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For years, I have been using TheJigsawPuzzles.com. It has a database of thousands of puzzles, sorted by category. You can choose from 20 to 500 pieces and there are several different cut styles.
Where's thejigsawpuzzles.com? Love this site, no downloading of anything, just play on site. Have been using this site for years now and was concerned about the phaseout of Adobe Flash, but they said they are ready for the change over. You can choose how many pieces you want to do in any of the hundreds of puzzles there. Also choose the type of puzzle pieces you want to work with...classic, etc.. You can Full Screen, if needed, any puzzle to work on it. My 92-yr-old Mom had been doing a puzzle every day for yrs before she passed. Cannot say about doing any on a mobile phone though.
Can say the people there are great...any problem just email and they get back to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. BTW, you do not have to sign in or even have an account to do any puzzle, though the site will keep track of all the puzzles you do if you sign in...unlike Jigzone and a few others where you have to try to remember which ones you've done in the past.
Through this "flag stuff", is it possible to make other chrome-based browsers show the GOOD OLD FULL STATUS BAR as seen in the traditionally interfaced ones, like the good old Opera?
I tried and it didnt work. the search opens, but then suddenly closes shortly after. Not only that, when I click on SearchUI.exe I get a message saying "The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application." any help?
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Thank you for this.
Working great on both Chrome and Brave browsers for me. I suspect where people are running into issue may be they are copy-pasting the entire...
‘Chrome://flags’ and/or ‘Context menu show full URLs’
...using the apostrophes ( ' ) still attached. They simply need to leave them out and they should be successful.
Thanks for this Rhiannon - it's a great find. Wile the site is good for generating background noise that distracts from or masks ambient sounds, it is also a really useful way to create background soundtracks for video and sound collages.
@rhiannon, you always get a 5 from me as you bring new and interesting stuff for us But your wallpapers are often better that the offering; this one looks like cosmic boobs but you abstract is great! :))
BkAngel's opinion is interesting... but provably false. Not only is FastCopy much faster than Win10 in actual tests (see Raymond.CC's blog), virtually every alternative copier is faster than Win10 in all instances (also, than Win XP, 7, and 8).
I'm on a Lenovo desktop, with the latest Chrome build, After several tries of the flags entry, it finally showed a huge list (over 80 entries) of available Experiments. So I searched the list and found the Context Menu entry, enabled it (options were default, enabled, or disabled), and closed and reopened my browser. But the full URLs are still not showing. Will continue to try. Temped to click on "reset all" but many show enabled or default, and I'm not sure of the consequences of a reset.
I just tested this using portable Chrome I downloaded a few minutes ago. It's version Version 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) (32-bit) downloaded from Portable Apps, not the 64 bit version. I pasted the URL for this article into the address bar. The https:// and the www are showing. I'm attaching a screen shot. I did try this in an older version of portable Chrome and it didn't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use the portable version of Chrome. I have the latest 64 bit version. I have followed the instructions. I chose "enabled" and then relaunch. However no full URL's are displayed. Only the site names.
Are you running a portable version? Or is the current version installed? This is the version I have:
Version 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Here's a screen shot of the context menu in the chrome flags:
I don't know why it's not working in Brave for you.
This is the version of Brave I'm using: Version 1.10.90 Chromium: 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Here's a screen shot of the context menu in chrome flags:
I like the tip, but searching (in Chrome://flags) for "context menu show full URLs" doesn't bring up a menu. Haven't been successful in following your advice.
They are similar. Teh add-on has more options and the narration is much higher quality to my ear. I like the add-on text highlighting as well. And if you don't use Firefox, you can still use it on Chrome. :)
Depending on how much detail you need to type / recall
UK's Kalender saves the data on your PC.
I just went back 3 years, and all of my entries back then are still visible, and can be expanded to see extra notes that I left on those entries.
I need a one person digital calendar accessible both on and off line for historical usage that does not truncate older entries and a company willing to put that in writing. When Outlook (unannounced) started cutting off at one year I lost years of my life.
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For those of you that -
- Lack wall space (to stick a calendar)
- Lack a printer (to print a calendar)
- Want the calendar to automatically remind you of things
- Just show you the current month (but you can navigate to other months)
- Sit in front of your computer all day
Get this - UK's Kalender
http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/kalender/download.html
I match all of the conditions I mentioned above,
Rob
PS I was a senior analyst in IT for 20 years, and I could not design/program a better calendar than that one.
That's interesting, I'm running Firefox 77.0.1 as well and geo.location appears, as do the others you listed. I've updated the article, I added geo.enabled as an option. Thanks for the heads up. :)
rhiannon, I don't have a "geo.location" setting in about:config in Firefox 77.0.1
What I did do is set "geo.enabled" to false and "geo.provider.ms-windows-location" to false.
It's a pity that almost all sounds on the Android app are pay for (tho Google rewards dollars can be used)......but thanks for the notice. Haven't had time yet to play with the site on my PC.
It's a pity that almost all sounds on the Android app are pay for (tho Google rewards dollars can be used)......but thanks for the notice. Haven't had time yet to play with the site on my PC.
Are you using the classic version of Waterfox? If I understand correctly, the newer versions of Waterfox and Firefox handle memory differently than older versions. Older version handle memory as a single process, newer versions handle memory as multiprocesses.
There are some about:config tweaks that will increase the amount of resources allocated to older versions of Waterfox or Firefox. Be aware that changing some of them like the process count can put more of a load on your processor, others such as increasing the cache are usually fine. Look up Firefox 'increase Firefox memory about config' in your preferred search engine. Most of the config changes should work in Waterfox.
rhiannon, I think you might be able to help with Waterfox. I started using it and loved it far bettter than Firefox. However a problem arose and I figured out what was causing it and contacted the developer who became kind of snotty and refused to fix the problem.
The problem arises in how WF handles memory. FF, if you recall, opens a new block of memory if too many tabs are opened. In my work I generally have 80 or more tabs open at once, and FF has them sectioned off in 8 or 10 separate blocks of memory. WF however, tries to keep them all in one block of memory which slows the computer down severely. A second problem arises as I save the files to disk. It doesn't release the memory, so even if there is only one tab left open, that same huge block of memory sits there intact, slowiing my machine down to a crawl. It takes existing WF to release that memory.
I tried explaining that to the WF developer and all he said to me was, he designed it to be a "single process operation". I asked him what that meant, but he never answered me. I will keep checking and when he does an upgrade on WF, I'll try it again to see if it still has the same problem.
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To account for different Windows languages, use:
icacls SearchUI.exe /grant *S-1-5-32-544:F
S-1-5-32-544 is the SID for the Administrators group... that in pt-BR systems will read Administradores, so using the name in english didn't work for me.
Since we are talking about "tweaking" tools, a very useful one I've been using for years is 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. It makes Windows 10 taskbar a lot more bearable!
all this is a mute point as:
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com service down forever
see https://borncity.com/win/2019/07/01/fai-music-metaservices-microsoft-com-service-down-forever/
and
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com is down ... and is likely to stay that way
see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/faimusicmetaservicesmicrosoftcom-is-down-and-is/a2f99b7a-90c8-4c4f-872e-3e0e9015a40d
microsoft has taken down their media player metadata servers
see
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com is down ... and is likely to stay that way
Microsoft has decided to discontinue providing metadata for Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center for Windows 7 and 8.1
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I don't know what to tell you about reverse look up of the address. In a browser it resolves to an invalid URL. If used as directed it resolves and issue with Windows Media Player.
The URL akamaitechnologies.com returns a server IP address could not be found message. If there's something in the information or the article that makes you uncomfortable or you feel is dangerous, don't use the information. In any case, Akamai underlies a good percentage (15% to 30%) of all web traffic.
as many people have commented, it's too bad there's no paste for images so we can include screenshots, but let's try this:
C:\Users\hmazuji>nslookup 2.18.213.82
the ip address is a redirect to akamaitechnologies
==============================================
as for internet backgammon and spades, i am referring to
win 7 games, and microsoft taking their game server offline,
so, in this case, yes, i would like to find out if anyone else
is able to host the m.s. games server
this looks suspect
a reverse address lookup for 2.18.213.82
results in
akamaitechnologies.com
so i feel like either this article is not current, or there's something you're not telling us
btw, if you can find a third party redirect to fix the problem with internet backgammon and spades, i'd be interested in hearing about it
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Nice dig rhiannon!
Too bad they don't pull in from other video sites too.
Maybe in the future?
It's a good site, I hadn't seen it until now. Thanks for the heads up.
That's a great site, thanks for mentioning it. :)
For years, I have been using TheJigsawPuzzles.com. It has a database of thousands of puzzles, sorted by category. You can choose from 20 to 500 pieces and there are several different cut styles.
Where's thejigsawpuzzles.com? Love this site, no downloading of anything, just play on site. Have been using this site for years now and was concerned about the phaseout of Adobe Flash, but they said they are ready for the change over. You can choose how many pieces you want to do in any of the hundreds of puzzles there. Also choose the type of puzzle pieces you want to work with...classic, etc.. You can Full Screen, if needed, any puzzle to work on it. My 92-yr-old Mom had been doing a puzzle every day for yrs before she passed. Cannot say about doing any on a mobile phone though.
Can say the people there are great...any problem just email and they get back to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. BTW, you do not have to sign in or even have an account to do any puzzle, though the site will keep track of all the puzzles you do if you sign in...unlike Jigzone and a few others where you have to try to remember which ones you've done in the past.
It's still out there and works. The yWorks site does not make it apparent that there is a free version. At all. I had to search "yED free"
It's no longer possible to obtain a free registration key from the company, but they have published details of a universal key to use :-
community.serif.com/forum/4914/registering-serif-legacy-software
You're very welcome. I love jigsaw puzzles too, digital or printed.
It's a great program.
Thanks rhiannon.. nice sites. I love the jigsaw puzzles.
I have been using John's Background Switcher for years which I have found to be very versatile in what you can do with it.
I haven't run into that error in that context. It can be caused several different things, with no easy route to track it down.
I don't know. Maybe someone here has an idea?
You're welcome. It could be people are copying with quotes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm glad you like it, it's a pretty extensive site.
It's pretty handy. :)
Good one! I found this some time ago and it is a great way ti make a screen saver or file show
Thanks
Hi,
Through this "flag stuff", is it possible to make other chrome-based browsers show the GOOD OLD FULL STATUS BAR as seen in the traditionally interfaced ones, like the good old Opera?
Thanks.
I tried and it didnt work. the search opens, but then suddenly closes shortly after. Not only that, when I click on SearchUI.exe I get a message saying "The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application." any help?
Thank you for this.
Working great on both Chrome and Brave browsers for me. I suspect where people are running into issue may be they are copy-pasting the entire...
‘Chrome://flags’ and/or ‘Context menu show full URLs’
...using the apostrophes ( ' ) still attached. They simply need to leave them out and they should be successful.
Thanks for sharing such a great Information! Waiting for more updates like this.
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Thanks for this Rhiannon - it's a great find. Wile the site is good for generating background noise that distracts from or masks ambient sounds, it is also a really useful way to create background soundtracks for video and sound collages.
I'll take one out of two. :)
People like such different things, not everyone will like what I post.
I love the abstract, it's been on my monitor for over a week - kind of a record. I change wallpaper often.
"Chromish" I love that. Progress is good.
'Chromish' browsers are already playing catch up.
chrome://flags > enable Reader.Mode..
At the moment looks like Vivaldi has more options than Chrome, but neither are close to that Extension or Firefox..
@rhiannon, you always get a 5 from me as you bring new and interesting stuff for us But your wallpapers are often better that the offering; this one looks like cosmic boobs but you abstract is great! :))
BkAngel's opinion is interesting... but provably false. Not only is FastCopy much faster than Win10 in actual tests (see Raymond.CC's blog), virtually every alternative copier is faster than Win10 in all instances (also, than Win XP, 7, and 8).
Works like a charm. David Microsoft voice is perfect. No mistakes.
That's excellent news. :)
Success at last! Thanks for your help.
I'm on a Lenovo desktop, with the latest Chrome build, After several tries of the flags entry, it finally showed a huge list (over 80 entries) of available Experiments. So I searched the list and found the Context Menu entry, enabled it (options were default, enabled, or disabled), and closed and reopened my browser. But the full URLs are still not showing. Will continue to try. Temped to click on "reset all" but many show enabled or default, and I'm not sure of the consequences of a reset.
Do you have any extensions installed? They might interfere. There are none installed in the versions I use to test.
I just tested this using portable Chrome I downloaded a few minutes ago. It's version Version 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) (32-bit) downloaded from Portable Apps, not the 64 bit version. I pasted the URL for this article into the address bar. The https:// and the www are showing. I'm attaching a screen shot. I did try this in an older version of portable Chrome and it didn't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use the portable version of Chrome. I have the latest 64 bit version. I have followed the instructions. I chose "enabled" and then relaunch. However no full URL's are displayed. Only the site names.
Are you running a portable version? Or is the current version installed? This is the version I have:
Version 83.0.4103.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Here's a screen shot of the context menu in the chrome flags:
I don't know why it's not working in Brave for you.
This is the version of Brave I'm using: Version 1.10.90 Chromium: 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Here's a screen shot of the context menu in chrome flags:
I like the tip, but searching (in Chrome://flags) for "context menu show full URLs" doesn't bring up a menu. Haven't been successful in following your advice.
Worked for me on CHROME but not BRAVE. Could not find 'Context menu show full URLs'
I said it back then, and I still think qBittorrent is the best torrent client around.
They are similar. Teh add-on has more options and the narration is much higher quality to my ear. I like the add-on text highlighting as well. And if you don't use Firefox, you can still use it on Chrome. :)
Hmm, in Firefox doesn't toggling Reader View (f9) then clicking the Narrate button do the same thing?
Are there similar apps that run under Linux or Android?
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Depending on how much detail you need to type / recall
UK's Kalender saves the data on your PC.
I just went back 3 years, and all of my entries back then are still visible, and can be expanded to see extra notes that I left on those entries.
I need a one person digital calendar accessible both on and off line for historical usage that does not truncate older entries and a company willing to put that in writing. When Outlook (unannounced) started cutting off at one year I lost years of my life.
My understanding is that VPNs are supposed to give you a different virtual location. I'm not familiar with Wireguard.
Thanks for sharing!
Don't ALL VPNs hide user location? How about WireGuard?
For those of you that -
- Lack wall space (to stick a calendar)
- Lack a printer (to print a calendar)
- Want the calendar to automatically remind you of things
- Just show you the current month (but you can navigate to other months)
- Sit in front of your computer all day
Get this - UK's Kalender
http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/kalender/download.html
I match all of the conditions I mentioned above,
Rob
PS I was a senior analyst in IT for 20 years, and I could not design/program a better calendar than that one.
Thanks for the information. :)
That's interesting, I'm running Firefox 77.0.1 as well and geo.location appears, as do the others you listed. I've updated the article, I added geo.enabled as an option. Thanks for the heads up. :)
rhiannon, I don't have a "geo.location" setting in about:config in Firefox 77.0.1
What I did do is set "geo.enabled" to false and "geo.provider.ms-windows-location" to false.
It's a pity that almost all sounds on the Android app are pay for (tho Google rewards dollars can be used)......but thanks for the notice. Haven't had time yet to play with the site on my PC.
It's a pity that almost all sounds on the Android app are pay for (tho Google rewards dollars can be used)......but thanks for the notice. Haven't had time yet to play with the site on my PC.
Are you using the classic version of Waterfox? If I understand correctly, the newer versions of Waterfox and Firefox handle memory differently than older versions. Older version handle memory as a single process, newer versions handle memory as multiprocesses.
There are some about:config tweaks that will increase the amount of resources allocated to older versions of Waterfox or Firefox. Be aware that changing some of them like the process count can put more of a load on your processor, others such as increasing the cache are usually fine. Look up Firefox 'increase Firefox memory about config' in your preferred search engine. Most of the config changes should work in Waterfox.
It's a web app that works inside your a browser. Most browsers work fine on Android and iOS.
I just checked. It's not available from the Apple Store. Is it Android only?
rhiannon, I think you might be able to help with Waterfox. I started using it and loved it far bettter than Firefox. However a problem arose and I figured out what was causing it and contacted the developer who became kind of snotty and refused to fix the problem.
The problem arises in how WF handles memory. FF, if you recall, opens a new block of memory if too many tabs are opened. In my work I generally have 80 or more tabs open at once, and FF has them sectioned off in 8 or 10 separate blocks of memory. WF however, tries to keep them all in one block of memory which slows the computer down severely. A second problem arises as I save the files to disk. It doesn't release the memory, so even if there is only one tab left open, that same huge block of memory sits there intact, slowiing my machine down to a crawl. It takes existing WF to release that memory.
I tried explaining that to the WF developer and all he said to me was, he designed it to be a "single process operation". I asked him what that meant, but he never answered me. I will keep checking and when he does an upgrade on WF, I'll try it again to see if it still has the same problem.
Thanks ... /ed
To account for different Windows languages, use:
icacls SearchUI.exe /grant *S-1-5-32-544:F
S-1-5-32-544 is the SID for the Administrators group... that in pt-BR systems will read Administradores, so using the name in english didn't work for me.
Glad you like it. :)
cool.
Since we are talking about "tweaking" tools, a very useful one I've been using for years is 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. It makes Windows 10 taskbar a lot more bearable!
I think it will stay that way, they don't include Windows Media Player in Windows 10.
the bottom line
all this is a mute point as:
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com service down forever
see https://borncity.com/win/2019/07/01/fai-music-metaservices-microsoft-com-service-down-forever/
and
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com is down ... and is likely to stay that way
see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/faimusicmetaservicesmicrosoftcom-is-down-and-is/a2f99b7a-90c8-4c4f-872e-3e0e9015a40d
microsoft has taken down their media player metadata servers
see
fai.music.metaservices.microsoft.com is down ... and is likely to stay that way
Microsoft has decided to discontinue providing metadata for Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center for Windows 7 and 8.1
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/faimusicmetaservicesmicrosoftcom-is-down-and-is/a2f99b7a-90c8-4c4f-872e-3e0e9015a40d
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Worked fine here (no meet or chat).
Thanks!
I don't know what to tell you about reverse look up of the address. In a browser it resolves to an invalid URL. If used as directed it resolves and issue with Windows Media Player.
The URL akamaitechnologies.com returns a server IP address could not be found message. If there's something in the information or the article that makes you uncomfortable or you feel is dangerous, don't use the information. In any case, Akamai underlies a good percentage (15% to 30%) of all web traffic.
As to the game server not working, Microsoft shut down their Internet Games server (Windows XP, ME, 7) on January 22, 2020.
Farewell to Microsoft Internet Games on Windows XP, Windows ME, and Windows 7
as many people have commented, it's too bad there's no paste for images so we can include screenshots, but let's try this:
C:\Users\hmazuji>nslookup 2.18.213.82
Name: a2-18-213-82.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com
Address: 2.18.213.82
the ip address is a redirect to akamaitechnologies
==============================================
as for internet backgammon and spades, i am referring to
win 7 games, and microsoft taking their game server offline,
so, in this case, yes, i would like to find out if anyone else
is able to host the m.s. games server
You're very welcome. :)
This the address in the article:
2.18.213.82 redir.metaservices.microsoft.com
I'm not sure what problem you're referencing with internet backgammon and spades.
They have some good calendars there.
This was SO annoying. Thanks!
this looks suspect
a reverse address lookup for 2.18.213.82
results in
akamaitechnologies.com
so i feel like either this article is not current, or there's something you're not telling us
btw, if you can find a third party redirect to fix the problem with internet backgammon and spades, i'd be interested in hearing about it
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