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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2011, 10:37 PM »

Note: if you click the tiny button on the far left of the grid column header you can toggle off some of those useless columns.  that should make the grid nicer to look at.

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Living Room / Re: What is a mouser? What does it mean to mouser someone?

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2011, 08:48 PM »

No worries, all in good fun -- just don't spam the forum too much.
And remember to check your mail for my bill.  Each insult on my person will be met with a $10 invoice.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2011, 06:20 PM »

Actually it looks fine -- just the green is a bit bright -- i was just trying to be funny

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2011, 04:00 PM »

Glad to hear the function is useful to you.  Now if you'll excuse me I have to go wipe the blood out of my eyes.

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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 November 20, 2011, 06:24 AM »

Glad it's useful.  If there are more custom look options people want, we can discuss on this thread.

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Living Room / MOVED: I found Baby Cody's Family!

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2011, 06:21 AM »

This topic has been moved to Adventures of Baby Cody.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=28736.0

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: [Short Review] - Screenshot Captor v2.103.01

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 09:13 PM »

the ZUploader author is really friendly -- if enough people ask for facebook support he might add it!

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 08:09 PM »

And that vest he got in Germany sure is coming in handy isn't it.. He sure is showing off some flare on it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: HURRY UP!! (WinPatrol discount)

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 05:48 PM »

reminder: title posts so people can find them during search.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Can CH capture text + url in one shot?

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 04:04 PM »

but i also wanted to know if i can paste the text + url in one shot?

this has been requested before -- i will add an option.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint: Freemake

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 12:55 PM »

Just as a side note, although i can see the logic of calling it adware, i really think that showing some banner ads during installation (but not installing anything that shows ads or leaving anything installed on the user's pc), is just about the least harmful, most benign, most harmless thing a piece of software could do.  Frankly i'd be very happy to see all authors doing this if it raised them some money -- and i'd much rather they do this than do any bundling, etc.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Can CH capture text + url in one shot?

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 12:53 PM »

CHS will capture the urls associated with text copied from a major browser.
It will also save the name of the application for other captures.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Complaint: Freemake

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2011, 09:55 AM »

This has too many strings attached to it, and can now be classified as adware.

I do not think it's right to call this adware.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, just not adware.

I think the technical term for this is "bundling" with "opt out".

That is, the free program is being bundled with some other tools (which ARE themselves adware, an important point), and the default checkbox is set to install these other programs.

Bundling such software is troublesome, especially when the default is to install it, because you are guaranteed to end up with novice users installing stuff that they are unhappy with and do not know how to get rid of.  That's why I wouldn't package such stuff with my software.

Adware is when you have a piece of software which itself is displaying advertisements.

Now whether adware is better or worse than bundling is debatable and may depend on the specific implementation and what you bundle with..

As to whether it should still be called "freeware".. we've had this discussion before, I don't want to drag it up again too much since we've beaten that horse to death and what to call it isn't that important.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hanging behavior -- FARR Problem?

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 08:57 PM »

Can you post a screenshot of the "Launching Files" tab in your FARR options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: LBC Mentioned on Freeware Genius

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 07:24 PM »

It's an interesting roundup since it's not really about docking bars, but about ways to organize your icons and show files.  LBC is on the list presumably because it has some features for flexibly listing folder contents.

More interesting is to think about the drawbacks discussed from the standpoint of managing folder lists.. food for thought.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 06:02 PM »

But with the beta, right clicking on the sys tray icon and toggling "Restore from Tray" only toggles between dock & undock; "Restore from Tray" seems to act the same as "Toggle Docking" for a given dock.

I guess you have the unusual "always show tray icon" option set for your dock.. otherwise you wouldnt even have the icon to click on when not minimized.  I'll consider this a feature, though i guess i could improve that menu item caption.

I should point out another issue I'd notice earlier, as well.  If I have 2 docks running and I assign a transparent background to one dock and a colored background to the other, depending on which one is the colored one, they both appear w/ colored backgrounds.  It seems to be determined by which dock was started first, but I'm not sure.  So if dock1 is given colored bkgd & dock2 transparent, then that's how they appear.  But switch the choice of colored & transparent bkgds for the 2 docks, and both appear w/ colored bkgd!  (So the colored gene is dominant & the transparent one recessive, only if the right sibling is assigned the colored gene!!)

youch that made my head hurt.. but i'll look into it.. you guys never cease to amaze me how you try using some of these features..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 03:03 PM »

Using MT to change the file in-place..:

for this you should have told CHS to read output from input file.  that should work.

as for the failure to read from stdout -- i suspect the cause is chs failing to read stdout properly, i will look into it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Topic: NANY 2012 Pledge: Quicksilver Like launcher

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 01:56 PM »

Very cool. 
Looking forward to stealing some ideas from it

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 01:55 PM »

I've uploaded a beta that attempts to fix some of the multimonitor multi-dock issues.  Can you guys let me know how it does?

Beta is here, just install over current version:
https://www.donation...arCommanderSetup.exe

v1.129.01 BETA - November 18, 2011

• [BugFix] When using multiple docks, all but first dock would fail to remember the monitor it was docked on.
• [BugFix] When minimizing docks to the system tray, docks could forget which monitor they were docked to, or whether they were docked or floating.
• [BugFix] Floating docks could sometimes change size or monitor when docked and undocked.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2011, 04:37 AM »

hahahahahahhahah!!! great stuff!!!  my god he is having a good time.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2011, 02:17 PM »

You're right, i can reproduce.
And since i'm just about to release a new minor LBC update, i will try to fix this now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2011, 02:09 PM »

Fixed in new version not yet released; will be in next release.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2011, 01:47 PM »

Is my system misbehaving or is that the current design?

sounds like a bug to me.

But can i clarify something -- I understand that if you leave borders on, you can move the docks to where you want them.

Now if you never mess with turning off borders -- does this program behave perfectly even when opening preferences and restarting program?  Or is the root of the problem that no matter if you have borders or not, when closing preferences or restarting the program, the docks change monitors.

I'm trying to understand the role that disabling borders plays -- if the only effect is to make it impossible to move the windows then i can ignore this issue.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Dropbox - conflicts...

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2011, 12:17 PM »

An option to not save the config file except when user goes into options explicitly has been added in the latest version.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Syncronizing settings across multiple computers

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2011, 12:16 PM »

Hi sytone, welcome to the site!

This issue has come up a few times.  For example see here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26878.0

I guess I need some more feedback from people on what options I could add to FARR to help with this kind of thing.  And it would help for people to share their tricks on how to solve it.