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Living Room / Call the future

« on: July 19, 2006, 10:06 PM »

Here's a site that will have a computer make a phonecall and read the text you specify with a computerized voice. You could use it as alarm clock, have it wish you happy birthday when no one else will, or ..... well, you figure it out. Check it out!
KPR

http://www.callthefuture.org/

from www.stumbleupon.com

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General Software Discussion / ClocX - Free, attractive, highly configurable clock software

« on: July 16, 2006, 05:15 PM »

I recently discovered a very nice clock program. The program is called ClocX and can be obtained at http://clocx.php5.cz/. It is highly configurable in terms of settings, shape, size, and background images. It has several nice options, including my personal favorite "click through", which allows it to be set to stay on top of other windows but lets you interact with the window beneath it as if the clock was not there. This is the nicest donationware clock program I have ever found and is better than many shareware clock programs.  If you need alarms, however, you'll need to look elsewhere.

KPR

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Living Room / Anyone know any good free font sites

« on: July 04, 2006, 04:00 PM »

Hi all.

I am wondering what sites people are aware of where I could get nice free fonts. Any/all suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks, Ken

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fSekrit / Congratulations on fSekrit

« on: June 10, 2006, 11:35 AM »

f0dder:

Congratulations on your fSekrit utility getting Download of the Day 6/10/06 on Lifehacker.com (http://lifehacker.co...y-fsekrit-178599.php). 

Great work!

KPR

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Best Firewall / Bitdefender 9 Pro Plus- antivirus, firewall, antispam, spyware

« on: June 04, 2006, 08:10 AM »

Does anyone know about Bit Defender 9 Professional Plus? It appears to be a relatively new, fairly comprehensive programs for dealing with today's evils.

Thanks, Ken

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Close the bubble message: Wireless Internet Connection is now connected

« on: May 09, 2006, 10:04 PM »

Hi all.

I generally appreciate the information the OS gives me in bubble messages. The big exception, however, is when my wifi link connects, disconnects, connects, disconnects, etc. The message is something like "Wireless Internet Connection is now connected." I see this message about 15 times/day and I'm sick of it. Each time, it 'patiently waits' for me to close it, not only annoying me, but demanding attention as well.

I would love a program that could close this message, maybe a few (specifyable) seconds after it opens. That way I know I am losing and re-establishing my connection, but I don't have to close the window myself. It might also be nice though if I could sometimes eliminate this window completely, perhaps by making it invisible or closing it before it could be drawn on the screen.

Ideally, this program would be an ahk script so I could learn from the code, though I know that beggers can't be choosers. However, I would be THRILLED to have a program written in ANY language that would do this.

Please let me know if you would like any additional information.
Thanks, KPR