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ShortcutGuide.com - keyboard shortcuts of popular programs

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ShortcutGuide.com offers an easy way to learn (and print) the keyboard shortcuts of 15+ popular programs, most of them internet programs like browsers, chat, search engine shortcuts. A good idea and free.


9 Better, Cheaper Ways To Search Amazon

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Looks like some useful stuff here if you are a regular amazon.com shopper like me.

The Amazon home page has somewhere around 16 different sales pitches, and more unnecessary graphics than a MySpace page. Here are 9 money-saving ways to shop the site without waiting for another customized ad to render.

http://consumerist.c...ch-amazon-330771.php


CLIPSTEP from Skrommel; Script MOD

Further to last post, I have now completed CLIPSTEP mods that improve usability and add functions:
  Ctrl-Alt-V added to Toggle Current (%A_WorkingDir%) & Permanent dir: .\Perm
      This option only available after SHOWCLIP initiated.
  Ctrl-Alt-C added to COPY current clip(%A_WorkingDir%) TO: Permanent Dir .\Perm
      This option only available after SHOWCLIP initiated, if current dir is default
  SHOWCLIP (^V) uses Progress for readability and shows Previous & Next clip
      as well as showing current clip filename, "No." of "Total clips",
      and if clip is "FILE" / "Address"
Also corrected fault in version sent before with filecopy

If you think this of any interest, perhaps you can suggest improvements?
Excuse the errors if there are any. I think these MODS make it more user friendly.
Would welcome any comments!


Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

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Greetings! Darwin here wondering what happened to 2007... I've only *just* gotten used to writing "2007" and it's almost over. At any rate, the onset of December means one of two things - either it's just about winter or it's just about summer! So depending on where you are it's time to stock up on sun creme or on thermal underwear... It's all relative, isn't it?

No matter where you are, December is a busy month. Here at Donationcoder it is no different as we gear up for the holidays and prepare for January's big Donationcoder fundraiser. I can't give too much away, but there are exciting events and discounts being planned, so watch for announcements about them in the next newsletter.

The big news today is that we've just posted 9 new small freeware releases as part of our Getting Organized Experiment (GOE) Coding Challenge.  Read more about it in section 2 of the newsletter.

Speaking of the newsletter, we've broken it down into more sections this time, with fewer links in each -- hopefully this will make it a little easier to find stuff that might interest you.  Is this an improvement? Please let us know.  Actually if you have any suggestions about how we can improve the newsletter, let us know!

Continue reading the full newsletter now..


Lifehacker interview with Quicksilver Developer on its Future

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This is relevant for our discussions of Find and Run Robot and similar programs.  Definitely worth a read.

Lifehacker: Now that Quicksilver has made the move to open source, what kind of progress can users expect to from the application? Will we be seeing more regular releases?
Nicholas Jitkoff, Quicksilver's Developer: You're not going to like the answers to these questions.
Lifehacker: I can live with that.
Jitkoff: As for as progress goes, yes there will be progress, but in a much more experimental vein. I released two branches, the one that the B50s come from (ed: the Quicksilver that's currently running on your computer), and a newer one that is really unstable.
Lifehacker: So what kind of experimental business is going on with the unstable branch?
Jitkoff: So far? Quicklook has been integrated (which I love).
Lifehacker: See, I like the answer to that question.
Jitkoff: Yes, but I may never distribute that version.
Lifehacker: I don't like that answer.

http://lifehacker.co...ure-of-qs-330548.php


Getting Organized 2007 Programming Challenge - RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

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In order to help encourage some coders who hang out at DC to write some new freeware productivity software, we had a little coding challenge in November as part of our "Getting Organized Experiment."

The results are now online for anyone to download and use for free.

The challenge was:
  • Write a computer program (or web service) which helps people be more productive with their time.
  • Highest honors go to creativity and uniqueness.
  • This must be program that was not released before Nov. 1st, 2007

We received almost a dozen fun entries, including some really interesting and useful ones.  Check them out and please send a thanks to the authors if you like what they've done.



Some cool stuff here including the programs: AnotherOneDone, Evaluweight, HowLong2It, TimerAssist, and more.

<i>And please remember as always, if you would like to see more things like this, it's important that you show the authors you appreciate their work.  Send them a thank you, send them some donation credits (just click the gold coin next to their name), etc.  Sometimes just a pat on the back is all that's needed to make one feel good about their work.</i>

Click here to read more about the new free programs and download them now..


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