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General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 catalog/database programs

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 07:52 AM »

I like MediaMonkey so far, many people put lots of thought into its features!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Move installed programs from one drive to another.

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 06:37 AM »

@KaysLover:

whatever you tried to with your last post, it had gone horribly wrong. It's in the trash now, please try again.

And use the Preview button

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will Wright's Spore - 30 minute amazing video

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 05:47 AM »

And here we fiddle with our puny programs...
I really must learn to program properly!

Skrommel, totally desillusioned...

-skrommel (March 07, 2006, 03:18 PM)

Come on... while Spore truely looks like FUN, your great AHK tools have a real USE! Every day!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: WinWarden - monitor windows and resize (and reposition) them

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 05:31 AM »

Ok

Any thoughts about my suggestion in https://www.donation...57.msg18246#msg18246 ?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 03:42 AM »

Miranda is becoming popular in DC's IRC channel! 

If you want to step forward from using Trillian, there's even a Trillian message history importer: http://addons.mirand...viewfile&id=1929

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: WinWarden - monitor windows and resize (and reposition) them

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 03:17 AM »

I have a funny thing to report.
Try using winwarden with the default configurations, and go to this link in your browser: https://www.donation...98.msg18245#msg18245
You'll be surprised.

-jgpaiva (March 07, 2006, 05:29 PM)

I'm a bit worried now 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: AutoHotkeyUpdateChecker

« Last post by brotherS on March 08, 2006, 02:48 AM »

Hi lanux128, welcome to the amazing world of AutoHotkey! 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: WinWarden - monitor windows and resize (and reposition) them

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 05:22 PM »

Thanks to skrommel and Tim Morck for WinWarden 2.0!

After using it a bit and playing with its settings, I wonder if this would be possible for 2.1:

I'm using "Active" and "Deactivated" for a certain window and would love it if WinWarden would immediately react on the "Active" event but would take a few seconds 'regret time' before executing the "Deactivated" event. I guess I could live without that additional feature, but it would be the cream on the top of the (already very tasty) cake!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: move Miranda's IRC window to lower position on screen when not active

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 05:06 PM »

It works, thanks!! 

WinWarden is really impressive, I'm already thinking about other uses for it

I wish I could have donated more to you, with SO many AHK tools now on your DC page you really deserve it!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: KCOAW - keep cursor over active window

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 04:18 PM »

I'm sorry, it's a bit hard to explain... let me try it with my 1337 gfx skills:

When I'm only in IRC (= green / the blue thing is the desktop), the mouse cursor will usually be above the IRC window too. When I open a message dialog (because I got a private message) it pops up (= red on the image) next to the IRC window, getting focus while the cursor automatically centers above it (this situation is being shown on that image). When I send an answer this automatically closes the message dialog, resulting in the IRC window getting back its focus but the mouse cursor won't be moved back over the IRC window, it stays where it's being shown on that image (hence "but the mouse cursor stays in its old place").

I hope I won't have to come up with more images...? 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: move Miranda's IRC window to lower position on screen when not active

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 03:45 PM »

*gasp* I didn't study rocket science, but I'll try to make it do what I plan to

Btw, the two latest programs you added/updated both got a strange "2006.04.02" date in the "HISTORY OF CHANGES", and you might wanna change the URL the WinWarden URL at the top of that points to.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 12:25 PM »

unrelated, but... "rainy day" windows theme, eh? Thought I was the only one

-f0dder (March 07, 2006, 12:15 PM)

Huh?

I suppose you are talking about the first image in my first post in this thread? If so, read that line above that image again

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 10:37 AM »

Another update (see first post for URL) and a nice FileForum review:

A masterpiece!

I have been using this utility for a while now. As others have remarked, it is impressively quick. It usually delivers results before you've even finished clicking the Search button, and makes XP's Search tool look very poor.

Janne's decision to make it freeware was smart. It has gained her a lot of recognition and kudos as a programmer.

I gave it "5 (high)" but it deserves "high 5"

Nothing to add there... (besides the fact that Janne is still male)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 catalog/database programs

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 10:22 AM »

Yes, Toaster is great, I'm using it since ages

Another nice plugin: DFX for Winamp enhances the sound a lot, it's unbelievable until you heard it yourself, much better than just the equalizer: http://fileforum.bet.../detail/1030468205/1

And now back to the topic

Since I'm using the free and great Mp3tag (check http://fileforum.bet.../Mp3tag/1056224000/1 and notice the awesome rating!) I have no use for another, expensive tagger. But I'm more and more interested in a catalog program for long-time storage, so I took a look at the sites mentioned above.

http://www.mediamonkey.com/ looks really good! According to http://fileforum.bet...aMonkey/1004522272/1 it IS a lovely app, I have to try it! Another nice fact about it: "MediaMonkey is generally compatible with Winamp plug-ins written for Winamp 2" (quoted from http://www.mediamonk....com/dsp-plugins.htm ) - so DFX and PaceMaker are working for it too!

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Living Room / Re: Encrypted mail in UK illegal - is it true?

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 04:09 AM »

Innocent in London

-Harrie (March 07, 2006, 03:53 AM)

So, if you live in the UK, better make sure you are shaved and your rucksack is cleaned out at least once a week if you plan to use public transportation...

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Finished Programs / DONE: move Miranda's IRC window to lower position on screen when not active

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 03:40 AM »

Hi,

I'm using Miranda's tabbed IRC window and thought this could be quite helpful:

Because I'm always having loads of windows open on the desktop it would be helpful to automatically move Miranda's IRC window down so that I could see the tabs at any moment (because no other window will be lying over it at that position).

Maybe something using

[Select]

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
IfWinNotActive, Chat Room

would work ("Chat Room" is always displayed in IRC's window title) for this task?


Normally it looks like this (bottom left of my desktop):

This is what I want when the window is not active/focused:

(Before you start to laugh about the big font size: yes, I'm using my monitor at a 2 metre's distance right now)

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: KCOAW - keep cursor over active window

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 03:04 AM »

Hi,

since using skrommel's HideDesktop (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2259.0) I found that it has a problem with the way my W2k is set up. When a program closes its window automatically the previous active window gets its focus back - but the mouse cursor stays in its old place. When that happens to be over the desktop HideDesktop can't kick in...


So I guess either HideDesktop needs a new option or I need a little script/tool to make the cursor always stay over the active window. Any ideas?


Side note: even if KCOAW is an acronym for WACO and the über-psycho David Koresh it's meant to *solve* a problem, it isn't related to the Waco disaster which resulted from *trying* to solve a problem.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: small prog to hide desktop

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 01:48 AM »

What a simple and great idea!

Thanks, skrommel!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: AutoHotkeyUpdateChecker

« Last post by brotherS on March 07, 2006, 01:33 AM »

new, better version, which checks silently every 8 hours:

[Select]

GoSub, AutoExec11

[...]

;2006-03-04
;check for new AutoHotKey version
#Persistent
AutoExec11:
SetTimer, UpdateCheckAHK, 28800000 ; check every 8 hours
return
;
UpdateCheckAHK:
F1=http://www.autohotkey.com/download/CurrentVersion.txt
F2=%A_ScriptDir%\AHKURL.TXT
A =%A_AHKVERSION%

SetTitleMatchMode, 1
If WinExist("AutoHotkey Download")
    TrayTip, AutoHotkey, already open
else
 {
 URLDownloadToFile,%F1%,%F2%
 Splashimage, off
 Filereadline,B,%F2%,1
 if A<>%B%
    {
;    msgbox,(Changed) Your existing version is=%A%, Actual version is=%B%
     Run,IExplore.exe http://www.autohotkey.com/download
    }
  else
    {
    TrayTip, AutoHotkey, no new version available
    }
 }
return

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Skrommel's Software / Re: IdleMute - Suggestions and Problems

« Last post by brotherS on March 06, 2006, 03:05 PM »

You sound like in desperate need for a simple AHK solution for that "I don't realize if it's muted or not" problem.

I never fiddle with SndVol32.exe at all, my system volume is always at max, I only adjust the volume of Winamp and Zoom Player (video player) with hotkeys.

Maybe some AHK script to adjust the system volume plus some kind of indicator would do the trick for you? If so, post it in https://www.donation...index.php?board=71.0

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: IdleMute - Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the PC!

« Last post by brotherS on March 06, 2006, 10:11 AM »

http://www.autohotkey.com/changelog/ :

Changes & New Features
1.0.42.04 - March 6, 2006
[...]
Fixed A_TimeIdlePhysical being disrupted by simulated AltGr keystrokes. [thanks skrommel]
[...]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard manager

« Last post by brotherS on March 06, 2006, 08:18 AM »

A heads-up from alt.comp.freeware  (TalkAboutShareware):

ClipMagic has now gone freeware  http://www.clipmagic.com/

-rjbull (March 06, 2006, 05:58 AM)

Thanks, that looks quite powerful!

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Jazper's Software / Re: ShoutCast Concierge v1.0.0.5 BETA

« Last post by brotherS on March 06, 2006, 05:36 AM »

I hope to see another version of this

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Skrommel's Software / Re: IdleMute - Suggestions and Problems

« Last post by brotherS on March 06, 2006, 03:03 AM »

- Problems
When I set the application to run SndVol32.exe on mute and went away from my tablet to meet with someone I came back and it had launched about 20 instances of the volume control and started generating errors because it couldn't launch SndVol32.exe anymore. I believe I had the time set to a short interval as I was testing the application before i went into the impromptu meeting. If you need any details fro my computer let me know. If this is intended, an option to not run the specified application if the system is already muted would be appreciated.

-Renae (March 05, 2006, 02:12 PM)

Hi Renae, welcome to the forums!

Why do you let it run SndVol32.exe at all? When you are using Winamp you've got many other options, see page 2 in this IdleMute discussion: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1580.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: make FARR window transparent if cursor doesn't focus on the window

« Last post by brotherS on March 05, 2006, 05:55 AM »

Screenshot(s) please!