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Find And Run Robot / Re: Adding "dosearch" result to as a parameter?

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2007, 12:37 PM »

create a new alias:
group alias name: notepad
result: C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe $$1

then you can add +notepad to a farr command to open it in notepad.
for example: .nfo +notepad to open the most important .nfo file with notepad.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Not getting keyword modifiers

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2007, 07:43 AM »

yes i said to mouser that the examples don't show the setup of the alias that is used, for example +audio

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Mouser - a plea from your users!

« Last post by justice on November 10, 2007, 11:12 AM »

Well its better than Super Flexible File Synchroniser, i forget the name even though i use the progrma every day.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Not getting keyword modifiers

« Last post by justice on November 10, 2007, 07:26 AM »

I've had a helpful chat with mouser over IRC and i'm clued up now Tip: don't use an adapted regex alias lol. just name it stt2 in my case and put the path to the program in the bottom textarea and it works.

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Find And Run Robot / Not getting keyword modifiers

« Last post by justice on November 09, 2007, 09:41 AM »

I've got an alias that I want to use as a keyword modifier. How do I go about?? All the examples in the FARR helpfile are incomplete as they don't suply the actual alias used. (see +audio)
I have an alias that works like this:

stt2 d:\stt2\program.txt

it would run stt2 with the parameter the program.txt.

Now i want to run it like this:

+stt2 d:\stt2\.txt program              or if this is easier         d:\stt2\.txt program +stt2

Instead of passing the program.txt to stt2 instead it launches the textfile with the associated app (notepad). any of the two syntaxes given is fine.

How do I have to change alias?
the code of the alias is as follows:

1000>>>Switch To Task++ Launch>->+stt2 $$1 |D:\scripts\SwitchToTask\SwitchToTask++.exe $$1>+>^stt2 (.*)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by justice on November 09, 2007, 08:27 AM »

could someone please create a plugin to be able to interact with autohotkey scripts? This way we would open up the autohotkey world  / community here on donationcoder to the farr world.

For example I made a SwitchToTask script that accepts part of a window title, it would be great if it could be enhanced to do livesearch on window titles.
At the moment I'd have to write an autohotkey script that writes out all window titles as text files in a folder periodically which is indexed by farr, lol would be interesting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good?

« Last post by justice on November 09, 2007, 04:55 AM »

Person 2 is bending the truth. You get the same Automatic updates automatically applied on both XP and Vista AFAIK. Also, you it takes one phone call to get vista reactivated on hardware change, not any different from xp. WGA does not require any more activation on vista than it does on XP, microsoft changed that using an wga update, again AFAIK. I'm pretty sure.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rename does not select file extension

« Last post by justice on November 09, 2007, 04:40 AM »

Looking for this led me to looking for a nice file manager, and UltraExplorer renames properly too.

Still no perfect solution though, I had trouble with QTTabBar it blocked my windows-e shortcut and it doesn't work consistently for all files under any circumstance (in my case)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rename does not select file extension

« Last post by justice on November 09, 2007, 04:00 AM »

Yeah I really miss this in XP.
I used QTTabbar and i think it did something like this as on my desktop suddenly when i renamed an image it didn't select the extension. However I no lnoger use QTTabbar and I would love to see this too.

Surely some small utility that does this must exist.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Perfect Software?

« Last post by justice on November 08, 2007, 04:54 AM »

Perfect is boring and that clock is a good example of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: oink is dead: what is next? (music lovers united)

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 03:18 PM »

Brilliant article. Everyone should read it. Memorable side quote for me:

A lot of people point to the Radiohead model as the future, but Radiohead is only dipping its toe into the future to test the waters. What at first seemed like a rainbow-colored revolution has now been openly revealed as a marketing gimmick: Radiohead was "experimenting," releasing a low-quality MP3 version of an album only to punish the fans who paid for it by later releasing a full-quality CD version with extra tracks. According to Radiohead's manager: "If we didn't believe that when people hear the music they will want to buy the CD then we wouldn't do what we are doing." Ouch. Radiohead was moving in the right direction, but if they really want to start a revolution, they need to place the "pay-what-you-want" digital album on the same content and quality level as the "pay-what-we-want" physical album.

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Living Room / Re: collaborative text editing

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 10:15 AM »

Right that's it I need to make the next two pc purchases macs. It's impossible to properly write anything together without a Google / Zoho account online. Btw I was unsuccessful in application sharing between a vista and xp pc running the latest messenger.

SubEthaEdit runs on bonjour which is now installed when using ITunes / Quicktime so this means it should no lnoger be the roadblock for a related windows app.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Tolipo - todo list for programmers

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 10:10 AM »

Cool It would also be good if you were asked for the todo and changelog files on creation of a project instead of having to do this yourself. The resulting files are xml is there an easy way to get a plain text changelog out of it?

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Living Room / Re: collaborative text editing

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 09:45 AM »

WLM allows for using a shared whiteboard - only saves to its own data file meaning i can't get the information out. also more focused on drawing, not so much text editing.

you can also use it to share an application, for example notepad. This works but only one person can be in control at the same time. Guess that's alright and migth be worth a longer look at. Not sure if when not in control I can use any other app though. That migth be a dealbreaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoonEdit might do what I want, have not checked it out, requires installation of software which is an issue.

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Living Room / collaborative text editing

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 09:34 AM »

I'd like to edit text together with someone, either using Windows live messenger or using a website. Is there any site that makes this as easy as possible to do so:

No registration. just an identifier to return to it later. We have enough accounts.
Live updates when text is updated, i want to work on the same document 'live': no having to reload it to see changes, and in the same window not like chatting.
A way to save it and return to it later as the document will require multiple sessions of collaboration.
I need to get the information out in text editable form afterwards.

Anything else is optional. But I can't find anything looking for http://text editing collaboration. Can you help?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Tolipo - todo list for programmers

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 08:18 AM »

Is this still being developed? I'd like to be able to drag and drop tasks between projects in the list, and use the delete key on the keyboard to delete a task, F2 to rename it. I'm using Tolipo at the moment to have a "next 3 tasks" list of my todolist which is held on a FogBugz database. This way when I'm lost i can easy between 3 priority projects and add new ones from the bigger pool. This keeps me productive without drowning in tasks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A rant about how I finally ditched iTunes... :D

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2007, 05:52 AM »

don't remove the helper services, just disable them using services.msc. They won't run and problem is solved. and if this doesn't solve create a local group policy setting against running them via hash. that way until they update it it won't run them.

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Living Room / Re: Google Talks - a Google perk we can all use

« Last post by justice on November 05, 2007, 05:16 PM »

exciting times wish i worked for them. opensocial, android, now this. Theres a lot of culture and movement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea request: "Site discovery tool"

« Last post by justice on November 05, 2007, 08:42 AM »

What about http://technorati.com/ search for a subject and you see the updates regarding this subject on your screen, there's even a watcher. However note most if not all the results are from blogs, so that might not be suitable for your needs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: best clipboard program

« Last post by justice on November 05, 2007, 05:39 AM »

Maybe instead you want to write long texts in a text editor that continuoally saves itself, such as Microsoft OneNote or Google Docs. Then copy and paste it into the program that crashes sometimes.

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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?

« Last post by justice on November 05, 2007, 03:06 AM »

I've removed GWA again unfortnately as I suspect it prefetched links in my wordpress admin section causing at least one page to be deleted by itself. This was after I set GWA to be disabled for this site. I also noticed some AJAX functionality stopped working occasionally. That's not acceptable. I can't rule out wordpress 2.4-bleeding edge however. I'll send this feedback to the GWA team because it did work well.

Hi WebAccelerator Labs,
I just wanted to sent you the reason why I stopped using Google Web Accelerator. There seems to be issues with the combination of GWA and Wordpress administrative pages. I maintain a Wordpress enabled site and as I didn’t want anything unexpected to happen I disabled GWA for this site. However I found that when removing pages (this happens with a regular link called “delete” at the end of a row in a table of pages) occasionally (couldn’t reproduce it) the AJAX call would fail. If I then refreshed the page two pages would be gone. I didn’t get any further ajax call fails when GWA was uninstalled. This was on wordprss 2.4-bleeding edge so this can also be because of a wordpress bug? Are you aware of such issues and if I choose “stop GWA” from the system tray will this have the exact same effect as not having it installed? Then I might be able to use it on sites except this one.

Best Regards,
S.

After this, I looked at the help pages and they say any Get request with parameters will not be prefetched which means that it shouldn't delete any pages. I'm not sure how ajax calls are handled however. So this is more of a worry than a definate bug.

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General Software Discussion / Re: online tutorials - screencasts rule over static pages?

« Last post by justice on November 02, 2007, 07:12 AM »

If you use a video player where people can click on the timeline and then stream from that point, and a pause button, then in my opinion its easier to continue where you left off than a static webpage. For example google video does this well, old youtube doesn't but I think they made improvements in this area. When you move the playback 'pointer' to a position further on  in the movie then it should start streaming from there, not move the playback pointer to the end of the already streamed data.

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Living Room / Re: anyone tried the google web accelerator?

« Last post by justice on November 02, 2007, 07:06 AM »

And when was the last time you got personally targeted using google's info on your surfing habits? all their applications of the data are anonymous (they use the same algorithms to generate ads for every visitor, nothing special just for you). All don't require you to login to your google account to download / user GWA. I've never got any spam for products because I've been browsing specific webpages for example because of Google's tracking of surfing habits. Regardless the issue is not specific to GWA is it? the only thing that's GWA specific is this line: It is possible that a URL or other page information sent to Google may itself contain personal information. You get a prompt before the first time you start it about this and the option not to use it, or exclude sites altogether.

See http://webaccelerato...gle.com/privacy.html for more info:

October 14, 2005

The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google's products and services, including information provided when you use Google Web Accelerator. In addition, the following describes our privacy practices that are specific to Google Web Accelerator.

Information we collect

    * You do not need to provide any personal information in order to download and use Google Web Accelerator.
    * When you use Google Web Accelerator, Google servers automatically receive and log your web requests. Web requests and data sent in encrypted form using an HTTPS connection will not go through Google. It is possible that a URL or other page information sent to Google may itself contain personal information.  For information about how some web sites embed personal information in web requests, click here.
    * Google temporarily caches cookies from third party sites that are used in your web requests. For more information, please see the Help Center.
    * To accelerate delivery of content, Google Web Accelerator retrieves and caches web pages before you request them. Therefore, your Google Web Accelerator cache may include copies of web pages you have not visited. You can clear the cache following instructions in the Help Center.

Uses

    * We process your requests in order to operate the Google Web Accelerator. In addition, we may use log information about Google Web Accelerator usage to improve the quality of Google Web Accelerator and other Google services.

Your choices

    * You can disable Google Web Accelerator at any time by following steps explained in the Help Center.

More information

Google adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles.  For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

Further information about Google Web Accelerator is available here. 

For more information about our privacy practices, go to the full privacy policy.  For questions concerning the product or your account, please check out the Google Help page.

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Official Announcements / Re: Firefox Extension Contest (deadline december 2007) - DC CODING CONTEST TOO

« Last post by justice on November 02, 2007, 06:43 AM »

Btw if you want an idea for a DonationCoder related extension:
I'd like to have a Update notifier for "Show new replies to your posts". Because this depends on my login info cookies, it cannot be done via the official Donationcoder update notifier.

However when I'm using firefox I presume an extension could read the cookie as it's part of the browser and therefore make this happen.

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips

« Last post by justice on November 02, 2007, 06:41 AM »

It's creating an AltTabs Fingertips folder under the users Application Data, and stores the preferences in an ini file called settings. In my case this is C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\AltTabFingertips\settings.ini

I take it you're asking this because you want to run it portable?