text:
If you upgrade a 95/98/ME system to 2000 or XP, you can run into a situation where the upgrade has actually MOVED ClipMate's data directory. Since ClipMate is still looking in the old location, then it comes up empty, or with only the "trashcan" collection.
Note that this only affects upgrades, and not new 2000/XP installations.
The correction is fairly straightforward. You need to find where the data now resides, and then adjust the path of ClipMate's "data source" to point to the new location.
Here are some generic instructions. If you have custom data sources, then these will either not apply (because XP wouldn't have moved them) or will need modification.
XP has a nifty auto-hide of "inactive" system tray icons. We're not sure what "inactive" means, but we're pretty sure that you want ClipMate's icon showing all the time. To prevent it from hiding ClipMate's icon, right-click on the systray clock, select Properties. From the Taskbar tab, you'll see "Hide Inactve Icons". It's OK to put a checkmark in that. But click on the "Customize..." button, and you'll have more options. Find ClipMate in the list, and set it to "always show".
ClipMate relies on something called the Clipboard Viewer Chain, to receive notification of clipboard events (cut/copy/clear). Other applications can use the clipboard chain too, but they don't always implement their clipboard watching correctly. If they don't do everything right, then ClipMate (and lots of other apps) can be cut off from receiving clipboard updates. It's like when you leave a message for someone, and then the person taking the message throws it in the garbage can, instead of handing it to the intended recipient.
When ClipMate stops reacting to the clipboard updates, then that indicates that some other application has severed the clipboard connection. Here is a quick test - select any clip in ClipMate. Now hit the PrintScreen key on your keyboard. Does ClipMate react? If not, then the clipboard connection is severed.
Temporary Restoration of Clipboard Connection:
You can temporarily restore it by either restarting ClipMate, or doing a "Reestablish Clipboard Connection" from the Config menu.
Long-Term Correction:
If the connection drops frequently, then you have to determine what application is causing the trouble. look in Config | Clipboard Diagnostics | Connection. See what's listed as the "first app in the clipboard viewer chain". This isn't necessarily the culprit, but it may be. It is the "prime suspect".
There is a "continual ping" feature on that panel (in clipboard diagnostics) which can periodically test for a live connection, and alert you when it stops. First, do a single ping, to make sure it's ok now. If it isn't then reestablish first, then turn on the continual ping. When the connection drops, it will alert you. Hopefully, you'll be able to correlate to some other application starting, stopping, or crashing.
Unfortunately, there is an increasing trend for many utilities to actively monitor the clipboard for updates. (especial FTP clients and download managers). They don't always properly implement the rules, and sometimes cause big trouble.
Once you identify the problem application, look and see if they have a "clipboard monitoring" option. If they do, turn it off and see if that corrects the situation. Alert their tech support staff that they have a clipboard chain problem. We have resources for developers on this link: Developer Information
Look for these apps: FTP Clients, Download Managers, PrintScreen Utilities, Chat, Other Clipboard Utilities, Office2000/XP Clipboard.
You have some other application on your system that is pasting data into itself as fast as PowerPaste can provide it. You need to find the culprit. Look for things like: Download managers, URL Grabbers, FTP Clients, and other clipboard utilities. Some applications that are known to be involved in this conflict: GO!Zilla, GetRight, CuteFTP, RoboType, Magellan Explorer, FTP Voyager, Copernic Summarizer, WinVNC. You may be able to turn off the "clipboard monitoring" feature in the other application, and thus return PowerPaste to normal operation.
Office2000 has a clipboard that will also cause this. We recommend that you turn off the Office2000 clipboard if you want to use PowerPaste. Here is more information on that: Do ClipMate and Office 2000 get along?
This is the enhancement to the common controls in Win95, which gives you things like the split drop-down buttons. It also includes a Y2K fix. The new version is smart enough to know if you don't need it, so if your system is already up to date, it will just say so, and quit. The update is useful for Win95/Win98 and NT4. And at 400k, it's quite painless.
Just download, run the program, and (maybe) reboot. Now you'll have the updated controls.
In ClipMate 5.0, you can press the F11 key several times, and it will cycle through the various preset sizes. This troublesome feature WAS removed in v5.1.
Netscape copies TEXT only. No formatting, fonts, colors, tables, or other HTML tags. IE4/5, on the other hand, copy the new "HTML Format" datatype, which does have the HTML tags intact. If/When Netscape supports the data format, ClipMate will be able to view it (as long as you have IE4 or IE5 on your system.)
ClipMate requires IE4 or IE5 to view HTML, because Microsoft has made it easy for developers to incorporate web page viewing within applications, by dropping in their ActiveX control. Netscape does not provide these interfaces for developers, so it's impossible to do this with the current Netscape browsers.
On some systems, you'll get this error when loading ClipMate. This isn't a ClipMate bug - it's a bad DLL on your system. We've put together a test program to illustrate (if you need proof that it's your system and not our program): http://www.thornsoft.com/dist/techsupport/richedittest1.zip
If you download, unzip, and run this program, it will likely report the same error. This program is simply a form, with the Borland Delphi RichEdit control on it. There is no code in the program! Yet it errors, why is that? You have a bad DLL.
Ok, now that we've proven that the problem is with your computer, what to do? The most helpful solution is to replace your copy of riched32.dll with the one that originally came with Windows95 or Windows98.
There are many ways to retrieve and replace the DLL, none of them particularly simple. If you have a utility like WinZip, or some other .CAB file extractor, you can do it within Windows. But here are some directions that should work for anyone in Windows98, and are easily adapted to Windows95:
- Note: the extract.exe program is normally found on the CD, with all of the .CAB files
- Note: You'll see a bunch of files scroll by, and it'll pause at one file (containing the DLL) and copy it, then continue processing. You will need to enter Y to confirm.
- If the extract program complains that the file is in use, then you'll have to work around it. Extract to a different directory, like c:\temp. (adjust the command line to usec:\temp\ instead of c:\windows\system). Then, restart in "dos mode", or use the rescue diskette to restart in command line mode. Now you can copy the new DLL over the old one, like this:
copy c:\temp\riched32.dll c:\windows\system\riched32.dll.
Both Office2000 and OfficeXP have multi-clipboards of their own, although are limited, in comparison to ClipMate (for example, they are limited in size and don't remember data from one session to the next.) Additionally, they can interfere with certain ClipMate operations, such as PowerPaste. We advise that you turn your Office clipboard off, when using ClipMate. Below are instructions for each version of Office.
Hiding The Office2000 Clipboard:
We advise ClipMate users to turn off the Office2000 clipboard. Here is the information from Microsoft on how to do so:
"As you copy items, the Office Clipboard automatically appears on your desktop. You can close it if you do not want it to appear automatically. After closing the toolbar three times, you are prompted to permanently close it. If you permanently close the clipboard, to redisplay it, on the View menu, click Toolbars and then click Clipboard."
This information is from the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base, Article: Q221190 : Using the Office 2000 Clipboard
There is yet another way, if you want to edit the registry. The information is in a related Knowledge Base article: Q207438 OFF2000: Preventing the Office Clipboard Toolbar from AppearingUPDATE 12/26/2000: Here are two registry scripts that will turn off, or on, the Office2000 clipboard by adjusting the value that is mentioned in the above MS Knowledge Base article:
Turning it off: office2000clipboardoff.reg
And back on again:office2000clipboardon.reg
Just click on either of the above links above, download and run the file to update the registry. You'll be prompted with an "are you sure" dialog, and then the registry is updated. If you want to see what they're doing first, just download to your hard disk and open with a text editor such as Notepad.Note: This registry patch won't work in Office XP.
Hiding The OfficeXP Clipboard:
OfficeXP has a clipboard that will interfere with certain ClipMate operations like PowrePaste. Disabling it is easy. Start WinWord, and you'll see the "task pane" at the side of the screen. Within the task pane, you'll see the clipboard appear if you copy two items in a row. Now you can turn it off for good. Select the "Options" menu, and turn off the "Show Automatically" and "Collect without showing" options. There is a screenshot to show this. When you re-start WinWord, the clipboard won't re-appear. If you need to bring it back, you can do so via the menu at the top of the "task pane".
Alternately, if you see the OfficeXP clipboard icon showing in the Windows System Tray (next to the clock), you can right-click on it and select "stop collecting".
Since the TAB key is used for navigation within ClipMate Explorer, you can't use the TAB key to insert TABS into clips. It just tabs right out. So use Ctrl+T to force a tab character into the editor. You can use the "Tab Stops" property in Config | User Preferences | Appearance, to affect the way that tabs are displayed (new in v5.3.07).
Sure! There are several ways. Right-click on the clip, and select Rename (Ctrl+R). Or, use the Edit | Rename Title (Ctrl+T) menu. Or, you can right-click on the clip and select Properties, and edit the tile in the property dialog. Or, you can highlight some of the clip in the Preview/Edit pane, right-click, and choose "set as title".
Windows provides a screen capture factility with the Printscreen key. Press Printscreen, and a bitmap is generated, and sent to the windows Clipboard, and thus into ClipMate. Use the ALT+Printscreen combination to capture just the current window. You can print them from ClipMate, paste them into other apps, or you can export them as .BMP or .JPG files (use .JPG if you're going to Email them). If you find that ClipMate isn't capturing them (you'll get an "ignored" sound) then adjust the Application Profile (under the Config menu) to allow BITMAP capture from the application titled "Windows".
You can't. The only clips that can be edited are TEXT clips. TEXT has only characters, spaces, tabs, etc. No fonts, sizes, colors, margins, pictures, etc.. There is an option to change the font that ClipMate uses to display the text. But that has no effect on the data. Pasted text usually assumes the font/color/etc., of the style present at the cursor location, when pasting into your word processor.
ClipMate's primary purpose is for copying clips of data copied from within applications, such as word processors, Email, graphics programs, web browsers, etc.. Unfortunately, Windows (ab)uses the cut/copy/paste metaphor for file management as well, which doesn't fit well with the notion of an "unlimited clipboard". You see, when you copy a file in Windows Explorer, the file itself is not copied. Only pointers to the file, such as the pathname, some shell information, etc.. When you paste the file again into Windows Explorer, it uses the copied pointers to locate the original file, and move or copy it to the new location.
It is therefore dangerous to assume that ClipMate has copied your data! It hasn't. If you copy a file, delete the file, and then try to paste it later, you're out of luck. Likewise, if you copy a file, then modify the contents (such as delete half of the lines with your word processor) and then try to "go back" by pasting from ClipMate, you are also out of luck. For these reasons, ClipMate does not enable file capture by default. But if you really want to, you can. Go into ClipMate's Application Profile, select the app called "Explorer", and enable HDROP and FileName. Now you can copy and paste files. But remember, the original files need to still be in the original locations, for this to work. If you get a message saying "can't read original source file from disk", then you've messed up.
That being said, it is useful to have the HDROP format enabled, as ClipMate
can "peek inside" and get a list of files. It then creates a TEXT version
of the file list. So you can easily get a directory listing in a TEXT
format. This will happen whenever you have the HDROP format present
- try it!
As with any application, you should regularly back-up your ClipMate data. Unlike some programs, ClipMate 5 does not store its data in the program directory. Instead, it stores it in a user-definable data directory - or in several data directories if you have created multiple data sources. You have to find the data folder (or folders) and back it up by copying the data to another disk or removable media.
Restoring data is pretty much a backup in reverse. If you are starting fresh, run ClipMate once to establish the data folder. Look in the Data tab of User Preferences to locate the data folder, and then shut ClipMate down. Navigate to the data folder in Windows Explorer. You can delete the default short-term and long-term folders within, and replace with the contents of the data folder on the backup media. i.e. copy the short-term, long-term, etc., folders from WITHIN the data folder on the backup media, into the new data folder. Restart ClipMate, and you should be all set. If it isn't, be sure that you didn't create a redundant level of folders when you restored - remember, you're aiming for it to look exactly like it used to. So, the data folder will contain the collections, such as short-term, long-term, etc.. Don't worry about the log files. You can leave them behind.
Note: In case you are rebuilding a system - make sure you have the latest version of ClipMate. You cannot use version 5.2 files with v5.1 software!
Windows has a built-in screen capture capability, which will send a bitmap to the Clipboard, and thus into ClipMate. Simply press the PrintScreen key to send the whole screen to ClipMate, or Alt+PrintScreen to send just the active window.
You should now have a new clip, with a little Graphic icon (painter's
palette) next to it.
If ClipMate does NOT capture the screen, the go to Config | Application
Profile, and find the entry for the application called "Windows".
On the right, are the formats available. Make sure that BITMAP
is enabled. Now try the PrintScreen again.
For printing, you should be able to print the bitmap to any printer. If they are full-screen, they may print a bit small, if your monitor resolution is high (we stretch as far as we can, but we can't make y our paper any bigger!) So try printing in Landscape, to make better use of the paper size.
Also, note that there is a new (in v5.2) option to automatically print the screen capture - see the Print Options dialog box.
First, see the above topic. Now, assuming you have captured a bitmap image of the screen capture (or ANY bitmap image, for that matter), you can easily send via Email.
First, you need to realize that BITMAPs are big. They can be really big. The person at the other end doesn't want to receive your screen shots as BITMAP, believe us. A full-screen, full-color bitmap can take several minutes to upload (and then download at the other end) over a modem. And they'll REALLY hate it if you put your bitmap into a WinWord document, which makes it even worse. So, we need to save time, space, and bandwith, by using JPEG Compression. Anyone with a web browser can read a JPEG, and the results usually look great, so that's the way to go.
ClipMate can make JPEG files easily. Just select your image in ClipMate, and go to File | Export Clips. There is an Export Directory listed here - it defaults to wherever Windows wants you to store personal things. Make a note of it.
There are several options here. The important one is "Save BITMAP as JPEG". Make sure you check this one YES. Don't fiddle with the compression quality unless you know what you're doing. To start with, turn the other options off. Say OK.
Now you've made a jpeg file, in the directory noted above.
Now go to your Email program, and compose an Email to YOURSELF (as a test). Most Email programs have the ability to attach a file, so attach the file that we created. In my case, it's:
E:\Documents and Settings\MyComputer\My Documents\ClipMate_Export\0001.jpg
Go ahead and send the Email, and see what you get.
If your Email program has the ability to accept drag 'n' drop files, then you could have chosen the option to "open export folder when finished", and you'd have an Explorer window, from which you could have dragged and dropped the files. Or, if your Email can accept a pasted filename, then the "copy resulting pathnames to clipboard" option may be of use. However, particular option sometimes causes timing problems, so get it working first, then see which options work for you.
Most users want ClipMate to capture everything, all the time. However, some users don't want that. So there is the option to turn off the AutoCapture (TEMPORARILY) under the Edit menu, and the System Tray menu. That makes ClipMate ignore new clips. But it gets reset when ClipMate restarts.
So, we added a new setting to v5.2. Under Config | User Preferences | Advanced, there is an option to "enable auto-capture at startup". This is normally CHECKED, meaning that it will start auto-capture when ClipMate starts. If you want to disable autocapture at startup, turn this option off, and re-start. Now you'll have a red "no" symbol imposed on the ClipMate icon in the system tray.
The old way, which still works, was to add a NOCAPTURE switch to the command line.
"C:\Program Files\ClipMate5\ClipMt51.exe" NOCAPTURE
We have an online Viewlet tutorial that shows how to do this. |
ClipMate Collections are completely independent of one another (unless they're nested) and can be shared with other users. But you do need to be familiar with copying/moving files, and it helps to have a ZIP program like WinZip. You can distribute the data on floppy, ZIP drive, CD, Email, Etc.
First, you need to know where the data source directory is on each machine. Look in Config | User Preferences | Data. That'll show you where the top-level data directory resides. Each collection is stored in there, in its own directory (folder). If you have collections within collections, then they are stored within the parent collection folder on the hard drive. The directory layout will match the collection hierarchy within ClipMate.
What you need to do, is replicate the directory for a given collection,
onto the other machine.
Here are the steps.
On the source machine:
On the target machine:
If you get a new PC (for whatever reason - we've heard hundreds) you'll certainly want to take ClipMate with you.
The process is simple:
Note: Make sure you have the latest version of ClipMate on the new PC. You cannot use version 5.3 files with v5.1 software, for example. Download the latest version of ClipMate from our download page.
On the download page, you'll see various links for the program. Find the correct version for your platform that says "Self-Extracting Executable". That means that you just run the thing once you've downloaded it, and it installs itself.
If you have Internet Explorer, just click on the link.
If you have Netscape, then you may want to hold down on the SHIFT key as you click on the link, so that you can specify where the file goes - otherwise Netscape will decide for you - you don't want that.
In either case, you should now have a dialog box asking where you want to download the file to. Pick a directory on your hard drive for the file to go into.
Side Trip: Do yourself a big favor and create a directory on your hard drive called "download". For example, C:\download. Then, always choose that directory to donwload to. That way, you'll never be wondering where those files went to. Also, it makes it easy to clean up after your downloads.
After the file finishes downloading, find the file on the hard drive with "My Computer" or File Manager. (Now you see why we recommend having a separate "download" directory!) Double-Click to start the installation. It asks you some questions - you can let them all default - that's what we recommend. That's It!
Yes, once you're a registered user for ClipMate 5, you can use any newer 5.x version - just download, and install right over the top of what you already have. ClipMate will even preserve your registration key, so that you don't need to re-enter it.
If you are only registered for 4.x, then you will need to purchase a new key for 5.x. It's $10. See the Upgrading FAQ
If the old version is ClipMate 5.something, then no - there is no need to remove an old version, as long as it's ClipMate 5.anything. Just install the new one into the same directory.
However, if you are upgrading from 4.x, then install 5.x into a different directory. See the Upgrading FAQ
We have a page describing the procedure.
No - the files here on our WWW site contain the same program that is on the disk that we send you when you register.
When you enter your personalized Registration Key, it turns the software from "Evaluation" mode to "Registered" mode, meaning that the "Nag" screens will lie dormant on the hard drive, and all features will be enabled. There is no reason to re-install, unless you have a newer version. By the way, newer versions of 5.x can always be installed over the top of existing 5.x versions.
The "Short Term" that appears in ClipMate's title bar isn't referring to whether or not you're registered or not. It's simply telling you that the Collection titled "Short Term" is currentlly loaded. To see if you're registered, check the About Box. If it says that it's licensed to you, then it's running in Registered Mode - otherwise it's running as an Evaluation.
If you reformat your hard disk, change computers, get a new laptop, etc., you'll need to re-enter your registration key, after you re-install ClipMate. No problem. First, get the latest copy from our web site - don't worry, the shareware version is the same as the registered version - it's the key that makes the difference.
If you don't have your key handy, try these places:
If not, then send a note to email@example.com and request your key to be re-sent. Be sure to include your full name, full shipping address, and any other information that'll help us look you up, such as your customer ID if you know it, the Email address or Shipping address that you would have used at the time that you ordered, etc..
To enter the key: Run ClipMate, and dismiss any "nag" screens that come up. From the Help Menu, select "Enter Registration Key". And enter your key, along with the name as provided with the key.
Under the Edit Menu, there is an option to Rename Title (Ctrl+T). Also, in the Editor (in ClipMate Explorer), you can select some text, then press the TITLE button, to make a title out of what you've selected.
Text items may be edited in the TEXT pane of ClipMate Explorer.
Set the "Run Minimized" option in User Preferences | Appearance tab.
ClipMate is configured by default to look for the most common data formats, such as Text, Rich Text Format, Bitmap, HTML, and Metafile(Picture). Sometimes applications have other formats that they prefer to work with, and are optimized to that application - these are known as "private formats". Sometimes you can adjust ClipMate's Application Profile to handle these formats.
"Fat Clip" Test:
Format Viability Test
Sometimes applications just can't handle data coming back in from the clipboard, or they can, but the data isn't of the same quality as if you had just done a copy/paste within the app. That's what is known as "local clipboarding", where they don't put the "good stuff" onto the clipboard at all - they just manipulate memory within the app, and put lower-quality stuff onto the clipboard. There isn't much that you can do about it, but here is how to find out if this is what is happening. Click Here for the full writeup.
Many programs are monitoring the clipboard for updates these days. We recommend that if possible, you turn off the clipboard monitoring feature
There is a bug in OE that drops line-breaks between paragraphs. It isn't ClipMate's fault. One of our users asked Microsoft, and this is what was posted to Usenet:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress
Date: November 24, 1997 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: preserving line breaks between grafsThat is a known bug in the HTML engine used by OE. To workaround
it, type a space character in the original "blank" line.
Various varieties of Outlook and Outlook Express have a peculiar habit of repeatedly updating the clipboard with the same thing, over and over. The effect, depending on the collection settings in ClipMate, is that you end up with the same clip captured over and over, or you hear the "clip rejected" sound, over and over. And it does NOT correspond to copy/paste operations.
What seems to be happening, is that when you select some text in an Outlook article, and copy it, and IF you leave the original text highlighted, then Outlook will continually re-copy the information to the clipboard. It'll do it when you switch to another article or message, for example. As you open the other articles, Outlook will send the data to the clipboard again. Why, is anyone's guess. But to prevent it from bothering you, be sure to un-highlight any text that you copy. i.e. highlight, copy, and then click somewhere else, to let Outlook know: "no, I don't want that thing copied to the clipboard over and over".
We've found that the "WordPerfect 7.0 Data" or "Wordperfect Data" format will retain the font/table/alignment characteristics, and won't cause problems during copying, as WordPerfect Text and Rich Text Format sometimes can. See the Application Profile in ClipMate. If you have Rich Text Format enabled, try turning it off.
Some users have reported an error saying something about conversion/filter DLL not present when pasting into WP8. This seems to be when you copy from an app that supports Rich Text Format, such as Wordpad, Outlook, IE4, etc.. If you close ClipMate, and experiment, you'll see that it's not ClipMate's fault - it's an incomplete install of WP8. We recommend that you re-install WP8, and make sure you include the format converter for Rich Text Format.
In previous versions, we turned off support for Quicken, because the Quicken Calculator uses the clipboard to move numbers around - so you get tons of garbage in ClipMate.
In ClipMate 5, you can copy from Quicken. If you find (as we did) that the reams of calculator garbage make it desirable to turn off Quicken support, then you can do so in the Application Profile.
This program has a feature where it will continually empty the clipboard, as it logs clipboard updates to a file. It's completely incompatible with ClipMate, and cutting and pasting in general. Turn this feature off, if you're using ClipMate.
ClipMate can work fine with AutoCAD if you adjust the Application Profile to include everything EXCEPT Bitmap and EnhancedMetafile. Then it should copy and paste objects just fine.
You hear a "POP" or "BOING" (depending on the application profile) when you launch VB6, Because they are using the clipboard to put icons onto the toolbar. This is a dreadful programmer "short-cut" which was also used in the dreaded "Internet Assistant for Word" add-in. Programmers should never do this. We have some more information for programmers here.
Other abusers: Quicken (the calculator), several card games (hearts, especially).
This is a known bug in Internet Explorer (IE). Here is some more
info from Microsoft
What's happening, is that ClipMate uses an IE window as its internal
browser (the HTML Tab in ClipMate Explorer). IE is too stupid to know
that this window shouldn't count toward its "open window count", and
thus thinks you're still on the net.
If you want, you can tell ClipMate not to use IE. See Config | User
Preferences | Advanced. The option to disable is "Use Internet Explorer
Browser To Display HTML?"
Of course, you'll lose the ability to view HTML within ClipMate. The only real fix will be when IE is fixed.
Although ClipMate runs fine on WindowsME, or other systems with IE 5.5 installed, something bad has happened to DDE. ClipMate used to use DDE to ask Internet Explorer what URL it was looking at. Somehow, DDE isn't working the same as it was prior to IE5.5/WinME.
We've altered ClipMate v5.2.06 to not use DDE when talking to Internet Explorer - instead, it gets the information from the "HTML Format" datatype. Unfortunately, Netscape (4.x anyway) doesn't provide this, so DDE is still necessary. On some systems there is no trouble - on others, ClipMate will appear to lock-up after copying from Netscape. If this happens to you, try to close ClipMate by right-clicking on the system tray icon. Then re-start it, and go to Config | User Preferences | Advanced. Turn off the "Use DDE" option, which is only available in ClipMate 5.2.06. So update to that release if you haven't already.
We are still trying to find a better solution, but this is what we have for now.
Note: For more discussion on network issues - visit the Network Page.
Possibly because ClipMate has a lot of toolbar icons, it can be affected by video driver problems that don't seem to impact other applications. If you experience toolbar icons turning strange colors, disappearing, or have lockups in ClipMate that aren't data related, then try decreasing the level of hardware acceleration on your video card.
For Windows98:
For Windows2000:
Additional Video Driver troubleshooting suggestions can be found at WISCO Computing's Video Driver Page. http://www.wiscocomputing.com/videodrivers.htm
Another bootup problem is sometimes related to settings. ClipMate stores many settings in the registry, such as size/position of windows, data directory location, and registration key. Sometimes corruption can occur.
There is an easy way to reset the settings. Hold down Ctrl+Shift, as you start ClipMate, you'll be prompted to clear the registry settings. If you say Yes, then they'll be wiped out, and reset to default. Your registration key will be deleted as well, so try to look it up first by going into Help | Enter Registration Key (assuming that ClipMate is operational).
If you want to reset just part of the registry, you can go into Config | User Preferences | Advanced, and do it more selectively.
If all of a sudden, ClipMate locks up during loading, or displays numerous errors during startup, then you may have data corruption. Data corruption can happen if Windows locks up or crashes during shutdown, and usually doesn't repeat itself.
There is a sure-fire way to see if the problem is related to data. Just rename the data directory so that ClipMate doesn't find it when it starts up. Then, if ClipMate starts fine, then you know it was data. If it doesn't, then it was something else (perhaps settings or video).
Step By Step
If you end up having to abandon a "built-in" collection such as short-term, then you can rebuild it manually in ClipMate. Make a new collection (see the File menu) and title it short-term, and give it a "sort key" of 50. Note that if you do away with both short-term and long-term, and don't have any other collections, then ClipMate will simply rebuild them, as empty.
This can be a couple of things:
For this second case, troubleshooting is as follows:
UPDATE 1/3/2000 - While ClipMate handled the roll-over to 2000 without any data loss, there was one display problem that turned up. If you had your date format (in the Windows control panel) set to use 2-digit years, such as "M/dd/yy", then there was a sorting issue. If you sorted by date, it wasn't sorting properly. Changing to a 4-digit year in the control panel cleared it right up, however. The dates are all stored in long format internally, it's just that the sort routine couldn't handle the 2-digit year. The Jan 3, release of v5.1.09 fixes the problem. Version 4.5 is not affected by this issue, as it has no sorting.
We have tested ClipMate 4.2 and above, for compliance with Year-2000. There are no problems that we have encountered (update - Jan/3/2000 with the exception of the date sorting issue mentioned above), nor do we foresee any. ClipMate only uses date logic for two things: Purging old data, and when running in Evaluation mode, it uses date logic to determine whether or not to "nag" the user.
Our testing has consisted of running the clock forward on our test environment to simulate crossing the 1999/2000 boundary, and there is no adverse affect.
Here are the answers to a common "checklist" of questions:
ClipMate Year2000 (Y2K) Compliance
- System or Product Name: ClipMate for Window, ClipMate for Windows95/NT v4.2, v4.5, v5.0
- System or Product Model Numbers: v4.2, v4.5, v5.0
- What effect do date and/or time changes have on these products?
Data purging is controlled by age. Registration reminder screens are controlled by the elapsed time since original installation.- What measures have you taken to ensure that these products will be compliant with Y2K?
Programming has been done using long date formats, which are unaffected by the 2000 boundary. While the timestamp appears as a 2-digit year when viewed in the program (to save screen space), it is indeed stored in a long date format. In ClipMate 5, the date is also represented in long format on the screen.- What testing and analysis has been done with respect to Y2K?
We have tested various scenarios (installed before 2000, installed after 2000, paying particular attention to installation dates within 30 days of 1/1/2000) and have found no abnormalities.- Are you in a position to verify your products compliance with Y2K?
To the best of our knowledge, current versions of ClipMate are Y2K compliant. We have tested it extensively, and have found no problems with Y2K.
This is an obsolete function in v5.1. In ClipMate 5.0, we introduced a feature where ClipMate had several "preset" sizes, and F11 would cycle through them. But this was a big point of confusion, and one out of every 3 tech support calls was "I've lost my menu/toolbar, and can't get it back." So now we've taken more conventional approaches to hiding the menu and toolbar. The toolbar can now collapse, and the menu can be hidden from the View menu, and restored from the system menu (little box in the upper-left of the window.
The Traditional Window (and QuickPaste as well) is intended to be a drop-down window only, and not resizeable horizontally. Why? Because it's really the same window as ClipMate Explorer, and if you stretched it horizontally, you'd be exposing parts of Explorer that aren't active in Traditional View, and chaos would result. So the width is "locked".
In v5.1.04, we re-enabled the MAX button. It will take you from Traditional View into Explorer. Click again, to maximize Explorer. The Restore button will take you back to Explorer, or directly to Traditional View, depending on how quickly you cycled up from Traditional View. If you clicked through in under 5 seconds, it knows to take you back to Traditional View.
ClipMate 5 is fine on NT4 and Windows2000, ME (and now XP).
Good Question! We often ask ourselves the same thing. Before ClipMate, you likely worked much harder, without accomplishing as much. Now you're much more productive, so you deserve a big raise.
Text prints ok, but graphics come out as blank/black/garbled. Help!
Get v 5.1.09, and go into the File | Print Options dialog, and use the new "override color depth" feature to reduce the colors to 8-bit, 256-color output. That should take care of it.
There is some problem with the printer driver, and HP has fixed it:
Another trick that you can use is to install an alternate driver for an HP Laserjet III. You can set it up as another printer (going to the same device) and install as a laserjet III. Then everything will work just fine.
NOTE: First, try the tip above, using the Override Color Depth option.
This section is intended for anyone who needs to network ClipMate, or manage a large number of ClipMate users.
ClipMate can run on the network, or it can run on the user's hard drive. It does require a "home directory" for the user's data to be written to.
So you need to set the Data Directory to point to a directory where ClipMate can write to. Such as their home directory on the LAN, or back at their C: drive. Normally, you'd set this in the DATA tab of User Prefernces. Simply visit each workstation, and add a data source. Overwrite the default name of "new collection", calling it something like "Workgroup", "Tech Support (Shared)", etc..
But if you have lots of desktops to configure, you can circumvent the dialog, and make the change directly in the registry, by adjusting the values found in this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thornsoft\ClipMate5\DataSources
To use the registry method, make a registry file, and simply run the file on each station - you can Email it to each user as an attachment, and have them run it that way. To make a file, run the regedit program, navigate to the key listed above, and export to a file. It looks like Windows2000 uses a file format that isn't friendly to text editors, so be sure to export as the older "Regedit4" format. Look under the File | Export menu, in regedit for this. The Regedit4 format can go forward into a Windows2000 system, so this seems to be the easiest way. Here's a sample file (you can view the file in Notepad, or any text editor) showing the registry entries exported. The first key just establishes the tree. Next, is the "_Dirs" key. Very important, this contains a list of the data sources. Each data source, in turn, is listed in its own key below. So, two things need to happen to add a data source via the registry. It needs an entry in "_Dirs", and it needs its own set of entries.
"My Clips"="1"
"Shared Clips"="1"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thornsoft\ClipMate5\DataSources\My Clips]
"Description"="My Clips"
"Directory"="C:\\WinNT\Profiles\JohnUser\Application Data\\Thornsoft Development\\ClipMate5\\"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thornsoft\ClipMate5\DataSources\Shared Clips]
"Description"="Shared Clips"
If you are deploying to workstations that already have local directories, then you can hack out the local information out of the .reg file. i.e. remove the "my clips" entry from the "_Dirs" key, and then get rid of the whole "My Clips" section. On the other hand, if you are starting fresh, you can pre-program ClipMate to locate the "My Clips" in a pre-determined location. It must be a fixed location though, and not variable by userid, as I don't know of a way to use variables like %userid%. If you have each user's home directory mapped to a drive letter though, such that "H:\" maps to a distinct directory for each user, that's a good way to go too.
Use this same technique if you want the program executing locally, but storing all data on the LAN. It's the same situation, really.
Note that UNC filenames aren't supported at this time. You need a mapped drive letter.
Also, your LAN must support long file names. Otherwise, you'll need to keep the names of collections within 8 characters.
This points to a read-only, shared directory, most likely on a LAN
file server. Example: N:\ClipMateData\
At startup, ClipMate will load all collections found in this directory,
giving them read-only status.
The idea here is that one user would be the "owner" of a given collection.
That user would have the collection locally, and would maintain it for
the group. When new information was to be made available, it would be
copied up to the network drive, and everyone would then see the changes
at next startup (or if they select File | Re-Load). If the newer version
of a collection has any items that have been DELETED, it is important
to have everyone close and re-start ClipMate as soon as possible, to
avoid any "file not found" problems, if they try to access the deleted
It is perfectly safe though, to add collections while users are working.
Getting Started:
First, create a folder on a file server, or shared directory
on a workstation, where all users have read access. For example, N:\ClipMateData\
Have a designated user (the "master user") create one or more collections
on their own hard drive (in their normal ClipMate environment), and
populate with the appropriate clips.
Have the"master user" close down ClipMate, and move or copy the collections
from the "master user's" hard drive to the shared folder. You can use
Explorer to locate and move the folders. They're right in the "master
user's" data directory, along with their other collections. Don't worry
about the contents of the individual folders - take the whole folder,
contents and all.
Now for each user, add the shared workgroup directory (see the above
topic for tips on how to deploy using .REG files). When
they start, they'll read in the shared collections, in a read-only fashion.
Or, use the File | Reload option to read in the new data.
Updates happen from the "master user's" PC. Just copy the shared collection(s)
down to the master user's pc, re-start ClipMate, make the changes, close
ClipMate, and copy them back up. As you can see, any user can be a "master
user" this way.
Save some time:
Make a .REG file, with the registry entries needed to make the change happen. It must be applied when the user's copy of ClipMate is CLOSED, otherwise the entry will be wiped out when ClipMate shuts down (memory variables are saved to the registry, overwriting what's there.)
It's a hassle to install 50 copies of ClipMate, and then have to key in the registration key for each user (or worse, tell them to do it.)
Instead, you can just install ClipMate on each computer, and use a registry file to register the software. You simply register the software on one station, export the information to a .REG file, and then and simply run the file on each station. Or, you can Email it to each user as an attachment, and have them run it that way.
To make a file, run the regedit program, navigate to this key:
and then and export to a file. (It looks like Windows2000 uses a file
format that isn't friendly to text editors, so be sure to export as
the older "Regedit4" format. Look under the File | Export menu,
in regedit for this.)
Here is a sample of what you find there:
"Name"="XYZ Corp"
(The number above is obviously bogus - don't even try it)
Note that this is never necessary for upgrades - the key resides in the .ini file, and isn't overwritten during installation.
NOTE: Yes, you can make a .REG file with all of the changes you need, including the primary data source, shared data source, and registration key.


text:
Is Britain full? In the 1930s the Daily Mail campaigned against letting in German Jews on the basis that it was; since then the UK has accommodated more than 10 million extra people. But what was once a far-right trope is rapidly becoming conventional wisdom on both left and right. Even the supposedly impartial BBC now takes it as fact, if Monday's shockingly one-sided Panorama programme was anything to go by.
The programme's starting point was projections by the Office of National Statistics that, on current trends, Britain's population will reach 70 million by 2029, with two-thirds of the increase coming from new immigrants and their children. Such projections, the programme claimed, are accurate to within plus or minus 2.5 per cent.
Not so. The projection misleadingly extrapolates to the distant future the exceptional rise in immigration in the years before 2008, when the economy was booming unsustainably and the government has just let in workers from Poland and other east European countries. But now boom has turned to bust and the plummeting pound has devalued British wages, new arrivals from eastern Europe halved between 2007 and 2009, and many are going home. In the 12 months to mid-2009, immigration was already well below the ONS projection.
Previous projections have proved wildly wrong. In 1965, official statisticians reckoned Britain's population would reach 75 million by 2000. It turned out 16 million lower. And while short-term projections based on births and deaths may be reasonably accurate, longer-term estimates of future migration should be taken with a fistful of salt.
The programme's other premise was that a rising population — due to immigration — was overwhelmingly a bad thing. Except for a 10-second clip of me putting a positive case for immigration, the message was unrelentingly negative. Immigrants were said to contribute little to the economy and strain scarce resources — seats on trains, hospital beds, social housing, living space, you name it.
This is misanthropic nonsense. Each of us contributes to society in all sorts of ways — and immigrants are no exception. On the contrary, newcomers tend to chip in more than most. Research by Christian Dustmann and his team at University College London shows that newcomers from eastern Europe paid 37 per cent more in taxes than they received in benefits and from public services in 2008-09, while people born in Britain paid in 20 per cent less than they received. In other words, recent migrants are not a drain on the welfare state, they are helping to pay for it — while many more migrants help to provide public services, as doctors, nurses or cleaners in the NHS, for instance. So if public services are failing to respond fast enough to a changing population's needs, blame the government, not foreigners. After all, if a Brit moved from Carlisle to Cardiff to take up a new job and there wasn't a place for their child at the local school, who would you blame?
Yes, a House of Lords select committee report chaired by the Conservative politician John Wakeham concluded that the economic benefits of immigration to the existing UK population were probably small — and how could the great and the good ever be wrong? But it ignored the extra dynamism that a diverse mix of people sparking off each other brings, and all the new ideas, technologies, businesses and economic growth that this generates. Twenty-two of Britain's 114 Nobel laureates were born abroad; Tesco, Marks & Spencer, easyJet and many other successful companies were founded by immigrants and their children; and new arrivals of all cultural backgrounds are twice as likely to start a business as people born in Britain, as I explain at greater length in my new book, Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis, which is out on 6 May.
Just look at Silicon Valley: Google, Yahoo!, eBay, YouTube, and many others, were all co-founded by immigrants who were not selected by some clever points system but arrived in the US as children. Anyone who doubts the contribution that newcomers make should ask themselves whether a global city such as London would be half as successful without a constant influx of new people from around the country and the world.
Immigrants' contribution to this country is positive and large. But surely they also strain scarce resources? Not necessarily. The main problem is not too many people, it's a lack of investment. Paris is more densely populated than London yet its excellent Metro is less crowded than our Tube. The Netherlands has more people per square mile than Britain, yet there is plenty of space on Dutch trains. Roads are clogged mostly because car ownership has risen as people have got richer; central London's congestion charge has unblocked them.
Social housing is scarce not because newcomers are taking all of it — in most cases they are not entitled to it — but because lots of homes have been sold off and very few new ones built. House prices are sky-high because demand has risen as people have got richer and more single people want to buy their own place, while planning restrictions limit the supply of new developments, and Britons are so addicted to property speculation that they are willing to borrow ever larger sums to get on the "property ladder".
Britain is not full up. Three-quarters of it is agricultural land. Contrary to the belief that it is about to be concreted over, building 3 million new homes at the government's target density would take up only 0.3 per cent of the UK's land area — and much less if houses were built on brownfield sites. Nor is rising population density necessarily a bad thing. Most people in Britain choose to live in cities and suburbs rather than rural areas. The most densely populated place in the country is Kensington and Chelsea, which is hardly a hellhole. After all, that's where David Cameron chooses to live.
Philippe Legrain is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics' European Institute and the author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Little, Brown).
Follow the New Statesman team on Facebook.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Allentown Garden Club of New Jersey
May 8, 2014 - Monthly Meeting: HERBS
Gloria Stevens is a master gardener and the proprietor of Springville Orchard and Herbary. Gloria will share her knowledge of herbs, their history, variety and uses. She will bring along the stars of her presentation, the plants, in place of slides.
$$ There will also be plants available for purchase.


text:
At Amanda Gorman's Black Catholic LA parish, 'it's like everybody here is a freedom fighter'
Video Courtesy of Amanpour and Company
At St. Brigid Catholic Church, the Rev. Kenneth Keke preaches that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not only about eternity, but about "having a human face, loving one another." Keke's message stresses unity and that a "common humanity is what we need for us to live in peace."
"That is liberation theology and that is what we preach here," said Keke, the St. Brigid priest from Nigeria.
This is the South Central Los Angeles church where 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, grew up singing in the youth choir, taking her sacraments and reciting her poetry.
Gorman, who graduated from Harvard University last year, captivated Americans with the recent recitation of her poem on national unity at President Joe Biden's inauguration. Since that day, she has signed on with IMG modeling agency and has been invited to recite a poem at the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.
"She would always get standing ovations," said Floy Hawkins, a parishioner and former director of religious education at St. Brigid. "We were in just as much awe of her then, as we were when we all witnessed her at the inauguration."
St. Brigid, which established in a small rented house in 1920, has a rich history in Los Angeles.
"St. Brigid was one of the first parishes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that encompassed the entirety of Black Catholicism," said Anderson Shaw, director of the African American Catholic Center for Evangelization.
What used to be an Irish parish is now a predominantly Black and Latino congregation where, Keke told Religion News Service, parishioners take pride in their community and often "push me to do something … to fight more."
"We need to liberate our people more," Keke said they tell him. "It's like everybody here is a freedom fighter."
St. Brigid is an Afrocentric Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that's overseen by the Josephites — a religious community of Catholic priests and brothers that centers its ministry in African American communities. The Josephites formed in 1871 to meet the needs of newly freed people after the Civil War.
The Josephites arrived at the South Central LA parish in the late 1970s and early 1980s, after African Americans had migrated to the city from Louisiana and Southeast Texas in search of jobs at aircraft construction companies, said the Rev. Thomas Frank, vicar general of the Josephites, who served as pastor at St. Brigid from 2007 to 2011.
Frank said the Josephites took over the parish at the written request of African American Catholics in the area. The church, which could accommodate about 800 people, was struggling with dwindling attendance and was down to about 150 core parishioners, who were mostly Black but also included a significant number of Latinos.
With the Josephites' arrival, the parish received its first African American priest, the Rev. William Norvell, as well as an Afro-Latino Jesuit priest, the Rev. Fernando Arizti, to connect with the Latino community, Frank said.
Hawkins came to St. Brigid around 1980 after her sister encouraged her to visit. She heard St. Brigid incorporated a gospel choir during Mass, and she thought, "A gospel choir at a Catholic church?" She decided to give St. Brigid a visit and has remained there ever since.
"The relevancy, the comfort of connecting in the community and the nuances of the actual Mass, it's very culturally relatable," Hawkins said.
During a typical pre-pandemic Mass, an ensemble wearing dashikis and headdresses would sound African drums to call parishioners to gather for worship. A gospel choir would follow, sending congregants to their feet as they danced and waved their arms, giving God praise, glory and honor.
Inside the church, a Black crucifix is suspended above the altar. Oil paintings of a Black Joseph holding his son, a Black Jesus, and of Martin Luther King Jr. hang on the walls of the parish.
St. Brigid has become known as a pillar in the community.
It's a member of OneLA, an organization made up of Jewish temples, schools and other nonprofit groups that work to improve housing insecurity, public transportation and criminal justice reform. The church also turns into a voting center during elections and during the coronavirus pandemic has served as a COVID-19 testing site. St. Brigid also has a food distribution ministry.
To Hawkins, the church community was an ideal and welcoming worship space for her four children.
She recalled how Arizti opened up the church space to a Muslim mosque whose building had been damaged after an earthquake.
"That was amazing," Hawkins said. "The church was a light to the surrounding community."
Seeing Gorman in the national spotlight now, Hawkins remembers how the poet's mother went to the church with her twin daughters, Amanda and Gabrielle, with the hope of exposing her children to a Catholic faith "that was relevant to their identity as African American."
The Gorman sisters were in middle school, became part of the religious education program and stayed throughout their preparation for baptism, first Communion and confirmation, Hawkins said. Amanda Gorman would participate in the church's Black history programs through her poetry.
"Her mother was very intentional about her girls," Hawkins said. "That was very clear, and as a result, her girls were very responsive to the African American worship experience."
"This is a very humble family," Hawkins added. "They're a family that loves to share, but they are not imposing people."
Gabrielle Gorman has made her own strides, in the filmmaking industry. Last year, she edited and directed a voting public service announcement, #Vote4theFuture, in collaboration with her sister, featuring self-taped clips from celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Cara Delevingne and Mahershala Ali. Her work, focusing on social change, has been featured in Essence, Bustle and NPR.
In a video created by Gabrielle Gorman, a graduate of UCLA's School of Film and Television, the sisters deliver a message of solidarity with images of diverse people and protesters across the city of LA. The video shows Amanda Gorman reciting a poem in the bus and in the middle of protesters:
"This is my country-Catholic grandmother on bus-defending hijab-wearing girl-immigrant learning a new language-Native remembers an old one rarely spoken in this world. This is who we are …"
In the days leading up to Jan. 20, Keke said parishioners were calling him to let him know "their very own Amanda Gorman" would be the one reciting a poem at the momentous ceremony. Enthusiasm was high.
"Everybody was excited for the opportunity Amanda received," Keke said. "There was no doubt that she would do well. She grew to become very articulate and bold."
Reflecting back on Gorman's inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," Keke said it was about "democracy and unity," and the importance of "living in the country as one people, recognizing one another and respecting one another."
"That is the spirit of St. Brigid," Keke said.


text:
"Part of me really has a hard time looking at someone straight in the eye after they tell me they don't eat bacon and not laugh…."
This is what my friend told me he added to his online dating profile after meeting too many women who didn't eat meat. I don't know what's worse; the fact that these women exist or that he kept meeting them. Regardless, I found a place he should probably take women on dates.
I walked into Imig's Kitchen and Bar in the Lafayette Hotel & Swim Club expecting run-of-the-mill breakfast that you so often get in a hotel restaurant, even if it was in San Diego. I was pretty tired and haphazardly ordered the braised pork and applewood smoked bacon hash (above), which the menu told me contained the hash, plus poached eggs, chile de arbol, and hollandaise on a crispy corn tortilla. My lovely dining companion, BS, went with the breakfast sammy: grilled country bread, eggs over easy, arugula, avocado, prosciutto, oven roasted tomatoes, fontina and chive pesto:
Read More›


text:
It was always unfair to stigmatize rock group Cinderella as a hair band because the Philadelphia foursome led by singer Tom Keifer was better than that.
Founded in the mid-1980s, Cinderella has sold nearly 20 million records, mostly when MTV was popular, and "Don't Know What You've Got (Till it's Gone)" and "Gypsy Road" remain to this very day among Rock's great anthems.
Keifer, the key creative force in Cinderella, has a new solo album, "The Way Life Goes," and he's touring by himself for the first time including a show Thursday, May 2 at Canyon Club in Agoura and Saturday, May 4 at House of Blues in Anaheim.
With an amazing, raspy voice and a knack for writing songs that lodge themselves on the brain and refuse to leave for days, Keifer has always been the focal point in Cinderella, and the plan is to play lots of the band's classic hits on the solo tour. He is 52, having grown-up from his pretty-boy glam days (but not completely, thankfully), and Keifer could probably spend the rest of his life explaining why Cinderella was a cut above, but he does not have to.
We know.
It will be interesting to see if the iconic singer can pull off the same vibe on his own, and it's a good bet Keifer will do just that, considering his voice, songwriting and production were such vital components to Cinderella's success.
But don't just take our word for it. Keifer granted the Los Angeles Daily News an exclusive interview, and you can feel his honesty.
L.A. DAILY NEWS: You're taking a little break from Cinderella for the first time.
TOM KEIFER: Yeah, we've been touring a lot in the last 10 years, and that's been great, being on the road, and we'll still continue to do that, but it was time for a break, a little hiatus. It's a good window, a good opportunity for me to release a solo record. I mean, forever I've been the main songwriter and singer and guitar, and that's a natural thing for me to be that way. I was actually first going to do a solo record in 1998 but the deal went south and everyone ended up in court with a lawsuit.
DAILY NEWS: Well, the new record sounds good. Are you proud of it?
KEIFER: Yeah, I am. It's something that I took my time doing with no one breathing down my neck, no one looking over my shoulder, so I was able to take as long as I wanted. I'm happy with where it is at now because there have been a lot of twists and turns.
DAILY NEWS: Speaking of going south, you're in Nashville now, Tom?
KEIFER: Yeah, I've been here for a while.
DAILY NEWS: I bet you've never seen a country band swing their guitars around their shoulders like you guys do in Cinderella.
KEIFER: (laughs) No, I haven't seen that one yet, but maybe someone will try it soon.
DAILY NEWS: You have a unique look, a unique face. Do people recognize you in Nashville?
KEIFER: Yeah, sometimes. I guess on the couple of times that I ever leave the house.
DAILY NEWS: Do you like that or no?
KEIFER: I don't really think about it one way or the other. Years ago as a kid, it was always about music to me. I guess everyone has different motivations when then get into the music business, and my motivation was purely for the music. The fame thing, I never felt one way or the other. It doesn't bother me, but it's not something I crave or need. But yeah, it's nice when fans come up and talk about the music. That means a lot to me. Sometimes they tell me about their lives, and I tell them about my life, and then we go.
L.A. DAILY NEWS: One thing about Cinderella. The first album was huge with "Shake Me" and "Nobody's Fool" and "Night Songs," yet the band evolved. You added a lot of things, a lot of elements to the next albums, and the group became even more successful. You took chances.
KEIFER: Yeah, we really grew as far as the main elements of production and presentation. The first record was pretty basic, pretty dry with some production elements. Then we started adding more guitar pieces and piano and strings, just a lot more color and presentation. It was part of the learning process with (the second album) "Long Cold Winter," and then "Heartbreak Station" was even more creative. We did double and quad tracking, a little more slick and more processed. The first two are a little more raw. It was only natural.
DAILY NEWS: When the band first broke, I was in Los Angeles so I was more into the L.A. bands like Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses, and then all of sudden Cinderella broke, big-time, and from my perception it seemed like you guys kind of came from nowhere. Considering it all happened in Philadelphia, did it feel like a Rocky story?
KEIFER: I don't know. I think we were the first hard-rock band to break out of Philly, and we just never felt the need to move to get a record deal. You know, to move to be more close to A & R people and a lot of the industry. To me, it was more about buckling down and working the songs and sound. We played for years on the South Jersey circuit, which was a huge scene back then, doing all covers. We were very talented but got caught up in the cover scene, and once in a while we would do one of our own songs. We started to develop our own sound and songs, and we made a conscious decision to get out of that business of playing clubs. Instead, we got day jobs to support ourselves and work on our songs.
DAILY NEWS: Interesting. In Los Angeles, you wouldn't have needed to work a day job.You could have just moved in with a stripper like all the other bands did back then.
KEIFER: Yeah, that's the L.A. way (laughs). In Philadelphia, you have to actually work if you want to take the pressure off to work on your own material. We got serious writing and developing our sound, and we banged on a lot of doors.
DAILY NEWS: Were there some tough times, some lean years before you hit it big?
KEIFER: Oh yeah, certainly. I mean, I started doing this when I was a sophomore in high school, Eventually, I kind of had a standoff with my parents and moved out on my own to play music, and there were quite a few lean years. I used to eat grits right out of the box because that was all I could afford. I can remember the days when you would get a McDonald's burger here or there, but that was a rare treat.
DAILY NEWS: Eventually you must have earned millions of dollars, of course.
KEIFER: It's not as much as you would think. I mean, it's not a whole lot of money, but yeah, we made enough to still be able to live today off that success, plus we have a fan base still, and I'm very grateful to have been so successful because all these years later, we still have money.
DAILY NEWS: Now just to be straight, the solo shows are full-on electric, not an acoustic thing, right?
KEIFER: Yes, it's mostly full-on electric with one or two songs broken down on acoustic, but most of the set is full-on rock. In the middle of the show, we do a little storyteller thing, but even the new stuff, it's full-on electric. It's a mix of old tunes and new tunes. I mean, I'm not known for doing a lot of talking on stage. I just come on, and we do full-tilt rock, but it is nice to kind of relax and say a few words sometimes, to share some stories. It's really unique.
DAILY NEWS: I've got to ask you about your image. You're kind of known for being a bit sullen and dark. Do you portray yourself that way on purpose?
KEIFER: I'm not trying to portray anything. You know what the press says, how I'm a little reclusive and shy, and maybe I get nervous in some situations, but I always try to be myself. The first publicist I ever had at PolyGram, Sherry Green, she gave me the best advice you can ever give a young artist, and that's just be yourself. So it's 25 years later, and I've always been stuck with me. I am who I am.
DAILY NEWS: You're married to Savannah Snow, a Nashville songwriter who collaborated on your solo record.
KEIFER: Yes, she is a very talented singer/songwriter in her own right, probably one of the best songwriters I've ever met. She is the co-producer, and she wrote a lot of the songs on the record.
DAILY NEWS: And you have a son. Can we put his name in the newspaper?
KEIFER: Yes, his name is Jaidan. He just turned 9.
DAILY NEWS: Interesting. Is he musical?
KEIFER: He's very musical, but he's also very athletic. He's just a great kid all around but very gifted with sports.
DAILY NEWS: You're kind of tall and athletic-looking. Were you a good athlete, too?
KEIFER: I didn't play organized sports but I loved playing hockey and also some of the neighborhood sports. There was always a football game going on, or a street-hockey game. My son is more into basketball. He can shoot 3-pointers. That's his favorite spot on the court.
When: Thursday, May 2, 2013. Doors open at 6 p.m., show at 9 p.m.
Where: Canyon Club, 28912 Roadside Drive, Agoura Hills
Also: Opening set by Superfix
Tickets: $20/45
Info: canyonclub.net


text:
Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language
(ASDL) A language developed as part of Esprit project GRASPIN, as a basis for generating language-based editors and environments. It combines an object-oriented type system, syntax-directed translation schemes and a target-language interface.
["ASDL - An Object-Oriented Specification Language for Syntax-Directed Environments", M.L. Christ-Neumann et al, European Software Eng Conf, Strasbourg, Sept 1987, pp.77-85].Last updated: 1996-02-19
Nearby terms:
Abstract-Type and Scheme-Definition Language ♦ Abstract Windowing Toolkit
Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.


text:
- Home
- PC Games
- Microsoft Store
- Minecraft Dungeons Windows 10 PC CD Key
Minecraft Dungeons Windows 10 PC CD Key
Currently out of stock
Currently out of stock
Minecraft Dungeons Windows 10 PC CD Key
Currently out of stock
Currently out of stock
Product Description
If you are playing the Windows 10 version of the game and you uninstall the game, your saved files will be permanently removed. This means that your saved files will be deleted and you will lose all of your progress.
Fight your way through an all-new action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe! Brave the dungeons alone, or team up with friends! Up to four players can battle together through action-packed, treasure-stuffed, wildly varied levels – all in an epic quest to save the villagers and take down the evil Arch-Illager!
Discover a trove of powerful new weapons and items that will help you defeat ruthless swarms of new and nasty mobs. Fight or flee through canyons, swamps, and – of course – mines! Any adventurer brave or foolish enough to explore this blocky and beautiful world will need to come prepared. So quickly, gear up!
Dungeon Creeper! Battle new-and-nasty mobs in this all-new action-adventure, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers.
Multiplayer! Up to four players can team up and fight together in co-op mode.
Power Up! Unlock dozens of unique items and weapon enchantments for devastating special attacks.
Options! Personalize your character, then fight up close and personal with melee swings, hang back with ranged attacks, or tank your way through swarms of mobs, shielded by heavy armor!
Epicness! Explore treasure-stuffed levels in a quest to take down the evil Arch-Illager!
System Requirements
OS | Windows 10 version 17134.0 or higher |
Architecture | ARM, x64, x86 |
Memory | 4 GB |
Motion controller | Not specified |
Headset | Not specified |
Processor | Intel Celeron J4105 | AMD FX-4100 |
Graphics | Intel HD Graphics 4000 | AMD Radeon R5 |
Product Information
Activation Region | USA |
Platform | Microsoft Store |
Format | Digital Download Code |
Product Reviews
There are no reviews yet


text:
0.2601 kg
No products were found matching your selection.
08:00 - 17:00
09:00 - 13:00
Join our community and be the first to hear about our latest products and exclusive offers.
La Boucherie is a brand owned and operated by JP Imports (Food Division) Ltd. Registered address 42-46 Mill Street, Qormi, QRM3115, Malta.
Order before 13:00 to benefit from same-day delivery or select your preferred date and time whilst checking out.


text:
Growing up on Star Trek, I was always told that space was the final frontier. What they never told me was that space is about as friendly to the human body as being microwaved alive in a frozen tundra–in essence, shelter is a necessity.
Like any Earthen home or building, an off world shelter on the Moon or Mars will need energy to keep its residents comfortable (not to mention alive), and power outages of any sort will not be tolerated–unless a person desires to be radiated and frozen (which is probably not a great way to "kick the bucket").
While some may look towards solar power to help keep the lights on and the heat flowing, it may be wiser instead to look at an upcoming "fission battery" from Hyperion Power Generation to power future colonies on the Moon, Mars, and perhaps an plasma rocket powered starship as well.
Originally created by Dr. Otis Peterson while on staff at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Hyperion Power Generation (which I'll call HPG for short) has licensed Dr. Peterson's miniature nuclear reactor which are actually small enough to fit inside a decent sized hot tub.
Despite their small stature (being 1.5 meters by 2.5 meters), one of these mini-reactors could provide enough energy to power 20,000 average sized American homes (or 70 MW's of thermal energy in geek speak) and can last up to ten years.
Since HPG is designing these mini-nuclear reactors to require little human assistance (the "little" having to do with burying the reactors underground), these "nuclear batteries" would enable NASA (or a wealthy space company) to power an outpost on the Moon or Mars without having to rely upon the Sun's rays–at least as a primary source for power.
HPG's mini-reactors could also help power future star ships heading towards Jupiter or Saturn (or even beyond), providing enough energy to not only keep the humans on board alive and comfortable, but provide enough thrust via plasma rockets as well.
Scheduled to be released in 2013, these mini-reactors are priced at around $50 million each, which probably puts it outside the price range of the average private space corporation.
Despite the cost, it may be wise for NASA, the European Space Agency, Japan, India and (if the US is in a really good trusting mood) China to consider installing one (or several) of these mini-reactors for their respective bases, as it could enable humanity to actually do what has been depicted in scifi films and television shows–seek out new homes on new worlds and spread ourselves throughout the universe.
Source: Hyperion Power Generation, Inc., Image Credit: NASA


text:
President Elect Barack Obama gave his first press conference since the election. The primary focus was on the economy. I thought he looked very Presidential.
The following is a statement read by President-elect Barack Obama before his first press conference since Election Day.
This morning, we woke to more sobering news about the state of our economy. The 240,000 jobs lost in October marks the 10th consecutive month that our economy has shed jobs. In total, we've lost nearly 1.2 million jobs this year, and more than 10 million Americans are now unemployed. Tens of millions of families are struggling to figure out how to pay the bills and stay in their homes. Their stories are an urgent reminder that we are facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime, and we must act swiftly to resolve them.
The United States has only one government and one President, and until January 20th of next year, that government is the current Administration. I have spoken to President Bush, and I appreciate his commitment to ensuring that his economic policy team keeps us fully informed as developments unfold.
Immediately after I become President, I will confront this economic crisis head-on by taking all necessary steps to ease the credit crisis, help hardworking families, and restore growth and prosperity.
This morning, I met with members of my Transition Economic Advisory Board, who will help guide the work of my transition team in developing a strong set of policies to respond to this crisis. We discussed several of the most immediate challenges facing our economy and key priorities on which to focus on in the days and weeks ahead:
First, we need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs and provides relief to families that are watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear. A particularly urgent priority is a further extension of unemployment insurance benefits for workers who cannot find work in the increasingly weak economy. A fiscal stimulus plan that will jump-start economic growth is long overdue – and we should get it done.
Second, we must address the spreading impact of the financial crisis on other sectors of our economy: small businesses that are struggling to meet their payrolls and finance their holiday inventories; and state and municipal governments facing devastating budget cuts and tax increases. We must also remember that the financial crisis is increasingly global and requires a global response.
The news coming out of the auto industry this week reminds us of the hardship it faces – hardship that goes far beyond individual auto companies to the countless suppliers, small businesses and communities throughout our nation who depend on a vibrant American auto industry. The auto industry is the backbone of American manufacturing and a critical part of our attempt to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. I would like to see the Administration do everything they can to accelerate the retooling assistance that Congress has already enacted. In addition, I have made it a high priority for my transition team to work on additional policy options to help the auto industry adjust, weather the financial crisis, and succeed in producing fuel-efficient cars here in the United States. I have asked my team to explore what we can do under current law and whether additional legislation will be needed for this purpose.
Third, we will review the implementation of this Administration's financial program to ensure that our government's efforts are achieving their central goal of stabilizing financial markets while protecting taxpayers, helping homeowners and not unduly rewarding the management of financial firms that are receiving government assistance. It is critical that the Treasury work closely with the FDIC, HUD and other government agencies to use the substantial authority they already have to help families avoid foreclosure and stay in their homes.
Finally, as we monitor and address these immediate economic challenges, we will be moving forward in laying out a set of policies that will grow our middle-class and strengthen our economy in the long-term. We cannot afford to wait on moving forward on the key priorities that I identified during the campaign, including clean energy, health care, education and tax relief for middle class families.
My transition team will be working on each of these priorities in the weeks ahead, and I intend to reconvene this Advisory Board to discuss the best ideas for responding to these immediate problems.
Let me close by saying that I do not underestimate the enormity of the task that lies ahead. We have taken some major actions to date, and we will need further actions during this transition and subsequent months. Some of those choices will be difficult, but America is a strong and resilient country. I know that we will succeed if we put aside partisanship and work together as one nation. And that is what I intend to do.
Any thoughts?


text:
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
July 7, 2017
I constantly get the question: why do we need this blockchain thing anyway? Here is why.
Every society with a vibrant commercial life exalts private property as an institution. The entrenchment of this institution occurs in three stages. All three are essential.
The first stage is to create private property itself. This is usually done out of the necessity of getting enough to eat. Contrary to every socialist claim, this doesn't happen through magic or authoritarian dictate. You need fences to grow things and raise animals, and you need your neighbors to regard them as inviolable. To invade them must become a kind of taboo, as Sigmund Freud wrote. This stage is necessary to escape primitive conditions. For society to mature, private property needs to be discovered as a technology for dealing with the problem of scarcity.
The second stage involves securing that property from people who would violate the new norm, because such people will always and everywhere exist. It must be effective enough to deter them from taking your stuff. Traps, lookouts, moats, threats, and various shows of knowledge and strength to be able to keep what is yours are essential. This is the original function of what is often called policing: it is part of the method by which people can rely on the fact of ownership as a persistent feature of their lives. Otherwise, wealth creation is impossible.
The third stage is the least understood of the three: you need some technology that compels social assent to what you regard as owned property. This is necessary to reduce the costs of securing property from invasion and creating a more stable environment for the rise of commercial life. Word of mouth can work on a limited scale.
But beyond that, you need some kind of record keeping that everyone regards as objective and not subject to manipulation and fraud. This is necessary because property changes hands. It moves from parent to child, from small owner to large owner, and so on. Private agreements can work in one round of trading. But in multiple rounds, confusion over titles can create serious disputes and problems.
Recording Ownership
This stage also requires some technological innovation. From ancient Mesopotamia archaeologists have discovered detailed records of ownership, ledgers listing property with numbers and owners. When archaeologists excavated a Mycenaean Greek site that dates from 1200 BC, they discovered it was a merchant's house precisely because of all the record keeping. It was mostly kept on stones, which does indeed create an immutable record but it is not a very efficient or adaptable method for conducting business.
In recent decades scholars have unearthed a vast supply of tablets and inscriptions detailing ownership records in many parts of the Near East. Records from the 7th through the 5th century B.C. are revealing all kinds of documents related to estate ownership, goods for export and import, and detailed reports on raw materials. In ancient Iran, property was recorded on cylindrical tokens. Later, papyrus was the preferred writing surface but it tends to fade. Parchment and vellum (made from lambskin) were much better because the data had great longevity, but they were more expensive.
So much knowledge that historians possess about enterprise in these years draws from these records, without which they would have no evidence of complex economic structures. But what historians draw from these documents today was also useful to the people living in those times. They too had to have some record of ownership to delineate rights, else the rights become more susceptible to invasion. Verification of ownership is also essential in dealing with long trade routes. If you couldn't verify your right to own what you are selling, you make the buyer vulnerable to all kinds of mischief at a later time.
The problem doesn't only concern land and tangible property. It becomes a huge deal when it comes to moneylending, interest payments, banking, and corporate partnerships. Here record keeping becomes paramount to the business enterprise and to the historian's task of making sense of economic history. Ledgers detailing ownership rights date from the earliest records in the history of man. If you look at the history of accountancy (this is actually a huge deal), you come to realize that accounting is a useful application of the much larger issue of confirming ownership rights.
The Invention of Numbers
Terrance Kealey, in his great book Sex, Science, and Profits does more than show that such records were crucial to the birth of civilization. He establishes that the need for such records was the whole reason for the invention of numbers themselves.
And it makes sense. Imagine being an early goat farmer. You need to count heads of livestock in order to establish that nothing is stolen, to quantify mortality, and to discern whether your small enterprise is profitable. It's for this reason we have numbers to begin with. They certainly didn't come into being because humankind has a compulsion for counting stars in the heavens. The Phoenician alphabet probably came about for the same reason: to facilitate commerce by gaining a great degree of certainty over ownership claims.
We even have evidence from the Bible for the need for such a technology. Moses – who proclaimed "though shalt not steal" – had a vision of a tabernacle when he was on Mount Sinai. The youngest son of the high priest was tasked with carrying it out. But it wasn't possible without a solid technology of recording what was used for what. "These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law," says Exodus 38:21, "which were recorded at Moses' command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest."
Title Companies
As enterprise grew more sophisticated in the late medieval period, recording ownership claims itself became a business, and thus was the title company born. These took on new importance in the American experience because property was not granted based on political connections but rather homesteaded and traded with every manner of stipulation regarding surrounding resources.
In times of political upheaval, being able to demonstrate your ownership claims through some objective record can make all the difference. This was true in Roman times, when such records could resolve disputes with tax farmers. But it was even true in the aftermath of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, when some effort was made to restore East German property to its rightful owners. Establishing who owns what is a crucial feature of ownership itself.
Ambiguity over ownership is one of the more frustrating problems of the human experience. Consider the phrase "possession is nine-tenths of the law." It is of Scottish origin, and said with a bit of cynicism. It is an exaggerated send up of the constant problem all courts face of knowing who owns what. Most systems are so bad that judges have generally said: if you possess physically it, it is yours.
Surely there has to be a better way!
The Blockchain
You can notice that the technology for achieving the goal of recording rights has improved along with the increased complexity of economic structures. It followed a long trajectory: stones, clay, papyrus, vellum, scrolls, books, databases, and computer files. It makes perfect sense that in the 21st century, the digital times would cry out for another and better solution.
Looking back, it is obvious that a technology that seeks to provide social assent should not be controlled by a central party. It should be seen by all and be able to be confirmed or denied by any interested party, so that consensus is realized as the claims to ownership are being made.
Here is the core function of the blockchain. It provides a distributed system for verifying claims of ownership, whatever they may be. A few years ago, this truth was not widely understood because everyone was so distracted by the incredible fact that the tokens that make the blockchain work obtained a market value, and behaved like money themselves.
A market-created money made out of digits? That is indeed amazing. But to observe only this is to limit the implications.
The blockchain today performs the same function that a record of ownership provided in the 11th century BC. It confirms that this is mine and that is yours, and thus makes possible a greater degree of peaceful trade and wealth creation.
When you think of it this way, you realize that the blockchain is a new technology that provides for an ancient need. If it had existed in the 11th century BC, along with the supporting technology, it would have been used.
The point is that it is here now. It is the future, until the next technology comes along. What gives rise to such services is not the longing for edgy new gizmos or the digitalization of everything but rather a universal human need.
First, you need to claim a thing. Second, you need to defend your claim. Third, you need to verify that claim against every form of theft, fraud, deception, cheating, and anyone who would use some measure of ambiguity to take what is rightfully yours. By nearly perfecting this third stage, the blockchain has earned for itself the respect and admiration of everyone who wants a more civilized life.
— Blockchain Solves a Problem from Antiquity originally appeared at FEE.org.


text:
Advanced Search
Security Watch
Plus: an SMB flaw stopgap measure; Security Essentials on the release horizon.
You have to be neither Bill Gates nor Perry Mason to know that technology evolves faster than any legal proceeding -- even an open and shut case. Yet and still, in the name of security for the whole tech ecosystem, Redmond has filed lawsuits in Seattle's King County Superior Court against Soft Solutions, Direct Ad, qiweroqw.com, ITmeter INC and ote2008.info, claiming that the five groups are separately and collectively responsible for spreading "malvertising."
Malvertising includes everything from popups advertising car insurance and online gaming to fake security notices, or "scareware." The latter often comes in the form of fake Windows security alerts saying there is something wrong with a workstation. Of course, when the user clicks on the link, something will be wrong with the workstation through remote code execution if the proper anti-virus or "whitelist" safeguards aren't in place.
Microsoft is asking the local court to shut down the companies because they allegedly used Redmond's AdManager service, which filters and conveys advertising links on a given Web site. Redmond claims the named companies are using AdManager as a platform to launch attacks.
Redmond is getting more serious about the issue as it fights legal and technological battles against malware and spam. Earlier in the year Redmond's Internet Safety Enforcement Team filed a separate civil lawsuit in the U.S. Federal District Court region that includes Redmond, Washington. In that suit, the company took aim at alleged perpetrators of "click-fraud" schemes,which is similar to phishing in that links for World of Warcraft and discount auto insurance and the like redirected users to malicious content and really had nothing to do with wizards or deductibles.
Redmond Rolls Out SMB Flaw Stopgap It's not a patch but Microsoft is offering new guidance on a one-time workaround for a previously disclosed Server Message Block 2 vulnerability. An increasingly common server-side vector, SMB is a network protocol embedded in Windows OS components, particularly those involving the Internet. The workaround is for users of SMB products sitting on Vista or Windows Server 2008.
Describing the workaround as a "one-click fix," Redmond added the guidance to its previous security advisory. It is being viewed as a temporary fix until a patch surfaces.
Microsoft said in this blog post, that it wasn't "aware of any in-the-wild exploits or any real-world attacks."
"However, we are aware of exploit code developed by Immunity Inc. and released to customers who subscribe to the CANVAS Early Updates program. We have analyzed the code ourselves and can confirm that it works reliably against 32-bit Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 systems," the post said.
The caveat on this fix though is that in the absence of a pure patch of the SMB vulnerabilities, there may be more proof-of-concept attack code in the offing later this week, according to open source exploit clearinghouse Metasploit and its security maven HD Moore. Stay tuned.
New AV Software Coming Soon, Microsoft Says Microsoft is telling users of its Security Essentials anti-virus software suite that the program will soon be available to the public.
Over the weekend Redmond said a new and improved product will ship "in the coming weeks."
In June, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 1.0 was made available to 75,000 testers. Beta testers are urged to upgrade to the newest version to ease the transition.
The highly anticipated if not controversial release comes after Microsoft received plenty of criticism about its software security over the years. Particularly, competitors such as Symantec have said Redmond isn't built for the AV software game, as a whole industry has built up around providing that security at a cost as opposed to what Microsoft is now offering for free.
Security Essentials was formerly known by its code name, "Morro," and will replace Microsoft's free Windows Defender anti-malware, according to an earlier Microsoft blog post.
About the Author
Jabulani Leffall is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times of London, Investor's Business Daily, The Economist and CFO Magazine, among others.
More TechLibrary
More Webcasts