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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Teaser Screenshots

« on: June 16, 2005, 07:37 PM »

cheat sheet authors can easily make hotkey-looking entries:

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Idea for this week: Graphics Viewers

« on: June 16, 2005, 06:54 PM »

faststone looks nice!
i can see there are going to be some good freeware options.

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Image Manager Shootout / Pre-review Discussion for Graphics Viewers Review

« on: June 16, 2005, 05:14 PM »

i was thinking that for the next set of reviews we could do image viewers..
im not an expert on this so i could use a co-reviewer or full guest review.. any takers?

i'm thinking things like: acdsee, compupic, picasa, irfanview, etc.

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Living Room / Adding New Software Authors to the Site

« on: June 16, 2005, 05:12 PM »

I think it might be time to start serious movement to adding new authors to the site.
I'm going to post some detailed thoughts about this in the next day or so and i'd like the considered opinions of you guys/gals, in order to make this idea really work for everyone.  I think it's going to be an exciting time for this site.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Super Early Alpha

« on: June 16, 2005, 12:53 AM »

new version 1.01.06 uploaded

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 16, 2005, 12:53 AM »

here's what i can tell you, and i need to repeat, i am not a fan of official agnitum support team, and im not a salesman for outpost

1) i've been using outpost for several years now, and it has been rock solid stable for me.  ie it never crashes, never bluescreens.
now obviously you've got an issue, and you're not the only one given the forum, but it does mean that in general its not a buggy app, and given the volume of traffic on the forum it shouldnt be surprising to find some others with bluescreens.

2) outpost is actively developed, and win xp sp2 is a big user base, so i would be quite sure they care about making it stable on this platform.

i can only suggest to keep looking to try to figure out what is making it freak out - clearly its a problem not with you but with the app, but maybe you can try to figure out what is triggering it.. some other app may be trying to make a specific connection, or something like that..  actually there was a known bluescreen issue that a friend figured out a cause for.. it had to do with a certain cygwin-compiled app trying to establish a connection.. see if you can figure out what is causing the bluescreen... try disabling all plugins.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Teaser Screenshots

« on: June 15, 2005, 11:54 PM »

adding MyNotes page..

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Teaser Screenshots

« on: June 15, 2005, 09:31 AM »

new caption buttons...

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 15, 2005, 09:30 AM »

i guess ive learned to not expect much from any official tech support of any product, at least when it comes to me experiencing problems.
(like i said i've hade my own small struggles with outpost, but i still love it)

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 15, 2005, 08:24 AM »

ive complained plenty about agnitum support...
but then when you take into consideration the unofficial forum..
i wonder if, relatively speaking, agnitum isnt still better in total support scenario than most others..

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Teaser Screenshots

« on: June 15, 2005, 05:33 AM »

a different theme:

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Teaser Screenshots

« on: June 15, 2005, 05:30 AM »

looking a little better i think; notice that you can use stylesheets and templates to customize exactly how you want it to look, with formatting, fonts, tables, justification, etc.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Super Early Alpha

« on: June 15, 2005, 04:58 AM »

here's a pic with a little better stylesheet and template.

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Cheat Sheeter / what's next

« on: June 15, 2005, 02:53 AM »

there's still tons of work to do, and the appearance of the app may change a bit - haven't figured out how much i like titlebar and other stuff, but what i'd really like to do next is
1) make a css stylesheet with a reasonable set of tags.
2) make some real sample hotkey pages and cheat sheets, etc. for some real apps. common ones.
maybe mozilla, internet explorer, thebat, ultraedit,
and some system system howto's.
3) maybe add some clipart that will help the construction of such things, ie key images for all the keys.
4) write instructions for how to make sets of sheets.

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 15, 2005, 01:53 AM »

i wouldnt count on the official agnitum support system to help much - they have a pretty bad track record.
now the forums are another story, and can be very helpfull.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Super Early Alpha

« on: June 15, 2005, 12:24 AM »

i should say..  it may not look like its doing much, but its actually doing quite a bit behind the scenes..
you can also dock the window to the side of the screen, and as you use apps it will start to add buttons when it sees you using an app it knows how to help you with.

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 15, 2005, 12:15 AM »

i use non default install dir also, and also on D not C, and not had any trouble.

but SP2 i don't have, as it did me bad in other ways.

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Cheat Sheeter / Super Early Alpha

« on: June 15, 2005, 12:14 AM »

www.donationcoder.com/MemberDownloads/CheatSheeter.zip

this has no help, no instructions, and the info pages dont exist.. so its not usable per se.
but it does demonstrate basic functionality and is completely usable for anyone who is brave and wants to try to create some cheat sheets.

just follow the model of the ultra edit infopages, i'm available for help.

there are 2 sample css files, but these will NOT be the final css models - we need to come up with a set of divs and tags that all info pages should use.

anyway - this download is useless for anyone but real masochists that are bored.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GrafxShop

« on: June 14, 2005, 09:52 PM »

i don't know how good this program is, but zero didn't mention that the author recently moved it from shareware to freeware; remember - if you find a freeware you like, send the author an email and tell him/her how much you appreciate their giving their soft to public.

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Screenshot Captor / Now Available for Public Download

« on: June 14, 2005, 03:00 PM »

Screenshot Captor has now moved from member-only download status to open public download.
https://www.donation...hotcaptor/index.html

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« on: June 14, 2005, 02:08 PM »

have you checked the outpost forum yet?
sp2 has been out for a long time, there is no way that outpost isn't designed to work with it, so something else must be at issue.

have you tried clean uninstall and reinstall?

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General Review Discussion / Re: What categories should we review next?

« on: June 14, 2005, 01:16 PM »

i do think we need to make a stronger effort here to identify good freeware apps, and authors who are asking for donations.  i think it's important to lend some support for other donation-based authors.

any ideas for how we could do this in ways other than full reviews?

i suggest we set up a special page for Freeware/Donationware authors that we like - basically expanding our idea of a links section for our favorite freeware authors (ie this won't be a page for singleton programs, but rather for authors who have devoted considerable effort to making freeware+donationware programs, and who don't sell commercial software).

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Mircryption / Re: Invalid Address specified to RtlFreeHeap( 00820000, 001596D8 )

« on: June 13, 2005, 09:52 PM »

thx.. seems this was a bug, drgreen and i found the problem, it was in simpleexports.cpp,
the code was calling free(XXX) when it should have been calling delete [] XXX.

(free what you alloc, delete what you new)!

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Cheat Sheeter / fyi - bare functionality working

« on: June 13, 2005, 11:42 AM »

fyi - i've just gotten basic functionality to work.. it will auto load all cheat sheet sets it finds, sit in tray, activate on hotkey or system tray click, auto detect current app, locate all cheat sheets relevant to that app, show a list of these cheat sheets and let you view any of them.  will dock to sides of screens, etc.  resources can be local web pages, audio, video, etc., or even remote web pages.

user can choose custom css style sheets to completely customize the look and feel of cheat sheets.

there's tons more work to do, but basic functionality is now working.

if there are any css experts, i could use some help forumalating some nice clean css stylesheets that would be suited to display the same information in different ways.

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Living Room / No Review This Week

« on: June 13, 2005, 11:35 AM »

I hope everyone will excuse there being no review this week; I've been working overtime on the newest program and review responsibilities took a back seat.