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by Midas
Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:04 am
Forum: Freeware That Are Not Portable
Topic: Kodak Imaging (Win95 and later)
Replies: 3
Views: 284

Re: Kodak Imaging (Win95 and later)

FWIW and in its heyday, OmniPage was one of the best (if not outright best) OCR toolsets. I used it often for its ease and quality.
by Midas
Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:58 am
Forum: Resources & Links
Topic: XP compatible software
Replies: 129
Views: 460393

Re: XP compatible software

@JohnTHaller: Nice. 8)
by Midas
Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:56 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Win11 not running on older PCs
Replies: 2
Views: 248

Re: Win11 not running on older PCs

IMHO and rather more simplistically, MS' strategy is aimed at one goal: user lock-in (and the underlying data-extraction mana from the general -- and generally less tech-savvy -- public). :roll: E.g., on a global stage, China has been extricating itself from their grip and there's no way that is any...
by Midas
Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:45 am
Forum: Suggestions/Discussions
Topic: Server high load message occurs too frequently lately
Replies: 2
Views: 426

Re: Server high load message occurs too frequently lately

Noticed that sporadically, too -- just thought it was due to high user presence, which has also been above average. (600+ against the more usual ~150...) :|
by Midas
Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:45 am
Forum: Freeware That Are Not Portable
Topic: Tribler - anonymous bittorrent
Replies: 8
Views: 17615

Re: Tribler - anonymous bittorrent

Tribler v7.14.0 released (changes and downloads at https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases). (' TSTATEDIR=. ' environment variable notwithstanding) Issue about portability remains open: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3904. Also, there's this very old thread at PA.com: https://portabl...
by Midas
Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: FenrirFS - file organization / tagging
Replies: 8
Views: 28771

Re: FenrirFS - file organization / tagging

Topic update: Fenrir v2.7.2 released 2024-03-14 (Japanese changelog at https://www.fenrir-inc.com/jp/fenrirfs/note.html). FTR, Fenrir currently available changelog (i.e., from v2.0.2, released 2011-09-09) translated with Google: Release notes FenrirFS 2.7.2 2024.03.14 - Fixed an issue where file nam...
by Midas
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:33 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Sizer (window resizer shell extension)
Replies: 21
Views: 36558

Re: Sizer (window resizer shell extension)

Llewelyn wrote: sizer.xml must contain the following...
Does it really? The "<options>" part maybe, but most "<menu>" entries look optional to me... :|
by Midas
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: PuTTY (telnet/SSH client)
Replies: 4
Views: 10323

Re: PuTTY (telnet/SSH client)

:!: WARNING! :!: Every version of the PuTTY tools from v0.68 to v0.80 inclusive has a critical vulnerability in the code that generates signatures from ECDSA private keys which use the NIST P521 curve. ( PuTTY , or Pageant , generates a signature from a key when using it to authenticate you to an SS...
by Midas
Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: SmartContextMenu [DotNET system utility]
Replies: 2
Views: 8319

Re: SmartContextMenu [DotNET system utility]

Thanks for updating us, AlexanderPro. 8)

BTW, I made some minor changes to OP, let me know if you disagree...
by Midas
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:12 am
Forum: Resources & Links
Topic: Best of Gizmo's Freeware: The Portable Apps List
Replies: 5
Views: 17615

Re: Best of Gizmo's Freeware: The Portable Apps List

Working link is now https://www.techsupportalert.com/the-be ... d-to-have/.

Sadly, the site now looks like any other non-descript content farm... :|

Mod note: moved from "Portable Freeware Development" to "Resources & Links".
by Midas
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:08 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Development
Topic: DatePickerGO - Pop-up calendar app for quickly insert of dates
Replies: 6
Views: 4497

Re: DatePickerGO - Pop-up calendar app for quickly insert of dates

Topic update: DatePickerGO last release is v1.0.3 from 2023-08-03 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/bigbadplayer/DatePickerGO/releases).
by Midas
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:05 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Development
Topic: Craft Basic [programming interpreter]
Replies: 25
Views: 23350

Re: Craft Basic [programming interpreter]

Topic update: Craft Basic v1.7.1 released 2023-12-19 (release announcement at https://www.lucidapogee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85).
by Midas
Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: CLI Submissions
Topic: FFmpeg on Windows
Replies: 41
Views: 97466

Re: FFmpeg on Windows

FFmpeg v7.0 released 2024-04-05 (announcement at https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#news).

Windows binaries repos linked from the official homepage:
by Midas
Sat Apr 13, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: OpenTTD - Transport Tycoon Deluxe game
Replies: 23
Views: 44601

Re: OpenTTD - Transport Tycoon Deluxe game

OpenTTD v14.0 released 2024-04-13 (version changes at https://cdn.openttd.org/openttd-releases/14.0/changelog.txt ). OpenTTD 's first release was in March of 2004. Now twenty years later, we are proud to present to you: release 14.0. And boy, what a release it is. Do I dare to say: this has been th...
by Midas
Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:53 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: 64-bit Basic implementations
Replies: 3
Views: 4173

Re: 64-bit Basic implementations

Link corrected, try it now... :|