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Floola duplicate not finding12/20/2023 A drag-and-drop based interface allows users to easily reorder, duplicate, or append frames to animated cursors. Images in cursors can be modified by drawing tools such as Lines, Curves, Rectangles, or Ellipses. You can draw your cursors pixel by pixel or make them from images using a simple wizard. RealWorld Cursor Editor can create and edit cursors, both static and animated. Last.fm option to submit any kind of media not just music.Translation issue with terms containing line feeds icons can be removed from minelayer.Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7ĭownload the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. The program may be able to fix an iPod if other software caused problems. Floola supports all most common used iPod features including podcasts, smart playlists, notifications, search lost/ duplicate files, videos, HTML list export, etc. It is a cross-platform program that can run directly from your iPod. Renamed program to "Simple Duplicate Finder" since someone stole my other program nameįloola is a standalone application to manage your iPod (iTunes 7.3 and below) or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). Total progress now still displayed during a large file compare.įixed a sort problem where text could be incorrect for an item Updated program icon to be compatable with olders versions of windows.Īdded ability to compare files which sizes are not identical, but within percentage match. Launch DupFinder.exe.Īdded percentage match ability, this superceeds smart jpeg search feature.Īdded Extension filter to search only for specific file types.īugfix, empty directory search could cause previous version to hang. Note: main site appears to be down, switched to Category:ĭownload the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. SDF can detect these files and help remove them. Although the image is identical in every way to its original, the file will appear as unique. This is useful for example with metadata: when Windows Image Import tool downloads pictures from your digital camera, additional XML data is inserted into the images and video files, including a timestamp of when the image was downloaded to the computer. Once scanned, the program will display the number of bytes which differ as well as the specific percentage match between files. While most duplicate-searching programs are looking for exact copies, SDF uses a Percentage Search, allowing you to adjust the percentage difference required for a file to be considered a duplicate. Replacing these mysterious non-spaces with real spaces made it work.Simple Duplicate Finder helps track down similar files either to delete extras and save space or to compare versions. Long story short, the spaces in the values in Column A weren't regular spaces for some reason, so they were seen as different values than Column B. So I copied one of the spaces between the words and it looks like the character isn't a normal space? It's this: " " (between the quotes).ĮDIT 3: Works now. even though 1800+ rows have spaces in them.ĮDIT 2: Following my last edit I copied the values into Notepad and tried replacing all spaces in there, nothing was detected either. I've taken 1 company name that appears in both columns A and B and Excel does not recognize them as duplicates, you can check it out here: ĮDIT: I noticed all of the values that show as duplicates don't have spaces, so maybe spaces are getting in the way of things? So I tried to replace all spaces with nothing, but of course in Column A no spaces are detected, so none are being replaced. It seems that a few duplicate values (6 or so) are recognized, and the other duplicates are almost like ignored. Thank you, this worked however only for the very small few I mentioned in the original post. so I copied to Notepad, copied the weird space values, replaced the weird spaces with real spaces, moved back to Excel and it worked. The problem was that all of the spaces in Column A (between words etc, such as "Company Inc." weren't actually spaces. I have formatted both as text and removed any extra spaces they may have but Excel will just not highlight them.ĮDIT: Solved. I copied a value from Column B that I saw also existed in Column A to a blank sheet, and Excel can't even detect the duplicates, even though they are right beside each other. To do this, I'm using Conditional Formatting to find duplicate values and highlight them (Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Duplicate Values.), however it sees like 6 companies as duplicates, though I can tell there are hundreds. I'm trying to find which of Column B's values exist in Column A, and separate the rest. I have two columns of data (Column A is about 2,000 rows, Column B is about 1,000).
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Reaktor vs kontakt12/19/2023 I was using the word "host" very loosely. There's also a user community that puts up free ensembles for Reaktor that's hosted by NI. You can even build your own stuff if you have the temerity to do so.ĭo pay attention though to third party libraries/sounds for Kontakt as some require the full Kontakt and won't work with the free Kontakt. I have the full Reaktor and have opened some things and it's amazing what's going on behind the front panel gui. You can't edit the internals of something like Newscool in Reaktor Player which is the freebie but you can in the full Reaktor. Think of it as building a synthesizer out of individual capacitors, resistors and ic's. It really gets down to what I would call the molecular level. It's a plugin in which instruments and effects are built using it's internal building blocks. Technically speaking Reaktor is not a host. I like the ones from Output Sounds, especially Exhale, which seems to have some rather unique patches based on vocals. There does seem to be quite a few VI's for both Reaktor and Kontakt out there, though. Not sure how much I'll want to get into all that! The most complicated seems to be Newscool, which employs some kind of secret algorithm to create rhythms and sequences. Now that I get the basic layout it'll be easier figuring out what all the various VI's do and how they work. However, some of the VI's are certainly nice with some great sounding patches. A rather complicated set-up, if you ask me. Apparently some of the VI's that came with the Komplete Start package are hosted in Reaktor, but not in Kontakt. Its not the most intuitive of plugins, that's for sure! What I didn't realize is that Reaktor is another host program, with a lot more to it. Well, I think I finally was able to figure most of it out as far as what goes where. But none of them seemed to address any of these issues, and the manual doesn't seem to offer much help either.Ĭlearly I've missed some things, but I don't know where. I read all the start up info on the NI website for the Komplete Kontrol, as well as several other videos on YouTube, as well as the Kontakt Free Explained on Groove 3. So, if there's any kind soul here that is familiar with all this NI stuff and can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Again, I can't see any way to tell Free to load them up. I had assumed that they would all load into Kontakt Free. When I load up Kontakt Free 6 on a PT Instrument track, I only have some of the instruments available, and not all of the ones that came with Komplete Kontrol. However, it appears that Komplete Kontrol is not multi-timbral. The second question is that when I host in Pro Tools, I have all the instruments available that come with Komplete Kontrol. I don't need or want it to scan everything, just what I want it use. Which leads to question #1: Is there a way to tell Komplete Kontrol to only scan certain things? If so, I can't find it anywhere in the program and there's no option on boot up to limit it either. When you open it in standalone mode, it scans absolutely everything.all my VSTs, including my older 32bit ones, which I scarcely even use any more. So, I got it all installed and then followed the instructions for using Komplete Kontrol. I've had Kontakt Free for some time, but hardly ever used it. «Omskie Yastreby» (22): Dianov Murylev - Teterin (12), Savchenko - Astashevsky (2) - Trikozov Figurin (2) - Gatsko, Migur - Barakhtin - Gazizov (2) Skorobogatov (2) - Kazachek (2), Svishchev - Holodilin - Reinhardt Fomenko - Chernikov, Alikov - Leuka - Dudin.Yesterday I decided to take advantage of the free download offered by NI for their Komplete Start package which includes things like Komplete Kontrol, Kontakt free 6, and several instruments, loops, samples, etc. «Reaktor» (8): Shakirov (57:57, 59:21 - 60:00) Martynov (2) - Gusev, Shambazov (2) - Mikhailov - Kharisov Toropov (2) - Yemelin, Barsukov (2) - Krysov - Gavrilov Gainullin - Morozov, Ustimkin - Sherstobitov - Yakupov Travin, Kadyrov - Poyarkov - Smirnov Berezhnoi. Referees: Andrei Zosimov, Alexander Cherenkov.Ġ:1 - Kholodilin (Reinhardt, Svishchev, 17:59)Ġ:2 - Astashevsky (Murylev, Chernikov, 32:22, PP)ġ:4 - Reinhardt (Svishchev, Holodilin, 47:23)ģ:4 - Mikhailov (Martynov, Shambazov, 59:21, PP) In the third period, Danil Mikhailov scored 2 pucks and made a hat-trick.
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True anomaly12/19/2023 If the political contest suggests a classic Preston Sturges comedy in superhero drag, there’s a touch of Ernst Lubitsch to the screwball romance between Keaton and Pfeiffer, circling each other in different forms of evening wear, concealing their double lives, secret identities and battle scars during a fireside canoodle. Yet Pfeiffer also summons the raw desperation of a true identity crisis, which comes roaring to the surface during a great alter-ego, ballroom tango with the enemy in the film’s quiet before the climax. In both stylized performance and instantly iconic skin-tight, patchwork attire, she could have strutted straight out of the panels of the source material. Pfeiffer, meanwhile, who nabbed the role after Annette Bening got pregnant and vacated it, delivers one of the great movie star turns in all of comic-book cinema: a slinking embodiment of hell-hath-no-fury attitude, hissing venomous one- liners with aplomb and waging war on the powerful, sexist exploits of Gotham. Who is Cobblepot but Wayne without privilege, abandoned instead of orphaned? “You’re just jealous because I’m a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask,” he tells Batman. And he recognizes him as a kindred spirit to his archnemesis. DeVito, deliciously overacting under mounds and hours of daily prosthetic labor, makes the Penguin a sympathetic monster: horrifying in appearance, crass and corrupt in nature, but still a tragic figure. The director twists that classic Batman theme of the bad guys being warped reflections of the good guy to suit his own enduring love affair with misfits. No matter – for Burton, it’s just an excuse to collide these outsized cartoon personalities, to build a vaudeville stage for three tortured, animal-themed outlaws. Waters’ plot is lumpy, forcing an illogical allegiance between the villains. Imagine a politician dropping out of a race just because he got caught on tape disparaging his base. What seemed cynical in 1992 now looks rather touchingly naive. In the film’s funniest reveal, DeVito’s supervillain is interrupted mid-meal, chowing down messily on a raw fish, by the new staff of beaming operatives and volunteers applauding his candidacy. It’s an inspired gag, imagining that a creature as vulgar as the Penguin could steal the electorate’s heart. The absurdist political angle of the plot was his idea. The other thing that drew Burton back was the involvement of the Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters, who gave the material an arch, black-comic zinginess. The movie belongs more to Danny DeVito’s deformed, anguished Oswald Cobblepot, AKA the Penguin, and to Michelle Pfeiffer’s Selina Kyle, reborn into the vengeful, vamping Catwoman. The second surrenders the spotlight to the rogues’ gallery immediately, depriving Keaton of any dialogue for the opening half-hour. Just about everyone agrees that Jack Nicholson’s Joker stole the first Batman. That includes vigilant billionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton, slipping back into the cumbersome cape and cowl), ostensible hero of the movie, who at one point likens himself to Norman Bates or Ted Bundy, serial killers with split personalities or secret pastimes.īruce’s problems are doubled, his screen-time halved. With Batman Returns, Burton turned Gotham into the biggest of big tops, terrorized by a gang of criminal carnies and populated by freaks on both sides of the hero/villain divide. When the camera swoops like a creature of the night through the twisted architecture of the Gotham Zoo, it’s clear we’re fully in Burtonville, previous home to wisecracking prankster apparitions and lonely hairdressing androids. In place of the original’s art deco noir aesthetic, Batman Returns goes full baroque fairytale. The director exercised it from top to bottom. To lure Burton back to the world of the caped crusader, Warner Bros had to offer him greater creative control over the sequel. It’s certainly a more idiosyncratic movie than its predecessor, Tim Burton’s record-breaking popcorn sensation Batman, released to teeming, cheering crowds in the summer of 1989. But through the lens of the modern blockbuster machine, and the reigning superhero-industrial complex that powers it, Batman Returns looks like a true anomaly, as weird and horny and maybe personal as mega-budget Hollywood spectacles get. Hindsight has a way of turning every box-office sensation into a curious time capsule, letting us gawk at the strange attractions that used to put butts in seats. T hirty years ago, audiences came out in droves to see an over-the-top political satire about the mayoral campaign of a disgusting sewer mutant – a movie that also doubled as an oddball romantic comedy about two weirdos with mask fetishes, trading blows and spit in a snowglobe metropolis. |