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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Mark Forster seeking beta testers for Autofocus

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2009, 12:22 PM »

well, I got the email

it's a very simple idea but very interesting and I'm working well with it so far -
I have had to modify it a bit to my needs

He has asked that people dont pass on instructions till it's out of beta phase
so
guess that means it cant be really discussed here
he has a basic forum (spoiled here, arent we) http://www.markforster.net/forum/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Autofocus Time Management System January 5th, 2009 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you very much for joining the trial of my new Autofocus system. It has been built on years of experience in the time management field, and has worked better for me than any other time management system I have ever tried, including previous ones I have developed myself. Now is the time to find out if it works for other people as well, and this is where your contribution will be invaluable. I intend to make the final version of the system free of charge and available to everyone without registration. However until the final version is produced I would be grateful if you would not directly pass on the instructions to anyone. If you wish to recommend the system to other people then please encourage them to register on my website, using the Newsletter Sign-Up Box for Beta Testing as before.

-
to joinup just signup for his newsletter - even if you're signed up already - IIRC you get an option to change your profile, select that & you get an email with option to join

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Living Room / Re: DC T-Shirts idea.

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2009, 03:54 AM »

semacode looks more like the one used by Deutsche Bahn for train tickets bought online - the conducter reads the code then

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General Software Discussion / Re: simple & easy way to exchange sensitive information?

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2009, 03:44 AM »

breaking it up seems good enough to me - part per phone, part per text, part per email

who's going to get all that except the - whatstheword - the person you're sending it to?

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Living Room / Re: New Ipod/ cleaning mp3s

« Last post by tomos on January 09, 2009, 03:40 AM »

And do I get the impression that you need to have your entire collection on your computer to sync it to the ipod?
So, since I only only have a few GB free, I can't use most of the ipod, (except by using third party software)....

-Fred Nerd (January 09, 2009, 03:26 AM)

I've heard that but from a friend of mine who isnt that familiar with the software (iTunes) and isnt really a check-out-all-the-options-type
-
is it true that you have to synch your full iTunes collection with the iPod - i.e. you cant have more in iTunes than you have in yer iPod (or the other way round) - or worse still you cant selectively select what goes on the iPod ??
if that's true Apple truly are mad as you say Fred lol

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Living Room / Re: DC T-Shirts idea.

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2009, 01:28 PM »

they use them here for train tickets bought on the internet

I like the t-shirt idea -
in general and this one in particular

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Living Room / Re: Please help me build my new computer, DC!

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2009, 12:36 PM »

The RAM I'm getting:
Corsair, Dominator 4GB (2 x 2GB) (PC2 8500)

Is this the right RAM for me?  I don't know.  If not, please let me know thanks.  (Check first post for list of purchases)

I see other similar options:
Corsair 4gb #1
Corsair 4gb #2
Corsair 4gb #3
Corsair 4gb #4
Corsair 4gb #5

...and so forth.  How do I choose?

-superboyac (January 08, 2009, 12:22 PM)

have you checked the motherboard site/page - they usually recommend compatible ram

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Developer's Corner / Re: Does anyone know if there is something “very useful” in IE8?

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2009, 09:39 AM »

are you wondering if it's better than IE7 or than FF3 ?

f0dder is definitely saying he thinks FF3 better, but also sounds like he's saying IE8 better than IE7

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Living Room / Re: Sound Recorder freeware - anyone?

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2009, 06:43 AM »

Also, J River Media Center (god I hate that name) and it's free counterpart, Media Jukebox, (much better name) has really grown on me lately, and since it burns CDs I have a feeling that if I were to ever burn a music CD (as audio or as files) I'd probably just use Media Center. Media Center (not Jukebox) has a "portable install" option, but it hasn't worked for me after multiple tries  .

I think Media Jukebox is the perfect "give to mom" program for audio, in fact I just gave it to my mom over thanksgiving weekend...

-Hirudin (December 04, 2008, 03:01 AM)

I used Media Jukebox to make a audio CD compilation lately (dying art that !)
That it was the first time I ever used/worked with mp3's (I mean I've done absolutely nothing to do with music on pc) , I can say it was *easy* to use

re portability see quote

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Living Room / Re: make family tree in Visio - manually or automated via db?

« Last post by tomos on January 08, 2009, 03:38 AM »

@4wd, do you know how does Personal Ancestral File do with regard to printing out a tree?

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Living Room / Re: How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2009, 10:00 AM »

Going back on topic:
 (see attachment in previous post)

-40hz (January 07, 2009, 09:23 AM)

cause it wears too much eyeliner ??  :p

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

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2009, 08:55 AM »

I'm really looking forward to trying out this app (gotta get new speakers first though )

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Living Room / Re: 'fit to witdth' feature in opera: any way to replicate it on Firefox?

« Last post by tomos on January 07, 2009, 03:17 AM »

... a much improved but much more annoying ...

-Paul Keith (January 06, 2009, 07:35 PM)

is there a typo in there Paul  (or maybe it is both?)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Simple single exe to show/hide to taskbar

« Last post by tomos on January 06, 2009, 05:01 AM »

How about this?

Skrommel

[Select]

;RunAndHide.ahk
; Run to hide or show the taskbar
;Skrommel @ 2008

IfWinExist,ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
{
  WinHide,ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
  WinHide,Start ahk_class Button
}
Else
{
  WinShow,ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd
  WinShow,Start ahk_class Button
}

-skrommel (December 08, 2008, 09:50 AM)

what to do with it?

-Coeluh (January 06, 2009, 02:13 AM)

if you dont have AutoHotKey, get that and "install" (portable)
save Skrommels code - save as "RunAndHide.ahk" preferably in your AutoHotKey (scripts) folder
~\AutoHotkey\Extras\Scripts
open saved AHK file

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Mark Forster seeking beta testers for Autofocus

« Last post by tomos on January 05, 2009, 08:58 AM »

to ease us back into getting organised for the new year
(dont know anything about it, but have signed up - apparently the "instructions" should be sent out today - it's still possible to sign up btw)

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I get rid of hidden characters like †in text file ?

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

staying slightly on-topic:-

I've sometimes seen this on webpages -
they cant display an apostrophe as in ' (I don't mean the accent`)
or they can have problems with umlauts - instead they show stuff like the †-
I'm wondering is that to do with the site in question or my browser?
(just idly wondering to be honest - and what did they use before the euro symbol came along )

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 01-09

« Last post by tomos on January 03, 2009, 02:48 PM »

thanks Ethyar
I often seem to arrive just in time to make the first comment lol

#7 British politicians going mad now - I thought there was a recession - of course this would create a few nice jobs, for some people .... but I'm surprised they think it's even worth while
- idly wondering how much corruption there might be involved in such a big project

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Living Room / Re: Official DC meet-up in Berlin, Germany: January 3rd @ c-base

« Last post by tomos on January 02, 2009, 03:16 PM »

please make it stop @_@
your confusing the hell out of me lol

-gjehle (January 01, 2009, 07:04 PM)

hah! I've confused a native (I think) happy new year gjehle

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Final Release: cpfindex

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2009, 11:55 AM »

when you say indexer - is it a search programme - okay, it says search. it's a search programme
I would have to second mousers request for a screenshot as I have no idea what interface is like - is there an interface? etc
I also have no idea what a console window is, so, I dont know - maybe it's not aimed at someone like me?

wikipedia:
Command line interface, the typical use of the computer console
(I presume) which probably rules me out ...

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Fried Babelfish

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2009, 11:49 AM »

looking forward to trying this out

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2009, 11:40 AM »

I am still in search of finding the right career for me, that will allow me to express my creativity, express my ability to teach others, and allow me to continue to grow in knowledge about computer related things or all things in general. These are really the things that matter most to me

-Kamel (January 01, 2009, 10:26 AM)

good luck with that Chad, still looking around myself too ...

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Living Room / Re: 2008 Cybernet Awards Are Out.. DonationCoder.com Wins Most Useful Forum!!

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2009, 11:22 AM »

I'm missing all the action here - *congrats to us* sounds funny all right but, i have to agree -
i.e. it is the "most useful forum" (most helpful, most friendly, etc)

I'm sure there's an ancient chinese quote about leading by example or something like that - if not we'll have to make one up for mouser
Lau Tzu say - good mouser lead by following the great Tao - or, make up yer own!

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Living Room / Re: Official DC meet-up in Berlin, Germany: January 3rd @ c-base

« Last post by tomos on January 01, 2009, 11:00 AM »

Maybe I'll add that to my New Year's Resolution list: Take some classes so Ich kann mit Deutsch vertraut noch einmal erhalten.

(I hope that wasn't too incorrect! )

-40hz (December 31, 2008, 06:27 PM)

I've been living here six years and still couldnt tell you should it be
Ich kann mit Deutsch vertraut noch einmal erhalten
Ich kann noch einmal mit Deutsch vertraut erhalten
Ich kann vertraut mit Deutsch noch einmal erhalten
or
or
or something different again :p (in other words I'm impressed)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New feture request to this wondrful FARR tool

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2008, 03:58 PM »

Whats agroup?

-pruthvi (December 30, 2008, 11:15 AM)

it's "agroups"
type in farr for a list (no inverted commas)

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Living Room / Re: This coming year, I am SOO looking forward to __________ .

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2008, 03:52 PM »

thanks for prompting me to even think about this icekin !

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do I get rid of MSN: check out these awesome pics from the awesome party LOL

« Last post by tomos on December 30, 2008, 03:49 PM »

*I have a feeling that's not the correct spelling of "low"

-Hirudin (December 30, 2008, 02:33 AM)

I think it's "Lo" but I couldnt tell you  why :-)

EDIT/ we're talking about the expression "Lo and behold!"