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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] number of results in status bar is wrong

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 02:38 PM »

thanks for the clarification Armando

i think it would be clearer just to have the number of results reflects the number of results in the result list  isn't it logical ? 

-nitrix-ud (July 28, 2008, 01:14 PM)

At the same time, it's not necessarily a bad idea to be aware that there are duplicates of the files shown (through the #  in status bar) when the 2 options to NOT show them are selected. ANd if the status bar is more specific, it might be less confusing, of course.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 01:08 PM »

This is very good, jpijper. 

Maybe you could edit your first post to include the latest version in it (so that people don't mistakenly install the older one)?

With all these little tools, farr is becoming the primary interface with which I interact with the different software on my computer!

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

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 10:43 AM »

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

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Find And Run Robot / Re: too many updates !!!

« Last post by Armando on July 28, 2008, 02:25 AM »

It must be a joke... 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 05:21 PM »

that was fast...!
And it works well here. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 05:06 PM »

Mouser, that's it. Thanks. 
I'll disable the ""Check full path..." option for now... just to have fun with the non-contiguous searching. It's great BTW, really great. I'm not too bad as a typist, but... I tend to make small mistakes...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:52 PM »

Nice work, mouser.

I still can't get the non-contiguous searching to work. I must be doing something stupid. But what?

I don't know why, but when I type ffox, firefox doesn't show.

The shortcut name for FireFox is "Mozilla Firefox.lnk"

What am I doing wrong? Or is there a conflicting option that I've selected?

AFAICT, the only option affecting non-contiguous searching/scoring is the "score non-contiguous matches" option.

-Armando (July 27, 2008, 03:13 PM)

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

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:41 PM »

Wow! Very cool Renegade. 

I'll trial it when I'll have more time. I'm a jazz drummer (or... "was" -- haven't been very active in the last 8 years!), and am learning guitar right now. So... could be handy!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paragon Partition Manager 2005 or Easeus Partition Manager for Windows XP Pro

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:36 PM »

I haven't had any problems restoring bootable partitions to HDs of different sizes.

-4wd (July 23, 2008, 05:36 AM)

usually just backup/restore to another drive.

-4wd (July 23, 2008, 05:36 AM)

Same here.

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

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:15 PM »

Related to the subject of thi mega thread, there's super list of Outliners announced there

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

- (see attachment in previous post)

-tomos (July 24, 2008, 03:36 AM)

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

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:13 PM »

That's a great idea. Thanks for pointing it out, Tom!
And thanks for that work, Pierre! 

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

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:01 PM »

I'm very satisfied with Online Armor. It's getting great reviews almost everywhere on security sites.
I've had only a few small and temporary freeze "problems", related to HIPS, during the initial firewall's learning process.

The free version is good, but the paid version is better even (e.g. : it allows you to save your configurations)

I don't mind the occasional pop ups. I believe this is absolutely normal for a security app. The pop ups appear only rarely anyways (now that it's been running for some months), and most of them when I install a new software.

I'm so satisfied that I bought a 2 year license. 

and to partly quote Carl  :

Disclaimer - I am a registered user of

Online Armor

and I am very satisfied with the program.  I have not been, and will not be, compensated in any way for positive comments made about the program or any sales generated by those comments.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 03:13 PM »

I don't know why, but when I type ffox, firefox doesn't show.

The shortcut name for FireFox is "Mozilla Firefox.lnk"

What am I doing wrong? Or is there a conflicting option that I've selected?

AFAICT, the only option affecting non-contiguous searching/scoring is the "score non-contiguous matches" option.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] number of results in status bar is wrong

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 03:04 PM »

Well, the number of results should be right when "remove duplicate links" and "remove missing items" are not checked. The status bar is always showing the true number of found files and doesn't take into account  the options of hiding duplicates etc.

Lashiec mentioned this "problem" a while ago. So yes, I guess it's confusing... You're not the only one! 

https://www.donation....msg100701#msg100701

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 12:22 PM »

Yup! that works well! 

BTW, thanks again jpijper : it's really nice to see new participants/members to contribute with their time and such useful stuff! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by Armando on July 27, 2008, 12:14 PM »

Hey, AbteriX, thanks a lot!

FYI, ReNamers RegEx engine supports (?#my comments) 

-AbteriX (July 27, 2008, 08:06 AM)

Yes. (I'm still a beginner at regex, but I should've thought about that...    )
It works well! Of course, it's not as clean looking as a special comment section, but it's not that important.

And i found out "Free-Spacing Regular Expressions" is supported too

In free-spacing mode, whitespace between regular expression tokens is ignored.
Whitespace includes spaces, tabs and line breaks.
Note that only whitespace between tokens is ignored.
E.g. a b c is the same as abc in free-spacing mode,

http://www.regular-e...nfo/freespacing.html

-AbteriX (July 27, 2008, 08:06 AM)

Good to know!

For comments on saving presets...
you could add an PascalScript-RULE for your comments only. (without any script, just comment only

You have to comment-out this comments.
You can use either of these commenting styles:
{ comments }
// comments
(* comments *)

-AbteriX (July 27, 2008, 08:06 AM)

Good option too, I'll try it.

The way I actually  inserted comments in between groups of rules is simply using a regex rule and write my comments there (a long sentence/comment will never match with anything, so it can be used as a comment)

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReNamer: The best freeware file renamer? (yes says cybernetnews.com)

« Last post by Armando on July 26, 2008, 07:16 PM »

Denis is back ==> The not easy story of the development, and the new way of things ==> http://den4b.com/for...viewtopic.php?id=438


And he is sedulous again:

New Beta after full release 5.25 from 8 Apr 2008...

Beta from 22 Apr 2008 ==> http://www.den4b.com...c.php?pid=1974#p1974
----------------------------
Just to update:
The experimental version of ReNamer is ready, where Filters settings can be saved and loaded with individual Presets.
Both of these have been implemented and they DO require some testing:
* Added ability to save Filter Settings together with a Preset;
* Added split panel in status bar to display current preset and modification sign;
Tell me how it goes, ok?

* Integrated dEXIF libraries to parse EXIF tags (works on problematic JPEG files);
----------------------------

-AbteriX (April 22, 2008, 01:36 PM)

Just wanted to say that I've started to use Renamer more than BRU and Flash Renamer. I really love the ability to saving different batches of rules. Very convenient -- and individual rules can be turned on/off. Haven't found a renamer that does it as well. 


PS : One thing that could be useful would be a feature allowing to anotate some rules and batches to rapidly see what they do -- especially convenient when working with loooonnng regex. I might bring the suggestion directly to the developer.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 26, 2008, 02:42 PM »

Something is definitely going on... 
I still get three folders (2 with nothing valuable...) in your archive when I open it in various programs like 7-Zip, WinRar and WinZip.
I tried creating the archive myself and it's fine.
So here's one with the Readme file (created with 7-zip). Does it show only one folder ?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 26, 2008, 12:52 AM »

What I did to make it work :

1- I only used the "Quick Outlook tasks" folder found in the archive -- not the 2 other folders (I'm not sure why they were included -- they should probably be removed).

2- I extracted (dragged and drop) this "Quick Outlook tasks" folder in :

%your program files folder%\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\

So that it looks like (in my system):

C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\QuickOutlookTask

3- Should one restart farr after that...? Farr crashed here... But when I restarted it, the alias worked as expected! 

so

[Select]

do my favorite task

created a task called.... my favorite task

Now, this thing doesn't seem to be open source, but it would have been nice if it was possible to add other info (comma or semicolon separated, maybe) like : task; priority; multiple categories; etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alias: Quick Outlook Task

« Last post by Armando on July 26, 2008, 12:31 AM »

Nice. I was using these, before... But I'll try this way too as it might be more efficient. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Truspace 7.6 Available for free download

« Last post by Armando on July 26, 2008, 12:22 AM »

Very interesting software. Thanks for the info.
I did use Poser and Bryce (not mine!) a few years ago to help modeling a theatre space. From what I can tell, the interface looks similar. But this is just a superficial constatation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows "safely remove device" thingie

« Last post by Armando on July 24, 2008, 11:28 PM »

Reviving this old thread because I found EjectUSB.


It's free (donations welcome...).

And there's a review on Appaholic.

So... For those who need some help with their USB stuff.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Umlauts in file browsing...

« Last post by Armando on July 24, 2008, 07:44 PM »

Most probably same problem mentioned here. Did you try changing your capitalized umlauts to small ones? In the mean time, that's what I did for all my É À È etc.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New Plugin: GooglePlus - View Google search results in FARR as you type

« Last post by Armando on July 24, 2008, 11:50 AM »

Thanks! 

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

« Last post by Armando on July 24, 2008, 11:12 AM »

What desktop search app best supports 'smart folders'. The WDS 4.0 saved searches feature is useless because

-MrCrispy (July 24, 2008, 03:21 AM)

By "supporting" smart folders, do you mean that the desktop search app should allow you to create some? If that's the case, X1 is probably the one of the best equipped app for that : you can name and organize hierarchically your different searches, in a tree. X1 searches pretty fast but the interface is sometimes a bit sluggish. I use it everyday, even with its shortcomings.

I don't now if others lie DTSearch will do "Smart folders"... Maybe?