All the forum postings from the Guys With Towels website. http://www.guyswithtowels.com 2008-05-16T16:36:24Z http://www.guyswithtowels.com/gwt.gif http://www.guyswithtowels.com Guys With Towels website Just popping buy to pay respects. Cheers! /index.php?page=forums&tid=90&pid=282 2006-05-10T17:23:02Z Hi Tim, liked the picture of the Commodore, I used one of those at teacher's training college, but my first computer which I programmed in Binary Coded Decimal only had 400 memory spaces. (NCR 500) I wrote all sorts too, Sales ledger, cheque production, payroll, and stock control for a subsiduary of Rootes (Chrysler?) I don't program now but I did use Xara (a freebie on a magazine CD) to make the buttons for my website, its a good little program. Sadly I think programming is a thing of my past but I completely agree with your sentiments about good programs being written with only small amounts of code. Mine had to be...( I did briefly teach programming in BASIC and the lads hated it when I insisted on flowcharts before they started coding.) /index.php?page=forums&tid=78&pid=233 2006-03-03T14:59:05Z To see if my forums RSS feeds are working as I expect. But also because I thought it was sad that this forum said "Last post - over a year ago", and I thought I'd change that. :-) /index.php?page=forums&tid=74&pid=218 2006-01-24T21:58:53Z /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=107 2004-12-28T17:51:34Z One small step for a php developer, one giant leap for my website! Tim /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=1 2004-07-11T19:15:38Z Well, now, then. Then now. Now then. I'll put Tumbleweed up on here soon. Just as soon as I've tidied it up so it's not a complete pain to install. /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=17 2004-07-11T19:15:38Z I just thought I'd send a message from Seattle airport from my PocketPC just because I can. If I can get to type this between Shira's instant messages! I am totally wireless. Like a freak. Tim /index.php?page=forums&tid=15&pid=46 2004-07-11T19:15:38Z You are not wrong. Fixed it now. I had been playing about with the footer, and screwed it up. I really ought to make this reply page look nicer anyway. /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=7 2004-07-11T19:15:38Z The gripping life we do all lead. /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=71 2004-07-09T09:19:11Z Because it doesn't do proper conversation threading yet. Give me a break! Maybe one day. It does remember the threading internally though, so come the great day when I do make it work, rest assured that your message will appear in the correct place under mine. Imagine my excitement. Tim PS. I'm watching you. /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=70 2004-07-08T22:06:21Z Hey, I clicked "reply" at the bottom of YOUR message, why does it appear under Sean's? /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=69 2004-07-07T20:41:55Z Oh go on then. But don't make a mess. /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=68 2004-07-06T21:28:53Z Can I? Can I? /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=67 2004-07-06T19:16:23Z Green! Your true colour! /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=66 2004-07-01T23:29:19Z I'm just testing the new server to see if I can post to forums...and I can! /index.php?page=forums&tid=22&pid=65 2004-07-01T23:28:12Z Top pharmaceuticals available now without prescription. In case you wanted to receive some mobile forum spam. ><> /index.php?page=forums&tid=15&pid=47 2004-05-16T21:03:41Z Bah. No one tells me about anything. I disappear for a year and suddenly I'm off the "I've got forums" list. You wait until I get some on my website. I'm taking notes. Oh yes. /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=45 2004-05-04T17:30:26Z Glad to see it got updated, it seems to have generated a bit more traffic here too. Like the site you have here and some of your articles kept me amused for a while, specifically the ones about marketing and keyboards. :o) Mel /index.php?page=forums&tid=11&pid=34 2004-04-13T13:02:09Z And the project page for Tumbleweed is where? I clicky! Clicky clicky! It do no good! /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=16 2004-02-15T01:29:27Z Surprisingly, it doesn't suck too badly on Lynx... /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=13 2004-02-14T14:14:55Z It doesn't look right on my Amiga. ><> /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=9 2004-02-11T11:34:25Z That's better. /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=8 2004-02-11T01:52:05Z Although the reply form seems a bit broken on Firebird... /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=6 2004-02-11T01:17:05Z Seems to work /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=3 2004-02-10T23:33:54Z Congratulations! :-) /index.php?page=forums&tid=1&pid=2 2004-02-10T21:23:26Z That's a good question - Memento currently has no printing or export support, although the file format is simple, so if you happened to be a programmer you could probably do something like this yourself. However, you're probably not a programmer, so that's not much help :-). I'm currently adding some new features to Memento, so I might add printing support (or let you export notes as a simple text file, which you could then print out from Notepad/Word etc). I recommend that you make sure Memento's automatic update check is enabled (see the 'Options' window) and then you'll know if/when I do this because Memento will tell you about the new version. /index.php?page=forums&tid=133&pid=1471 2008-05-16T07:08:25Z Greetings! Does anyone know how I can print out all my notes onto one sheet? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You! Carol Ann /index.php?page=forums&tid=133&pid=1470 2008-05-16T05:28:19Z Hey, Tim: Any progress on alphabetizing? /index.php?page=forums&tid=116&pid=1443 2008-04-08T00:32:27Z The notes are stored in a fairly simple plain text format in the 'Memento.notes' file in your 'My Documents' folder. You can copy and paste note contents from this file into whatever program you're using on the Mac to store notes. There is no automated conversion process (and no version of Memento for Mac OS X). /index.php?page=forums&tid=128&pid=1420 2008-03-05T22:56:33Z Hi, need to migrate mi notes from the pc version to mac, what can i do? /index.php?page=forums&tid=128&pid=1419 2008-03-05T17:07:40Z Hi Tim -- Thanks for the reply. I moved the "My Documents" folder by right-clicking on its Desktop shortcut, then specifying a new target folder location in the appropriate field. I then rebooted my PC, ran Memento soon after that, and that's when I noticed the problem. It may be, like you said, that I had started Memento some time before moving the My Documents folder; I didn't think it was running at the time, but I'm not 100% sure. This underscores the importance of backing up anything important you might want to save in a Memento note (or any document for that matter!). /index.php?page=forums&tid=127&pid=1294 2008-01-18T17:54:20Z I'm not really sure what happened there. That sort of thing can happen if you move 'My Documents' while Memento is running. But if Memento was not running, and your folder had been completely moved before you ran Memento again, I'm not sure why the notes were lost. When Memento starts it justs asks Windows where 'My Documents' is, and looks for the Memento notes file in there. If there is no such file, it makes a new (empty) one. THe only thing I can think of is that you started Memento before your documents folder had been completely moved. Out of interest, how did you move your My Documents folder? /index.php?page=forums&tid=127&pid=1254 2008-01-18T15:35:19Z I just moved the "My Documents" folder from its default WinXP location to under the C:\ directory. Soon after, I started Memento, but I realized I lost all my notes. I opened the Memento.notes file (now only 1 kB in size) under the "My Documents" folder, but it did not contain my old notes. Any idea what could have happened? /index.php?page=forums&tid=127&pid=1188 2008-01-18T02:28:17Z I'd like to second Pauls request, It would be nice if default size AND location for new notes could be defined by the user. Thanks! /index.php?page=forums&tid=93&pid=637 2008-01-04T05:05:14Z Standalone mode is invoked when Memento finds the 'Memento.notes' file in the same place as Memento.exe. Otherwise it will look in your 'My Documents' folder for the notes file. So: 1. Quit Memento 2. Move the Memento.notes file to your 'My Documents' folder 3. Restart Memento Then Memento will use the notes file from 'My Documents'. I strongly recommend you take a backup of your Memento.notes file before doing this, though. If you do it in the wrong order, bad things may happen, and humans have an amazing capacity for not following instructions properly :-). /index.php?page=forums&tid=124&pid=635 2008-01-03T22:12:54Z Hi, I am still enjoying your memento program. I must use it a dozen times a day. I am using the standalone mode. I was wondering if there is a way to change it from the standalone mode to the regular mode where the memento.notes is stored in another folder and by doing so not losing my existing notes file. Thank you so much for a wonderful program. Luther /index.php?page=forums&tid=124&pid=634 2008-01-03T21:53:03Z Well, this does sometimes happen (seems to be an interaction with Windows Update and its prediliction for forced restarts). However, I'm going to do you a big favour now, based on what you've said. You're using a computer. It contains a hard drive. Presumably you have data on that hard drive that is valuable to you. Here's the secret no-one wants to tell you. Hard drives can fail. Just like that. You could turn on your computer tomorrow, and the hard drive could fail to start. You might lose *all* of the data on that hard-drive. Unless you have backed it up somewhere (another PC, another hard drive, etc), then you will have lost all that data (pictures, emails, music) forever. So try to back up your stuff. Sorry if I sound patronising, but many people seem unaware that they are storing their precious data on a device that is so fragile, and they're usually grateful when I point it out. If you have data you value, and you only have a single copy of it on a single hard drive, then you *will* lose that data one day. I speak from experience. /index.php?page=forums&tid=122&pid=633 2008-01-01T22:25:10Z I LOVE Memento, but. Twice now I have lost the data file for the notes, which was a fairly long list. When I first opened the program I got an error message saying that if I continued using memento the files would become corrupted. (I didn't use it. :) I reinstalled Memento but now my notes are gone (which isn't much better than corrupted I think). I have Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600), Dell Inspiron 530S (only a couple of months old), 2.33 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo. Help! I'm an old lady and and I can't remember anything anymore. Who are you again? Thanks. /index.php?page=forums&tid=122&pid=615 2007-12-18T20:31:03Z Gosh, that was quick. Although, I managed to subscribe in order to notice your reply so I guess there's nothing stopping you doing the same. I definitely agree with not adding many of the suggestions. One of the reasons I asked is that while not really having any idea how you wrote it, I can imagine the task bar one being not too involved as the feature already exists. Thank-you for keeping it simple. As you say, there are plenty of more complicated programs out there. /index.php?page=forums&tid=119&pid=523 2007-10-11T22:44:22Z Development is not stalled, so much as proceeding slowly due to other commitments. Thanks for the suggestions though - I'll add them to my list. Of course, one of the features of Memento is that I very determinedly don't add every feature people ask for, as it is supposed to be simple to use. I've had people ask for 'skinned' notes, etc. That sort of stuff is unlikely to be added. /index.php?page=forums&tid=119&pid=522 2007-10-11T15:46:28Z Thanks, this is great! I've been using Memento for a while now and love it. I recently lost a bunch of notes due to failed saving (but had an old standalone copy which I hand edited in with notepad) so I now make frequent use of the paranoid's Save Now feature. I assume development is stalled, if not over, but wonder how possible it is to have the option to have show on task bar default to true. I keep my notes closed for the most part and find I am always alt-tabbing in and out while they are open. Most of my notes are for short term storage so I usually end up putting the text somewhere else or I gather bits from here and there which involves many repeat entries. Sorting which has been requested so many times would be useful, but I managed to maintain the correct syntax in Notepad so am comfortable sorting manually as required. I would prefer the option to make the text larger, sometimes it's a bit small. Would zoom be easier or harder than allowing proper resizing? /index.php?page=forums&tid=119&pid=521 2007-10-09T23:47:41Z Hurray! Glad to hear that alphabetizing has finally hit your radar! /index.php?page=forums&tid=116&pid=402 2007-08-25T19:46:21Z Thanks, it would be nice to have an option to configure what happens when you click on the icon. I would prefer it open all notes rather than making a new one. Overall love your program. big thanks /index.php?page=forums&tid=117&pid=400 2007-08-22T23:41:56Z If you shift-click the Memento icon, it will hide all notes. If there are no notes visible, it will show all your notes (it's in the instructions). HTH. /index.php?page=forums&tid=117&pid=399 2007-08-22T22:59:26Z I was just wondering ( or totally oblivious to instructions ) is there a way to show all notes via keyboard shortcut or maybe by double clicking the notes icon? Thanks /index.php?page=forums&tid=117&pid=398 2007-08-22T22:15:27Z Just another huge THANKS SO MUCH! for Memento. Cool stuff! I just tested it against some 6 or so other post-it programs and I think I'll "stick" to Memento. Also love your website & writing style, gotta read some of your articles at times. Hehe... Best regards from Germany, Alex /index.php?page=forums&tid=114&pid=396 2007-08-22T05:36:17Z Yes, this is becoming a problem for me too, so I will probably add a feature to solve this issue. At the moment I'll probably do some sort of quick search feature, and after that, probably allow notes to be tagged (to give you grouping functionality, etc). No idea when I'll do it, I'm afraid. It is starting to bug me though :-) /index.php?page=forums&tid=116&pid=388 2007-08-13T10:57:52Z Hi Tim I quite enjoy your lovely little program. So much so that I have 4 columns of notes in excess of 110 notes. Now I have a problem, they cover everything from medical notes copied from the internet to discount codes at my hotel and rental places. And they are getting hard to find. I use caps and stars and other stuff to "locate" them to my eye but it still takes a while to locate them! Have you any plans to be able to alphabetize them, or perhaps be able to break them into headings which could be easier to locate such as Medical, or Poems, or Travel Data, or Love Notes (!) ??? thanks for your wonderful program. Richard /index.php?page=forums&tid=116&pid=387 2007-08-10T22:46:40Z Yes, I'm considering it. /index.php?page=forums&tid=115&pid=383 2007-08-06T08:44:36Z Hey Tim! Are you considering to add the feature of text formatting to Memento? ;) I love how simple it is, and presume I'm hoping to see it made more complicated!!! lol Thanks for providing Momento!!! Lisa /index.php?page=forums&tid=115&pid=380 2007-08-05T14:20:54Z First of all -- Yowzah!!! I haven't been really impressed by the functionality of a program in probably a decade, but FastFind knocked me off my chair. This little program really does its job well!! A very big thanks for this utility. Now, to the subject of the post. I'd like to request the ability to run FastFind from the command line with the search term as a parameter. I'd like this because there's another great program called Launchy (www.launchy.net) which, if used to launch FastFind, would make finding any file on your computer about a half second operation, from program invoke to results displayed. (And it would save me a couple of keystrokes.) While I'm asking... how about an option to always sort by folder after the search is complete? But mostly - THANKS! /index.php?page=forums&tid=120&pid=591 2007-11-26T08:58:21Z I'll probably do that...the next time I release a new version of FastFind. /index.php?page=forums&tid=111&pid=366 2007-06-29T22:27:54Z Tim, Awesome to see you back around here. I love FastFind. I occasionally have to google it to find out where to get a copy for reinstalls or on another PC. Selfish request. Put your contact info, at least web address, into an about menu or placed upon the config page of FastFind... Anywhere to mark the program as yours. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) /index.php?page=forums&tid=111&pid=363 2007-06-28T19:29:42Z Yes, it would be possible. Don't hold your breath. /index.php?page=forums&tid=111&pid=357 2007-06-14T16:58:26Z Fastfind is GREAT! I use it most days and I'm very happy with it... Would it be possible, when you double-click on a search result, to have the item open? At present, v1.14 for me opens Explorer at the folder containing the item, which is good, but better would be to open the folder with the item highlighted, and best (for me) to have the item open with the registered application. I know it's more work.... just that when I look for things, I most often want to see what's in the file, not just to know that it exists. Of course, the jam on it would be to have a settable option to control double-click behaviour.... /index.php?page=forums&tid=111&pid=356 2007-06-14T15:56:45Z http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html /index.php?page=forums&tid=85&pid=266 2006-04-29T16:03:49Z When would you use the regular expression checkbox? What are some examples of regular expressions? /index.php?page=forums&tid=85&pid=251 2006-04-17T05:50:00Z There's no user interface to do this, but if you really want to do it you can use RegEdit (the Registry Editor) to delete the FastFind search history from the registry. You need to delete this key and all its values: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Guys With Towels\FastFind\UI\SearchPattern If you're not familiar with RegEdit, I would avoid to be honest - there's too much potential for screwing up your system. Tim /index.php?page=forums&tid=69&pid=198 2005-11-14T10:59:39Z Is it possible to clear the history of searched terms? /index.php?page=forums&tid=69&pid=195 2005-11-07T21:28:45Z You can do it here: http://boost.org/doc/html/who_s_using_boost_/submit.html Good work! Enjoy! /index.php?page=forums&tid=68&pid=194 2005-11-03T08:49:19Z You can do it here: http://boost.org/doc/html/who_s_using_boost_/submit.html Good work! Enjoy! /index.php?page=forums&tid=67&pid=193 2005-11-03T08:48:56Z Actually, FastFind does index directory names - I use that feature myself fairly often. The directories are the ones in the results list with no entry in the 'Size' column. I should probably make that more obvious...one day :). Tim /index.php?page=forums&tid=53&pid=149 2005-06-11T10:11:20Z Just installed FastFind -- it's just what I was looking for, something like slocate for linux but on Windows. I recently did a System Restore and now I have all these bogus directories ending with "(2)" like "Program Files(2)" and so on. It would be cool for me at least if FastFind indexed directory names as well as file names, so I could delete or at least find all of these (2) thingies. Not sure if you're still interested in working on FastFind, but if you are, there's an idea for you... thanks for a useful, small, sensible program! -- Gary Oberbrunner /index.php?page=forums&tid=53&pid=148 2005-06-08T15:54:44Z uxtheme.h is a Windows XP related header (for using the Theme API) - if you don't have it, you will need newer include files to build vgui. If you get the latest Microsoft Platform SDK from the Microsoft website, then vgui should build ok. Tim /index.php?page=forums&tid=46&pid=131 2005-04-02T17:12:57Z i have problems in building the vgui library. the header file uxtheme.h is missing /index.php?page=forums&tid=46&pid=127 2005-03-29T21:08:58Z i have problems in building the vgui library. the header file uxtheme.h is missing /index.php?page=forums&tid=45&pid=126 2005-03-29T21:06:44Z You mean you want FastFind to print out the full name of any file called 'website.txt'? Or something else? It doesn't have a command line mode at the moment - sorry. /index.php?page=forums&tid=6&pid=23 2004-07-11T19:15:38Z How do I run FastFind from command line with a parameter like fastfind website.txt Thanks! /index.php?page=forums&tid=6&pid=20 2004-02-20T16:20:10Z Hi, thanks for your programs ! The update rate is not an issue if it is documented somewhere (you just did :) gg ) Yet an option sould be a plus ;p I love it anyway /index.php?page=forums&tid=84&pid=351 2007-05-30T15:40:30Z Gosh - I managed to miss this message - sorry! Anyway, FreeSpace only checks the free space every five minutes, so if you, for example, delete a lot of files, it won't show up immediately in the FreeSpace display. This is deliberate - it's supposed to be a very low profile utility that isn't polling the system all the time. I guess I could add an option for how often it updates the free space display. Don't hold your breath, though. /index.php?page=forums&tid=84&pid=296 2006-06-24T09:18:07Z Hello! Could you add or correct this : when a drive or partition have more free space,your soft doesn't display the change automatically. I must edit the status for the partition to display the new status! However it works very well when the disk lost space! thanks ! /index.php?page=forums&tid=84&pid=252 2006-04-17T19:29:16Z This soft is what I have searched for long time. No Ram Hog,non intusive, no need to run special shell or widgets, no useless functions. It's the best utility for this task. You rocks,guy! I have Only a regret :that should be more people to know it. It would be great to post it to download sites ;) With best regards, Jean. /index.php?page=forums&tid=84&pid=250 2006-04-16T22:38:59Z Thank you! /index.php?page=forums&tid=126&pid=656 2008-01-15T13:52:43Z Sorry - my mistake; I re-organised my site recently and managed to screw up some of the links. You should be able to download it now. (Some other links are broken; I'll fix them soon) /index.php?page=forums&tid=126&pid=655 2008-01-15T13:48:15Z Hi there, I would like to try out the SwitchMSE tool, however the exe is not availalbe at the download location? Anyone able to help? Best regards, Jeroen /index.php?page=forums&tid=126&pid=654 2008-01-15T13:41:23Z Kind of sad it wouldnt work on Vista. Which kind of functions would make it not work under vista ? Maybe it is just working, anyone tried it ? I am having actually another problem. I have one 4/3 display my ole good TV) and another 4/3 display (an LCD panel) which is used in a DIY Projector. I am only using part of the lcd screen and running it in 16/9 on my 4/3 lcd panel ( with the /widescreen toggle). Would it be possible to have such a feature in mceswitch (force an aspect ratio switch on a given display ?). /index.php?page=forums&tid=118&pid=616 2007-12-20T14:52:01Z Oops - managed to miss this message. Anyway, I believe SwitchMCE will not work on Vista - I don't have Vista installed (because when I tried it, it actually removed some features of XP MCE that I actually want/need). /index.php?page=forums&tid=118&pid=603 2007-12-10T05:00:23Z "Would it be feasible to enhance the window search algorithm of SwitchMCE to look for and handle PowerDVD windows when the MCE window is not present or is minimized?" I guess so. That would mean SwitchMCE would need to monitor the window list - at the moment it only does something when you press a button. "Lacking that, might source be available?" I don't have any HD DVDs, so if you want it, you'll probably have to do it yourself. I'll look into putting the source code on this site sometime. Soon, maybe. /index.php?page=forums&tid=121&pid=593 2007-11-29T17:59:11Z I have used SwitchMCE for many months now and it has performed its critical function flawlessly. Thank you. I came back to your site, however, for the more common reason of got-something-for-free-want-more. As I am sure you are aware, MCE does not address either HD-DVD or BluRay playback. MyMovies facilitates playback of these by minimizing MCE and launching PowerDVD. Alas, PowerDVD launches on the wrong (most of the time) screen. Would it be feasible to enhance the window search algorithm of SwitchMCE to look for and handle PowerDVD windows when the MCE window is not present or is minimized? I have a slightly worn kazoo and funny hat that might be used to celebrate the occasion. if so. Lacking that, might source be available? Thanks again for the useful tool. John Brisbin zohn@nakasuzi.com (change the z'z to j'z if you're not a spammer) /index.php?page=forums&tid=121&pid=592 2007-11-29T05:20:03Z Just wondering if i could install this on my vista Mce? If not will you be making a version for vista? /index.php?page=forums&tid=118&pid=457 2007-09-19T07:26:33Z