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Living Room / Re: Neatorama reads the DonationCoder.com Blog?!!
« Last post by tomos on August 09, 2008, 05:28 PM »
boy, that site moves quickly

(great stuff there :))
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)
« Last post by tomos on August 09, 2008, 04:47 PM »
Here's a list of changes:
http://www.fineprint.../update_history.html

funny, it doesnt give any changes for version 6
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... secret options ...
??  I'm still not sure what you mean mouser  ;D

simply put:-
I havent used farrfox plugin since it stopped working,
I made that edit re bookmarks in about:config as recommended in your link
I tried plugin, now seems to be working *
but (only) then I see all those posts on last page saying it's working anyway so not sure what's going on

* but I just created a bookmark from the HackCollege page -
"Indexing Firefox 3.0 Bookmarks with Quicksilver | HackCollege" & FARR cant find it :( so something not right :(
It seems to work for older bookmarks i.e. saved before the edit :-\
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when i'm on dial-up i use the mobile phone version of gmail - http://m.gmail.com

ahh, that works for you
it doesnt work here
We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.

If you're travelling in Germany, you can access your mail at http://mail.google.com.

Oh, and we'd like to link the URL above, but we're not allowed to do that either. Drat.

For general information about Google, please visit www.google.com or www.google.de.

and they dont redirect you to the mobile site
You need to go to http://m.google.com and follow the link there
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I'd love to hear if Firefox 3 users can get this tip to work with FarrFox.

that works all right mouser :up:

[edit] but I had completely missed that you had updated FarrFox plugin -
I hadnt even tried it lately ...
Now I'm not sure what you're asking if the plugin working anyway?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any freeware alternatives to Instant ThumbView?
« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2008, 06:13 PM »
Somehow we ended up talking a lot about beer, at this thread:

so I dont have to feel too bad staying off-topic:

Chezch Czech Republic in english Curt
I think Budweiser(US) was trying to buy out the Czech brewery a couple of years ago so that they could sell their rice brew in Europe
(nothing against rice but ...)
thankfully they failed
Currently Anheuser-Busch cant sell their beer in europe (teehee :))
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geddit? got it!
sorry for making you explain!

I was even trying to think what you call that wallpaper .. could only remember the name for the red (velvety) version
which we used call ..

sortof NSFW
hurhouse-wallpaper (phonetic spelling)


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Living Room / Re: Avoiding burnout
« Last post by tomos on August 08, 2008, 04:22 PM »
And if that doesn't do it I watch this (while basking in the warm feeling that there are people in this world who are even more whacked-out than me):

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/aw  8)

that helped ;)
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BTW did anyone spot nudone's terrible visual pun with his choice of wallpaper for the site?
i dont see/get it.

:) so, guys, what about the wallpaper ?? :tellme:
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apologies for delay - that works a treat
Thanks Skrommel

btw, I like the icon so much I use the exe instead of the AHK file ;D
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yes, looks great, both website & comics
especially enjoyed the "car-wax" & the two "stoopid" strips
congrats nudone & timns :)
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i do think your web page design+logo needs a serious redesign. unless it's supposed to be intentionally bad.
;D (I think he planned to change the logo at least)
I did notice the "Pages" links on the right dont work, but maybe just not setup yet ?
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Living Room / Re: What printer?
« Last post by tomos on August 07, 2008, 02:21 AM »
I wanted to post about a Brother printer/Multifunktiongerät (all-in-one)
Specifically the DCP 130C but I suspect all Brother inkjets may be like this:-
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They do automatic printhead cleaning every two days, not only that, they do it whether you print or not - if you're using the printer you dont need "cleaning", and, every two days ??? :huh: wtf :)
The costs of ink because of this cleaning are simply HUGE -

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I made the mistake of recommending it to in-laws (it was on sale locally & I just read up a few reviews at the time) - they're looking for a new printer now...

6. Be sure you check out the cost of consumables. Especially ink cartridges. Much like automobiles, the cheapest part of owning a printer is the purchase price of the printer itself. I once went to OfficeMax to buy a color cartridge for a low-end Canon printer my girlfriend owned. I wound up coming home with a whole new Canon printer. It was on sale - and it cost $5 less than the ink cartridge I came to get.  8)
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Kodak brought out an inkjet printer lately where the ink is cheaper (but you pay a bit more for the printer) havent heard anything else about it since & cant remember the name ... :-[

Any recommendations for a small laser Copier/Printer (I guess that's going to be an all-in-one then too!) ?
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ps: if you like minicap and you might check out the FARR alias that works with it, it really does breath some new life into it.

that makes it very accessible to non-commandline types like me :) :up:
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinKey Enhancement Project (WEP)
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2008, 10:40 AM »
That one gives me a 404 error.

maybe that's why I dint try it  ;D (thanks)
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinKey Enhancement Project (WEP)
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2008, 09:54 AM »
I normally use MouseScroll but yes same problem here with MouseAltTab -
I had the same problem with DragLock by Skrommel but couldnt tell you how he fixed it ...

Did you try the third one  ... MouseWinList, alexey?
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinKey Enhancement Project (WEP)
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2008, 09:08 AM »
give em a try ;) (with apologies for being smart!)
I've tried two

MouseAltTab

[edit] see Lanux's shot in next post [/edit]

and
(Win) MouseScroll

winmousescroll.png
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This was one of the better articles I've read on the subject because its author delineates people like me who approach an app with design in mind compared to a programmer who's building for function (not form)
coming from the same place as Zaine,
and from the article:
Proprietary software vendors typically make money by producing software that people want to use. This is a strong incentive to make it more usable. (It doesn’t always work: for example, Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe software sometimes becomes worse but remains dominant through network effects. But it works most of the time.)
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I disagree there, to an extent, - there is the pressure for upgrades to introduce new features (discussed elsewhere here) and the interface & design in general comes a big second I think

if I had enough money (well I do, but it's way down my shopping list), I would change from e.g. Acronis True Image in a shot - even though it seems to be ahead of most similar priced competitors in terms of features ...
it just really bugs me to see a programme at version X - V.#11 in Acronis TI's case and to see an interface that has obviously grown over the years with the programme but little or no obvious priority given to it's ease of use
Let's see, same with most printer drivers, Microsoft OS's, I'm not that familiar with Adobe's more recent stuff so cant comment there but from what I've seen Illustrator could do with a re-write but that's more to do with efficiency/speed than interface in particular.

Ease of use is so important, well, to a lot of us out here. Ironically not so important to bigger companies but to smaller business's / self-employed time is money.
If something takes 10 mouse-clicks when you can see an easy option to make it 2 or 3, that's when I want to jump ship ;)
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Living Room / Re: Linux convention (funny photo)
« Last post by tomos on August 06, 2008, 06:14 AM »
 :D :D
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The feature that comes with Vista Start Menu Pro from Dennis Nazarenko, or almost any other start menu replacement: "Group by Type". Only, I don't know if any of them can export the resulting list

that's a really good idea Curt - anyone want to contact Dennis with that ? -
if there's no takers I'll do it tonight ( I'm trying not to distract myself tooo much from work :) )
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Looks great Brandon - love the brush!

(maybe "Stay On maintainance" should be simply called "maintainance" ? )
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Living Room / Re: Can you live with *just* opera?
« Last post by tomos on August 05, 2008, 03:38 AM »
In any case, the method you mention should work with problems. A bug maybe?

nope, hasnt worked (for me) since a version last year sometime (sorry couldnt tell you which one exactly)
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Living Room / Re: Weird websites
« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2008, 02:23 PM »
It used to be funkier, but -- http://www.hell.com/

couldnt get to hell Renegade :(            ( :D )

WOT's fault ...

Hell.png
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Living Room / Re: Weird websites
« Last post by tomos on August 04, 2008, 02:19 PM »
Toyota's swedish web location takes a decidedly artsy turn in explaining it's products:
http://www.ihuvudetp...ota.se/index_en.html

was it you Edvard that posted about a "game" here .. something educational, looked very like this (done by the same person even) ?? (or maybe it was Ampa :-\)

The way this website works, I could've started it.
But I didn't. Enjoy:
If you have some unnecessary knowlege stored in your brain and would like to get it out, this looks like a perfect repository.

this reminds me of the New Yorker magazine around 1990 -havent read it since- it had one page of statistics which we used hang up on the bathroom wall - with gems like:-
3 out or 4 Japanese women have never used a toilet outside their own home (that one stuck in my head for some reason ... or it may have been 2 out of 3)
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:) Try DragLock!

DragLock - Press the windows key to lock the mouse movement along one axis

nice icon too Skrommel :up: - looks a bit like a medieval church floor tile ...
will give it a run across the tiles tomorrow :-)
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