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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2012, 02:05 PM »

Another thing I noticed; FARR does not seem to pick up custom .ico files set on a shortcut, but instead always (?) uses the 'integrated' icon file of an executable.

There are a few options in farr for whether to "resolve shortcuts" on the bottom of the Search Behavior tab -- you might try turning those off and seeing if that fixes it.  If not let me know -- I can surely fix it as an option.

I also notice I launch search results using the F1-F9 keys for some reason, but I cannot seem to configure this behavior (I'd like to disable it)? I already disabled launching using the numpad keys in options.

I will add such an option.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2012, 01:47 PM »

Game play sample photo (illustrates the sample game in the new rule book):

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2012, 12:49 PM »

Updated first post with new screenshot of game contents (cards, chips, rulebook, etc.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: Carbon - my new hackable performant (semi) static blogging system.

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2012, 09:57 AM »

Very cool!!

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: Episode 30 = 2-XL Simulator review

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2012, 09:42 AM »

Very fun.  Thanks for that episode -- your enthusiasm was infectious

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Living Room / Re: Barebone server: what else do I need to complete it?

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2012, 04:51 PM »

Note: rackmount servers are heavy, noisy (as in 747 takeoff noisy) and run hot. So think about where you're gonna put it.

ditto. 

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General Software Discussion / FreewareGenius Compares 13 Undelete Tools

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2012, 07:31 AM »

Useful post on Freewaregenius today evaluating undelete tools..

This post will compare the performance a number of these tools in order to answer that question, for both FAT32 and NTFS drives. After a head-to-head test, we were able to categorize these programs into 1st tier programs that you would want to use, and offer the best performance, 2nd tier programs that you might try if you need to, and 3rd tier programs which you shouldn’t bother with.

http://www.freewareg...elete-tools-compared

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me understand Virtual Machine [VMWare]

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2012, 04:36 PM »

Very nice find xtabber -- thanks for posting that link. 

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Living Room / Re: SpammerScammer

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2012, 11:13 AM »

As much as it might be justified to call and harass spammers into stopping, and as evil as spammers are, we can't be posting people's phone numbers or emails on this forum, sorry.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2012, 08:49 AM »

Also ALT-O doesn't bring up options.

this was removed because it conflicted with some foreign language keys.

With the 2.200.1 release I get an access violation (win 8, x64).  Happened after I tried to run an alias that open 6 pages in the browser.

If you can reproduce it please do let me know what causes it.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2012, 06:33 AM »

Thanks for the great comments 40hz -- really enjoyed reading that.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: update overwrites?

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 10:33 PM »

Yes, when you install the new version is will overwrite the previous version and update it.

I should probably state that more clearly at the start of the installation process, thanks for reminding me.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] multiple run

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 09:49 PM »

Glad it's useful to you!

Maybe we can revisit the portable apps use cases in the near future and see if there aren't some good options and metadata handling that farr could do to make it even better as a portable app usb stick launcher.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 09:42 PM »

Ok we have an official new non-beta release:

Version 2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

• [Feature] Built in replacement vars (e.g. %WINDIR%) now accept lowercase version as well (%windir%)
• [Feature] Environmental replacement now performed in search box text.
• [Feature] New option to use generic icons for folders when directory browsing -- speeds up win8 browsing and in cases where custom dynamic folder icons are used.
• [Feature] Added auto-completing environmental variable listing feature/alias; type % to see list of all environmental variables.
• [BugFix] Last selected alias file was not always remembered between runs.
• [MinorChange] Right-clicking on a result to bring up context menu now stops any running search.
• [Improvement] Small improvement in caching item icons for faster display of updating search results.
• [BugFix] Fixed crash when displaying dates on files whose file timestamp is after year 9999.
• [Feature] You can now tell FARR what to do when you hit enter and there are no results showing, by setting the new option on the Launching Files tab (this used to require creating a special noresults alias); FARR will remind you of this the first time you hit enter when there are no results.
• [Feature] Added shellexec special virtual launch string command that simulates typing a line into a dos command console (e.g. supports arguments and will launch executables on the system path); changed default run alias to use.
• [Feature] First experimental attempt to have CapsLock trigger for FARR preserve caps lock state.
• [Feature] New experimental tweak option on Display Options tab, labeled "Speed up display by avoiding lookup of some icons"; disabled by default.  Enabled if some search results cause a pause in your FARR when displaying them.
• [Change] Removed Ctrl+Alt+O shortcut, as it could conflict with some diacriticals.
• [Improvement] Improved speed of large directory listings.
• [Change] Default options are now to show 100 (previously was 30) entries in directory browsing mode; and not show more by default (previous was to do +sall) on directory browsing.
• [Improvement] Huge speedup in displaying results in some cases.
• [Feature] New alias options to show certain aliases only on certain versions of windows (used in control panel alias).
• [Feature] Brand new Windows-8 updated control panel alias (cpanel) and windows admin control center (mmc), created by DC member Josh.
• [Feature] Added new "Add Alias" button to alias tab, which automatically brings user to the myaliases.alias file if the currently selected alias file is read-only.
• [Improvement] Miscellaneous improvements to working with aliases and other options lists; now remembers your position in the list as you edit/add/delete items.
• [Major Improvement] Huge speedup in displaying results in some cases, Huge speedup in directory browsing speeds.
• [Improvement] Ctrl+Shift+Enter launches item as administrator (elevated privileges) and works with shellexec; use /runasadmin to create an alias that does this without ctrl+shift.

Thanks again to Josh for his encouragement and help, and his fantastic job with the new (Windows 7+8 compatible) cpanel and mmc aliases.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] multiple run

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 07:35 PM »

I'm glad you revived this thread since I think this has been solved for a while now.

You can combine multiple things to run on one line of an alias result by separating them with ;;;

But I think what you really want is the ctrl+alt+enter, which says to launch every result currently listed.

Let me know if that solves your request.

ps.
I keep meaning to look into making farr capable of loading PortableApps configuration files or similar things to make it an easier drop in replacement for that.  any suggestions about that would be welcome.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 06:51 PM »

Crash should be fixed in latest beta upload.  Thanks for the reports -- looks like i had a bug with cacheing regular expression search results; it may have caused some other erroneous regex alias matches in the past as well.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 04:41 PM »

ok i will find and fix.  im very curious to see what explains the crash!

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: New 2XL tapes

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 12:30 PM »

But were these 6 done the JD has?

nope.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Stealth-focused Computer Games

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 09:25 AM »

Splinter Cell Conviction was also quite a good stealth game, as were all of the Hitman games, as was Sniper Elite.

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DC Gamer Club / Stealth-focused Computer Games

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 09:05 AM »

I played Deus Ex Human Revolution to completion last week. I don't play games often but I really enjoyed it (similar enjoyment to Mass Effect series).  I could have done without all the side puzzle game thing involving "hacking" and the micro-management upgrade/rpg stuff, and it was a bit overly talky, and i hated that the sniper rifle was useless, but I loved the stealth-focused gameplay.  Big thumbs up from me.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Pause when searching

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2012, 08:08 AM »

If this is a problem faced by others, where there are a very small set of specific files that cause farr to pause while navigating through them because they are network files that require a username/pass, i could add a place where user can put a list of files that farr should never actually check for the existence of and should use a geneirc icon to display..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 11:52 PM »

By the way, FARR is now ten and a half years old.  

Version 1.0, March 18, 2002 - First release

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: clips stored in reverse order

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 06:15 PM »

Hi Sam,

Sounds like it must be something simple -- have you changed the sorting order?

When you say the clips are in the wrong order, do you mean in the quick paste popup menu, or in the main window or both?

Can you take a screenshot for us?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot lighting

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 01:07 PM »

A few days ago, I looked at the differences in screenshots after having saved the file.
Can it be that the differences are made during the saving method?

As long as you are saving as PNG files, the images will be perfect (lossless) and should not be even 1 pixel different.

If you are saving some as jpg, that will result in degraded images.

(I suppose one thing that could make a screenshot "dark" is if it is of a semi-transparent window, but i'd think you would know that if it was the case).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 11:44 AM »

Any one try the new version and find that all your old stuff is working fine?  I'd like some confirmation that I haven't broken things before I release it as official.