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General Software Discussion / Re: CPU Utilization Alerter ?

« Last post by Renegade on December 12, 2006, 09:19 AM »

Thanks for all the suggestions.
  What a great forum!

-222fbj (December 11, 2006, 01:39 PM)

Very good forum - There are some very smart people in here.

One of the things I really like is that there are a lot of developers and users here. It makes for a really cool mix.

- I'll have to check out some of those suggestions as well.

However I doubt anything will work reliably with Outlook as it loves to chew up CPU... (That was a blatant stab at Outlook... My FAVORITE application of all time...) Ooops... Was my tongue in my cheek? I should get back to work.

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Official Announcements / Re: Prize list posted for the Accessibility Game Coding Contest - WOW $15,000+

« Last post by Renegade on December 10, 2006, 09:00 AM »

Well, I won't be entering this contest, but I've received some email from a blind user of my software and I'll be trying to work in some accessibility in a future version.

It won't be easy to start, but this is something that has always been on my mind. Until I got that email though, it was a VERY distant priority.

Fortunately he gave me some resource links to find out more so that I can work it in.

While good eye-sight is something a lot of us take for granted, not everyone has it. (I believe that it can be partially fixed by smoking marijuana, but if I'm wrong you'd at least have fun trying.)

But honestly, I had no idea that there was an entire genre of games out there like that. (But I don't play games either - they're more addictive than heroin.)

In any event, good luck to the participants and may the most fun game win!

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Renegade on December 10, 2006, 08:32 AM »

Next on the agenda?

Spreading the word of the flying spaghetti monster! That's the hidden agenda of this site

-f0dder (December 08, 2006, 04:44 PM)

Amen and pass the parmasan!

When you put up a prize worth $10k, everyone enters.  Whether they need it or not.

Yep. I entered. I didn't need it, but "wanted" it.

While I don't have a Team System license, I do have an MSDN Universal Subscription. (Which gives me a tonne of licenses.)

Looking at the results, I'd say that I'm happy that someone who needs it got it. (As I stated in my entry.)

I have no problems with how mouser runs things at all. I've donated software licenses to DC before and would do it again.

IF - and I stress IF - there was anything improper, the only result of it was good.

Mouser - if you want more licenses from me you have only to ask. DC's and your integrity is not in question - it's held with high esteem.

Cheers,

Ryan Smyth

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anonymous Google searches with G-Zapper

« Last post by Renegade on December 10, 2006, 07:32 AM »

Combine Scroogle with TOR and you've got a fantastic way to search for poisons to kill your cheating spouse and ways to dispose of the body!
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2006 Great Software List Awards

« Last post by Renegade on December 10, 2006, 07:25 AM »

Tried out XYplorer, and while it might work ok, I found it a bit rough around the edges. I use FileBoss for when I need heavy duty work and the learning curve was smaller. XYplorer seems to take a bit more. Which seems wierd as FileBoss has a lot more heavy lifting functionality in it.

YMMV I suppose.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What do you think about the new MS Office 2007?

« Last post by Renegade on December 10, 2006, 07:19 AM »

I just visited zaine's blog - and if you don't visit there right now... You're VERY gay!

But it's a darn good chair...

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2006 Great Software List Awards

« Last post by Renegade on December 09, 2006, 10:04 AM »

Oh - I'm going to have to give that XYplorer a spin. I used to have PowerDesk years ago and liked it, but then... Well - it's just time to have a look again. Thanks for the recommendation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2006 Great Software List Awards

« Last post by Renegade on December 09, 2006, 10:01 AM »

Maybe I'm just a grump about this, or perhaps I'm just a web bigot, but "best" and "online app" don't belong in the same sentence.

I still find that there is nothing like a client interface. A web browser is still a poor-man's client.

The reasons for that for me boil down to browsers still being inordinately heavy. While they are great as a 'swiss army knife', they just don't cut it when you want a razor for precision or an axe for brute force. You simply can't shave with a swiss army knife, and chopping down trees is possible, but takes forever.

Maybe in the future they may work, but right now, well, they're just not up to snuff.

More reliable bandwidth and faster browsers will make a big difference.

For RSS, email, and some other things there is no avoiding using a network. Office applications? Calendars? Remote file access? Ummm... Can we say "RealVNC"? Actually there are some companies making a killing off of remote access. But that will die like many other markets. Heck - I need to shut up now before I blather on forever... before you know it I'll be spouting off about technology life-cycles and other boring junk.

Peace, Love, and Eternal Groovieness!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another alt.comp.freeware post on donationcoder.com, for your consideration

« Last post by Renegade on November 27, 2006, 01:12 AM »

Did anyone ever read anything by Stephen Huff in the alt.shareware.authors (or whatever it's called) NG? Man... That was hilarious. Biggest flame was I've ever laughed at!

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Developer's Corner / Re: F*cks per source package and license

« Last post by Renegade on November 26, 2006, 04:58 AM »

There was a Microsoft site where in the CSS comments someone wrote something like "Stupid workaround for IE bug." Not profanity, but certainly obscene!

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Developer's Corner / Re: F*cks per source package and license

« Last post by Renegade on November 25, 2006, 10:11 PM »

Hahahahaha~! 

Nothing like comments in code!

Thank-you very much for posting that! It's probably the most abso-fucking-lutely entertaining and informative post ever on source code! 

(I'm not surprised that PHP wins out there.)

Cheers!

Ryan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Extractor

« Last post by Renegade on November 24, 2006, 12:28 AM »

as far as i can gather from UniExtract's documents, i think support for Win9x is on the author's to do list..

-lanux128 (November 23, 2006, 07:19 PM)

  Nah... He can't possibly be THAT bored!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Extractor

« Last post by Renegade on November 23, 2006, 07:20 AM »

It's a good program. I use it to open installers on a regular basis. Works like a charm.

It's a bit awkward for regular daily use as there are friendlier alternatives, but for power users and developers, it's a must have.

And were those screen shots taken with Screen Captor by any chance? It's a pretty good program from what I've seen. (Thanks mouser!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Linked In: Web social networking for professionals

« Last post by Renegade on November 22, 2006, 04:18 PM »

The guy who created it was just interviewed on Venture Voice or Hanselminutes recently. I forget which. I think it was Venture Voice.

Might be worthwhile. But you do have to work it smartly. You can't just invite everyone and their grandmother. But it sounds like a good tool.

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Developer's Corner / Decent Outlook/Office Programming Resources?

« Last post by Renegade on November 20, 2006, 05:13 PM »

Hello all,

I'm just so eternally frustrated with Outlook... It's eroding my sanity in large chunks. (Worse than iTunes.)   

So, I've pretty much decided to take up Office and Outlook programming so that I can hammer Outlook into something faster and more useable for myself.

If anyone does any Office/Outlook programming, would you care to point me to some of the better resources. This is one of those things that I just don't care to learn much about - I just want to get things done ASAP - so any good resources that you've found useful will be greatly appreciated.

I'll of course check out the MSDN Magazine site and the Code Project first as those two generally seem to be some of the best places to look at sample code.

Thanks in advance,

Ryan

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General Software Discussion / Site Maps for Everyone :)

« Last post by Renegade on November 19, 2006, 09:29 PM »

Looks like the big boys have gotten their act together to agree on something that's good for us.

Sitemap.org




Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are on board.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool or Shell to Browse+Play .WAV files?

« Last post by Renegade on November 19, 2006, 08:33 PM »

Hmmm... Might make for a fun project too.

Once I get the other ones out of the way though... Focus Ryan... Focus... Now repeat after me, "I will finish my current projects before I pick up more... I will finish my current projects before I pick up more... I will finish my current projects before I pick up more... "

In the meantime, I'm sure that there are some Windows Explorer replacements that should have that built in. (Or I'd hope so - I seems like such an obvious thing.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool or Shell to Browse+Play .WAV files?

« Last post by Renegade on November 19, 2006, 08:31 PM »

Ok - That was removed. It only applies to IE 4.

Which sucks - I wish MS would fix the problem rather than just pull functionality. It's stupid users that really cause problems for everyone else. The constant nagging in Vista is another example of how click-happy users spread viruses and ruin things for everyone.

It's too bad. Because that preview functionality was very cool. I used to use it all the time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tool or Shell to Browse+Play .WAV files?

« Last post by Renegade on November 19, 2006, 08:11 PM »

There is a preview on the left that I remember. I forget how to get it to show, but try turning off the treview and you might see it. It was in Windows 2000.

If you select (on XP) there will be a "Play all" but it isn't quite what you want.

I can't remember how to turn it on though. You could just use a regular player. ALSong lets you browse music in the playlist like in folders, so that's kind of similar but not the same.

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General Software Discussion / Outlook revealed to me what databases really are...

« Last post by Renegade on November 16, 2006, 10:47 PM »

But it's not printable here. It is here though.

While fighting with Outlook and the miserable way that it handles its own data, it occurred to me what databases really are. Only in the most crass of terms though. 

Anyways, it looks like I've got an infinite loop while exporting from Outlook for the new box. Joy. I've only had to reinstall Office once so far though. I suppose I should count myself lucky... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Monitor from MS+SysInternals (evolved from Regmon+Filemon)

« Last post by Renegade on November 08, 2006, 06:12 AM »

Great program. It's a must have if you need to track down rogue processes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: shortText.com

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2006, 07:09 AM »

Oh - Check these out - They are very cool:

http://www.shorttext.com/z0gv5

http://www.shorttext.com/sezaw

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General Software Discussion / Re: shortText.com

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2006, 07:00 AM »

Now THAT is VERY cool!

Simple to the point of being stupid, but still very very cool. Much better than MySpace.

Now, here's my first post that has been shrinksterized, tinyurlized, and shortextized...

http://shrinkster.com/js8

Now if only I can figure out how to get this stuff looping... Muahahahaha~!   

                     

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General Software Discussion / Doing the "Mac"arena

« Last post by Renegade on November 07, 2006, 06:50 AM »

Seems like the Macarena is dancing on a few Macs

There's a new virus called the "Macarena" that infect some files on OSX and if they are executed, they can take control of the machine. Symantec gives it a "low" threat assessment (make of that what you will), but warns that this may be the beginning of virus writers beginning to target the OSX OS.

Now for the hard part... Must... Resist... Urge... To...

Ah... Urge resisted successfully!

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE7 Rant

« Last post by Renegade on November 06, 2006, 11:21 PM »

While Opera is fast to display HTML, and quick loading, the way it handles javascript is very slow. This is a common criticism of Opera, and probably the major reason why I don't use it more than I do. (I use Opera for some things - not many though.)