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General Software Discussion / Re: WPS: the best replacement of MS Office, free for none-biz

« Last post by tomos on June 24, 2008, 06:50 PM »

- you have to register. As with any other Office pack you will have to give it a/your name as Author before creating your first document, and that is all - that is the registration - they don't even ask for an email address. But you cannot fill out "Organisation", because that will move the license from Private freeware user to company shareware user.

-Curt (June 20, 2008, 05:15 PM)

wonder what the situation is with it for commercial usage -
I dont see any buy links at their site... I'm just curious really, like Darwin I have my share of office software installed, esp considering I hardly ever use the stuff )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero - WHY?

« Last post by tomos on June 24, 2008, 06:37 PM »

I keep going back to a free copy of Nero burn I have (with simple interface), dont even know what version (7 maybe) -
but anyways, keep going back to it because multisession simply WORKS

mind you I think(?) img burn may have that capability now & I havent checked it out...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero - WHY?

« Last post by tomos on June 24, 2008, 06:33 PM »

I have never seen "Taiyo Yuden" discs in the UK - online or in the shops - but then I haven't really looked for them.

-Carol Haynes (June 24, 2008, 04:39 AM)

I've brought them as Plextor discs on ebay.de but I couldnt guarantee you they're not forgeries

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Living Room / Re: Rock'n'Roll Carlos

« Last post by tomos on June 24, 2008, 06:19 PM »

sounds great Carol

Head over to www.sanata.com and checkout some of the sounds and video!

-Carol Haynes (June 24, 2008, 02:19 PM)

...
where you can talk to Santa, send him letters, &, & 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 3 Released

« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2008, 04:19 PM »

that's funny I lost a post,
I had no trouble downloading it from mozilla website about 1/2 hr ago

Are people simply installing it ontop of 2 or seperately ?
Separately seems better...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2008, 04:13 PM »

well I splashed out   less than €10 (including 19% tax)

Wont get a chance to try it out till next week sometime though...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: List of disc catalogers

« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2008, 03:47 PM »

WinCatalog is featured on BitsDuJour today.

-johnk (June 17, 2008, 07:55 AM)

that was on Bits du Jour last April (2007)
anyone out there who got it -
any comments on it?

It's not one of the ones that Crush benchmarked unfortunately

PS thanks JohnK 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

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

So, the general opinion would be that the best programs (that do have incremental) mount the files as a virtual disk, and don't have block level incremental?

-jgpaiva (June 17, 2008, 06:25 AM)

well, if a programme exists that does "block level incremental" backups I'd like to know about it & would most probably WANT it as well

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

« Last post by tomos on June 17, 2008, 06:25 AM »

great review Justice, thanks

the JD Plus service ... allows web access via Jungle Disk's website (doesn't require your pc to be on)

-justice (June 17, 2008, 06:14 AM)

-
how do you mean "doesn't require your pc to be on" -
do you mean it makes your S3/Amazon account accessible from other pc's?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do incremental backup programs work?

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

AFAIK incremental backup usually means they will back up the files that have changed (again) and ignore the files that havent
That usually means full file is backed up

Then there's partial file update (probably known under different names) which is used with synching -
the changed "bit" in your original 8GB file gets updated in the synched file
Obvious problem here being if your file corrupts you have no backup as such
SFFS does this
SFFS keeps track of files if moved (says it does anyway) but not sure what happens if the name is changed...

thats about my limit [Justice got in ahead of me there...]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone actually use windows system restore if so,does it work.

« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2008, 02:46 PM »

rely on ... Acronis True Image to keep me out of harm's way.

-Darwin (June 16, 2008, 02:10 PM)

I sort of rely on Acronis TI as well, but I've never actually restored an image - it sort of reminds me of the first time I opened a computer to replace a CD drive, I was, ahh ... scared out of my wits
The idea of restoring an image has the same effect on me - MG - what if nothing works after

Like the sound of Rollback RX but the price ($69...+ 19% tax here ) seems a lot more than it's worth (to me at any rate)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let go of your bookmarks!

« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2008, 02:18 PM »

Scrapbook is one of the most useful add-ons for Firefox. One of the reasons why Firefox is still my primary browser.

-sri (June 16, 2008, 11:54 AM)

Surfulater was the main reason for a long time that I stayed with FF
it still is one, along with flashblock tabmixplus adblockplus ...

I save a lot of reference sort of stuff in it which I wouldnt use that often but occasionally, also tried using it for bookmarks but with the FARR bookmarks-plugin I now just save bookmarks in ff & make sure there's some easily searchable word in title
Like others I dont use most of them at all, but what difference - they sit there unsorted, unseen, occasionally loved

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2008, 11:51 AM »

(Archivarius is gone, sniff -

-Darwin (June 16, 2008, 11:27 AM)

I presume (cause of your praise of same) that that's a sad "sniff" as opposed to a ...sniffy one

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Living Room / Re: Philips Flat TV 20"

« Last post by tomos on June 16, 2008, 08:14 AM »

I am looking for a very good office monitor (text editing, emails, browsing) and nothing else like tv and gaming.

-Babis (June 16, 2008, 05:17 AM)

have a look at the LCD thread
Scroll down to post #2 (it's a long way down .)) where they have recommendations for various uses ranging in price from $230* to $1400 or so!

OFFICE WORK (word processing/spreadsheet/PowerPoint) High contrast at medium brightness Good text reproduction Matte display coating

* also Acer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monster Cables- The World should know!

« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2008, 03:04 PM »

Another resurrection, but it's worth it for some good laughs. Denon released these $500 cables to output audio from their DVDs, as you may expect it's a digital to digital connection, so they're basically useless. Still, some customers did
...

-Lashiec (June 15, 2008, 02:47 PM)

most entertaining read in quite a while thanks Lashiec

Potential warning to other users: I made the mistake of taunting the AKDL1. As a result, these cables have cleaned out my checking account, fired me from my job, tainted my daughter and emailed scandalous photos of my wife to family and friends. I am a battered shell of a man. Though, I must admit, I do appreciate the crisp highs and thundering lows. 5.0 out of 5 stars I found the perfect use for this cable...., June 15, 2008 ... I used 6 of them to connect up my time machine to my Starship. But now my cell phone won't work. Must be interference from the planet being out of phase with my blue tooth headset. On the bright side...it negated the affects of the Aurora Borealis over my house. Good grief...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Character Table Plug-In

« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2008, 02:50 PM »

I'm not the expert here but when you say install -
is the plugin in the FARR plugin folder?
.....\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\Character_Table\ ... 

Did you restart FARR - there's other ways to reload plugins in options - but restart is the easiest to explain!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Character Table Plug-In

« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2008, 02:35 PM »

hi siouxdax
here, I just type "cc"
and straight away the characters show ...

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite gadgets and gizmos?

« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2008, 02:29 PM »

Bic 4-color pen - discussed on forumurl=https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=661.0]here[/url]

-mouser (June 15, 2008, 11:25 AM)

hah!
so Allen isnt the only one writing non-software mini-reviews!

I didnt know those pens still existed, I used to have one when I was about 15 (ohh ... only almost 30 years ago )

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite gadgets and gizmos?

« Last post by tomos on June 15, 2008, 03:16 AM »

Zecar http://www.madcattoys.com/cu1027kk.html my favorite toy that I keep on my work table

-kartal (June 15, 2008, 12:38 AM)

mmMMMmm,
some of his (Chico Bicalho) stuff looks like it's been communicating with the Codex Transportica



http://www.madcattoys.com/cu1029kk.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: AOL active virus shield fails to update - is it just me?

« Last post by tomos on June 14, 2008, 09:47 AM »

anyone actually still using Active Virus Shield ?

I am    !!
but it hasnt updated properly here since the 11th (took me a couple of days to notice it - then it started telling me the virus definitions were not uptodate ....

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Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

« Last post by tomos on June 13, 2008, 08:13 AM »

here's my chair of choice -


http://www.swopper-uk.com/home.shtm

well ... it's actually a stool, innit !?!

I tried it for an hour or so once & loved it - you're forced, you could say, to sit with a straight back and the movement keeps your back "fit" and I found it very comfortable to boot
@ $600/€500 pricetag I'll be waiting!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] Support Alt+Tab properly

« Last post by tomos on June 12, 2008, 03:47 PM »

wraith: Check your options. On the  "Display" tab, check "Show on taskbar when active". If you're running Vista64, it might still not appear on alt+tab, but at least it is shown on taskbar.

-jgpaiva (June 12, 2008, 01:17 PM)

super, I never noticed that one

... Are windows without such a task bar entry never accessible via Alt+Tab?
Why is FARR blinking very shortly when pressing Alt+Tab if the option is not activated?

-herojoker (June 12, 2008, 01:41 PM)

stuff in the tray doesnt show in Alt-Tab at any rate [edit/ well now FARR does ]
when does it blink? - I mean if it's in the foreground or in background when you Alt+Tab? (just checking it here, seems okay - xp home)

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Living Room / Re: What annoys you to no end?

« Last post by tomos on June 12, 2008, 06:19 AM »

Opera. So close to perfection, and so delicately screwed up by a tremendous design error or badly implemented feature.

-urlwolf (May 23, 2008, 08:16 PM)

Opera, Opera, "Oh I used to love [it], but I'm all right now"
I miss it though
lack of plugin support I could live with, just about, but I've gotten so used to FlashBlock/Adblock - I know Opera is supposed to have alternatives but they either dont work as good or are too confusing to make the effort of figuring them out - I did make an attempt last year but gave up
Also little things that are just so much easier to do in FF & I think, why bother...

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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by tomos on June 12, 2008, 04:38 AM »

Why not send an email at once to tell all DC members?

-Curt (June 11, 2008, 09:42 AM)

maybe mouser will mention this in this month's newsletter.

-lanux128 (June 11, 2008, 08:34 PM)

sounds like a good idea

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General Software Discussion / Re: Context menu Antivirus

« Last post by tomos on June 11, 2008, 09:20 AM »

I would have thought most antivirus progs (that are installed) would add context menu option & simply allow you to disable realtime-protection (the one I'm running at the mo does these but it's not available anymore - the AOL/Kapersky/Active Virus Shield)

I'm sure I used use AntiVir in this way
-
I had AVG running as well so I disabled the realtime-protection of AntiVir via the uninstall options actually!
but that was a couple of years ago so couldnt honestly tell you what it's like now