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The review is a bit outdated but there is no nordvpn?! If you check top google ten vpn review sites or just type 10 best vpn services 2018 you will find that almost all reviewers give either express or nord the biggest score eg. I have found a nice vpn comparison on this page https://www.vpnhint.com/best-vpn-services/ also the numbers seems to be outdated as nordvpn supports almost 5000 servers and expressvpn about 2000.

You're more than welcome. :)

I'd seems it would be quite an interesting cam.

I have a very specific set of requirements that include:

- tiny memory footprint (<5MB)
- truly portable (no dependency on any framework, including .NET)
- easy to trigger (Win + V or simpler)
- ability to format/manipulate text in the buffer
- ability to store/organize permanent snippets

ClipX was my go-to clipboard manager for many years, but it didn't play well with Windows 10, so I spent a lot of time trying out all the clipboard managers I could find to find an alternative. I finally settled on Clibor, and have never looked back. It's amazing how much power was crammed into such a small utility. If you can get past the crowded interface and sporadic wonky translations, I highly recommend giving Clibor an honest try.

By "separate drive", you mean a "not-the-system-drive", right?

I hav e too many MP3 files to keep them on the C: drive, anyway, so i guess i'm safe.

Wow. Best, easiest, fastest and least amount of nagware audio converter I have seen. I will be sending them a donation. Thanks.

In Boolean set theory:
AND equals ONLY the union where both/all search-terms are true but excludes the subsets where only one or the other is true
OR equals the complete aggregate of either/all search-terms independently that are true.

I agree, it's persistent and has been happening for years, across Windows versions.
A search will turn up the info, and a thorough search is why I haven't been able to find a fix for it. Running some audio diagnotic .cab files, changing WMP settings, un-installing and re-installing WMP - any suggestion I found I tried. Nothing has worked so far. OTOH, it led me to find some useful software so it hasn't been a wash. :)

You're welcome. I'm happy you like it. It's easy to use. And fast. I like fast. :)

As for being paranoid, when I started using the program some months ago I uploaded a converted file to VirusTotal, even though I've used their other programs (YouTube to MP3 Converter, Collagerator) for months with no issues, so there's that. :)

You need to take extra care when using software like this. Among the other unwanted items it contains is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-descri... MC - Site Manager.
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/05d1ecdf8452dc5152c81fa7df5e558890fab...

i use foobar2000

I'm glad to hear it works for you. I like their software quite a bit. It's probably not the best if you need lots of features, but if getting basic tasks done quickly with an easy to use interface is what you want then they are terrific.

I have a Microsoft account, but my computers all run on local accounts. I use the Microsoft account when I have to, then revert to a local account. The email address they have on file is an email that I use specifically for those kinds of things so it doesn't matter if they have it.

I install Windows operating systems without a Microsoft account:
How To Install & Use Windows 10 Without Microsoft Account

The telemetry is sent whether you're using a Microsoft account on your system or not. 

I think devices are still being interconnected on some levels.
Windows 10 will soon show you your phone's text messages

(A) You would have to know that the file format changed, i.e., that Windows corrupted your file. Is it obvious when it happens? I don't know.
(B) You would then have to take the time, short a time as it might be, to actually do the restore for every file that got messed up. PITB!

If anyone thinks this situation is acceptable, with all due respect, you're nuts!

I specialize in missing the obvious on a regular basis. It's not quite a superpower, but it's probably close. :)
Thanks, C and E and tea are on the docket.

Ronatola, even with the Basic setting Win 10 still calls home base quite a lot. Read about it here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/273311/the-difference-between-basic-enhanced-and-full-usage-data-in-windows-10/

If you want to turn all that stuff off you need Spybot Anti-Beacon.
https://www.safer-networking.org/products/spybot-anti-beacon/

Ms. rhiannon, Thank you for this post. I certainly will use this list for my customers and eventually even in my advertising.

Likely the simplest way to avoid this is NOT to create a Microsoft account, that is NOT to give your email address to MS when you first turn on a new Win 10 computer.

The hare-brained idea to have the same "desktop" and account settings on a computer, a tablet and a phone luckily has fallen by the wayside now. And where are the Windows phones and the Windows 10 capable tablets? Even MS Surface i snow being sold with keyboard and a touchpad.

It seems odd I know, but yes, this happens to me and the people's computers who I tend to, in Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. I know about the Windows Media Player settings that are mentioned in the Lifehacker article and other websites, and have made the suggested changes. It still happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I rarely use WMP (Windows Media Player), though one of the people whose computer is under my watch uses it all the time. I keep all the original audio files on an external hard drive and a USB FLASH drive. And yes, I'm mighty unhappy that this keeps happening. :-0   

From what I've seen, it's not common, but not all that rare either. It seems to be persistent, with no fix that I've found. Around here it's a recent occurrence. It started in the last year or so.

I use MediaHuman's YouTube to MP3 Converter too. It works well for my purposes.

Where's the Ubuntu download? Am I blind?

Thanks Jojo. :)

poetry, prose, short stories, short stories for kids

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Vedy interesting. Thanks.

Excellent program, but no longer available for Windows.

Thank you for finding out what the structure is. It looked like concrete to me in the black and white version, but it could easily be metal. :)
I didn't see the sepia version. I like both equally well.

I'm a regular visitor to their site because I've been a long time user of their PDF-XChange software. Thanks to a great review here at Gizmo's which got me started.

Thanks a lot Remah for these links and info :).

You just made the hours I spend hunting these down a lot brighter, thank you. :)
I know what you mean, I have a handful of images that show up on my monitors regularly, they don't get old for me.

Oddly enough I was looking at Halloween wallpapers today.  :)
 

I export all my LastPass content on a regular basis. Just in case. :)

It searches datasets exclusively. Search engines don't index everything on the internet - thus the creation of specialty search engines such as Google Scholar, Springer, BASE, FOIA.gov, VADLO, CiteSeerx, the Icon Archive, Kaggle, refseek, Academic Index, etc.

Run a search in a standard search engine for boston education or "boston AND education".
A wide variety of returns appears, depending on the search engine, most of which are not useful if you're looking for data/datasets. Pioneers Happy Hour announcement, a Forbes article on Paul English, a pdf from Northeast Insurance Agency, and a CNN article on school gardens are not what I would want if I were looking for data/datasets on boston education.

Search Dataset for the same "boston AND education" without quotes, and it returns two datasets. Remove the operator AND, and more datasets are listed. These may not be exactly what I'm looking for, but are much closer to what I'm seeking.
(Using quotation marks in Dataset returns a "boston AND education" - did not match any datasets" message).

Every so often, I export all of my passwords to a file which I password-protect with 7-zip and upload to the cloud. Just in case...

Free version still exists. Read my earlier comment here:

https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/pdf-xchange-editor.htm#comment-...

I have been using PdfXchange Editor since long time now, and always update to the latest release, and I can confirm I have been using its free version. If you go to the download page, you will see that it has two versions.. the Plus version is the commercial one. Regular version is free.

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Just carefully inspect the Options for any music program and make sure it's default directories are the same.

Even Apple iTunes ... and VLC and MusicBrainz Picard and Zortam MP3 Media Studio and Media Monkey and others ... will leave music in the same folder as Windows Media Player, and all these programs will just present the music files as found -- or collect and reorganize them if that's your goal -- and these various programs will either inherit each other's fixes that have been applied to your music files if you make any changes, or if you let them make any changes to your music files, or they may try to refix anything that they disagree with each other on, so also inspect all Options and play with choices for what any program should do regarding moving files, perhaps by Rip settings or when played or when saved with new or updated tags, art, and lyrics.

You da boss, there's no "right" or "wrong" way, only find YOUR way.
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[ Note: I put spaces in web addresses in my comment here to stop them from appearing as active links, so, for you to use them, copy them and remove the spaces. ]

I found a line already in my [ C: \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc \ host ] file as

[ 0 . 0 . 0 . 0 redir . metaservices . microsoft . com ]

... set by SoftOrbits Anti-WebMiner v1.80 43320 -- luckily they have a comment line in my [ hosts ] file above their entries so I know who did it!

I simply commented it out with [ ## :: ;; ] at the beginning of the line -- I leave it there so that I remember it was set and don't let it happen again ... or we can just delete the line and resave [ hosts ].

Suddenly, the Windows Media Player [ Find Album Information ] feature started working again, go figure!

I did an IP lookup for the address as reported in Windows Media Player's error screen:

C:\>_ ping [ redir . metaservices . microsoft . com ] [ Enter ]

... and it came up with [ a1095 . g2 . akamai . net ] at [ 23 . 48 . 39 . 50 ], which is not the IP address as suggested in the opening article of [ 2 . 18 . 213 . 82 ].

Pinging [ 2 . 18 . 213 . 82 ] leads to [ 82 . deploy . static . akamaitechnologies . com ], for what it's worth, and I did not test it since just removing the line in my [ hosts ] file worked for me.

Letting Microsoft do their own redirection of the address called by Windows Media Player, rather than me forcing anything in my [ hosts ] file, seems the most reliable way to keep Windows Media Player features functional ...

... though we can abandon Microsoft and use MusicBrainz Picard and Zortam MP3 Music Studio and Media Monkey and a whole bunch of other programs that also have lookup-identify-and-fix for tags, art, and lyrics for music files.

In my case, running the SoftOrbits Anti-WebMiner, and running Windows Media Player, at vastly different times, denied me the direct correlation that one caused a failure in the other, my bad.

Pinging any "can't be found" web address on different computers, and especially checking the [ hosts ], file are great ideas ...

... much easier, in hindsight, than removing Windows Media Player, rebooting, reinstalling Windows Media Player, rebooting, and finding the problem still there!

Doh!
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That error is often caused by the downloaded file being corrupted.

So download it again.

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Some websites are just too annoying to be bothered with. You log in with a complex 25 character password and then to download something, they insist you prove your not a robot by taking that dopey test.

Good to know. :)
It will work on Opera.
How to Install Chrome Extensions in Opera
https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-install-chrome-extensions-o...

Thanks, I'll go this route. :)

H&R Block is one site you can test. It blocks pasting of passwords from the clipboard via keyboard or mouse.
It offers to generate a strong password for you. If you use it, it will generate a password and autofill both password fields. The issue I had with the password generator was that the generated password threw up the message "Password must contain at least one special character".

It would seem their password generator doesn't know it's supposed to insert a special character when generating strong passwords. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have RightToCopy installed in Chrome, and H&R will not allow right click and paste using that extension.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/righttocopy/plmcimdddlobkphnof...

If you're using Firefox, changing the clipboard events entry in about:config will unblock copy and paste in fields.
about:config > agree that you know this might void your warranty (if you haven't disabled it) > search for: dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled > double click to change the entry to false
It avoids installation of another add-on.

Anytime. :)

Thank you Rhiannon! Worked great!