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Living Room / Re: Restating Godwin's Law

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 02:41 PM »

I kindof started it off again with post #10 there, swear I didnt mean to.... just thinking out loud sortof

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General Software Discussion / Re: Halp! Not able to open file on MSP8.

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 02:38 PM »

have you tried google ?

suggested this
http://forums.digita...ost=050630181918.htm
this one might help
http://forums.digita...ost=080004022013.htm

too late to recommend filehamster but maybe for the next one

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2008 Discounts and Shareware Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 02:31 PM »

there's only two posts here (here & now) - there was at least half a dozen yesterday ??

what are you talking about?

-mouser (March 25, 2008, 02:23 PM)

I am now entering the greyzone...

emm, maybe there was a different thread about mIRC also started yesterday ??

Lets see, Tinjaw posted, others too (Allen?) generally saying positive things abour mIRC
TucknDar was using Miranda. Ringing any bell anyone ??
(or should they come and take me away )

phew, here it is - Re: mIRC - 50% discount (!)

To test out mirc, why not join the #donationcoder chat channel where we hang out!

Just follow these two steps:

• 1. Connect to the EFNET network.
• 2. Join the channel #donationcoder (type /join #donationcoder).

-mouser (March 24, 2008, 09:06 AM)

same post confused me

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for March 25th - Codename "Attack of the Antivirus"

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 02:23 PM »

thanks as ever mouser 

highlight for me has to be -

11. Member Site Spotlight

Nick Pearson, the artist who created DonationCoder's beloved mascot, "Cody", has created a new website documenting a mysterious book he found..

• Mysterious Codex Transportica book found - i have the website to prove it.

-mouser (March 25, 2008, 09:58 AM)

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2008 Discounts and Shareware Giveaway

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 02:18 PM »

there's only two posts here (here & now) - there was at least half a dozen yesterday ??

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Living Room / Re: Restating Godwin's Law

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 03:37 AM »

Ironically I've been thinking of posting about SQLNotes in the "Favourite File Manager" thread and probably will cause I use it as such now in conjunction with Dopus. But at least that's on topic then...

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Living Room / Re: Restating Godwin's Law

« Last post by tomos on March 25, 2008, 03:35 AM »

Fair point I think (I'm another guilty of "how-to" posts re SQLNotes in that evernote thread)

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Living Room / Re: When a Brain Scientist Suffers a Stroke

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 11:37 AM »

hi brotherS
very interesting listen allright

I'm not that clear at the end is she demonising the left brain or just suggesting to move away from the focus on it that we seem to have these days.
Presumably there's a balance in there somewhere...

I wonder do animals have the same brain structure left/right - they seem to be more in the moment anyways = right brain

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Portable vs Regular Firefox

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 08:50 AM »

Opera portable uses temp (or mabe I edited config to make it use it )
but I guess that's another story

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 06:03 AM »

Having said that I can still open the driver's door on my car with a key but I am instantly deafened by the alarm going off - which can only be turned off with the transmitter - so if the battery is dead ....

-Carol Haynes (March 24, 2008, 05:59 AM)

maybe the designers should get awards for "most clueless...."

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General Software Discussion / Re: SQLNotes...what is it exactly?

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 05:59 AM »

That was long… Sorry.

-Armando (March 24, 2008, 01:11 AM)

no nööö thanks Armando

I'm more of an example of someone who had very specific needs and just went and used sqlnotes for them (see off-topic post in evernote thread)
So I'm really still quite ignorant of the possibilities and it's nice to read an overview from someone who has a better understanding

I'd quite like a 'View' grid/filter where I could specify what I wanted shown and it did it. I can understand the prog as a huge personal database; but to use it, I would need many input and output templates.

-Dormouse (March 23, 2008, 10:14 AM)

You can have as many input or output templates as you want. There are forms for input.

-Armando (March 24, 2008, 01:11 AM)

minor query - what do you mean by "there are forms for input"

PS  the "IDEA: Mood diary/graph" graph [that you link to] is nice

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Living Room / Re: the award for most clueless pc user ever - my candidate.

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 05:49 AM »

I even have to manually crank the windows up and down.

-mwb1100 (March 23, 2008, 08:38 PM)

very off-topic I guess but I really miss that in newer cars - I wish they'd have both

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Portable vs Regular Firefox

« Last post by tomos on March 24, 2008, 05:34 AM »

Thanks all. I'll build a fresh profile on the portable version and if it seems snappier than the regular one I'll stick with it.

-nosh (March 24, 2008, 02:24 AM)

let us know how it goes nosh!

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Living Room / Re: Am I too demanding, or are they all cheating?

« Last post by tomos on March 23, 2008, 08:25 PM »

re sounds, try
Control Panel > Sounds > Advanced:-
and change the settings to stereo headphones and see does that make it stereo

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by tomos on March 23, 2008, 12:48 PM »

there's nothing to stop me continuing with 2.2 as is

-Dormouse (March 23, 2008, 11:33 AM)

The version I have an installer for is 2.2.0.384. After installation it downloads an upgrade to 2.2.1.386. But once 3 is out, I doubt that they'll support that upgrade. Does anyone know how to get an actual installer for 2.2.1.386? I don't see any way to download the licensed version directly.

-CWuestefeld (March 23, 2008, 11:57 AM)

when I bought it it was a promotion (reduced, called "EverNote Plus 2.1 - D3 Promo" on the download page),
got a "Handango" invoice mail with a link for downloading - just tried it (but I do have to give my details) and was able to download latest.
I have a feeling though I bought "download protection" after buying it cause I couldnt find the mail or something
but if you can find your invoice mail see can u download from that
"EverNote Plus 2.1 - D3 Promo" is officially the full programme but it doesnt have a liscence number 

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by tomos on March 23, 2008, 12:42 PM »

looks good, it's always like a breath of fresh air to see a nonwindows look -
you use a different shell dont you?

see I get a mention in there on irc

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: The Ultimate Rescue CD

« Last post by tomos on March 23, 2008, 08:04 AM »

SkyDisc ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 45 best Freeware Design programs

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2008, 05:44 PM »

I'm certainly more forgiving of the small guys, but I'd hope that the major vendors can get it right.

Tell me to shut up if I'm just being cranky...

-Renegade (March 22, 2008, 11:19 AM)

Takes a while to download I guess.
All I got was 'no video' for about 3 minutes and got tired of waiting.

-cmpm (March 22, 2008, 11:32 AM)

reminds me a while back trying to get a sense of Adobe Lightroom - not a decent screenshot in sight at it's homepages - all videos that were painfully slow to load and painfully slow once running too...

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2008, 06:22 AM »

Hey, Cody is sweet! Who is the original designer?

-paulobrabo (March 22, 2008, 05:22 AM)

nudone

I only came across the thread lately (via the dc "History" thread)
ANNOUNCING - DonationCoder.com Logo Contest

I think he makes his first appearance halfway down page two, as said, courtesy of nudone

he's made some amazing wallpapers too -
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12429.0
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10636.0

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Living Room / Re: [SORTED] how big is a webpage :) broadband - 1 or 10GB?

« Last post by tomos on March 22, 2008, 05:44 AM »

Renegade,
true they actually charging by the kb
thing is too in the first month they going to have to get about a 100 updates for windows...

Hey -- Wait a minute - Is this for browsing on a mobile phone device? Or tethering?  (Using the mobile device to connect a PC to the web.)

-J-Mac (March 22, 2008, 01:06 AM)

it's pc using mobile phone network - "tethering" new word for me but that's it allright
So I recommended her the 10GB -
you know the way anyways. once you start you just cant stop.

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Living Room / Re: [SORTED] how big is a webpage :) broadband - 1 or 10GB?

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2008, 06:40 PM »

An extra gig is €20? That's insane

-f0dder (March 21, 2008, 06:02 PM)

that true - I suspect a lot of people get screwed that way
pricing in ireland is fairly crazy, in britian too but there's more real competition there for this type of thing so better value there.
I'm lucky that way, I live in flatrate-land@de

my maths is correct I think  
ignoring the extra 24 MB:
2c per extra MB X 1000/100 = €20

EDIT/  also they seem to be trying to cap usage to 10GB per account - I guess that way they can get more customers for their bandwith so-to-speak.  But for charging 2c.p.MB to the poor unfortunate who chooses a 1GB p.m. connection there's no excuse

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2008, 04:43 PM »

De-hijacking....

So, how about that EverNote program?

-CWuestefeld (March 21, 2008, 04:41 PM)

well I'll be sticking with current version of Evernote and wait and see what happens as beta progresses

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General Software Discussion / Re: EverNote beta 2.2.0.372 has some nice new features

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2008, 03:58 PM »

for me I could straight away see the possibilities in the sense of it being a database -
now I've never used database software, barely use office software (excel etc) so it's been, eh, interesting figuring out SQLNotes!

First example,
I use it to gather song lyrics - in the simplest manner:-
Item=Title;     Notes pane=Lyrics.
The beauty of it is that this info can be expanded at any time - who has sang this, if there's different versions, anything and then I can get into Pierre's "Cube" view by filtering to see what I want. That does take a bit of learning ..I've only learned the very basics but it's keeping me going


I'm now using it successfully for
timekeeping for work and keeping track of files I'm working on -
I just drag a file in and it creates an "item" which is a link to that file - or I drag in 100 files, no problem.
I can keep track of what "stage" they are at and relevant details of when changed etc, whether approved etc. using columns/(fields)
This is all one could say reasonably automated -
I click here - date goes in automatically there - colour of item changes so I can tell at a glance what has been done, what need to be done and where. More details on that here


From a hierarchical point of view, everything can have more than one parent (comparable to cloning and/or tagging) -

Another Example:- I'm working on 50 drawing files whose "Grandparent" is USA They have various parents depending on which State they are related to e.g. Maine, Virginia, etc I'm preparing an invoice for work done on 20 of these files so I copy these 20 files/items into my Invoice item I can then sort everything e.g. first by State (original/other parent), second by item (alphabetically) or by date or whatever I can then export as a webpage (html with expandable links showing or hiding notes related to the items) and send this along with the invoice to give very details info about work done and current progress/situation of the individual drawings

~~~~~~~~~

As Pierre says,
the whole programme is gradually being made more user friendly and the wiki is getting more pages regulalry
It is a beta - I think there does need to be a lot of work done on getting the practical concepts across of how to structure the info within a "Grid"/view, also on how to filter/show the info and how that is then shown depending on which viewing preferences are chosen.
If you dont understand that last bit it's because it's really a message to Pierre 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2008, 03:01 PM »

hi paulo, welcome to the site.  your illustrations are remarkable. 

-mouser (March 21, 2008, 02:59 PM)

agreed    lovely photos too

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Living Room / Re: I hate this game...

« Last post by tomos on March 21, 2008, 10:11 AM »

I've only gotten as far as #10...
too many choices there and I have no ideas