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General Software Discussion / Re: quick photo viewer

« Last post by tomos on July 30, 2008, 04:59 AM »

i right click and use 'open with'
...

-cmpm (July 30, 2008, 04:21 AM)

that doesnt sound very quick cmpm
but the programme sounds like one very worth having
I wouldnt make it default either, but I really like the suggestion from your second link

Wish list:     * The ability to invoke this program through a combination of mouse and keyboard shortcut, such as left clicking an image [file] while holding down (shift), and otherwise having another image viewer function as the default viewer for the system. I realize this is unusual but surely it is possible

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actually that would be nice for lots of different filetypes / programmes!
another option - I know XYPlorer has some sort of open with menu for individual filetypes (that I havent setup yet)

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 30, 2008, 03:05 AM »

- but I just ask cause I've had some problems with phpBB forums caused by my IP provider using different addresses all the time ...

-tomos (July 29, 2008, 03:36 AM)

your ISP assigns you a dynamic IP each time you connect to the internet, that's why you have different IP address.

-lanux128 (July 29, 2008, 07:08 AM)

okay,
this getting a bit off-topic (apologies to youtubers)
let me quote from the phpBB forum

The most common fault for this type of problem is the use of an ISP which is using cached proxy servers. They do this to reduce the bandwidth that thier customers use, thereby keeping thier costs lower. The downside to this is you may often change IP's, while in the same session, while viewing forums. Forum software is often configered to note the IP that you are on, as part of the session data, so if you change IP's by a significant amount (say more than just the last set of numbers - 123.123.123.xxx) it will assume you are not the same user that was previously active with that session.

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Living Room / Re: Can you live with *just* opera?

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2008, 04:08 AM »

I fire, errr, Firefox, when I have closed Opera with tons of tabs open, and it's such a annoyance to launch it again, and wait for the sites to load,

-Lashiec (July 28, 2008, 06:37 PM)

I'm exactly the opposite - FF has all the tabs open, I use opera though as my default (usually, more in case I dont have FF open & as you say would have to wait a long time ..)
Also in OPera I have "open [current page] in FF" in the context menu (via Surfulater forum here)

I'm not a big surfer & definitely no power user, & maybe I'm very superficial but it's interface issues now that keep me using FF,
small things - much less control over how tabs work get's me every time I use Opera - also, not an important thing but it was opera brought in that thing where if you click on the open tab, it will go back to the previous tab - that worked for a very short while & hasnt since -
No problem for tabmixplus - I can basically make tabs function any way I want with this
Another thing I cant seem to do is open new typed address in a new page as opposed to in current
All little things but they add up to me using mainly FF ...

Oh yeah, Gmail didnt work, then did work, now doesnt work ...

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 29, 2008, 03:36 AM »

try connecting via IP address: http://208.65.153.253

-lanux128 (July 28, 2008, 09:44 PM)

so does that mean the problem is with YouTube's IP or with ours?
Youtubes I presume? - but I just ask cause I've had some problems with phpBB forums caused by my IP provider using different addresses all the time ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by tomos on July 28, 2008, 04:37 PM »

I'll do it this afternoon during my coffee break.

-Armando (July 28, 2008, 10:43 AM)

[except I'd nearly believe you could Armando]

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by tomos on July 28, 2008, 04:35 PM »

By the way, what do you people think of my logo?  Don't be afraid to criticize.  I'm just going for a clean, professional look. (see attachment in previous post)
Initially, my slogan was "Only the Good Stuff", but someone said it reminded them of a Kenny Chesney song, which is true.  As I can't stand Kenny CHesney, I had to change it.  "Top of the Line" was a slogan my cousin and I used to say a lot when we were kids and were always trying to find the best things to get.

-superboyac (July 28, 2008, 10:47 AM)

I like it but somehow it looks funny in situ -
maybe if the red line continued across the page? - I'm no designer - I can spot when something could be better but unfortunately usually dont have a clue how make it better ...

I'm a bit unsure of the flash (is it flash?) thingy, but maybe if the logo was made more dominant in the page it might sort that

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by tomos on July 26, 2008, 01:38 AM »

Did anyone look at the attachment in my last post, above?  It is a couple of paragraphs clipped directly from the most recent issue of WS and states that ALL of Gizmo's "premium" content - stuff that was formerly only available to premium (read: paying) subscribers to Support Alert - will always be available free in Windows Secrets

-J-Mac (July 25, 2008, 11:04 PM)

I started to reply to that yesterday but got distracted
That's good

# Will the Tech Support Alert Website Have Premium Content? No, all content on Tech Support Alert will now be free and that's the way it will stay. Current premium subscribers to Support Alert Newsletter will have full access to their premium content from the Windows Secrets Web site.

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So, it sounds like new (paid) stuff will only be available via Windows secrets website ...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Idea for our upcoming Fundraiser - Volunteer Stuff for Donators

« Last post by tomos on July 25, 2008, 04:12 PM »

I dunno, call me materialistic but
I think I'd donate my 50,000 bucks quicker if I could get something concrete for it (no dead squirrels please Chris :p)

I like the
<mouser> 100,000 = i will come to your house and make homemade lassagne and ice cream
I'm sure mouser would enjoy it too!

unfortunately I dont have the 50,000 or even the price of the flight
Tom racks his brains to think what he could possibly donate that might persuade others to part with their 50,000 ...

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 25, 2008, 07:56 AM »

it loads,
starts to play (without sound) but stops after a couple of seconds or less
clicking play/pause makes no difference

-tomos (July 24, 2008, 02:46 PM)

it plays okay this morning 
sound problem was a problem with my pc

-tomos (July 25, 2008, 02:46 AM)

have the problem again now after pc going to sleep
(or did I hibernate it..- no just sent it to sleep, definitely)

so it seems like a local problem here - something that affects flash player I presume?
but flash has different "installs" for different browsers - doesnt it?
so it's affecting them all...

[edit - with apologies to papoj1 for veering off topic
we could always move to the thread where I ranted about soundcard drivers cause it could be related
see (rant) updating drivers / whatever

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 25, 2008, 02:46 AM »

it loads,
starts to play (without sound) but stops after a couple of seconds or less
clicking play/pause makes no difference

-tomos (July 24, 2008, 02:46 PM)

it plays okay this morning 
sound problem was a problem with my pc

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 03:19 PM »

I'm in germany not too far from alsace (france)
I can always ask JoTo to check it out in the morning - he's not too far away from me

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Screenshot aliases using MiniCap

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 02:59 PM »

that looks great TucknDar 

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 02:46 PM »

more weird youtube developments - may as well post here

try this George Carlin one
http://ca.youtube.co...&feature=related

it loads,
starts to play (without sound) but stops after a couple of seconds or less
clicking play/pause makes no difference

same in Opera & IE - does it work for you people out there?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Harvest the Web with OutWit (Firefox)

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 08:17 AM »

http://www.outwit.co...7-b579-0f2eee222ad1}

-cmpm (June 13, 2008, 07:16 PM)

So, what is OutWit, in a word? OutWit is a Web collection engine for everyone. It runs on your Windows, MacOS or Linux machine and allows you to browse through and easily grab information, images, contacts or files from the Internet, in a few clicks. The question, when looking for anything on the Internet, is two-fold: find the pertinent data and make it usable for your purposes. Both processes can prove extremely time-consuming and both can be vastly improved using OutWit Hub. Originally conceived for researchers and data managers, the program is bringing Web scraping tools to everyone for both business and personal use. Just browse the Web for pages that include the information you are looking for; OutWit will scan the pages to recognize the data structure and format it into tables, allowing you to rate it and easily export it to files, spreadsheets or databases for later use.

sounds very interesting

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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 08:08 AM »

Just to make things easier, they are only the programs that you find in your START menu so you can easily just click the very top level and then click allow.

-Fedorov (July 24, 2008, 07:36 AM)

That's what I was hoping for but didnt manage to figure out
The logical route would be to be able to allow all & then select anything you want to block - true there shouldnt be anything there to block but gotta admit I didnt recognise one or two things there ..

After install, on the programs tab it showed programs -as you say- in the start menu, but it also often showed the parent folder (occasionally showing e.g. an uninstall.exe as well) i.e. a two level tree
When I "Allowed" the parent folder the contents of same were NOT automatically allowed

When I look at the tab now it only shows the software (links) no parent folders - probably cause most are already allowed?
Anyways, it's setup now

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: use key to constrain mouse movements to horizontal/vertical

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 06:37 AM »

well I'm using this occasionally but only today I've noticed it stops the winkey from launching the start menu -
it works normally but doesnt work when draglock is running

So far I've used it as I was saying above, when printing for panning "large(-er than page size) image & you have the option to pan the print-view" - so that the prints will line up.
For this I can start & close script after so this problem doesnt actually bother me much

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Living Room / Re: [rant] updating drivers :(

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 05:10 AM »

thanks for the consolation Chris
figured it all out in the end...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Impressive list of outliners/note-taking apps

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 03:36 AM »

And there's a second page! Whoa.

-zridling (July 24, 2008, 03:13 AM)

via the comments:-
PPLandry (dc member/author of SQLNotes) has put

this list in an online spreadsheet, with read/write access to all, as in this one where I’ve imported the original list: http://www.editgrid....ry/List_of_Outliners Anybody can add/edit the info, sort, etc

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Living Room / Re: The Great Firewall Hunt ... frustrating ...

« Last post by tomos on July 24, 2008, 03:16 AM »

I'm trying out Online Armor (free version) after a long spell with just windows firewall

Setting it up after install was a pain - it lists all your programmes and asks you to approve them individually
"individually" means you cant select more than one at a time - I tell a lie, you can use Ctrl+click to select more than one but it's still painfully slow (think I gotta uninstall lots from this pc )

There's still lots of popups but they're reducing in quantity very quickly = I'm happy so far

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Living Room / [rant] updating drivers :(

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 05:20 PM »

after a crash which ms helpfully(?) suggested may be to do with sounds,
I go to control panel "Sounds & Audio devices"
find driver tab for sounds under hardware,
click "update driver"
get a wizard, option to connect to windows update, nothing helpful there (what do they have to do with my sound card?)
- how am I supposed to go from here 

it's no wonder that I spent 4 years without sounds on my last computer *
I dont know if this a microsoft interface problem or a problem with my sound card software -terratec- appalling website as I recall but I'll have to go there next in spite of downloading all their software last time & starting anything I could find & looking for a simple UPDATE button
[grumpyguts=me - should just go off to bed :-[]

I tell ye, if I ever got involved in working with software/computers, where I'd like to work most would be with interface but I suspect if I worked in a large company I'd die from lack of job satisfaction

* thanks to Brandon for resolving that for me, but, there comes a time when you (I) gotta stand up on (my) own two feet & say wtf or something along those lines

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 03:58 AM »

I just received word from the developers that they are putting together a discount on Jungle Disk for our members.

-cthorpe (July 22, 2008, 03:09 PM)

oh
just bought it yesterday, ah well, it's very reasonable here with the $ to € exchange rates

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Living Room / Re: YouTube prob...

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 03:56 AM »

i keep gettin teh message of "video no longer available" on every vid i click on youtube...could someone help?

-papoj1 (July 22, 2008, 10:51 PM)

that was happening to me a good bit a while back, I was going to post & then it cleared up
e.g. the George Carlin thread - when that was posted I couldnt see *any* of the videos - no problem for others to see them
Also same problem in Opera so I dont think it was to do with cache

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Guitar & Drum Trainer Software for Musicians Wins Shareware Industry Award

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 03:49 AM »

congrats Renegade

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Living Room / Re: Anyone Here Using a Drobo?

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 03:47 AM »

That sounds promising.  I wonder what could cause such a forbidding bug and take all that time to fix?

-J-Mac (July 22, 2008, 01:11 PM)

have you seen the thread about the guy working in MS ?
Article: take a peek into MS Windows development

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drop Box lands

« Last post by tomos on July 23, 2008, 03:34 AM »

anyone using it for backup / versioning of files?

it claims to just update the difference to a file (partial file update) and at the same time keep a version of file for each change (for each save presumably)
Would that be a bit like incremental imaging in Acronis TI for example:-
saves file
saves changes
saves changes
etc
(not sure what happens there if part of file is deleted? presumably that part simply marked for deletion . not important anyways)

advantages:
less bandwith used - less S3 space to pay for

disadvantages(?):
not sure how secure/successful this would be - seems like a lot more chance of something going wrong if merging a file with 20 incremental updates (of course they could be differential, I'm not sure...)