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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [CH&S] after a long break - beginner's queries

« Last post by mouser on April 07, 2011, 07:03 AM »

#1 was just some first starting glitch I reckon

one of the things that i've noticed frequently happens with me is that i'm almost always testing on a version of the program that has been installed and configured for quite some time, so i rarely if ever go through the process for a new install with default settings.. i should do that more often to see if there are any oddities.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [CH&S] after a long break - beginner's queries

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2011, 05:30 PM »

Yeah Favorites is a bit confusing -- its an example of a Group that can hold actual clips placed into it, AND also will show clips from any other group if that clip has the Favorites checkbox checked.

Essentially both kinds of clips should behave identically when accessed through the "QUICK PASTE" Favorites section as configured in the Quick Paste Menu 2 options tab.  If you notice something other than that let me know.

It sounds to me like something was not quite behaving right for you, but I can't get a good handle on what.

I don't understand 3.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Might a Web version be possible?

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2011, 11:58 AM »

i think i'm going to have to leave it to someone else to do it.

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TFDocs / Re: Welcome to the tfdocs.com (Tree Form Documents) discussion section

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2011, 10:58 AM »

tfdocs is currently offline; it will be coming back this month and be much easier to use to make simple document templates.

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

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2011, 06:33 AM »

there is an excellent note plugin for farr called hamnotes.

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Developer's Corner / Documenting the Why not just the What

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 06:16 PM »

Even when I do a good job of documenting my code, I think one thing as a programmer I am often guilty of is failing to document bigger decisions about WHY we chose one approach instead of another.  Sometimes these are very high level decisions that we think we will never forget, but in time we do.. and it can lead to some real confusion eventually.

Today i spent 10 minutes trying to remember why i spent all this effort in some older code doing some text parsing client-side in javascript when it would seem so much more logical to do it server-side (in php or whatever).  I finally remembered that I actually did have a reason for it (I wanted this code to work both in a client-server mode, but also be available for building into a standalone embedded-javascript-engine desktop application).

Anyway, I just thought I would make a post to suggest that documenting the WHY of higher level decisions is an important aspect of documentation that we as coders shouldn't overlook.

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Living Room / Re: unboxing videos

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 05:58 PM »

 

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Unicode Image Maker: Some Questions

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 03:28 PM »

unicode image maker can do transparent backgrounds and windows 7 should work fine.  one thing though is you have to save as a png file i think.
can you post some screenshots of what is happening and compare it to what you want to happen -- im not sure i completely understand what is going wrong.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Multiple Instances?

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 02:17 PM »

yep; see https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25123.0

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Latest Version - FlipSuite (Flipbook Printer Suite) v2.01.01 - March 30, 2011

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 06:39 AM »

could you clarify a bit, and maybe take some screenshots or camera photos?

are the images dark in the video that is captured? in the preview of the printed pages? or just when printed?

also, i'm going to split off your question into its own thread, so look for it in this section later.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 02:48 AM »

question, the error says
Windows cannot find 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Snipping Tool.lnk'

Can you tell me what the actual location is for that shortcut, assuming that's not it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching win7 start menu items

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 02:32 AM »

I think i can fix that.. i did a similar fix for %programfiles% shortcuts.

One thing you could try as a workaround in the meantime is go to the "General" options tab in FARR, and try changing the checkbox for "Always launch shortcuts directly" and "Use document launch helper" and the Launch Method drop down.  See if any of those help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why I was wrong about Microsoft (by Glyn Moody)

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 12:47 AM »

I really look forward to the day Microsoft ends up in court trying to enforce such patents. Because that is the day they'll see those blatantly BS patents ruled invalid.

-40hz (April 04, 2011, 08:54 AM)

...but if they're so BS why do they even get given a patent in the first place

-tomos (April 04, 2011, 02:35 PM)

Because in the modern age we live in, patents are never meant to be used by having a court rule that a competitor can't produce a product.  They are used as devices for extorting money and threatening financial ruination from legal fees.

Whether a patent will hold up in court is almost irrelevant -- they are vehicles for revenue generation -- just get yourself a patent and then go hunting for someone you have the pretext to sue and demand some money from them to leave them alone.  They will inevitably reply that your patent is silly or doesn't apply to them, at which point you simply ask "would you rather spend 5 years and a fortune in legal fees to roll the dice and try to prove that in court, or would you rather just give me a bucket load of money right now and i'll go away."  Of course you don't say it like that, you have your lawyer write up some nice fancy language that everyone knows means the same thing.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Giving away some Steam games. How should I decide the recipients?

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 12:39 AM »

give a license, get a license

that's a cool idea.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by mouser on April 05, 2011, 12:35 AM »

And i can confirm that after working once, PDF Download is definitely not working consistently (or at all now) in FireFox 4.  Hopefully an update will fix that soon.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Remind User a Flash Drive is Plugged In During Shutdown

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 03:22 PM »

oh hey that's a clever idea.. and interesting to see a dc member already knows about 2 existing free tools!

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

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 10:16 AM »

As that chart illustrates -- complaining about simple lyrics to a song is ridiculous -- such things do not separate the good from the bad.

Here's a nice (NSFW because of language) take on the phenomena of people hating on her:

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 09:41 AM »

i think we may be looking at the next DC mug design for the next event

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 07:05 AM »

cmpm, i just tried same thing and now it works.

seems "PDF Download" addon does not like the ff3->ff4 upgrade path.  an uninstall and reinstall seems to have fixed it -- thanks for your help everyone!

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General Software Discussion / Re: DLS: Mozilla publishes name and shame list of slow Firefox add-ons

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 07:02 AM »

excellent find  

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 06:53 AM »

thanks everyone for tips.
the weird thing is that i have pdf download addon installed and updated, in FF4, and it doesnt seem to be working.. i will try to look in options again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: java help

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 06:24 AM »

i think he got it solved in irc.

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

« Last post by mouser on April 04, 2011, 02:34 AM »

damn.. that was good.

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 11:07 PM »

Is the 'Surprise gift' still a surprise?

yep.

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General Software Discussion / How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 06:42 PM »

I am constantly clicking on links that i think go to websites and instead having firefox download a pdf file and automatically open it in adobe acrobat reader.

Personally i find this obnoxious and a security risk.  All I want is for firefox to simply ASK ME if I want to download this file before it goes ahead and does it, but i can't figure out how to do that.  Surely there must be a way.  Anyone know?