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BrokenNails:
I used to use dbPowerAmp all the time too, but i've been disapointed with the latest version so i looked for an alternative and found Switch. Convert anything to anything very simply, i like it and it's free. The "plus" version offers a command-line ability that should very interesting with Drag n Drop Robot.
-ak_ (July 02, 2007, 05:17 AM)
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Hmmm, I haven't had any problems with dbPowerAmp myself. Does Switch have 'right click -> convert' integration into explorer?
Also, i was looking for a nice alternative to Winamp and discovered XMPlay (thanks to *i don't remember who* on this forum) and i love it. You should try it.
-ak_ (July 02, 2007, 05:17 AM)
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Winamp may have had a stay of execution courtesy of jgpaiva's tip on how to get the global hotkeys working. That said, I might just give XMPlay a try and see what I'm missing. Thanks for the recommendations.
But AutoHotkey is "on the cusp"?! ;-)
-zridling (July 02, 2007, 05:33 AM)
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Heh, what can I say? :) I've only been using it for a couple of months and haven't yet developed a dependency on it. Still, I can see how it might be able to solve one of my more annoying work related problems (just have to find the time to do it) and if that's successful it'll most likely cross the "love and couldn't do without" threshold!
ak_:
Hmmm, I haven't had any problems with dbPowerAmp myself. Does Switch have 'right click -> convert' integration into explorer?-BrokenNails (July 02, 2007, 06:23 PM)
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Yes it does.
BrokenNails:
1. Sandboxie - I haven't even seen a false positive, much less any real malware since I started doing all my surfing in a sandbox.
-howiem (July 02, 2007, 08:54 AM)
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Have you experienced any major slowdowns when browsing within Sandboxie? I found that whenever I had more than, say, two or three tabs open in Firefox I would be browsing fine and then suddenly, BAM, everything starts timing out and the only solution is to kill the current sandbox and restart it.
It was almost like once the browser had more than a few concurrent connections going Sandboxie would just choke and not be able to recover.
It could well be a system related issue though as Sandboxie worked fine for about 3 or 4 months before this problem cropped up a month back. I have, however, reinstalled Windows since and yet experienced the problem again immediately.
howiem:
BrokenNails,
The only slowdowns I have experienced in a sandbox is with IE7, which is very slow to load, and gets very sluggish in responding to such things as opening new tabs. However, I use AM browser (an IE shell) where I usually have from 15-30 tab open, as well as TheWorld browser, Firefox, Safari and Opera and have not noticed any major slowdowns in any of those. I have not tried IE7 no-addons or gone through the ritual of disabling add-ons one at a time to try and pinpoint the problem (if that is the problem). I am currently using sandboxie 2.94.23 (beta).
One of the things I like most about Sandboxie is if you post issues on the forum, tzuk or someone else will reply in very short order, and tzuk sometimes is able to fix a problem in minutes. I've done a lot of beta testing with him and he is extremely responsive. The only reason I've found to surf outside of the sandbox is when I want to do MS Updates manually. And in case you haven't tried any recent versions, Sandboxie now has a Quick Recovery function, so when you download a program or file in the sandbox, you get a dialog immediately upon completion of the download asking if you want to save the file to the hard drive location where you saved it. This feature is not enabled by default (for security reasons), but it only takes a second to enable in the SB Control Window.
What? Me Worry? I surf in a sandbox!!
Curt:
Volumouse :-*
Volumouse was yesterday updated to 1.5 and is now fully Vistable:
Version 1.50:
Volumouse now works under Windows Vista (both 32-bit and x64 versions)
Under Vista, there is no default mixer device anymore, but you can select the default playback and recording device in the component combo-box.
Under Vista, You can select more 6 channels, in addition to the 2 standard left and right channels.
Under Vista, changing the master volume doesn't affect the default left/right balance, as in the previous version of Windows.
All default settings are now saved into .cfg file instead of the Registry.
Added new options to "Use the wheel when" combo-box: Windows Media Center is focused, iTunes is focused, Mouse cursor is over the Vista Gadgets, GOM Player is focused, Alt+Shift are down, Alt+Ctrl are down, Ctrl+Shift are down, The cursor is on screen corners.
New option: Use hot-keys instead of the mouse wheel.
Added additional rule line (6 instead of 5 in previous versions...)-Versions History
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