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MaakHatt posted:Can anyone recommend software or a Google Chrome plugin that can control web traffic? Something that blocks access to certain sites entirely is OK, but I'd prefer if there were options to browse "blocked" sites during certain times of the day (like 6-8 PM every night) or just weekends. I'm far too distracted at school and need help focusing. I've been using 'Rescue Time' too, with decent success.
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Armourking posted:I don't believe you can set individual row heights per column. You'd have to do some splitting and merging to get it right, unfortunately.
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Unless you're planning to send your movie back in time to 2005 you really shouldn't be using VirtualDub anymore, that poo poo is outdated like crazy by now. The go-to tool for recoding video and audio nowadays is ffmpeg. Officially it's just a command line tool but it's not that complicated. If you have severe commandlinophobia there are GUI wrappers for it. For more specialized muxing/demuxing including chapters, subtitles etc there is mkvtoolnix which is specialized for mkv output. For video compression, absolutely use x264. As a GUI for that, Handbrake is the #1 pick nowadays.
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Feb 11, 2013 15:54
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peak debt posted:Unless you're planning to send your movie back in time to 2005 you really shouldn't be using VirtualDub anymore, that poo poo is outdated like crazy by now. It seems odd to describe a tool that has a graphical user interface as a thing of the past in order to endorse a command line utility.
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Feb 11, 2013 16:07
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peak debt posted:Unless you're planning to send your movie back in time to 2005 you really shouldn't be using VirtualDub anymore, that poo poo is outdated like crazy by now. A lot of outdated guides though, probably got a few for VirtualDub 
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I have an odd problem with a user at work, been kicking my rear end for a week. I took away her XP/Office 2007 laptop and gave her a new one with win7/office 2010, copied all her data. If you open "documents" and start to scroll it pops up an error "windows explorer has stopped working" every time. I saw this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2694911 and updated the video drivers, swapped ram with another laptop and tried the thumbnail options it mentions. Nothing helped. I gave her a different win7 laptop, same model, same image and the explorer problem is not quite as bad but on this one but now something new: on any office product if she clicks file - open and starts to scroll through documents in that file picker dialog, you get an instant error about "word has stopped working". I can't get explorer itself to fail on this one until I start changing the thumbnail options to never show thumbnails, then explorer will fail, and word/excel/pp do too. Any ideas? She does have a lot of data in there, around 9000 files 9gb. Root of my docs has 725 items, 100 something folders 600 something files. Any of that a problem? That link above talks about looking in action center - maintenence - view reliability. If I look there I can see all the errors logged and whether it be explorer.exe or word.exe as the "faulting application name" they all have a "faulting module path=ntdll.dll" in common.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:16
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Wagonburner posted:I have an odd problem with a user at work, been kicking my rear end for a week. I took away her XP/Office 2007 laptop and gave her a new one with win7/office 2010, copied all her data. I would post in the tech support forum...this thread is more looking for software recommendations.
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peak debt posted:Unless you're planning to send your movie back in time to 2005 you really shouldn't be using VirtualDub anymore, that poo poo is outdated like crazy by now.  I'll give Handbrake a try the next time I have the need, though. Aonyx posted:In addition to my last question; What would you all recommend for video compression?
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Feb 12, 2013 15:06
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I'm using Outlook 2007 and am actively working on two projects. I've configured my Outlook profile so that I have access to my own mailbox, mailbox for Project A, and mailbox for Project B. Is there a way to set up automatic replies for each of the mailboxes? As far as I can tell, it only lets me set it up for my own mailbox. Multiple users will have access to the project mailboxes and that's why we want the mailboxes available on each of their profiles (as opposed to logging in directly into project a/b accounts).
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Tortilla Maker posted:I'm using Outlook 2007 and am actively working on two projects. I've configured my Outlook profile so that I have access to my own mailbox, mailbox for Project A, and mailbox for Project B. Nope. That can only be done via webaccess. Outlook is terrible for multiple mailboxes. Lets say User A deletes an email from a proxy email box. That deleted email goes into User A trash and not the trash of the proxy email account. It's terrible.
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Feb 12, 2013 16:42
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A bit late to the party, but CamStudio is a ~Free~ option to CamTasia, and you can try it and see if you like it before pulling out your wallet. Also seconding HandBrake for batch and single file compression.
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So whenever I plug in a USB device and the system chimes all the audio in any other application gets cut until I restart the application. I've read the fixes for Skype doing this and for Steam doing this posted on previous pages, and I thought maybe it was steam until I tested it without steam open, and I've checked the volume mixer to see if it's been lowered in there but no dice, all the volumes for every application behave as though nothing is changed and the levels are set exactly where they are supposed to be. This is driving me crazy.
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Feb 12, 2013 19:47
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Grab Meatcastle posted:So whenever I plug in a USB device and the system chimes all the audio in any other application gets cut until I restart the application. I've read the fixes for Skype doing this and for Steam doing this posted on previous pages, and I thought maybe it was steam until I tested it without steam open, and I've checked the volume mixer to see if it's been lowered in there but no dice, all the volumes for every application behave as though nothing is changed and the levels are set exactly where they are supposed to be. Turn of system sounds? Actually i think it might be "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device", in control panel, sound, playback tab, hit properties for your speakers or whatever it is, then on the advanced tab, uncheck "allow.."
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Feb 12, 2013 20:19
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I've got another MS Office question. I'm trying to print columns laid out in precise measurements so they fill the page exactly and meet certain size criteria. However, I can't get the first columnn to extend to the margin. The far right column, however does. Any ideas? It seems like there's a threshold where this starts occurring: .5 inches in portait and .25 in landscape. I'm going for .31 margins in landscape, which is triggering it. Dominoes fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Feb 12, 2013 |
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Windows question for y'all. I'm building a new PC, and I am planning on reusing my current license of Windows 7 Professional. I was planning on doing this by creating a bootable USB drive. Problem: my current PC is 32-bit, I am moving to 64-bit. Apparently you cannot create a 64-bit drive within a 32-bit environment, neither by command line or by the Microsoft-provided utility. I've tried both. Okay, I figured, I'll do it on my 64-bit Windows 8 laptop. Same deal, sort of--it gave me some noise about can't run bootsect.exe from a UEFI device. I wasn't planning on doing this, but it looks like I'm going to have to install an optical drive on my new CPU to make it work, unless any of y'all have encountered this before or know of any sort of workaround. Thanks in advance!
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We have a bunch of servers with names that are too drat long, and I want to create a bunch of CNAMEs for them. We're using Server 2008 R2 for our DNS, and I want the CNAMEs to be just the last 4 characters of the A record. Is there a nice scripted way of doing this, or am I doomed to manually typing them all up? Edit: Found a way of doing it! dnscmd does command line dns editing. so running> dnscmd /recordadd mydomain.local XXYY CNAME 111111-LLDDXXYY.mydomain.local where XXYY is the desired short CNAME entry, and the last variable is the A record to point towards. And with a lot of servers, I was able to get by with Excel auto-complete on a spreadsheet of server, pasting that into notepad, saving as a batch file and just executing that. If there's a super fancy way to powershell out the host records I wouldn't mind seeing it, but my quick and dirty got the Job Done. NZAmoeba fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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GreenNight posted:Nope. That can only be done via webaccess. Outlook is terrible for multiple mailboxes. Lets say User A deletes an email from a proxy email box. That deleted email goes into User A trash and not the trash of the proxy email account. It's terrible. If outlook is terrible what else is recommended? How do I emulate Multiple Spaces/Desktops like in OS X/Linux? On Windows 7.
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I've had two quite different computers fail to update Windows 7 last night, after shut down it just sat at installing updates for both of them. One stuck at update 1, the other at update 2. I'm not even sure what to do about it as it happened outside Windows and there is little in common between the machines.
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For those of you having audio problems, specifically where audio suddenly reduces at the occurrence of another sound, check this setting: Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Communications Select 'Do Nothing'  This is referred to as "ducking" or "attenuation", it's helpful in voice chat programs but shouldn't be occurring outside of those situations. The issues described seem to fit it perfectly though, as I occasionally had issues when using it with outside programs not returning to the correct volume without a restart.
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I'm looking for an intra office IM/In-Out Board that's AD compatible, has user/supervisor level access capability, centrally managed, and integrates with Outlook. That said, I don't think I want MS Lync. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think it has a native In-Out board that can be displayed at a kiosk. Also a Lync installation would be directed and managed by our Exchange group, who doesn't really like these kind of small-scale deployments that we'll be using this board for. Suggestions?
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Feb 13, 2013 14:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:If outlook is terrible what else is recommended? Nothing. You just have to Deal With It. Also for multiple spaces, try VirtuaWin.
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GreenNight posted:Also for multiple spaces, try VirtuaWin. Does VirtuaWin let you do things like drag programs/windows into different spaces? I tried Desktops today and while it works in a rudimentary sense, it was missing a lot of things OS X Spaces could do (like dragging windows back and forth into different spaces, and being able to control a media program (e.g, Spotify) hidden in a different space with the media keys on the keyboard unless I was in the space space as the media app itself). e: Also, when I ctrl + tab'ed between programs it had a really annoying tendency to bring the highlighted program into focus even though I still had the ctrl key held down. This was super annoying because sometimes I just wanted/needed extra time to see which program ctrl + tab selected because it wasn't 100% obvious and then it would just bring another window into focus on top of the ctrl + tab bar. How do I disable this behavior? Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 21:21
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Boris Galerkin posted:I tried Desktops today and while it works in a rudimentary sense, it was missing a lot of things OS X Spaces could do (like dragging windows back and forth into different spaces, and being able to control a media program (e.g, Spotify) hidden in a different space with the media keys on the keyboard unless I was in the space space as the media app itself). And I'm guessing you mean alt-tabbing between programs? Ctrl-tabbing would usually switch between tabs or windows of the same program. If so, see if the behaviour of the Win+Tab feature suits you better.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't use it myself, but I've seen a bunch of recommendations for Dexpot for virtual desktops on Windows. I can't tell if its going to do everything you want, but it seems definitely worth checking out. I'm looking for a free solution so Dexpot is out (I'm actually really surprised having multiple desktops isn't a standard feature and my coworkers look at me like I'm a weirdo for even wanting something like this). Gonna try out the other one recommended today. Also yeah I mean alt tab sorry. I tried win tab but this isn't what I want. I like that alt tab brings up a bar showing other programs/windows, but I don't like that it "brings it into focus" if I hover on it too long.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I'm looking for a free solution so Dexpot is out (I'm actually really surprised having multiple desktops isn't a standard feature and my coworkers look at me like I'm a weirdo for even wanting something like this). Gonna try out the other one recommended today. On the Alt-Tab thing, I found this interesting thing on Wikipedia: Wikipedia posted:In Windows 7 Alt+Tab, after a one-second delay, displays the full-sized application window immediately each time the cursor position changes, hiding all other windows. This is a part of Aero Peek feature, new in Windows 7. This behavior can be disabled along with Aero Peek: Control Panel - Performance Information and Tools - Adjust visual effects - uncheck Enable Aero Peek. It doesn't for me, and I do indeed have desktop gadgets enabled and use a mouse that uses the Intellipoint driver. But then, it doesn't bother me enormously either. In case this happens for you as well because of the gadget system, you can maybe look into an alternative like Rainmeter or something. Microsoft stopped support for the sidebar some time ago due to security issues anyway.
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Windows 8: Is there some way to make the right sidebar come in quicker? or make it sensitive to the entire right edge of the screen? It's a little annoying fumbling around the right edge trying to bring up the sidebar so I can shut down or restart properly. And even then it's pretty finnicky.
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I find the quickest way to pull it up is to go to either right corner, and then swipe towards the vertical center of the screen (so bottom right corner and then directly up, or top right and directly down). It's pretty much instant that way.
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Feb 14, 2013 14:44
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Canuckistan posted:I'm looking for an intra office IM/In-Out Board that's AD compatible, has user/supervisor level access capability, centrally managed, and integrates with Outlook. I'm also curious about why your Exchange group "doesn't like small-scale deployments". What kind of attitude is that if your team needs it? They work in the interest of the company, not to set their own technical agenda. That's my view on it at least.
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I get this prompt every time I try to remote to one of our servers (on the same domain): I'm on Windows 7, use mRemote, and of course have the firewall on. And yeah, I want the clipboard to be on, I would just like to get rid of the prompt. Googling yields nothing conclusive, surprisingly. I've tried digging through the advanced firewall rules but can't find anything. :/
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I don't have any kind of "graphic design" skills, but I'm trying to make a simple image that should, in theory, be pretty easy to do. I don't know if this is the best place to ask this, or if there's some kind of "Photoshop/Paint.NET" thread, but here goes: I'm making a simple background image for my phone, that I'll then put shortcuts on top of so clicking a certain area of the background opens that app. Here's part the background image:  As you can tell, the icons aren't perfectly centered in their little rectangles. Is there a way to create some sort of "snap to" line on each side, and top and bottom, of the icons that makes them perfectly centered?
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Feb 15, 2013 17:35
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DrBouvenstein posted:As you can tell, the icons aren't perfectly centered in their little rectangles. Is there a way to create some sort of "snap to" line on each side, and top and bottom, of the icons that makes them perfectly centered? Lacking that, StylePix is a graphic editor that treats stuff on different layers as objects and has alignment and equally spaced distribution tools. vvvv Not really beaten, guides are probably better, I think you can have them snap to the center of objects. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Feb 15, 2013 |
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Feb 15, 2013 18:08
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DrBouvenstein posted:I don't have any kind of "graphic design" skills, but I'm trying to make a simple image that should, in theory, be pretty easy to do. I don't know if this is the best place to ask this, or if there's some kind of "Photoshop/Paint.NET" thread, but here goes:  You can make guides by dragging from the rulers. Guides will snap to the vertical or horizontal center, and an object you're dragging or transforming (I'm assuming the icon is on a separate layer) will snap to the intersection of the guides. Actually, I think a dragged object can snap to center on its own, so the guides might not even be necessary. Edit: beaten
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Thanks for the help. I should have said I was strictly using Paint.NET, and not made it an "either/or" with Photoshop. I did some brief searching, and it seems Paint.NET lacks any kind of "snap to" or guides feature, so I'll try out that StylePix program.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Thanks for the help. I should have said I was strictly using Paint.NET, and not made it an "either/or" with Photoshop. Ghetto method in Paint.NET: Make a new layer and draw a vertical line. Select the other layers and nudge them until they are lined up along the line layer. When everything is good, delete the line layer.
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Is there any way to print out over sized PDF documents on regular paper without tiling it(shrink down an over-sized PDF so it fits on a regular 8x11 piece of paper)?
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I'd like to start using Access to do what everyone in my organization uses Excel and Word to do. An easy example is a language test. I'm going to create one table with the information of every person who would ever take the test. I would like another table that contains the test information such as the name of the person who took it, the date they took it, their score, as well as previous tests and scores they received. Is there a way to automatically bump all of the old test dates and scores to the right as new scores are entered? I would like to avoid having to create new fields every time a test id given. Also, if you're an Access pro, pm me because I know I'm going to have plenty of questions as I go about making this database.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I don't have any kind of "graphic design" skills, but I'm trying to make a simple image that should, in theory, be pretty easy to do. I don't know if this is the best place to ask this, or if there's some kind of "Photoshop/Paint.NET" thread, but here goes: Honestly if all your icons have that circle border on a coloured background, it might be best to make a template with just that, and use something like the Hue/Saturation controls to make variations on the background colour (and drag the midpoint in the Levels control if you need to make it lighter or darker without affecting the white). That way you just have to worry about placing the rest of your icon
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Guy Axlerod posted:
Thanks! I don't know how I missed that obvious option.
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Hopefully I am posting this question in the right thread... I'm looking for a simple, free tool for taking screenshots. Right now I use mostly Snipping Tool and occasionally Print Screen but I am looking for a something I can essentially assign to a hot key that will take the screenshot and then automatically save it to a designated folder in one fell swoop. Even better if I had the option to designate which part of the screen I wanted to save and then as soon as my selection was made the shot was automatically saved. I have tried out a couple of Firefox add-ons and browsed CNET but haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for. Any suggestions?
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