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Living Room / Cheap Photo paper recommendations?

« Last post by tomos on May 15, 2009, 08:44 AM »

Can anyone recommend reasonably cheap but reasonable quality photo paper ?
Reasonable blacks, good colour balance, that sort of thing
The photos will remain in an album so light-fastness isnt a very important issue.
Was looking for something quick-drying, min. 240 gr weight, and A4 size. (Printer is a Canon)

I used to get my cheap paper from Conrad (German company) - @ circa 7euro for 25 x A4 pages (http://www1.conrad.de)  but it's gone to the dogs - they've made it adhesive on the back, problem being that the edges are all sticky, pages stick together, printer no like no more . .

BTW &
FWIW, for good quality paper I use
Ilford Pearl Paper (with a Canon printer as said above)

Ilford	pros
Smooth Pearl	Instant Dry
Classic Pearl	Very lightfast (but sensitive to moisture, including handling)

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General Software Discussion / Re: DM2 alternative for windows 7?

« Last post by tomos on May 15, 2009, 03:53 AM »

Cheers, that looks like what i need. however, i read in the article that some of the functions can be attain via auto hotkeys? would roll up and down be one of those? call me fussy, but im so used to middle clicking on minimize now, that i often truly believe other machines are broken when it doesn't work.

-relequestual (May 14, 2009, 06:33 PM)

you could add it as a coding snack request, someone might be able to oblige!
Coding Snacks | | |-+  Post New Requests Here

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General Software Discussion / Re: DM2 alternative for windows 7?

« Last post by tomos on May 14, 2009, 02:06 PM »

. . I forgot to mention, not bothered if free or not. Had a quick look, but i couldn't see about rolling windows up or down, which is the main thing i really need!

-relequestual (May 14, 2009, 12:01 PM)

this may be overkill . . but it is very desirable
Actual Window Manager mini review

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General Software Discussion / Re: EC wants software makers held liable for code

« Last post by tomos on May 14, 2009, 08:11 AM »

continuing off-topic (with apologies)
Dilbert's And Thus Ended Capitalism

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tweak Guide -- Is there a way to customize keyboard shortcuts?

« Last post by tomos on May 14, 2009, 07:52 AM »

since you've already installed keyconfig, you can change it to any hotkey you want, even Ctrl+Z as in Opera..

-lanux128 (May 14, 2009, 07:27 AM)

yes,
I still had to restart to finish install when I last posted.
It said Ctrl+Z mightnt work due to it being used by Edit>Undo but it seems to work okay for both functions now

I'm not sure what the 'functions for keyconfig' does but I dont seem to  need it anyway - actually I think it may simply be a 'sleeping' add-on that enhances the other one.

Looking forward to changing a few more shortcuts, thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: EC wants software makers held liable for code

« Last post by tomos on May 14, 2009, 06:08 AM »

Capitalism has made it this way - good old-fashioned fascism will take it away!

* f0dder ducks and covers.

-f0dder (May 14, 2009, 01:57 AM)

f0dder for leader lol

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Living Room / Re: whats that smell???

« Last post by tomos on May 14, 2009, 05:07 AM »

if that was the case, then how comes the lady that cleaned the fridge was not affected by it?

-Dell[a] (May 14, 2009, 01:03 AM)

the fireman said "Someone" sprayed what they thought was air freshener but turned out to be a "spot cleaner" which caused a couple dozen people to be really sick.

I read an article somewhere talking about smells and how we react to them - it was fairly straight forward:
if you smell something really horrible the message the brain gets can induce fairly heavy nausea etc. The idea being to make you get away from the offending smelling stuff so as you dont get really sick from it.
The cleaner didnt feel sick because she couldnt smell . .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tweak Guide -- Is there a way to customize keyboard shortcuts?

« Last post by tomos on May 13, 2009, 04:50 PM »

funny,
I've been using FF for what seems like years now, but only today have I really followed up on 'where's the option to change the shortcuts'.
I was using Opera again lately and had gotten used to Ctrl+Z re-opening last closed tab. Nice and easy. In FF it's Ctrl+Alt+T . . or, wait a minute, is it Ctrl+Shift+T - one of them duplicates current tab, the other does what I'm looking for but I'm damned if I can ever remember which one does which . .
anyways,
I've just installed Sri's first two suggestions so hopefully that'll sort me out

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Automatic text flipper (180 degree) aka upside down

« Last post by tomos on May 12, 2009, 03:24 PM »

Came across this by accident
(I know, not what the OP looking for . .)

For April Fools day, Youtube enabled you to view any page and video, totally upside down.

Pretty cute and clever, so I unapologetically stole their code and re-appropriated it as a jQuery plugin. As you can see, I have very valuable time. :-p

http://paulirish.com...-down-jquery-plugin/

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Living Room / Re: partitioning first time - checklist (cleaning, backup, tools, etc)

« Last post by tomos on May 11, 2009, 11:28 AM »

@Shades - it's an interesting history
@Miles - thanks for the explanation

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Living Room / Re: My (Somewhat Realistic) Dream PC - Is it necessary?

« Last post by tomos on May 10, 2009, 04:50 PM »

... well,
you should know what you want to backup

• after a recent thread, (cant remember name now..*) I think if I was to get a new PC I would get a smaller drive just for windows and at least one other drive then. Ups the price naturally, especially if you were to get a higher speed drive for the OS.
  
  
• Prob too soon to talk about monitors but I would read the negative reviews of those monitors pretty carefully before going for it! (advantage of reviews at NewEgg is you can zoom in on the bad reviews - not the case at that other site..)

* found it

• partitioning first time - checklist (cleaning, backup, tools, etc)

and others related and recent

• OS Re-install Tips?
• Should I get my new laptop with hard drive partitioned?

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Living Room / Re: partitioning first time - checklist (cleaning, backup, tools, etc)

« Last post by tomos on May 10, 2009, 04:39 PM »

... round robin swap ...

-MilesAhead (April 06, 2009, 02:47 PM)

is that a linux thing Miles?

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Living Room / Re: My daughter kind of stuck in France

« Last post by tomos on May 10, 2009, 09:59 AM »

havent used this but I know someone who's giving it a go
CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.

Idea being for travellers you can crash on someones couch and they get rated by visitors so as things will (hopefully) stay above board.
So, not a recommendation, but an idea.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: NovaPDF Professional Desktop on Bitsdujour today

« Last post by tomos on May 08, 2009, 06:45 AM »

Hmm, I am not seeing anything impressive that would let me spend money really on that list. As far as I can tell Pdf creator can do most of it. ALthough I would not suggest you to use latest versions Pdf creator because it if filled with some spyware, search toolbar crap.

-kartal (May 08, 2009, 02:57 AM)

which PDFCreator is that ? - I know there's two (at least) - could you mean the one available via SourceForge

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Faststone MaxView?

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2009, 03:51 PM »

http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/

-lothark (May 06, 2009, 08:16 AM)

Weird.  Not one screenshot on their website.  Get with the times, man!

-superboyac (May 06, 2009, 10:41 AM)

that's hilarious, for an image viewer  lol  doesnt bode well ...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2009, 08:30 AM »

Short info: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=18207

I think it would be nice to give 5 licences to "May reviewers" (randomly selected). That way DC can gain an information about good software and maybe break someone's laziness.

The rest of them are up to mouser's decision / ideas.

-fenixproductions (May 06, 2009, 08:15 AM)

sounds great

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Total Commander 7.50 public beta 1 - mini-review

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2009, 07:57 AM »

It would be the best to give licences to people who participate here a little bit more. That is why it could be the best for you to take your time and write review of your favourite software. It doesn't mean another TC description.

You are free to write about almost anything. If you think you are using excellent tool with nice features... and you are sure someone else can find it useful, then write about it. It is "May offer" so you have about three weeks to do so. I think there is plenty of time even for lazy people

-fenixproductions (May 06, 2009, 07:29 AM)

so, is that official then fenix? (competition)
would probably be good to start a new thread to announce it

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2009, 07:44 AM »

2) While selecting the modifiers and key groups before scanning allows you to scan for less shortcuts, checking everything didn't seem to take that long.  It might be more useful if you just scanned for everything and then allowed the user to filter the results based on selected modifiers and key groups.

-TheQwerty (May 06, 2009, 06:09 AM)

in the panel on the left it would be good to have an 'All' tick-box as well as the 'None' one

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your basic desktop icon save/restore for 32 bit windows

« Last post by tomos on May 06, 2009, 04:53 AM »

thanks Miles

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Am I missing something obvious? How do you paste???

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2009, 05:06 PM »

I've had problems and am having them again unfortunately, with pasting in apps that are html(?) or have to do with html -
browsers, Evernote.
If you do only have the problem occasionally you can do a simple Ctrl+V paste after the unsuccessful paste and your selection will be pasted - obviously this not a solution if it's happeneing so much (is 90% a realistic or an exasperated estimate!?)

I'd say I'm having the problem less than 10% of the time
Do you get any error messages?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2009, 02:02 PM »

Thanks Tranglos!
It's really nice to be able to see which keys are available - very convenient for planning hotkeys

No idea who's using a lot of those keys afraid to try them out, god knows what would happen ...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Vista Multiple Mouse Cursors

« Last post by tomos on May 05, 2009, 06:49 AM »

is this what you had in mind ?
IDEA: 1 computer 2 mice-2 pointers-seperate button programming

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: BenuBird Pro is now freeware!

« Last post by tomos on May 04, 2009, 08:27 AM »

What exactly does it do?

-CleverCat (May 04, 2009, 02:31 AM)

I'm not fully sure myself but these might help:-

It took me a while to get the significance of the fact that this is a data warehouse app, not an indexer.  When you import into the app, it copies the files into the application- not just indexing it in place.  So if you import 300GB into it, it will take 300GB of space for the DB.  I don't think this is the app for everyone for that reason- if you'd prefer to manage your files yourself, then it won't really fit your paradigm.  But I was tiring of moving my documents around my HD to organize them, and this way I don't have to- I set up whatever kind of view I want, and the document stays in the database.

-wraith808 (March 27, 2009, 02:30 PM)

I have Benubird Pro and have been using it for a couple of months.   Initially, I had trouble figuring it out but, after half an hour or so of tinkering with it, I got the hang of it on a basic level.  I have yet to plumb all its usages.  The tagging component is good in that you can impute whatever pertinent information in the property field resulting in swift searches.  You can access executive files as well.  You can add new files from the dialogue box also.  There are collection, sub-collection and smart collections for which files are made more quickly accessible.  I haven't as yet utilized all its' features but what I have learnt how to do with this program is good.  Best of all for novices like myself it's literally stupid proof.  I have tried similiar applications and for me this was the most comprehensive.

-herneith (February 14, 2009, 05:33 PM)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Actual Window Manager mini review

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2009, 03:41 PM »

Yes, a great review Tranglos!
tempting too all right

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Official Announcements / Re: Mobysaurus Thesaurus Now Officially Hosted on DonationCoder.com

« Last post by tomos on May 03, 2009, 01:55 PM »

Wasnt there also an online version of Mobysaurus Thesaurus - as opposed to a download?
I couldnt find it via google ... anyone know about that?

-tomos (May 03, 2009, 12:36 PM)

You mean FreeThesaurus?

-Lashiec (May 03, 2009, 01:45 PM)

I have no idea but that seems good - I'll keep it thanks