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Living Room / Re: A change I've seen in the forum
« Last post by mouser on March 15, 2012, 10:51 AM »
I think I agree with you, and I think it just means that we all have to remember that even as we become comfortable with each other enough to engage in casual discussions within topics -- the forum is also meant to be a repository of information for other people to find and read.

As such, a real attempt should be made to give threads useful topics, and to stay on topic.

There is always the irc chat channel for when people just want to hang out and talk about nonsense :)  :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista/Win7 Aero Glass
« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2012, 05:54 PM »
It surely has to do with transparency (those corners have some transparency) but what i can't remember is if the Save As function is removing the transparency..

I suspect that is in fact what's happening -- question, in SC options, under "Image File Format" tab, do you have the box checked that says "Flatten background transparency on Save As" ?
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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?
« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2012, 04:06 PM »
If anyone wants to get rid of their copy of ME3 i'd give it a good home!  :)
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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?
« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2012, 03:26 PM »
no spoilers please! i haven't played it yet.
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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer Update Coming -- Express your feature requests here!
« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2012, 12:21 PM »
I stand corrected -- post modified  :Thmbsup:
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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer Update Coming -- Express your feature requests here!
« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2012, 12:52 AM »
Process Tamer just hasn't gotten the attention from me that it deserves yet.  It's one of the few programs of mine that has deserved a major update and hasn't received one yet.

Until I do update Process Tamer, you might in the meantime you might check out the freeware/shareware product Process Lasso.
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2012, 02:54 PM »
Well there are a few websites that i already planned to work on as first testbeds for yumps, and it just so happens that one of them is a complete revamping of the Self-Teaching Programming School, which is on the dc forum system now, and actually existed before DonationCoder.

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2012, 01:32 PM »
I'd also be really interested in anyone doing academic work who might be interested in getting a grant to build a larger web site that used yumps as its core.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Updating FARR: Will it mess up my aliases?
« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2012, 05:13 AM »
upgrading will not mess with your aliases, providing you didn't do something crazy like hand edit in a text editor the built in read-only aliases that come with farr.

as long as you only added your own alias files, or added aliases to the MyAlias alias file (which is the only thing farr will let you do from within farr) then you are fine.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Option to automatically center on screen
« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2012, 05:10 AM »
I agree, it seems like a good idea and easy to add -- i will add an option for it.  It could be especially useful for multimonitor users, to have it appear centered on "current" monitor.
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2012, 10:16 AM »
Awesome.

The idea of YUMPS is to have a really robust and fantastic, programmer-friendly foundation for creating custom web services, social sites, etc.  So that if one had an idea for a new kind of project along the lines of facebook, etsy (anything with user accounts!) -- you would be able to get that off the ground and coded in a fraction of the time it would take to code it from scratch, and with a fraction of the maintenance and extensibility hassles (and a much more robust feature set) than you would have if you started with one of the existing codebases (whether that be a cms codebase like Drupal, or a lower level programming framework).

A good potential source of funding might be someone with a specific custom web service/site project in mind (or two or three), that was interested in having me create both the generic YUMPS system, and at the same time implementing their specific needs as the showcase site.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me choose an online backup service
« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2012, 07:12 AM »
I'm still using the CrashPlan trial but I cannot bring myself to commit to it because it's sitting here in the tray using 250mb of ram(!)

The CrashPlan developers seem at a complete loss as to how to prevent their application from going on a rampage consuming memory.  They know it's happening because people are complaining on the forum about it, but they can't seem to fix it.

It's a fatal flaw for an otherwise great service.

[As an aside: For those of you programmers who are suspicious of garbage collected languages, this is some ammunition for you, and confirmation of your reluctance to adopt java.]
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2012, 07:16 PM »
ps. If anyone can think of any way I could raise funding to keep working on yumps please do contact me -- I'd love nothing more than to be able to work on it near full time for a year -- it's a giant project.
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2012, 07:00 PM »
Yes, pretty much what perry said.
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2012, 12:13 PM »
I dont know anything about "Microsoft's Web Developer".

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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2012, 11:02 AM »
I think the key idea is that its for programmers who want to create custom web services that involve user accounts.

If you want to build a website that is basically a standard CMS, then by all means use an existing CMS system.

YUMPS is for people who want to build custom web services that don't neatly fit into the standard category of CMS/BLOG/FORUM.


Perhaps a good way to understand the focus of YUMPS is for me to explain what motivated me to start coding on it.

I have started two medium sized web projects now (tfdocs and userquotes), that involve users creating content.  In both cases i struggled mightily to figure out what to use as my core system for handling users, and ended up both times choosing Drupal, because of its strong API for extending the system.

While both systems got implemented -- I was very unhappy with the process of using Drupal, and my conclusion was that Drupal and other CMS systems, not matter how flexible and programmer friendly they are -- are designed for web administrators not programmers.  While they may have a high degree of customizability and configurability, trying to use them as the starting point for a custom system that is not first and foremost a standard cms, is painful.

YUMPS is like a programmer's library, with which you could build a new custom CMS, forum, blog system, or similar web service.

Or put another way, YUMPS is not a competitor to DRUPAL, Wordpress, or the SMF forum system -- it's something that could be used as the foundation code for building a new version of Drupal, Wordpress, etc.
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MEWLO Web Framework / Re: OLD - Unfinished Web project: YUMPS
« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2012, 09:23 AM »
I have made the redmine/wiki project site for YUMPS public:
https://redmine.dcis...m/projects/ums2/wiki
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Webcam Video Diary / Re: Recording video chat (Skype/Google)?
« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2012, 06:00 PM »
no i'm afraid not -- but there are some good skype tools for recording.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: screen capture secure-eBook and print
« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2012, 09:16 AM »
Two ways to solve this -- one would be to find a program that knows how to automatically split an image over multiple pages when printing, like a poster printer.

The better way would be for me to add a feature that's been requested before -- an option to have SC save each page as a separate file -- or even a multi-page pdf.  That seems like it would be a good feature to add.  I will try to find the time to add it soon.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SnagIt 11
« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2012, 09:03 AM »
Some useful suggestions about improving SC here -- i'll addess them but i'm going to split this thread off so we dont hijack the snagit thread further.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lite version of C++
« Last post by mouser on March 09, 2012, 11:38 AM »
I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for, but if you are asking for a more streamlined development environment for C++ coding, try Dev-c++:
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redacting PDF Scans
« Last post by mouser on March 09, 2012, 09:46 AM »
That's a more interesting question than it may first appear -- there are surely easy ways to put a black bar over the information from within a pdf editor -- but you need to be very careful that the original text isn't still recoverable and contained within the pdf -- something that might be quite hard to figure out just on a casual examination of the file.  Lots of stories about how people thought they removed/hid some information in a document but found that the information was still present in the file.
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General Software Discussion / Re: SnagIt 11
« Last post by mouser on March 09, 2012, 08:19 AM »
Ah well, everyone should find the perfect program for the way their brain works -- we all have different needs.

But if you really want a minimalist tool, try my MiniCap, the little sister to Screenshot Captor -- it basically works via commandline and does not stay resident.

Just remember that Screenshot Captor was designed to stay completely out of your way until you need it so I hope people won't be put off my all the things it can do and focus on how they can configure it to work best for them.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Save all images as a PDF or SWF
« Last post by mouser on March 09, 2012, 07:21 AM »
Also remember that the left hand thumbnail panel is fully windows explorer compatible -- so any shell extension you might have that lets you select a bunch of files and right-click to perform an operation on them (im sure there are some pdf builders that work that way), or that support drag and drop, will work via the left hand thumbnail panel.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Version 1.129.01 Bug - Tab page loses captions for submenu items on switch
« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2012, 07:43 PM »
Glad to hear it -- that was a sneaky bug.
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