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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2011, 07:18 AM »

It's great to see you moving on this front db -- the software world needs something like this badly.

We've discussed on this forum the abysmal and almost-criminal behavior of antivirus companies when it comes to false positives.

And i've made my own proposal for what I think would help move things forward here -- namely a set of standards to live up to and a kind of award/certification that would give security companies a positive incentive to do better -- which i think they crucially lack right now.

If you can make some progress in this effort you'd be doing us all a great service.  Go for it!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Toggle Touch Screen

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 01:28 PM »

This sounds like a really good idea to me.  Maybe you can try to find if the control panel item has any documentation somewhere that would explain WHAT it actually does when it disables touch screen interaction.

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Living Room / Re: What's the red thing in the NASA logo?

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 10:37 AM »

Don't believe a word lotusrootstarch says.  With some image magnification you can see clearly what is is:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 09:32 AM »

Completely configurable in both the engines/sites supported and output formats.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 09:21 AM »

Yesterday I sat down and planned out the application and figured out all of the unresolved issues I had regarding User Interface, so I'm pretty much ready to start coding.

dMbTiger -- we shall see soon, hopefully in the next week or so during testing; it's hard for me to anticipate how good a job the tool is going to do with it until we try.

One thing i'm still contemplating is whether to make a pure native windows app, or whether to go cross-platform and write it in something like python with a thin user interface wrapper..

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Developer's Corner / Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2011, 07:02 AM »

Great stuff. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why 2012 may finally be The Year of the Linux Desktop (courtesy of Microsoft)

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 02:33 PM »

This just confirms my Microsoft Conspiracy Theory that I have been peddling for the last 5 years or so, which is that:

• The only rational explanation for some of the decisions Microsoft makes is that it has been deeply penetrated to its core by rogue elements work extremely hard every day to bring about the collapse of the company from within.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 08:05 AM »

Thanks for the screencast xcopy -- those really make it easy for me to see the bug.  I shall fix.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2011, 07:50 AM »

Nice 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Auto Upload/ftp/imageshack/dropbox/etc using ZUploader

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:40 AM »

I've posted a screencast video showing how ZUploader works with Screenshot Captor:

• https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc18/sc18.html

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:12 AM »

Another "addon" I have recently adopted for the index card system is to use a clear desk mat.  When i get ready to work on a set of cards I can arrange them in a grid under the clear desk mat and not have to worry about them getting scattered or in the way if I want to use the desk.

EDIT: Just an update to say that i now consider a clear desk mat to be an essential component of the system -- it makes all the difference in the world when laying out a bunch of cards that would otherwise get in the way or be scattered throughout the day.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 10:03 AM »

Does the Splice feature do anything other than remove portions of an image?

no it does not.

"Splice Out" is what it does -- it removes a section of the image and splices the remaining surrounding regions together -- much like a film editor would do when splicing out a few unwanted frames.

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Living Room / Re: Board Game Review Site Roundup

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 09:44 AM »

And another: http://www.nerdbloggers.com/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2011, 09:07 AM »

Minor update:

v2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

• [BugFix] Better grabbing of active window executable filename (especially with 64bit processed)
• [MinorFeature] Post capture pop-up dialog now has an easy way to configure whether it is shown after captures.
• [MinorFeature] You can now specify a custom path to ZUploader (or event use a different tool in its place)
• [MinorImprovement] Improved size of ellipse border around line arrow text.
• [Feature] Line arrow text can now be multi-line (separate with \n)

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

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:45 PM »

Ah you know what.. if you have the salamander dll in the farr plugins folder for some reason, FARR is going to try to load it as if it was a farr plugin, which could cause an error if one salamander dll is trying to load another, etc..

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

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:02 PM »

what is SALRTL.DLL?

i think you are associating farr with some files it has nothing to do with.

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Living Room / Re: it's not Star Trek, it's Cosmic Journey

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 05:01 PM »

Nicely done!  

My only suggestion is to replace the one sound effect that sounds like someone coughing 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 04:00 PM »

as for point 1, there have bee a couple of aliases that do this..
see https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4426.0
and https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2760.0

i used to distribute an addnote.exe utility for just this purpose, but i stopped once hamradio wrote his excellent hamnotes plugin.

but i could try to find the old addnote.exe if you want.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 03:23 PM »

not yet but im aiming for new years.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Pomodoro + To Do List Prioritizer

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 05:47 AM »

It's a little hard for me to follow what you want since im not familiar with some of the organizational ideas.

But the idea of making a new kind of "gamified" productivity tool that explores new concepts is extremely appealing to me.  The key for me would be can one identify some really new things to try and keep it really simple so that it could get off to a smooth start and easy experiment.  I encourage you and others to keep thinking about ideas for this stuff.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.99.02 - Sep 7, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2011, 04:07 AM »

Glad it's working well 

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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 September 19, 2011, 03:31 AM »

Wow did i screw the pooch on this one ... i somehow uploaded the installer for a version from 2008..
The correct version should be up now.. I hope that anyone who downloaded it in the last couple of hours can figure out to get the new version.

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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 September 18, 2011, 06:44 PM »

Bugfix release, but highly recommended:
v2.06.01 - September 18, 2011

• [BugFix] The information about the executable process for some application windows was not being parsed properly -- causing CHS to attribute captures to incorrect applications sometimes.
• [BugFix] CHS was occasionally wasting cpu cycles while idle if it could not detect application window information.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Quick CHS Tip: Pasting current clip as plaintext

« Last post by mouser on September 18, 2011, 03:50 PM »

What superticker said.

highend01 -- yes this is definitely a possibility going forward.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Quick CHS Tip: Pasting current clip as plaintext

« Last post by mouser on September 18, 2011, 02:27 PM »

This is a very obvious stupid tip but on the other hand since i just spent 10 minutes starting to implement it as a new feature in the program before I realized how easy it was to do with current version, I thought it would be worth a mention.

Sometimes you copy some formatted text to clipboard from a program like Microsoft Word, and you want to paste it back into the program as plaintext.

Because CHS works with plaintext clips, the easiest way to do this is, instead of pasting with the normal system CTRL+V hotkey, just bring up the CHS quickpaste menu (defaults to Ctrl+Alt+Q), and select the most recent clip (usually bound to shortcut key '1').

This will paste the last clip as plaintext.