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For a computer vision thingamajig I'm working on I've got a couple thousand images I need to crop...all differing sizes. IrfanView has a pretty quick workflow consisting of a keypress to move from image to image, moving the mouse to make the selection and a couple more keypresses to crop and save, so that's good. Unfortunately about a third of the images I need to crop are animated gifs and IrfanView doesn't crop them. Does anyone know of a tool with a good workflow for cropping animated gifs? If not with a good workflow, how about any tool that isn't Photoshop?
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Edit: Sorry, I was confused as to the Windows Software and the actual Windows 8 thread. I've moved my post there.
suddenlyissoon fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 16:05
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I have a couple harddrive volumes that I'd like to copy to an image and store on an external harddrive that I'm going to store in a safe place. What software should I be looking at for personal use?
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Mar 1, 2014 21:35
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KoRMaK posted:I have a couple harddrive volumes that I'd like to copy to an image and store on an external harddrive that I'm going to store in a safe place. What software should I be looking at for personal use? Macrium Reflect is the oft-repeated answer to cloning and imaging. There's a free version.
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Mar 1, 2014 21:38
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I also recommend evaluating Acronis True Image. I have used it successfully for many years. It does cost money.
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Mar 1, 2014 21:43
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Gozinbulx posted:Quick question: The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit can prove to be very useful for this exact task. Mainly used for corporate/enterprise deployments but still can be used in your case.
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Mar 2, 2014 15:50
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I want to make a simple little movie of some pictures, videos, and music. Is there a good free piece of software for this?
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Mar 3, 2014 02:29
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fletcher posted:I want to make a simple little movie of some pictures, videos, and music. Is there a good free piece of software for this? Windows Live Movie Maker is of course the first thing to mind.
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Mar 3, 2014 11:05
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I used to use Meebo because it was a great multiprotocol (AIM and Gchat) browser-based IM client that had chat logging and a seamlessly integrated iPhone app. Then it got bought by Google and shut down. I managed to replace it with imo.im, but they're now ending support for third-party protocols, aka the only reason to use it. What should I do now? It seems like maybe I should just use Gmail for my AIM contacts if all these services are going to die out. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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Mar 3, 2014 14:50
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Trillian has been around for ages, has a smartphone application, and a browser-based IM client.
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Mar 3, 2014 15:02
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I finally bought a copy of trillian because i was sick of IM clients never updating to fix problems (pidgin) or going ad-based and having 80 million horrible things in the installer (digsby). haven't regretted it.
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Mar 3, 2014 15:05
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Trillian on Windows is wonderful. Trillian on any other platform ranges from mediocre to downright horrible, so if you're interested in the cross-platform features, I'd keep my expectations in check.
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Mar 3, 2014 18:17
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Mar 3, 2014 19:06
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Can anyone suggest some Blu-ray movie authoring software? Ideally, it should produce a disc that will work in any Blu-ray player, not cost an arm and a leg, and be relatively easy to use. Bonus points if I can feed it AVS files without having to encode them in some other format first. I'm using 64-bit Windows 7.
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Mar 3, 2014 22:27
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What's a good, free terminal emulator that'll let me use SCP to transfer files from my windows PC to a remote Linux machine? Putty won't do it. In other words, I need to be able to SSH into a remove linux computer and then transfer files to it that are stored locally on my Windows computer.
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Mar 4, 2014 20:09
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:What's a good, free terminal emulator that'll let me use SCP to transfer files from my windows PC to a remote Linux machine? Putty won't do it. In other words, I need to be able to SSH into a remove linux computer and then transfer files to it that are stored locally on my Windows computer. I haven't used it before but the PuTTY page does list PSCP, an SCP client.
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Mar 4, 2014 20:16
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How command-line does it have to be? If all it is is file transfer, WinSCP pretty much does what the box says and comes with an option for a Norton Commander-style interface to top it off.
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Mar 4, 2014 20:18
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:What's a good, free terminal emulator that'll let me use SCP to transfer files from my windows PC to a remote Linux machine? Putty won't do it. In other words, I need to be able to SSH into a remove linux computer and then transfer files to it that are stored locally on my Windows computer. I use filezilla because I already have it and I don't want to learn something else.
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fletcher posted:I haven't used it before but the PuTTY page does list PSCP, an SCP client. I tried that, actually, and it wouldn't successfully authenticate with the server no matter what I tired. I'm going to give WinSCP a try. Thanks all!
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Mar 4, 2014 20:26
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thebigcow posted:I use filezilla because I already have it and I don't want to learn something else. Yeah I'd go with FileZilla, I prefer it over WinSCP. Why does FileZilla take ages to list my directories though? The directory listing is so fast in Windows otherwise, what could FileZilla possibly be doing??
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Mar 4, 2014 20:31
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FileZilla's installer tries to install three different toolbars before I can actually install the program. That's pretty shifty.
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Mar 4, 2014 21:04
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Not that it makes that ok, but just grab it from ninite.com and avoid that kind of crap.
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Mar 4, 2014 21:08
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I tried that, actually, and it wouldn't successfully authenticate with the server no matter what I tired. I'm going to give WinSCP a try. Thanks all! What did you try? pscp works and has worked properly for a very long time.
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Mar 4, 2014 21:09
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:FileZilla's installer tries to install three different toolbars before I can actually install the program. That's pretty shifty. drat, that is unfortunate they started doing that bullshit  It seems like that is inevitable with every great free tool out there. edit: Looks like it's just the sourceforge hosted one that comes with the bullshit. The "other options" one did not try to install any crapware. 
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Mar 4, 2014 21:09
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:FileZilla's installer tries to install three different toolbars before I can actually install the program. That's pretty shifty. FileZilla on Ninite is also an option.
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Mar 5, 2014 01:00
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Thermopyle posted:For a computer vision thingamajig I'm working on I've got a couple thousand images I need to crop...all differing sizes. I ended up using XnView + GIMP + spending a few hours to write an AutoIT script as the options for GIF editing on Windows are almost non-existent. The AutoIT script, with the press of a hotkey, gets the highlighted image in XnView, opens it in GIMP. After cropping as desired, I press another hotkey and it saves it with the naming scheme I need.
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Thermopyle posted:I ended up using XnView + GIMP + spending a few hours to write an AutoIT script as the options for GIF editing on Windows are almost non-existent. What did it end up doing to the quality, timing & size of the GIFs? The only method I knew of was a PS action. You're pretty drat resourceful if you were able to pull that off and still have them be the same quality!
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WorkingStiff posted:What did it end up doing to the quality, timing & size of the GIFs? The only method I knew of was a PS action. You're pretty drat resourceful if you were able to pull that off and still have them be the same quality! I haven't found anything obviously lacking in the quality, but I haven't done a detailed examination either. To be clear, I'm not doing the GIF cropping with any code I wrote. GIMP is doing it. GIMP opens an animated GIF as a bunch of layers and then crops across them all and exports back to GIF.
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Mar 5, 2014 16:48
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Does anyone know the Adblock syntax or a hosts entry to block the Google "Answer a question to continue reading this page" survey popups? I recently started getting them even with Adblock running, so Google must have changed something.
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Thermopyle posted:I haven't found anything obviously lacking in the quality, but I haven't done a detailed examination either. I didn't use it on Windows, but I found this awesome little CLI program called gifsicle that can manipulate gifs.
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Mar 5, 2014 19:27
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WorkingStiff posted:Does anyone know the Adblock syntax or a hosts entry to block the Google "Answer a question to continue reading this page" survey popups? I recently started getting them even with Adblock running, so Google must have changed something. That sounds more like malware than something Google is doing. I've never heard of this survery bullshit before.
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Mar 5, 2014 19:47
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stubblyhead posted:That sounds more like malware than something Google is doing. I've never heard of this survery bullshit before. It's a thing: Google Consumer Surveys. I was able to block it in Hosts, but I'd like to block whatever mechanism they are using to serve it because the domain apparently changes.
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WorkingStiff posted:Does anyone know the Adblock syntax or a hosts entry to block the Google "Answer a question to continue reading this page" survey popups? I recently started getting them even with Adblock running, so Google must have changed something. What browser are you using adblock in? I haven't had it pop up at all under Firefox with standard Adblock Plus lists.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:20
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Install Windows posted:What browser are you using adblock in? I haven't had it pop up at all under Firefox with standard Adblock Plus lists. Chrome. Hosts entry is survey.g.doubleclick.net, but it changes.
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Are there any good widgets or whatever for monitoring system performance on Windows 8(.1)? I liked all the Windows 7 ones, but they've did away with that functionality. The only thing I've really found is the popup widget on Open Hardware Monitor, but it hasn't been updated in quite some time. Any recommendations?
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We're looking to get everybody in our company to office 2010 or newer, but we have a lot of holdouts that use MODI to manipulate incoming faxes in TIFF. I've been tasked with finding alternatives to MODI. I know infranview can probably do what we need, but I've been asked to find a couple alternatives to test. The users need to be able to open TIFFs, split multipage documents into chunks, rotate them, and add annotations. Any other suggestions? Licensed software is ok.
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Mar 6, 2014 19:14
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crm posted:Are there any good widgets or whatever for monitoring system performance on Windows 8(.1)? HWiNFO64 has a sensors-only mode.
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Mar 6, 2014 19:17
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I basically want the gadgets that are available for HWINFO, on Windows 8.
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Is there a program/method to converting an already-installed program (for which you've long gone lost the CD or setup.exe) into an installer package (with all the relevant registry entries and dlls or whatever)? So it can be re-installed somewhere else or on the same computer after reformatting? Is this even possible?
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crm posted:I basically want the gadgets that are available for HWINFO, on Windows 8. I personally use Rainmeter, but it takes some time to hunt down the right components to match your aesthetic. There is negligible RAM overhead for using it, and a small hit on your start-up time if you count the time it takes to get running on log-in. I haven't noticed it using up any more CPU/RAM than when I have Task Manager open.
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