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2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
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5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
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How do I do that?

[is]

I think the discount's over.
The site doesn't accept the code today (which is well after the stated expiration date of 20th July).

[Mouser:]

Mouser: the real power of this feature is that you can now select this from the quick search dropdown box for the topic you are currently browsing, or from *within* the results page.

It's very much appreciated. For me, the new work by Wordzilla turns all of the interesting material on Donation Coder into a really useful database.

Also, since Wordzilla is just an anagram of Dollar Wiz, it's helpful to know how much to donate   

online browser preview tools. There's a list of them at http://mypage.bluewin.ch/.../links/onlinetools02.html

Thanks a lot, that'll get me started 

[don't]

I have to update my wife's (very simple) web site.

I know there exist various tools to let me easily preview a page/site at various resolutions and/or browser sizes.
I don't know what they are.

Can readers please point me to any such utilities that they find to be the simplest and best?

Thanks in advance!

I thought I was missing some. Now I know why! 

You thought you were missing some! 
I never should have sent the ace of diamonds. My poker nights are shot to hell 

[Replies]

Now we have added yet another sortable column: Replies.

Very nice, too!

Zoner Gif Animator 5 is the Giveaway of the day today

I bought it yesterday

It's worth collecting as a freebie.

Just ran 1.17.01 and it's lost all entries other than itself.
Tried dragging the FARR folder onto it but it doesn't arrive on the updates tab.
(XP SP2)

Mouser, here's a small thing to consider.

Using DC Updater (1.16.01) with my system heavily burdened by other online tasks:

• DC Updater found several updates, including itself.
• It takes a long time to grab the updates (due to other system activity here).
• DC Updater updates itself first, creating the need to restart other update downloads.

Should Updater hold off on updating itself until its tasks are finished?

It's an odd but pleasant sensation to find the search feature useful

Have you not heard that 'N'-y thing goes?

What version of farr are you using?

2.00.126  Thanks for the response.  I missed the "FindAndRunRobot.dcupdate" file, it is there.

This tab contains a list of all .dcupdate files (or folders containing them) which provide info on installed programs which can be updated

So I dragged my FARR folder to the Extra Update Files tab, and the folder path appears there.
No sign of FARR on the Updates tab, though.

I have no .dcupdate file in the FARR folder.

Yes, I do

im about to release an improved update checker and i will modify drag+drop to handle this case --
basically it expects you to drop a folder or .dcupdate file, and i assume you are dropping the exe?
im just going to make the updater drop the parent folder, which is the best thing to do i think.

I tried both ways, the exe and, when that didn't work, just the folder.
I'll wait for the next iteration, thanks.

there are 2 places the updater gets info about programs it can update:

    * The custom list in the "Extra Update Files" tab
    * The directory C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DonationCoder\DcUpdater\RedirectFiles

If I drag and drop, say FARR, onto the updater, the path appears nicely in the 'extra update files' tab-window but FARR doesn't appear on the updates tab, nor is it checked for updates.  I don't have an entry for FARR in DcUpdater\RedirectFiles.

What have I missed?

A reply i posted which addresses some of the "why" issues that cranioscopical suggested i tackle...

and

My concerns in this case are not about paying for stuff - i'm just objecting to what i perceive as an inappropriate attitude and approach from smf management, which i fear may be a sign of them moving in wrong direction in terms of management and maintenance.

A lot of heat's been generated by a rude and ungrateful response from SMF. 'Un-words' abound for such behaviour, without a doubt; unintelligent, uncouth, uncooperative, unimaginative...

Even so,
Are you sure that, had you first sought a written permission it would not have been granted?
And are you sure that nobody in the SMF hierarchy is both senior enough to waive the requirement and intelligent enough to see the advantage in what you offer?

Anyway, many thanks -- again -- to you and Wordzilla for the very significant inprovements to the search function here.  Boy, what a difference!

I understand you are just doing your job but I'd really like the smf coders to take a reconsider if this is the approach they want to take with these things, it's just the wrong attitude in my opinion.  We included a mod, and then the patched version of one file.  It's just silly to object to that.  For people like me who do not use package mods and modify the files themselves, stopping people from including a modified file is insane.

I understand your frustration and often share such feelings when dealing with some of my clients. (In my time I've rendered considerably more pithy responses than these.) Even so, "wrong attitude", "silly", and "insane" are probably not the best-chosen terms to gain co-operation.

Also, instead of pointing out what you want, try headlining the benefits to them. Nobody likes to be told they're wrong, especially not those who are!  It makes little-thinkers intransigent.

instead of a thank you we got someone an official smf person complaining that due to a tiny technicality we were violating their license and we should correct it within a few days or face legal action...  left me with a really bad taste in my mouth.

Small-minded people abound who are concerned with the letter of the law and not its spirit. I can well understand (and share) the initial flare of...annoyance. Aggravating though such people may be, it would be a pity to deny the larger community of SMF users the chance to benefit from the good work that's just been completed here. Might it be worth trying to make contact with someone at SMF who does enjoy a modicum of common sense, in order to see if a sensible distribution can be negotiated and 'sanctioned'? Don't take your ball and go home, that puts you in their league. Count to ten and try again?

hearby offer a prize to anyone who can now find a search on this forum that misses a result it should return.

I searched for the message telling me that I'd won all of the prizes in this month's draw, but it couldn't be found!

Thanks for the on-going hard work of gathering discounts for the rest of us. 

What's the story on FD-ISR?  I bought it (influenced by your recommendation) a while back and then, like you and others, received Raxco's "we're dropping this" message.

The singer spoke about how he had been bullied in his youth and hoped that his story would serve as a "source of inspiration" to victims of bullying.

I'm not so sure about opera, but I seem to recall that some of the bullying I experienced caused me to sing falsetto for a while!

I'll be travelling in Europe for five weeks

Off topic but...have a good trip!

I use Spyware Doctor.  Has anyone noticed it introducing 'random' keystrokes into other applications?

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