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Freemake Video Converter just updated - which is fine, it's a good freeware video converter, it works. I find it generally produces a sharper output file than Handbrake, and is loads better than the several "pay-for" video converters I've tried.
But...even the damn upgrade tries to install "this toolbar", "that tune-up tool", "the other WTF is this anyway?".
And every single one of them defaults to "install". 
Does this annoy anyone else, or is it just me?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Exactly that.
This is probably why Iris ended up with an actual browser window only one inch tall... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"That damned checkbox..."
Out damned checkbox! Out I say!
Clickety[^]
Life is too shor
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You get what you pay for 
Or you're getting more than what you pay for.
Or more than you asked for...
What you deserve?
Anyway, you're getting some... No wait! 
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Yeah...I don't mind the "ad supported" model (provided they are appropriate and not too intrusive, much the way CP ads are) but it's not nice to offer junk and preset the "install" option to "yes". 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't mind the "ad supported" model (provided they are appropriate and not too intrusive, much the way CP ads are)
Agreed. What I'm looking for is an ad-blocker that allows me to filter by the main web page. This would enable me to allow ads through for sites such as CP, but would block them for sites that put the ads in your face.
Any ideas, anyone?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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uBlock: you can set a "WhiteList" as "codeproject.com" and all pages served for that domain will be ignored by the ad blocker.
It's due an update soon though - some sites seem to be getting through it
[edit]Forgot the link  uBlock Origin - Chrome Web Store[^][/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You might like this, then.
Unchecky - Keeps your checkboxes clear[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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There there.
And there.
Aaaand there...
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My BIL installed that particular software from whatever bizarre source, and it came with a hidden adware that took me almost 4 hours to get rid of... 
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I use a very useful piece of software called ChrisPC Anonymous Proxy to help me find "files" from sites that most UK ISP's have been require by law to block. When installing or updating it trys to foist about 8 different "free" search assistants and similar. Some ask a yes/no, some have checkboxes, and some have a proceed/cancel dialog. The latter one confused me first time, as I thought the cancel related to the whole installation, not just the crapware.
For most useful packages I always look first at Ninite[^], as these installs never contain crapware.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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It's the price of free software. Is it more annoying or less annoying than paying for software?
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This sentence is from today's Windows Club newsletter ...
Quote: Grammar skills are very important for effective communication as it provides structure to your sentence and make it more readable and understandable.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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 I would hope that English is not the native tongue of the author.
Such crimes against the noble English tongue, the language of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and many others, should be punished by a horsewhipping at the very least.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Apart from 'as they' do you see anything else wrong?
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Instead of:
Grammar skills are very important for effective communication as it provides structure to your sentence and make it more readable and understandable.
I would rewrite it as:
Grammar skills are very important for effective communication - providing structure to a sentence, making it more readable and understandable.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You could reword it any number of ways, but its not wrong (except for the mistake of using 'as it' when a plural is being referred to).
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Probably author uses Word...It has no problem with the grammar of this sentence...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Too a certain extinct, I write code good to.
modified 10-Jan-16 14:07pm.
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No structure is also a structure 
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And I'm in shape - round is a shape, isn't it?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Women call it curvy 
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All structures are also structures. Do I assume correctly that you meant; "No structure" is also a structure? 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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This is the sort of language up with which we should not put!
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