Glances

Audio Overload

2018-04-07

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Software > Oldschool music players >

http://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

An oldschool music player.

Has potential, but is missing critical features and its development appears to have ceased. Only good for playing ASMA (Atar) .mus, .str, and .wds files.

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Code Snippets

2018-04-05

freeware, Glances, internet software, liked, live, loved, open-source software, software, software with Git repositories, software with Subversion repositories, this website, Usability, WordPress plugins

Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

This plugin allows you to add code snippets as an alternative to directly editing a theme's functions.php.

I used to manually edit functions.php for my child theme Parament-spiralofhope.

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Ghostscript

2018-04-01

commandline software, dead, freeware, Glances, image editors, image software, liked, Linux software, open-source software, software, software with Git repositories, utilities, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/

A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.

It's a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.

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Expose Noisy Tabs

2018-03-31

dead, freeware, Glances, GUI software, internet software, liked, Linux software, loved, open-source software, Pale Moon extensions, software, software with Git repositories, Windows 10 software, Windows software

Software >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >

https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/expose-noisy-tabs
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/

Adds an icon to tabs to indicate which emanates sound and allow one to easily mute them.

2019-01-15 - Obsoleted when its functionality was implemented in Pale Moon 28.3.0.
2018-03-31 - 1.1.0

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Alien 3 - (1992 movie)

2018-03-27

alien entertainment, Alien movie franchise, alien movies, disliked, entertainment, fiction, Glances, horror, horror movies, Lance Henriksen, monsters, Movies, science fiction, science fiction movies, Sigourney Weaver, the future

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/

Survivors of an alien attack crash next to a prison and learn that the alien came with them.

This was my first movie with a shaved-headed woman. I guess I was all "oh no she di'int, now wesa gettin serioooos".

In my mind, the franchise was significantly weakened by this movie. It just didn't "feel right". Perhaps the previous two were so good that they became too tough to follow, but after yet another re-watch this movie really just doesn't seem all that good.

Properly titled ALIEN³

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Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/

Waking from long hibernation, a woman claims to be the survivor of an alien attack from a planetoid which has since become a terraforming colony.

A direct descendent of Alien - (1979 movie), this movie not only builds on but improves on the movie, turning this into a blockbuster franchise.

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Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/

A crew of civilians investigates a distress beacon, but it turn out to be a warning that they were too late to heed.

Alien is another "first to get there" movie which has set the bar for its sub-genre.

It has a dirty old-but-futuristic look to it that really stretches its technological and budgetary limitations. As it turns out, this has given the movie incredible longevity. For a movie as old as this, it easily stands the test of time.

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