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General Software Discussion / Re: Two classes of membership here?

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 09:47 PM »

Ok, I think that's enough of the negative insults, etc.  It's off topic and it's not appropriate for this forum.  Move on guys.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 04:21 PM »

Please remember to attach images to your posts, it makes it funner that way!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 02:54 PM »

I have taken the liberty to change it from Gadget Fridays to Gadget WEEKENDS.

So you may now post a new gadget on fridays, saturday, or sunday.

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Living Room / Re: World's oldest still working digital computer gets rebooted

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 02:23 AM »

The computer

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Feature request - mini GUI

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 02:23 AM »

Your UI is sensible, but makes it a little hard to switch between the full one and yours, so it would be hard to keep both.

How would you feel about me adding a switch that would switch the interface between the current UI and a UI that hid everything ABOVE the commandline field and from under field1 to the button bar, with say a 2 line high file queue?

That would be pretty close to what you are suggesting, but would let me simply have a toggle to temporarily compact the ui, without having to add a separate options dialog and menu.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: GUI/form bugs v1.13.01 in w2k

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 02:15 AM »

Kefrey your ingenuity inspired me to finally update the program.

Can you try the new build at:
https://www.donation...ndDropRobotSetup.exe

Consistent with my new build process there is now also a separate portable build at:
https://www.donation...ropRobotPortable.zip

Your diagram made it easy for me to see what i needed to fix, but let me know if i somehow managed to mess up again.


I hope you don't feel like your fixes were wasted effort -- if you hadn't made them i never would have been shamed sufficiently to release an update
Obviously I put a thank you in the version history of the program help file, but as an extra thank you, if you make some feature requests I will try to implement them.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: GUI/form bugs v1.13.01 in w2k

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 01:43 AM »

Nice to see someone who shows some resourcefulness 
I will try to release an official update.

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Living Room / Re: World's oldest still working digital computer gets rebooted

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2012, 01:29 AM »

Sounds lovely.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2012, 07:23 PM »

I almost forgot about Gadget Friday!

Ok here's mine for this week: An Electric Toothbrush.

I've used two brands, Sonicare and Oral-B, they are both excellent, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend one over the other:

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2012, 03:19 AM »

I just figured out I can implement this -- bars that don't take up full edge width/height.  I'll be adding it as an option in next release.

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Living Room / Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 11:26 PM »

I'm not sure why it never occurred to me, but i have thrown out keyboards after they got too disgustingly dirty, under the assumption that they were too grimey to get clean without getting soap and water in them..

Then it occurred to me that maybe you could wash a keyboard with water as long as you let it completely dry before plugging it in.

Some searching on the internet suggests that it can be done safely.



So I gave the theory a real test, submerging and soaking my keyboard in a bathtub of water and then power washing it with a garden hose.

By the time i was done it looked brand new.  A couple of hours left in front of a strong fan and then a week left to dry, and it works 100%.

Don't know why no one ever told me about this before..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Timed capture using specified region

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 11:17 PM »

Ok so if you go to the Pre-Capture options, you will see for the Auto Capture Timer, you can tell it what kind of capture to perform; if you select "Repeat Region", it should always be capturing the last region you selected for capture.

I think that's what you want -- so it will always be grabbing the specific region you first selected.

(Don't engage the delay, that's different from the Auto Capture Timer).

Let me know if that works for you!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 10:21 PM »

personally i think using the bar in this small a collapse is silly once you see how the docking mode works, but whatever..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 10:12 PM »

How about this for collapsed mode:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 05:14 PM »

Ok what do you fellows think of this:

Expanded:


Collapsed:

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Living Room / Re: Hello Strangers.

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 03:59 PM »

Very glad to see you back Stephen 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 03:46 PM »

yeah, i might do that.

though note that unlike my LBC this docking bar does not have a mode to dock and reserve screen space -- it docks and then slides out of the way without moving any other maximized windows.  so it doesn't actually "take up" any screen real-estate when docked.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 03:16 PM »

I've been told it's much too big to be useful.. so perhaps i will try to make a collapse toggle button that will toggle the bar between normal wide mode and a compact mode that hides everything but the Capture button.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 02:35 PM »

As a side note, because Screenshot Captor will refuse to capture an image of the Quick Capture Bar, I had to use the new Easy Screencast Recorder tool to capture a movie of using it and extract the image above from that 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 02:21 PM »

Updated screenshot:


Docking is also now implemented -- so you can dock the bar to the top of the screen and it will slide hidden out of the way until you mouse over it.

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Living Room / Great Talk on the Social Media Economy

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2012, 11:57 AM »

The social media economy is explained in this great talk:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2012, 05:30 PM »

The screencaster already has a very similar front end, at least in spirit if not in dialog dimensions:



Having said that, eventuallyThe SC Quick Capture Bar will also have options in "what to capture" list to start a screencast, so you'll be able to initiate a screencast from it (as well as from a hotkey in SC, etc.).

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor - New Quick Capture Bar

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2012, 04:48 PM »

Just a screenshot showing the draft look of the new (OPTIONAL) quick capture bar.  It floats on the desktop on top of other apps and you can drag it around.  I may make an option for it to dock at top of screen too.



The idea is that this might be a more friendly interface for people who have trouble remembering hotkeys.  It also has the advantage of letting you quickly change what to do with the image after it's captured.

Obviously I need to improve the look of it substantially (better buttons, etc.)

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Living Room / Re: I need your help...

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2012, 11:01 PM »

Cat food taken care of. 

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Living Room / Re: A secret society uncovered 250 years later

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2012, 05:22 AM »

From the article:

The Oculists’ seal, featuring a cataract needle, a pair of pince-nez, and two cats watching over mice.