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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« on: October 04, 2007, 01:08 PM »

It also seems like it would be a little more user friendly if you could toggle the buttons on and off from each button's config as well as the Icon/Form config area.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« on: October 04, 2007, 12:46 PM »

Bug reports!

When I browse for the files for anything, photo, program, icon, etc. it uses <APP_PATH> but then uses the absolute/full path. So for instance, it looks like this:

[Select]

Photo.File=<APP_PATH>\C:\Folder\image.jpg

And then it still tells me the photo can't be found.

And it's not very helpful that I can't manually type/edit the path in those input fields. They're locked and the only way to edit them is through the Browse button, which populates incorrectly with the full path. 

Also, when browsing for a file to run, it defaults to htm or html files, even though the Type is set to Filename. And how come it won't let me save it so I can do incremental testing? There's only Save As, which gets a little annoying since it creates the autorun.inf and copies CAR.exe over every time, asking me if I want to replace them.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« on: October 04, 2007, 11:23 AM »

Hi hamradio, I have a few suggestions:

• Make it so that a photo isn't required. If I want a pure and simple (perhaps ugly) box with the options, that should be my choice.
• Also support for png files would be nice.
• Let me grab icons from .exe files instead of only .ico. Not every app I want to launch/run has a separate .ico file. Most are built right into the .exe.
• Make it easier to find some documentation. I know it's important for the license information to be reviewed, but combining the license and readme files was a bad idea, in my opinion.
• Get an installer and make this some official DC software. Not to take away from your personal achievement of making this cool program, but it would be nice to see it run/install similarly to other great DC apps I find here. Then again, maybe you don't want people to have to deal with the DC Donationware license issues. Still, an installer would be nice so that start menu shortcuts can be made and so that the DCAppdater could automatically grab and install newer versions.

Congrats on this awesome application!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: a batch Zip program

« on: October 04, 2007, 01:34 AM »

Yay! I just downloaded the latest version of WinZip trying to get this feature and found out from this site it was in my old version of WinRar all this time!

What a timesaver!

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Living Room / Twinxoid: Game Giveaway of the Day

« on: October 02, 2007, 09:44 AM »

Twinxoid was featured before on GGotD or maybe on Game Du Jour. I decided to pick it up and try it out,and it was worth it! Many of these free/discounted games are breakout clones, and this one is too, but this one has a new element to it:

You and your opponent play on the same board! Any spaces that are empty for you are blocks for your opponent. So as you break blocks, you create them for your opponent. As your opponent breaks them, block show up in your space. It's worth a try!

http://game.giveaway...heday.com/twinksoid/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker

« on: September 28, 2007, 12:50 AM »

I love ScreenShot Captor! Seriously! I don't have a use for many of the DC Apps, but SCC is constantly one of the first things installed on my system after an upgrade/format.

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Day: Gravity Pods

« on: September 27, 2007, 07:27 PM »

I'm at the last level. Those barriers you see there gradually slide up and down. That's why it looks like my ship went through the wall. The three attractors/repellors on stage already cannot be moved. The 8 underneath it all I can place wherever I want.



This is how I beat level 40:

Spoiler

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Day: Gravity Pods

« on: September 27, 2007, 11:56 AM »

This is fun! I had a fun incident happen on level 5 in which my ship started orbiting the gravity center.



I've made it to level 40 without too much effort, but this one is a doozy! If you haven't gotten far enough to know what all the stuff is on the screen, the stars are attractors, the blue circles are repellors, and the purple thingy is the goal. On this particular level I can move the attractors and repellors to wherever I want. (The two at the bottom I haven't placed yet)

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Living Room / Re: Bored to death and amusing myself with stupid program :)

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:37 AM »

Har! Halloween! Funny!

So you've had that thing installed for nearly 2 years without the license?

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Developer's Corner / Re: [Webfind] How to kill a dragon with various programming languages

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:33 AM »

I like the Videogame Programmer one and the one in the comments about Perl. :-D

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Developer's Corner / Re: Software Copy Protection Questions

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:26 AM »

I highly recommend fSekrit! 

Armadillo?

Oh well, your choice.

-f0dder (September 25, 2007, 03:55 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Flash Game of the Day: Temple Guardian

« on: September 27, 2007, 12:14 AM »

Bird pawprint? Hee hee.  That brings up a question:

Does Cody have large talons? 

when oh when are we going to see a Cody Defense tower game 

Cody made me buy a special mug and he put his little duck bird pawprint on it to give as a gift to the programmer but still no game has emerged.

-mouser (September 26, 2007, 10:20 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Prelude to request for help for distributed pc cycles help from dc community

« on: September 16, 2007, 08:14 PM »

I have at least 2 pcs that can help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite eBay/auction helping software?

« on: September 09, 2007, 12:33 AM »

Oh carp I'm having way too much fun with eBay thanks to this thread.

eBay will nickel and dime me to death. 

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Living Room / Re: ShopCV.com -- A Scam or Legitimate?

« on: September 06, 2007, 04:27 PM »

Oh yeah, duh.

I don't know why I didn't do a search on that site for shopcv.com -- It lists a ton!

http://www.ripoffrep...om&Search=Search

Stay far away! And everyone remind everyone who shares your money not to give out credit card info to telemarketers. My wife had her card out and was reading off some numbers before I heard her and snatched it away. 

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Living Room / Re: ShopCV.com -- A Scam or Legitimate?

« on: September 06, 2007, 04:14 PM »

A rebuttal from a satisfied customer says:

Although their ink prices may be the same, if not sometimes higher, I find it more convenient to shop on-line than stand in line at the store(s).

So, in other words, their ink cartridges, which are advertised at up to 75% off are sometimes more expensive than at retail but at least it's more convenient than standing in line at a store? 

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Living Room / ShopCV.com -- A Scam or Legitimate?

« on: September 06, 2007, 04:02 PM »

My wife just got a call from a telemarketer who told her about a website (http://www.shopcv.com/) saying it offered deals similar to Costco or Sam's Club but with a lifetime membership fee instead of an annual fee.

The telemarketer then asked for a credit card number for a trial period. I checked out the website and tried to find a review about it to see whether or not it was a scam. All I found was this: http://www.ripoffrep...37/ripoff0137315.htm

Considering the business has (supposedly) been around since 2000, and I only see two negative things about it makes me wonder if it isn't as much as a scam as it looks like. Then again, it's been around since 2000 and the only thing I can find on it is other people in other forums asking the same question I am here.

Is it a scam or is it legitimate? Anyone have any good detective skills or know from personal experience about this site?

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Living Room / Re: YouTube Audio Problems

« on: September 02, 2007, 08:24 PM »

Well I found the pattern, but I still don't know what the problem is.

When I'm on YouTube.com the audio works. But when the video is embedded on another website, I don't hear anything. Any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: Acceptable expletives

« on: August 26, 2007, 04:22 PM »

As someone who has never purposely said a "cuss" word in his life, I have decided that my favorite expletive replacer is "Smurf." I was trying explain to jgpaiva (if I recall correctly) how silly the F-Word is because it doesn't really mean anything, and how silly it is that people get offended by it, so to present a hypothetical situation I asked "What if everyone just said a silly word, like 'Smurf' when they wanted to cuss?"

"Smurf" is just such an ambiguous word like the F-Word that I tried to illustrate how any other word in its place completely changed the response you get from saying it.

Not long after that, I was having troubles with Windows Vista and it made me so very mad that for the first time in my life I really felt like saying some terrible things. Now App101 has a "welcome back" quote in the DC IRC channel of me saying the smurf word a lot.

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Living Room / Re: Acceptable expletives

« on: August 26, 2007, 04:12 PM »

It's a good point: since when did Pete become an expletive? I love this explanation!

-Perry Mowbray (August 25, 2007, 07:04 AM)

I hope that explanation was a joke. It tells the exact date and time that phrase was first said but then it says there is no written record of it ever happening? 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development

« on: August 17, 2007, 10:25 PM »

I didn't mention last week's blog entry as I figured that weekly updates of "Yes it's still being worked on, no I don't have anything to show you," were a little pointless.

However it might be interesting to see that Docoto Defense is changing its core technology from 2D TGB to 3D TGE (mentioned as a possibility a couple weeks ago) and the new discussions that is bringing about. With that I've had to take some steps back and learn the 3D engine environment and related issues so again there isn't anything more to show, but yes, it's still being worked on.

As mentioned in this week's blog entry, right now I'm looking at buying the RTS Starter Kit ($50) and the AFX Combo Pack ($75). Since Tower Defense is basically a minimalized RTS, there are some obvious benefits an RTS Kit would have, such as camera control, unit selection/building, and a multiplayer lobby. The AFX technology information page looks like it is mainly for magical spell systems, but really the technology can be adapted for targeting and shooting from the towers and many other nifty things.

Mouser has been kind enough to buy me a Torque Book ($60) which just arrived today and we both agree on the usefulness both the RTS Kit and AFX Combo Pack would have for the game. Unfortunately, being the starving college student I am (except not technically really "starving") these things are a bit pricey. I have just under $15 in DonationCredits and would love for that number to be somewhat higher to make buying these resources more affordable. For anyone with a few extra dollars willing to make a contribution, it would be very much appreciated!

That's it for this time. Thanks everyone!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The software awards scam

« on: August 17, 2007, 09:51 PM »

Already listed by mouser

-PhilB66 (August 17, 2007, 09:45 PM)

Aha! Cool. I didn't see Zaine's name in there and didn't recognize the Anova domain...

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General Software Discussion / Re: The software awards scam

« on: August 17, 2007, 09:36 PM »

What about Zaine's Great Software list? Anyone got a URL for that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Latest MS updates borks WinXP?

« on: August 17, 2007, 02:04 AM »

Windows update did something with my audio drivers about a month ago and it made my PC blue screen a lot. I just removed the drivers since there are no speakers connected to this thing anyway and all is well.

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Living Room / YouTube Audio Problems

« on: August 17, 2007, 01:41 AM »

Sometimes when I'm watching a YouTube video I can't hear any audio. I know there is/should be audio because, for instance, the video I'm trying to watch now is music that has been posted for hundreds/thousands of other people to see.

Are there certain codecs I should get or any ideas why some videos have no audio? Also, I'm not certain that it is limited to just YouTube, but since that is the primary video website, I've definitely noticed it there.