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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on January 12, 2013, 11:26 AM »
Good idea app -- and also a good reason to buy an overpowered humidifier that is larger than you would normally need :up:
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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2013, 07:36 PM »

I suppose this would be little consoleation


i don't know about that but it might be a little consolation.
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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Special Edition Newsletter for Jan 11, 2013 - NANY 2013 Roundup
« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2013, 11:15 AM »
Special Edition Newsletter for Jan 11, 2013
"NANY 2013 Roundup"




1. Newsletter Editorial

Greetings all.  This month we have a special edition of the DonationCoder newsletter.  Instead of our normal roundup of the best posts on the forums in the last month, this newsletter highlights the new software released during our new year NANY programming event.  In addition, DC member wraith808 has volunteered to revive our shareware discounts+giveaways section, so we have some new discounts and giveaways this month, which are listed below.


2. NANY 2013 Roundup

For the past 7 years at DonationCoder.com we have held an annual "New Apps for the New Year (N.A.N.Y.)" event where we ask the coders who hang out on the site to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world. What follows is a roundup of the entries from this year.

The NANY event is not a competition -- anyone can participate and everyone who does gets a unique mug commemorating the event.

Most of the programs this year were done for fun by the coders -- some are polished and ready for public use, while others are a little rough around the edges and were mainly done as a proof of concept.  All programs are freely available for download.

Visit here for screenshots and downloads of all entries:


3. Discounts and Giveaways for 2013

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

Visit here for a summary of the January 2013 discounts and giveaways:


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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS
« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2013, 10:36 AM »
For this weekend's post I have a double recommendation.

First, a tiny little cheap gadget that I love (I have like 5 of these in my house, one for every room), a Hygrometer:
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http://www.amazon.co...onitor/dp/B0013BKDO8

A hygrometer measures humidity/moisture in the air; this one that I recommend not only measures the humidity but also keeps track of high and low temps for each day, and high+low humidity, which is nice to help see the fluctuation.

Now monitoring humidity in your house is not something you really *need* to do, but if you are a gadget lover it's a fun thing to do.  I definitely recommend getting more than one because they are cheap (under $15) and sometimes a little inaccurate, and it helps to have a couple so that you can compare values.

In the winter when you have heat running, it can make your house very dry.  Until I started measuring humidity and running a humidifier, my house could get down to 15 and even 10% humidity, which I never realized was an issue.. but when i started running serious humidifier the improvement was noticeable -- less waking up to dry eyes and throat, etc.

So.. my second recommendation is a serious humidifier.  Not one of those 1 gallon bedside things, but a serious evaporative console humidifier that can humidify the whole house, or large areas of it.  They are a little loud but fun.

Like:

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http://www.amazon.co...difier/dp/B000N87YO4
(mini console for a large room)

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http://www.amazon.co...difier/dp/B0000D8EJS
(large console for whole house)
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Developer's Corner / Re: need to blur out most of system tray
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 05:48 PM »
Charge for your software, and don't feel bad about it at all.

There is no shame or anything wrong with charging for software, and your users would rather you succeed and be able to develop it than to not be able to work on it.

This forum and site is not focused on charging for software and you won't find discussions here about maximizing profits, etc.  - as we are interested in different things.  But we do not take the position here that there is anything wrong with charging for software -- and we encourage our members to find ways to support themselves and succeed -- however they define that for themselves.
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Developer's Corner / Re: need to blur out most of system tray
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 05:16 PM »
See this video tutorial:
https://www.donation.../dc/3ds/sc4/sc4.html

More videos here:
https://www.donation....com/screencasts/sc/
10232
Developer's Corner / Re: need to blur out most of system tray
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 04:55 PM »
Any good screenshot tool would probably do the job, but my Screenshot Captor program is especially adept at a variety of this kind of blurring/highlighting/hiding effect -- as well as some others like creating ragged edges, etc.

Give it a try and ask if you have any questions about how to use it to do what you want.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: More Autonaming tokens
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 01:40 PM »
I'm happy to add additional tokens like this.. putting it on my todo list and i'll try to get to it soon.  a new official SC release is overdue.
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General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 01:33 PM »
I've posted on the other thread too, but I just wanted to add here that I do applaud this as a positive and constructive step.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: The MagicRAR Drive Press Challenge
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 01:29 PM »
Sounds like a fair offer and challenge  :up:
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Living Room / Re: I am now the proud owner of my very own NANY mug :D
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 01:14 PM »
Great  :up:
Looking forward to seeing more NANY mug photos from other recipients.
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Living Room / MOVED: trying to print with Screen Captor to no avail
« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2013, 12:17 PM »
This topic has been moved to Screenshot Captor.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=33570.0
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DC Gamer Club / Re: A Gaming Tablet?
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2013, 10:04 PM »
Interesting.
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Living Room / Re: T-Shirt design?
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2013, 09:02 PM »
That's a very elaborate full color sketch!  And I like the red-orange glow colors too!

Maybe when it comes time to do a t-shirt we could ask members to post like a couple 1 minute pencil sketches of an idea and pick one to ask Hally to do in full color for official t-shirt?

I'm very interested in having a great t-shirt as I think it's my best chance at picking up women in bars.. So it has to be a nice tough-looking Cody who will help improve my image.
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Living Room / Re: T-Shirt design?
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2013, 08:43 PM »
I love it! Though I do think Cody looks a little bit strange lying down.. I'm not used to seeing him that way..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [solved] FARR freeze after quick repeat of dolaunch appcap alias
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2013, 05:30 PM »
it is by design -- it's sometimes useful, though can be confusing and awkward.

best thing to do, as you've probably guessed, is to give it a more elaborate name so that it's not accidentally matching what user types.

i suppose one could make the case that it really shouldn't be treated as an exact match in this case, so wouldn't trigger the dolaunch.. let me consider that..
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2013, 09:42 AM »
Minor update, mostly bugfixes:
Version 2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to not differentially score different results within a single alias when using regex filtering option for the alias.
  • [MinorFeature] Added some plugin settable/getable values to bypass % variable replacement: showhtmlraw, rawuservar, launchmeta
  • [BugFix] Plugins were not being given a chance to act on explicit directory browsing.
  • [BugFix] querynokeywords being passed to plugins was not correct, it was including keywords.
  • [BugFix] AppCapAppendMemo functions were starting out with "Hello" in memo.
  • [BugFix] AppCap function could hang FARR if it was repeatedly invoked many times per second.
  • [Kludge] You can now use ;;, to separate multiple launch strings when specifying farr:// links inside html pages.
  • [Documentation] Thanks to DC member ewemoa for all the help with this release.
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Shareware Discounts for Members / Re: Discount Request Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2013, 05:10 PM »
Nice  :Thmbsup:
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Shareware Discounts for Members / Re: Discount Request Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2013, 03:14 PM »
VmWare would be nice.
ColorSchemer was done recently.
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General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2013, 10:56 AM »
Let's try to keep things civil here ok?

I want to remind all of us that our policy here is to let everyone have their fair say in a respectful manner -- there is no need to resort to personal attacks or name calling.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A new harddisk for my old notebook?
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2013, 10:52 AM »
I wouldn't look at it as throwing away your 10yr old faithful laptop.  I would look at it as retiring it and keeping it available as a backup, and transitioning to a new one before it dies.  You could squeeze a few more years out of it with a new hard drive, but depending on how much trouble+expense that is, it might be best to just keep it as a backup, and skip the upgrade that you don't need if you use it as a backup pc.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A new harddisk for my old notebook?
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2013, 09:06 PM »
The other question you need to answer is how easy is it to replace the hard drive -- in some laptops it's very easy, in some it's a real pain.

Just something else to factor in to your calculation.  I think 40hz advice was dead on -- if it were me i would leave this laptop alone and get yourself a new (used) one.
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Shareware Discounts for Members / Re: Cleaning up this section
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2013, 07:52 PM »
Great work. Long overdue. Much appreciated.  :up:
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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.12.01 - Apr 22, 2015
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2013, 02:12 PM »
Oops -- thanks for pointing out this pretty glaring mistake tomos -- i've updated the first post with a link to the downloads.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop progress meter
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2013, 10:43 PM »
I had completely forgotten about this program.. im not sure i would have written Progress Bars of Life if I had remembered it -- would have just bugged skwire to add some features to his.. crazy.
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