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General Software Discussion / Re: Free paint program for kids
« on: June 23, 2005, 12:41 PM »
Have you tried "Project Dogwaffle"?  It's a paint type program for artists.  It isn't really for kids, but my 12 & 14 year old girls use it all the time & love it.

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/index.html

Or "PlantStudio"?

http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com

It's also at www.download.com.  The author's website is in I think German, so unless you know German, I'd use download.com if I were you.  That's what I did.  Again, it's not really a kid's drawing program, but it's a program that allows you to create your own flowers & other garden plants along with whole gardens & scenes.  My kids like it a lot as well.

Regards
Dragonrider

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Living Room / Re: FreeCycle - a cool idea
« on: June 23, 2005, 12:21 PM »
In theory its great.  I've been getting freecycle for my immediate area for the last 3 months.  The problems I see with it are:
1. It is a catch as catch can endeavor.  There is no way to know what is available at any given time.  Let alone
    what is STILL available.
2. If you see something you want that has been offered, & you immediately E-mail the person who has offered it.
    You may never know whether the item(s) have been given to someone else or whether the offer has been
    recinded, or whatever.
3. People don't really read the entries.  So alot of times there are offers & wants for the same type of items & they
    never get together.

I receive the stuff via a digested form in my E-mail.  My experience has been that if you post a desire for something, it is essentially ignored.  I've sent about 4 to 5 E-mails to different people in my area who have offered stuff on freecycle and none of them have gotten back to me either way.  1 of the policies of the freecycle network is that if you offer something on the network & subsequently give it away.  That you put up a notice on the network that this has happened.  This was not done in the 4 or 5 cases that I sent E-mails for.

I've also sent out to freecycle a request for PC's that I as the New Jersey coordinator of the National Federation of the Blind's Adopt Adaptive program.  BTW: the program is a way for people that need adaptive equipment to connect with people who have it & no longer need it & don't want to throw it away.  This request went unanswered, & a week later 2 offers to give away PC's were posted on the B Board.  Those were some of the 1's I sent E-mails to.

So, in THEORY it's a great idea.  In practice, I'm underwhelmed.

Regards
Dragonrider

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Spring-loaded folders!
« on: June 20, 2005, 09:59 AM »
Windoze Exploder (& I don't call it that because of spring loading  :) ) is only spring loaded when it comes to opening folders in the tree part of explorer.  I am on the fence for whether I would like the folders in the main window to be spring loaded or not.  On the 1 hand, I have wanted to move files from a folder into a sub-sub-sub-folder of the folder I'm currently in.  I mark the files, & then without thinking, drag them over the top of the 1st sub-folder & wait for it to spring open.  After a few seconds I smack my head & then move it over top of the treeview & let it expand out.  It's so intuitive to put the dragged files over the folder that's right above the files I want to move & non-intuitive to have to move halfway across the screen to the treeview to do the same conceptual thing.  On the other hand, I'm not very accurate when it comes to placing the cursor.  So I always right click & drag instead of left clicking while holding down the shift/ctrl key.  I right-click & drag because I'm constantly thinking the cursor is over the top of a folder, and it's really over the top of a different 1.  This is partly because I'm sloppy & partly because I don't see all that well.  Nonetheless, spring loading the main window would probably be a bad thing for me.

I will say 1 thing though, 2xExplorer & Xplorer2 both act the same way as well.  In these cases where there are really more than 1 main window, I think spring loading the main windows would be a good thing even considering my sloppy mousing abilities.

Regards
Dragonrider

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Living Room / Re: anyone recommend freeware cd/dvd burning soft?
« on: June 11, 2005, 10:40 PM »
Have you tried Deepburner?

www.deepburner.com

Regards
Dragonrider

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Sample .ipi file
« on: June 11, 2005, 08:26 PM »
Mouser:
If I may ask.  Why are you going thru all the work of creating a config file format  when you could be using an INI file formatted configuration file that would be IMHO more flexible.  Let me illustrate with an INI file that would do
the same as what you describe & yet could also have multiple instances of your file in the same file.


[Applications]
001=UltraEdit - mouser
002=MS Word - dragonrider
003=Powerpoint
004=Project Dogwaffle
005=UltraEdit - dragonrider

; As many applications can go here as desired.  Just don't have any embedded empty lines in any of the sections.
; I know that comments can be inserted into an INI file, but I honestly don't remember how.  I think that any
; lines that are isolated by blank lines from a section are ignored, but I believe that there is an actual comment
; character(s) as well.

[UltraEdit - mouser]
Author=mouser
Date=06/10/2005
Homepage=https://www.donationcoder.com
Application=UltraEdit
FileRegEx=*.ue\.exe||*.ultraedit\.exe
UpdateURL=https://www.donationcoder.com/cheatsheeter/mouser/uedit/uedit.ipi
Hotkeys=UltraEdit - Hotkeys - mouser
Forum=UltraEdit Forum - mouser
Tips=UltraEdit Tips - mouser

[UltraEdit Forum - mouser]
Description=Visit the UltraEdit Online Forum
URL=http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Forums&c=1
Keywords=forum

[UltraEdit Tips - mouser]
Description=A list of tips and tricks for advanced users
URL=file://uedit_tips.html
Keywords=tip||trick

[UltraEdit - Hotkeys - mouser]
Hint=Common HotKeys for UltraEdit
Description=A simple list of hotkeys for UltraEdit, in html format.  Suitable for small window display.
URL=file://uedit_hotkeys.html
Keywords=hotkey||shortcut

[UltraEdit - dragonrider]
Author=dragonrider
Date=06/11/2005
Homepage=http://www.freddiethefreeloader.com
Application=UltraEdit
FileRegEx=*.ue\.exe||*.ultraedit\.exe
UpdateURL=https://www.donationcoder.com/cheatsheeter/mouser/uedit/uedit.ipi
Hotkeys=UltraEdit - Hotkeys - dragonrider
Forum=UltraEdit Forum - dragonrider
Tips=UltraEdit Tips - dragonrider

[MS Word - dragonrider]
Author=dragonrider
[email protected]
version=1.2
Date=06/11/2005
Homepage=http://www.dragonrider.com
Application=Microsoft Word
FileRegEx=*.msword\.exe
UpdateURL=https://www.donationcoder.com/cheatsheeter/dragonrider/msword/msword.ini
Hotkeys=MS Word - Hotkeys - dragonrider
Forum=
Tips=MS Word Tips - dragonrider
Links=MS Word Links - dragonrider

[MS Word Links - dragonrider]
Description=A list of links for extra research and help.
URL=file://msword_links.htm
keywords=links||urls

[MS Word Tips - dragonrider]
Description=A list of tips and tricks for advanced users
URL=file://msword_tips.html
Keywords=tip||trick

[MS Word - Hotkeys - dragonrider]
Hint=Common HotKeys for MS Word
Description=A simple list of hotkeys for MS Word, in html format.  Suitable for small window display.
URL=file://msword_hotkeys.html
Keywords=hotkey||shortcut

The benefits of having an INI file instead of a proprietary format are:
*   many DLLs & function libraries that can handle INI files in many different programming languages.
*   the sections don't have to be in any particular order.
*   more than 1 applications sheets can be described in a single file.
*   more than 1 version of the same application can be described in a single file (see UltraEdit - 1 & 2)
*   because its 1 file instead of many, it is much faster to load the info. from the file into the program.
*   Additional fields can be created on the fly (see "MS Word - dragonrider" section) like version & email.

To update this file with new sheets would just require CheatSheet to:
*   get the files from donationcoder.com
*   if the file set exists already on the local PC, ask to user if they want to overwrite or add it to their
   list of sheets
*   If yes, then overwrite the files with the new ones.
*   If no, then make new names for the files.
*   take the required information out of the application INI files & write it into the main INI file.

As usual, I'm not trying to force this on you.  I'm just suggesting the possible benefits of this approach.

Regards
Dragonrider


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