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General Software Discussion / Re: NewEgg

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2008, 02:15 PM »

But it's out of newegg's hands at this time, isn't it?  When you track it from the UPS site, do you get the same results?

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2008, 10:44 AM »

^ You're in the same boat as me Darwin.  I'm still trying (and liking) FileBoss, but I just re-upped on DOpus (I'd stagnated at 6) because XYplorer and FileBoss just weren't doing it for me in Vista.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to unblock FARR in Vista

« Last post by wraith808 on June 12, 2008, 03:52 PM »

Well, UAC is actually something that should have been included before, and forces people to code in the correct way... there's actually something that needs to be fixed in FARR rather than something wrong with Vista's security model...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to unblock FARR in Vista

« Last post by wraith808 on June 12, 2008, 12:14 PM »

I believe if you right click the executable and say run as administrator or something like that it will then ignore UAC.

Here are a couple of articles on how to live with UAC.

http://blogs.techrep...ow-on-windows/?p=635

http://www.tweak-uac.com/

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

« Last post by wraith808 on June 12, 2008, 12:03 PM »

That's strange... FARR doesn't even show up in my alt-tab list....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free add-ons teach Windows Explorer new tricks

« Last post by wraith808 on June 12, 2008, 12:02 PM »

I actually like the breadcrumbs extension from QT.  If you go to the site, it's there... QTAddressBar.  You get the breadcrumbs and it replaces your address bar.   I use folder view also, which is very useful.

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General Software Discussion / Free add-ons teach Windows Explorer new tricks

« Last post by wraith808 on June 12, 2008, 07:58 AM »

I've seen QTTabbar, but the other's I hadn't seen. 

From the latest Windows Secrets (http://windowssecret...-Explorer-new-tricks)

Reproduced here for convenience, but the article has hyperlinks to the various products.


Free add-ons teach Windows Explorer new tricks

By Scott Dunn

You can choose from dozens of file managers to replace Windows Explorer — some of them are even free — but only the original is so closely integrated into the OS.

Before you give Explorer the boot, check out some first-rate add-ons that turn Windows' tired file browser into the information manager of the future.

It's time to go beyond files and folders

You can find plenty of good replacements for Windows Explorer online. For example, in his Sept. 20, 2007, column, Woody Leonhard recently recommended Xplorer2. But few match the convenience of having a file manager that is built into the operating system.

Rather than trying to find your ideal file manager at the downloads store, I suggest you mend it, not end it. You can give Windows Explorer most of the tools and abilities found in the video preview simply by installing a handful of free or low-cost Explorer extensions.

Give Explorer more file-management muscle

Here are some of my favorite tools for souping up the Explorer you already have.

Give your dialog boxes more reach. The one freeware utility I recommend over all others is FileBox eXtender. Not only does the program enhance Explorer, it also improves common Open and Save As dialog boxes and other interface elements.

FileBox eXtender's pop-up menu lists the last several folder locations you opened. You can also view a list of your favorite files or folders and resize dialog boxes so they always open at your preferred dimensions.

In addition to file management chores, FileBox eXtender adds a stay-on-top button to every window's title bar, as well as a button to "roll up" the window — just like a real window shade — until only its title bar is visible.

Add breadcrumbs to XP's folder paths. If you're using Windows XP, you may need a few add-ons to update that OS's version of Explorer to match Vista's file manager.

An example is Vista's "breadcrumb" style of displaying folder paths. Click any folder name in the path to navigate back to that folder instantly. Click one of the arrows separating folder names to see a pop-up menu of subfolders to navigate the other direction.

Explorer Breadcrumbs from Minimalist lets you add an Explorer toolbar with this same feature to Windows XP, 2003, or 2000.

In Vista, breadcrumbs replace the previous path notation in the address bar (click to the right of the path to see and select the old style). But since Explorer Breadcrumbs simply adds a new toolbar, you can keep both path styles visible in your Explorer windows at once, if you wish.

The program won't nag you, but the developers ask that you register the product for U.S. $8 if you decide to hold onto it.

Keep tabs on your open windows. If your screen is cluttered with Explorer windows, consider replacing them with tabs similar to those in Internet Explorer 7. Giving your windows tabs would let you switch from one folder location to another with a single click or by pressing Ctrl, Tab.

That's the idea behind QTTabBar. It took me a while to figure out how to use the program to create a new tab. (One way is to right-click a tab and choose "Clone this.") Once you get the hang of the tab-creation process, however, the program becomes very handy.

In addition to the tab toolbar, you can show or hide a toolbar for managing the tabs themselves. Since all of that toolbar's features are also found on the context menu for the tabs, you can save space by turning that option off and right-clicking the tabs instead.

QTTabBar also pops up a menu of objects in a folder when you click the tab's icon. The program's Options dialog includes plenty of customization choices.

You can download QTTabBar for free at the moment, but the program's status as freeware is not well documented.

Make new folders faster. Creating a new folder for organizing your data is one of the most common file management chores — so common that Windows has a button for it in common file dialog boxes like Open and Save As. But Explorer makes you dig into a submenu on the context menu or File menu for this common task.

For a quick and easy solution, download and install bxNewFolder. This simple utility adds a New Folder button to Explorer's existing Standard Buttons toolbar, so there's no new toolbar to take up space. Just click it (or press F12) and type a name to create a new folder in the current location.

The Create New Folder dialog box also includes a history of recently used folder names. Press Enter to finish up, or Shift+Enter to finish and open the new folder with one fell swoop.

Maximize your viewing and connectivity options

Add a third folder window to Explorer. I haven't yet found a tool that gives Windows Explorer side-by-side or stacked folder views in a single window. But FolderBox from BAxBEx Software comes close.

FolderBox lets you open a pane in an Explorer or folder window by clicking View, Explorer Bar, FolderBox. This pane, or FolderBox, works like an added folder window within Explorer.

Your new folder window comes with some handy navigation controls as well as buttons for bookmarking up to five of your favorite folder locations. Of course, you can drag and drop files between FolderBox and other parts of the Explorer window for convenient copying and moving. Best of all, the program is free!

Convert your FTP servers into folders. Explorer has My Computer (or Computer in Vista) for accessing your local drives directly and My Network Places (which Vista calls Network) for opening network locations. Wouldn't it be nice to access FTP locations in Explorer just as easily?

That's the idea behind My FTP Places. The program adds an eponymous icon to My Computer, after which any FTP locations you set up appear nested underneath this icon. This lets you copy files to, remove files from, and otherwise manage your FTP sites as if they were folders on your computer.

Unfortunately, integrating FTP with Explorer comes at a price. My FTP Places is free for your first 50 connections, but after that you need to pay a $40 registration fee.

If you don't mind doing your FTP chores from a separate program, there are plenty of free alternatives. One of the most favorably reviewed is the open-source FileZilla.

Size up your folders in a jiffy. The best free Explorer plugin for viewing folder sizes is, appropriately enough, Folder Size. This freebie adds columns to Explorer's Details view that total up the size of each folder in the list.

Folder Size also shows columns that display the number of files and the number of objects (files plus folders) in the selected folder. Although the scans the program performs to collect the size information can take time, the utility's overall performance on my sort-of-new XP machine was good. (Folder Size does not run on Vista systems.)

If you need a more detailed and graphical way of tracking down your disk hogs and don't care about integrating the information into Explorer, TreeSize Free is a no-cost, standalone tool that ferrets out the space hogs on your system.

Of course, there's plenty you can do to tweak your file and folder settings in Explorer itself. In a future column, I'll describe how to add features and customizations to Windows Explorer without having to download or install any add-ons at all.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Scanahand on Bits du Jour

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2008, 05:07 PM »

Thanks for the link!  I was kicking myself for not getting it, and didn't realize we had a DC discount going on!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was the name of that Right/Middle Click Circle-based interface app launcher

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2008, 05:02 PM »

But not the crap (yahoo messenger) that was installed? 

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Official Announcements / Re: Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by wraith808 on June 06, 2008, 04:57 PM »

Does the program have to be a winforms application or can it be a webforms application?

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Living Room / Re: The last time your AntiVirus saved you!

« Last post by wraith808 on May 23, 2008, 04:13 PM »

The only time by box was ever infected was by code red.  I lost a *lot* of stuff then.  I had stopped running AV because I hated (and still hate- even more!) the whole subscription model.  Since then, I've been running it continuously, but when I think about it, even if I *had* AV installed, I'm not sure it would have stopped Code Red...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of FileBoss

« Last post by wraith808 on May 18, 2008, 11:39 PM »

I'm not sure... I always use details view, so I never even noticed this.  You might want to try to contact them to see f this s possible; from a quick look through the help and the menus, I didn't see any way to do it (which would seem to indicate to me you probably can't).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of FileBoss

« Last post by wraith808 on May 18, 2008, 11:29 PM »

As promised, I updated it to a full fledged mini-review.  Enjoy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by wraith808 on May 17, 2008, 01:17 PM »

I posted a prelim mini-review of fileboss (https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13387.0).  I'll clean it up a bit later, but wanted to get it up while the BDJ deal was available.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Mini-Review of FileBoss

« Last post by wraith808 on May 17, 2008, 12:14 PM »

As promised:

Basic Info

App Name	FileBoss
App URL	http://theutilityfactory.com/
App Version Reviewed	2.002
Test System Specs	Windows XP Pro SP2
Supported OSes	Windows XP, Vista
Support Methods	Webform, e-mail, phone
Upgrade Policy	Not explicitly stated*
Trial Version Available?	Trial is available at http://theutilityfac...ownload/download.htm.  Time limited, but no limitations during that time.
Pricing Scheme	49.99USD for Single-User license.**

Intro: FileBoss is a robust and full-featured file manager replacement for Windows.  Some of the features include: multi-pane multi-tabbed file groups allow you to browse your files in many different ways.  Advanced copy features allow you to copy files with robust error recovery so the copy does not fail because one file failed.  FileBoss includes a powerful batch renaming function,
and the ability to touch files and manipulate attributes of many files at the same time.  It has an advanced file find function that allows you to specify search definitions and save the searches in virtual folders that can automatically update when you open FileBoss again.  This is a file manager literally chock-full of tools to let you manipulate files the way that you want to.


Who is this app designed for:

This application is designed for anyone that wants to more efficiently manage their files.  The features are for the most part unobtrusive, so even the beginner can use this file manager as simply as they would use explorer.

The Good

The interface is very straightforward, and includes not many non-standard windows controls.  Personally, I found the toolbar a bit heavy, but it is in the Office 2007 format, and I feel the same way about that suite of programs.  The buttons on the toolbar are contextual, i.e. they change depending on the context of your focus; I didn't like the fact that they disappeared at times.  But again, that is a subjective judgement.  The interface is completely configurable as far as where things are, and the windows are dockable, and can be auto-hidden as needed. 



It has a lot of features- and not useless ones, but things that I use a variety of utilities to do on a daily basis.  It's like they packed the kitchen sink into the product!  Searches with virtual folders to allow you to work with your search folders at any time.



The search was a lot faster than the windows search, and I do like that you can save these virtual folders.



This screen shows the dialog presented when you save for the first time.  You can save virtual folders as definitions (this has the disadvantage that it has to re-perform the search whenever you open FileBoss), or a complete virtual folder.  I also like that the tree is completely traversable, and filters out files so that only the ones present in that part of the tree (including subfolders) are visible.  You can also in the list view choose to show folders or not, and the folders will be colored differently.



You have to be aware that when saving these virtual folders, if they are open when FileBoss is closed, by default they will be open when you re-open FileBoss, resulting in a definite slowdown as the application is opened; none of the other open folders are shown until the search is complete.

Speaking of searches, FileBoss also has a drop down menu of saved searches, shown below.



Or you can define your own search parameters.  There are quite a few already defined, but the search can be as easy or as complicated as you like.



Once you instigate a search, a progress dialog is shown; I like the manner in which it shows the pattern that is being searched for.



In my evaluation time, I could not discern how to add to this menu; the edit menu option only allowed you to edit the existing definitions, and this particular help topic did not work.

As opposed to a search, a filtering function is available only on live folders.  If you click the filter button, the menu below is shown.



This filtering is pretty much instantaneous, and stays on until you turn it off again from the filter menu.  I like that in this mode, a line is shown above the files, to let you know not only that the files are filtered, but what the filter is.



If you have a filtered window open, and click explore, the filter will be maintained in the new tab.  Speaking of the explore button, it seems that some functionality is duplicated; the menu under the explore button brings up the exact same menu as the favorites button.  I'm not sure if I'm missing something there, but it is a minor point in any case.



Another feature which I enjoyed was the fact that when you right click on an item in the file list, FileBoss doesn't assume that you want the FileBoss menu.  So many applications assume this, and it drives me crazy; many applications add to the file menu, and to have to go through extra clicks to access these menus is annoying.  FileBoss merely adds a menu option at the bottom of the standard
file menu, as shown below.



A few other features I wanted to touch on before going on are the Create Duplicate Files, File Touch, Backup, and File Rename features.  All of these are useful enough to be separate applications on their own.  But they are included here, and with the ability to modify how the file dates are shown to accommodate ages, modification date, and standard windows date formats, allow you a great degree of control over your files.











The needs improvement section

This is a very well put together application, and in this section, I'm really nit-picking.  First, the interface is a little more candy-like than I'm used to.  It uses a lot of the Office 2007 interface guidelines, which makes it a program that seems to need the whole screen.  It doesn't, but unless I have it maximised, it doesn't seem I have enough real-estate.  There are a *lot* of options and tools-so many that it's hard to get your head around it.  Take for example the copy files dialog.  The standard dialog is below:



If you click the advanced button, this increases to what you see below.



Then you click the global options button, which gives you another dialog of options.



I don't know of another way to do this, and the options seem well laid out.  It's just a bit overwhelming at times, and I come from using Directory Opus.

Continuing, as I stated above, I haven't quite figured out how to use the stored search function; my stored searches don't appear there, and when I edit the menu, there's only options to delete the searches and the help for that particular topic isn't linked.  But the biggest issues I have, ones that make me unsure of whether it could be my full time file manager replacement (and they could be easily corrected, but I haven't found an option for them) are 1) that the copy/move operations don't default your destination path to the other pane or allow you to just copy without going through the dialog, and 2) when selected, only the filenames are selected, the rest of the file details are not selected in a complete row fashion.



Something that I have also grown used to is having an FTP client in my file manager.  There is not one here- not really a shortcoming of the application, it's just one way that it does not dovetail with how I've grown to use file managers.

How does it compare to similar apps

I've used several File Managers: Xplorer2, XYplorer, Explorer with extensions, and many more that have not made an impression on me the way that these have.  Directory Opus is my file manager of choice.  This comes quite close to unseating Directory Opus as my file manager of choice.  The ease of use, but obvious power, along with the plethora of tools included really give it a leg up
on the competition.

Conclusions

As I said above, this comes quite close to unseating Directory Opus as my file manager of choice.  I will definitely use it to replace many of the tools I have to batch rename, search for files, touch files, and general file management.  But for day to day use, Directory Opus is light enough for my use and does what I need it to.  This could just be a bias since I've used Directory Opus for so long, but only time will tell.  I would definitely recommend it for a look for anyone that is looking for a powerful file manager and general toolbox.  It's a definite value, and the price is not out of line with similar file manager alternatives, let alone the extra toolset that this gives you.

Links to other reviews of this application

Though I had never heard of this application before it appeared on Bits Du Jour, there are several reviews.

Shareware Junkies lists it on can't do without it software.
http://www.shareware...kies.com/without.htm
http://www.shareware.../05zwd8/fileboss.htm

Tucows gives it 4 cows
http://www.tucows.com/preview/416069

* After I left the review on Bits, Dexter Bell from The Utility Factory responded with this to say about upgrades:

The review wondered about upgrade policies. The all minor (i.e. 2.X) are free. You are upgrade protected for all major upgrades for at least one year. The upgrade price to version 2.0 for all previous customers was a nice, big, fat zero. There will be a small charge for version 3.0 but that is over a year away and compared to other programs it won't be much.

** Plain text license

Single-User License
The single-user license allows you to install FileBoss on one computer. You may install FileBoss on two computers as long as they are both used by you and will not be used by others. For example you can install FileBoss on your computer at work and your computer at home or you could install FileBoss on your main computer and your laptop computer.  If you are using FileBoss at your home and not at your office you may install FileBoss on up to five computers at that single-family residence. (If you wish to use FileBoss on your office computer and on more than one computer at home then you
will need two licenses, one for your home and one for your office.)

Multiple-User Licenses
Multiple-user licenses allow you to install FileBoss on the number of computers the license is for or for the number of people who will be using those computers, whichever is less.  For example if you
have five computers shared by ten people then you only need a five user license. If you have five people that share 10 computers and only those five people use those computers then you still only need a five-user license.  FileBoss is not licensed on a concurrent user basis. Concurrent user licensing is where the number of required licenses is calculated by the maximum number of user that
will be using a program at the same time. 

More comments by Dexter Bell:

The comment about the candy-like interface is valid for some. Many thought our previous interface to sour. :-) The good news is that you can change both the general style and the that of the tool bars to take some of the sweetness out of it.

As for the other two points. We are working on 'Copy Again' (actually any action again) logic that will just use the previous parameters. It should be out in about 2 months. In the mean time you can configure the Drag & Drop copy engine to act with the settings you want and then use Drag & Drop for simple copy operations (FileBoss Drag & Drop is a lot more sophisticated than Windows Explorer. (See: www.theutilityfactory.com/summaries/drag-and-drop.htm for more and for how to set it up see: www.theutilityfactory.com/online_help/index.html?hidd_options_advanced_2.htm)

edited: removed link to download.com review and updated prices to USD.  Thanks for the corrections.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Mini-Review InfoLayout

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2008, 12:27 PM »

Note that InfoLayout is available on Bits Du Jour today (May 11, 2008), and I wanted to see about buying it.  This is a result of my evaluation.

Basic Info

App Name	InfoLayout
App URL	http://www.trietech.com/infolayout.php
App Version Reviewed	2.4.2
Test System Specs	Windows XP Pro SP2
Supported OSes	Windows XP, Vista
Support Methods	Webform, e-mail, forum
Upgrade Policy	Not explicitly stated
Trial Version Available?	Trial is available at http://www.trietech.com/download.php.  Time limited, but no limitations during that time.
Pricing Scheme	$39.00 ($15.00 on Bits Du Jour http://www.bitsdujou...software/infolayout/)

Intro:
From the software site, InfoLayout is supposed to have all of the features of standard disk cataloging software.  It states that it organizes by disk, but the catalog is easily rearrangeable, categorized, and searchable, even across multiple disks.  Infolayout is supposed to be able to automatically extract information from documents, eBooks, audio and video files. It can generate image thumbnails and video previews, retrieve descriptions, create document snippets, and obtain relevant information from zipped archives.


Who is this app designed for:

This application is designed for anyone who has a large collection of files- be they images, videos, pdfs, etc- in different places, and wants to be able to find them without physically loading all of the media.

The Good

The interface seems straightforward enough at first glance- not cluttered, with most of the panes hideable in a standard windows manner.  The catalog is stored in a standard windows tree, and the results are shown in a standard explorer view, with multiple tabs.  Items can be renamed in the detail view, which creates an alias for the item- the actual item on disk is not touched.  In fact, for most operations, nothing on the disk is changed.  The indexing functionality is very fast.



This screen shows an example of the indexing progress dialog.  It scanned through a pretty complex tree of pdfs with over 2000 documents in less than 30 seconds.  I tried with a larger subset of my items (10000+) and it took less than 5 minutes.  The size of this catalog when saved was ~6 MiB.  Slower than actually adding the documents was categorizing- it took more time to add a category to a subset of the items (the original 2000+) than it took to add the whole set!


The needs improvement section

Even though the version is 2.4.2, the application still seems rather unfinished, and does not deliver on many of the promises.  You cannot rearrange items that I found- once you imported items, they stayed in whatever disk they were put in.  Virtual folders were not all they were touted to be- they were merely containers for disks, and could only contain the whole disk as shown below.



The search is relatively speedy, though again, I only added part of my local disk, and part of a second disk.  By specifying a category, only items from that category were searched and returned.  The results are in a separate tab, and each resultset can be returned in a different tab- a nice touch.  The search result, however, does not specify *where* the file is- something that I really expected.



What was disconcerting was that double-clicking on a file in the search window repurposed my one location window, taking me to that location in that window.  This is why I would like multiple tabs of the regular view- to be able to have more than one location open at a time- but apparently this isn't possible.



Which brings us to the final bad part- there is no help included with the product.  There is an entry in the help menu to open it, but it does nothing.  There is an entry in the hints screen that pops up when you open the app to take you to a tutorial, but it does nothing.  There is a tutorial on the website, but it is half unfinished.  And the forums are pretty much unvisited, so I'm not sure how much help they will be.  That, and the presentation of grammar on the site was really disconcerting.

How does it compare to similar apps

It does lip service to being a Disk Cataloging system.  But it's functionality falls far short of WinCataloger- the cataloger I currently use.

Conclusions

This product looks like it has a lot of potential.  And at $15 on BDJ, it's not a large investment.  But it is really disappointing for a product that is at version 2.4.2.  I'd actually recommend taking a pass on this one- the $15 could be put towards something that's a bit more finished.

Links to other reviews of this application

There is a review on http://3d2f.com/smar...-laid-out-read.shtml linked to from the TrieTech website, but it seems more like a promotion than an impartial review.  They also list many awards on their site, but no links to where the awards were given.  I did check a couple, and finally found one - softplatz.com.  But there is no actual review there: http://softplatz.com...Disk/InfoLayout.html.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Smartphone software (Cellphones with Windows Mobile 6 OS)

« Last post by wraith808 on May 11, 2008, 09:38 AM »

I use http://www.handango.com for most of my software- I used to buy so much that I'm in their discount club. 

But the software that I currently have on mine includes: facade, battery pack pro, eWallet, mobipocket (free e-reader- mobipocket.com), keep track, listpro, newsbreak, notepad mobile, resco tools, resco photo viewer, resco explorer, the popcap games pack, cubis, marble worlds, brain challenge, slot car racer, smart 4lign (connect four), smart chess, smart checkers, smartello (othello), spb arkaball, and sodoku sensei.  The only software I have that I don't really use is listpro and notepad mobile. Office came on the phone and has been invaluable- if yours doesn't come with it, I recommend that also, though if you can't get that Documents to Go is a good alternative.  I used that before I had Office.  I tried bankarama and liked it more than keep track- it came down to the fact that ilium gives a discount for purchasing all of their software, and it interfaces better with quicken.  I received pocket informant for free, but I haven't even tried it- but I hear that it's good also.

I know that's a lot of software LOL.  But really, what I use day to day is mobipocket, Office, newsbreak, eWallet, facade, keep track, and the resco pack of tools.  I can't recommend the photo viewer and explorer enough- the one that comes with windows is pretty gimped.

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Found Deals and Discounts / File Boss - Bits du Jour for Saturday May 17th

« Last post by wraith808 on May 10, 2008, 02:53 PM »

Has anyone used this before?  I'm downloading to try it out, but I'm pretty slammed right now so doubt I'll really be able to fit in a good test before next Saturday.

If I can test it, I'll put up a mini-review of the trial.

http://www.bitsdujou...oftware/fileboss-v2/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bits - ActMask - Drive Encryption - problems in encyption claims

« Last post by wraith808 on May 10, 2008, 02:51 PM »

My stance on this stuff is always try it... *shrugs*  I'm sure some vetting is done, but to get software deals every day, sometimes something of questionable quality is going to slip through.  Personally, I instantly look past most of the offerings in this vein.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MusicIP 1.9beta3 (new 1.9 version) released

« Last post by wraith808 on May 08, 2008, 01:58 PM »

It has an interface for all of that?  I didn't know that!

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General Software Discussion / Re: MusicIP 1.9beta3 (new 1.9 version) released

« Last post by wraith808 on May 08, 2008, 12:42 PM »

To do what Tinjaw?

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Living Room / Re: Fred Langa bows our (and bikes off in to the wide blue yonder ...)

« Last post by wraith808 on May 01, 2008, 02:39 PM »

I must admit, I'm the same way as you Carol.  I have a paid subscription, but it feels like a non-paid subscription with all of the ads.  When Brian Livingston first started (I didn't know about Langalist) he was the same way- I guess becoming larger meant they had to find another revenue stream.  These days there's less 'secrets' and more general news that you can find anywhere.

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Living Room / Re: might be a bit off BUT i would like advice about a game ( not another one)

« Last post by wraith808 on April 25, 2008, 02:24 PM »

When I say ping, I don't mean your ping, I mean the server's ping.  What I mean by that, is on the select server screen, there should be a column with ping (i think that's what it's called) that should have a number.  What does this say?  And does this happen no matter what BF2 server you're connected to?

For more information on what column I mean, look at this screenshot of the server selection screen:
http://img243.images...mg243/3112/pbwk0.jpg

Also, other questions to speed up troubleshooting:  Are you connected directly to your modem, or is there a router in the way?  Is it laggy all the time, or does it just happen at certain times?

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Living Room / Re: How many people work from home?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 24, 2008, 03:48 PM »

I work all the time from everywhere    Basically I freelance for one big corporate client at a time, and have side work that I'm building up... it's hard though.  But I look at people that have done it, and it gives me the inspiration to keep trying! 

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Living Room / Re: might be a bit off BUT i would like advice about a game ( not another one)

« Last post by wraith808 on April 24, 2008, 03:46 PM »

1. Does it matter what server you connect to?
2. What's your ping in the server list?

If your ping is low, and it's consistently a problem no matter what server you connect to, I'd say your problem is on your end... what other software do you have running?