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General Software Discussion / Re: Help in printing out a program's Help (CHM) file

« on: June 07, 2009, 09:24 AM »

Well,

Besides the matter of printing any helpfile, and so consuming another tree, this looks quite good, and for a reasonable price.
We (as an industry) just have to improve on screen display quality for people to read all information from a display, instead of from paper, where at the moment it is printed, it's also outdated by the next release of the file.
I do realize that producing displays, or just better displays, does take energy and poses other environmental problems.

A proper DC review would be nice...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Ability to copy geshi formatted code text.. help me test?

« on: June 07, 2009, 09:12 AM »

It's just fine over here too, also tried the 'wrong' copy, by selecting the forum text, and that worked as bad as argv showed.

Thnx
Ath

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automated Builds for Visual Basic 6

« on: June 07, 2009, 08:22 AM »

Continuous Integration is the key-word here, and there are several free systems for that, besides Visual Build Pro or Final Builder, although their integrations may be a little less polished then when using a commercial system.
Often used systems are: Hudson, Continuum and Cruise Control. All have their strong and weak points, but none cost money right away, so maybe that's waht some are trying to find? A sum-up of features en comparison can be found here

HTH
Ath

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Send keystroke/run program unless key pressed (repeatedly) within n sec

« on: June 07, 2009, 07:54 AM »

Ah, that was not quite clear from your original post
So you're either missing a finer control over the screen-saver settings, or a kensington lock, connected to your body in some way (yes, that's not very comfortable), and to the laptop, ofcourse

Similar problems exist when using a mobile phone in public, IMHO, and on most mobile phones, there's no kensington lock connector, AFAIK.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Send keystroke/run program unless key pressed (repeatedly) within n sec

« on: June 07, 2009, 06:16 AM »

You could just set the screensaver (lots of them available) to run after 1 minute (smallest timeout available), and have it lock the screen ofcourse, but all in all it would just be annoying. And if I want to lock the system I can quickly press Win-L.

Can't see any use-case for this

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 29th, 2009 - Codename "Hello Mr. Heatwave"

« on: May 30, 2009, 05:35 AM »

Ah, another hour of my life spent on reading 'the good stuff'

Thanx, as usual,
Ath

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Living Room / Re: 2009/May/31 - DC/IOSx02 - DC Meetup Berlin, Germany

« on: May 30, 2009, 04:32 AM »

Well, I'm sort of 'around' Germany, but I won't be able to make that meeting
Would've been very nice to grab such a great mug!

Thnx,
Ath

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Living Room / Re: Android phone - anyone using it?

« on: March 29, 2009, 11:02 AM »

I'm very interested in those mobile i-net apparatus, if only they came with a decently large screen so I can read it without my reading-glasses, and a very small size so it would fit in my pocket... Guess I'll have to wait for a foldable or roll-up screen

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for March 4th, 2009 - Codename "A Call to Action"

« on: March 06, 2009, 12:17 PM »

It was a good read, as usual. Thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA- Force Adminstrator Mode, even if Logged in as Admin

« on: February 23, 2009, 05:04 PM »

For both the driver and the tool: Get updates to be Vista compatible, if none are available, switch to similar tools that are Vista compatible.

Most trouble caused by Vista is incompatible drivers.
Most trouble using/crashing Vista is caused by incompatible drivers.

What you might want to turn off is UAC (User Account Control) but then you most probably will get bitten by both statements I posted above.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQ - Tiny taskbar clock for secondary screen

« on: February 16, 2009, 03:58 PM »

I've been using Multi Monitor Taskbar (free)for several years on both XP and since over a year on Vista x64. It doesn't follow the XP/Vista theme at all, and the clock is fixed in US am/pm format, it can't be resized to double/triple height, and what not (see bottom-right of the page), but it does offer a nice second/third taskbar, display the time, an extended clipboard, and all the application buttons on the correct monitor(s), and can auto-hide, which is what I want/need it to do.
Personally I wouldn't bother for the pro version, it seems like a simple slightly pimped version.

Might be just good enough...

/Ath

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Living Room / Re: 2008 Cybernet Awards Are Out.. DonationCoder.com Wins Most Useful Forum!!

« on: January 29, 2009, 03:57 PM »

Hah, I knew that this was a special place, but Cybernet news should have awarded the only award possible for this site:


 "Must Useful Forum of Ever" 

/Ath

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation for Project Management software?

« on: December 29, 2008, 08:01 AM »

Hm, still no mention of OpenProj, which I've been using (no connections ) for some time now: http://openproj.org/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: hotkey to toggle left/right mouse buttons

« on: December 29, 2008, 07:54 AM »

Just found tool MouseMixer on this page: http://www.fxc.btint...t.co.uk/software.htm

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free copy of Returnil Premium Edition available for limited time

« on: December 26, 2008, 05:41 AM »

Just got it from there, no problem. Do you have trouble getting it?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with Inno Setup shortcuts please!

« on: April 19, 2008, 11:43 AM »

A simple RTFM should have fixed this, before the question would have been posted here... 

HTH
Ath
(Yes, long time InnoSetup user...)

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Living Room / Re: 64 Bit CPU - Is it worth it?

« on: February 05, 2008, 04:50 PM »

The good side of running Vista x64 on a 64 bit capable CPU finally came to light today as I was able to install the Windows Server 2008 (RTM, not RC) released yesterday (on MSDN) in a VMWare Workstation 6 x64 session, and I had it running without a hitch in under 1 hour. Rest of the software (app-testing) comes later...

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 24th - Codename "Here Comes Your NANY"

« on: December 26, 2007, 07:13 AM »

Mouser,

It was great, (as usual) but it's good I had some extra spare time at hand

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 6th - Codename "Operation GOE Freeware Release"

« on: December 08, 2007, 06:44 AM »

The new splitup into more sections is quite usefull!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: snagIt 7 free: grab it

« on: December 08, 2007, 05:23 AM »

What does this SnagIt do better than ScreenShotCaptor?

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Productivity or Programming Supplement?

« on: December 08, 2007, 04:41 AM »

I really like the tagline I saw on another forum: "Programmer: An organism that turns coffee into software"

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Mirror portion of multi-monitor

« on: November 26, 2007, 05:31 PM »

Maybe ShowOff by Skrommel could be modified to work for you?

HTH
Ath

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Living Room / Re: Windows Install Date Thingie: I made it!

« on: November 05, 2007, 05:08 PM »

Hm, it's a bit funny that it thinks my PC was on for the last nearly half year, as I've just powered it up tonight...

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« on: October 18, 2007, 04:33 PM »

Glad I don't receive the announce mail in my work-email, as I just spent over an hour reading all the fun and interesting stuff, and I would also have if I where at work

Thanks for this and all previous nwesletters, the're indispensible for keeping up with all the info on the site.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: timer that counts resting, interruptions, and work as separate entries

« on: August 09, 2007, 11:46 AM »

UrlWolf,
Wouldn't WorkRave fit your requirements? It doesn't have as nice statistics that WorkPace has, but it's free (Open Source, actually), and that can't surely be said of WorkPace
I've been using it for about 5 years now, as a restbreak timer, and have been pleased with it from the start. (After using WorkPace for about 1 year, which is also quite Ok, except for the pricetag)

The always on Top requirement can be filled by the display as a Toolbar in the Windows taskbar. (If that's not set to autohide)
It doesn't show the exact counters mentioned, but you can display most of that on demand, from the systemtray menu.

The main purpose of WorkRave is to try to avoid RSI related injuries, and I assume it's what you eventually want this utility for?

HTH
Ton
[Edit]
The WorkRave website is rather Dutch (sorry) but most should be able to find the Download link...