#msg200201

-ewemoa (April 17, 2010, 05:01 PM)

yes, there definitely is!
thanks eweomoa


[edit] also, in options under 'Clock Text' there's 'Line spacing' (I had already seen that but hadnt figured out the \n ...)
Lovely app  [/edit]

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

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2010, 04:55 PM »

finally got around to 'installing' this - thanks!
I never used the older version but this is great

Wondering is there a way to have date & time on two lines,
e.g.

Sat, Apr 17
 23:54:40

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General Software Discussion / Re: Oops, I won a Adobe Flash Builder by mistake!

« Last post by tomos on April 17, 2010, 01:23 PM »

FYI: I forgot to mention that registering is for U.S citizens only
... I know, don't ask. The address I gave was maybe a little inaccurate!

-Curt (April 16, 2010, 05:29 PM)

you're really getting around there Curt

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Living Room / Re: Dan the Man: Videogame Parody

« Last post by tomos on April 16, 2010, 08:43 AM »

very good 

love the violence. everyone getting punched in the face. made me chuckle quite a few times

-nudone (April 15, 2010, 05:01 PM)

him getting punched so as a coin would pop out got me every time

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2010, 03:18 PM »

But, would you use the site?

-JavaJones (April 15, 2010, 03:10 PM)

lol - I dont use RAW - I just following the discussion & like keeping track of things photographic

any other takers ??

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by tomos on April 15, 2010, 03:01 PM »

If voting were involved, imagine a statistics are that shows the most highly voted processing results, and aggregates them across RAW processors, taking numerical result representation into account (i.e. if one app does not have as many processed results as another it is noted as a less accurate result, but is not "punished").

-JavaJones (April 15, 2010, 01:22 PM)

you'd have to be careful with voting - the problem Rob (I think that's his name - Sagelight) pointed out was that initially people were choosing the conversion that was damaged over the one that was better converted. But I guess you'd be aware of that...

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Living Room / Re: UK amateur photographers: if you're good, don't use Boots!

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2010, 10:53 AM »

Re Ireland, I thought it was the policies in the 80's of focusing on reducing debt that laid a good foundation for the boom times (I'm not saying joining the euro currency didnt help!) -
then when people who had emigrated (in the 80's there wasnt much else to do) returned as things got better, they needed houses or flats. So the initial 'boom' caused another boom - but like in the US the banks got greedy and were giving huge mortgages to people who could only pay them back as long as things kept getting better... so you calling it a bubble is pretty apt.
Corruption didnt help :-(

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Living Room / Re: UK amateur photographers: if you're good, don't use Boots!

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2010, 09:01 AM »

It means that the UK is freer to decide its economic policies in its own interests rather than having to be limited by the needs/preferences of other countries.

-Dormouse (April 14, 2010, 08:27 AM)

thanks Dormouse, I'm not so good on the details (i.e. I simply didnt know)

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Living Room / Re: UK amateur photographers: if you're good, don't use Boots!

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2010, 08:04 AM »

The EU is still very mixed - seems to me that most countries have at least some odball ideas/plans for their citizens. UK seems to want to hold back from involvement in EU, which I can well understand (but it is often expressed in ways that I personally dont understand e.g. not joining in with the Euro) -
but,
my point is: I dont think UK is a 'template for the rest of Europe' at any rate (of course that doesnt mean eu countries wont start following their example!)

Is Brussels to blame? I don't think so - not unless in a few years we see that the UK was just a template for the rest of Europe.

-nudone (April 14, 2010, 07:45 AM)

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Living Room / Re: South Park - streaming full episodes now available free on new website.

« Last post by tomos on April 14, 2010, 05:52 AM »

Whatever...

You can now watch all of it for free via the web.

Link: http://www.southpark...os.com/clips/164627/

-40hz (April 13, 2010, 12:13 PM)

thanks for that

mixed messages here:

Due to copyright and other legal reasons,
South Park video content cannot be viewed
outside the United States.

Watch full episodes and
1000s of clips, all in
German and English and
available for free.

but then it send me to southpark.de where I can see episodes in German or English

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Living Room / Re: Comic: If Real Life Were More Like The Internet

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2010, 12:22 PM »

all sounds right to me - well, not here thankfully
very good comic 

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2010 Discounts and Giveaway Drawing - Winners Posted Mar 22, 2010

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2010, 08:34 AM »

Let's remember to always thank Nudone for the amazing artwork on those mugs.

-mouser (April 13, 2010, 08:26 AM)

yes, we're a lucky bunch to have all his creations here

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2010 Discounts and Giveaway Drawing - Winners Posted Mar 22, 2010

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2010, 07:35 AM »

My Mug has arrived but.............. South African Post Office charged me R69 duties etc....

It's a very nice mug though....

-CleverCat (April 13, 2010, 06:58 AM)

I got mine during the week - no customs thankfully
It's a great mug isnt it ?! - well made and printed - it's a great size too, big, but not too wide, so my tea stays hot till the end
and I cant get over the size of the handle lol
and of course a pic of Cody

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Sagelight Image Editor - pay what you want promo (Apil 2010)

« Last post by tomos on April 13, 2010, 06:45 AM »

For those interested in RAW conversion, there is a very interesting post on 11th April in the Sagelight BLOG.

-Dormouse (April 13, 2010, 05:29 AM)

I'd love to know what programmes he tried!
I really like what he writes - blog and forum - it's very informative and he's open & honest and seems to plan on making a good programme great