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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation

« Last post by tomos on December 31, 2009, 02:11 AM »

Microsoft ICE was a minor part of some other, bigger project, and has not been updated for more than a year. Might never be.

I wanted to warn people about the problem so that they could avoid the time and effort of installing and uninstalling it.

-Arizona Hot (December 30, 2009, 11:46 PM)

thanks Arizona,
any chance you could reduce the images to thumbnail view in your previous post ?
- instead of [attachimg=#], use [attachthumb=#] - listed as "inline thumb attachment" in the dropdown box - thanks!

Would make it easier to get an overview

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General Software Discussion / Re: Search with Bing

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 03:55 PM »

Just trying it out - I'll probably stick with it for a while
It caters a little better towards international needs than google does

In Google it's a pain to change settings (click click click etc etc)
It's easier in Bing

Strangely though - I added the Bing (official) Search Plugin to FF, it recognised my location (Germany) but only offered me the 'United Kingdom" search site, probably because my OS language setting is English(Ireland).
Eventually I realised that by clicking on the 'United Kingdom" link, I get offered to change to a different country (logical but I managed to take quite a while to figure it out - if you want to make a GUI foolproof get me to test it!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Search with Bing

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 03:05 PM »

Example 1: search the following phrase- "The more from it you take, the more it becomes."
Example 2: search the following terms- antidupl doublepics

In each case I'm getting DC results with Bing and no DC results with Google. If you're getting different results, then I obviously have something messed up.

-sajman99 (December 30, 2009, 02:39 PM)

same here for example one

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody In Belleville, NJ

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 02:24 PM »

hey that's great - thanks for the pics

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General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use - discussion

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 01:45 PM »

Steven,
I started off doing web clippings of the various posts and ended up adding the relevant links (to the info in your first post of the lists). I did a little editing and took the liberty of using lower case for sub-headings.

Has this been blogged ?
It's a brilliant resource, it deserves as much promotion as it can get !!

OFFICE Notes - Pim  & To-do & Calendar & Reminder - Email WINDOWS UTILITIES Installers - Uninstallers - Screen Capture - Clipboard  Cleaners - Scheduling - Memory Zip - Utility Suite - Password Revealers - Icons - Desktop - Tray - Graphics DISK FILE MANAGEMENT File Managers / Explorers - Disk Space - Dups - Search - Compare Defrag BACKUP - COPY Backup - File Copy - Image / Cloning FTP & REMOTE ACCESS SECURITY Firewall - Anti-virus & Malware - Hips WINDOWS UTILITIES Startup - Shutdown & Restart - Process & Task Manager & Termination DATABASE DEVELOPMENT OPERATING SYSTEM Registry Compact - Defrag - Backup - Pagefile - Unidentified Devices - Driver Backup - Event Viewer & Log Files - Analysis & Real-time SYSTEM UTILITIES Boot Disk - Rescue - Partition - Data Recovery / Undelete IMAGE EDITING and VIEWING - PDF UTILITIES - PRINTING UTILITIES BIZ APPS Accounting - Inventory - Time Tracking NETWORK ADMINISTRATION - NETWORK TRAFFIC - TCP/IP BIZ-WARE What you are most likely needing to purchase (SECURITY) WINDOWS SHELL & DESKTOP SOFTWARE INVENTORY - VERSION UPDATES - SYSINFO - HARDWARE DIAGNOSTICS - MONITOR TEST - SET & FIX TEXT EDITORS Notepad Replacements - Programmer/Developer Editors WEB BROWSING - Research - Activities - Recreation HOME (OFFICE) SERVER - SCRIPTING / MACRO / PROGRAMMING TOOLS CD - DVD MISCELLANEOUS AND NOTES-DISCUSSION Donationcoder - Prolific Packages - Abandonware RESOURCE LIST FREEWARE PACKAGES WHICH NEED EULA and/or AUTHOR CHECK ONLINE TECH RESOURCES

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with the help of Fenix's BBCeditor, & mouser's Clipboard Help & Spell to change the formatting

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 12:27 PM »

I thought that doPDF and PDF-Xchange Viewer were both free for commercial use.

-Dormouse (December 30, 2009, 12:18 PM)

fully-free software for biz - image editing-viewing - PDF - printing
says yes in both cases

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: I was never here

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2009, 12:10 PM »

Good idea
I wonder what the 'Restore Defaults' button there does?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch photo filter software?

« Last post by tomos on December 29, 2009, 04:38 PM »

What are 8bf filters, please?

-rjbull (December 29, 2009, 03:56 PM)

8bf^w is the file extension of photoshop filters*
Other image editing programmes started using them as well.

I've seen other related formats, e.g. 8bs, also used by P'shop

*AFAIK there is now a newer format as well (?). I still work with photoshop 5.5 so I wouldnt know ;-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrSpell

« Last post by tomos on December 28, 2009, 08:10 PM »

By the way the problem Tomos had with crashing is related to a known problem with an older version of the fsubscript.dll found in some other plugins.
See https://www.donation....msg176615#msg176615 for more info.

-mouser (December 27, 2009, 10:30 PM)

entertainingly embarrassing when I get a link to my own advice in response to a problem I report... lol

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Mini NANY Submissions

« Last post by tomos on December 27, 2009, 08:02 AM »

@Perry Mowbray: I made a few years ago a cryptor/decryptor of such texts for a coding-contest. You can decode the whole bible in only a few seconds with it with very good results - a lot of languages and slangs are supported . If you have enough memory you can even calculate new words and grammatical variants that can be used for decoding. It is called the Salatschleuder. I improved it after the contest. So download the final version here if you like. 

-Crush (December 13, 2009, 09:53 AM)

Hi Crush
I'm not sure what you mean by "a cryptor/decryptor of such texts" or "You can decode the whole bible" - I presume it's something for coders but I may be wrong... ?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: NANY Suggestion: tf doc version of Accomplish More by Doing Less

« Last post by tomos on December 27, 2009, 07:17 AM »

Paul,
do we have to have read the book to understand the idea?

ahh, I see - got to read this first
http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=115

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrSpell

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2009, 06:43 PM »

on first use only I got an error (& crash) but no problems after a restart

error

---------------------------
Find and Run Robot
---------------------------
Access violation at address 0611AFAC. Read of address 0611AFAC.
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OK   
---------------------------

there was a second error message but then it crashed before I could copy the other.

Seems to be working fine now after restart - I'll be using this one, thanks mouser!

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Living Room / Re: A Stellar Advent Calendar

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2009, 04:49 PM »

great pics!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrSpell

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2009, 12:57 PM »

updated with screenshot teasers.

-mouser (December 26, 2009, 12:18 PM)

ooohh - looks nice

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General Software Discussion / Re: fully-free software for biz - the lists !

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2009, 12:54 PM »

SimpleSysInfo -  Emiel Wieldraaijer (author of JkDefrag GUI)
http://www.emro.nl/freeware/
Has U3 portable app version, can print, make text or HTML or send email. May be a nice alternative for those used to the simplicity of using Belarc.

-Steven Avery (June 29, 2009, 06:51 AM)

available at the same site:

MyDefragPowerGUI 0.99.1, released on December 22nd 2009 is the second Public Beta of the successor of JkDefragGUI

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrSpell

« Last post by tomos on December 26, 2009, 07:54 AM »

is it premature to make a feature request ?!!

that it would spell in English English as well as American English (maybe show both even?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Printliminator

« Last post by tomos on December 24, 2009, 06:51 AM »

@ mateek
The Printliminater video played fine here a couple of days ago, they sound very similar actually, havent had a look at the other yet

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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs

« Last post by tomos on December 23, 2009, 04:29 PM »

I guess I would say there's programmes I must-have & there's programmes I love
of course (as app says) these reflect how I use my time on my pc. No links, so I add a description of sorts

Love is -
(even though I'm often not a real 'power' user)
Launcher: - FARR (+ especially minicap & most recently used plugins)
Windows manager: - GridMove
Graphics/Drawing: - FreeHand
Information manager (all of it at this stage): - InfoQube
"lets you scroll a window without clicking/focusing it first" (quoting Tranglos!) - KatMouse
AutoHotkey and a lot of mini & not so mini-apps from Skwire & Skrommel and others here on dc

must-have is -
File Managers: - DOpus / Xyplorer (Lucky enough to have Total Commander as well)
Backup: - Super Flexible File Synchronizer
Backup, revisions of files: - FileHamster
Task Manager: - Process Explorer

there's lots of other apps that I maybe love even, but dont get to use a lot e.g. Trout, (music player), or, they are must-haves but I wont mind when I move on to something else e.g. Acronis True Image

Deskangel sounds interesting rudantam - must check if it's customisable... (I avoid middle & double clicks like the plague and have had right-click titlebar closing windows for years...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Battle of the Free Online Storages

« Last post by tomos on December 23, 2009, 06:12 AM »

looks interesting, appears to be also free for commercial use
how much of the software have you installed Stephen ?

http://www.drivehq.c...m/freeBandwidth.aspx

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    * For Microsoft Windows Users

      Use each of the following features and you will get 200MB free download bytes, for a max of 1GB:

      DriveHQ FileManager
      DriveHQ Online Backup
      DriveHQ Desktop Express (Bundled with FileManager)
      DriveHQ Batch PhotoEditor
      DriveHQ FTP (ftp.drivehq.com)
      Free upgrade to group account (logon, click on My Account, then click on Group Account)
      Share a folder
      Publish a folder
      DriveHQ SMTP/POP3 email
      Refer a user using your referral link

and their comparision to some others
http://www.drivehq.c.../FeatureCompare.aspx

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What's the Best? / Re: PDF Cataloger - Any Suggestions

« Last post by tomos on December 22, 2009, 10:12 AM »

here'S one possibility:-
BenuBird Pro is now freeware! - also mentioned elsewhere here
not a user myself btw (I have no need)

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Living Room / Re: How to stop Firefox from opening youtube searches in new tabs?

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2009, 01:08 PM »

just YouTube - not Google?

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2009, 04:26 AM »

Curt, please, what advantages does 2010 have over 2008 for you?

-rjbull (December 17, 2009, 02:53 PM)

I was curious too -

-tomos (December 17, 2009, 03:15 PM)

- none, yet, for the very simple reason that I am trial-testing Microsoft Office 2010 at the moment. I only upgraded SoftMaker  to have it! I have only tried TextMaker.

-Curt (December 17, 2009, 07:59 PM)

which has to lead to the question:-
are you trialling MS Office because somethings missing in Softmaker Office ?

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Living Room / Re: Would you buy this milk?

« Last post by tomos on December 18, 2009, 04:20 AM »

And what a great price for a gallon of milk!!  From only $67.99!!

-J-Mac (December 18, 2009, 12:36 AM)

up to $2,500 although the $2,499 offer sounds better: "will hand deliver, then come in and make you a Tiramisu with product in your kitchen"

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Program Idea Suggestion Thread

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2009, 04:34 PM »

[...] I wrote a program for myself called "Much2Do". [...]

I am particularly interested in feedback concerning these questions:
- Most ToDo programs have checkboxes, do you really need them in a ToDolist?
  (I feel that if the item is done it should be removed, so why a checkbox)
- How could the planning part of my desktop application be improved?
- Would you like to have the day planning available in the mobile app as well?
- I plan 100% digital but I stil prefer to print the items for Today on paper,
  but being green means you should not print anything. Any suggestions?

-Marcel25 (December 15, 2009, 06:12 AM)

I'm going to download your app & try it out, thanks!
- could I suggest starting a new thread and maybe link to it from here

So i guess for me i like the idea of multiple checklists, where i can check each item off a list until that list is complete, and then file that list away into storage.

-mouser (December 15, 2009, 08:03 AM)

This would fit in with Mark Forster's AutoFocus 'method' which I'm trying (again)
I would like to comment more but want to try the app first and dont want to take over this thread either . .

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Word Processor Roundup / Re: Textmaker (Softmaker/Ashampoo Office) 2008

« Last post by tomos on December 17, 2009, 03:15 PM »

Curt, please, what advantages does 2010 have over 2008 for you?

-rjbull (December 17, 2009, 02:53 PM)

I was curious too - site only says

The Top Five new features in SoftMaker Office 2010:

Support for the DOCX and XLSX file formats from Microsoft Office 2007   

Comes with 3 licenses for home and business use

Presentation-quality charts in PlanMaker

Breathtaking DirectX-based animations and slide transitions in SoftMaker Presentations   

Document tabs for easy switching between open documents