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Thanks Pat!

Since posting this question I found Winmerge which does what I need (and has very nice explorer integration). But thanks for the Beyond Compare tip as having directory sync integrated too is attractive. My objection to paid-for software is not actually paying, but the restrictions on use imposed by the licensing.

Just have a look on TCC[^] It's nice fast and very small. And the code produced is highly optimized, fast and small.

Please Note: You will need to get mingw api headers and create your own libraries for import.

The Flying Donut team invites open sourcers, and anyone building projects whose management is visible to the public, to use Flying Donut to manage their projects and collaborate, at no cost.

Read more: http://blog.flying-donut.com/2013/05/inviting-all-open-source-communities-to.html[^]

looks ok, just registering now but its very confusing jumping back and forth from the website to a blogspot blog. you might want to host the blog yourself.

Found a slick graph editor yEd[^]. So far have only used the Flow Charting capabilities but if the rest is as good it's well worth the download.

VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.

I just tested it for 5 minutes
- the GUI is very intuitive
- no need to read help to do something
Good work of yED, indeed.

Thanks!

I have just stopped using Dia after giving this a go for 10 minutes.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

Hey everyone. I'm looking for (preferably free) ASP .NET-based task management software. I've done several Google searches and I cannot find anything. Perhaps I just didn't query the right terms so maybe you can help out. The problem is simple. I work in a warehouse environment. My boss has created a task list in Excel for himself, a few other members of management, and me. Periodically he sends an updated list based on when each person has completed tasks, we hold a meeting every Friday to discuss our progress, etc.

I'm looking for something that mimics this functionality, but can be installed on our local web server. We use Server 2008 R2 + IIS + SQL Server 2008 Express. Basically, we just need to allow users to create projects, tasks for each project. Each user who is assigned a task just needs to be able to update their progress in the application, maybe a commenting functionality, and so on. Nothing complex, just basic task tracking in a collaborative environment.

Any suggestions? I will continue to Google today. And I'll modify this thread if I find one. Thanks in advance! Smile | :)

djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.

Yeah I know Access but I need it and MDB View Plus[^] is a free tool to manage it.

VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.

Just came across https://www.draw.io/.

You can make diagrams like you would in Visio, but it's free and you don't need to install anything (runs in your browser). You can export to an image.

I'm thinking of using it to improve my articles with some diagrams.

Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!

Agreed, a very good tool. It also supports integration with your Google Drive account.

Just cleaning out an old HDD to put in a External 2.5" USB case to use with my WD TV Live Media Player[^], when I couldn't delete an OEM FAT32 partition using the built in Disk Management tool.

I have Acronis Disk Director 11 Home[^] but couldn't be arsed walking the 10 or metres to the main desktop. So searched around and found MiniTool Partition Wizard Home[^].

Worked a treat, worth having a look.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

It's part of an photo editing tool but the GIF editor is very nice. click me[^]

VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.

amazing tool, thanks a lot Smile | :)

I was looking for tools to generate" *.hbm.xml" files from database or from domain classes, after some googling I found this great tool "NHibernate Mapping Generator" :
http://nmg.codeplex.com/[^]

Hope this help you in your project so you can quickly end the NHibernate mapping operation! Cool | Cool | :cool:

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Check out http://www.galleryserverpro.com/[^]

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!

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Just saw these two sites that I need to play around with.

Tangle[^]

Meemoo[^]

Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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I am looking for a IP camera simulator which would support H.264 streaming.Currently I found axis emulator for 223M camera but it only support MJpeg over http not H.264. I have to create a stream(Images) to which MY DVR (with H.264) can access as IP-camera and play the video. (I can see the video on DVR through Axis emulator[Images as input] with Jpeg format only, but I need to run the video with H.264 format.)

Ajay kumar, Sr System Analyst
ajay.kumar.ind@gmail.com

modified 15-Mar-13 4:45am.

GreenShot [^] has been mentioned, briefly, here, once before, in a comment by ThatRaja [^], on another thread about free screen-savers, in July, 2011.

I think it deserves a new "top-level plug" here because of its greatly expanded feature set since July, 2011.

It's now up to version 1.0.6.2228, and version 1.0 was released, at the end of October, 2012.

I was reminded that I use GreenShot by the appearance of a very lengthy review, and tutorial (with numerous screen-shots), that appeared, today, on the "How-To-Geek" web-site [^].

Appended to this message are the changes/features in the current version.

Of special interest, I think, are: it now has a 64 bit install; many available plug-in that allow it to inter-operate with major software programs of various types, as you'll see if you read the appended list.

enjoy, Bill

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text from display screen presented during current release's install:

1.0.6 build 2228 Release

Some features we added since 0.8:
* General: Greenshot will now run in 64 bit mode, if the OS supports it.
* General: Added a dynamic destination picker
* General: Added a preview when using the window capture from the context menu (Windows Vista and later)
* General: Added color reduction as an option and auto detection for image with less than 256 color. When using reduction this results in smaller files.
* General: Added direct printing to a selected printer
* General: Added some additional logic to the IE capture, which makes it possible to capture embedded IE web-sites from other applications.
* General: Changed multi-screen capture behaviour, assuming that capturing all screens is not a normal use-case. Now default behaviour is to capture the one with the mouse-cursor. Also the user can select which screen to capture from the context-menu.
* General: Changed the configuration to use a .ini with some advanced features. Fixed settings can't be changed in the settings. Settings, quicksettings and the Greenshot icon can be disabled. (See greenshot.ini and our website)
* General: Added and update many languages, see our website for the whole listing!
* General: Now one can use the shift key to fix the mouse coordinates while capturing. If you press and hold shift only the first direction in which you move can be change, the other stays fixed.
* General: Added an expert tab in the settings, here some Greenshot behavior can be changed
* General: Added more complex options for the filename generation
* Editor: Added Ctrl/shift logic to the editor, hard to explain (see help) but hold one of the keys down and draw..
* Editor: Added a color picker in the color dialog.
* Editor: Added undo/redo
* Editor: Added effects: shadow, torn edges, invert, border and grayscale
* Editor: Added rotate clockwise & counter clockwise
* Editor: Added freehand tool, this makes it possible to draw some things freehand. Every "stroke" (mouse-down to mouse-up) is one "object" which can be manipulated: move, delete, change Z-order and change the properties like color and thickness.
* Editor: Added auto crop
* Plug-in: Added Confluence plug-in to attach captures to Confluence pages.
* Plug-in: Added JIRA plug-in to attach captures to JIRA tickets.
* Plug-in: Added OCR plug-in, if MODI is available you can capture text from the screen and place it on the clipboard. See our website on pre-requisites for the OCR functionality.
* Plug-in: Added External command plug-in can be used to export captures to some another application or script.
* Plug-in: Added Box.com plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Dropbox plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Flickr plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Imgur plug-in uploads your captures annonymously or to your account
* Plug-in: Added Picasa-Web plug-in uploads your captures to your account
* Plug-in: Added Office plug-in with destinations for Excel, Outlook, Word and Powerpoint"

"Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, antisocial, mindless, and self-destructive, ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature in ways that challenge our sense of the stability and consistency of individual personality, of character, and of morality."

Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, in "The Lucifer Effect" 2008: ISBN-10: 08129744

Amazing tool thanks Bill

VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension
It's not the destination, it's the journey.

Hi I have a problem.Please Help Me.
H want to create IDL files with Jacorb 3
BUT ...
I can not do this.
and jacorb's Guideline was not useful for me.
any one can help me????????

I'm looking for a piece of freeware; actually two pieces.

First piece: a terminal program that can run at BlueTooth speed and save a lot of data. I'm currently using Terminal.EXE (found here HERE[^] ) will do it.

At the moment, I'm sending 16K bytes in one large block. He does capture it, and does save the data to file, which is good for the one block that I'm sending him, but later on, I intend to send him 16K bytes every second, like clockwork. That number may increase to 32K and possibly 64K. He is having trouble handling this load of data at BlueTooth Speed.

I also need a Second piece of freeware: It will do just the opposite; i.e., send out data (again, terminal by bray++ may do the job; I don't konw it well enough at the moment).

- I need to be able to decide what the bytes will be in the data stream

- I need the program to repeatedly send out that string over and over.

- A delay of X-amount of time between the bursts would be extremely helpful

- The value of X should be expandable at least up to 1 second, and 5 or 10 would be great, along with half a second, 0.1, etc.

- An external input file would be stupendous

- Repeating the external input file would be turbo stupendous

- Repeating the external input file with a programmed X-amount of delay time would be turbo drastic stupendous

If anyone reading has a script for Terminal.EXE that will resend a 64 byte string of code over and over, with a predictably timed loop, especially if it had a wait loop that would let me do something like this phony code, that would be super...

THE_TOP_OF_THE_LOOP:

   THE_STRING = 0xFF, 0x0B, 0x00, 0x0E, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF
   FOR I = 1 TO 256 STEP 1
   SEND THE_STRING OUT PORT N
   NEXT I

   WAIT 1 SECOND

  LOOP TO THE_TOP_OF_THE_LOOP

(Hope this doesn't violate cross-posting rules, A member in the Lounge pointed me here)

modified 4-Mar-13 11:41am.