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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)
8402
Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with running FARR in portable mode on a USB drive
« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2009, 11:53 AM »
mouser, I'm trying to set up FARR to run on a usbstick and search only (or at least first) in that drive
OS: XP home

I have activated the "PORTABLE=TRUE" line as mentioned above by removing the \\\ before it.
I've added the current path to USB programmes folder and unticked everything else (for the moment) and it's finding stuff

so I'm wondering is that enough or do I need a relative path to the usbstick programmes folder? (if so can you give example of a relative path - I know the theory but havent actually used them. FARR is in same programme folder)

:) many thanks, tom
8403
General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 21, 2009, 10:56 AM »
And while some may prefer to just be quiet about it, to keep some ambiguity, it is our responsibility to at least ask if we want the resulting list to be looked upon with credibility.
-Steven Avery (June 20, 2009, 08:32 PM)

agree absolutely regards list -
but me, (speaking with self-employed hat):-
I'm going to continue using software unless it states in the lisence, or programme webpages, that it is not for commercial use (or that it's only for personal use, or to contact author, etc)
8404
General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2009, 07:30 PM »
(various edits to previous post)

Re Lisence terms in general:
Having gone through my portable programmes folder and looking at lisences - many arent specific.
Would it not be up to the author to say in the lisence if there are restrictions on use e.g. if it just says freeware and no other comments about how you use it would that not mean usable anywhere by anyone?
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General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2009, 06:21 PM »
memuse show memory in use and available memory. Also virtual memory (page file, I think)
It only works up to XP, seems to be okay for commercial - there may well be something better - I came across it at one stage when I was worried that some of my memory wasnt being used
EDIT(s)

Osiva viewer, again seems to be okay for commercial use
Osiva is free as in "free beer". If you want one free as in "free speech" send me an email.
whatever that means ;)
Resize - 2005 - but very neat image resizer. Portable. Donationware, no restrictions
ToDoList (http://www.abstracts...m/tdl_resources.html) seems to be 'free'
Everything on this site is free, the only proviso being that if you use bits of the code, you may not say that you wrote them yourself . .
-http://www.abstractspoon.com/
Drive Manager
If you have lots of drive letters of different types of drives, such as mapped network drives, thumb drive (USB memory sticks), smart media and compact flash, CD-ROM and DVD then this utility is perfect to help you manage them
Just says Freeware
8406
General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2009, 05:44 PM »
not sure do you want to venture into word-processors -
because it's light and portable & I just checked the lisence I'll throw in Jarte into the mix http://www.jarte.com/
LICENSE GRANT. Carolina Road Software, L.L.C. grants you a license to use this SOFTWARE on any hardware product. "You" means the company, institution, entity or individual installing or using the SOFTWARE.
inspired by this thread I'm spring cleaning my portable software folder . .
8407
General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2009, 05:18 PM »
Scan2PDF with install & portable version. Donation compulsory for commercial use
5. License of the software
All freeware programs are free for personal use only, in other case you have to donate an amount of your choice.
I'm not very familiar with this type of software, but I have used this one -
it's not high tech but you can easily make a multi-page PDF from scans and/or image files
8408
Living Room / Re: Literal Videos - Hilarious!
« Last post by tomos on June 20, 2009, 09:30 AM »

there's some really classic lines in the Bonnie Tyler video ;D -
but then they had great material to work with :)
8409
General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?
« Last post by tomos on June 19, 2009, 05:03 PM »
Pierre has made a post in the InfoQube (SQLNotes) forum
Demystifying InfoQube

IMHO, it is an incredibly simple program. The concept can be summarized as follows:
. . .
all we need now is a few beginners to test/see if he has made it all perfectly simple ;)
8410
General Review Discussion / Re: Free Total Commander licences
« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2009, 04:32 PM »
Last update

I've just received an email from Mr. Ghisler saying that he contacted with contestants.

Congratulations and I think I am done with my role :)
-fenixproductions (June 18, 2009, 10:14 AM)

just after getting my key :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2009, 05:59 AM »
Why can't Americans spell properly ?
-Carol Haynes (June 18, 2009, 05:07 AM)
;D ;D
looking for trouble are you :D
dont get me started about Adobe lol (at least I've gotten to the stage I can laugh about it, eh . . today anyway)

more of the same:
I'm looking at an upgrade to [English language] Illustrator - it's 40% more expensive in Europe than in US - and that's not even including tax :( (another 20% on top of that waaah)
-tomos (May 28, 2009, 03:32 PM)

and
Buying/installing/experiencing Adobe - PIA
8412
Living Room / Re: Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2009, 04:23 AM »
Or eBay in the UK
-Carol Haynes (June 18, 2009, 04:00 AM)
hi Carol
thanks for that offer too - as you can see above I'm now happily sorted.

I was suprised to see it's still selling for up to 290 euros here in germany (mainly the german version which is probably rarer than the english version - I see german language versions of New adobe products are quite a bit more expensive than eng.versions)
But then it's still a very capable programme and for my uses I never needed to update . .
8413
Living Room / Re: Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 18, 2009, 04:04 AM »
problem resolved - someone got me a copy of it - thanks :-*
thanks all for help :Thmbsup:
8414
Living Room / Re: Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 04:41 PM »
Have you tried calling Adobe? If you have a licensed copy they should be able to supply it as either a CD or a download.
-Carol Haynes (June 17, 2009, 06:55 AM)

after wandering around the website for a [good] while, I discovered they offer replacement CDs - for money - but only for 90 days after an upgrade to that product has been offered.
They really dont care what people think of them do Adobe :(
so I doubt very much that they will offer a download . .
8415
Living Room / Re: Getting spam with my friends email address in the subject line
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 04:33 PM »
It happened me once (2001 or so-ish) when I didint have a clue* that my email address was used and people received spam from my address. No idea how, but as I say I had absolutely no clue then about anything (I had first started using pc's a year or two prior to that).

What should one do in this situation? (if it's your address being abused) - abandon the account, tell the provider?


* I'm not a whole lot better now . .
8416
General Review Discussion / Re: Free Total Commander licences
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 09:26 AM »
Fenix, you may not have to complete your task at hand after all. I just received an email from Christian requesting my information. I went ahead and sent it on to him.
-Innuendo (June 17, 2009, 09:15 AM)
same here,
thanks again fenix for all the work on this  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 09:14 AM »
btw I forgot to say nice idea for a thread Steven :Thmbsup:

I also asked here before about a 'fully-free' Anti-Virus without success . .
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General Software Discussion / Re: fully free software utilities for biz use
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 08:42 AM »
See Any freeware alternatives to Faststone MaxView? for an attempt to find free for work image viewer (no real success I think)

Might be considered veering very off-topic so I'll put these fonts in a spoiler
License Free Fonts: free and available for commercial use
heres a short list i like:

http://www.alvit.de/...-free-official-fonts

and
http://www.alvit.de/...ense-free-pixelfonts

(They are what he calls "serious" fonts  :) so it depends what you need!)
-tomos (July 06, 2006, 07:54 AM)

Just came across this & it looks very good
OpenType & Postscript fonts that have the "look" as he says himself of commercial fonts


Available for commercial use


AlbertisADF.otf
AlbertisADF-Bold.otf
AlbertisADF-BoldItalic.otf
AlbertisADF-Italic.otf
AlbertisADFTitling.otf
AlbertisADFTitling-Oblique.otf
AmerisADF.otf
AmerisADF-Bold.otf
AmerisADF-BoldItalic.otf
AmerisADF-Italic.otf
AmerisADFSC.otf
AmerisADFSC-Bold.otf
AmerisADFSC-BoldItalic.otf
AmerisADFSC-Italic.otf
ArrosADFRoman-Bold.otf
ArrosADFRoman-BoldItalic.otf
ArrosADFRoman-Italic.otf
ArrosADFRoman-Regular.otf
BirkenADF-Regular.otf
ColonnadeADF.otf
ColonnadeADF-Italic.otf
ColonnadeADFCd.otf
ColonnadeADFCd-Italic.otf
ColonnadeADFCdTitling.otf
ColonnadeADFEx.otf
ColonnadeADFEx-Italic.otf
ColonnadeADFExTitling.otf
ColonnadeADFTitling.otf
ColonnadeADFWdTitling.otf
EditorialisADFTitling.otf
FrontonADFTitling.otf
GaramondeADF.otf
GaramondeADF-Bold.otf
GaramondeADF-BoldItalic.otf
GaramondeADF-Italic.otf
GaramondeADFCd.otf
GaramondeADFCd-Bold.otf
GaramondeADFCd-BoldItalic.otf
GaramondeADFCd-Italic.otf
HelvetisADF-Bold.otf
HelvetisADF-BoldItalic.otf
HelvetisADF-Italic.otf
HelvetisADF-Regular.otf
HelvetisADFCd-Bold.otf
HelvetisADFCd-BoldItalic.otf
HelvetisADFCd-Italic.otf
HelvetisADFCd-Regular.otf
HelvetisADFEx-Bold.otf
HelvetisADFEx-BoldItalic.otf
HelvetisADFEx-Italic.otf
HelvetisADFEx-Regular.otf
-tomos (May 27, 2008, 12:39 PM)


[edit] in my usual skim the post style I missed the 'utitities' in the title and first paragraph :-[ [/edit]
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Living Room / Re: Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 06:54 AM »
Have you seen this looks pretty legit and you said file sizes vary from 50-70 mb and that one is 76.
-Loki15 (June 17, 2009, 06:21 AM)

thanks Loki - I had actually seen that - it eventually leads to
A newer version of Adobe Photoshop is available.
Download the latest version | Learn more about Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
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Living Room / Need to d'load unavailable soft - but where is safe?
« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2009, 06:07 AM »
I need to download an older software (Photoshop 5.5)
I have a lisence/key for it (even have it registered with Adobe)
but it's no longer 'available' and I somehow have managed to lose both original and copy CDs :-[

Problems
  • I'm completely ignorant of this kind of thing
  • I dont know who to trust
  • dont know if download is a trial or not (downloads seem to vary between 50 and 70MB roughly which I presume is related to trial but dont even know which is larger)

The best I could find was http://www.brotherso...photoshop-59857.html
MacAfee says
In our tests, we found a small fraction of downloads on this site that some people consider adware or other potentially unwanted programs.
-http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/brothersoft.com
which sounds safe enough, but I dont know if it's just a trial

then there's something like this
http://rapidlibrary....hotoshop5+5+download
which is presumably much more dubious(?) but at least it says that it's a full version . .

Anyone got any tips?
8421
General Software Discussion / Re: XYplorer 8.00 released with DUAL PANES (!)
« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2009, 11:41 AM »
the man is not being given much of a chance to respond neutrally in 'neutral' territory
8422
Living Room / Re: Baby Cody Plushie is born
« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2009, 04:49 AM »
since carol and nudone are both in the UK, and gothic+della are in belgium for the next 2 months where I know he wants to visit, i think Baby Cody's first itinerary will be:
Me -> Nudone -> Carol -> Gothic

Those who want to host him next speak up.
-mouser (June 16, 2009, 02:36 AM)

how about from Belgium to Germany? (Me I mean - and surely there'll be others here)
8423
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image Home 2009 41% off on Bits du Jour, Fri. 19th June
« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2009, 09:38 AM »
I had to really use TI#11 lately - I mean do a restore of C drive :) and it worked - gotta say I was very relieved - I find the whole new install thing a total (and very time consuming) pain.
They do have a reputation of doing a lot of 'beta-testing' post-release

With version 11 they offered an upgrade price from older versions (back at least to version 7), so, if that policy continues, a purchase option could be to try pick up an older free version somewhere and get an upgrade
8424
Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 24-09
« Last post by tomos on June 14, 2009, 12:57 PM »
jeez, #7 poor geezer  :(

#2 we could promote some 'new' words?

#9 ouch . .
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Living Room / Re: The Longest Joke in the World
« Last post by tomos on June 11, 2009, 05:24 PM »
Gorilla :D
-jgpaiva (June 11, 2009, 10:34 AM)
   :)
 howdy jg :D
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