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Living Room / Re: Eggnog season is upon us!

« Last post by tomos on October 14, 2008, 01:21 PM »

Usually the Glögg you buy has a very low (if any at all? been a while) alcohol content, and isn't really suitable for drinking as-is. Not sure it's meant to be, anyway. So you heat it, mix with red wine, raisins and almonds. Works pretty well on a cold Scandinavian winter day. Spicy stuff.

-f0dder (October 14, 2008, 12:54 PM)

ahh, Glühwein - I haven't seen it with fruit & nut. Very popular here in the evenings at the outdoor christmas markets.
Apparently it used be made (in England at any rate) by sticking a hot poker from the fire into your glass of wine and throw in a couple of spices - but that could be a myth of course

They've had the christmas stuff in the shops here for weeks now .. got a right shock seeing all these Lebkuchen and Stollen in SEPTEMBER

Eggnog I've only had once or twice, with alcohol it was nice - ish

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Living Room / Re: Anyone Else Stop Getting the BitsduJour Daily Emails?

« Last post by tomos on October 14, 2008, 02:21 AM »

no, not getting them here anymore either

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Living Room / Re: The eyeballing game

« Last post by tomos on October 13, 2008, 01:47 PM »

Btw, for the "right angle", do you simply have to do a 90 degree angle, or match the length as well?

-f0dder (October 13, 2008, 01:43 PM)

simply right angle
I misread the equidistant to edges as equidistant to corners which gave me a very high score first attempt

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General Software Discussion / Re: Qliner Hotkeys (open source): Hotkey program with visual keyboard

« Last post by tomos on October 12, 2008, 10:46 AM »

Qliner Hotkeys is a really sexy looking app but that's where its wow-factor ends. It's weak and inept when compared to AutoHotkey and to add insult to injury, it consumes far more resources. I still have it installed though, it lets me create a nice graphical representation of my shortcuts, I save a jpg screencap of the Qliner keyboard and configure an (Auto)hotkey to load it whenever I need to be reminded of a shortcut. Using the best of both worlds.

-nosh (May 28, 2007, 02:01 PM)

also unfortunately didnt work well with european (continental) keyboards a year ago - (may have been updated since?? = No, unfortunately not...)

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Living Room / Re: Video: Dogs greeting solider after returning from 14 months at war

« Last post by tomos on October 11, 2008, 03:07 PM »

wonderful stuff

... at the end though I couldnt help wondering who was holding the camera ... I mean did that person not want to give him a hug as well I was thinking ..
(at first I thought maybe it was some security camera)
[edit/ I think I think too much sometimes..]

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 41 [NEW]

« Last post by tomos on October 11, 2008, 03:04 PM »

yes, great work Ethyar

especially liked the gmail sobriety test tucked in there at the end

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Living Room / Re: How to avoid going broke on Red Bull or Jolt Cola

« Last post by tomos on October 11, 2008, 01:23 PM »

While tea may have less caffiene than coffee, it has higher amounts of theophylline than coffee, and that is released later in the brewing process. So the longer you brew your tea, the more theophylline you'll have in it...but not at the level that you'd get from prescription strength theophylline pills.

-app103 (October 11, 2008, 10:40 AM)

that would explain my problem with coffee - apart from the fact it makes me real jittery, I often "crash" about 1/2 to an hour after drinking a cup - the only thing that helps is food - or maybe coffee but then I'd simply be a nervous wreck...

(Or should that be: a'gin )

-40hz (October 11, 2008, 11:35 AM)

no - ag'in - on'y slagging

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini Review: Espresso

« Last post by tomos on October 10, 2008, 01:39 AM »

.. in what way is this considered acceptable behavior?

-Deozaan (October 10, 2008, 12:57 AM)

dont really see why it should be considered unacceptable (?)
... as to why he done it I could imagine but that's not really my call

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Living Room / Re: Fred Langa's back!

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2008, 10:02 AM »

I found it a bit gratuitious to learn all about the man's private life ...
couldnt they have told a white lie and said he couldnt stop himself writing about computers

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2008, 09:31 AM »

Muzik 

-mahesh2k (October 09, 2008, 07:42 AM)

my very young niece was here yesterday,
kept saying ZEEK ZEEK ZEEK - took me a while to figure out she wanted MU-ZEEK ...

love C++ tinjaw!

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2008, 04:10 AM »

3 X TOFU

-tomos (October 09, 2008, 03:42 AM)

That's because we love the mouse-man

-f0dder (October 09, 2008, 03:46 AM)

just to clarify

TOEFOO: I APROOFs

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by tomos on October 09, 2008, 03:42 AM »

3 X TOFU

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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died

« Last post by tomos on October 08, 2008, 02:53 AM »

how about:

<b>are we doomed to never fully comprehend and resolve a lot of questions because the construction of our brains makes it impossible to do so.</b>

-nudone (October 07, 2008, 04:33 PM)

I would risk answering no to that
Naturally though it depends on the "lot of questions"

Sometimes I think we/I cant figure out a lot of stuff cause we keep turning them over in our minds (is that the same as our brain?!? close enough I'd say) - i.e. we give the [conscious] mind (far?) too much importance in the scheme of things.

Think of all the discoveries that were made when people had given up on ever finding the solutions/answers. I remember reading something Einstein said along those lines, I think he may even have credited [someone/thing else]. Me, I'm not too well up on my science history but believe there's a bunch of other very famous discoveries/solutions that were found "by accident" or as said when people had either given up or simply given up thinking about the problem. *

Naturally I'm not saying we shouldnt think   So far, I'll just say that "we give the [conscious] mind too much importance in the scheme of things"

* although it's very often like that also with people who want to have kids but are unsuccessful - when they give up "trying" .. eh .. out pops a kid 9 months later. So I guess that's related to being relaxed when trying to find a solution?

EDIT: added [stuff in square brackets]

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41

« Last post by tomos on October 07, 2008, 01:44 PM »

like the first version (of the three) the best

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xara Xtreme 4 and Pro 4 released

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 02:09 PM »

I notice at their website they have some interesting upgrade offers

   Xara Xtreme      
   Xara X¹, Xara X, Xara XS, CorelXARA, ArtWorks, Xara Studio or Webster   
   MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer   
* Adobe Freehand [9, 10, MX]   
   Other competitor   

Upgrading to...                            Price   
   Xara Xtreme PRO 4                $159 US   

that's a good offer especially from Freehand 9 which was brought out in '99 I think

from Xara X1 the upgrade is 59 to Xtreme & 199 to pro (Xara X1 for $19 here)

"other competitor" is "on application" - possibly the same as Freehand offer if you want to jump ship from an older version of Corel or Illustrator

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Xara X1 for $19 (less than £10)

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 01:55 PM »

Xara X1 again on offer for 19$ till 7th October 2008 (midnight GMT)
midnight presumably being at the end of the day!

http://site.xara.com/offers/xarax1/

seems to be open to non-registered users - you have to register - then you get an email & proceed from there

EDIT/ not really worth getting if all you're interested in is upgrading as works out full price well you save $10 on Xara Xtreme upgrade

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 01:39 PM »

Yeah, I checked that, but it doesn't work for me.  I mean, it doesn't show the html pane content.

-superboyac (October 06, 2008, 01:20 PM)

odd, one for Pierre then, as I say, it works fine here -
I dont think a template will make any difference if the basic export doesnt work for you

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 12:49 PM »

Can someone help give me a template to export selected items to html?  I'm using the html export and I don't really have time to figure out how to make one.  The default works fine, but it doesn't show the contents of the html pane.  I need something that works just like default but also shows the html pane content.  Thanks.

-superboyac (October 06, 2008, 11:56 AM)

Have you ticked "Include html below the item" ?
it works here, hang on, here's the settings I used just now to check



but basically ticking that option should work

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 09:15 AM »

Any other users of Mouser's CH&S (clipboard extender) here?

I find trying to paste into the html pane often (maybe always) doesnt work -
last copied text is no problem but trying to paste an older clip doesnt work -
I will post in CH&S area but wanted to check here with other SQLN users first ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on October 06, 2008, 04:47 AM »

Is the new portable version taking the place of the regular installed version? I see that 0.9.23.7i is the latest version but it is only available as a portable version, while 0.9.23.6 is the latest version available with an installer package. Are there new improvements, features, bug fixes, etc. available ONLY in the portable version? Are you abandoning the installer version?

-J-Mac (October 06, 2008, 12:47 AM)

That was asked somewhere in SQLN forums - I'm not looking for it but the answers were roughly:

> Are there new improvements, features, bug fixes, etc. available ONLY in the portable version? = YES (at the moment)

> Are you abandoning the installer version? = NO (but sort of for the moment!)

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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2008, 12:03 PM »

THE FIRE: ur on it

I dont get that, anyone please explain what was that? 

-mahesh2k (October 05, 2008, 08:16 AM)

Check out the post that is in the screenshot!

-Darwin (October 05, 2008, 08:51 AM)

that's funny cause it was mahesh that made that post!

Still not getting it Darwin    

-mahesh2k (October 05, 2008, 09:33 AM)

simply put, HE'S ON FIRE (- is our Deozaan )

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: copying and pasting web pages with images... does it copy the image or url?

« Last post by tomos on October 05, 2008, 11:47 AM »

I'm wondering if when I clip from a web page does S+H copy the actual images to the clipboard database it uses or is it just grabbing a url that then displays the image either from the web or my cache file?

-philosopherdog (October 04, 2008, 07:55 AM)

well if you copy stuff from a web page and paste it you will get all the images all right  - but that's the clipboard -
really CH&S does neither -
if you copy stuff from web page, then copy sometheng else, the images and formatting will be gone if you try paste the webpage stuff
It doesnt save the url either

Of course I may be completely wrong but I dont think so hopefully somebody more expert than me can confirm this

Far as I know images are on the "roadmap" but not implemented yet ...

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Living Room / Re: [sorted] how to save/convert image to one with transparency for word doc ?

« Last post by tomos on October 04, 2008, 06:07 AM »

wow, that's very impressive looking 40hz

from the options page:
http://www.imagemagi...and-line-options.php

[-adaptive-blur • -adaptive-resize • -adaptive-sharpen • -adjoin • -affine • -alpha • -annotate • -antialias • -append • -attenuate • -authenticate • -auto-orient • -average • -backdrop • -background • -bench • -bias • -blackpoint-compensation • -black-threshold • -blue-primary • -blur • -border • -bordercolor • -borderwidth • -cache • -caption • -channel • -charcoal • -chop • -clip • -clip-mask • -clip-path • -clone • -clut • -coalesce • -colorize • -colormap • -colors • -colorspace • -combine • -comment • -compose • -composite • -compress • -contrast • -contrast-stretch • -convolve • -crop • -cycle • -decipher • -debug • -deconstruct • -define • -delay • -delete • -density • -depth • -descend • -deskew • -despeckle • -displace • -display • -dispose • -dissolve • -distort • -dither • -draw • -edge • -emboss • -encipher • -encoding • -endian • -enhance • -equalize • -evaluate • -extent • -extract • -fill • -filter • -flatten • -flip • -floodfill • -flop • -font • -foreground • -format • -frame • -frame • -fuzz • -fx • -gamma • -gaussian-blur • -geometry • -gravity • -green-primary • -help • -highlight-color • -iconGeometry • -iconic • - identify • -immutable • -implode • -insert • -intent • -interlace • -interpolate • -label • -lat • -layers • -level • -level-colors • -limit • -linear-stretch • -linewidth • -liquid-rescale • -list • -log • -loop • -lightcolor • -magnify • -mask • -mattecolor • -mask • -median • -metric • -mode • -modulate • -monitor • -monochrome • -morph • -mosaic • -motion-blur • -name • -negate • -noise • -normalize • -opaque • -ordered-dither • -orient • -page • -paint • -path • -pause • -pause • -pen • -ping • -pointsize • -polaroid • -posterize • -preview • -print • -process • -profile • -quality • -quantize • -quiet • -radial-blur • -raise • -random-thresold • -recolor • -red-primary • -regard-warnings • -region • -remap • -remote • -render • -repage • -resample • -resize • -respect-parenthesis • -reverse • -roll • -rotate • -sample • -sampling-factor • -scale • -scene • -scenes • -screen • -seed • -segment • -separate • -sepia-tone • -set • -shade • -shadow • -shared-memory • -sharpen • -shave • -shear • -sigmoidal-contrast • -silent • -size • -sketch • -snaps • -solarize • -sparse-color • -splice • -spread • -stegano • -stereo • -strip • -stroke • -strokewidth • -swap • -swirl • -taint • -text-font • -texture • -threshold • -thumbnail • -tile • -tile-offset • -tint • -title • -transform • -transparent • -transparent-color • -transpose • -transverse • -treedepth • -trim • -type • -undercolor • -unique-colors • -units • -unsharp • -update • -verbose • -version • -view • -vignette • -virtual-pixel • -visual • -watermark • -wave • -white-point • -white-threshold • -window • -window-group • -write]

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Living Room / Re: Nice website to impress clueless managers

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2008, 03:29 PM »

hi
scancode its me the_don can you come online i need to talk to you...
thanks

-the_don (October 03, 2008, 03:12 PM)

@ the_don - maybe try sending him a personal message (he'll get email notification) - if he's not online here he wont see your message - or do you reckon he has his computer turned off ... in which case -
maybe the man in uniform above would be able to help us with telepathic communication ... or something ... 

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Living Room / Re: how to save/convert image to one with transparency for word doc ?

« Last post by tomos on October 03, 2008, 03:18 PM »

From my experience, Word 2007 does support transparency in PNG images and it also has a transparency tool that lets you select a color in your image and use that as the transparency mask.

-VideoInPicture (October 03, 2008, 02:12 PM)

Bizarre,
I took a break and it's working perfectly now - sometimes I think computers & software are like people - they dont like it when you push things too hard and the more frustrated you get with things the less likely they are to work

In the Picture Properties box Textmaker has
Detect automatically & No Transparency options under "Transparent Colour" (default setting is Detect automatically) and as I say,
it's now working perfectly with transparent GIF files

yours, :bemused: