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General Software Discussion / A different kind of forum

« on: November 30, 2005, 02:28 PM »

http://getvanilla.com/

Here's an example:
http://lussumo.com/community/

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Living Room / Frappr!

« on: November 25, 2005, 04:04 PM »

Create a map for your group. Share Group Photos
Get others to add themselves. Its easy and fun!

I have just seen it used on an Italian forum / community:
http://www.frappr.com/tevac

Could be a nice thing to create one for DonationCoder.

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Living Room / Steve Jobs presents 3 new iPod models!

« on: November 20, 2005, 10:08 AM »

Directly on the Saturday Night Live! Three new models expected within the year.
I have made a .Torrent for the video (a MOV file, about 3MB), available here:

Link

You have to watch this!

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General Software Discussion / SequoiaView, WinDirStat, etc. - great for HDD cleanups!

« on: November 18, 2005, 04:46 AM »

Forgot that you put some big files somewhere in the HD, and they are still there after months wasting space?
Want to get a quick view of how much your folders weight?

Check SequoiaView:



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Living Room / Tangram game

« on: November 17, 2005, 08:28 AM »

http://www.gieson.co...ojects/games/matter/

Very nice!

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Found Deals and Discounts / UCalc Fast Math Parser 2.0 Pro License giveaway

« on: November 17, 2005, 06:38 AM »

Daniel Corbier is doing an experimental and interesting kind of giveaway for his library.
You get a full license for free if you reach a goal = amount of points, that you can get in various ways - basically spreading the word about the tool.

Aside for the deal, if your are developing something that may be in need of an advanced math parser, be sure to give a look at it.

Here's the link: http://www.ucalc.com...athparser/index.html

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Living Room / Every Playboy Centerfold, 1988-1997

« on: November 15, 2005, 07:16 AM »

Link: click



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Living Room / Google Analytics - Now free!

« on: November 14, 2005, 05:54 AM »

Introducing Google Analytics.
Sophisticated. Easy. Free.

The previously-Urchin website analysis tool it's free starting from today!

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Living Room / Time for a rant - blacklist

« on: November 03, 2005, 05:13 PM »

Horror stories float around all the time about this or that guy that found his IP on the black list of one of the many company that mantains this kind of service. But how stupid can be to ban entire IP blocks "by automated default" with some automathic triggers, when you risk to lock out dozens of people? Often getting an IP out of a black list need days if not weeks!!

I have just tried to fire up the IRC client to have some talk on the #donationcoder channel, and the server on the other side notify me that my IP is blacklisted an so i'm d-lined. What stupid can this be? I'm on a DSL with dynamic IP (like some thousands other people around here), so this kind of thing can block me now, another guy an hour from now, etc. etc.

Bleah!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Free .be domains

« on: November 01, 2005, 07:15 PM »

Seen on Digg.com, pointing here:
http://www.e3interne...-be-domains-for-all/

The registration page is down at the moment, but it should be back soon:

Sorry guys - we are going to have to put this on hold for a little while while we move this site to faster servers. We'll be clearing the back log and should have this up again tomorrow. Thanks Nick - e3

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Found Deals and Discounts / Courier Email - free for a limited time

« on: October 31, 2005, 08:29 PM »

Never used it, so I don't know if it's good or not.
Just seen the deal mentioned in some other place.

http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/courier/

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General Software Discussion / Ta-da List - nice online to-do list

« on: October 31, 2005, 07:02 PM »

Very handy!
Link: http://www.tadalist.com/
Check the QuickTime video to get a look.
It's completely free.

They offer also a more complete / capable project management tool for a montly fee.
Link: http://www.basecamphq.com/

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Living Room / Google Reader

« on: October 07, 2005, 08:02 PM »

Another nice online tool from Google, an RSS reader with a very nice interface.

Link: Reader

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Found Deals and Discounts / Egrid32 PRO discount offer - valid for 7 days

« on: September 26, 2005, 06:42 AM »

Just saw this on the PowerBASIC forum.

Topic: Egrid32 PRO - Second special offer

Egrid32 is a very flexible grid control (as a standard Win32 .DLL) by Elias Montoya.
If you don't know it, I think it's worth a look.
Here's a link: Egrid32 Pro home
The code samples are in PowerBASIC, but it should be not a problem to use them from, say, C/C++. The PowerBASIC syntax to deal with this things is very "Petzold style"!

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Living Room / Any free web counters recommendations?

« on: September 23, 2005, 04:33 PM »

I used the free Nedstat service for nearly two years, and was very satisfied with it.
I had various counters on many of my pages at Mark0's home and it was very handy to check how things were going on.

Few weeks ago, they sold/changed to Webstats4U. Things seems to going on well, but in the last days I started to notice some times some pop up ads when browsing trough my pages. After little tests and searching on the web, it come the confirmation that they have started to inject pop up ads trough the counters links.
Not that I think they didn't have the right to do it, but I simply don't wont to bother visitors with annoying pop up, so I removed them all and cancelled the account.

So, I'm in search for a nice replacement. Any idea / experiences?

Thanks,
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General Software Discussion / TrID file identifier

« on: September 16, 2005, 09:55 AM »

Hi!

I would like to present this tool I coded, hoping that it may prove useful to someone.



TrID is a free tool designed to identify binary files regardeless of names/extensions. Instead, it use a library of XML definitions that points to recurring patterns for each "knowed" formats.

Actually, more than 1.600 file types are supported, as you can see here:
http://mark0.net/soft-trid-deflist.html

You could also easyly build new defs for some file types you are familiar with. Simply point TrIDScan to a bunch of files of a specific type, and it will generate a newtype.trid.xml file. Rename it so something more meaningfull, edit the file to fill some description fileds, and you are done.
More details here:
http://mark0.net/soft-tridscan-e.html

If you send me the new defs, I will add them to the base library, and update the file types page giving you the proper credits.

There are 3 flavours of TrID.

Cmd line version:
http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

GUI (.NET) version:
http://mark0.net/soft-tridnet-e.html

Also, an online/browser version. This one can be used from any PC with a browser and an internet connection.
http://mark0.net/onlinetrid/trid.aspx

Here's a sample output for an OpenOffice document:



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