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Coding Snack: MIDI data and screensaverDoes anyone know of a way (or program) to make MIDI data stop the windows screensaver or power saving mode, switch the power "profile" or anything similar? I.E., if the screensaver is running and I tap a few notes on my (piano) keyboard, the screensaver should shut off, and if I'm playing a song, the screensaver should not start. The problem is that if I'm playing music on-screen with my MIDI keyboard, the screensaver may turn on, so I have to move a hand from the MIDI keyboard to the computer keyboard or mouse. I'd like to do this without disabling the screensaver, so that after 10 minutes of MIDI (or mouse or keyboard) inactivity, the screensaver comes on as usual. I am running MIDI-OX (http://www.midiox.com/) all the time, which routes my keyboard to an external sound module. Thanks, and great forum. I'm a long-time lurker. Eric Click to download the coding snack written by a dc member..
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 Coding Snack: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them?As per title, i was thinking that a program could go through given folders recursively and report back the files/folders that are above the user-defined length and alow the user to rename them within the UI. this will come in handy when burning cd backups. too many times, the burner complains about extra-long filenames way too late and sometimes this happens during the burning session, with a prompt holding up everything. i'm not someone who hangs around watching the whole burning session, so this program will be a good guide for me before i click the 'Burn' button. Click here to read more and download..
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AudioBookSleepAudioBookSleep v090227 http://nod5.dcmembers.com/audiobooksleep.html overview: AudioBookSleep waits X minutes, saves a screenshot of VLC to desktop, then shuts down the computer. The VLC screenshot shows the filename and time just before shutdown. That makes it easier to next time continue from where you dozed off. use case: You listen to audiobooks at night but often fall asleep. You then awake hours later (at 3:23 AM) from the laptop light and audiobook sound. You dislike having to go up and turn it off manually. And now you're unsure at what point in the book you fell asleep. Even worse, when you woke up you heard some part from later chapters that gives away the plot! You wish for some automatic screenshot-then-shutdown timer. So you start to use AudioBookSleep.
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 Portable Application WrapperPortable Application Wrapper Portable Application Wrapper is a small application designed to do one thing; launch another application. It was inspired by geek.Menu's insistence that an application be in the root of the installation path in order to add it to the menu.
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 Make folder set out of a txt file?I'm a photographer an need to make a tree of folders with names of customers. I have a customer list in an .xls or .txt file, can this be done automatically so it saves me much time. can someone help me, i just downloaded autohotkey or is there an other way to do this? Click here to read more and download..
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Coding Snack: Pick Me - Random file(s) from folder and subfoldersRequest for a utility from forum member: You have to specify: - Top folder (where it will search including subfolders) - Extensions (Which extensions to include in the sears) - Number of times (like how many random files do you want) Click to read more and download..
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IE CLOCK: Tiny taskbar clock for secondary screenI hope this is what you meant: IE Clock: This is a deskbar/IE Toolbar that will display the current date & time on an extra toobar you have on your desktop, in IE (time only), and in Explorer windows (time only). After installing, right click your toolbar, Explorer bar, or IE bar, and select "Clock". If you don't see it listed, wait a few seconds and check the menu again. Click here to read more and download..
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AudioBookSleepHere is a small autohotkey program that I made because I needed it. I'll package it up more nicely some other time. Instead of a timer it would of course be cooler with some brain-sensor hardware device so that shutdown can occur right after you fall asleep  . But this works pretty well too  . Any suggestions on improving it? (Feel free to add code.)Click here to read more and download..
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 Coding Snack: Double-click makes a new folderHey guys. I want a program that when you double click on an empty space on a opened folder or on the desktop it would create a new folder. I would like it to automatically selects the name of it so I could easily rename it. An option to make text files instead would be nice as well. Thanks in advance -Ben Click to download the coding snack written by a dc member..
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Nag@Me - very simple reminder applicationI just whipped up this tiny program for my dad, and figured it might help someone else out as well. Nag@Me is a very simple reminder program - you run it, tell it how often you want it to nag you, and what you want it to say. Hit OK and its off. To close the app, single-click the tray icon and hit the Cancel button. Click to read more and download..
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Teddy - A simple drum machine!Here's a little silly app - plays drum sounds or other sounds as kids tap on keyboard
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Coding Snack: Simple line by line truncatorThis is what I usually do at the office, I copy text and I would like to truncate every line down to about # characters… Doing it manually is really a tedious and error prone process, a lot of time is wasted doing this, I should have saved a lot of time if I have a tool to help me do the task that I may I do other things in the office… please make my life easier… Example: (I copy pasted the text into the text box) (Example I prefer the length of 7 characters and click the submit button and the textbox content will change into this) Result: -7 Characters which I chose -without whitespaces Can someone please make me a simple software that truncates everyline with a customizable length and automatically removes the whitespace… Please help me I know It will be easy for you guys to make one! Thanks ahead! Click here to read about and download the utility written by a DC member to do this..
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 Coding Snack: Auto Resize Taskbarthere's a time when we open too many programs they will start to filling up our taskbar then we are force to resize the taskbar just so those taskbar buttons become manageable again. Can you write a program to automate this when there are too many taskbar buttons in the taskbar and resize it back to the normal size when there are just few taskbar buttons after we have close some of them.
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 Coding Snack: Focus get (and keep, for a while)I know this idea is floating around on the boards but I haven't been able to get it working properly. Basically, I have 2 text windows open - one I want to type into all the time, and one I want to type in for short periods of time. EG: Dreamweaver and an IM chat. I want to be able to have the main window (dreamweaver) under focus by default, but I want to be able to click in the chatbox (or any other) and for as long as I am typing there it keeps focus. After an extended period of non-activity (eg, no more typing, say, 5~8 seconds) I want to switch back to the main window (returning to work) Reach more and download the coding snacks written by DC members to do this..
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 Free Coding Snack: CHKDSK Assist - Schedule CHKDSK OperationsAfter learning and working with AutoHotkey since February, I'm finally releasing my first script. CHKDSK Assist is a GUI based script that allows you to schedule CHKDSK operations on your PC. I welcome any questions or comments about it. Thanks! Click here to read more and download..
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Coding Snack: DropFolderHad a nice Idea, while cleaning my Desktop from old files/Downloads etc. A floating Icon for droping Files/Folders, which opens a menu with configured Move/Copy(while holding Ctrl+drop) Paths. - with Window Levels: Normal, OnTop, Desktop - lock/unlock position of icon - png skin support/Transparency Slider/Icon Size Slider Would make move/copy actions much more easier.
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 Coding Snack: Photo Downloader KioskHello, My robotics team runs a tournament every year for younger kids. An idea of mine for this year's tournament is to have a continually running slideshow of pictures on one of the projectors. It would be great if I could have a computer set up with a media reader where people (coaches, spectators, etc) could insert a card and download their pictures to the computer to be immediately added to the slideshow. So, here's my idea: a kiosk-like program that allows a user to download all or some photos from a memory card (I've got one of those read-all-card-types readers that maps to four drives) to a folder that I specify in a config file (probably on a networked computer e.g. \\mycomp\slideshow\) in a datetime-stamped folder (to avoid name conflicts) with a minimum of user effort. Kind of like one of those photo kiosks that can be found at Walgreens, etc, but much simpler. Just a spash screen, a photo-select screen for once the user has inserted a memory card, a copying screen, and a done screen. Or something. I am a programmer, and if nobody is interested I will code this myself, so don't spend a lot of time on it. But, the members of this forum are much more talented than I am and so I'm sure you could whip something up easier than I could. Thanks, Nick Click here to read about and download the utility written by DC member to do this..
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Coding Snack: Toggle Fullscreen of Control (or Zoom control to fullscreen)I would like to have a small program that will allow a user to stretch a given region of the screen (a window and/or control) to fill the entire screen and then "unstretch" it back to its original size and position. Click here to read about and download the utility written by DC members to do this..
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Easy Unicode Paster 2.0 is Released (Major Update)DC member Eric Wong (VideoInPicture) has been on fire lately creating all sorts of cool new utilities. This one is bound to be useful to some people, especially with its high degree of customizability.. http://easyunicodepaster.wikidot.com September 4th, 2008
With this release, I firmly believe that Easy Unicode Paster is one of the best and easiest to use unicode character maps out there and can compete with products that charge for something similar. All the other character maps I have tried have failed in their ease of use or how the program operates. Easy Unicode Paster pastes unicode characters in whatever document you are working with using just 1 click for one character.
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 Re: Alarm When Power Cord Falls Out of NotebookHere a simple command line utility. BatteryRun - Run commands when the power plug is connected or disconnected. Command line: BatteryRun.exe "<connect command>" "<disconnect command>" Example: BatteryRun.exe "ding.wav" "calc.exe" You'll find the downloads and more info at 1 Hour Software by Skrommel. For multiple actions, I suggest making an AutoHotkey script. Skrommel
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 Small utility for quick prototyping GridMove layoutsI've wrote small utility for creating simple GridMove layouts. It's main task to make easy calculating grid's coordinates (I was bored after making two grids ).GridStack is a command line application accepting definition of a grid layout and outputing GridMove's template. Click here to read more and download..
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IDEA : script which popup browse dialog and generate shortcutWhat I'm looking is pretty simple (I think) A tool which pop up the user a browse dialog like this  the user choose a folder, and it generate a shortcut (on his desktop) and add the choosen folder's path to the shortcut Example : c:\app\app.exe path of the folder*.jpg path of the folder /someparameter /someparameter Parameters in blue never change, they are the same for all shortcut created, only the red change (I would also like to be able to specify an icon for the generated shortcut, but it's absolutely not a priority ^^) Click here to read more and download the utility written by DC Member Lanux128
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Re: IDEA: use key to constrain mouse movements to horizontal/verticalTry DragLock  DragLock - Press the windows key to lock the mouse movement along one axis.Features: - Locks to the axis you start to move along. - Rightclick the tray menu to change hotkey. You'll find the downloads and more info at 1 Hour Software by Skrommel. Skrommel
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IDEA: prompt Properties>Comments, when creating link for exeWhen I (seldom) go to Start > All Programs, or (almost always) Quick Launch (True Launch Bar) to search for whatever program I am in need of, very often I cannot remember the name of the program in question, or I cannot remember if I am in need of program A, B, or C - because I cannot recall their features! All shortcuts have this tooltip feature, point to the link and a tooltip can tell you what the linked program can do, but very few programmers use the feature. I also forget myself to type in such informations, when I create the shortcut. So, my idea is for some app to prompt the Properties > Comments to pop up, whenever a shortcut is created for an exe file. This way, when I find a new program that I would like to test, I can copy the description of the features, from the site, and when the program has been installed and a shortcut must be created, this app 'you' are about to author, will force me to remember to paste that description into Properties > Comments. And from now on and for ever I can merely point at the shortcut and remember what the heck it was that this particular program was supposed to be able to do. Click here to download the utility written by DC Member Skrommel to solve this request..
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New App! File/Folder Date OrganizerThis little app will search through a selected folder and reorganize everything in that folder (keeping relative paths intact) into dated folders. need an example? ok: let's say you have the following folders c:\my stuff\something old (files in this folder are dated Feb. 2005) c:\my stuff\something new (files in this folder are dated Mar. 2008) Select 'c:\my stuff' as the search folder and you'll end up with this: c:\my stuff\2005-02\something old c:\my stuff\2008-03\something new seems simple and useless... that is, of course, unless you have literally hundreds of folders and random file sitting in that folder! How does it work? All files in the root folder are treated as separate entities and put into their respective dated folders based on their own file date. All folders in the search directory are kept in the exact path structure as they sit in that folder. The date is determined by the newest file date found within that folder and it's subfolders. Because of this, it ideally works with folders that only have one level of subfolders within itself. If you use this in folders that have multiple layers of nested folders, the files/folders being moved to a dated folder will all be grouped by the very latest file within that entire tree! Click here to read more and download..
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Hide menu in Start MenuHello. I have a long list of start menu and i want to hide some of them to make it shorter. i could just use 'tidy start menu' but it doesnt hide menu instead it just sort the menus into group. that's not what i want. can someone write a program that will hide main entries by changing their folder attrib. a simple program with listbox (with checkboxes) Click here to read about and download the utility written by DC member skrommel to do this..
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ExtDesk: control the primary desktop from the extended desktopExtDesk ExtDesk helps you control the primary desktop from the extended desktop. ExtDesk has a button for opening the desktop folder and a screen that tracks the mouse for easy navigation on the primary desktop. more info and download here: http://nod5.dcmembers.com/extdesk.html This is another small program that I made because I needed it myself (the Use Case is loosely inspired by real events ) This first version has mostly been testdriven on a single system so all feedback on how this works on your systems is very much appreciated. 
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tv_out: a shortcut for quickly turning extended desktop on/offtv_out creates a shortcut for quickly turning extended desktop on/off. the shortcut icon changes to reflects the on/off state of the extended desktop. download from this page: http://nod5.dcmembers.com/tv_out.html I have tested tv_out on several different systems without any problems. Post some feedback if you encounter a bug.
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 Re: Window TagsHere's KeySwitch - Use hotkeys to switch windows! 1: Press Ctrl-T to start assigning a hotkey. 2: Press Ctrl and 0 through 9 to assign that hotkey to the active window. 3: To swith to a window, press the assigned hotkey. To change modifiers and hotkeys, edit the modifier= and addkey= lines below. -Skrommel Click here to download the utility written by DC Member Skrommel to solve this request..
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IDEA: Vista integrity levels shell extensionHi! A really useful little app would be a shell-extension that lets you view and change Vista's new integrity levels feature on files and folders. Here's a command line version: http://www.minasi.com/vista/chml.htm A GUI shell-extension would be so useful! I'm afraid I've no idea whether this would be a coding snack or a coding banquet to do though... Even just the ability to view them through a shell-extension would be useful. Best wishes, Andrew Click here to download the utility written by DC Member Skrommel to solve this request..
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SOLVED: Taskbar Displayed Only On <Win> KeypressI would like the Taskbar to autohide and not popup when the mouse cursor goes to the bottom of the screen. I would like the Taskbar to popup when I hold down the <Win> key. IOW, I don't want <Win> to activate the Start Menu like it does by default. Summary:
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 DetachVideo - Give embedded videos their own window!Detach embedded videos from your tabbed browser and show them in a window of their own. Usage: Hold your mouse over a video and press F12. Skrommel
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Re: H E L P !!! I lost a spreadsheet!Do you ever click NO by accident on the dialog asking if you want to save your changes? I once made an AHK script for a friend as he kept running into situations like this. Assuming you use Microsoft Excel, maybe you'll find it useful too.. this script monitors and disables the "No" button in the dialog box that prompts up when trying to close an unsaved file. (see pic). P.S. in case you really need to close a file without saving, there is a hotkey (Win+p) that will turn off the monitoring for 10 seconds.
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Coding Snack: IconAnyFolder - Autopick custom icons for folders based on resources in folderIconAnyFolder v0.1 - First Release (written in C#) Features - a user prompt for specifying directory - an option loop recursively into subdirectories - a cleanup option that runs through and deletes all desktop.ini files, or removes the icon entries in them - If the first icon resource (exe) the script encounters does not have an icon present, move to the next resource.
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Coding Snack: MiniMe (aka MaxiMe)I needed this quickly so whipped up this AHK script to quickly minimize or maximize windows using right shift and control. I got really frustrated with the fact there is no windows shortcut to minimize the active window. If you're like me and have many window open then consider using minimIZE to minimize windows to a small desktop thumbnail (and out of your taskbar). In combination with that, this script can make windows management a lot less painless.
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File noteBack in 1999, Moonsoftware released a little app called FileNote. I used it so much it became second nature but when I moved up to a 64 bit OS it no longer worked. I emailed Moonsoftware about when it might be upgraded to 64 bit but received no response. It really is a neat little utility and when I ran across your site I thought it might be well to check since you guys seem to have talent bubbling out of your ears! From the Moonsoftware page: "FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add textual descriptions to your files. It adds one command to the shell context menu of a file object. This command lets you easily edit or create a text file that has the same name as the initial file, but with the extension TXT. For example, if you have a file, MyImage.jpg, you right-click on that file and choose the FileNote command from the context menu. A new text file called MyImage.txt is created and Notepad is opened to edit that text file. If a text file with that name already exists, it will be opened for viewing/editing. Does anyone have any ideas what could be done to make it work on a 54 bit OS? Click here to read about and download the coding snack utilities implemented..
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Coding Snack: Drive to open on Dated folderHi Coders I have a partioned drive which I download programs, web pages, etc.to . almost on a daily basis. This is done mostly through a program downloader (called DOWNLOADER) it automatically archives the programs etc into a dated folder ie 20/01/ 2008. I leave these in the folders there in which they are archived in until they are needed. What I want to be able to is to open the today’s dated archived folder when I access the drive which there are on. This hopefully would be be done from a shortcut from the desktop. The coded program would have to locate the (today’s)dated folder if it exists and if a today's dated folder doesn’t exist open the drive as normal . The date format is dd/mm/yyyy Continue reading and download the utility written to do this..
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Monitor Dimmer ScriptI guess this program could be a little more flexible, and its not that amazing, but I wanted to share it as it fulfilled a need I had. Also, I wanted to share the technique I used as it took me a while to get it to work the way I wanted. Background: I have two monitors. Often, I'll watch a movie or play a game on the left one, while I will also be browsing web pages and chatting with people on the right one. If the movie or game is dark, and I'm looking a mostly white webpage, there is too much light. Solution: This program creates a window. A variable-alpha-transparency, black, always-on-top window, with no titlebar, etc. It covers my entire right monitor. BUT, by setting WS_EX_TRANSPARENT, its made transparent to events, and thus mouse clicks, keystrokes, etc. are passed on through to the windows below it. Win Numpad+ darkens the screen, Win Numpad- lightens the screen, Win Numpad* toggles the overlay on/off. So, without further ado, I present -- MonitorDimmer. In both AHK and EXE. Enjoy! --matt
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