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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: July 02, 2014, 04:04 PM »

Looks like a nice couple of blog posts introducing Vim:

http://benmccormick....-in-2014-the-basics/
http://benmccormick....014-vim-as-language/

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General Software Discussion / WinPatrol has a new developer

« on: July 01, 2014, 03:40 PM »

Not sure if this has been posted already, but it appears WinPatrol (which often gets recommended here) will continue life with a new developer. The post appears to promise lifetime licenses will be honored:

http://billpstudios....l-generation-ii.html

http://www.ruiware.com/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 27, 2014, 03:55 PM »

@Jibz - I have made some adjustments to the icon, please check again.

-c.gingerich (June 27, 2014, 07:15 AM)

Thanks for looking into this, but I am afraid this was probably worse than before -- now both the taskbar and the app icons look a bit strange:

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: June 27, 2014, 03:05 AM »

Nice looking Vim plug-in resource (via HN):

http://vimawesome.com/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 27, 2014, 02:13 AM »

@Jibz - Do you mean the font of the notes? The icon on my system is smooth and looks fine, odd... I was thinking about changing the icon anyway.

-c.gingerich (June 26, 2014, 03:17 PM)

I mean the font of the text the user is writing in the notes, yes.

The icon for the application in explorer is fine, the icon in the upper left corner of the app is fine as well, but the app in the task bar when it is running is a scaled up version of the 16x16 icon instead of the 32x32 icon. Here is a screenshot with the explorer, app, and taskbar icon for comparison again:



I've seen things like this happen before, and it's usually because Windows loads the first icon from the executable and uses that for everything, if it is not instructed to load the appropriate sizes (usually a question of doing multiple LoadImage calls and filling in both hIcon and hIconSm in WNDCLASSEX).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 26, 2014, 08:00 AM »

Would it be useful with an option to change the font used?

Even though the small and large icons both look good, the one Windows uses in the taskbar (think it's 32x32) is pixelated here:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher Becomes a Free Software Program!

« on: June 26, 2014, 04:21 AM »

I'll particularly be interested in seeing if the iOS version is pretty good. I don't do much browsing on my phone because there's no ad____ stuff I know of for Safari and I haven't tried too hard to scour for an obscure browser that might have ad blocking in it.

But people are all about the apps these days, and the rash is free versions with ads, to tempt you into the paid versions without them. It would be fascinating if AdMuncher could intercept that "Apple Ad" serving engine or whatever it is called.

-TaoPhoenix (June 26, 2014, 04:02 AM)

There is probably some TOS that prohibits apps from blocking advertisement, like on android.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher Becomes a Free Software Program!

« on: June 26, 2014, 01:28 AM »

That is quite surprising. I can imagine it must be very hard to compete with the free browser plug-in solutions, which have the added benefit of being able to filter https. But still, surprising to go to the other extreme. I hope he can keep it clean from crapware.

On a side note, when reading the title of this thread I considered for a second if "Free Software Program" meant free or GPL. I am slightly worried to find the meaning of the word "free" has become ambiguous to me.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 25, 2014, 11:38 AM »

Update v2.0.0.4 - http://note5.pen.io

- Fixed the Color Theme editor bug
- If no panel is opened, the switch hotkey now opens one
- Ctrl+1,2,3,4,5 opens the corresponding panel

Please let me know of any more issues or any comments, thanks!

-c.gingerich (June 25, 2014, 10:05 AM)

Great .

Just tried running the theme editor, it gives a runtime error 14 at line 163 (in the same way as the main app).

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Magrunner FREE on GOG for 24 hours! (June 18, 2014)

« on: June 25, 2014, 11:26 AM »

I think there was perhaps a bit too much flash in their flash sale. The free offers were on for such a short time that I didn't manage to pick any of them up.

Edit: reading the previous posts after posting, this should just have been a +1 instead .

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 25, 2014, 12:49 AM »

Anyone get a chance to test this version? Any issues/comments?

-c.gingerich (June 24, 2014, 07:46 PM)

Thanks for adding the option to configure the next note shortcut .

Could you make it so pressing the next/previous note shortcut opens the first/last note when no note is currently open? This would give a way to open the notes from the keyboard only when running the program.

Also, perhaps a way to directly open a specific note? Perhaps Ctrl-1-5 to open note 1 to 5 respectively.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: June 22, 2014, 11:19 AM »

Some interesting criticism of Vim in Just Use Sublime Text (and HN discussion).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 22, 2014, 09:23 AM »

I'm going to keep the arrows, but I'll allow the changing of the modifier (Ctrl, Alt, Shift). Will that work for everyone?

-c.gingerich (June 22, 2014, 09:03 AM)

Shift+arrow keys is used to select text. Ctrl+Shift+arrow keys to extend selection by word. Check Guidelines for Keyboard UI Design.

Alt-left/right might be a viable option, it's used for forward/back in history. Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn is perhaps better, it's usually used to change to the next/previous tab.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 22, 2014, 08:06 AM »

@Jibz - I think I found the issue. Please download [v2.0.0.2] and try again. http://note5.pen.io

-c.gingerich (June 22, 2014, 07:54 AM)

Works now, thanks .

I would like to add my support for using something other than ctrl-left/right to switch note, like cschw says I believe it's a standard way of navigating back/foward a word in text.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 22, 2014, 06:12 AM »

Downloaded v2.0.0.1, and I get Run time error 14 at line 228 .

It's quite possible that something on my system conflicts with it, just not sure what it could be.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 22, 2014, 02:57 AM »

@Jibz - What version do you have? What were you doing when you got the error?

-c.gingerich (June 20, 2014, 07:18 AM)

It says 2.0.0.0. I double-click the program to run it, and it opens the main window and then a dialog with the error message appears. Pressing OK closes the program. I will try the current version when the website works again from here.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« on: June 20, 2014, 02:20 AM »

I get  a run time error 14 at line 178 when trying to run it on Win7 64-bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gitbook.io

« on: June 18, 2014, 01:40 AM »

That looks really nice .

I just realized that Rust by Example was generated by GitBook.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tizen OS declared 'dead in the water'

« on: June 16, 2014, 04:45 AM »

I think it's going to be tough for them. Having a (potentially) superior product, or being backed by a few big players is no guarantee you will have a chance against something that is already out there and works, or even just something cheaper or easier (think of VHS). It sounds like some carriers are backing away from Tizen as well.

If they release a phone that only supports their own appstore (which is probably a large part of what they really want), I think people will likely shy away from it. I don't know anyone who likes the special Samsung appstore on their phones, and the annoying packaged apps that you can't get rid of.

Firefox OS probably has as good a chance right now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Loss-Proof Text Editor

« on: June 15, 2014, 02:03 AM »

For instance, there is a plug-in for Notepad++ that allows you to auto-save on a fixed timer.

-Jibz (June 13, 2014, 05:26 AM)

That plug-in is no longer needed as Notepad++ now has built-in 'snapshot' functionality that will save a file every x number of seconds.

-Innuendo (June 14, 2014, 06:15 PM)

Nice, I must admit I haven't used Notepad++ in a couple of years, but that's great .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Loss-Proof Text Editor

« on: June 13, 2014, 05:26 AM »

I don't know of any editors that commit every single keystroke at once, I think this could be a problem performance-wise.

There are many that are able to auto-save at selected intervals. For instance, there is a plug-in for Notepad++ that allows you to auto-save on a fixed timer. And Vim lets you choose to write changes to a swap file after N number of edits.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend less known macro apps and text expanders

« on: June 08, 2014, 06:58 AM »

Doesn't look like Text Accelerator was mentioned. I haven't tried it, but it appears to be written by the guy who makes True Launch Bar.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: XYplorer lifetime license PRO 50% off

« on: June 07, 2014, 05:33 PM »

So the bottom line is that with XY configured to show 64-bit shell extensions, it's functionally equivalent to a 64-bit file manager as far as I know.  Doing a ton of work to make it a true 64-bit application would be a compete waste of effort for no gain other than to be able to say "XY is a 64-bit app".  

And to waste Don's efforts on that would be a shame.

-mwb1100 (June 07, 2014, 05:13 PM)

As far as I know XY is written in VB6, which means it won't be 64-bit or multi-threaded. But as long as it works for people, and Microsoft continues to support running VB6 apps (which they do at least for the lifetime of Windows 8 ), there should be little problems.

At some point WoW64 will probably be phased out (when we are all on 128-bit processors), just like WOW was removed from 64-bit Windows, but that's further into the future, so as long as you don't need a file manager on something like WinPE 64-bit, that's not a real concern right now either.

Personally, I think the lack of multi-threading is a lot worse than being 32-bit, if you want to worry about something.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Long time members with over 50 posts, report for disbursement duty

« on: June 07, 2014, 06:50 AM »

Sounds like fun, I'm in .

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General Software Discussion / Re: The AVE

« on: June 07, 2014, 03:35 AM »

If you don't mind, I'd like to once again mention my favorite color scheme, Solarized .

It has what I feel is a very pleasant relationship between colors. The light theme is easy to read in daylight here, and the dark theme is comfortable at night. The amazing thing is that both themes consist of the same sixteen colors, with only the monotones swapped.