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Living Room / Re: Keyxoard Layouts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 07, 2009, 08:38 AM »

Thanks for the heads up Jenny: this is my 2nd day cold turkey with Colemak 

I was going DVORAK, but the Coleman site is very persuasive, especially the bit about going QWERTY->COLEMAN was easier than QWERTY->DVORAK->COLEMAN

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Cannot use Quick Paste Menu in Microsoft Access

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 07, 2009, 08:18 AM »

It is text I am referring to, not format. Copying text using Ctrl+C and pasting using Ctrl+V works fine, but the same thing done using CH+S does not work (only sometimes it works, but I can't figure out exactly when and why).

-bgd77 (April 07, 2009, 08:04 AM)

Sorry, was assuming from first post that it was not just text, but cells and rows from a table:

I want to copy/paste data between tables and/or forms.

-bgd77 (April 06, 2009, 10:03 AM)

When you copy something in windows it often exists in a number of different formats on the clipboard. The receiving programme will use the most appropriate format: that's how the same clipboard contents will be inserted as text into NotePad and a formated table in Excel.

I'm not sure how Excel and Access are separating cells, rows, etc.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Cannot use Quick Paste Menu in Microsoft Access

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 07, 2009, 08:04 AM »

Just had a quick bash in Excel, thinking they'd be similar if not identical, and this is what happened:

• Entered simple 2 col & 6 row, and copied.
• Moved active cell 3 right, and pasted using CH&S: OK
• Moved active cell 3 right, and pasted using CH&S: Not OK
• Re-Establish Clipboard Chain
• Moved active cell 3 right, and pasted using CH&S: OK

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Cannot use Quick Paste Menu in Microsoft Access

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 07, 2009, 07:50 AM »

It's not CH+S pasting text rather than table and cell format?

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Living Room / Re: Keyxoard Layouts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 05, 2009, 02:26 AM »

Do you use the PKL to map your keys (I mean when you were running two keyboards)?

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Living Room / Re: Keyxoard Layouts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 04, 2009, 08:45 AM »

DVORAK... from now on 

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Living Room / Keyxoard Layouts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on April 04, 2009, 08:44 AM »

After getting an ergonomic keyboard and mouse  , I thought that I'd go the whole hog and retrain my fingers from QWERTY to DVORAK.

I wondered how many others had done something similar?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: March 2009 Survey Discussion

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 30, 2009, 05:07 AM »

One thing I would love to see here at DC is tutorials for recommended software.

-J-Mac (March 30, 2009, 02:59 AM)

What a great idea!!! Not sure the forum format is the most appropriate? Maybe a wiki?

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater v2 Preliminary Flirtations

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 26, 2009, 08:02 AM »

Not that I use it very often, but I like Software Informer's interface: It gives you a compact list with salient details, and expanded details at a click of the mouse.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater v2 Preliminary Flirtations

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 23, 2009, 07:17 AM »

it's main value will be when navigating very large listings -- perhaps if one were viewing potential applications that could be installed or something like that.

-mouser (March 23, 2009, 07:05 AM)

NANY 2010? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 23, 2009, 06:55 AM »

I use roboform, but I just installed lastpass alongside it and it looks like now by using firefox with roboform I'm populating the password for use with lastpass + chrome. hehe

-justice (March 23, 2009, 06:49 AM)

This is very tempting 

Have you used LastPass on anything apart from FF & Chrome? Works same?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best password manager?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 22, 2009, 10:22 PM »

I too have real reservations about doing so--that's why I asked the question about LastPass.  I've never taken advantage of any opportunities to store my info on the web, be it something as trivial as bookmarks or as potentially serious as passwords.  I've felt that the convenience is probably outweighed by the risks.  However, allen's response about LastPass makes me wonder whether that might be an exception.

-cyberdiva (March 22, 2009, 05:59 PM)

I use Roboform Portable when I'm out and about, which works well; but I liked the look of LastPass because of the added cross browser benefits.

Reading about the manner in which they store and encrypt my data made it sound essentially the same as RoboForm on my USB? Would appreciate being proved wrong if I was 

If that is the case, then I'm not sure there is an issue with LastPass?

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater v2 Preliminary Flirtations

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 22, 2009, 10:09 PM »

Would it be possible to have action buttons on the group header, something like Check All, Check None, Check Toggle?

possibly.

-mouser (March 22, 2009, 10:07 PM)

Actually, talking about checkboxes: there aren't any? 

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater v2 Preliminary Flirtations

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 22, 2009, 10:06 PM »

Screenshot with some grouping enabled.

The idea here is that plugins are all grouped together..
If you are watching multiple version of a program (beta vs. stable), these will also be grouped together
All other "singleton" programs are grouped under the Uncategorized section.

Note that grouping is purely optional and wouldn't be shown if you are just checking for an update to a single application.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-mouser (March 22, 2009, 05:20 PM)

That's looking really nice.

Would it be possible to have action buttons on the group header, something like Check All, Check None, Check Toggle?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Odd results with Google Translate

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 20, 2009, 01:20 AM »

See what happens when you move Sunday to some other place in the list:
'Thursday, Sunday' -> 'torsdag og søndag'

'og' = 'and'

 

-TucknDar (March 20, 2009, 12:49 AM)

Yes: it's trying to make a sentance. What's odd is that I couldn't find another language where that happened in a comma list -- which makes it quite odd 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Odd results with Google Translate

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 20, 2009, 12:48 AM »

Yes, good point

I guess I was thinking that a simple word list would have got a one-to-one translation: but the comma separated list was interpreted as punctuation.  clear now, but it was late when the it was happening.

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General Software Discussion / Odd results with Google Translate

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 19, 2009, 09:36 PM »

Whilst sorting out an issue with the Norwegian translation of weekdays for TucknDar (see TimeZone post), I discovered that Google Translate was dropping the first day in the list of days in a week when translating to Norwegian (and only Norwegian).

This is the Norwegian Translation: http://tinyurl.com/d3jtqw

This is a German Translation: http://tinyurl.com/dmyxvn

It seems that when you translate a list, Google can make some unwelcome grammatical adjustments when commas are used. The problem is fixed by using periods: http://tinyurl.com/df52cb

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 0.9.3]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 19, 2009, 06:37 AM »

Hehe, that explains it!

I've attached an updated Norwegian.ini with the best translations I could think of right now. Will update if I change my mind

-TucknDar (March 19, 2009, 06:28 AM)

Thanks for that, I've replaced Googles' 

If anyone else would like to edit the locale files I'd appreciate it as well 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 0.9.3]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 19, 2009, 06:22 AM »

Thanks, Perry. A strange thing happens though, for some reason the day (format 'E') is reported as Friday when in fact it's Thursday. I've also made a few changes to the Norwegian.ini which I'll email you soon.

-TucknDar (March 19, 2009, 05:11 AM)

Looking at the Norwegian.ini I notice that there are only 6 days. How many days do you have in your week in Norway? 

  I'll have to admit that I used GoogleTranslate and somehow it's dropped a day off! Sunday in both the full and abbreviated versions.

I'll appreciate your language file: there were some words that GT couldn't even guess at 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 0.9.3]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 19, 2009, 04:37 AM »

Version 0.9.3

Prompted by TucknDar I decided it'd be neat to add locale strings so that different languages could be used.

It was a great idea, but I soon ran into Unicode problems again. Seems AutoHotKey doesn't support Unicode out of the box and neither does FARR.

I've managed to get quite a few languages happening, but I think they are only UTF8 based ones (not that I know a great deal about this); the more complex languages are just a mess  .

This update also extends the Favourtes settings:
Label: A label can be defined to be displayed with the TimeZone label or to Replace it.
Replace: If set, the Favourite will replace the TimeZone label, otherwise it will be concatenated with it.
Format: A separate DateTime format can be defined for each Favourite.

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyNote NF (New Features) - a "successor" to Tranglos Keynote

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 18, 2009, 06:30 AM »

Have you given it a run?

And I wonder if Marek has yet?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 13, 2009, 09:01 AM »

Don't think too hard

I just changed everything in the date-section, so now I'm out of suggestions...

-TucknDar (March 13, 2009, 04:25 AM)

OK  , but I've made some changes and will upload a new version soon with some language files...

Thanks for the heads-up on the need though 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 12, 2009, 05:51 PM »

Looked at the source and I guess I can just change line 311 from:

[Select]

Date.dayAbbreviations = new Array('Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat');

to:

[Select]

Date.dayAbbreviations = new Array('søn','man','tir','ons','tor','fre','lør');

But maybe make this configurable in the settings somehow?

Anyway, now it's perfect

-TucknDar (March 12, 2009, 09:25 AM)

You'd need to change the long format as well; and the months too (both short and long).

Didn't even think about locale  as it uses a 3rd Party function. I'll have a think 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 12, 2009, 07:12 AM »

You'll need a connection to grab the data initially, but after that it's just when the time changes.

um.. when doesnt time change?

-mouser (March 12, 2009, 07:00 AM)

  Yes, I meant offset

dont you need to just grab the data to get the timezone offsets and thereafter can just use local time on the pc and offset to compute values?

-mouser (March 12, 2009, 07:00 AM)

That's basically right, but because the rules around daylight saving changes are so complex the offset can change each year.

I did start by using chronos's data file, which worked fine and was a completely off-line solution, but every update would involve the downloading of a 6.7Mb xml file; so I wasn't keen.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on March 12, 2009, 06:38 AM »

I think it ended up better anyway, as the data file is stored on disk so startup is quicker.

so this can work even in off-line mode? way cool!

-lanux128 (March 12, 2009, 06:34 AM)

You'll need a connection to grab the data initially, but after that it's just when the time changes.

We have issues at work and being a local datafile makes the whole thing work there, so I find that aspect of it great.