fix windows explorer folder jumps

This is an extremely annoying bug in Windows 7. Because of so many user complaints going on for YEARS, Microsoft finally called it a "bug" instead of a "feature". However, Microsoft isn't going to fix it in Windows 7, but they finally did fix it in later versions of Windows 8 before final release. (Microsoft's ongoing business model of actually profiting from bugs by making users pay for upgrades that fix basic design flaws -- or maybe don't.) See http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/window...

HERE'S A FIX: Install the solid freeware app Classic Shell, which tweaks both Explorer and Start Menu behaviors. Among many useful features, it has one called "Fix folder scrolling" that solves the problem of the selected folder jumping to the bottom of the pane.

Also, there is another closely related "feature" annoyance you can fix in Classic Shell. Disable the folder pane's horizontal scrollbar, and the folder list won't suddenly jump to the right when clicking on a folder with a long path. You can still see the full name by hovering the cursor over what you CAN see.

A few independent programmers can fix these problems, but Microsoft's army of well-compensated coders can't. Well, not CAN'T -- it's WON'T. Their managers won't let them. There's not a dime in profit in fixing these bugs for current users, so they won't. Security fixes are different, however, primarily because of liability issues for Microsoft.

Tutorial:

http://www.7tutorials.com/fix-windows-explorer-annoyances-classic-shell

MS forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-explorer-expands-folders-inappropriately/50a81b05-da98-4d55-821d-55ffbbd0e998

Screencapture

Opensource, free...

http://getsharex.com/

http://evernote.com/skitch/

http://www.picpick.org/en/features

http://www.bugshooting.com/Home/Index

http://sourceforge.net/projects/greenshot/files/

Wolfram programming language

More than any other computing language, knowledge about the world is built into the Wolfram Language, which is exactly what powers the WolframAlpha search engine. In addition, functions for seemingly everything — over 5,000 of them — are built right into the language, which enables you to create user interfaces, graphics objects, graphs, and more, programmatically.
“The knowledge graph is a vastly less ambitious project than what we’ve been doing at Wolfram Alpha,” he told VentureBeat when we asked him about its relation to Google’ knowledge projects. “Making the world computable is a much higher bar than being able to generate Wikipedia-style information … a very different thing. What we’ve tried to do is insanely more ambitious.”

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/24/knowledge-based-programming-wolfram-releases-first-demo-of-new-language-30-years-in-the-making/


http://www.wolfram.com/wolfram-language/

TransMIDIfier

TransMIDIfier provides convenient MIDI routing and virtual instrument patch switching and customization for the working musician. TransMIDIfier works by functioning as a "middle man" between the sequencer and the sample player. TransMIDIfier reinterprets the incoming MIDI data in powerful ways before passing it along to the sample player.

Key Features

Switch among instrument patches from a single MIDI track via keyswitches or program changes, regardless of sample player.
Selectively combine multiple, arbitrary instrument patches from different manufacturers to create powerful new sounds.
Apply transformations to MIDI data to customize instrument behavior and performance.

http://www.bewaryprods.com/software/products/TransMIDIfier/

Qgifer

QGifer is a tool for extracting part of a video to an animated GIF file.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer/?source=directory

DeleD game engine

DeleD is a 3D modeler designed to help you create content for your game project, whether you're a professional or indy game developer. Other areas in which you can put DeleD to good use are, for example, educational services, webdesign, prototyping and image creation.

DeleD focusses on five areas to provide in your daily modeling needs. These are:

• Geometry Editing: DeleD has lots of tools to modify 3D objects, including Smoothing and Boolean Operators
• Animation: DeleD provides a basic animation system allowing you to create animated objects in no-time
• UV Mapping: DeleD has a build-in UV editor, enabling you to skin your objects in detail
• Lightmapping: DeleD lights up your world with advanced lightmapping functions
• Raytracing: DeleD can create stunning pictures with its build-in raytracer

License Free

Anything you create with DeleD is license free. This means that you can use whatever you make with DeleD for your own purposes, whether commercially or not. No license fees, no legal strings.

Whatever you create with DeleD, is yours to use.

http://www.delgine.com/index.php?filename=product_deled

mp3 tag

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

SwatchBooker

Converts
Color color swatches, grandients, brushes, patterns...
Converts between Photoshop, Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Xara, OpenOffice...

http://www.selapa.net/swatchbooker/

Secret Feature in Ableton Live: Show Devices / Plugins on Tracks

Secret Feature in Ableton Live: Show Devices / Plugins on Tracks

1. Create a text file called Options.txt (this has to be in plain text format).
2. Inside the file write ‘-ShowDeviceSlots’ (without the apostrophes).
3. Place the file in the same folder where Live’s Preferences.cfg file is located (this folder could be hidden, see instructions below).

http://www.resoundsound.com/ableton-live-show-devices-plugins-on-tracks/

Box

Send big files

https://app.box.com/personal/send-big-files-fast/

Prototyping interfaces book

VVVV book

Not too long ago, the outcomes of a design process used to be in the form of a static medium. Today it is increasingly interactions – things that have a behavior. This not only fundamentally changes the design process, but also your life as a designer!

You are increasingly driving nonlinear processes, which are aiming towards a goal, that is not exactly defined at the beginning. The approach to this goal is very iterative through interactive sketches and by working with prototypes. Therefore you use new tools like vvvv and Arduino. And by working with prototypes, you’ll discover answers to questions that you haven’t even asked before.

http://prototypinginterfaces.com/

ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - the leading audio/video codec library.

http://www.ffmpeg.org/

Printcraft

Make things with Minecraft
Printcraft is the world's first 3D printing multi-player Minecraft server
Download your Minecraft models to print on your 3D printer or order models online and have them printed and delivered

http://www.printcraft.org/

VSTForx

VSTForx is a full-modular effect network creation tool which comes as a VST-plugin. With VSTForx you are able to load any number of VST-plugins and connect them anyway you want.

Additional modules allow you to manipulate such signal chains and offer a whole new way in mixing and producing.

http://www.vstforx.de/

Deep History

Deep History Chrome Addon
Deeper History searches page titles and the text that was on the page you were viewing so you can find what you were looking for.

(type "dh" to enter Deeper History, type in your keywords, and look through the results), and once you're in it, type any word you remember being on the page you want to get back to.

The add-on works by essentially building a database of information from all of the pages you visit. It doesn't use your actual browser history at all—it starts working from install time forward, and it keeps its own database locally (never uploaded or shared.) You can see what's in it or delete it at any time. The developer behind the extension has plenty of notes in the Chrome Web Store about what the tool does and doesn't do with your data.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deeper-history-your-histo/aohgidnfhlaciophgjldellglmocdkfn

Airdroid + Twister

Airdroid

Manage your Android from a web browser, all over the air.

http://www.airdroid.com/

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Twister

Peer-to-peer microblogging
twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.

http://twister.net.co/

CrazyBump

Amazing!
Texture + normal +... maps - auto gend!!

CrazyBump:
http://www.crazybump.com/

Tutorial:
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/the-secrets-of-realistic-texturing/

Free alternative:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?317041-Insane-Bump-2-0-overhauled-Crazy-bump-alternative

MusicBee musicplayer

If you are looking for an application geared toward managing extensive music collections, easy to use and with a comprehensive feature set - MusicBee is that application.

MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web.

http://getmusicbee.com/

Macro photo with old lens

I capture snowflakes at open balcony of my house, mostly on glass surface, lighted by LED flashlight from opposite side of glass, and sometimes in natural light, using dark woolen fabrics as background.

On a floor of a balcony I put the turned stool (legs up), on them - a glass plate. Previously, i shoot using Canon A650's standard macro mode. For this, from a small plastic bottle I cut central cylindrical part in the form of a tube (height 5.5 cm). This height I picked up so that the lens of the camera, pushed in a tube, will be at distance 1 centimeter from the bottom (this is minimum focusing distance of Canon A650 in macro mode). I just put this cylinder with the camera's lens within it over the chosen snowflake, the lens looks vertically down.
(...)
Recently, i built simple macro addon for the camera. I used lens Helios 44M-5 from old USSR SLR camera Zenit (here is short description in wikipedia). At first, i attached these lens at narrow wooden board (around 30 cm long), reversed: a back lens to snowflake, front lens to camera, and drilled in a board an opening for a screw suitable to tripod nest of the camera. Then camera is put on a board so that the lens in the maximum optical zoom mode (6x) touched Helios lens and looked straight into them.
http://chaoticmind75.blogspot.ru/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

  

Yumi

Antivirus: multiple linux distros from usb.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/boot-multiple-live-cds-usb-disk-yumi-windows/

Iterator in Processing 2

error messages:

Cannot find a class or type named "File"

and

Cannot find a class or type named "Iterator"

solution:

import java.io.File;

import java.util.Iterator;

...

the Darknet

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
https://www.torproject.org/

http://www.darknet.org.uk/popular-posts/

Plagiarism checkers

new:
https://plagiarismcheck.org/


as a reference finder:
http://lifehacker.com/use-a-plagiarism-checker-to-get-references-for-a-resear-1479402411?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

or not:

• Dustball
• Plagiarism DetectP
• Plagiarism CheckerP
• PlagiarismaP
• CopyscapeP
• PlagiumP

Electromagnetic radiation recording

Robert B. Lisek 
 
http://fundamental.art.pl/

http://fundamental.art.pl/WORKSHOP_ERS.html

http://www.fundacionfiart.org/formacion/electromagnetic-and-radiation-spaces-workshop-by-robert-b-lisek/

 

Induction Receiver (record electromagnetic radiation)

http://www.techlib.com/electronics/induction.html
The induction receiver shown below is very sensitive and can serve a variety of purposes. It is excellent for tracing wiring behind walls, receiving audio from an induction transmitter, hearing lightning and other electric discharges, and monitoring a telephone or other device that produces an audio magnetic field ("telephone pickup coil").

(linked from http://soundandmusic.org/resources/artists-toolkit/how-tos/fieldrecording  )

CSVed

CSV file editor
CSVed is an easy and powerful CSV file editor, you can manipulate any CSV file, separated with any separator.
some features:

edit, add, insert and delete items; import; change separator; add, delete columns; rearrange column order; save selection of rows and columns; save filtered items; save with double quotes; search and replace; filter items;

remove duplicates; append and merge files; install and uninstall help in English add prefix and suffix split and join columns export to HTML, Excel, Word, XML and more proper words and strings column search column sort and global sort

The listview is running in virtual mode, that means the data is displayed on demand. (not the entire CSV file is loaded in the listview) so CSVed can handle big files and is very fast.
In other words, you can do everything with a CSV file you wanted. CSV is cardware
http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/

AngularJS

AngularJS es un framework de JavaScript de código abierto, mantenido por Google, que ayuda con la gestión de lo que se conoce como aplicaciones de una sola página (también llamadas SPI). Su objetivo es aumentar las aplicaciones basadas en navegador con Capacidad de Modelo Vista Controlador (MVC), en un esfuerzo para hacer que el desarrollo y las pruebas más fáciles.
http://angularjs.org/

delete :Zone.Identifier:$DATA

Bulk Removing Zone.Identifier Alternate Data Streams From Downloaded Windows Files

http://thewayeye.net/2012/march/2/bulk-removing-zoneidentifier-alternate-data-streams-downloaded-windows-files

http://www.howtogeek.com/70012/what-causes-the-file-downloaded-from-the-internet-warning-and-how-can-i-easily-remove-it/

You can automatically remove them for instance from downloads after virus scanning them using Trend Micro HijackThis, it's in "Misc Tools -> ADS Spy".
http://www.filehippo.com/es/download_hijackthis/

(copiar streams.exe en c:\windows\ )
 >streams -s -d H:\
(borra todos los del disco H)

Freeplane

 Freeplane is a free and open source software application that supports thinking, sharing information and getting things done at work, in school and at home. The core of the software is tools for mind mapping (also known as concept mapping or information mapping) and using mapped information. Freeplane runs on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed.

http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Phaser

Game engine - Javascript

http://www.photonstorm.com/phaser

Monome Aleph

powerful audio processor, synthesizer, noise machine, rapidly modifiable instrument. a platform for experimental practice and organic discovery.

http://monome.org/aleph/

ReplicatorG

ReplicatorG is a simple, open source 3D printing program

This is the software that will drive your MakerBot Replicator, Thing-O-Matic, CupCake CNC, RepRap machine, or generic CNC machine. You can give it a GCode or STL file to process, and it takes it from there. It's cross platform, easily installed, and is based on the familiar Arduino / Processing environments. ReplicatorG is used by thousands of MakerBot Operators, and has printed tens of thousands of 3D objects and counting.

http://replicat.org/

Geometry in quantum physics

Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality.

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/

Bibliography

WIKINDX is a free Virtual Research Environment (an online bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.
 http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/

Bibliographix is the free high end reference manager for Microsoft Windows. 
http://home.mybibliographix.com/

Isadora Video Sequencer

Isadora tools
Video Sequencer
DMX User Actor

http://www.dusxproductions.com/blog/