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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:27 AM »

I forgot, but 2001 is even better

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General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 08:23 AM »

thanks justice  
limit goes up to 5GB here, so looks like I dont have to worry about 1.5GB usage

(I had looked up "commit history" in Wikipedia, unfortunately they didnt connect the two)

oops, 2 new posts

Lashiec, just after rebooting I'm using 750mb and rising slowly

No Vista jgpaiva..

I do have 80 tabs open in FF(3) gotta do a spring clean

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General Software Discussion / Re: Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 06:28 AM »

btw
I notice Process Explorer is up to version 11.20

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General Software Discussion / Commit history: how high normally & what is it?

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 06:24 AM »

pc acting a bit funny
so I look in Process Explorer

"Commit History" is constant around 1.5GB - seems very high whatever it is
Couldnt find anything on internets to explain it - is it memory use?

Curious any ideas what it is & how high it would "normally" be?

I know there was a good bit of talk in some thread here about Process Explorer & meaning of graphs but I could not find it

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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 17, 2008, 04:43 AM »

Control wasnt the best choice of keys

If I was to try shift could I simply chance all instances of "ctrl" in the script to "shift" ?
hmm,
I tried that, it works along the horizontal axis but not on vertical -
will see how I get on with shift (it may also be a poor key choice for me )

could the win key be used here I wonder?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 03:53 AM »

I use information management as a slightly more elegant way of saying "data dump". Somewhere I can stick short, medium and long-term data, text and images, everything from project research to software registration data. I want that data indexed and tagged. I want the database to be scalable. Not industrial strength, but I want it to hold a normal person's data, work and personal, over several years without choking.

The more I search, the more I think that looking for one piece of software to do everything is silly, and maybe even counter-productive. When I think about the pieces of software I most enjoy using, they tend to do one simple task well.  AM-Notebook as my note-taker, for example. Not flawless, but a nice, small focused program (and interestingly, by the same person/team as LWA).

-johnk (July 16, 2008, 05:39 PM)

I always used Surfulater for information management/"data dump"
Evernote I use for notes & short term web research (e.g. researching monitors)
I'm now using SQLNotes for information & the other two are by the wayside but still with loads of stuff in there

I think I have to take a long look at what I want to do myself & how/if I want to continue using all these programs
SQLNotes is sticking anyways - it okay at web capture but nothing like what you want but then it is in beta, especially in that respect

BTW, I agree with all your points. When you enter content, it should be this (simple) way.

Some of the complexities (which I'll resolve) is that the HTML pane can be used in other ways. For example, you can open an HTML file from disk. Then any changes to the content updates the disk file (EN does not have this feature). You work on what looks like SN [SQLNotes] content, but it is really a local file (and eventually an FTP or other web file). You can also open a URL and view it, in this case, editing is disabled. HTM, MHT (and PDF) files are handled differently too, etc. It has many modes and managing all of these... well... needs a bit of improvements 

-PPLandry (July 10, 2008, 06:50 PM)

With all three you can export - I havent use Evernote that way but as rj says it can export MHT files
Surfulater will mail selected articles for you (html) and exports html and MHT
SQLNotes currently exports to html

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinKey Enhancement Project (WEP)

« Last post by tomos on July 17, 2008, 03:28 AM »

What problem you was found? Sound volume do not changes, or windows do not switches?

-wep (July 16, 2008, 10:21 PM)

sorry for not explaining properly!

AND to confuse me (& probably you) even more, it's working today
YESTERDAY when I win+scrolled, the volume on Media Player Classic was adjusted instead of AltTab window showing

If it happens again I'll report & try see what else might be going on

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 04:27 PM »

You can save a complete webpage with the file menu in Firefox.
Save as-webpage.

-cmpm (July 16, 2008, 04:13 PM)

me, I'm only really familiar with Surfulater & Evernote:
the advantage of these programmes (I think) is that you can save part (or all) of a web page, you also have a link to the page, you can then organise it, maybe tag it, add a comment, maybe link it to another page, or link a file to it, etc, etc.
I was curious myself what John was after in that sense (apart from the basic web-capture)



Edit/ added attachment

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

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 04:09 PM »

gotta say: I like the way you write Superboyac, so I'm looking forward to this

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 04:03 PM »

1) Buy a desk with a few big drawers
 2) Put the computer in the desk
 3) Put the crap in the drawers

-Lashiec (July 16, 2008, 10:32 AM)

here's a man with drawers ...

Here's my desk
 (see attachment in previous post)

-cranioscopical (July 16, 2008, 03:54 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reliable web page capture...

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 03:57 PM »

LWA may be a keeper though...

-johnk (July 16, 2008, 12:58 PM)

I'm not actually familiar with Ultra Recall but I'm wondering - seeing as it now has good web capture, is it simply a case of you looking for the best out there, or is there something in particular missing in UR?

Tying in with that question, I'm also curious what you mean by "information management" as said in first post

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: WinKey Enhancement Project (WEP)

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 05:38 AM »

hi wep

re win/mousescroll-
just to report it doesnt work with Media Player Classic where the scrollwheel is used to adjust the volume

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 05:31 AM »

Ah but you can't see the heap of cables and crap hidden by the pile of books obscuring my scanner!

-Carol Haynes (July 16, 2008, 05:27 AM)

ah, I see - and you didnt even have to use photoshop

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Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 05:27 AM »

must go google 'Image Compressor 2008' now, many thanks Curt

-brett (July 16, 2008, 04:48 AM)

check out Qimage too Brett for enlarging/printing images - I wrote a sort of a review here (...somewhere here )

tomos, what was the other homepage on your mind? 

-Curt (July 15, 2008, 11:38 AM)

I'll get around to it some evening soon Curt - just need to take a few screenshots ...

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by tomos on July 16, 2008, 05:10 AM »

OK - I'll play too (no tidying ... well if I had this image would be really worrying!):

-Carol Haynes (July 16, 2008, 02:35 AM)

well Carol, that's tidy in my books
have a look here -



overflowing with old bank statements in the overexposed part
I can even say relatively tidy, (thanks Carl )

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

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2008, 05:06 PM »

on the other hand Gizmo is the main editor now (?) sorry, make that "senior" - (not sure what that means, who's the boss?!?)

I get the feeling that Fred Langa joined WS with the intention of phasing himself out of the picture - they all made a few quid out of the deal
This I think (& hope) will be something different

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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 15, 2008, 04:57 PM »

go on, I had to give it a quick try

I tried it on resizing windows but starting at the corner where you can pretty much move in any direction


initial impressions are that -

East/West works very well - it "snaps" nicely to the horizontal line

North/South is not so good at snapping to the vertical line, it does snap a little so if careful you can follow the window edge but if there's no window you'd probably be lost
funny,
with Media Player Classic it constrains movement to a 45°/diagonal movement (without Control key this doesnt happen)

again Skrommel

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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 15, 2008, 04:44 PM »

Try DragLock!

-skrommel (July 10, 2008, 04:01 PM)

wow
I completely missed your post Skrommel 
(I think it didint show up in unread posts because I had left the tab open & restarted FF)
it's late now so looking forward to trying that out tomorrow
it's sort of like getting a nice unexpected christmas present thanks! 
Tom

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General Software Discussion / Re: HELP! How do I download a movie file in a swf Flash file?

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2008, 12:35 PM »

thanks Curt - funny that it worked with the wrong extension explains why it didnt work in Media Player Classic though

there is a nifty tool by Nirsoft that scans the cache folders of IE & Mozilla and list all the files currently stored in those folders.

• IECacheView
• MozillaCacheView

-lanux128 (July 15, 2008, 06:04 AM)

Lanux -
that sounds good, esp for FF cache where files dont seem to be recognisable
PS/edit
thanks for the player tips in the other thread too

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General Software Discussion / Re: 20 things Windows 7 should have

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2008, 11:54 AM »

btw link is http://loader.gadget...-include.aspx?Page=1

I'll tell you what I'd like to see ... small thing but it's usually the small everyday things that do my head in anyways

a delay in showing the taskbar, a user adjustable delay please microsoft  (of course it could be there already in vista, I wouldnt know )

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UrlSnooper / Re: very confused: downloading youtube with urlsnooper?

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2008, 03:10 AM »

Wouldn't it be easier just using an online website such as www.downloadyoutubevideos.com and then using VLC to watch them (assuming you don't want to get into techy details on converting and whatnot)?

-wreckedcarzz (July 14, 2008, 03:02 PM)

yes,
much easier  thanks Brandon
Downloads as FLV files which open in Media Player Classic or VLC
Both playback with very oversaturated colours & VLC in particular is very dark image - (I've laready asked elsewhere but could you recommend any other player ?)

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

« Last post by tomos on July 15, 2008, 02:45 AM »

Then this happened, and at the moment, WS doesn't even acknowledge that I'm a paying Gizmo subscriber, and I never got the paid-member link.  I guess the WS crew don't think I count. (shrug)

-johnpulliam (July 14, 2008, 06:31 PM)

they, dont - that's up to Gizmo - i.e. you get the mail from him - I got mine on the 10th - seems like it shouldnt take this long to get around to everyone?

in fact it was quite oddly done - my mail to my Windows Secrets email address came from Gizmo as well and had no mention of Windows Secrets in the subject line ...
as said above

I got two identical [well, I thought] mails headed "Gizmo's Support Alert Newsletter Special Announcement, 9th July 2008"

The link for managing my subscription from first "special announcement" mail, didnt recognise my Support Alert subscription and asks me to subscribe/donate - turns out this is sent to Windows Secrets subscribers where I'm not a paid subscriber.
The other mail recognised my subscription

-tomos (July 10, 2008, 03:13 AM)

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UrlSnooper / Re: very confused: downloading youtube with urlsnooper?

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2008, 01:59 PM »

One more:

1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader (free)

http://eurekr.com/download.html

downloads youtube videos and claims to convert to any format in the process.

from www.shellcity.net

-mouser (May 13, 2008, 08:23 AM)

this seems to have some online/sharing thing going on - you have to create user name & password & only the first explanatory video on their website is working  -here- that may not be their fault, I'm having some trouble on & off with youtube

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Living Room / Re: Radiohead Nude - by Epson, Hp, Spectrum & harddrives

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2008, 01:53 PM »

It's the song "Nude" by Radiohead. Part of the lyrics say "Don't get any big ideas. They're not gonna happen."

-Deozaan (July 14, 2008, 01:44 PM)

I know I figured that out (disclaimer: just in case people think I'm really dumb it was only initially when I first saw it - )

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General Software Discussion / Re: HELP! How do I download a movie file in a swf Flash file?

« Last post by tomos on July 14, 2008, 12:14 PM »

Media Player Classic will play .swf
http://fileforum.bet..._2000XP/1045531002/1

-tinyvillager (March 02, 2006, 05:55 PM)

okay, this is veering off-topic but seeing as I found the info here

I managed to find in Opera cache the flash file from this page
http://www.vimeo.com...mbed&sec=1109226 as mentioned by justice in Radiohead Nude - by Epson, Hp, Spectrum & harddrives

as said found in opera cache, without extension so I added that (.swf) and tried it in Media Player classic without success
then I tried VLC Media Player (VLC_Portable_0.8.6h, from portable apps) and it played but the colour is appalling - very dark & very over-saturated

just wondering does anyone have any other player tips ?