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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Great Deal for ListPro - Any version 70% off at Bits du Jour for weekend

« Last post by iphigenie on July 28, 2007, 10:12 AM »

what do people use list managers for?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by iphigenie on July 28, 2007, 10:11 AM »

I use TC or peazip - nice, clean, simple, portable
But i'll give alzip a try, intrigued

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Perfectdisk 25% discount coupon till 28 July (Again !!! Arrgh)

« Last post by iphigenie on July 25, 2007, 10:31 AM »

does it really improve pc performance like the sales pitch claims?

I have tried several defrag software and have never noticed much of an improvement, so I would be curious if this is really noticeable.

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Official Announcements / Re: PROGRAMMING CONTEST: Write an open source mod for SMF forum

« Last post by iphigenie on July 24, 2007, 03:13 PM »

there is a section in the smf forums about integrations, might be worth a check to see if someone else has done it.

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Official Announcements / Re: How to punish DonationCoder if you are angry at being nagged to donate

« Last post by iphigenie on July 24, 2007, 03:08 PM »

you've had people donating a penny?

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General Software Discussion / Re: K-Meleon listed as one of top browsers...

« Last post by iphigenie on July 21, 2007, 09:42 AM »

i use kmeleon quite a lot, its my mozilla compatible browser of choice, for when sites refuse to work properly on opera

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Very simple timeclock utility

« Last post by iphigenie on July 21, 2007, 03:47 AM »

I have been using titlelog quite a bit, put it on my machine at work and passed it to a few people as a suggestion to "help see where their time goes"

An oddity I seem to have is that even when I mark myself as "off to lunch" or "on the phone" with the pre-canned activities, the "what have you been doing" box does pop up as well

Might get a look myself to see if it is by design or a fluke

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General Software Discussion / Re: TechSmith release Jing (free at the moment)

« Last post by iphigenie on July 18, 2007, 09:12 AM »

visual conversation.. do they mean instant messenging?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Download Managers

« Last post by iphigenie on July 18, 2007, 04:20 AM »

Thanks for the reference - this ads "download with ..." to the menu?

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Best IMAP Client

« Last post by iphigenie on July 16, 2007, 05:22 AM »

opera doesnt do rules at all.
So we are left with mulberry and courier, possibly mahogany (not sure)

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Best E-mail Client / Re: Best IMAP Client

« Last post by iphigenie on July 15, 2007, 09:32 AM »

free imap clients I have tried:

thunderbird (dont like it)
mahogany (not tried in windows, clean and simple) http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
mulberry (tried, pretty good) http://www.mulberrymail.com/
opera (tried and stayed stuck with, easy search and management, but no rules)
outlook express?
courier http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/courier/ (used to be pretty good and now is free)

Not tried the rules bit in any of them but I think outlook express can forward on a rule.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which MP3 player/management software do you use?

« Last post by iphigenie on July 15, 2007, 09:27 AM »

I have used pretty much all of the ones mentioned so far and I must say that for management and organisation I never went back to media monkey after trying jriver media centre. Never tried the pay version though.

I used foobar a while for "lightweight" player but lately it has been videolan - handles album sample streams from emusic better than jriver does, so I use it for that.

kmp is the one I use for viewing dvds

But for music, i keep going back to media centre - especially with the remote library things which means i can play all my music from my laptop without having it all stored on said laptop!

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Living Room / Re: OWNING "hacker tools" illegal in Germany as of TODAY (jail & fines for everyone)

« Last post by iphigenie on July 10, 2007, 10:03 AM »

British law has the magnificent-sounding charge of "Going equipping to steal."

From http://cps.gov.uk/le...tion8/chapter_a.html

-JennyB (July 07, 2007, 10:45 AM)

Is it true that in britain a guy coming into your house is not doing anything illegal unless he broke something to get in? And even if he is holding things that are yours, nothing is illegal until he tries to leave with them?

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Living Room / Re: OWNING "hacker tools" illegal in Germany as of TODAY (jail & fines for everyone)

« Last post by iphigenie on July 10, 2007, 10:01 AM »

I am usually against all the stupid laws that prevent reverse engineering etc.

But I am not sure it is a right for everyone to have these tools on their pc and be able to point them at any machine on the net that isn't theirs. I certainly think it should be illegal for someone to have people's credit card numbers on their machines with no good reason to have them! And it should be punishable to point a buffer overflow, password cracker etc. to someone else's machines. Even if you didnt get in and didnt destroy anything.

I think it's fine for people to own these tools and point them at machines and systems they own, their employers own (if their job implies) or their clients - they are after all testing and debugging tools as well - but if they point it at my machines and get caught, it should be a crime.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting: Tag2Find, Tagging for All Filetypes for Windows

« Last post by iphigenie on July 10, 2007, 06:21 AM »

I do wonder if some of the PDF/document management tools like Paperport or Presto!PageManager will start to have tags - I have an old version of each...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting: Tag2Find, Tagging for All Filetypes for Windows

« Last post by iphigenie on July 10, 2007, 06:09 AM »

Filing things in folder is an incredibly time consuming thing - decide you want to change or split a particular project and suddenly you are moving things, dragging things. Constantly rearranging things. And if an item belongs to multiple categories or projects then you suddenly have a hassle.

I found my email handling became faster and easier when I switched to opera mail where you can use virtual folders based on canned searches, or setting an email to a "tag" by dragging it to a virtual folder with that tag etc.

I do the same with my professional email in outlook, using tags and having all my processed mail in a processed mail folder, then grouped by tags. Or you can use virtual folders as well.

I also switched my images from a topical tree to a simple date tree, and spent some time tagging. Now I use metainformation to find the ones about an event, trip, subject, style etc. and it is all a lot more convenient.

All of these work a lot better for me than organising by folders - the folders are now simply use as archive containers based on a processed/date system and I dont need to waste time doing this. It has saved me a lot of time and I feel a lot more organised - able to pick out an email from 3 months ago about a particular topic in a minute without even having to do a search - just by opening the list corresponding to the tag I know it will have.

I think I would love to do the same with my music files, and in the end all other files - PDFs, documents etc.

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Living Room / Re: OWNING "hacker tools" illegal in Germany as of TODAY (jail & fines for everyone)

« Last post by iphigenie on July 07, 2007, 09:43 AM »

Well I went to check the german original, and its not that broad.

The law makes it illegal to
* steal, sell, distribute passwords or other means to gain unauthorized access
* gain illegal access to computers or information
* use of software whose primary goal is to gain illegal access or sabotage computers. the law has an addendum covering the fact that many tools are also used for research, debugging, legitimate security testing etc.

It seems to me that many countries already have laws like this, but it seems germany didnt. WHich explains why so many hacker groups are based in germany

It might be a bit overkill but i understand the problem law enforcement has.

In our day of identity theft, people using palm computers to bypass car alarms or security systems, trojan malware being installed on peoples pc ad used to attack servers etc. you have the problem that if you catch someone in front of someone's house with security hacking tools there was nothig illegal with that. Neither was it illegal to own a laptop which had a list of 10000 credit card umbers, it seems... Neither was it illegal to by some device install spyware or backdoors on other people's pcs - no law covered these.

On the other hand there is something to be said for not-quite-legitimate use of tools to reverse engineer device communications (to create drivers for linux, make fixes or improvements the manufacturer should have done, test the security) - but i think in all those cases the difference would be you use the tools against systems you own or have legitimate use (contracted by work to do it etc)

It's a tricky act to balance

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Developer's Corner / Re: Create web2.0 style stripe textures online with this fun tool

« Last post by iphigenie on July 05, 2007, 08:38 AM »

I guess i did try some more...if you disable "tiled" preview then a graphic appears that lets you know that you need to click on the image to refresh with your settings... the colour picker is still broken, though

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Developer's Corner / Re: Create web2.0 style stripe textures online with this fun tool

« Last post by iphigenie on July 05, 2007, 08:36 AM »

It's a bandwagon thing - jump on it or sling mud at it

But back to this site, beyond all the fun and clever semantic discussions, there is one thing that makes it a representative ultimate web2.0 site:  it doesn't work as well as it looks

* the generated stripes did not change as I changed settings - and i didnt see a "refresh" button
* the colour picker was iffy - i found it impossible to drag the colour stripe marker all the way down to orange as it insisted on being 3 cm above my mouse pointer and my screen is only so big..
I gave up after that

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Living Room / Re: Wine Ratings Are For Suckers: Fun Article

« Last post by iphigenie on July 04, 2007, 11:36 AM »

There's reviews and then there's single number grades - I do agree that grades dont mean much and a lot of people do far too much about those grades.

Then you have medals, and some are meaningful (qualitative, only won if wine is good, some categories might give several medals and some none if nothing is great etc.) and some arent (marketing, 200 categories and always a winner in each...)

I cant imagine that people know the difference

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Official Announcements / Re: July 2007 Software Discounts and Giveaway

« Last post by iphigenie on July 03, 2007, 01:49 PM »

three programs I want!!! bye bye budget!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Songbird

« Last post by iphigenie on June 28, 2007, 10:58 AM »

Is it? What a shame. It seemed very ambitious - perhaps its trying to tick too many boxes at once?

Could really do with a really workable system to have my laptop connect to my network at home to play my music without logging 60Gb of music files around. Best I found in the end - after trying it with the slimbox, with videolan, with several more video oriented tools... in the end the best way is to use jriver's media centre.

I would rather make something simpler work that doesnt require leaving a software running on a desktop though - after all theres this thing called upnp but the never seems to work

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General Software Discussion / Re: teracopy: copy your files faster

« Last post by iphigenie on June 27, 2007, 07:09 AM »

In the end I decided that whatever speed increase on small files was more than undone by the number of times the normal copy go stuck, and used teracopy even for the small files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Songbird

« Last post by iphigenie on June 27, 2007, 07:06 AM »

I agree that people have to eat but songbird started under the mozilla umbrella, and suddenly a small subset of the people who worked on it get together and "own" it - at least thats what it looks like to me.

Or maybe they gave every contributor, tester etc. from the past 18 months some shares for free?  Why do I find this unlikely?

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General Software Discussion / Re: teracopy: copy your files faster

« Last post by iphigenie on June 26, 2007, 06:56 AM »

I did, and I also let it add 2 buttons to windows commander's interface