Free software every day

[MilesAhead]

And I get the money!!!!!!!!!!!!

You get the vig eh? Always wondered where it went

[doctorhardware]

And I get the money!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MilesAhead]

The "hijack" remark is simply my attempt at humour, albiet dry, but humour nonetheless.

Later.

btw though, I think the Commiedians Of the Globe Guild(COGG) kicks you out if you explain a joke. First time is a warning, 2nd offense they garnishee your 401k.

[ger@co]

The "hijack" remark is simply my attempt at humour, albiet dry, but humour nonetheless.

Later.

[MilesAhead]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but since the title of the thread is "Free software every day," I thought it would be okay.

This freebee looks interesting for the budding or professional collage artist out there.

No hijack involved.
Alerts for free software is why it's here. I guess I have too much free time so I tend to post a lot of follow-ups here.

[ger@co]

Sorry to hijack your thread, but since the title of the thread is "Free software every day," I thought it would be okay.

This freebee looks interesting for the budding or professional collage artist out there.

[MilesAhead]

update

An MRU list of only 10 folders seemed a bit meager so I updated XMon folder monitor with an Up/Down button to allow adjusting the maxium folder setting. The range is 4 to 64 folders.

There's a download link near the bottom of this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

[MilesAhead]

I have another home grown hotkey util available for download. This one is for XP and later.
If you hit Shift-NumberPadMinus hotkey, the "home folder" for the active window is opened. IOW, whatever folder that exe is in that created the window.

If you hit Control-NumberPadMinus a command prompt opens. If the window is an explorer folder, that will be the current directory for the command prompt. If the window is an application window, the home folder will be current directory for the command prompt.

It may prove convenient sometimes. I know I hate going to the shortcut to find out where the program that's running is installed. This hotkey gizmo makes it quicker.

See Home Folder at the bottom of this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

[MilesAhead]

skwire spruced up his program a bit. Now called PlayTime, it calculates total play times of media files dropped on, also total time for selected files is shown on status bar. Double click an entry plays the file with the associated player.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=17353.new#new

[MilesAhead]

Media Info Poller freebie

I was looking for some kind of shell extension or utility to add the play times of media files. I posted a request on Coding Snacks forum on Donation Coder and skwire was nice enough to code it in AutoHotKey. Just drag & drop a bunch of media files onto the list and it shows play time and totals them up. Here's a link to the thread. The utility is freeware. I tried it on Vista 32 and 64 bit.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=17353.new#new

There's a download link in the thread 'bout half way down.

[MilesAhead]

I saw Glary on Gizmo's list. Haven't tried it yet. Right now things are working well so I'm not too anxious to tweak. Bask in the sun while there ain't no clouds type of thing.

[Abuilder]

Is anyone a user of WinUtilities? I'm wondering because I noticed a giveaway for version 6.2. They supply a reg user name and reg number so you can reinstall. It's just a couple of versions behind the latest with no updates.

I'm reluctant to use many tweakers since if you make a dozen adjustments in one shot and stuff goes sour it's a mystery which tweak hosed it.

But there are a few good ones here and there and it's always good if you happen to find another gem.

Miles
I missed this post. I had a look at WinUtilities but like most utilities like this I tend to steer clear of the one click fix all packages. The only one I use is one that Blu posted about a few times and that is Glary utilities. It has a one click fix all part too but it also lets you run modules one by one and restore if it breaks anything. + it's free

[MilesAhead]

The external is those plastic cube things with a USB connection. You snap a Sata drive into the cube and push a button to release it. It's just a plastic HD enclosure with a snap in feature. The top of the internal drive sticks out. Basically you are plugging a drive in like it was a floppy disk. I'm thinking though if you had your basic setup for some dedicated task like Chewy does you could clone a couple of drives while the HD is still healthy. If it craps out just plug in your "slipstreamed" drive from your store of backups. Maybe that's too mass production I dunno'.

I looked at Acronis when I was picking out my hd backup software. Just seemed like their support forum had too many stuck customers with setups similar to mine. If you look on Gizmo's 46 best freeware it mentions some of the problems. But if you are on a setup that's trouble-free I'm sure it has great features.

If you were just cloning identically sized drives then you could just use that Windows freeware that uses a port of the Linux dd command to copy sector by sector. Doesn't adjust size but if you just want an identical copy it should do the trick for free.

One trouble with it though is you sit around while it copies empty sectors. Copies every sector whether it is "used" by the file system or not.

[dr_ml422]

By external drive stations you mean a external hdd, or a pc that's run by a external drive? Anyhow there seems to be a fine line here between restoring a hdd to its former state and backing up n replacing the hdd fully. When restoring its almost like a repair disc, but when replacing the whole os n apps. w/a backedup or cloned copy you're getting rid of the whole old hdd which of course was hosed for some reason, so why even bother w/a restore?

I hooked up a regular 80Gb wd sata to a sata data cable n power connector, sat it inside a extra cage that came w/my build w/the case open, and cloned the HDD on my Dell in about 3mins. or so. Then just took out the resident hdd, left the cables intact and unhooked the cloned hdd and connected it to the primary cables. finished. Powered on n everything was just how I left it. Unreal. I don't see anything out there matching Acronis's abilities, and it gives you options to format a hdd, create partitions, and like you mentioned picking n choosing what to copy. But why bother? The automatic clone feature does everything in 1 click.

[MilesAhead]

You can use Process Explorer to free the handle but it's not as clean. I think the guy who did Unlocker is still trying to figure out how to get the 64 bit shell extension. That's the trouble is a lot of programming tools that do things quick easy and stand-alone, like Dephi 5, are never going to have a 64 bit version. We need some good free 64 bit compilers and IDE tools.