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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PDF-XChange Pro

« Last post by wraith808 on October 26, 2018, 11:22 AM »

$65.45 $93.50 26. Oct 2018 http://www.bitsdujou...in=todays-deals-home

I am disappointed the discount merely is 30% off.

-Curt (October 26, 2018, 06:45 AM)

That lines up with the prior discount on just the editor, doesn't it?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Steam Giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2018, 10:20 PM »

Metro 2033 is free on steam for the next 24 hours.

https://store.steamp...pp/43110/Metro_2033/

Recommended.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Game Giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2018, 05:55 PM »

• Humble Indie Bundle 14

-app103 (October 24, 2018, 10:02 PM)

Thank you app103!
From that Bundle i can offer single Steam Keys as gift.

Pixel Piracy
UnEpic
Super Splatters

If anyone is interested in any of these Keys, let me know which one and I'll PM you the Details to redeem it after i found out how. :-)

-KodeZwerg (October 25, 2018, 05:29 PM)

I don't think you can keep the downloadable games and gift the Steam versions. You have to tie your Humble Bundle account to a Steam account, and then click the links to add them to your Steam account. They don't give you individual links that you can give to others.

-app103 (October 25, 2018, 05:51 PM)

They actually do.  In the redeem screen for the key, you actually get the individual game links.  You can click gift to others or redeem.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2018, 09:35 AM »

That's some serious batch file work there!  Takes me back a ways... excellent work! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2018, 09:52 PM »

I guess what's throwing people off is that you want to alter several links to have the same value for a given property.  That's pretty much it, in a nutshell?  And not sure that you can do that for shortcut key; I mean you could, but Windows only recognizes one of them.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Create Folder, Give It Name: Current Date and Time

« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2018, 02:36 PM »

I'm wondering what explorer.exe has to do with it anyway.  It's PowerShell we're using....

-nkormanik (October 24, 2018, 04:48 AM)

That could be because explorer.exe isn't just Window explorer.  It's the shell.

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by wraith808 on October 23, 2018, 12:58 PM »

You could also gamify it, either in general, or at the users configuration.

An example of what I mean: You put in exercise and also put in after 7 consecutive days, you get to go get a small ice cream (or something).  After you get to 7 days, it shows you a screen with your goal on it and a medal or something.  By default, you just get a medal maybe.  And on the main screen, it shows the number of medals that you've accumulated.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / MOVED: ScreenShotter at 4K resolution

« Last post by wraith808 on October 22, 2018, 02:30 PM »

This topic has been moved to Automatic Screenshotter.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=46563.0

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Living Room / Re: Google finds Vulnerability in G+ API. Sunsets G+ in response.

« Last post by wraith808 on October 22, 2018, 12:30 PM »

There are actually several alternatives showing up, or that I'm becoming aware of, and I'm trying a lot of them.

A few that I've tried and notes:

MeWe	http://www.mewe.com	Your profile is not viewable unless you send/confirm a friend request. Centrally owned.  Has both public and private communities.
Diaspora*	http://www.diasporafoundation.org	Does not have communities.  Each pod is individually owned.  I'm currently on http://www.pluspora.com. More on the way that the decentralization works can be found at https://pluspora.com...0136b7d300505608f9fe
Hubzilla	http://www.hubzilla.org	Similar to diaspora in that it is decentralized community run by individuals in a network.  I think it has communities, though I've just started.  I'm currently on http://start.hubzilla.org
Cake	http://www.cake.co	Different than most social networks, you follow topics and conversations rather than people.  Centrally owned.  Does not have communities.

Those are all of the ones that I'm currently looking at- most active on Pluspora and MeWe.  I also signed up for Mastodon and Minds, but haven't really given them enough of a try to fairly comment.

There's also an open document of G+ Alternatives: https://docs.google....U52sTYbrI/edit#gid=0

So while it's still a bit sad to me that Google is killing plus, it's also been a real learning experience on alternatives.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2018, 08:46 PM »

You didn't have the youtube tags around it.  Fixed!

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Living Room / Re: Game Design Kit

« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2018, 03:39 PM »

Meeples Together

From the designers of the White Box comes another look at game design- this time from a cooperative angle.  From the blurb: "A new book from the publisher of The White Box for people who play, discuss, critique, design, and love cooperative board games."

What's in the Book

Meeples Together contains 14 chapters about the nature, mechanics, theory, and frontiers of cooperative gaming.

Along the way, 14 in-depth case studies (or more, depending on stretch goals!) of cooperative gaming’s greatest hits — from Pandemic and Battlestar Galactica to Contract Bridge — demonstrate the concepts and ideas. (Not to mention Appendix V’s capsule reviews of more than 90 cooperative titles!)

The physical edition is a 384-page, 6" × 9" trade paperback containing more than 150 illustrated figures.

Digital editions will include a tablet-optimized PDF version, an Epub version, and a Kindle (.mobi) version.

More at the Kickstarter.

I know that a lot of people here are interested in cooperative games, so I thought it would be of interest.

Meeples Together is being funded as a digital or hardcover book on Kickstarter.

The project is currently fully funded, and given their delivery on the White Box, the challenges and risks seem to be few.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10: merge the bugs now, we'll fix them later

« Last post by wraith808 on October 21, 2018, 11:48 AM »

Since I've turned off updates (finally finding a real solution) and manage them myself, it's been great.  There are several things I like better on Windows 10, but am now glad that they aren't diluted by the terrible update policy.

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Living Room / Re: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2018, 02:10 PM »

Well, the pressure is mounting:

https://www.engadget...eillance-retraction/

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2018, 08:48 AM »

 -  Get Facebook...it reminds you

-Stephen66515 (October 19, 2018, 05:24 AM)

Yes, as they mine all of your other information and have breaches     

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2018, 02:29 PM »

I will now resume total personal information and photo blackout for the next 15 years

-mouser (October 18, 2018, 11:36 AM)

Will you retire from information blackout at that point? 

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2018, 02:27 PM »

Just saw Night School.  Pretty predictable and neat, but good fun!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini review: The Journal

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2018, 09:57 AM »

Of course, if you do your reviews from the users' perspective, you never get free licenses...

-ital2 (October 17, 2018, 09:22 AM)

A bit disingenuous, considering that he won it, then trialed it, and only then reviewed it.  I used it for several years, and didn't need that functionality, and recommend this software.  And I paid for it.  YMMV.

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Living Room / Re: An article on the slow death of Google by Lauren Weisman

« Last post by wraith808 on October 13, 2018, 09:58 AM »

If you look up Alphabet, you'll see that it is the parent company of Google.

https://en.m.wikiped...rg/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.

In 2015, Alphabet was created as a tech holding company by the founders of Google, and one of their most prominent holdings is Google.

I will also point out that he never said anything about cash flow; the others that he spoke of held on for interminable periods, seemingly in good financial health. The rot for many companies start on the inside.  And that rot presaged their fall in retrospect.

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Living Room / Re: "If you don't steal [from the commons] you are stealing from your family".

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2018, 10:38 PM »

It's a long article divided into 6 sections. And yes, that was a prime example of pettiness.

-Shades (October 11, 2018, 12:31 PM)

Some companies just haven't had the time or resources to update to the standards of the GDPR.  So instead of opening themselves up to liability, they do that.  It sucks, but that's the way of the world today.

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2018, 10:36 PM »

Thanks for sharing the photos! With Cody behind the lens you didn't have to snap at each other... make sure that you keep it that way! 

-cranioscopical (October 11, 2018, 09:26 PM)

Congrats again, and well wishes!  Thanks for sharing with us!

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Living Room / Re: An article on the slow death of Google by Lauren Weisman

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2018, 10:34 PM »

I don't know about the bleakness of the article but one example of change without regard for quality but only with regard to change and adding 'features' is the new gmail that was forced unto users last month. I am seeing issues like this and for something as basic as email, gmail no less, this is frankly crappy and ridiculous (attached is taken from tweet to @gmail)

If dumping G+ frees up resources for realistic (G+ was never going to be a FB killer) projects it is a good thing, not that it will but one can hope.

-rgdot (October 08, 2018, 11:15 PM)

They aren't dumping to free up resources.  They're dumping because they were caught out.  And dumping didn't even save them the scrutiny that they feared.  Also, glad to see that I'm not the only one that dislikes the new changes to the interfaces.   I hate the fact that once I scroll to the bottom of my labels, there's now no way to get back to the inbox other than to scroll all the way up.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2018, 10:29 PM »

Sorry, 4wd, I missed to see your post. 
Of course you had the proper solution. Thank you! 

-Curt (October 11, 2018, 05:25 PM)

Ah... I didn't see he had posted that before either.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2018, 04:48 PM »

Curt,

I think I found the answer to your problem at https://www.winhelpo...ile-path-windows-10/.  Note the link there to https://www.winhelpo..._Curr_Image_Name.zip

KodeZwerg,

hey, i am just using what microsoft offers, if it dont fit i am sorry.

-KodeZwerg (October 11, 2018, 11:51 AM)

As you've seen, it doesn't work in windows 10.  You can check for OS version.  If windows 10, you can check the following:

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles or %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper

Appdata should be a special folder you can get from winapi call.

You can also check the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\TranscodedImageCache or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper.

The transcodedimagecache is actually the binary representation of the filename- it apparently might be multiple ones; I guess if there are multiple screens.

Hope that helps one or both of you!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WizNote (a PIM from China) - Mini-Review + Provisional User Forum

« Last post by wraith808 on October 10, 2018, 04:32 PM »

It would be interesting to see if after a bit of time, urlwolf is still usibg it and still feels the same, though

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Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by wraith808 on October 09, 2018, 01:57 PM »

You really should consider to put your nose in a book.
If this is too expensive for you to learn, how about a visit to the public library?

Those are my Hints.

-KodeZwerg (October 09, 2018, 10:26 AM)

It's better not to answer, and let silence speak for itself, rather than to post snark, in my opinion.  DC remains a very open and inviting site, and some do seem not to help themselves.  But our responses to them can scare off others that we really could help.