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General Software Discussion / Re: free scaled down word replacment

« Last post by tomos on July 06, 2009, 01:26 PM »

Also good and free: Atlantis Nova.
Nice and free: qjot (from xtort.net).

-criss (July 01, 2009, 06:08 AM)

Atlantis Nova isnt free - you can get a free version via TrialPay
http://www.atlantisw....com/en/register.htm
[edit] sorry bout that, see http://www.atlantisw...ssor.com/en/nova.htm [/edit]

the other one (qjot) sound nice
http://xtort.net/xtort-software/qjot/

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

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2009, 12:44 PM »

it's not often I get a  response to my posts
but I did with this one



It actually was my 3000^th but captured it a little late which made it look like #3004 - but that a bit like 2001 isn't it ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 limited time upgrade discount starting tomorrow (June 26th)

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2009, 07:15 AM »

well it took me a while to find it but here's the german offer . .

Vor Verfügbarkeit bietet Microsoft auch ein Vorverkaufsangebot für Windows 7 an. In Deutschland können Kunden vom 15. Juli bis Mitte August 2009 oder solange der Vorrat reicht die Windows 7 Home Premium E zu einer unverbindlichen Preisempfehlung von 49,99 Euro im Fachhandel und bei E-Tailern vorbestellen

-http://www.microsoft.com/germany/presseservice/detail.mspx?id=532742

in germany as of 15 july until the middle of august - or until supplies run out [whatever that means] you can get Windows 7 Home Premium E for 49.99 euros

.
€49 = $70 = £42.5

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General Software Discussion / Re: free scaled down word replacment

« Last post by tomos on June 28, 2009, 03:49 AM »

Another free word processor/spreadsheet: SoftMaker Office 2006 - this is the one I use and you have the option to make it portable.

-4wd (June 27, 2009, 08:11 PM)

forgot that's free - highly recommended

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General Software Discussion / Re: Making portable firefox my default browser. How?

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2009, 02:22 PM »

one way could be using mousers browser tray switch. You have to add portable browsers to the list
I've had trouble now & again mayself with default browser (some things respecting it, some not) possibly because I usually have a portable version of Opera as default.
I'll be interested to hear what others say . .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 limited time upgrade discount starting tomorrow (June 26th)

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2009, 02:15 PM »

OK it is a good idea to clean install but it is a big inconvenience for European Vista users that they can't use an upgrade even if they want to.

-Carol Haynes (June 27, 2009, 11:45 AM)

MS aren't offering the upgrade versions at all, but are offering promo prices on the retail version.

-Dormouse (June 27, 2009, 07:27 AM)

wonder will that mean there'll be no upgrade pricing available in Europe at all - even when it's released? (just because of the IE fiasco?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 limited time upgrade discount starting tomorrow (June 26th)

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2009, 10:40 AM »

MS aren't offering the upgrade versions at all, but are offering promo prices on the retail version.
For instance, Home Premium £50

-Dormouse (June 27, 2009, 07:27 AM)

where did you see the prices for UK Carol ?  and any idea of Euro prices?

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2009, 03:19 AM »

Being an American speaker of English (an oxymoron if there ever was one BTW)

-40hz (June 26, 2009, 11:18 PM)

I sometimes see German translations of novels that say:
'Aus dem Amerikanischen von Tom Jones' (continuing a theme)
which is
[Translated] from 'American' by Tom Jones

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by tomos on June 27, 2009, 03:13 AM »

Oh - of course if the song belonged to his family it then would be the Joneses' song.   

-J-Mac (June 26, 2009, 06:16 PM)

*sigh*
it's hard to keep up with them  :p

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast View

« Last post by tomos on June 26, 2009, 05:45 PM »

BTW, the next version of XYplorer (8.10) will have a full screen preview for HTML, MHT, URL, NWS, EML, and MSG files in perfect original size quality.

-DonL (June 26, 2009, 02:00 AM)

FYI, XY's full screen mode supports walking through the current list using PageUp/PageDown.

-DonL (June 26, 2009, 02:33 PM)

Sounds great!
I looked recently for 'viewer' in the XY forums but couldnt find anything and was thinking I'd start a thread about it - plans(?), wishes(!) but didnt get around to it so far.

I may as well say my spiel here -
I'd love to see a viewer that would

• show files in the order they are sorted (no slideshow, just some key to move on or back) - which sounds like what you've planned
  
• allow easy zooming in to selected area (I can see this could be problematic if you're showing so many different formats) e.g. Ctrl+Drag to select area to zoom in - or Ctrl+mousewheel, but that usually doesnt allow zooming into particular area - could be really great if it zoomed into where the mouse arrow was

I dont think there's any file manager with the combination of those two in it's viewer (maybe DOpus 9, I havent tried that)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 limited time upgrade discount starting tomorrow (June 26th)

« Last post by tomos on June 26, 2009, 08:18 AM »

thanks for the heads up Hirudin

If I understand the comment/answer at the end correctly - means you will have to format and start afresh - not a bad idea anyway with a new OS install

note for (parts of) Europe - (or all?)

The pre-order discount prices are valid from June 26 through July 11 in the U.S. and Canada, but end July 5 in Japan. Customers in the U.K., France and Germany will be offered similar pre-order discounts starting July 15, said LeBlanc.

or is it only the 'bigger' countries are getting this . .

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by tomos on June 26, 2009, 08:01 AM »

For free 

-cranioscopical (June 25, 2009, 10:47 PM)

I say some of those things in spoken language (well, actually only 'should of' and 'for free')
I understand the objections to all of them except 'for free' - I have a sense something's 'wrong' there, but would have trouble defining exactly what. Guess it's a paradox or something? Is it even 'correct' to say: I got it for ten dollars (?)
Actually I think it should be accepted into the official language

goes well with  -

he got it for nothin' !!

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General Software Discussion / Re: free scaled down word replacment

« Last post by tomos on June 26, 2009, 12:17 AM »

. . for the most basic word processing you can always use (in windows) WordPad.

-rsatrioadi (June 25, 2009, 11:12 PM)

Jarte is based on wordpad, but much better in terms of features
I used it a while and the only thing I missed was the ability to see the individual pages (is it standard view in word?)

edit/ they may (or may not) enjoy Jarte's quite different GUI (best to switch to 'Classic Layout' though as default may be too minimal). Another plus: no install - just unzip)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image Home 2009 35% off til end of June

« Last post by tomos on June 25, 2009, 03:17 AM »

thanks cyberdiva cheaper than an upgrade...
I have 11 - it works well (when restoring to original partition)

Lets see what's new for others considering an 'upgrade':

New!   One-click™ protection
Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up.
After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click.

bout time but dont think I'll pay 30 bucks for it!

there are some other new bits n pieces
New!   Full text search
New!   Auto backup based on destination availability
etc
http://www.acronis.c...eimage/features.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 05:21 PM »

1. Go to Configuration -> Misc
2. assign for Ctrl+E command cm_SrcCustomViewMenu
3. click on green icon button and OK
4. now I can call you TC fan

-fenixproductions (June 23, 2009, 05:12 PM)

gotchya

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 04:48 PM »

http://www.totalcmd..../wdx_image_info.html
http://www.totalcmd..../plugring/wdx4i.html
I am not sure how reliable these plugins are with TIFF compression because all TIFFs I've got are with LZW. You should try by yourself.

-fenixproductions (June 23, 2009, 10:43 AM)

The first plugin recognises the LZW, jpeg, Packbits and zip/deflate formats.  The second one recognises the LZW, jpeg, and Packbits formats.

-skwire (June 23, 2009, 11:55 AM)

I'm not sure which plugin I got the custom column from - it's called 'compr' - but it's working  (LZW) and seems dependable so thanks for the help people
Make me an official TC fan please 

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 04:22 PM »

2tomos
Maybe this will help you:
http://www.totalcmd..../wdx_image_info.html
http://www.totalcmd..../plugring/wdx4i.html

I am not sure how reliable these plugins are with TIFF compression because all TIFFs I've got are with LZW. You should try by yourself.

-fenixproductions (June 23, 2009, 10:43 AM)

I've installed the TC beta and I've figured out how to add the plugin but cannot figure out changing which columns show or how to use the plugins. (Can only find custom columns in Config where there is no list of columns - maybe there's something missing in the beta?)
I swear I've searched all over the place (wiki forum FAQs, oddly-I cant find 'help') and, I mean, I reckon it's got to be very simple to change which columns are showing but I'm damned if I can figure it out
(you know what it's like when you get a new app and havent a clue - remember?!? :p)

maybe I should be posting this in TC forum - I've registered there but it's too late here to make a diplomatic start in a new forum - thanks for any tips!

EDIT/ I've figured it out, back later!

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 10:35 AM »

thanks all,
I'm only going to get a chance to look at IrfanView this evening - Library stuff looks technical but I've donwloaded and will look at it and see if I can figure it out

this site also has some info about the compression tags for TIFF.

• http://www.awaresyst...ags/compression.html

-lanux128 (June 23, 2009, 09:06 AM)

Forgot to say compression is LZW.
I can post a couple of samples later as well

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 03:09 AM »

@Tomos: No TC plug-in to do this?

-cranioscopical (June 22, 2009, 07:06 PM)

you're asking someone who just won a license but hasnt even had time to install it yet
-
anyone else know if there's a TC plugin to show if TIFF files compressed or not?

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General Software Discussion / Re: tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 23, 2009, 03:09 AM »

Did you check out IrfanView?  Seems to do everything else.

-Veign (June 22, 2009, 04:38 PM)

I checked the plugins page and there's nothing there,
but maybe the programme itself can do it, will check

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General Software Discussion / tool to check if TIFF files compressed ?

« Last post by tomos on June 22, 2009, 03:36 PM »

Didnt know where to post this ...

I'm looking for a tool that will tell me if a TIFF file has been compressed (or better still one that will check 100 tiff files in a folder and tell me ..)
AFAIK with TIFF files it's B/W - they're either compressed or not

The reason I'm checking is they supposed to be not compressed if they going to press/publication. The only way I know how to do it is
       a) save a couple & estimate the rest (and get shot if there's a problem later)
       b) resave them all - this is so mindless that you start making mistakes anyways . .

If there's nothing out there and people think it's even possible, I'll post it in coding snacks, thanks!!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with running FARR in portable mode on a USB drive

« Last post by tomos on June 22, 2009, 03:23 PM »

     thanks people

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General Software Discussion / Re: Prank Software

« Last post by tomos on June 22, 2009, 07:48 AM »

doesnt mouser have something here - Dr.Windows - fake error messages

see the first two on this search
https://www.donation...h2;search=Dr.Windows

-tomos (June 21, 2009, 03:39 PM)

I corrected the link there

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General Software Discussion / Re: Prank Software

« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2009, 03:39 PM »

doesnt mouser have something here - Dr.Windows - fake error messages

see the first two on this search
https://www.donation...h2;search=Dr.Windows

EDIT/
corrected link

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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite drink?

« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2009, 01:57 PM »

Polish Bisongrass vodka 

-katykaty (June 21, 2009, 01:02 PM)

One of the few Vodkas that actually taste decent, and can be drunk without mixing it

-f0dder (June 21, 2009, 01:24 PM)

I havent heard of that one -
there's a nice one available here: Moskovskaya (Russian) 'wodka' - it's got a nice little hint of marzipan in the after-taste
Saw somewhere that vodka was traditionally drunk with a meal - I tried it a couple of times, and it does go very well with food. (I add a tiny bit of water and sip)