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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.10 - January 1, 2006

« on: January 01, 2007, 07:54 PM »

I personally have this little tool on auto-start and let it stay in my system tray around-the-clock. It really does my a big favor keeping me up-to-date on forum activities when I'm busy coding or working on my Moby thesaurus and cannot check out forum stuff regularly.

Do you think this tool improves your daily DC forum experience?

 

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.05 - December 31, 2006

« on: January 01, 2007, 07:46 PM »

Fantastic!
But it sure seems to be checking frequently - like every 5 to 10 seconds!  I think this should be an option and default to something less frequent maybe?

-mouser (January 01, 2007, 03:28 PM)

Mousie -> update! 

Current ver 1.1.10 (also 1.1.05) checks https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;limit=1 every 30 seconds, and thus bandwidth usage averages 2 - 4 KB per minute. Come on!   

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / DC Forum Post Notifier Lite (a.k.a. Pop-Up Cody) - v1.1.6 - May 21, 2007

« on: December 31, 2006, 03:39 AM »

Alias: Pop-Up Cody
Size:  108kb
Type:  Standalone Executable
License:  Freeware
Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, runs natively on Vista

Download


What does DC Forum Post Notifier Lite do?

DonationCoder Forum Post Notifier Lite is a fairly lightweight utility that

• Alerts you whenever a new post has been made on the forum (DC forum only)
• Keeps you informed about the most recent 10 posts
• Provides handy shortcuts for easy access to a series of forum features

Features

• Standalone and Lightweight
• Prompt notification with minimal network traffic usage
• What You See On the Forum Is Almost What You See Locally (see screenshot #4)
• Fade-in/out and slide-in effect
• Ability to auto-run when windows starts (optional)
• Low bandwidth consumption (around max 2kb per minute)

I personally have this little tool on auto-start and let it stay in my system tray around-the-clock. It really does my a big favor keeping me up-to-date on forum activities when I'm busy coding or working on my Moby thesaurus and cannot check out forum stuff regularly.

Usage Tips

Move mouse cursor to the exact top-left corner of the screen to hide notification window instantly.


Screenshots

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Special Thanks to

Deozaan
for beat-testing this app and offering his valuable advice. 

Mouser
the BOSS 




Version History

v1.1.51

Fixed a bug that affects Vista users with UAC (User Account Control) enabled.

v1.1.5

Changes:

1. Move mouse cursor to the exact top-left corner of the screen to hide notification window instantly.
2. Multiple user options added
3. Displays "Last Checked on" time in tray icon tooltip
4. Notifies connection error

v1.1.41

It would be nice if when you hover over links within a post that you could have a tooltip with the url it leads to.

-app103 (May 15, 2007, 05:18 AM)

Agreed. 

v1.1.40

Changes:

1. Links embedded in posts now open in default browser (instead of IE)

Yuck!

-app103 (April 21, 2007, 07:39 AM)

2. Autorun at startup option now modifies registry settings in CurrentUser only.
3. Use less system resources.

v1.1.39    Adds 'Help Desk' to Extras, minor bug fix
v1.1.30    Embedded slightly modified version of DonationCoder CSS file, allowing the app to display posts almost identically to their forum view.
v1.1.25    Connect to the Internet via proxy/no-proxy based on Internet Explorer settings
v1.1.20    Display pause icon in the tray area when notification is paused
v1.1.15    Added user option to pause notification
v1.1.10    Fixed a minor post time difference bug
v1.1.05    Added "Reply" Button, changed font
v1.1.00    First Release

329

Living Room / Re: Tower Defence: Flash Game of the Day

« on: December 19, 2006, 11:03 AM »

68! yay!

Updated: 69

I gave up!    Highest: 72

330

Living Room / Re: Google Keyword Jealousy!

« on: December 14, 2006, 04:39 AM »

Hilarious! Nice find! 

331

Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« on: December 08, 2006, 04:43 PM »

Sorry Calvin, and thanks for your understanding.      

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« on: December 08, 2006, 04:03 PM »

Sometimes best intentions do not end up with results that satisfy everybody.

When you organize an event/contest, things may go awry, getting out of hand despite all your initial best wishes for the outcome, and you reluctantly end up with a subpar plan b or even plan c - this happens to the best of us. 

Calvin: having read and re-read your posts, I respect your opinion, but I don't think it's at all necessary to make a big federal case out of it.

- Anderson

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« on: December 08, 2006, 03:23 PM »

I'm just glad you aren't stuck with Borland junk anymore now, mouser

-f0dder (December 08, 2006, 03:19 PM)

       

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Mobysaurus / Some tips on using Mobysaurus Thesaurus

« on: December 04, 2006, 06:31 AM »

Shortcut Keys

F1 - Find Synonyms
F2 - Find Synonymous Headwords
F3 - Suggest Headwords
F4 - Find Online
F5 - History and Favorites

ESC - Clear search box

Shift + Enter - Launch and look up word in WordWeb



Minimize/Close To Tray

To place the icon in the tray area, go to "Option", check:

1. Minimize to Tray    and/or
2. Close to Tray

(One or both, depends on your preference)



Work With Text Editors like WordPad or Microsoft Word

If you intend to frequently invoke this thesaurus to look up words in a text editor, try to enable the above-mentioned "minimized to tray", "close to tray" options. This should be more convenient for you and also it saves time.

To look up a word in Microsoft Word, etc., simply select the word by double-clicking on it, and press Mobysaurus Hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + A, by default).

The hotkey won't be effective if you don't have the program running.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses to identify spam source

« on: December 01, 2006, 07:15 AM »

I use SpamGourmet and Dodgeit.  Both are super. http://www.dodgeit.com/

-bearbottoms (December 01, 2006, 07:02 AM)

Welcome to our forum, bearbottoms! One of our members posted about your impressive freeware site yesterday. What a nice collection!

Folks, check out bearbottoms' freeware site. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the longest filename possible in Nero?

« on: November 28, 2006, 01:36 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

UDF

Maximum filename length: 255 bytes
Maximum pathname length:  1023 bytes *

* This restriction might be lifted in newer versions.

Well, if you decide to burn DVD in UDF format instead of ISO. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the longest filename possible in Nero?

« on: November 28, 2006, 01:28 PM »

Go to "ISO" tab when you create a new compilation -

File System:  ISO 9660: 1999

Max. length of file name is 207 characters in this mode.

Also in the "relax restrictions" section, check "allow more than 255 characters in path".

These two combined will allow a max. of 255 + 207 characters for path+filename.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Microsoft Keyboard special keys trigger Screenshot Captor

« on: November 25, 2006, 10:38 PM »

the question is, after you add the hotkey, does it pop up when you hit the keyboard multimedia keys?

-mouser (November 25, 2006, 12:29 AM)

mouser, i tried both exes on my MS ergonomic 4000 keyboard with MS Intellipro 5.5 installed, and they did not pop up anything when I hit multimedia keys.

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Developer's Corner / Writing Good Software Documentation

« on: November 24, 2006, 12:13 AM »

Good documentation may exclude in many cases the need for further forms of technical support. It is, however, not easy to write. One of the reasons why this happens is that it is difficult for shareware authors or other software developers to put themselves into the users ’ shoes, since they are already thoroughly familiar with the application.

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Mobysaurus / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Mobysaurus Thesaurus - 1.0.44 - Nov 23, 2006

« on: November 23, 2006, 11:49 AM »

The next feature to add to moby will be "auto-detection of inflections and spelling variants" 

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Mobysaurus / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Mobysaurus Thesaurus - 1.0.44 - Nov 23, 2006

« on: November 22, 2006, 11:44 PM »

That's a good question! Here's probably a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia....&fulltext=Search

Thanks for looking into it. 

-Cavalcader (November 10, 2006, 10:01 PM)

Cavalcader, check out the new alpha (1.0.44) - Safe Search! 

You can edit the word list and it won't get replaced with each update unless you choose to restore default.

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« on: November 21, 2006, 03:09 AM »

I'm in!

Spoiler

I'll release a brand-new utility to neutralize mouser's one for N.A.N.Y.     Just kidding!

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Living Room / Re: Free Hugs Campaign Video.. Wow.. A Must See..

« on: November 17, 2006, 09:55 AM »

Love it mouser. Def a must see if you havent! 

FREE HUG, YAY!

     

         

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: orbit downloader 1.0-the fastest free download manager.

« on: November 17, 2006, 03:25 AM »

Let's say hello to Daniel, the developer of Orbit!

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=124.msg43592#msg43592

It now appears to me that this malware alarm is just some misunderstandings backed up by sirens from some "super-heuristic" anti-spyware programs.

Looking forward to seeing your next release, Daniel! 

- Anderson

345

Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« on: November 17, 2006, 03:04 AM »

Welcome Daniel!   

346

Living Room / Re: OneLook Reverse Dictionary - Enter concepts and get related words

« on: November 16, 2006, 10:26 AM »

search "mouse catcher" and you'll see... 

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Mobysaurus / Re: Mobysaurus gets a mention at Lockergnome

« on: November 16, 2006, 05:03 AM »

Thanks lanux128, cheers!

6GB/day site downloads really turned me on... and we had LOTs of new members joined the forum yesterday. 

Let's see how things will go in the following coupla days - it's always nice to get mentioned somewhere, for both DC and Moby.

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Mobysaurus / Re: error codes SIC01 and NOD01

« on: November 15, 2006, 11:23 PM »

It turned out that a bug in multi-threading handling in Moby that might cause such troubles. It's my fault and I'm sorry for your inconvenience.

A new version 1.0.41 has been tested and uploaded for download, which should address this bug.

I'll try my best to avoid this from happening again. 

- Anderson

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Mobysaurus / Re: error codes SIC01 and NOD01

« on: November 15, 2006, 09:17 PM »

Thank you tnavaharry,

It seems that some of our users are experiencing this very annoying problem and I'm working as fast as I can to figure it out.

It this v weird coz I don't see anything on when I test it on my computers.    Anyway, it's surely a bug and i'll crush it.

- Anderson

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Living Room / Hot! Awesome photograph by our folk Hamradio!

« on: November 13, 2006, 11:40 PM »

I can't remember the last time I saw a pic this natural and serene. Definitely a great replacement for your current wallpaper if you are not hijacked by those Cody ones. 

It looks so beautiful on my 1280*1024 LCD!      Grab it now!

Courtesy of our member, hamradio, thank you!