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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Text Expander software for Windows

« on: March 17, 2011, 04:28 PM »

in one elegant expression

-timns (March 17, 2011, 04:24 PM)

Agreed, but the pessimistic still complaint that: You have a problem, you apply/throw a regex at it, then you have 2 problems...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: JetDrive Defragmentation Suite

« on: March 17, 2011, 03:10 PM »

And what was the brand of the harddrive in that machine? A Maxtor perhaps? These disco's are known to get slower and slower after several years of use, though I've not been able to do any measurements on them

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: March 17, 2011, 03:02 PM »

Well, I've been behind a proxy (here, at home) for over 14 years now, and that was just because my ISDN connection could be turned of and off by the proxy software, and I sticked with it because all my e-mail configurations would have to be changed again and again. And for the extra security ofcourse, as there's also a firewall on that machine.

Not sure if I can configure it to do the authentication without messing things up big time, here, but I'll try, just for fun, or set up something in VMWare Will probably end up sometime next week, though (assuming you're ready before the weekend), got a busy weekend ahead.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: March 17, 2011, 07:03 AM »

That are the default 'Login credentials' pages of these browsers, so I'm afraid that JottiQ is going to need it's specific proxy authentication settings page

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Bringing the computer into PnP RPGaming

« on: March 17, 2011, 02:47 AM »

Very impressive!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Fundraiser ONE-A-DAY Planning Calendar, Please Volunteer

« on: March 16, 2011, 02:30 AM »

Ok, I'm working on another coding snack, that I can have finished & polished enough to be released on the 19th. No teaser screenshots, as it's a command-line utility.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: Clock-on-Desktop from Positbolt Software

« on: March 16, 2011, 02:19 AM »

Not that I'd buy an on-desktop-clock, for any particular reason, but I do like this Mini-review But would I need a multi-timezone clock, then this would be a likely candidate.

Thanks Tim.

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Living Room / Re: USB Madness With Cooked-Off Ports

« on: March 15, 2011, 06:24 PM »

i don't even know why these tech articles focus so much on those stupid performance graphs anyway.

-superboyac (March 15, 2011, 06:05 PM)

That's for good old marketing's sake: Bigger numbers are better, and they give great graphs to convince those manager types, deciding on what us, techies/mere users are 'allowed' to buy

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« on: March 15, 2011, 03:29 PM »

... Strasse 255 (aka 0xff) ...

-gjehle (March 15, 2011, 03:14 PM)

LOL

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs

« on: March 15, 2011, 12:49 PM »

Nice kid, looks like he can hardly lift that big mug

You could have asked him to make a picture of you, there

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 15, 2011, 12:46 PM »

Nice table of useful information that you added, thanks.

1 request: Can the column widths be saved? The window size and position seem to be saved, but all adjusted columns are back to default width when re-opening the view.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: JetDrive Defragmentation Suite

« on: March 14, 2011, 02:11 PM »

And do remember that Windows Vista and 7 have their own kind of defragger, to place applications and associated stuff in optimum locations, when it's idling.

Source: msdn blog

So many folks came to know that if your machine is slow you had to go through the top-secret defrag process. In Windows Vista we decided to just put the process on autopilot with the intent that you’d never have to worry about it. In practice this turns out to be true, at least to the limits of automatically running a process (that is if you turn your machine off every night then it will never run). We received a lot of feedback from knowledgeable folks wanting more information on defrag status, especially during execution, as well as more flexibility in terms of the overall management of the process.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 13, 2011, 03:47 PM »

A minor WinButtons update to 2.0.1

I've removed the restrictions of top and left being confined to the width/height of the main monitor. Any position checking should be done by the user, most of them are old enough

Updated download in the original release post

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 13, 2011, 12:54 PM »

Well, pending this discussion, I'm inclined to postpone the release of this add-on/plug-in thingy for a bit.

Comments welcome, as always.

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General Software Discussion / Re: original win98 games

« on: March 13, 2011, 12:36 PM »

Ok, so I'll stop searching for my old Win 98 Plus CD I thought I had laying around somewhere, seems I didn't keep it during one of the bigger clean-ups I did during the last 10 years

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Living Room / Re: Interesting calming essay about nuclear power plan situation in Japan

« on: March 13, 2011, 12:34 PM »

I fully agree. A clear and concise write-up of how and why things happened.

Didn't get to read it completely yet, but I'll continue later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: original win98 games

« on: March 13, 2011, 11:33 AM »

I recently setup a virtual 98 and am wanting to find the games.

-techidave (March 12, 2011, 02:50 PM)

Do you have a special purpose for that virtual? I can't see much use for it, besides the quick boot-time on modern hardware, but usually more modern virtual machines, like those running WinXP, revive from paused state quick enough and have a bigger feature-set and matureness over W98.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« on: March 13, 2011, 11:26 AM »

Now you need a web page and a pad file so others can discover this.

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 11:23 AM)

The pad file I can take care of myself, but a site... If you could help out with that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« on: March 13, 2011, 11:08 AM »

if we could pass in the window HANDLE.

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 10:49 AM)

I can take care of that

Another feature request taken care of: WinSendKeys 3.0.3

Latest release & download moved to separate thread

The small changelog since 3.0.2:
; 2011-03-13, version 3.0.3
; * Improvement: A numeric WindowName is now treated as a WindowHandle (HWnd), as requested by mouser

Source, exe and readme included the attachment

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« on: March 13, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Nice to see you keep working on this utility Ath, I like it 

-mouser (March 13, 2011, 10:49 AM)

Besides me being convinced that all known bug should be "taken care of", I'm eagerly awaiting improvement suggestions...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« on: March 13, 2011, 10:41 AM »

OK, so I found a bug, all on my own , oh well, maybe that's not so good after all

The fix was small and easy, so here is another update WinSendKeys 3.0.2

Latest release & download moved to separate thread

Here's the changelog since 3.0.1:
; 2011-03-12, version 3.0.2
; ! BugFix in detecting an active application/window
; + Added application version to helpmessage
; * Minor cleanup
; * Adapted the helptext somewhat

The readme was cleaned-up a bit by removing the change history (it's in the source), the source and compiled exe are also included in the attachment

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« on: March 13, 2011, 09:04 AM »

... Mouser has made Faar so great ...

-hanzo (March 13, 2011, 09:01 AM)

We know FARR a fine piece of software, but... have you tried to type FARR correct, or is there a malfunction in your keyboard?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Fresh PC Performance Optimizer(Freeware)

« on: March 13, 2011, 09:00 AM »

Have you read any of the reviews/tests of other software in this category? (There are dozens of them, not only in this site)

Reception of software in this category is quite skeptic, to say it nice, that should explain the lack of responses so far...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: A content management system that lives up to the name

« on: March 13, 2011, 08:52 AM »

now rinse/repeat ad eternam, with 2-5 years in each phase:

-iphigenie (March 13, 2011, 08:39 AM)

Isn't that what ALM is all about? but doing that alone can be something between daunting and boring, I guess

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 13, 2011, 08:09 AM »

Hm, evaluating all (mixed) responses to this idea, I'm convinced that it should not be me, writing the promotional texts. The idea of having a choice of content is probably the best, categorizing between 'Just a mild hint that it's possible to donate through DC' and a 'Strong, almost begging, type of promotional marketing mumbojumbo', including an even bold link to the 'Donate to me please' page. And then some categories in between. A total of 5 choices (grades) should be enough then.
That should be a good compromise for everyone.

Because of the flexibility of the Inno Setup scripting language and the Pascal Script engine, that is all quite easy

Oh, and did I mention all labels and text are user override-able? And next to that, it comes with source (has to be included in your script), and the texts in a .rtf file (so colors, bold, hyperlinks, etc. are possible), so you are still in full control.

Then for grade 1 the title above the text could be more Author-oriented, like: (Also changed the 'Userpage' to 'info page')