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btw, the BDJ offer is for a lifetime license (so it's still tempting aaaaghh!):-tomos (April 12, 2010, 07:23 AM)
You're an evil little man, Tom! I'd managed to walk away from the BDJ offer and you've got me scurrying back over to review it (yet) again-Darwin (April 12, 2010, 08:22 AM)
Danylo Kozub (Helicon Soft Ltd. Developer) Says:
Helicon Filter is sold only with life time license, so this is mistake in BdJ which will be corrected.
My favorite is MHSoftware's InfoStore...
It's paradigm is an hierarchical tree of folders, notes, and data tables. Not the most full featured of tools, but fantastic at quick and dirty which, honestly, is what I need mostly.
As a programmer/developer, I can honestly say that InfoStore's keyboard interface is the best I have ever encountered. In the beginning I was put off by it for reasons you will understand if you try the software, but after a while I acquired a taste for it. The design is minimal-key-strokes-necessary... most of you understand how hard that is to architect.
Highly recommended-JohnFredC (April 10, 2010, 07:12 PM)
I regret that InfoStore is not currently being sold; but expressions of interests are recorded, and we will contact you again if we decide to release an upgraded version.
[...] I just found a 'Smooth Skin/Image' edit which = Noise Reduction,preview of effect doesnt allow you to zoom in though, so you cant really see effect unless you apply it...- a confusing interface here with changes shown 'live', and also a 'Preview Selection' setting which has the limitation as described in strikethrough text combined with: I not sure what exactly it's previewing ]
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[edit] corrected SL noise reduction info [/edit]-tomos (April 08, 2010, 04:14 AM)
Discussion of Noise Reduction in Sagelight
And another
Even more discussion on 26th March in the BLOG-Dormouse (April 11, 2010, 08:36 AM)
ReverseDelta™ to Save Space
Using its ReverseDelta™ incremental technology, Oops!Backup will only back up the actual changes you make to a file – without needing to back up the whole file again every time you make a change. What distinguishes this technology from other products is that our innovative ReverseDelta ensures that the latest version of a file is always available in its entirety and not as a delta file.
Helicon can be trialed without any limitations for 30 days. The version from BdJ is 5.0 beta.-Curt (April 10, 2010, 03:51 PM)
Curt, what do you like about Helicon Filter 5 that you really want but can't get with Sagelight?-cyberdiva (April 10, 2010, 03:03 PM)
Interesting range of licenses.
On the HF website, they have a 12 month license for $20 and an unlimited lifetime license for $75.
The 50% off BdJ offer ($37.50) gives you free upgrades until the next major version. That might, of course, mean a lifetime-Dormouse (April 10, 2010, 11:53 AM)
Well, just to play devil's advocate here, I'm going to post an article by the great Stephen Fry about the ipad:
http://www.stephenfr...10/01/28/ipad-about/-superboyac (April 08, 2010, 09:12 AM)
For most people, manipulating these digital materials directly by touching them is a completely new experience - and a deeply satisfying one.
I love the idea of exifPro, and bought a license. However, as I've noted elsewhere, it generates HUGE index files (almost 2GB) and two deal breakers for me:-Darwin (April 07, 2010, 11:32 AM)
just in case you missed my response on last page Re Exif-pro:of course,
AFAICT it's cataloging [indexing] features are really intended for keeping track of stuff on external drives/discs
- there's no other advantage to cataloging that I can see-tomos (April 05, 2010, 01:53 PM)
PM allows you to add tags to the photo itself as well as to a sidecarIs one of these preferable?-Dormouse (April 06, 2010, 05:16 PM)
)A browser, sorter, tagger is like a file explorer taking in details of all the files, allowing you to browse them and add tags, ratings etc.that's a good description of Exif Pro then-Dormouse (April 06, 2010, 05:16 PM)
I think what surprises me here is the distribution of prices.-Jibz (April 06, 2010, 09:04 AM)
I guess they charge high prices mainly cause they can - photography has been accepted as an expensive hobby where everyone wants to get 'the best'
But maybe also because workflow is very important in these apps: hence there needs to be a lot of work done on the GUI - coders hate working on GUI's & charge triple rate for that kind of work (:p and maybe it's more labour intensive too?)-tomos (April 06, 2010, 01:18 PM)
I think what surprises me here is the distribution of prices.-Jibz (April 06, 2010, 09:04 AM)
The business edition of a popular Symantec utility being offered free for registration.-40hz (April 06, 2010, 12:55 PM)
Areca http://www.areca-backup.org Freeware, opensource GPL
Does do delta and incremental backups, you can search within a backup, restore only 1 file from a backup, and and and . . . .-MohKraats (March 27, 2010, 03:18 PM)
Pros: This can make a backup and keep it up-to-date by just changing the parts that need to be updated. It can cut large files into pieces and encrypt the backup (including the filenames) so it is completely safe. The backup process is reasonably fast.
Cons: It's not very effective for making a backup to a (mapped) network drive, because the backup process involves many write and read operations (more than just creating the backup files and saving them). No WebDAV compatibility.
Summary: I use this to make a local backup, which I then transfer to a web drive with a WebDAV synchronizer (in this case, Gladinet). Areca offers to save the backup to an FTP server, but they are not easily available anymore and have been superseded by WebDAV, whcih Areca can't handle.
The backup process is fast and seems to be accurate. With a strong password (or a pass-key -- but you need to make a backup of that somewhere else) the files are probably very safe.
This is all just bringing back bad memories and reminds me about WHY I dumped the whole "organization" idea in the first place and just use DOpus 9...-Darwin (April 05, 2010, 09:27 AM)
Nothing wrong with using DOpus. The main reason I originally chose it against the competition was that I thought its use in working with images was much better. And I still use it for lots of (simple) image management processes.-Dormouse (April 05, 2010, 01:05 PM)
The amount you choose to pay is entirely up to you but because of Paypal's fees, it is suggested that you make a payment of $2.00 or more otherwise the developer will be out of pocket which would be unfair
Ideally, each page would allow for thumbnail generation to get a quick glimpse of the pages in each "book" without opening them all them completely. Of similar function, or perhaps a substitute, is just displaying the associated icon of the program used to open each document so you know it's type.and
It needs to compress it-techidave (March 20, 2010, 04:48 PM)
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