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mouser:
Newsletter for April 3, 2006Codename 'Happy Birthday to Us'
"If you read nothing else on our site, read the newsletter!"

1. Happy 1st Anniversary to DonationCoder.com
It's hard to believe it's only been a year since DonationCoder.com opened it's doors.  We set out to see if we could revitalize the idea of donationware..  I don't think any of us anticipated that the site would develop into such a wonderful and lively community.  On behalf of all the administrators everyone on the site I want to say thank you to everyone whose financial and non-financial support made it possible.


2. Okay, 48 More Hours to Become a Charter Member

In honor of our anniversary we we going to extend the Charter Membership Deadline for another 48 hours (ends weds. April 4, 2006 at midnight eastern time) for all you last minute procrastinators who have been meaning to make a donation but still haven't.  Any donations before that deadline will convey lifetime charter membership.  All donors after that will be known simply as Supporting Members.  So if you want to be part of the founding members of DonationCoder.com, with all the benefits that may entail, you don't have much time left to make a donation before the new changes take effect..  And if you're already a member, don't miss this opportunity to tell your friends about our site!


3. April's Software Giveaway - Short but Sweet!
Because we have some really big announcements coming up this month, April's software Drawing will only be open until April 14!

This month you can get 30% to 50% discounts on, and can enter to win free copies:

* Beyond Compare - one of our favorite apps - do not miss this brief discount offer! (read full review)
* Atomic Alarm Clock - cool looking clock and alarms
* HDDLife - read minireview (and get a discount on pre-order of notebook version)
* FlexHEX - hex editor
* Collectorz.com software  - read posts
* My Life Organized  - read minireview
Note: We have big discounts (30% to 50%) on these programs, but be warned that some of them expire on April 15!
Did you miss March's free software drawing and discounts? We gave out close to 100 free programs.


4. Website Updates

* Contest: Design the new banner for our Website and comment on the current set of submissions - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2802?ref=nl
* New forum section reorganization - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2943?ref=nl
* The #donationcoder irc chat channel is getting fun - see what you've been missing with these fun graphs and charts - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=772?ref=nl

5. New Stuff on the Way

* A MAJOR new feature has been in the works for months and will go live in the upcoming days: Our own micro-donation system, "DonationCredits" - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2942?ref=nl
* Zaine's back with a vengence, and he's already talking about doing another major review on File Renamers.  He's asked for help in building an initial list of candidates to look - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3026?ref=nl (zaine's blog)

6. Member Mini-reviews
The mini-review section has been on fire lately, and while you're waiting for our upcoming major reviews on Partition Management Tools and Html Editors, you'll enjoy reading these:

* Alertbear free RSS reader - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3015?ref=nl
* CLCL clipboard manager - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2866?ref=nl
* HDDLife - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2884.0
* CSS Tab Designer v2 - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2960?ref=nl
* Ad Muncher - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2902?ref=nl
* Buzzsaw background disk defragmenter - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2860.0?ref=nl
* Broadpage web browser and friends - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3011.0?ref=nl

7. Security News

* Nice article on how to test and secure your web apps - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3034?ref=nl
* Kensington computer locks aren't that safe - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2819?ref=nl
* Microsoft confirms highly critical IE hole - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2913?ref=nl
* Hard drive resurrection - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2870?ref=nl

8. Express your View

* What kind of keyboard you use? - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2967?ref=nl
* Do you use RSS feeds? - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3016.0?ref=nl
* Unprotected wireless lans? - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2859?ref=nl
* How long will it take you to adopt Windows Vista as your OS? - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2793?ref=nl

9. Games and Amazing Animals

* Orboxb - Here's one free flash game that took the forum by storm these last two weeks, and threw the chat channel into convulsions with people trying to beat it.  Beware, this is a deceptively simple, satisfying, and addicting puzzle game - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2936.0?ref=nl
* Amazing squirrel video - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2973.0?ref=nl
* Amazing fish video - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3033.0?ref=nl

10. New Coding Snacks by Skrommel, JGPaiva, and Others

* Multimedia Mouse - great for music lovers with mouse wheels - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2869?ref=nl
* AddUrlTimeStamp - wonderful tool for internet explorer bookmarks - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2930.0?ref=nl
* MouseMark - great for visually impaired mouse finding - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2851.0?ref=nl

11. Other Software Discoveries and Discussions

* BitmapRip, Image Extractor by Mark0- https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2919?ref=nl
* Pixeur, Color Tool by Veign- https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2790.0?ref=nl
* Discussion about the best registry cleaner - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2964?ref=nl
* Office 2007 user interface video - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2977.0?ref=nl
* An important heads-up for gmail users - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2872?ref=nl

12. Developer's Corner

* Do you use a good office chair when programming? - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2892.0?ref=nl
* Always wanted to learn how to program? The self-teaching programming school is coming to DC - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2972.0?ref=nl
* Funny emacs learning curve - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2971?ref=nl
* Gabbly! A cool javascript chat for your web pages - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2803.0?ref=nl
* Simple PHP Gallery - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3021.0?ref=nl
* Phplist for website mailing lists, minireview - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0?ref=nl
* Distributed compiling and clustering, a mini-review - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2988?ref=nl
* OOP Haters - https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2874?ref=nl

More links:

* Donate: https://www.donationcoder.com/Donate/index.html?ref=nl
* Forums: https://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/?ref=nl
* Wiki: https://www.donationcoder.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page?ref=nl
* BugTracker: https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Tracking/main_page.php?ref=nl
* RSS Feeds: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=496.0?ref=nl
* Forum Daily Digest Emails: http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=22516?ref=nl
Special thanks to JGPaiva for his help preparing this newsletter.

vegas:
Happy Birthday DC, glad to be here.  ;)

esnwang:
Happy Birthday

Carol Haynes:
Happy Birthday (belated ... oops) ...

Here is a card http://www.icq.com/friendship/pages/browse_page_18972.php

mouser:
cute :)

btw i thought you guys might like to see some stats for march 2006:

Average Data Transferred per Day   5.00 gigabytes
Average Hits per Day   263564.38
Average Users per Day   10237.09
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