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Found Deals and Discounts / MacroExpressPro abandoned, but free apparently.

« on: November 20, 2025, 12:25 PM »

https://www.macros.com/download/

MacroExpressPro is highly capable.  I used it for years before I converted all my scripts over to AutoHotkey.  The only downside is that it doesn't really support regexes.  Otherwise though, it always had the functionality that I needed. 

From the download page:

Insight Software Solutions, Inc. has officially ceased operations.

This website remains online temporarily to allow users to download the installers (both portable and standard versions) and to access permanent, non-expiring license codes.

If you use the software, it’s a good idea to:

Download any versions you need now.
Save the installer and license information locally.
Consider backing up your macros and configuration files, since no future updates or support will be available.

I already have my own code that I purchased a long time ago, put it appears that they are making the app free (see username and code on page).  It's a shame that the project is now abandonware.  It's pretty cool that it's free though.  Get it before they take the page down.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: July 04, 2025, 02:46 PM »

SteamWorld Dig is free on Steam for the next couple of days:

https://store.steamp...2410/SteamWorld_Dig/

-Deozaan (June 23, 2025, 04:25 PM)

Love that game.  I've replayed it many times. 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« on: December 03, 2024, 07:58 AM »

You have my thanks as well.  I always check this thread when it pops up with a new reply. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: BumpTop - last free version BumpTop-2.1-6225.exe

« on: October 11, 2024, 01:39 PM »

Okay, I've had my fill.  LOL. 
Now to install https://www.informat...ers.com/topicscape/# and play with that for a while.

Hmm.. The TopicScape downloader doesn't seem to work.  Oh well.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: BumpTop - last free version BumpTop-2.1-6225.exe

« on: October 11, 2024, 01:24 PM »

.... Unless you really want to flick those icons around all day

-Timmmmaaahh (October 11, 2024, 02:50 AM)

Yep... Mostly it's just a geek toy for my purposes.  Thanks for the link!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: BumpTop - last free version BumpTop-2.1-6225.exe

« on: October 10, 2024, 07:34 AM »

.. BumpTop still looks pretty great! ..

-Timmmmaaahh (October 09, 2024, 02:04 PM)

Do you know if there is a compiled exe (Windows) of the latest? 

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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)

« on: August 06, 2024, 09:26 AM »

I'm not a professional coder.  I just do AHK v2 for fun.  Claude.ai has gotten pretty good.  I use if frequently.  I mostly used ChatGPT before that.  GPT was often pretty good at laying out the logic for how the code should work (assuming I articulated my needs well).  It would make code with so many syntax errors, though, that it was easier to just write the code myself.   Claude is pretty good with syntax too though. 

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General Software Discussion / Any new "List Hotkey" apps?

« on: December 26, 2023, 11:57 AM »

I still have, and occasionally use, the excellent Ethervane ActiveHotkeys
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18189.0
by Tranglos.  It looks like Tranglos hasn't been on the DC forums for 4 years, so I didn't reply to the thread. 

Over the years I've seen a couple of similar apps.  Of course they all suffer from Windows OS limitation of not being able to tell you which app the hotkey is associated with.  Has anyone tried to make a "logger" that would always run in the background, and watch for hotkey presses, then attempt to determine which app is being affected by them?  The app could then save the "assumed associations" to an .ini file and use them to populate a List Hotkeys app like ActiveHotkeys...

Of course antiviruses would probably flag this as a virus(?)  I dunno.  Seems like it might be a worthy project. 

Thoughts?

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: [Pre-Release] Reddit Image Downloader

« on: August 26, 2023, 08:53 AM »

Does anyone know if this still works with the Reddit changes?

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Pledge - OBS Plugin for AutoZoomCrop using machine vision

« on: December 31, 2022, 10:27 AM »

What is OBS?  Is it one of Mouser's apps? 

EDIT:  It must be this:  https://obsproject.com/

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2023: Gradynt (gradient wallpaper generator)

« on: December 31, 2022, 10:19 AM »

Microsoft Defender is giving a false positive for viruses. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 - MouseSpy by KodeZwerg

« on: December 31, 2022, 10:15 AM »

Really cool -- Thanks for sharing! 

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Living Room / Re: Happy New Years Eve

« on: December 31, 2022, 10:11 AM »

Here's to an excellent 2023 !!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2021: RaptureReplica by KodeZwerg

« on: November 10, 2022, 03:02 PM »

Regarding future features:  I was also thinking about multiple shots, but I just tried it, and it already will do multiple shots!  I'm not sure if it matters, but I have an AutoHotkey script with a bunch of hotsrings that is always running in the background, so I assigned Alt+Shift+R to run RaptureReplica.exe.  That is how I "call" RR.  It appears that Windows will run multiple instances of the exe.   Each shot will stay open until I right-click it.  So that's cool.

Other ideas:
-Allow increase/decrease of opacity/transparency via mouse wheel up/down, when hovering over the shot.

-Auto save the last X number of shots in some backupfolder. Auto-name them "Raptured-<date and time>" or something like that. 

 

FYI Short screencast:
https://app.screencast.com/fVgY4QvY940Hx

I didn't record all of both monitors, because that would be too wide to view.  This shows half of my primary monitor (on the left; set at 125%) and half of my external monitor (on the right, set at 100%).  You can see that RR handles the two scales pretty well! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2021: RaptureReplica by KodeZwerg

« on: November 07, 2022, 11:24 AM »

I am so glad that it finally works for multi monitor, even different scaled 
What else needs a fix, i visit now more often back to read an update if needed anything else  (I guess multi monitor was the biggest bug, so happy that its gone, you cant imagine  )
And again, sorry that it needed that long for me 

-KodeZwerg (November 06, 2022, 02:33 PM)

It's all good.  The scaling issue was minor and easy to work around.  I'm not aware of anything else that needs to be fixed.   If you are looking for feature requests...  I can come up with a few.   

If anyone reads this, and they aren't able to download the RaptureReplica zip file with Chrome (like I wasn't), I recommend just using FireFox (which I did). 

-kunkel321 (November 06, 2022, 02:19 PM)

I do not know whats the difference between chrome and firefox, are they saying it is virus?
(I use opera webbrowser and never had problems but ofc nobody needs opera to just download my file... i really do not know how to fix that)
The .exe inside is not compressed/modified, it is like compiler gave it and ofc no malware or virus is attached from me.

-KodeZwerg (November 06, 2022, 02:38 PM)

It's the Norton add-in that is causing trouble.  It blocks every singe donationcoder page.  I'm usually able to click the "proceed anyway" button.  I don't even remember installing the add-in. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2021: RaptureReplica by KodeZwerg

« on: November 06, 2022, 02:19 PM »

Ugh...  Chrome and Norton are being jerks.  I just wrote a reply to this thread and the stupid virus warning screen made me lose the entire message.  Anyway...   I wanted to say thanks for the update KodeZwerg!  It seems to work perfectly!  My setup is that my main laptop monitor is set at 125% and my external monitor is 100%.  I did multiple selections with RaptureReplica, dragging diagonally in all four directions.  I did this on both monitors and it worked perfectly.  I even did a selection across both monitors and it worked. 

If anyone reads this, and they aren't able to download the RaptureReplica zip file with Chrome (like I wasn't), I recommend just using FireFox (which I did). 

Thanks again KZ!  I've been using RR consistently since you first posted it! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: make scan PDF into text searchable PDF

« on: September 22, 2022, 08:57 AM »

My experience with OCRing scanned stuff is that, if there are tables and you want to convert those into Word tables or Excel sheets, then you almost have to have something that uses the ABBYY OCR engine.    Unfortunately, to convert entire PDFs, you need the expensive subscription ware (which I'm not willing to pay for).    I do have the $10 ABBYY Screenshotter.  It only does one page at a time though.

I use PDF-XChange Editor.   I think it might use Tesseract technology.   It's pretty good too.  It messes up tables, but otherwise is good.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Now what's this?

« on: July 10, 2022, 10:20 AM »

Mouser (or Mods) maybe you should just include a link from this NANY 2022 page that points back to this current forum thread...   That way people who land on the page (but aren't aware of this forum thread) won't think that NANY  completely is dead. 

I'm hoping that it will stay alive for at least another year.   That way, I won't feel like I've jinxed the whole darn thing by finally submitting something after being only a consumer for the last decade.  I can't count how many times I've joined or signed up for something just to have it immediately be cancelled or otherwise disappear.   I suppose a lot of people have similar experiences though...  "Regression to the mean?" 

EDIT:  I realize that there is a link on the sidebar of the page, but I think a lot of us have developed a tendency to mentally filter-out sidebars, as well as top and bottom banners.  The eye just goes to the middle of the page.   Which is blank. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Entry -- WayText

« on: June 03, 2022, 04:09 PM »

Moderator can delete this reply if desired.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Entry -- WayText

« on: May 17, 2022, 02:20 PM »

Moderator can delete this reply if desired.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best way to cull old browser bookmarks?

« on: March 28, 2022, 08:50 AM »

Thanks for the replies folks. 

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General Software Discussion / Best way to cull old browser bookmarks?

« on: March 26, 2022, 01:20 PM »

I have hundreds (thousands?) of sites bookmarked in Chrome.   Whenever I go to cull out the ones I don't need anymore, I either get distracted or overwhelmed and give up.   I was thinking that it would be great if there was a tool that would let me delete all the ones that haven't been used in 2 years, or 1 year.   It would be good if I could even just delete all the ones that no longer point to anything valid. 

Do you guys have any tips for this?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Ethervane Echo

« on: February 14, 2022, 01:55 PM »

Should be available at https://www.softpedi...-Echo.shtml#download

-rgdot (February 06, 2022, 01:42 PM)

Thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Ethervane Echo

« on: February 06, 2022, 10:20 AM »

Does anyone know if there is a place to download Ethervane Echo?  Trangulos' site seems to be down.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool to find where a hotkey press goes?

« on: February 06, 2022, 10:11 AM »

I wonder it anyone has tried to make an app that records when a hotkey press happens (or even invokes it), then records any new Windows processes/treads/etc that follow it immediately in time?  Then it could make a "best guess" at what the hotkey was assigned to. 

Of course Windows wouldn't like this because it would look like a virus.