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Living Room / Re: Great Britain is frozen!
« Last post by Darwin on January 09, 2010, 12:22 PM »
8 C (46.4 F) here on Canada's wet coast... and it is very wet. I was in shorts and a tee on Thursday . Pouring today, though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to hide systemtray icons?
« Last post by Darwin on January 08, 2010, 09:58 PM »
PS Tray Factory does the trick for me on XP (Vista and even more so Windows 7 do everything I need natively). Search DonationCoder for a review... it's out there!
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I'm 40 years old and I still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up, but it's been an interesting ride so far.

Well said, slowmaker  ;D Sounds like you and I have a lot in common. Welcome to DC! It is a special place and I hope that you will enjoy your time here.
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Darwin on January 01, 2010, 10:21 AM »
Yes - wonderfully timed! Congratulations, Chris, and Happy New Year to you and to everyone  :-*
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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation
« Last post by Darwin on December 30, 2009, 09:49 PM »
FWIW, Autopano Pro uses Autostitch's technology under license.

We are happy to hear from companies interested in developing products using AutoStitchâ„¢.

Commercial licensing is managed by the UBC Industry Liason Office. Please contact Matthew Brown (mbrown[at]cs.ubc.ca) for details.

AutoStitch is now available in the following commercial products:

    * Autopano Pro www.autopano.net (Windows, Mac, Linux)
    * Serif PanoramaPlus www.serif.com (Windows)
    * Calico www.kekus.com (Mac)

The University of British Columbia has also granted a commercial license to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) www.ilm.com, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, to use AutoStitch software to produce panoramas for film production.
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Welcom, Timoth  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?
« Last post by Darwin on December 30, 2009, 11:15 AM »
- thanks for the positive thoughts, Darwin. I hope you will be right, because those $92 made it my single most expensive upgrade!

Glad to help! BTW, I think the $10 OCR upgrade assurance gives you a year of free upgrades should they decide to release Nitro Pro OCR 7.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?
« Last post by Darwin on December 29, 2009, 11:08 PM »
I was looking at Nuance and was tempted, but the price tag kept me from even trialing it.

I usually buy it on sale - often I can buy the full version (not an upgrade) for less than Nuance's normal upgrade pricing if I wait for one of their (frequent) sales. Thus, I bought a full copy of version 6 Pro for $59.99! However, Curt, I think that you are onto a good thing with Nitro  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Darwin on December 29, 2009, 11:03 PM »
USB Safely Remove[/url] is one I always use and would miss. I haven't seen an alternative that I would use instead. Works simply, saves me time.

Dang! Forgot about this one - sits in my system tray and is invaluable. I'll add it to my own list  :Thmbsup:

EDIT: have now read the follow-on posts. Just want to add the for me the great thing about USB Safely Remove is the ability to re-attach the device if you change your mind right after removing it. Sounds silly, but it is very useful. You can also have it remove (or re-attach, for that matter) all devices at once, which is handy as well.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?
« Last post by Darwin on December 29, 2009, 02:37 PM »
This could be a winner, Curt. If they retain the OCR version price as the upgrade price for future versions, it will be a bargain. For now, I'm sticking with Nuance's PDF Converter Pro, but I have two licenses for Nitro PDF Professional 6 that I have installed on other computers. Quite impressive, though I am under-whelmed with its start up speed! Another plus is that they offer true 32 bit and 64 bit versions, which classes them ahead of Nuance. With OCR, they will be very competitive. Crumb, I'm quite tempted to pre-order the OCR version...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Darwin on December 29, 2009, 02:15 PM »
- yes, Mike, but I was concerned with the 400 other icons...  ;D

The text in the box sounds to me as if it only concerns the (approx) five system icons. Am I wrong (again)? Anyway, deskicons.exe is an excellent program, and is only 1½ kb!!!

Ah... yes, you are correct. I thought you were concerned about getting rid of the default windows icons  :o
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Darwin on December 28, 2009, 04:50 PM »
Curt - I forget if this works on Vista or not (I *think* it does). With Windows 7 you can:

Right click on your desktop and select "Personalize". You should then see a left-hand pane containing hyperlinks, the first one of which reads "Change desktop icons". Selecting this gives you this dialog:

Change desktop icons.png

Which allows you to enable/disablle any of the default icons on your desktop.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Darwin on December 24, 2009, 10:32 AM »
Thanks, Tuxman  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Must-have Windows Programs
« Last post by Darwin on December 24, 2009, 10:23 AM »
Interesting list. It might be informative if we all indicate what version of Windows we're running and whether or not it's 64 bit or 32 bit.

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and my must have software includes:

Directory Opus
ClipMate
Fineprint
Firefox
Roboform
USB Safely Remove
PDF Converter Professional - use this to view, create, and edit pdfs.
Office 2007 - primarily Outlook, Word, and Excel but have been dabbling with OneNote increasingly of late, though. I think it will probably make the daily-user list next year.

Honourable Mentions:

EditPad Pro
Endnote - used to use this to generate bibliographies in Word. Now use it to keep my pdf and ebook collection (in the thousands) organzied.


I have TONS of additional software installed, but the first list includes the third party applications that I use every day and the second applications that I use weekly - everything I use weakly  ;D.

Edit: added PDF Converter Professional. There *are* other options available but this is the solution I've used for years. Love it's OCR capabilities.
Edit 2: added USB Safely Remove
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General Software Discussion / Re: syncing an ipod shuffle with wmp on vista
« Last post by Darwin on December 17, 2009, 09:12 AM »
MediaMonkey will do it with a plugin. Foobar2000 will do it with a plugin as well.

Hmmm... this reminds me - won't WinAmp do it as well?
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General Software Discussion / Re: syncing an ipod shuffle with wmp on vista
« Last post by Darwin on December 16, 2009, 10:17 PM »
I haven't tried this, but lifehacker posted this recently: CopyTrans Manager Organizes and Manages Your iPhone or iPod Without iTunes

Good luck!

EDIT: I'm going to download and try this myself - just noticed that it doesn't need to be installed - can be run off a USB drive  :Thmbsup:
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Ok,  seeing your process of getting the licence key i've decided to put "process tamer" in the trash box.
Think your complete crazy.
bye.



No doubt you won't be back to read this, but thank you for the best laugh I've had all week!

(Some people's children... Darwin shakes his head in disbelief).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any XP users switching to Windows 7 yet?
« Last post by Darwin on December 11, 2009, 10:11 AM »
Well I'm biting the bullet and making the upgrade from XP Home 32bit to Win 7 64bit. Ordered the upgrade this week and will get it next week...

That being said, I'm now in the process of my preupgrade prep-work -
  Downloading drivers, critical programs, etc.and burning them to disk)
  Cleaning out all unneeded junk files
  Backing up files

One thing I'll do just before the upgrade is to use Sysinternals' Disk2vhd to make VHDs of my existing XP harddrives and putting them on my network storage. That way, after the upgrade, not only can I mount the VHDs in Win 7 so I can have access to all my old files (in case I miss anything) but also using either Virtual PC or Virtualbox I can use the VHDs to run my old XP setup as a virtual machine (with a little luck and tweaking) :D
-majorspacecase (December 11, 2009, 05:52 AM)

Er, AFAIK you cannot do an in-place upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit - you'll have to do a clean install and reinstall all of your software. You should be able to back up up program settings and restore them afterward.
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Living Room / Re: Sausages and Science
« Last post by Darwin on December 07, 2009, 11:32 AM »
Thanks for the link, Jenny. I found potholer54's video very interesting.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Hiatus
« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2009, 09:51 PM »
Thanks for all the newsletters, ehtyar! You deserve a break - enjoy your trip.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool
« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2009, 09:50 PM »
I can't remember if it was Windows 7, but I once had a problem where I installed Linkman and the Firefox extension didn't get installed along with the program. I think the way I fixed it was by having to create a new profile in Firefox.

I had this problem with the trial of Linkman, Firefox 3.x and Vista 64-bit, if that helps...
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on December 06, 2009, 09:49 PM »
I cannot imagine anybody stealing a 'used' mug from someone they hardly know. Yuck!

Ditto  :tellme:
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on December 04, 2009, 08:16 AM »
I never did understand why at places like Sams Club or BJs wholesale they check your receipt on the way out when you have 45 items in the cart. It is not like they are checking each item against the receipt. COME ON, Really? You have to waste my time?

Heh, heh - good one! I've ofen wondered about this myself  ;D
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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?
« Last post by Darwin on December 04, 2009, 07:56 AM »
Companies who claim a product is "free" when they mean "Free with severe limitations...aka crippleware".

Or plaster "free download" all over their website and on shareware sites when what they mean is that you can download a time-limitied trial version  >:(
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Living Room / Re: Death in Family
« Last post by Darwin on December 02, 2009, 09:43 PM »
Stoic Joker - I am so sorry for your loss. Please let us know at DC if there is anything that we can do for you and your family.

My deepest condolences.
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