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Living Room / Re: What is Donation Coder?

« Last post by tomos on November 24, 2008, 03:55 PM »

my two cents:

• I've been driven away from some forums because (as a new member) I couldnt post links to explain my problem, or, (occasionally) to help explain my advice (usually a problem though :p)
  So, I'm very against blocking adding links

• I'm also fairly against limiting editing capability - maybe as f0dder says after a certain number of posts

Hows about:

making an edit count as a new post (thus, appearing in the "new posts" section) would effectivelly solve this problem.

-jgpaiva (November 24, 2008, 01:06 PM)

I think that's a good idea -
it will add to the new posts load but means spam will be spotted

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 47

« Last post by tomos on November 22, 2008, 03:51 AM »

  as usual Ethyar 

10. PayPal, hah!
19. Tennessee - wow, I'd be pissed off if I lived there ...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2008, 07:29 AM »

I had the Camel Disc Cataloger also in the new update of the list. I´ll send it this weekend to Tomos. The Crush-Disc Cataloger development V3 has started and so I hope to see more wishes before it´s too hard to implement them. I think about continuing an old development thread or opening a new one for it.

-Crush (November 21, 2008, 07:18 AM)

Okay I'll wait see how lists compare

Will we get to alpha-beta-test your new app ?!

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General Software Discussion / Re: *Foolproof* sware to import photos & make CD ?

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2008, 05:47 AM »

But I thought you could do it with XP's built in burner by using the commands in the left panel for each file in the folder window. They are stored in a temp folder till you are ready to burn them.

-cmpm (November 21, 2008, 04:54 AM)

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Trying to select images using Explorer and "Add to CD" or whatever it says is actually a scary experience. Plus is that you can add a few, then add a few more but then the tray icon which is the only known link to the future CD disappears regularly. Minus is the difficulty of selecting large number of images - so we gave up that route

-tomos (November 17, 2008, 08:16 AM)

As I say,
I found it very unstable - on the computer we were using at any rate
Add to that, the user (for want of better term) has difficulty selecting many files (I find it challenging myself if I want to select loads of files - one slip with the Control key and you've lost your selection)

Really I'm looking for two things -
one = easy import
two = easy file selection for to burn on a disc (also easily please)

DOpus has (I think) a power selection setting where you click a file it stays selected if you click another
Maybe I should ask in a File Manager thread if there's a free app that would do that

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Living Room / Re: Grey desktop - how to?

« Last post by tomos on November 21, 2008, 02:41 AM »

not the same:
DONE: Dim rest of desktop/windows, except for focused window

I'm not sure what it's called though on Skrommel's page - Ghoster or DimInactice
I wonder could he do a "grey" version ...

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Living Room / Re: Show/World: A new way to look at the world

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 02:35 PM »

Ireland managed to come first in peat production

they do seem to only focus on percentages (of world production)
they do have alcohol consumption but again % of world consumption
Denmark & Ireland more or less the same, populations similar - guess you all drink a lot then there f0dder ?!

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 01:24 PM »

January sounds good

Does someone want to volunteer to be the the supervisor of whatever "Getting Organized 2009" entails?

-mouser (November 20, 2008, 11:38 AM)

what would this "whatever" involve? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: *Foolproof* sware to import photos & make CD ?

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 10:03 AM »

Here's a sample I just made and published with vso to the desktop where it made it's own folder that I titled the album.
Then I put it in My Dropbox and this is the index link Dropbox gave me.

http://dl.getdropbox...8326/pics/index.html

-cmpm (November 20, 2008, 09:54 AM)

looks great
did you take those pics?!?  (some very exotic looking ones there!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: *Foolproof* sware to import photos & make CD ?

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 09:34 AM »

thanks cmpm

For organizing you could use paint.net.

-cmpm (November 20, 2008, 08:59 AM)

I thought paint.net was an editor

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 09:32 AM »

. . . and probably too busy to notice someone in a small business that doesn't need 5 licenses using the free version.

I'm all for paying for software but, generally only when means to do so are provided

-allen (November 19, 2008, 03:43 PM)

ahem, yes, yes ......

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 05:45 AM »

I printed on A4 pages and got myself in & out trays 

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by tomos on November 20, 2008, 04:45 AM »

... you're much faster picking up an index card, writing several similar copies of the list on it and using it when you need to.

-Paul Keith (November 20, 2008, 04:27 AM)

forgot to post this yesterday:
how about printer/paper !?!

for a while (last years GOE experiment) I printed a daily schedule PDF template, & I added in (to PDF) tasks that had to be done daily. Didnt suit my needs in the end but point being you could probably figure out some method that would avoid writing/rewriting

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Finished Programs / Re: JustToDoIt - Fast ToDo lister

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 08:47 AM »

Another update, I'm using it quite a lot.

-justice (November 17, 2008, 04:04 AM)

I'm glad! I'm using it every day
Like the icon too 

what do you mean by
> * Improved handling of completed tasks, tasks get checked -
I dont see any difference here but then I have no problem with "handling of completed tasks"


This happen occasionally:-

• Currently if theres too many items for the window to show it forms a double column list, but, if the text of an item in the left column is too long it gets cut off because she scollthingy at the bottom show one column or the other but doesnt actually allow you to view any text that goes off the window edge.
• Obviously I can make the window wider or
• could you get the text to wrap in the window at a certain width? or
• get the scroll to show all text before going to next column.

Hope that all makes sense!

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 08:22 AM »

Sensible pricing scheme. Why don't you forward that to them?

-allen (November 19, 2008, 08:03 AM)

I sent them a mail saying their pricing scheme rules out self-employed/sole-traders with only one or two (or 3 or 4 or 5!) computers and sent links to this post and Carol's above

Reply was

Hi Tom,

please excuse my short answer - at the moment there is only the current pricing.

Best Regards,

I guess as Carol says they too busy to look at this or the just focusing on bigger or corporate sales

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 08:14 AM »

thanks for clarifying Paul,
I was confused because I had three questions. Numbers 1 & 3 were related,
so former and latter werent communicating to me

numbering is good - I'll do that next time I've questions

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 07:43 AM »

Tomos, I think what you're asking is inseparable IMO.

As a base model, the latter can satisfy me but of course if there's a program for the former, the better.

-Paul Keith (November 19, 2008, 07:38 AM)

does that mean you're not going to answer my questions  

here's a couple more:
what's the former ? 
what's the latter ?

(I'm not taking the piss - I really dont know what you're referring to ...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: List of newbie questions regarding software

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 06:35 AM »

I'm interested in something similar -I think- I say "I think" cause I'm afraid I still dont understand what exactly you want Paul

do you want a todo list of items that you can easily reproduce & make variation on?
or
do you want a todo list hat you can simply reuse when it done - start over - to-do again?

do you have a set bunch of actions (as example of searches above) that you want to do/apply to various items/words/whatever ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on November 19, 2008, 02:44 AM »

Ah, thanks Carol! I assumed that it was no longer possible to get the Home Plus version this way. I'm definitely going to check this out 

-Darwin (November 18, 2008, 06:58 PM)

I dont think that offer is there anymore
the link above gets a 404 and cant find anything about a plus version on their site

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2008, 08:44 AM »

The really stupid thing they have done is to release the Home Office version.

According to the website it is functionally equivalent to the Home version but they are charging a minimum of $445 (+ applicable taxes) for 5 licenses (minimum order is 5 licenses).

I cannot understand who would buy the Home Office version when you cann buy the full MailStore Server for $349 including 10 licenses ??????

Very strange pricing structure.

-Carol Haynes (November 18, 2008, 06:22 AM)

Wierd - very strange ...

MailStore Home Office can be obtained for the price of 79 € apiece (plus applicable VAT) with a minimum purchase of five

-http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-office.aspx

I had missed that completely - (if you go directly to the shop page you only get offered the server version)

Why not make a MailStore Workstation - an enhanced version of the Home version including scheduling etc. and charge on a simple per workstation price for it. If it was $39.99 or similar loads of people would jump at it (I certainly would). Loads of people will just settle for the free version (even if they use it outside licensing terms for business) if the Office version is highly priced and has no advantages!

-Carol Haynes (November 18, 2008, 06:22 AM)

would be much more attractive for self-employed who might only want one or two copies

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2008, 06:06 AM »

You must also add Camel Disc Catalog to this list. Very few cataloguers can rival with it.

-Tobeus (November 16, 2008, 07:08 PM)

FF3 doesnt like it (Camel Case)
Lists it as a "reported attack site" and give these further details:

dont know are you related to the software in some way Tobeus?
looks like some sorting out needs to be done with google at any rate

-tomos (November 17, 2008, 07:34 AM)

Their site is working fine today
will add it to list this week

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Living Room / Re: Complaint: Why are 99.999% of all companys' customer service departments broken?

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2008, 06:04 AM »

Idiots can be everywhere on either side ;-)

-Merida (November 16, 2008, 09:58 AM)

I'm sure that's the case - one hears stories 
My problem lately was trying to buy a printer with roll-paper printing facilities - it was difficult from specifications to figure out which printers could & which not. So I thought "contact"

Canon I couldnt contact - could not figure out via their website how to contact them - this seems to be their master plan

HP I contacted once, automatic reply saying I'd get a response within 24 hrs, then nothing ... second attempt I eventually got a mail to say email support broken. Even though I sent the mail from Ireland they sent me an English number that is unreachable from Ireland I contacted them again and they said that was the only number they had

In fairness the people in support were helpful, it was the whole structure that was screwed up ...

EDIT/ I forgot to say - to add insult to "unreachableness". I got a mail from some company doing a survey about HP support. I thought great, a chance to let them know the problem. Turned out it didnt include pre-sales support so they chucked me out of survey

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General Software Discussion / Re: MailStore Home 2.5.1 released with lots of improvements

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2008, 06:01 AM »

The current version is 2.6 but they have just released MailStore Home Plus with an interesting marketing model.

You can either donate $60 to WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) or promote the product on your website.

It adds quite a few useful features to MailStore Home and can be installed on top of MailStore Home, retaining your settings and database.

I haven't had a chance to play with it yet but one thing that is useful is that you can add 6 import profiles with the Plus version (instead of 3) and it unlocks various other features such as scheduled backups etc. I will fiddle with my website tomorrow and send them an email.

See http://www.mailstore...store-home-plus.aspx for details of the new version.

-Carol Haynes (July 16, 2008, 07:08 PM)

unfortunately the "Home-Plus" version is no more

Version 3 out now (probably worthy of new thread?)
It's either the free version or the server version for
-

MailStore Server incl. 10 user licenses      279.00 €$ 349.00       Buy now Inclusive Update and Support Service for one year    362.70 €$ 453.70    Buy now

-
pity there's nothing inbetween

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by tomos on November 18, 2008, 03:11 AM »

How about starting a new child board (GOE 2009) and  people can post about their ideas what they'd like to work on and we could take it from there?

Then, when people have theme(s) they could add a distinguishing marker to their threads related to that theme - adding name at the beginning probably easiest ?
e.g. "[tomos]-Procrastinating again :-)"  (can sort by titles then and group each persons posts*)


my list (themes) would be something along these lines
clearing backlog - mostly stuff in boxes
à la my post above - expectation/sense of obligation -> procrastination (avoiding/reacting because of pressure from self or others)
Again, I cant remember the third ... (organisation comes to mind as another theme!)

And because it would be individual projects it really doesnt matter how many or how few get involved - obviously nicer to have a bunch of people involved though


* I forgot: can sort by "Started by" column

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2008, 10:38 AM »

Thanks Jim
I hadn't time to follow up on it - it does give 16th as date of problem (yesterday, but no time given)... will try again tomorrow and maybe contact them...

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General Software Discussion / *Foolproof* sware to import photos & make CD ?

« Last post by tomos on November 17, 2008, 08:16 AM »

Found a couple of threads about photo organisers but I'm just looking for something very simple for a beginner (computerwise) that ideally would:

• upload photos from the camera or card and
• allow very easy selection of all, none or any photos for burning on CD/DVD

I thought this would be a relatively easy one - so far, I've tried using explorer and Picassa and Nero (Express/Start Smart)

• With XP uploading photos there is a wizard but it screws up last modified date
• Trying to select images using Explorer and "Add to CD" or whatever it says is actually a scary experience. Plus is that you can add a few, then add a few more but then the tray icon which is the only known link to the future CD disappears regularly. Minus is the difficulty of selecting large number of images - so we gave up that route
• Picassa uploads okay-ish - claims to find duplicates but missed about a quarter of duplicates when we imported from a card that had been partially copied before.
  Interface when uploading is confusing to me (initial problem is it doesnt tell you what it's doing but then wording in german version at any rate was very ambiguous) so the beginner doesnt have much chance with that.
• With Picassa you can burn folders of images but cant select individual images

Import should, well, import. It would be a plus to be able to select all, none or any photos
Then re burning:
Ideally selection would be click once to select, click again to deselect. Option to select all/none
Then burn. Ideally multisession option

I can live without all the "ideally" bits - the simplicity and foolproof-ness is priority
Any ideas - two different apps would be fine

Only one I can think of is Kodak easy share which I know got an update lately - I'm wary of them cause there was lots of problems with it a couple of years ago but might chance it anyway