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Newsletter for August 17th, 2006 - Codename ''Working Wisely"

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mouser:
Newsletter for August 16th, 2006Codename "Working Wisely"

"If you read nothing else on our site, read the newsletter!"


1. Audio Radio Show Podcast #4 is ONLINE!
Mukestar and JavaJones, the new producers of the DonationCoder.com Podcast Audio Radio Show have unleashed their new creation, Podcast #4!

* Listen to Podcast #4 Now
2. The Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006
Are you not working as efficiently as you could be?  Do you want to learn how to bettter manage your time and energy, and not waste time thinking about useless stuff?  Join the Club! Lots of us on the forum are interested in the Getting Things Done approach to time management and working more efficiently.  So we are going to spend three months, from September 1 to December 1 practicing GTD principles, and sharing our experience.  We'll have an informal "coach" of sorts available to help people who want to participate.

* Sign up to participate in the three-month GTD experiment - and see if it improves your productivity
3. Software Updates and Releases
DonationCoder.com is first and foremost a site about software.  Let's see what's new since our last newsletter.. And remember to donate some DonationCredits to these coders to support their hard work!

* Mobysaurus Thesaurus v1.0 Released - A unique donationware thesaurus by Anderson Hu
* View and try tons of donationware entries to the C++ Builder Programming Contest
4. August's Discounts and Last Chance for August 21st Shareware Giveaway
This month's discounts last throughout all of August, but you only have until August 21st to enter this months free drawing!

* August's Special Discounts and Giveaways: MailWasher Pro, MainType v2.0, Zoom Player Pro, Help&Manual, SyncBackSE
* Enter to win the software of your choice in this month's drawing (you can enter to win a DonationCoder.com mug as well)
* BCB and Delphi Discounts - We've added more discounts on delphi/bcb components for the C++ Builder Contest
5. Site News
There is always room to imrpove the site, that's our motto.

* MAJOR New Site Feature - The Tour Page - Josh has outdone himself this time and has begun to create a massive collection of short fun video screencasts of various aspects of the site.  Check out everything from tutorials on signing up and donating, to brief tours of the Coding Snacks section.  A Great way to learn about all the secret areas of the site you didn't know about!
* Report on server downtime on August 8th - We had a day and a half of downtime this month, for the first time in many months.  Read a bit about how it happened and what we did to fix it.
* New Member Server - Spurred on by the Server issue, we have gotten a secondary server which will now be devoted exclusively to hosting user websites, blogs, etc. (made possible by your donations).
* Should we add graphics (and other) challenges to the self-teaching school? - If you haven't checked out our Programmming School, now is the time.  And make your voice heard.
6. New Mini-Reviews by Members
The mini review section is looking great and Josh is doing a superlative job as the official demo screencaster on the site.  If you have a program that you think deserves a screencast be sure to drop Josh a note.

* AceText - text & clipboard manager (for coders, writers, etc.)
* Flock: Web2.0 and all that buzz
7. Programming Contest Updates
The deadline to enter our massive C++ Builder Programming Contest is now over.  You can check out the entries and download and use most of them now.  We will be announceing the winners on or around September 1st. And if you missed out on entering the C++ Builder contest, you can still enter our new Accessibility Game Programming Contest, where the object is to design either a game whose output is audio only, or a game with a single button as input.

* Browse the latest entries to the BCB Contest
* Visit the Accessibility Programming Contest Web Page (Deadline Oct 15th)
8. General Software Discussion
Lots of great software discussion on the forum in the last two weeks:

* Simple Timeclock software (any recommendations?)
* Scot Finnie finally decides on an antivirus solution...
* Software to send email when a folder content changes
* Maxthon 2.0 Invitation
* Program to Monitor Size of Specific Directories?
* XnView 1.90 Alpha (Early test version)
* ImgBurn 2 relaeased - looks excellent
* Looking for a wiki? Compare, compare!
* Photosynth — one step closer to Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report'?
* Good Logo Creation Tools?
* Free Disk Space Wiper Tool?
9. Fun and Games
Who ever said not to mix business with pleasure? That's all we do here! 

* Storm the House
* xkcd.com - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
* Metaphysik II - another cool game web game
* Icon's Story: fantastically whimsical flash movie
* Addictive Dice Game
* Smart Rabbit Computer Buddy Gadget
* Legend of Pliskin 2 - very well done flash click adventure
* Security2: Very well done simple stealth Flash game
* National Poetry Slam 06 - audio+video as well - Aug 9 thru 12
* Shadow Girl Video - cool
* 17 Different Ways To Tie Shoelaces
* Drawspace - Art Lessons (some free, some not)
* Forget the Royal Ballet, these boys are good!
* Play a Prank on Flash Game Lovers: Forever Flash Games
10. Web Discoveries, Debates, and Articles
What's worth reading on the web? With so much information out there it can be hard to know.  Here are some recent discoveries we're talking about on the forum.

* Blog Discussion: Piracy is Progressive Taxation
* Opera CEO's interviewed in slashdot
* Is IE7 or Firefox 2 safer?
* Why is it that so few people do what they love? Paul Graham does it again
* The Paradigm Shift on AOL's massive search keyword dump - great reading
* BookMooch - exchange your used books
* New WEP attack found - cracks in seconds
* Blog Post: A Pile Driven Life
* ChipIn - Collect money from social network donation
* "ICE" Your Cell phone
* Indie Superstar - video blog about indie games
* D-Link routers vulnerable to remote attack
* Blog Find: Huge Entity
* techTAGG - digg like site with revenue sharing
* I'm running a pirated version of Windows and can't get caught!
* TopReviews, good software review site - or not?
11. Developer's Corner

* Jay Is Games: Flash Game Programming Contest (Deadline Aug25)
* The start-up inflection point: Nice Blog Article
* Turbo C and Turbo Pascal are back!!
* Anyone ever used Swig or other c++ wrapping tools? recommendations
* What's the Best Scripting Language?
* Programmer Meet Designer Website
* Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas - Essay #40 by Scott Berkun
* Make (and play) your own Xbox game
* What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
* Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!
12. Site of the Month

* StumbleUpon.com is Site of the Month for August 2006


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mouser:
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