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Mouser's Zone / IDEA - Startbar Organizer

« on: December 13, 2006, 09:24 AM »

I work with some people who like organization, myself included. There are several applications that we have to run each day and we get used to where they sit on the Startbar. Is there a way to create a program that would allow you to hold down a mouse button, just like moving a file and re-arranging your Startbar applications?

The reason I ask: As you all know, applications freeze up or need to restart. This would be nice to have if that happened so you could just put it right back where you wanted it on your Startbar.

Let me know. 

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Living Room / WhatPulse...

« on: November 08, 2006, 09:58 PM »

Who has the whatpulse on their signature? Also how can I join the DC team you are on?

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Living Room / Re: Ms Dewey: the search engine with a face & personality

« on: October 20, 2006, 08:23 AM »

EDIT: she refuses to load here, IE as well as FF. Stops loading at ~60%.

-f0dder (October 20, 2006, 08:05 AM)

Worked fine for me f0dder... I use Firefox. But I agree, I prefer to keep using google or others... I don't need to wait for my results.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Physics Games Website

« on: October 20, 2006, 08:04 AM »

Have you ever seen the Freefall? It's pretty.... odd... is a good word. I think they should have done some research on the limits of the human body before releasing this one...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Internet Explorer 7.0 Final is out

« on: October 20, 2006, 07:58 AM »

Good 'ole Microsquish... building software that goes against it's own os. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: New Winzip will open rar archives

« on: October 20, 2006, 07:53 AM »

I always change the extentions from .zip to .rar, I have yet to see any problems come from this.
I saved 15% by switching to WinRAR.   

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Living Room / Re: 404 - Page Not Found

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:04 PM »

Nice one App! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Internet Explorer 7.0 Final is out

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:00 PM »

Sorry, Firefox is still the best, imho. IE7 looks like they are getting closer to copying Mozilla.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with Google Talk!

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:07 PM »

I couldn' t agree more. I don't like all the extra stuff clutering up my IMing... I like the clean Gtalk that lets me send files and call people. Gtalk does what it needs to do, imho, nothing more, and nothing less.

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Living Room / Re: MouserMon - a silly tool that lets you know when the Boss is/not on the foru

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:02 PM »

At risk of making it more useful, what if you made it possible to add a list of friends to it, monitoring all my buddies via it.  Maybe even list all online users

-allen (October 18, 2006, 07:58 PM)

Exactly what I was going to say! Word for word!

-Deozaan (October 19, 2006, 02:26 PM)

Dito.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 18, 2006, 11:04 PM »

Defending the castle would have the benefits of growth. If anyone played Utopia on the SNES, there were places where food was processed. I kind of see the same idea behind fortifying the castle. It could be like sending food to the troops, giving moral, or like in Civ, if your nation was destroyed, you had to settle a new town before too many rounds or you would disband, not seeing a purpose to fight for a nation that has no future. I'm out of time but I will revisit this for a better explanation. Thanks for the links and point of views.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 18, 2006, 02:03 PM »

Well spoken, I can see that some of the hack and slashers may not want to hang back and build the kingdom back up while the architects of the group may want to do just that, I am thinking more in the Multiplayer setting of course, and that would be a major flaw in a single player mode, unless you were able to specify beforehand the gameplay type you preferred and were given the means to perform the opposite of your choice. So just as you said, this is something I have thougth of. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else checking out FireFox 2.0 rc2?

« on: October 18, 2006, 12:11 PM »

I havent been using FF for a while but installed 2
It looks a lot better than the old FF "out of the box"
but
this thing of not showing all open tabs,
& then, when you open new tab it goes to the end of the queue (if you want it to open in background) & you gotta search for it,

-tomos (October 18, 2006, 11:58 AM)

You can change where you want your tabs to open in your settings ( Tools = Options = Tabs ) Check it out. 

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Living Room / Re: MouserMon - a silly tool that lets you know when the Boss is/not on the forum

« on: October 18, 2006, 11:59 AM »

One can only dream of being monitored 24/7 like that... Go mouser!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 18, 2006, 11:57 AM »

Mizraim, sounds like Civilization.

-JavaJones (October 15, 2006, 05:44 PM)

I was thinking the same thing when I started to discribe the idea, however I wanted to get more into the fighting aspect, "the old clang you're dead, clang I'm dead lose a troop from Civ" isn't what I wanted at all. Great game though.

I wanted more of a Diablo 2 / Titan Quest type fighting game style, maybe even more. I still have a lot to learn about coding so I will have to work with what I have.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else checking out FireFox 2.0 rc2?

« on: October 18, 2006, 11:40 AM »

My only complaint is the close button on each of the tabs... I liked the old version where you could close them all the way on the right, use your mousewheel to scroll between them and you're done. Rather now you have to go to the tab and kill it. But this is coming from a Keyboard enthusiast and a mouse minimalist. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 13, 2006, 05:50 PM »

I have been thinking about a game recently, and under the ideas posted on here realized that I could use some of the ideas on here to start the beginning of my game. I can't share all of it because there is still a lot to be decided, but basically I want to create a world where everything on it is interactable in one way or another. We could collect the rocks' like JavaJones idea to build castles, weapons etc... and we could take Deozaan's, idea of grow up to store energy for various things and farm food for our people who harvest the materials to build. I think you may see where this is going. Things would eventually get better, stronger, and faster to find and produce and soon you would have a thriving civilization... then the other work begins... Exploration. You explore to find another civilization and then begins the wars and domination factor. We tie all this into a RPG type prehistoric setting, throw in the occasional monster attack (the giant Cody monster) and you need to develop ways to defend yourself and so on.

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Living Room / Re: Whats the best OS?

« on: October 13, 2006, 09:54 AM »

SUSE! I don't have that much experience using it, but several of my friends use it on their laptops and I agree with them that it is the best out-of-a-box OS avaliable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone else checking out FireFox 2.0 rc2?

« on: October 13, 2006, 09:49 AM »

I upgraded because one of my favorite themes tried to update when I checked on the update button and uninstalled when it said it was found, tried to install, then realized it was not compitable with 1.5.*...
So far I really can't complain about anything. I think it's only getting better and easier in all my internet uses.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?

« on: October 06, 2006, 05:29 PM »

Is there a way (if so please include a walkthrough) to schedual a daily defragger?

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Living Room / Re: Blog Article - Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet

« on: October 06, 2006, 03:31 PM »

So, you get the inside look at local bands and thier music before they become big and sell out? 

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Living Room / Re: Gateway - Control a Robot in Today's Very Cool Flash Game of the Day

« on: October 06, 2006, 03:28 PM »

See... Cody coulda done that... and made it look good too...

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Gadget? Here's mine with a Discount - A Seltzer Maker

« on: October 06, 2006, 03:27 PM »

There are 2 types of people in the world... those who ruin jokes, and those who don't ^_^

-f0dder (October 05, 2006, 03:30 AM)

But on the other hand... there's different fingers. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screensaver Maker Recommendations?

« on: October 06, 2006, 01:39 PM »

He lives in Ireland where they don't have Oreo cookies...and he is obsessed with them. He kept bugging me every day to send him some Oreos till I made an entire theme for his desktop of Oreos, complete with this screensaver:

-app103 (October 04, 2006, 12:19 AM)

What software do you use to make your own themes?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Let's Make us some Games!

« on: October 06, 2006, 08:54 AM »

Those are some excellent ideas! I think the whole base a game after a random name sounds unique and challanges the coder to some creative ideas based on a single title. Keep these ideas coming and invite your coder friends to come try their skill.