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VirtuaWin Review - VirtuaWin Download - Softpedia - 0 views

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virtual desktop VirtuaWin review features

shared by LeisHowI on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Various other mouse actions such as warping (the cursor will be moved to the opposite end of the screen when the edge is reached), desktop edge knocking (knock on the edge with the mouse in order to change the desktop), enabling middle click for desktop change, window list or showing window menu.
  • Some users feel like VirtuaWin does not offer too much in terms of desktop virtualization in the sense that it does not trick the applications into behaving as if they were on a different system but having access to up to 20 desktops with the system tray intact and all installed software in place is actually the beauty of the software.
  • Switching between the multiple desktops is easy and you can set whatever keyboard shortcuts as well as enable mouse actions for the task.
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  • Resource usage is light and even on more feeble systems neither its CPU nor RAM needs betray its existence.
  • The lack of an interface and the myriad of configuration options may scare some users off. Also, some files may gain a little lag when restoring from the taskbar.
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RSS Reader Reviews - Feedly - 0 views

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features Feedly startpage rss Firefox addon personalization

shared by LeisHowI on 19 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Feedly takes your boring RSS reader and gives it a very shiny magazine like look.
  • several different viewing options that you can choose form – Magazine, Overview, Summery, Picture grid etc.
  • But with Feedly and its social integration with twitter, friendfeed & Google Reader – it is more intelligent to understand what is hot and what is not
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  • Based on your previous reading pattern, it sorts of guesses your favourite feeds that you can’t get enough of.
  • best part about Feedly is the way it organizes and displays your feed. Reading your feeds inside feedly is genuinely pleasing and takes very little effort compared to any other web-based or desktop based RSS reader that are out there.
  • hen you are browsing a page or searching for something on a search engine like Google, it looks at your keyword and pulls up the recent stories about those topics from your feeds and nicely overlays a list of stories at the bottom of your screen.
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Viewer2 Manual - kometbomb - 0 views

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Viewer2 guide help tips official manual

shared by LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10 - Cached
  • date:1-12-2006 (December 1st, 2006
  • date:2007.6 (June 2007)
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  • Valid words for size: tiny, small, medium, large, huge, ultra
  • size:
  • combine a viewed: query with top:, the query is based on views during that time.
  • top:views results:40 – show the top 40 based on views.
  • is:favorite
  • ~word – look for words that are similar to “word”. Works only in Fast Search and needs word indexing to be enabled
  • remove tags from images, first select them in the browser and open the tag list.
  • Tagging
  • Ctrl + T while viewing the image or having some images selected in the browser view.
  • If you open the tag list while the add tag box is open, you can add tags from the list by left clicking on them.
  • Separate multiple tags with commas
  • Add tags from the list to images by dragging them on images: left drag adds tags to one image, right drag will apply them to a group of images
  • Or, select a few tags and double click on one of them. This will view all images with all the selected tags.
  • Double click on a tag to view all images with the tag
  • added:
  • Deselect (Ctrl + Left click) the tags you want to leave to the images and press delete.
  • You can make aliases to tags by adding both tags and dragging the tags on each other in the list. The draggee will become the alias for the tag you drag the tag on. Every time you add the alias, it will actually add the original tag.
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      I don't quite get what it means, will have to test out. I suppose it means you can create fake tags, where they are simply placeholders for actual tags. I'm assuming you can do it with multiple tags as well?
  • Let’s imagine you have a screenful of untagged and tagged images. First, press Alt + T to sort images by tags. With the mouse, click on the left edge of the screen to open the file list. You should see a group of files in the beginning of the list marked as having no tags. Right click on the list to select a whole group of images, and press Ctrl + C to copy the files on the clipboard. Press Ctrl + N to open a new view and paste the images with Ctrl + V. Now you have a nice, clean workspace with no unwanted files.
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      Title: How to work with untagged images only. (In a clean workspace)
  • press Ctrl + Shift + O to automatically sort all files into smaller subgroups
  • Adding complete directories
  • Use the included program dbtool to add directories recursively with any tags you like.
  • "c:\Program Files\Viewer2\dbtool" add "c:\my photos\kittens" cats cute. This will add everything in the specified directory and add the tags cats and cute to each image.
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      Nice function. Although a GUI interface would certainly make it easier. 
  • Automated tagging
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      I must be sleepy, I have no idea what it's talking about.
  • Ctrl + D: Select none
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      Imagine command "Deselect"
  • eature is experimental.
  • Synchronizing IPTC keywords and Viewer2 tags is disabled by default, because it physically modifies image files
  • enable it in the configuration by ensuring the option “Synchronize tags and IPTC keywords” is checked. Viewer2 will then tag every new image with IPTC keywords and set the IPTC keywords to the tags the image has in Viewer2
  • Ctrl + Shift + left drag: Add lasso selection to the selected images
  • Right click on filelist: Select group
  • Alt + C: Sort by color (press Alt + C multiple times to adjust fuzziness) Alt + D: Sort by date (press Alt + D multiple times to adjust fuzziness) Alt + G: Sort by group Alt + L: Sort by forced links Alt + N: Sort by name (press Alt + N multiple times to adjust fuzziness) Alt + O: Sort by original order (e.g. the order of images returned from a query, useful with top:views query) Alt + P: Sort by path Alt + R: Sort by resolution
  • Syncing tags and IPTC keywords
  • Ctrl + Shift + F: Find files with matching tags
  • Ctrl + I: Invert selection
  • Ctrl + O: Order selected images in one group Ctrl + Shift + O: Order images in groups
  • Ctrl + S: Zoom into all files (fit files on screen) Ctrl + Shift + S: Zoom into selected files
  • Delete: If tag list is not open delete selected files from the view, if the list is open the selected tags will be removed from the selected images
  • Ctrl + Delete: Physically delete selected files
  • Home: Zoom image to fit to screen End: Zoom image to original size
  • Inertia The inertia of everything, less means everything will be smoother but slower.
  • ShowDirectories Show subdirectories in the browser.
  • UseSpiral If set to 0, order images in a square, otherwise order images in a spiral.
  • IPTC into the files but they don’t show up in Picasa. Other tools, such as Exifer or IrfanView can display them
  • IPTC export works at least on some programs
  • doesn’t write IPTC back to the images when we set tags – is that by design?
  • (“Synchronize IPTC tags” needs to be checked on the “Database” page). That feature definitely exists but it’s not enabled by default.
  • not entirely sure if enabling the syncing will automatically write the tags that you have added earlier but either adding (or removing) any tag will trigger the IPTC update for the file. Or, you can use dbtool to sync manually (something like “dbtool exportiptc c:\Photos”).
  • a small tool that recursively parse the whole image repository to automatically assign tags would be nice.
  • The new dbtool does this automatically. You can simply add a file in a directory and the tags in the file are applied to all the subdirectories. It can also tag files based on the tags it sees in the directory names, so if you have the tags “2009″ and “holiday” in the system and a directory named “holiday 2009″, dbtool will apply both tags to the images in the directory.
  • Would it be possible integrate this new dbtool inside the “MSWindows explorer”?
  • It is possible to add any program in the menu, as long as the program takes command line arguments.
  • http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/13596/how-do-i-add-an-item-to-the-right-click-menu.html (not the best example but you’ll get the idea)
    • LeisHowI
      LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
       
      Copied Over: How do I add an item to the Right Click menu? A. Follow the procedures below: Start the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE)Expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT by clicking the plus signScroll down and expand the Unknown subkeyClick on the Shell key and right click on it.Select New from the pop-up menu and choose Key.Enter the name you want to be displayed, e.g. the name of the application. Click EnterRight click on the new subkey and click New. Again select Key and enter the name "Command" and click EnterClick on the newly created Command and double click on "(Default)"Enter the path and name of the executable with %1, i.e.d:\program files\savedit\savedit.exe %1Close the registry editorWhen you right click on a file the new entry will be displayed.
  • The command line would be something like “c:\viewer2 directory\dbtool.exe” iptcadd “%1″.
  • LeisHowI on 11 Jul 10
     
    Really long but sounds like it has tonnes of functions. As reviewed in freewaregenius, I think shortcuts will come in handy though you would really have to get used to it.
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Photology - Photo Search Software - Alternative to tagging? - 0 views

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Photology features review image viewing search desktop freeware software

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  • Photology is an image management software which allows the user to sift through large number of photos or images without the need to set up tags or organize collections.
  • The program’s slogan says – No tags, No folders. It just knows
  • special content filters.
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  • mimics our own behavior in the way we tend to remember a snapshot. Not by filenames but by the other vague details
  • seven filters
  • Time of day:
  • Date:
  • show in order (view with others taken around the same time),
  • Location: Was it an outdoor shot or an indoor one?
  • Content: Was it about people, plants, the ocean or the sky?
  • Text:
  • Color: Narrow down the choices by searching for a particular color using the color wheel.
  • Photology lets us select the folders to monitor for photos
  • Features: Was it black/white, under-exposed, over-exposed, in focus, out of focus or in monotones?
  • Hovering our mouse over the thumbnail gives us four more options to use for an image
  • rotate
  • add to group (select and add to a group for sorting)
  • delete.
  • can enter a caption
  • added options include:
  • Group – These are collections of similarly themed pictures we can create for ourselves. Put a single photo in as many groups as you want without making multiple copies.
  • Share – Easily share photos via an email link, Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug. We can also collect selected photos into a desktop folder for sharing through the ‘file’ share option.
  • logical filters like ‘Features’, ‘Color’, ‘Date’ and ‘Text’ returned fairly accurate results with a few errors.
  • abstract counterparts like ‘Location’ and ‘Content’ returned a wider variety of inaccurate results
  • Though, I wish they would add some multiple image handling capabilities especially related to naming and tagging so I can compensate for some of my previous laziness.
  • Photology does support the use of keywords
  • can find photos based on captions, group names and folder names by using the text search:
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