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General Review Discussion / Re: Review Templates - How do you add a flash animation eg abc.swf

« on: December 11, 2006, 10:19 AM »

edit by jgpaiva: added ]code[ tags

-patteo (December 11, 2006, 05:52 AM)

I don't quite understand what the modification means.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Review Templates - How do you add a flash animation eg abc.swf

« on: December 11, 2006, 05:52 AM »

I'm working on a review and would like to include a flash demo say called abc.swf

I'm a little stumped as to how to include it in the review.

I tried to use

[Select]

[attach=1][/attach]

But I cannot figure out how to reference the abc.swf

My apologies, I'm a little dumb here.

Any help would be appreciated.

edit by jgpaiva: added ]code[ tags

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Found Deals and Discounts / Remote Desktop Control - Another potentially useful software giveaway

« on: December 11, 2006, 02:42 AM »

Another potentially useful giveaway - for those who do not want to use Freeware VNC type software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC

I wonder if anyone can throw some light on the differences

Giveaway of the Day » Remote Desktop Control
"Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer (via Internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other computer remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it."
http://www.giveawayo...op-control/#more-246

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General Software Discussion / Re: Holiday Seasonal Software discounts — links here!

« on: December 10, 2006, 11:27 PM »

Just wondering,

If one uses Directory Opus, would there really be a need to use another Dual Pane File Manager. I find that Directory Opus can literally do everything that one would ever want to do with a File Manager.

The one thing that keeps me with Directory Opus is that it is really customizable. So I customize it to have same or very similar shortcuts with Norton Commander which was what I had grown accustomed to over the years.

Having done that, I was able to migrate almost painlessly over. Yes, there are still a few shortcuts (or behavior) available in Norton Commander that one cannot duplicate in Directory Opus. But by and large, this is more than compensated by Directory Opus ability to send commands to other programs that accept commandline commands and also it's myriad other features (for which I have yet to fully appreciate and use).

Any based on the little I know of the customizability of Directory Opus, you probably can duplicate the command shortcuts of almost any other File Manager you can think of.

Moreover, I find their forums to be very responsive and or informative. You can almost get a solution within a few hours of posting a questions there.

So is there any reason for a Directory Opus user (fan) to try something like XYplorer then !

Maybe there's something that I'm ignorant about here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Holiday Seasonal Software discounts — links here!

« on: December 10, 2006, 10:30 PM »

Perhaps it may be a good idea to move this thread from here to

Found Deals and Discounts
https://www.donation...index.php?board=39.0

This will make it easier for visitors to find all the deals and discount under the same heading.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Giveawayoftheday - Flashspring Pro for US$149 - wait it's free today - Grab it

« on: December 08, 2006, 03:52 AM »

Despite my reservations of the install by today deal, this is a must download for those who would like to try their hand at converting powerpoint to flash.

It's a good opportunity. At least it's free for today instead of US$149.

Hopefully there will be a software utility available to move your license to a new computer easily in future.

http://www.giveawayo...com/flashspring-pro/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: folder monitor with customizable action

« on: December 07, 2006, 11:09 PM »

"log monitor" is frighteningly close to what i wanted

-cracksloth (December 07, 2006, 10:14 PM)

I'm glad to hear you have figured it out. But what is even more important is that you have shared your solution. Which leads me to think that perhaps there could be "child" forums on Donationcoder dedicated to niche programs like Log Monitor which I believe is in a class of its own.

Just occurred to me that someday the archive of the Log Monitor forum may just disappear off the website when you most need it.

It may be an idea to have a copy off line. I think programs like http://www.httrack.com/ or Teleport http://tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm

Anyone like to suggest a better tool to do this.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred - 50% off

« on: December 07, 2006, 09:26 PM »

I have read on some reviews that this new version is pretty accurate (impressive perhaps) out of the box in terms of accuracy.

I wonder if anyone here have any experience with it ?

But if you are looking for a deal, here's one for 50%.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Preferred

Fast, easy, accurate, and over three times faster than typing.

Browse, search, and navigate the Web just by talking! Simply use your voice to dictate and edit in Microsoft® Word and Excel®, Corel® WordPerfect®, and virtually all Windows®-based applications. You can even dictate into a handheld device when you’re away from your PC, or use a Bluetooth microphone!

http://www.digitalri..._ID=2624880000293092

Or try this http://tinyurl.com/ygeqyu

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: folder monitor with customizable action

« on: December 07, 2006, 09:14 PM »

i know this is a horrible forum to ask this question but at least you guys have some experience with this prog.

-cracksloth (December 07, 2006, 03:43 PM)

I guess there's nothing wrong with asking this question here.

As for me, the last time I tried Log Monitor, it was like maybe 3 or 4 years ago and I did not delve too deeply into the scripting portion so I cannot help you with the syntax of commands to do what you want.

But from what I can see and experienced, it is a very capable and flexible program, but it does require perseverance to learn with trial and error.

Perhaps one of the more recent users here can help you.

I suggest you browse through the archived Forum (see links below) for some tips. Log Monitor also has a reasonably good help file. I hope this helps.

Log Monitor:
"Questions: List of Topics
List of Forums | New Topic | Mark All Read | Search"
http://web.archive.o...forum/list.asp?id=35

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: folder monitor with customizable action

« on: December 07, 2006, 06:05 AM »

Check out DC posts on Log Monitor:

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6109.0
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1599.0
and maybe
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2471.0

-rjbull (December 07, 2006, 04:25 AM)

I second Log Monitor

It is stable, very configurable, very capable and best of all it's free and available now.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Review Templates

« on: December 06, 2006, 08:17 AM »

Cool again,

What can I say Mouser, but that you think of everything !

I was conceptualising one or more mini-reviews but the thought of having to do it all at one go was putting me off, or should I say making me procrastinate.

Now I have no more excuse. But wait,  I can still blame it on Christmas, and then there's the New Year, Easter etc and of course all the interesting posts by Donationcoder members.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Review Templates

« on: December 06, 2006, 08:04 AM »

Cool.

Never noticed the Add Preset Text dropdown box.

Just one question. A review is a little different from a regular post.

We want to do a good job of it which means there's a need to have a place to store say a draft which then can be worked on over a period of time which may be a few days or more as we work through the app. I mean how many of us can do it all at one sitting and get a review well done.

Of course this can be done offline. But is there a place on the forum where we can use this template and create a draft that only the reviewer and of course the administrator can view and then it is the reviewer who finally releases it when it is ready.

I think this will make it less intimidating particularly when posting the 1st or even subsequent reviews and perhaps more donationcoders to do mini or even full reviews.

On the administrator side, they can also see how many of such reviews are in the pipeline and at what stage they are in.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Review Templates

« on: December 06, 2006, 07:29 AM »

I was thinking about working on a mini-review and was looking for a template. Not sure if this is for a full blown review or a mini-review.

In any case, the template cannot be downloaded. I think it is missing.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Promotion for PocketPC apps from PocketGear

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:59 PM »

For the PocketPC users (if any of them exist here) - discounts of 13% to 50% for December from :

http://promo.pocketgear.com/

If you don't find any you want, then go to

www.retailmenot.com for a general 20% coupon for Handango - it was there when I last visited about 2 days ago.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveawayoftheday - Jetstart Pro - for a very limited period

« on: December 04, 2006, 11:43 PM »

Actually I agree with you.

But I think there are others who may like a fixed structure which I think this program provides.

Of course I think Find and Run Robot is by far the more useful.

However, the real issue is the type of license that it offers, that you must install within a certain time window. Which means if you have a computer crash and or just a system or OS upgrade, you basically lose the ability to use the program unless of course you are now hooked on it and go buy a new license, unless you have a utility to move the software over legally.

This issue becomes more important when as the site says, they have garnered enough traffic lately to start having known names software to join their giveawayoftheday deals : see below.

Giveaway of the Day
"Attention: During the past few days we reached high enough popularity to start distributing world-wide known software products. Get ready for some surprising giveaways very soon!"
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Giveawayoftheday - Jetstart Pro - for a very limited period

« on: December 04, 2006, 10:56 PM »

This looks interesting :

Caveat : Although this is freeware for a very limited period, you have to install it within the giveaway window. That means if you re-install or buy a new laptop etc, the software cannot be re-installed which renders it kind of useless - so I tend to give such software a miss no matter how good it looks. But I guess it could still be useful until your next major OS install or re-install.

That is unless, there's a tool available that legally help you move registry entries and all to a new installation. Does anyone know of any such tools ?

Giveaway of the Day » JetStart Pro
"JetStart Pro
December 4, 2006

JetStart Pro is a unique tool, that enables you to manage your Windows Start Menu more efficiently, and launch your favorite or recently accessed applications with just a few clicks. The program offers multiple ways to access your program: You can sort them into categories, select them from a list of recently used or newly added programs or search from them by keyword.

JetStart Pro adds an alternative menu to the Start button that appears when you hover your mouse over it (click on it to get the regular menu) and shows your categorized programs as well as recently used applications. In addition, you can access them from a tray icon, hidden edge menus, and also create a floating toolbar that can be displayed by clicking the icon.

Watch JetStart Demo (Flash 3.2 MB)."
http://www.giveawayo...ay.com/jetstart-pro/

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General Software Discussion / TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files

« on: December 04, 2006, 10:02 PM »

Thought this would come in useful for Donationcoders

Note: for those good at Arithmetic, you will notice there's only 9 sites. But it says 11. I guess it's new maths
Also, I had to manually align the columns (but it still comes out somewhat unaligned) and the clickable links are somehow not copied over.

Can anyone tell me how one can copy the article intact from http://www.makeuseof...-to-send-your-files/

By the way, I used Firefox 2 and CopyURL+

‘TOP 11 Tools for Sending BIG Files’ released » MakeUseOf.com
"You, me and I bet every webbie once in while needs to send over a file that’s bigger then max. allowed email attachment (e.g. video clip, movie, software program, etc). So 2 days ago I decided to make a list of somewhat better websites and tools for sending big files. After some extensive searching I got more then 100 sites, obviously this was too much so I filtered them further by canceling out ones which aren’t free, simple to use and with max.file size mark below 500 mb. And below is what I got afterwards;
                      max. size    days before file deleted    Sign-up Required
YouSendIt       1 gb               7                                           No
Gigasize         1.5 gb             90 days                                  Yes
TransferBigFiles   1 gb            5 days                                          No
MegaShares    1.5 gb                  7 days                                        No
BigUpload.       500 mb    30 days after last download                  No
MailBigFile         500 mb              7                                             No
FileUpload        500 mb          7                                            No
Zupload             500 mb    30 days after last download                   No
Spread-it.          500 mb           14 days                                          No
.
If you send/receive big files frequently and do so among friends then instead of using above ones I recommend to install one of the following programs, either of which is free and user friendly in its own way."
http://www.makeuseof...-to-send-your-files/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Watch Your Site Like a Hawk-Service Hawk - 78% off discount for heavy hitters !

« on: December 04, 2006, 12:45 AM »

Another offer for the heavy hitters. Sigh !  Looks like Santa is forgot about the proletariat !

Bits du Jour: Discounted software and programs - One Deal a Day
"Watch Your Site Like a Hawk
Service Hawk - 78% off!

Regular price: $179.00
Bits du Jour Today Only price: $39.99
You save:    [Huge Discount!]    78%    [Huge Discount!]

If you host your own website - or other peoples' sites - you know how important it is to know right away if there's any problem. And as the hackers get smarter and the operating systems more complicated, there are more and more potential problems all the time.

You can't spend every minute watching your services. The good news is that Service Hawk can do it for you.
Service Hawk lets you:

    * Rest easy knowing your servers are up and running!
    * Keep expensive downtime to a minimum.
    * Automatically restart your services - no human intervention required!
    * Get immediate notifications via email, on-screen messages, or sound alerts.

In addition, Service Hawk lets you monitor all your Windows services, including third-party applications that run as services.  Be sure all your important PC services - like virus checking, backups and networking - are up and running."
http://www.bitsdujour.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 90% off Automise @ www.bitsdujour.com - looks like heavy stuff for Admin peo

« on: December 04, 2006, 12:38 AM »

Wow, Ben, it's great to hear you are having so much fun with Automise.

It just makes the rest of us who are not the so heavy hitters drool at what we are missing.

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Found Deals and Discounts / 90% off Automise @ www.bitsdujour.com - looks like heavy stuff for Admin people

« on: November 29, 2006, 04:52 AM »

I took a look at this but it looks like it's for Administrator type activities. But at 90% discount, it may interest some of you heavy hitters. Certainly not for me.

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General Software Discussion / Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses to identify spam source

« on: November 27, 2006, 10:40 AM »

Came across this interesting idea to track down spam sources and dump it.

Clipmark
"Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is [email protected], and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it [email protected] and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to [email protected]. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
[email protected] for nytimes.com
[email protected] for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give [email protected] as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.

"
http://clipmarks.com...9-87A9-DF25D17EDAE9/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Handango Site Wide Sale - 25% off for this week only

« on: November 21, 2006, 09:07 PM »

Pocketpc and Palm users out there.

Here's your chance to get the software of your choice for 25% off Handango www.handango.com - it's only for a week. Just received the email Coupon but I cannot tell when it exactly ends. So don't sit on the Coupon - use it (but only if you really need it).

Coupon is EMAILSALE

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Found Deals and Discounts / Share your coupon codes at RetailMeNot.com - coupon codes for online stores

« on: November 16, 2006, 07:28 AM »

Just came across this interesting site. It will get better as it grows. I think it's related to www.bugmenot.com

Of course please do not share discount codes you find on donationcoder as members. Send your friends to www.donationcoder.com instead.

RetailMeNot.com - coupon codes for online stores
"Many online stores allow for a "coupon" or "promotion" code when you order to automatically assign discounts, deals and freebies (kinda like money for nothing). RetailMeNot.com is a place for finding and sharing these coupon codes.
So... when you buy online, check here for discounts first (unless you're frikkin crazy)."
http://www.retailmenot.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / 30% discounts for Listpro and other Iliumsoft products till Oct 25

« on: October 20, 2006, 05:02 AM »

Pocket PC and other PDA users may find this useful.

They also have software that works under Windows.

Pocket PC Software, Palm Software, Smartphone Software

http://www.iliumsoft.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Surfpack has now gone freeware

« on: October 15, 2006, 12:35 PM »

Surfpack has now gone freeware.

It's similar to Google Personalized Homepage http://www.google.com/ig and maybe that's why it has gone Freeware but you may want to check it out for a comparison.

Surfpack is your local homepage with everyday favorites, news, and search tools.
"Welcome to Surfpack

Meet Surfpack, the lifesaver for people who know what they want on the Internet and regularly visit the same web sites!

Surfpack is a desktop application that gathers up information from your favorite web resources into a dynamic HTML pages, which then presents it in whatever form or shape you might like - favorite URL links, newsfeeds and even entire web pages! Surfpack's DHTML interface works under Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0+, and Opera 7.5+."
http://www.surfpack.com/