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Living Room / Re: Google Tablet

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2012, 08:18 AM »

I'd still love to see someone manufacture a large-format tablet -- something with a 8.5 x 14 inch screen or higher.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2012, 06:52 AM »

Finally someone explained to me wtf this whole thing was actually about, thank you.

Since it's such a short explanation let's just recap it here:

I prefer email to social media. I do have a Facebook page, but I don’t post anything there, and I made sure that my primary personal email address, gerv[at]gerv.net, was displayed in the profile so that people could contact me directly.

Today, I happened to visit my Facebook profile, and noticed that they had changed the displayed email address to gerv.markham[at]facebook.com! The old one was still in the database, but it had been hidden. Email to the Facebook address is forwarded by Facebook to the other one, so it ends up in the same place. [Update: I now think this is not correct. The email instead goes to my Facebook inbox, and I don't get a notification email to say it's there. Which is, IMO, even worse - they don't just pass it through their servers on the way to where it would have gone, they keep it, and fail to send me a copy!]

In other words, Facebook silently inserted themselves into the path of formerly-direct unencrypted communications from people who want to email me...

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

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2012, 06:17 AM »

Knights of Cydonia by Muse: Nice one 

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2012, 12:52 PM »

The cat one is great -- the cat is like W..T..F.. $@&@$%#^

[I think it meets the requirement of this thread, since it's cat meeting a virtual cat].

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: 14 days with SmugMug and Zenfolio

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2012, 10:40 AM »

Thanks for the review Jibz 

And nice woodworking ayryq! 

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2012, 11:33 AM »

Not that I care about facebook, but everyone seems to be talking about this change of emails and I still don't get what it means.. What does it mean they they changed your email to @facebook?  I guess I just don't know how the emails are used.. What are the ramifications of that? How does it affect you?  Can someone explain how these emails are used and what it matters what email facebook shows(?) uses(?)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.07.01 - June 19, 2012

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2012, 09:13 PM »

Is it because I am selecting margins < 1 cm ?

i suspect so.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

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

Ctrl+Alt+Win+Letter would be too much for me, I'm not a spider.

 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2012, 07:16 AM »

I was going to say:
"The hotkeys are configurable, go to options and Hotkeys tab and you can change them there, or remove them if you dont need those."

But now that i read your message you seem to be saying that CHS is triggering on AltGr+Letter when it should only be triggering on Ctrl+Alt+Letter, according to your current hotkey settings?  Is it that CHS is treating the AltGr key as if you pressed Alt+Control keys and triggering the CHS action that would normally be triggered is you hit those keys?

EDIT:

I see now from wikipedia:

To allow the specific functionality of AltGr when typing non-English text on such keyboards, Windows began to allow it to be emulated by pressing the Alt key together with the Control key:
    Ctrl+Alt ≈ AltGr
Therefore, it is recommended that this combination not be used as a modifier in Windows keyboard shortcuts as, depending on the keyboard layout and configuration, someone trying to type a special character with it may accidentally trigger the shortcut,[4] or the keypresses for the shortcut may be inadvertently interpreted as the user trying to input a special character.

SO:

The solution for you seems to be to EITHER see if you can find how to disable this emulation thing (may not be possible),
OR, change the hotkeys in CHS to not use ALT+CTRL (or add the Winkey modifier to them).

Now I need to decide if I should change those defaults in CHS, I probably should..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC won't backup and won't exit

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2012, 06:48 AM »

I apologize for the delay, I will try to get this out today or tomorrow.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: List Newest Files In Some Folder

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2012, 06:46 AM »

This is only tangentially related to the question, but you can use my Launchbar Commander tool to create a toolbar with "folder menus", buttons you click to show the contents of a folder (or more than one folder), and you can set filters on how the contents of a folder can be displayed, including filtering it by date and subdirectory patterns, like so:


Might be useful if you want to be able to quickly check the contents of your folder simply by pushing a button on a docked toolbar.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Moving messages to another thread

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2012, 03:59 PM »

just send me a message with the details of what you would like to move/merge and where.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Time Interval in Auto Capture Timer

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2012, 11:50 AM »

I will upload a new version this weekend to test.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Time Interval in Auto Capture Timer

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2012, 10:34 AM »

Ath is right -- if you need to capture huge numbers of images as fast interval, you might try a video capturing tool.

Having said that, I could see how fast I can make SC go if you want to test it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Time Interval in Auto Capture Timer

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2012, 09:24 AM »

make sure you turn off the DELAY, if you have it checked.  The 4000ms is the default DELAY setting, which you dont want -- that's something different from the timer.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Time Interval in Auto Capture Timer

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2012, 06:01 AM »

The interval period is set on the "Pre-Capture" Options tab.

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Web Link Captor / Re: Web Link Captor is occasionally useful!

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2012, 10:55 AM »

It comes with python search scripts for using google, bing, or other sites that return search results in rss format.
For anything else you will have to derive your own search script in python.  There are examples of that included (dc member ewemoa wrote one).

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Generate sequential serial numbers

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2012, 05:44 AM »

I dont know AHK but i can see clearly what it's doing:

SubStr is common name for a function that extracts part of a string (characters at start, end, or middle).

-5 is used by some SubStr implementation to mean the last 5 characters.

So it looks like this is creating a string that starts with "000000" followed by the serial number string (like "12"), to yield something like "00000012",
and then grabbing the string made up of the last 5 characters, e.g. "00012".

In other words it's generating a 6 digit serial number string, padded on the left with 0s.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Go Back

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2012, 03:11 PM »

huh?

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Living Room / Re: Udacity - free online education for real

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 07:07 PM »

By the way, Sebastian Thrun is a fantastic researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has written some great stuff.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Access violation error every morning

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 10:24 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 09:27 AM »

It does have the potential to be a great thing, if Microsoft avoids doing the kind of nasty things that Apple does -- like making it so hard to get files/applications on and off the device and let's us have control of our own device.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi Photo Quotes Release v1.35.01 - June 19, 2012

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 08:49 AM »

Minor update:

v1.35.01 - June 19, 2012

• [Feature] For portable users, program now checks for ConfigDir_Default.ini if ConfigDir.ini not found; prevents your custom ConfigDir.ini file from being overwritten when unpacking portable distribution zip.
• [MajorFeature] Executable and setup are now digitally signed for extra security; instead of a zip-compatible installer, there are now 2 separate downloads for installer and portable version.
• [BugFix] Errors could occur if monitor configurations changed while program was running (ie connecting/disconnecting multiple monitors).

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General Software Discussion / Re: From ZDnet writer - Final Thoughts on Windows 8: A Design Disaster

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 08:32 AM »

Let's move the new MS tablet discussion to this thread.

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Living Room / Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2012, 08:31 AM »

Microsoft announced yesterday that they were going to go up against apple with a new table/thinlaptop hybrid, codenamed "Surface".


Links for more info:

• http://www.microsoft...ace/en/us/about.aspx
• http://hardware.slas...unces-surface-tablet
• http://www.extremete...nd-fold-out-keyboard

Looks pretty cool.  Apple has a long history of locking down their machines and making it hard for users to use them flexibly.  Let's hope Microsoft can do something different.