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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Headed List Builder

« on: January 16, 2012, 04:09 PM »

I'm not volunteering, but I think this could be done in Word with VBA and could work pretty much as envisioned.  I think Word has some unicode support, but Japanese?

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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!

« on: December 28, 2011, 09:13 PM »

... Firefly TV series .... What feedback do DCF SF fans have about the series?

-IainB (December 28, 2011, 04:13 PM)

It's excellent!  As is the movie Serenity, which wraps up the series.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Media player and system volume

« on: December 22, 2011, 10:51 AM »

Do you run media player classic from a shortcut, or do you run it by double-clicking on media files?

If you do the first, I think an autohotkey script can do the job.

-eleman (December 22, 2011, 04:31 AM)

If you have a working AHK script, you could make it the default opening behavior for double-clicking on .wav files and cover both options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« on: November 13, 2011, 12:23 PM »

I have followed these instructions and deleted the offending files. When FF restarts the extensions are no longer there.

-IainB (November 08, 2011, 08:27 AM)

I recently updated Java to 6.0.29, and then that console and Java Console 6.0.26 were both in my extension list.  I was able to uninstall 6.0.26 using the Firefox context menu for that extension (neither "Uninstall" nor "Disable" were greyed out).

Are we talking about the same thing here?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: close tab with right click in opera

« on: October 01, 2011, 11:31 AM »

instead of having to check for "selected text, when I have put the cursor inside a text input box, when I right click on a graphics file, when I right click on a link, when I right click on a selected text etc", consider using a mouse rocker (hold down right button and click left button or hold down left button and click right button) to send the "close tab" command.

Then it becomes a very short and simple ahk script.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Simple Counter Utility Wanted

« on: September 09, 2011, 06:22 PM »

Counting 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Simple Counter Utility Wanted

« on: September 09, 2011, 04:15 PM »

This is what I ended up with.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Simple Counter Utility Wanted

« on: September 07, 2011, 10:07 PM »

Ah skwire, that's just perfect, exactly what I was looking for.  And the comments are quite helpful.

Thank you!!!   

Andy

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Post New Requests Here / Simple Counter Utility Wanted

« on: September 06, 2011, 03:56 PM »

Would someone please make me a simple Counter Program in AHK?

Two reasons:  I could use the utility and it would also serve well as an example of some of the AHK code I'd like to be more familiar with.  The GUI creation and counting subroutines would save me a lot of trial and error working the code out for myself.

There would be a simple small (~100 pixel tall x ~200 pixels wide) dialog box with:

   - Two buttons: Increment counter by 1, Decrement counter by 1.
   - Counter display (this could even be on one of the buttons)
  
The other feature would be that the counter would automatically increment by 1 each hour on the hour.  I could manually adjust the counter with the buttons for a start value, which would be incremented by 1 on the next hour (at the top of the hour, not an hour after I start).

That's all I'd need, but if you wanted to teach me one other thing, it would be to make the dialog box, buttons, counter, etc in different colors if this can be done in AHK.  You can pick the colors.

Thanks in advance to any takers!

Andy

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General Software Discussion / Re: automatically watermark and combine pdf files

« on: September 02, 2011, 09:14 PM »

A combination of FinePrint and PDFFactory would do that, but as it would take a few clicks it wouldn't be entirely automatic and it would also be a bit pricey.

If you already have a pdf printer all you would need is FinePrint.  You would just keep "printing" to FinePrint (pdf files would be ok) and FinePrint would add the watermark to each page.  You'd then print from FinePrint to your pdf maker.

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Living Room / Re: Firefox fixes the version number problem

« on: August 16, 2011, 11:14 AM »

I always want the opportunity to backup just before any updates, so I would never want anything automatically updated.

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

« on: July 29, 2011, 02:30 PM »

What do you all use to always have a file/folder sort to the bottom?

-AndyM (July 28, 2011, 05:23 PM)

Delete.

If it really has to be de-prioritized that badly...There's most likely no real reason to keep it.

-Stoic Joker (July 29, 2011, 07:01 AM)

I have many toolbars in my taskbar, all of which are minimum width so the contents of the toolbars only display when I cllick on the toolbar button, the >>.  The contents of the toolbar flies out vertically, so the folder or file at the bottom is the first one available.

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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, 05:23 PM »

What do you all use to always have a file/folder sort to the bottom?

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: I need help editing a script

« on: July 10, 2011, 11:04 AM »

Proabably anyplace the script says "Gosub,GUISHOW" is triggering the GUISHOW subroutine, which is probably what displays the dialog box.

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Living Room / Re: Non-tech, off-the-wall topic: Gasoline/Petrol, does grade matter?

« on: June 21, 2011, 06:14 AM »

My dad tells me the fuel economy is the same going uphill pulling a trailer full of cattle, or downhill with no trailer with no cattle, and the wind pushing you down. I have verified the fact that mashing the gas at green lights, versus gentle take-offs, has absolutely no noticeable effect on fuel consumption either

-wreckedcarzz (June 20, 2011, 10:25 PM)

This is simply not correct.

mwb1100's explanation of octane ratings is spot on.

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Living Room / Re: Friends: Brace yourselves for another economic turn.

« on: June 15, 2011, 09:38 PM »

Re the grim prognosis, I fear it's correct.

Re the poop burgers, Soylent Green.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Search a folder of text files for an expression, copy the line of text

« on: June 15, 2011, 09:30 PM »

The Find command will work on multiple files.

At a command prompt, make your Log folder the current directory.

Then type:

     find "Lost connection!" *.* > lc.txt

The lc.txt file would have all the dates from all the files in your Log folder.  Then load the lc.txt file into Excel, which will then have each Lost Connection line in it's own row.  Is it important to delete the "www.google.com" ?

The conditional formatting will be a little tricky because of the way your dates are displayed - not a consistant mm/dd/yyyy, but single and double digits for the month and day.

Edit:  it just occured to me that you might have to put the lc.txt file in a different directory so it isn't processed by the Find command along with the rest of the files (*.*)

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Search a folder of text files for an expression, copy the line of text

« on: June 14, 2011, 10:44 AM »

from a command prompt, the Find command will do what you ask

find "expression" Filename

It will output each line that includes 'expression'.  Standard output is to the monitor, but you can redirect the output to a file:

find "lost connection" LogfileName > OutputFilename

The Output text file will be a list of lines, each one including 'lost connection'.  You can then load this file into a spreadsheet and add your colors (conditional formatting perhaps, odd dates one color, even dates another?)

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Living Room / Re: Should retailers be held accountable for recommendations?

« on: June 05, 2011, 12:11 PM »

curious

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Living Room / Re: 3rd monitor for display purposes

« on: May 26, 2011, 10:56 AM »

That would do it, thanks Ath!

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Living Room / 3rd monitor for display purposes

« on: May 26, 2011, 09:59 AM »

I'm running an XP laptop with a 1920x1200 screen.  I keep the laptop closed on a shelf and have a 24 inch 1920x1200 monitor, a keyboard, and mouse on my desk.  I have an extra identical 24" monitor that I am not currently using.

I have to teach someone some accounting stuff on the computer.  I know I can take the laptop off the shelf and work on that while my student is looking at the 24" monitor.  That would work just fine but would require moving a whole lot of stuff around, and the laptop screen is pretty small.

What I would rather do is split the output to the 24" monitor I am using so the student could be looking at the extra 24" monitor and I wouldn't have to use the laptop screen.  There is only the one video output socket on the laptop or I could just plug the second monitor right in.

So my question is:  can I buy a splitter that would allow me to feed 2 identical monitors?  Is this even possible?

(the student cannot sit on my lap so we can both see the same monitor )

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Living Room / Re: Which is more important: the gadget, or the software and apps that runs it?

« on: May 26, 2011, 09:39 AM »

Since it's a synergistic relationship, my answer would have be a simple "yes."  

-40hz (May 26, 2011, 06:15 AM)

mine too

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Living Room / Re: A real bicycle that you can grow?...from nylon?

« on: May 16, 2011, 08:23 AM »

So next time they'll impregnate the topmost bearing layers with graphite, or use some other material in that area.

What's significant about all this is the nature of the manufacturing process, which, being in an early stage, is evolving.

Next come Replicators (Startrek, not Stargate).  Then Transporters.

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Living Room / Re: A real bicycle that you can grow?...from nylon?

« on: May 14, 2011, 08:56 PM »

I think the manufacturing process is earth shaking.  They're not exaggerating when they call it "game-changing technology" and a "paradigm shift".  The mind boggles.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows equivalent to GNOME's typing break?

« on: May 07, 2011, 02:40 PM »

Pretty sure this has been talked about here.  Try a search for Instant Boss.