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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 08:48 PM »

I'm speechless... What a day of donations, 138 individual donations of the course of the last day.  Wow.

What now? I guess we keep the fundraiser open till April 15th, as planned.. But everything after today is just gravy.

I'm half tempted to buy a used van, paint Cody's picture on it, and drive across the planet personally thanking everyone who donated.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 03:12 PM »

Sending DonationCredits to the site account will count towards the thermometer goal iff you message me and ask me to count it.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo & DC's fundraiser

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 02:49 PM »

Wonderful!!!

And combined with the recent mentions of the fundraiser on a couple of other sites (see here), the new number of new donators has skyrocketed this monday morning 

Thank you Gizmo!!

(ps. I merged the two topics)

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 10:44 AM »

I never really noticed - are there any incentives or challenges associated with this one? Last time we did all sorts of things to spur people on.

Actually running the fundraiser this year was a bit of a last minute decision so we didn't really have time to organize anything special.

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 10:11 AM »

Spent the entire weekend reorganizing and refactoring code.. I wouldn't exactly call it fun, but on the other hand it's a nice feeling to be able to reorganize stuff and make it cleaner and more logical.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 09, 2012, 01:49 AM »

Thank you soooo much to everyone who has donated.  It's a wonderful feeling to know the site is appreciated.
We've reached our original goal of $3,000 raised for the fundraiser.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

But.. It seems Cody is up to his old fundraising tricks, never satisfied with the size of his bag of coins:

Midnight April 8th:


And then a few minutes later:



Let's see if we can reach $5,000 -- enough to pay for an entire year of our server hosting costs!  

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2012, 10:21 PM »

The thermometer broke !!! 

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2012, 03:04 PM »

Samer from the great freewaregenius site posted a very warm announcement about our fundraiser:



(i love the image he made with dancing cody)


And Ishan at ILoveFreeSoftware.com also wrote up the fundraiser today:



Gizmo wrote about the fundraiser at his amazing and unrivaled Gizmo's Freeware site, which has caused a flood of new donations -- thank you Gizmo!!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Find And Run Robot (FARR) - Features You Should Know About

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2012, 11:22 AM »

I'm afraid not, but there are some good similar linux utilities like Gnome Do, and the cross platform Launchy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redo Backup and Recovery

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2012, 09:34 AM »

Thanks for posting this ewemoa 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some Post-Capture Options mutually exclusive?

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 10:57 PM »

Yes, for now.
On my todo list is to save both formats to the clipboard at the same time.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 06:55 PM »

ps. I keep laughing at some of the lolcats (i think my favorites are: Shush, Psst, Now I getz it, I donut git it).

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 06:52 PM »

Nice one Tao. 

It looks like in the next day or two the thermometer is going to do it's auto-readjusting trick and auto-increase the goal post..

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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 06:19 PM »

Some forewarning: i plan to merge this topic with this one https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=124.0

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.41

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 05:03 PM »

Very nice! Welcome to the site TwinBee 

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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 12:42 PM »

welcome 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 12:14 PM »

Cute !!!  

Rabbitfeathers -- you took those photos? fantastic!

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Living Room / Re: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 07:57 AM »

Amen! The scientific journal scam has to end -- these scientific articles, funded in good part by public dollars, need to be free.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2012, 05:17 AM »

I just love these images so much 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: My experience with board games.

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 06:08 PM »

Tao, when you get ready to make your cards, you might want to check out my open source Python scripts for card prototyping:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26052.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Withdrawn: ProtoCards

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 06:08 PM »

Just for the record, I did complete this and release it as open source in April 2011.
See here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26052.0

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: My experience with board games.

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 03:27 PM »

Thanks for posting this.. i wondered if the people i sent those big boxes of games to ever played them..

Cutthroat caverns is a fun one.  I like Citadels because of the mechanic of choosing roles.

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

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 03:24 PM »

couple things to check, even though this may sound stupid:
1) this happens even when top item is a program to launch not an alias
2) double check that farr isn't simply hiding behind another window by having it be the only app on the desktop
3) make sure you have latest release

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Developer's Corner / Re: High DPI Awareness

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 01:59 PM »

Thanks for the links Curt 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: windows media centre

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2012, 12:55 PM »

Probably not, because of video acceleration in this mode, which bypasses the normal attempts to grab a screenshot.  You could do it if you completely disabled hardware acceleration for your graphics card, but doing that would hurt performance.