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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 04:13 AM »

I use RSS a lot for reading news while I commute.
I have a laptop, but no internet connection in the train, so I use Omea Reader (free version, my review here) to aggregate all the feeds I'm interested into, and download them in the morning, then read them "newspaper style" while in the train...

-dpierron (April 05, 2006, 03:47 AM)

So the complete, full articles, including images (if there are any) are downloaded in the morning, yes? Sounds like a brilliant idea for anyone commuting and not having to drive!

Could you post a screenshot of how that looks? I'm curious

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Post New Requests Here / DONE: Winamp plugin switch helper / fixed with even better solution!

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 03:55 AM »

Hi,

I posted on http://forums.winamp...&threadid=242649 too:

I wonder if it's somehow possible to switch from one DSP plugin to another (or even just disabling one) without having to click through Winamp's config every time, maybe by writing a script to do that?

Any kind of advice is appreciated!

So if you have ANY idea please tell me. I guess one could come up with an AutoHotkey based solution for this, but maybe it's even easier.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Unsubscribing a topic...

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 02:28 AM »

it would be nice for 'notify' to change to 'don't notify' but did you know that clicking 'notify' in a subscribed thread will allow you to disable the notify feature?

-nudone (April 05, 2006, 02:24 AM)

Yes, I know that, but if you are subscribed to lots and lots of threads it's easy to forget which

1054

Living Room / Re: Money Origami

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 02:05 AM »

Nice find, Hirudin - but the second URL doesn't open here.

1055

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Windows system tray clock replacement

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 01:59 AM »

You know, there's something weird about Alfaclock.  The have one website:
http://www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/
and they sell alfaclock 2 and alfaclock classic.  THen they have another site:
http://www.alfaclock.com/
which has a beta version of alfaclock 2 (now betaclock), and alfaclock free, which seems to be a more recent version of alfaclock classic.  They are both free.  I don't get it, are they hoping people go to the first page and get duped into buying the software?  And there's no link from one page to the other.  What's the deal, it doesn't make sense?!

-superboyac (April 03, 2006, 11:42 PM)

http://www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/

domain:      ALFASOFTWEB.COM
owner-name:   Eugene Boukyan
owner-address:   111, Mainstreet
owner-address:   350038
owner-address:   Krasnodar
owner-address:   Russia



http://www.alfaclock.com/

Administrative Contact:
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You are right, something doesn't make sense here...

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General Software Discussion / Re: NetJaxer -- Have your Web 2.0 ON YOUR PC :)

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 01:40 AM »

I needed to check the video (http://www.netjaxer.com/demo/) to get how it's meant to work. Looks cool, are you using it?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: IRC Chat - plus new web-based java interface from forum

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 01:28 AM »

Behold! The Zealot Speaketh unto Thee
So it's about time I mentioned XChat.

-housetier (April 04, 2006, 10:17 PM)

Too bad it looks as depressing as mIRC

1058

Living Room / Re: The Torn-Up Credit Card Application

« Last post by brotherS on April 05, 2006, 01:26 AM »

Thanks Edvard, those are the pages to read! 

1059

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Image Metadata Enhancer/Saver

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:48 PM »

http://news.hping.or...n.archive/37094.html

I found this also... why this concept is so allusive?

perhaps you could compare this to ID3 tags with MP3's - wonderful if used properly, terrible if not (not all music is Blues)...

oh, well...

-hcross (April 01, 2006, 03:35 AM)

Maybe just more people care about tagging their music than their images?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: IRC Chat - plus new web-based java interface from forum

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:44 PM »

hahah, i should add a stat to report how often brotherS talks about miranda.

-mouser (April 03, 2006, 07:17 PM)

I have to, they all love it! 

Btw, I saw 30 users in the channel at some point - new record!

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Living Room / Re: Any MiniDisc people out there?

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:42 PM »

For those of you that have been avoiding minidisc because of this, take another try at it, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

-superboyac (April 03, 2006, 11:35 PM)

Sony did the wrong for too long (again) - waiting until recently to make a great product more user-friendly was not a good idea...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Unsubscribing a topic...

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:36 PM »

I sure would like if the "NOTIFY" button would change to "DON'T NOTIFY" or something like that when you are reading a subscribed forum/thread. Just to make things a little bit easier...

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General Software Discussion / Re: EULAlyzer™ 1.1

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:26 PM »

I have no real need for this tool.

you've obviously forgotten about this:

PC Pitstop offered a financial incentive in its EULA, and it took four months before anyone responded.

-mouser (April 04, 2006, 01:28 PM)

Reminds me of that quote saying you can put mean words in the middle of any company profile brochure that is just focussing on the company itself - probably noone would notice!

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Living Room / Re: BitTorrent - why bother?

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 08:20 PM »

I got uTorrent after reading this thread and after a fresh Windows reinstall and have not felt the need to get back to Azureus yet. I do miss Azureus just because it worked damn well for me and I had it set up to perfection, with plugins, network tweaks and all.. but everything I've thrown at uTorrent so far has downloaded just fine, with totally acceptable speeds, so for now I'll stick with uTorrent. Not to mention uTorrent starts in less than two seconds and I can easily continue to use my computer with it running while Azureus would take up to 20+ seconds to start and would take my connection hostage pretty much, if I remember correctly.

-moerl (April 04, 2006, 07:32 PM)

Then you didn't set it up correctly: http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for April 3, 2006 - Codename 'Happy Birthday to Us'

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 01:18 PM »

Happy birthday to us,
Happy birthday to us,
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to us!

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General Software Discussion / Re: EULAlyzer™ 1.1

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 01:11 PM »

Funny idea But since I mostly install trusted stuff (lots from http://fileforum.betanews.com/ where many other users already voted and left comments) I have no real need for this tool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 01:03 PM »

which is why EVERYONE should have a plan in place for this.  Assume you are going to have a hard drive crash and/or bad issue, and have a plan for restoring your computer.  get together the info you need to do this - prepare a list of your main software and serials, a list of any customizations you've done to your pc, etc. anything you would need to recreate if you had to recover from a disaster.

-mouser (April 04, 2006, 12:47 PM)

You are totally right!

It's just so damn convenient not to think about that at all 

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Living Room / World's largest bubbles!

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 01:00 PM »

http://www.worldslar...ubble.com/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Microsoft Says Recovery From Malware Becoming Impossible

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 12:30 PM »

http://it.slashdot.o...1426238&from=rss has more info about this, including the regular discussion with its pretty useful Threshold option.

PS: Malware sucks 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Let's try to get collectorz.com discounts/reviews

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 11:41 AM »

Well, y'all got what you asked for: a huge discount on our products :-) Check out the member section for the discount coupon on our Collectorz.com software. Limited offer, only valid through April 2006.

-Collectorz (April 04, 2006, 10:00 AM)

Thanks for the discount, I'll look into it! 

A few questions:

What about your update policy? Are updates free of charge or do users have to pay every x months/years?

Are you planning to enhance the Movie collector program so I can use it to keep track of my "holiday and friends and stuff" videos too (lots of files burned to DVD+R, so I can only watch them at the PC)? If I understand your homepage correctly it aims on DVDs only now, right?

Do you like and use customer feedback to make the programs even better in the long run?

Do you offer beta versions or do you release new versions (with bugfixes and new features) frequently?

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Living Room / It won't happen for 100 years

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 06:52 AM »

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (at least for those using that date format).

That won't happen again for a hundred years. It will be the only 1-2-3-4-5-6 lineup of the time and date that most of us are ever likely to see.

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Jazper's Software / Re: ShoutCast Concierge v1.0.0.5 BETA

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 04:01 AM »

brotherS, trust me this has not been forgotten! I have been on a very large project with work for the last several months that has finally ended for me. I'm right now in the middle of an app conversion from VB to Delphi for work. Once I get this done, I have full intentions of picking this back up!  I'm sorry it has taken so long.

-jazper (April 04, 2006, 02:12 AM)

That's great news!

I thought you might have gone fishing...

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« Last post by brotherS on April 04, 2006, 04:00 AM »

anyone use any of these http://gadgets.fosfo...dest-keyboards-ever/

original link from digg.com

-nudone (March 31, 2006, 03:36 AM)

Nice list!

I'd consider buying a halfkeyboard from http://www.matias.ca...rd/index.php?refID=7 if it just were cheap(er)!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AlertBear 104 -- First Impressions

« Last post by brotherS on April 03, 2006, 03:03 PM »

Is it ok now?

-moerl (April 03, 2006, 10:20 AM)

It's ok now - I took the liberty to change it a *cough* little Just making it big doesn't make it obvious it's a (clickable) URL hiding behind the text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by brotherS on April 03, 2006, 02:58 PM »

but I guess I'll live - the interface *is* nice and slick. But I'll probably miss the RegExp features of website watcher...

-f0dder (April 03, 2006, 08:27 AM)

What for are you using RegEx together with RSS feeds?