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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY Folk, I can make your icon if you want...

« on: December 18, 2011, 02:16 PM »

I have a few days off for Winter Break, so I'll make (an) icon(s) for someone if they need.  I always want to contribute to the NANYs, but I'm not a programmer.
Here is an example of some icons I made (to be used only with zabkat's xplorer2) http://i.imgur.com/qMzyv.png (If you're a frequenter there you might notice some faces Also note that some of the images are based on existing icons ) 
I also make one for a fellow here last year...  "NetLaunch" I think.
Not the greatest artwork in the world I know, but folks aren't obligated to use a graphic if it doesn't turn out the way they want.

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Find And Run Robot / Pattern scoring Kudos and Questions

« on: December 11, 2011, 11:52 AM »

I've recently discovered the 'Pattern Scoring' capabilities in FARR.  It's made a HUGE difference in the usability of FARR for me.  Extra Kudos, Mouser, for adding the ability to use Modifier Keywords with Pattern Scoring!  I had the problem that there are hundreds of MP3s and Image files all over the place.  Generally, I don't want FARR to find these...  There are tons of them and they clog up the search speed.  So I essentially "turned them off" by making PS rules for score is -99999.  Then made keyword-modified ones to turn them back on.

Very nice!    

Questions though--What is the most efficient way to set up my list of patterns?  
(1) Should the most commonly utilized ones be at the top of the list (in the same way that directories should be)?  Does it even matter with pattern scoring?  Should I have all the keyword-modified rules AFTER the non-modified ones?
(2) I have image files essentially turned off with score is -99999, but I have a keyword "+pic" that makes them +99999.  I couldn't see how to combine these (e.g. Pattern is *.jpg, *.bmp, *.png, *.gif; Score is -99999), instead I had to make separate rules for each file type--all using the same keyword.  Is this the best way to do it?  Or is there a way to combine multiple file types on one rule?  

Many thanks!  

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Find And Run Robot / Plug-ins not showing...

« on: November 06, 2011, 11:13 AM »

It's probably just an id10t error...   But,  shouldn't these plugins (see pic) show up here (see pic again)?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Kudos on the new version...

« on: November 05, 2011, 12:33 PM »

Just wanted to say kudos, Mouser.
I hadn't tinkered with CHS for a couple years.  The latest version is very cool.  Feature-packed without a lot of bloat. 
 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Image capture doesn't work for me

« on: November 05, 2011, 12:28 PM »

I also was having the issue of CHS not "seeing" images that were on the clipboard.  I increased the 'max size' but that didn't help.  Then I assigned a specific folder for the file directory....  Seems to work now. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What special character do you use to have a file sorted at the top?

« on: July 28, 2011, 04:44 PM »

I've used apostrophes in the past
   'MyFile
The "bar" character seems logical
   |MyFile
since (I think) it takes up the least space of any of the character...   

In reality I typically revert to plain old
   1SuperImportant
   2aSomeFile
   2bAnother

I also would avoid anything that might get used as script parts. 
   !  $  * 

If you import stuff into Excel, it's good to avoid any math operators
   -  +  =  *  / 

I think Word uses the tilde to denote temporary backups of open docs
   ~tempMyFile
but I think it is legal to use in Word doc file names.

Actually, though I'm not a programmer, I think the bar might get used to denote lists
    item one | item two | item three
Which is too bad...  I think they're kindof pretty.   

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Living Room / Re: Looking at Cameras

« on: July 19, 2011, 02:31 PM »

I'll give my $0.02 (USD)    even though I can tell from the posts that most of you are more advanced in the subject than I am....  I'm a Fujifilm fan.  I got my first digital camera 6 or 7 years ago.  I chose the FinePix s5000 mostly because of its feature set.  10x Optical, 3 megapixels.  I got it for about $350, which was an okay deal.  I've been real happy with it over the years, but recently the autofocus-assist green light thingy doesn't work and also there seems to be more distortions in the photos.  (Maybe because my helpful nephew took a bunch of pictures of the summer sun for me a while back.)   A year or two ago, my father-in-law gave me a little Olympus T-100 compact.  The pics are not as good as the s5000.  Also, the T-100's power button seems to have broken after a couple months of light use.  Basically, when turned off, the lens doesn’t detract and therefore you can’t put it in your pocket.  I have to take the battery out, and put it back in for it to close.  Anyway…  I’d been looking around for what my replacement will be.  One of the ones I’d had my eye on is the FinePix s4000.  The s4000 came on sale at Costco for $200, so I got it.  It’s pretty nice.  Still trying out the different features…  It is similar to my old s5000.  Has a 30x optical zoom which is nice, even though you practically have to have a tripod to use the full zoom.  14 MP, image stabilization, blink and smile detection.  Macro mode. 
I do have to say, I gave serious thought to investing in a good pocket camera, simply for the reason given by CWuestefeld that a camera isn’t much use if you don’t have it with you…  Ended up with the full-size s4000 because the sale price was pretty good.  I am curious if anyone can comment on the picture quality of a full-size versus a compact of the same price-range.  I noticed some comments above that really small compacts might not be as great.  But for instance what about a $300 full-size verses a $300 compact, of the same mega pixels by the same company???  I do have to say that not having to deal with a lenscap is nice…  Then again, being able to use standard AA batteries is nice too 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« on: June 13, 2011, 11:43 AM »

This Sheena, our other kid.  Spoiled rotten. .... 

-y0himba (July 09, 2009, 11:53 AM)

Is Sheena an Australian Sheppard?  Here is Lucy, our Aussie. 
http://i.imgur.com/cU4qA.jpg
Hmmm...  Apparently I don't know how to post a pic on this forum..  Oh well..
Anyway, Lucy was saved from the pound.  Also a spoiled rotten daughter.   

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Living Room / Re: 8 stupid amazon products with impressively sarcastic reviews

« on: January 16, 2011, 12:38 PM »

A word of warning: Cracked.com can be addictive.

-JavaJones (January 15, 2011, 12:16 AM)

Man that IS addictive...  Like smoking CRACKed!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« on: January 10, 2011, 04:09 PM »

Hey Kamahl,  It turned out great!  I'm glad somebody made you a screencast.  I was thinking about it, but won't be able to.
I cleaned up that gif a little.  Will attach to this post.  The actual file is from DrawPlusX4, wich is proprietary, but if you want I can export is as some type of cad file...   That's all--take care.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« on: January 04, 2011, 03:50 PM »

Hey thanks for the feedback
For proper citation, I got the globe from OpenClipart, and added the shading an transparency/reflection.  The stoplight was built from scratch.
Here you go, if you want you can use this for the webpage, About dialog, or etc...
(got tired of working on it... will make a cleaner version later)
http://imgur.com/0dVi5


(still learning to attach things

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« on: January 03, 2011, 04:56 PM »

Here, icon v2 is better

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« on: January 03, 2011, 03:43 PM »

I could maybe do a couple.  I'm going to tinker around with Kamahl's NetLauncher so I can make a better icon for it anyway...  Might as well do a screencast.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« on: January 02, 2011, 11:48 AM »

How to share an .ico file??
I made Kamahl an icon, but I can't figure out how to send it to him. The PM email form thing has a button to "Attach File (use browse button below)." But there is no browse button!  Also, imgur doesn't allow .ico files...  
What's the best way to handle this?  Thanks...
=======
EDIT: 
Thanks Mouser!  When editing this post, I see the [Choose File] button below.  Hopefully it attached correctly...

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell - Top Priority Requests for 2011

« on: December 31, 2010, 01:32 PM »

Hi Mouser, Thanks for your work on this excellent app..
Request 1:  Let me define what "Old" means.  I.e. any item from this week gets listed as a "new" clipboard item, even if my computer has been restarted...
Request 2:  More control over the quick popup menu, including the hierarchy of nested items...  My perfect popup would be as follows:
===============
New items
-----
Old items
-----
A single sub-menu of everything else.
===============

Thanks for considering this! 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tabbed Plaintext: Good or not-so-good idea?

« on: December 26, 2010, 11:36 AM »

Hey, this sounds pretty cool!  At work I use a singe large txt file that is a list of about 500 clients' contact info, alphabetized.   I always thought it would be nice if I could drill-down into the contents, by initial, in the same way that most contacts databases do...  Sounds like your system would work for that.  I'd humbly recommend allowing multiple rows of tabs....  I like my text editors to be narrow and off to the side of my desktop.  Also, you indicated a separation as being 13 dashes,   maybe a less-restrictive number, such as >30, <10 would be easier... (though the rebel in me does like the #13    )

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General Software Discussion / Re: draw gears

« on: November 02, 2010, 12:49 PM »

Serif's DrawPlus has some "auto shapes" that can be made into gears.  It's shareware, but they give away the older versions of their stuff free.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Sometimes in PC Utilities and other mags and sites, they'll have a slightly newer version for free...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: NetLaunch (Now with GUI!)

« on: September 22, 2010, 05:30 PM »

The NANY newsletter says, "Icon Help Wanted."  What icon-assistance do you need?  -steve

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Google Boomerang / Re: Odd characters ...

« on: May 28, 2010, 09:28 AM »

The "Translated Text" *does* show up as expected, but it's the text en Espanol that I'm interested in...  As mentioned in OP, if I need to communicate with a person who speaks Spanish, TranslatorBoomerang does two things for me, it (1) converts my written word into Spanish, but also (2) it check the validity of the translation by converting it back to English.  I know that if the "back to English" part has a different meaning, then my translated Spanish text probably will not convey my intended message--hence I need to rephrase the original text to be converted.  I've actually used this technique of converting-back-to-English as a way of error checking my verbage for a long long time...  Your TranslatorBoomerang is the ONLY software Iv'e found that does it for me in one step!!

So again, I do want the converted-back-English part, but more importantly, I want the Espanol text for my document that I'm writing....
That's Way I have to get it from the "Debug" tab... 

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Google Boomerang / Re: Odd characters ...

« on: May 27, 2010, 06:19 PM »

i remember seeing odd characters at some point.. can you tell when in the process they start getting introduced?
can you give me an example of a phrase that results in them?

-mouser (May 27, 2010, 03:12 PM)

Hi Mouser, Thanks for the reply.
They seem to happen straight away--first loop.  When viewed on my computer, the (above) sample text shows all the odd characters...  Maybe they aren't showing for other people??  I'll post an actual image:
http://imgur.com/06tMG.png
Oddly, I've found that the Fried Babbelfish app does show the expected Spanish characters...  Maybe FBF is pulling the characters from Google and TB is pulling from my computer (??)  I don't know.  Ideas?

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Google Boomerang / Odd characters ...

« on: May 26, 2010, 04:26 PM »

Is it possible to point TransBoomer to a Spanish dictionary?  I actually use it to communicate with Spanish-speaking parents at my school...  I use it in two ways:  First is to translate English text to Espanish, but also to (at the same time) unsure that it's going to be comprehensible...

The problem is that I get lots of junk characters like
Vinnie Vincent Invasion Baby-O Letras: &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Su un paro cardiaco de dos cañones &lt;br&gt;Ella-demonio, veo a través de tu vestido &lt;br&gt;Un zorro, juguete de amor, ella es un caramelo &lt;br&gt;Poco caliente Strutter, perra salvaje en celo &lt;br&gt;ángel Misericordia, un hijo del vudú &lt;br&gt;Usted dame la fiebre, me estás volviendo loco &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;[Chorus] &lt;br&gt;Baby-O, Baby-O, I &lt;br&gt;Baby-O, Baby-O, I &lt;br&gt;Cariño, estoy ardiendo por ti &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Metálico ángel trabajando &amp;quot;que ejecuta la medianoche &lt;br&gt;Apriete el gatillo, la pistola-me látigo &lt;br&gt;Con pistola de su placer &lt;br&gt;Que te gotea la miel sobre mí &lt;br&gt;Con una pasión tan dispuesta, tan malvado y libre &lt;br&gt;Difunde tu amor y hacer mis sueños realidad &lt;br&gt;Al igual que el fuego salvaje, estoy ardiendo por ti

Presumably this is caused by TrannyBoomer substituting characters (??) Is this a dictionary issue?  or a font issue maybe?  Ideas?  Thanks.
PS "TrannyBoomer" was a typo but I left it because it was funny
-steve

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Living Room / Re: A list of things to know when time-traveling to the past

« on: January 05, 2010, 09:21 AM »

You guys are perverts.

(kidding)

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Living Room / Re: A list of things to know when time-traveling to the past

« on: January 03, 2010, 10:48 AM »

...And the most important thing to remember when traveling back in time, is that if you mention any of this stuff to the wrong person in the town square ... you'll most likely be burned at the stake for heresy

-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2010, 10:29 AM)

LOL..  That's what I was going to post, but you beat me to it!  )

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« on: December 02, 2009, 06:04 PM »

Looks like a dead thread.... But what the heck...
Here's my minimalist config.

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LaunchBar Commander / Some system folders not working...

« on: December 02, 2009, 05:55 PM »

Not sure why...  I'm running 1.109.01 on XP SP3. 
%AllStartMenu% seems to populate correctly, but %ControlPanel% and %InternetHistory%just has [no items to display].
I'll try to attach an image of my settings for the item...
[ Invalid Attachment ]
Any ideas I might try?
Sorry...  Doesn't seem to display my jpg...