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Living Room / Re: online superfast incremental search dictionary

« Last post by brotherS on March 05, 2006, 04:05 AM »

Nice idea - combined with Google's Suggest (Beta) (just type 'car' in http://www.google.co...complete=1&hl=en if you don't know it) it would be awesome!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEAs: desktop icon management

« Last post by brotherS on March 04, 2006, 02:33 PM »

And, separate issue, grrrr, I just erased my entire posting by hitting escape, a reflex from "vi".
Something to capture/restore what "esc" erases. 

-Grizzly Bear (March 04, 2006, 02:18 PM)

I can't help with your request, but you should complain to ANYONE using ESC for anything BUT close, empty, leave, discard, delete, disable, etc.


Besides, ESC does not cause my browser to delete this posting while I'm writing it. If my browser would do it, I'd use AutoHotkey to stop that ASAP

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General Software Discussion / Re: SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?

« Last post by brotherS on March 04, 2006, 10:24 AM »

Thanks clif_notes, nice review!

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for March 3, 2006 - Codename 'Cody Comes Home'

« Last post by brotherS on March 04, 2006, 10:21 AM »

Now, if I just had the time and energy to contribute to the Forums...

-Loonier (March 04, 2006, 09:59 AM)

You could also help with a donation every now and then and of course by spreading the word: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1463.0

By the way, are you using one of skrommel's many coding snacks already? https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for March 3, 2006 - Codename 'Cody Comes Home'

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 01:48 PM »

IMPORTANT! Changes are Coming in March
The end of March will mark our one year anniversary (hooray)!

-mouser (March 03, 2006, 10:17 AM)

Congrats!

I believe there'll be a special anniversary thread later this month, so I'll won't say too much about how much I like DC here

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

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 11:15 AM »

Truely amazing... and I'm not even a gamer! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Addition to ScreenShot Captor or stand-alone tool

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 09:46 AM »

Ah, I see... because of that, I did set up a hotstring that I can paste in my file manager and it will immediately go to my screenshots folder - which I'm having sorted by date, so the last screenshots (which I usually want to upload) are at the top.

AutoHotkey - again

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Addition to ScreenShot Captor or stand-alone tool

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 09:41 AM »

an image upload tool for sites like imageshack etc.

-mouser (February 26, 2006, 02:02 AM)

I'd live that. I've tried to configure one utility like that a few times, but had no luck

-jgpaiva (February 26, 2006, 11:58 AM)

But according to https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2088 you are using the ImageShack QuickLoad - no? Or do you want to do something different?

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com Funding Club - coming some year in the future

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 08:54 AM »

Good idea! 

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Living Room / Re: nutrasweet and diet soda a neurotoxin - new study and article

« Last post by brotherS on March 03, 2006, 03:37 AM »

Kinda related:

Traces of a carcinogenic chemical have been found in soft drinks at eight times the level permitted in drinking water, it was revealed last night. There is a legal limit of one part per billion of benzene in British drinking water. The latest tests revealed levels of up to eight parts per billion in some soft drinks

http://www.timesonli...0,,2-2065539,00.html

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Remap keyboard press value for -one- application

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

I'm using this code to remap the standard "," that I have in my keyboard layout to "." on demand! Very helpful:

[Select]

;2005-11-24
;remap Ctrl-NumpadDot to produce .
#Persistent
^NumpadDot::
Send .
return

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 05:04 PM »

new extension: "SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?" --> https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2624

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General Software Discussion / SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 05:01 PM »

http://www.siteadvisor.com/

digg said:

SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. They launched a slick redesign today.

They say:

Sounds like a really, really great idea!

SiteAdvisor currently works with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

I will link to this thread from the Firefox extension thread too.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Program to change a horizontal line color

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 04:30 PM »

I'm not sure I can fully understand what you want, but maybe the great http://www.prall.net/tools/colorcop/ could already help you?

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Living Room / Re: When you are feeling down

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 04:22 PM »

LOOOOL! GREAT!!! 

I only knew static sites with images including your/a name, but this is far, far better

Damn, now that tune in the background got me hooked... anyone got the artist info? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Don't Buy Anything with a load of CRAP

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 04:09 PM »

DRM = CRAP. Straight to the point!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Dim the taskbar (set transparency)

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 04:06 PM »

I noticed another problem, which only appears after some time (had that problem with PS Tray Factory too). There are parts missing - of the white-on-green AutoHotkey "H", of WebMon's Planet Earth icon above that and of Locate's tray icon on the left side of that:

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: WinampKiller

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 07:48 AM »

Wow, great find! 

I added its path plus /QUIT to IdleMute and it's working perfectly!

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Living Room / Re: Scariest Thing I Saw This Year

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 07:42 AM »

While it *is* kinda scary, I really enjoyed it - thought-provoking for sure...

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Living Room / Ketchup? Anyone?

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 07:40 AM »

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: an "importer" for abbreviations into AHK

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 06:39 AM »

I don't know how to thank you, jgpaiva.

-Harrie (March 02, 2006, 06:31 AM)

Only 2 of 152 ideas here:
- you could donate a few bucks to jgpaiva - just click the $ below his nick
- and you could donate money to the AutoHotkey project (click here) - which made this all possible

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Dim the taskbar (set transparency)

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 01:44 AM »

Nice, enabling/disabling works now more reliably for me!

The "blurry icon effect" has been reduced too, happens not that often anymore - I could live with that.

But the video-in-full-screen-mode bug is still there
I'm not sure the "check for maximized windows" approach is the best solution possible - this would cause your app to disable itself also when I run the browser as a maximized window (which I often do for hours).

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: WinampKiller

« Last post by brotherS on March 02, 2006, 01:25 AM »

Check the latest version of IdleMute at www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel. It sports a second timer that kicks in after x minutes of inactivity after the initial ilde mute.

-skrommel (March 01, 2006, 06:33 PM)

Great idea! 

Now all I need is a command/exe to close Winamp in a clean way - any idea?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Dim the taskbar (set transparency)

« Last post by brotherS on March 01, 2006, 01:16 PM »

Thanks, it's a bit better, but

- clicking the icon once changes it slightly and set/removes the "Enabled" checkmark in its menu, but doesn't always really enable/disable it

- I still get the blurry taskbar effect

- I still get a black screen in Zoom Player (in full-screen mode) when FadingTaskbar is already running... when I start Zoom Player first and only THEN FadingTaskbar it works. Maybe add some check for full-screen apps? Or make it disable itself when certain processes (customizable by the user) are running?

And please read your private forum messages

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What's the Best? / Re: Anti-Virus Package

« Last post by brotherS on March 01, 2006, 11:18 AM »

I've been using CA ezAntivirus for more than a year. It's rock solid and low on resources.

-NigelH (February 28, 2006, 06:33 PM)

I, too, had been using CA's eTrust EZ Antivirus for about a year - license did run out ~10 days ago and while I couldn't decide whether I should buy one or two more years of their service or change my Anti-Virus program LuckMan212 came along with this nice thread...

Freeware
avast! Home v4.6
BN rating: [4.6/5.0]
Pros: very low resource usage, very stable.  one of the only free AVs with x64 support.
Cons: slightly cluttered GUI.

-LuckMan212 (February 27, 2006, 02:13 AM)

...which made me uninstall CA's program and install avast! So far I'm very pleased, it updates itself daily and has quite a few nice option to set it up to your needs.

It's low on resources too.