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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - newest version of LBC installer was flagged as a trojan

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 09:06 PM »

ridiculous.  i guess i will stop bundling nircmd  

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - newest version of LBC installer was flagged as a trojan

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 08:59 PM »

just another false positive annoyance in a long history of them by lazy antivirus companies. 
thanks for the report -- can you tell me the exact warning it gave -- did it say what it thought it was?

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Living Room / Re: Strange phone problem - can anyone help?

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 03:46 PM »

ha! great story 40hz.

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Little Voice Commander / Re: Latest Little Voice Commander Release v1.33.01 - May 23, 2011

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 08:38 AM »

Martin at ghacks posted a very sweet write-up of Little Voice Commander today  

http://www.ghacks.ne...n-software-for-kids/

One of the coolest features of the program is the ability to add your own photos to it. You could add photos of parents, grandparents, pets or locations that are familiar to the user to add a personal note to the program.
...
All in all it is a great program that will keep kids entertained for some time on the computer. Even better, it makes them associate words with images.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Any news for File Watcher Batcher Robot

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 08:20 AM »

I think there is a good chance i will be able to release a freeware version of it soon.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Middle mouse button for showing LBC

« Last post by mouser on May 24, 2011, 06:48 AM »

There is an easy solution:
You can define different hotkeys to show LBC or show it as a pop up menu, etc.
And then just program your middle mouse button to trigger that hotkey.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VoicePics - A Toy App that encourages toddlers to Babble

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 10:08 PM »

I have now posted the first official release of the newly named LittleVoiceCommander.
New forum area here: https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=303.0

This old thread is now locked -- please discuss in the new forum area.

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Little Voice Commander / Latest Little Voice Commander Release v1.36.01 - June 3, 2011

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 10:05 PM »

Download latest version from Official Web Page: HERE.



v1.36.01 - June 3, 2011

• Better reporting and options to disable speech if SAPI runtimes not found.

v1.35.01 - May 31, 2011

• Now includes over 100 audio voice files provided by DC member Renegade (Ryan Smyth) that can speak each word as it is displayed.  Thanks Ryan!  Users can create their own audio files (as well as their own image files).

Little Voice Commander is a toy program for young toddlers who are just learning to start to speak.

The program runs full screen (across multiple monitors if present) and listens for a child to speak or press a key.

If the program detects something being spoken, it finds the best match for a word it has photos for, and displays some random photos for that word, as well as the word text. If a key on the keyboard is pressed, a word beginning with the pressed key is displayed, along with some photos for that word.

Users can add their own photos easily, so you can customize it with pictures of mom, dad, sister, brother, dog, cat, house, etc. It will scan labeled photos on startup and add those words to its vocabulary.

It uses the microsoft speech recognition engine, which is ok but not ideal. I wouldn't expect to be able to use this to teach any kid how to pronounce words -- it's more to encourage very young kids to babble and give them the experience of having what they speak affect what it shown in a semi-consistent manner.

I hope people will help by making some additional image packs for the program from royalty free photo sources. Thanks to DC member App103 (and http://www.freestockphotos.biz) for collecting the initial set of royalty free images, and to Stoic Joker for the program name suggestion.

Note: This program is based on my more grown up MultiPhotoQuotes screensaver engine.

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Living Room / Re: Strange phone problem - can anyone help?

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 08:13 PM »

those panasonic phones are quite nice.

i would suggest you do the same thing i would suggest with any mystery hardware problem.  go buy yourself a cheap non-electronic non-wireless no-frills corded telephone, and verify that the 3 always works with it.  if not, then you know the problem has nothing to do with your panasonic.  and you can keep the non-powered phone as backup in case you ever lose power.

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Living Room / Re: favourite hardware hacking resources

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 07:48 PM »

If anyone who lives in the US wants a tiny packet of sugru -- and when i say tiny i mean it, less than size of marble -- send me a pm with your name and address and i'll put one in an envelope.  i have about 5 to give out.  Mention which color you prefer (black, blue, orange, green).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freewaregenius.com: Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 06:55 PM »

  How did i miss those?

Congratulations all. 

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 01:03 PM »

let's do a test to make sure this approach is going to work:

Go to any page in your web browser that has a link on it, like this page, and select some text that includes the link and hit Ctr+C to copy it.
Now go to your mail and hit Ctrl+V to paste it.
Does it preserve the link now the way you want it to?
If so, then this should be fairly easy to add to TFLM.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 12:06 PM »

i tried dong what you said, but the html code remain as text...it is not "interpreted" as an html link.

ok that's important and something i didn't know.. am i write that you are using Microsoft Outlook (or Outlook express) as your mail client?

It sounds like maybe the only solution would be to add an option in tflm that would let you create richtext or similarly marked up entries (ie with font formatting and html links) and paste the completed text as such.. i'm going to have to think about that a bit more.


Actually maybe all I need to do is add an option that says to paste the text (put the code on the clipboard) as html.  That would be fairly easy i would think.  Maybe I can whip together a version to test if you are willing.

(or does someone know an easier way to paste plaintext into outlook such that it will interpret it as html?)

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General Software Discussion / Freewaregenius.com: Another Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements

« Last post by mouser on May 23, 2011, 11:57 AM »

A follow-up on his excellent writeup in 2009,  Samer from Freeware genius has just posted a new roundup of 43 more great freeware windows utilities.

I was surprised to discover some new applications I didn't know about on the list, and as before Samer does a terrific job of describing each of the programs on his list and just why he likes them.  And I'm proud to say one of my applications (Find and Run Robot) made the cut.

If you use windows, this is a must-read from one of our favorite software blogs.

The common theme here, as with the first one, is that these are all cool free Windows “enhancements”: i.e. apps that tweak or change the way we work with the system environment itself, whether it is working with files, folders, or applications; they are, to quote my first post “apps that brings functionality to the Windows environment that could or should have been built-in options in Windows”.

http://www.freewareg...ld-know-about-part-2

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Terraria

« Last post by mouser on May 22, 2011, 04:28 PM »

very useful videos -- gives a much better and calmer idea of what this is all about.
thanks for sharing these.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Advanced Network Configurator

« Last post by mouser on May 22, 2011, 09:13 AM »

Congratulations on the new release -- it looks very nice:up:

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Official Announcements / Re: May 2011 Discounts and Giveaways - Winners Posted

« Last post by mouser on May 22, 2011, 07:10 AM »

Winners of the May 2011 Giveaway

May 2011 Giveaway

Supporting Members, you've got until the last day of the month to take advantage of this month's Discounts..

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

• BonAView PhotoManager (60% discount)
• Color Schemer Studio (20% discount)

Winners of 'BonAView PhotoManager' (5):

• dialar
• Mongoplus
• mrniceguy
• afndata
• DreadLord

Winners of 'Color Schemer Studio' (2):

• BuBBy
• kitakagaya

All winners are now being notified by email to their forum email address.  If you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail [email protected] and let us know you never got any mail.  It can take a few days for companies to send you your serial number; if a few days pass and you haven't received it - send a reminder to the company email as noted in your winning notification email, or to us by replying to the email you received or to us directly.

Curious about how we award prizes?  See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility. Winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum slightly increases your chances.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: The Form Letter Machine and the HTML management

« Last post by mouser on May 22, 2011, 07:06 AM »

Hi Mariano, welcome to the site.

I have TFLM integrated into my usage of thebat email client, but I'm afraid I don't know how to integrate it into other mail clients.

Could you elaborate a little regarding:

i was wondering, is there a method to add an html link into a "checkbox item".

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do -- if you are using TFLM to create html emails you should be able to put in text like

[Select]

<a href="http://www.amazon.com">click here for amazon</a>

without any problem; it won't look pretty in the preview screen but presumably your mail program should interpret it correctly.

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Living Room / Re: A silly idea of mine: Printable new-agey end of day summary checklist

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 06:32 PM »

Would be nice to have an online version, as you've suggested.

i think you've found a 2nd project in your quest to learn php/mysql!

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Living Room / Re: A silly idea of mine: Printable new-agey end of day summary checklist

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 04:58 PM »

This makes me wonder about a web/desktop version which let you assemble a collection of form widgets to make your own daily report form, which recorded values in a little database for you, with interactive graphic stats.

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Living Room / A silly idea of mine: Printable new-agey end of day summary checklist

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 04:40 PM »

Ok so don't laugh but as an experiment i've made up an end-of-day "after action" report form to try filling out at the end of each day.

I am curious as to whether filling these out might help me focus on making each day a more memorable and discrete event.. Rather than having days flow into one another ever more rapidly.

Honestly it's a bit silly even for me, but I thought I'd give it a try.

I also have no idea what to put on this thing so I just made up stuff.. If anyone wants to try the experiment along with me I'm attaching a current pdf of it suitable for printing.  But even better would be if anyone else wants to make up their own forms and share, or suggest additional items to add to the page.

Note that the goal is a printable single sheet that is to be filled out at the end of each day.

Preview Image:


Download pdf: aareport.zip (90.71 kB - downloaded 351 times.)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hang while "searching history"

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 04:31 PM »

yeah thats what i meant sorry for confusion.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hang while "searching history"

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 04:14 PM »

There are a couple of things to try.

I guess the first thing is to test if this has anything to do with items in the history or if the problem is that your normal hard drive is going to sleep and taking some time to wake up.  Can you try clearing your search history (go to search history tab in options, right-click and clear), and then leave farr unused for half a day and then invoke it and see if it has the same hang.

Another thing to try is on the General tab, tell FARR to stay in memory longer.

Let me know what happens with those test.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Cameras

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 03:37 AM »

the preview should not be shoppy.  if it is, capture will be worse.
what resolution are you set at? try going to video format options and changing the resolution of the capture to something smaller.
can you try any other video capture tools or something that comes with ExtraWebcam, does it preview smoothly?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Oops!Backup?

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2011, 12:02 AM »

I've finally gotten myself a NAS and am looking for an automatic versioning backup system that will monitor my document directories and make versioned backups automatically.

Just wanted to say thanks to all the posters in this thread -- I'm still not sure which product to go with but OoopsBackup is high on the list and this thread has made for some useful insights.