Competitions Discussion Thread Part 2

furndire

Does anyone else find that if they have more than about 6/7 tabbed pages open that IE closes everything down, which is b..... annoying

aytch

gakochan wrote: »

For Firefox users I recommend the "AutoFill Forms" add-in from https://blueimp.net/mozilla/.

It's more powerful than Google AutoFill, because you can write your own filed-matching rules (yes you have to be a bit techy to do that -- but it's fun!). I spent a few hours (spread over weeks) and it can now cope with almost all forms (except those that use crazy field names!).

Another approach, for Win users, is to use a tool like AutoHotKey (www.autohotkey.com) which lets you assign "macros" to keys. So, for example, you press F1 and your name gets printed into wherever the mouse cursor is. Or F2 prints your comping email address, etc. If you define F1-F10 like this, it's a breeze to blast through those forms which your auto-filler fails on, because they've chosen duff field names.

Best wishes
gakochan

I have added the autofill to my firefox toolbar and I have added my details to the default, but when I click in a form it doesn't seem to want to play, am i missing something!:rolleyes:

catz747

furndire wrote: »

Does anyone else find that if they have more than about 6/7 tabbed pages open that IE closes everything down, which is b..... annoying

Mine's normally OK with that many open, do you have all the updates?
Occassionally it makes a pathetic attempt at crashing but is ok after a few seconds

furndire

Thanks Catz, I think we have all the updates. We just reloaded windows, and it seems to be doing it less.

littleange

furndire wrote: »

Does anyone else find that if they have more than about 6/7 tabbed pages open that IE closes everything down, which is b..... annoying

Firefox is much better at handling tabs, I tend to open between 25 and 50 when doing competitions and it seems to handle it no problems

anta

I don't have so many time to follow every competition when it’s announced so I'm entering when I've got time (usually 1-3days before it expires). If those threads are still in "Competitions time" I can easily find them, but when they're moved to "Game over" it's so difficult to find them – I would say impossible (you know this search thingy, - when you most need it, it doesn't work).
I asked for this few days ago...Sadly, my thread was deleted and no one agreed that threads are being moves while still valid. Look:
this, this, this, this, this, this and much more are still valid, but already in game over...

Please don’t move them - it's too difficult to find them between thousands of expired competitions. Or please, teach me how to find these competitions with search.

Thank you :beer:

P.S. If this thread is against the rules, please drop me a line (PM) to explain why you are deleting this

josie301

These threads have not been deleted, merely moved.

This (2nd link you posted) appears to be long out of date - the last poster won tickets 30.08.06

There are easier methods of finding the comps if you can't get on often, as Al Mac suggests.

As was said before the mods do a good job - they too have to trail through open comps to find the out of date ones & duplicates etc - and move discussion threads to the discussion thread! :rolleyes:

anta

Al_Mac wrote: »

Look at your last thread here.

Search by going to the bottom of the forum and sort by thread start date, descending and a time period that meets your needs. This works well for me.
.

Learn me how to find all valid competitions, for example, ending 02/09? Every attempt leads to

1. "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.":o

Sorting by thread start day doesn't suit me (try to do this in "Game over", where are more than 30.000 threads :eek:). Start date may be 2005-09-30, and the end date may be 2008-02-01 in some cases. In other cases start date may be yesterday and the competition will end tomorrow

anta

josie301 wrote: »

As was said before the mods do a good job

Oh, I even didn't think any bad word about them I'm only sure that they didn't think that for such idiots like me last days to enter competitions could be golden days :rolleyes:
I know, there're so many competitions that I also would like to move all those that looks like no longer useful andwillexpire in few days. But it's useful. At least for me

ginjim

Hi! Does anyone or has anyone won at the weekend? I mean is it worth checking my email account every 10 mins?