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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Latest Version - FlipSuite (Flipbook Printer Suite) v2.01.01 - March 30, 2011

« on: March 31, 2011, 06:19 PM »

Is this a (free) trial software?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 31, 2011, 05:47 PM »

sWeather Website still shows v1.0.4 - 2011-03-14. The Empire needs an assistant! 

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 31, 2011, 03:38 AM »

@skwire

Thank you for v1.0.6. Works as advertised 

(BTW, some of the images sub-folders contain Thumbs.db files)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: March 31, 2011, 03:20 AM »

Do you get paid the same for recommending any of these softwares or does it depend on the advertiser's bid?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: March 30, 2011, 11:07 PM »

@Renegade

Is there a list of participating 'Advertisers' somewhere? I could not find one at http://www.opencandy.com/.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« on: March 30, 2011, 05:43 PM »

@Stoic Joker

I know it was asked before but, is there going to be a portable version of T-Clock?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] Text Filter - portable, search-as-you-type text file viewer

« on: March 29, 2011, 01:25 AM »

There were no updates to the program since November last year. The only things that change every couple of days are the version number and date. The installer had this crap for a long time

(you can still get the portable version from http://www.musetips....tFilter_Portable.zip)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Pre-launch of Super Simple

« on: March 25, 2011, 11:52 PM »

BTW - How did you extract the setup file? I tried quickly with Universal Extractor, but it threw an error. I gave up at that point.

-Renegade (March 25, 2011, 11:30 PM)

You need to keep Universal Extractor elements up-to-date. In this case, download the latest Inno Setup Unpacker from  http://sourceforge.n...nounp/files/innounp/ to replace (update) the one in the Universal Extractor 'bin' folder.

There are a few others, like UPX, TrID, 7-Zip, etc. that need to be updated.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Pre-launch of Super Simple

« on: March 25, 2011, 11:11 PM »

looks "Super Simple" alright! will there be a super simple non-installer version be available for download?

-lanux128 (March 25, 2011, 02:43 AM)

Unfortunately no.

First reason, the deployment looks like this:

AssemblyLoader4x86.dll
Camera.ico
client.wyc
msvcp100.dll
msvcr100.dll
Photo Resizer.chm
PhotoResizer.exe
unins000.dat
unins000.exe
Uninstall.ico
wyUpdate.exe

Now, you could download the installer then extract it with something like Universal Extractor (checked - doesn't work -- the installer is signed so UE can't extract it), and you'd have that, and it would run, but you wouldn't get the registry entries for the Windows Explorer integration or any of the shortcuts. I'll be explaining what the deployment files are in future blog posts.

Second reason, having a second deployment would require too much explanation and complicate things too much. The entire idea is to simplify things as much as possible for the target audience so as not to confuse them. Multiple deployment options (other than EXE vs. ZIP) requires having additional explanations which clutter up the page, which is something I'm trying to avoid.

-Renegade (March 25, 2011, 09:45 PM)

I sucessfully managed to uniextract the installer. I have got the same set of files in Photo-Resizer-Setup\{app} folder as in your deployment list above. Beautiful icon, btw.

Maybe you want to tell your users that it requires .net 4.0 to run and that the installer will DL and install it on their system if not present.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad

« on: March 24, 2011, 11:04 PM »

@tannim

You need to activate the 'Sleep Mode'.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 22, 2011, 06:37 PM »

I'm really not liking the Age column being displayed but I don't mind having that info.  How about I just show the highlighted person's age in another section on the statusbar instead?

-skwire (March 22, 2011, 12:54 PM)

+1

That or a tooltip maybe? Display age info, days left, and notes per name (if that's implemented) when hovering over a name.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 22, 2011, 05:37 AM »

I'd also vote to keep it simple, and confine the 'days left' feature to only show days until the next birthday(s) ahead (name(s) included), somewhere in the statusbar or toolbar area.

-Ath (March 22, 2011, 05:10 AM)

+1

That's a nice idea, Ath. Hope it's doeable.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Extracting/scraping text from within programs and games

« on: March 21, 2011, 11:54 PM »

Maybe TextGrabber then?

Also try extracting the text with JOCR or rOCR

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Extracting/scraping text from within programs and games

« on: March 21, 2011, 10:19 PM »

Give Control Content Saver a try. Other options... WinDowzer (Website in Russian but the application interface is English) and BinText

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 21, 2011, 07:27 PM »

I'm trying to avoid adding more columns since they're such small listviews to begin with.   

-skwire (March 21, 2011, 06:57 PM)

Well, I would rather have another small column and have the 'Notes' window at the bottom of the of the app or not integrated at all (pop up, YaY!). I think 'days left' is very useful for someone (like myself) who likes to do things at the very last minute  .

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 21, 2011, 06:54 PM »

A minor request (I hope)... when clicking on the 'Full Forecast' link (from the main Window or the 'Expanded View' one), it takes you to the 'Forecast' page for your location but the unit is Fahrenheit. To see the forecast in Celsius requires another click 

Could you make sWeather adjust the link depending on the temperature unit?

Thanks.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 21, 2011, 06:35 PM »

Excellent updates, thanks.

Another suggestion... add 'days left' column to quicly see how many days are left before an upcoming birthday.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 19, 2011, 11:46 PM »

What happens to the main application when the popup window gets focus? Does it stay on top?

Also, could you offer the option to add background image to both the Birthdays app and the notes window?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 18, 2011, 11:44 PM »

@skwire

The generic notepad-like method to keep notes would work for me. Thanks.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« on: March 18, 2011, 11:58 AM »

Excellent little helper. Kudos to grandma Marlene. Love the icons. Wish they were pop out cake style icons, though 

A request (or two)...

1. add to the right-click menu a check/uncheck all just for a specific month.
2. would love to add a comment/note by double clicking on a particular birthday. Is that possible?

Cheers,

Phil

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: March 17, 2011, 06:54 PM »

mahesh2k, you devil.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automatic Updater

« on: March 10, 2011, 06:35 PM »

AutoUpdater, Open Candy... a sure recipe to stay away from your software.

-PhilB66 (March 10, 2011, 01:46 AM)

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-Renegade (March 10, 2011, 02:11 AM)

Shut up then!

I am not going to go down this path with you, Renegade. You seem to be annoyed at anything and anyone that does not think like or hold the same views as you do.

Your initial post was (intentionally, maybe) vague. I think you were hoping to get the kind of response that would give you a chance at another rant. Well than, I feel blessed for being part of a process that helped you release. Anyways, 'Automatic Updater' and 'Automatic Version Check' is not the same thing (both not welcome,IMO).

It should be a user's choice whether a software connects to the Internet every run.
(I do not have a funny video to attach here, sorry.  )

Bye.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automatic Updater

« on: March 10, 2011, 01:46 AM »

AutoUpdater, Open Candy... a sure recipe to stay away from your software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: March 09, 2011, 05:32 PM »

Just out of curiosity: are you going to state right up front on your download and product info pages that it contains OpenCandy, identify it as an adware application, and say that if you don't want to install it you'll need to explicitly tell it not to? and that tracking software may remain on their machine even if they later "uninstall" it.

Or are you going to let them find out about it after they download and start installing like it seems everybody who is including it does?

-40hz (March 08, 2011, 08:11 AM)

Well 40hz, I didn't see you warn me (us?) that the article you linked to was on a page
a) full of ads
b) which used at least 1 type of tracking mechanism
c) left behind files on my PC (numerous cookies, at least two of which were for tracking my browsing habits) even after I browsed away from the page.

That article, was every bit as evil as people seem to claim OC is.

-Eóin (March 09, 2011, 03:44 PM)

Funny. That didn't happen to me. I have a cookie and ad blocker installed on my machine.

But apparently this discussion is getting you upset. So tell you what. Let's just forget it. Ok?

-----

P.S. Perhaps I didn't warn you because I didn't know? It isn't my webpage. Which is a bit different than somebody who signs on with OC and does know what it does. Or at least I assume they would before they started deploying it.

-40hz (March 09, 2011, 04:01 PM)

That's app's blog you linked to.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 08, 2011, 05:12 PM »

Does not work with other (non-US) locations. I tried Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Budapest, and Tokyo.

-PhilB66 (March 07, 2011, 06:09 PM)

Works fine for me with the one you provided via PM.  Do you not have a default browser set?

-skwire (March 07, 2011, 08:08 PM)

You are correct. I use a few portable browsers, none set as a default.