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

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 10:25 AM »

Just wanted to say it's fun to see so many people posting on this thread. 

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

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 09:44 AM »

A *huge* thanks to our own DC member Carl Thorpe (cthorpe), who arranged all of the software giveaways, and was the one who insisted we try to get software to give away -- if not for him there would be no software giveaway at all.


And of course thank you again to all of the companies who gave us software to give away, and the anonymous donor of the optimus to give away.  Thank you for your generosity.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Coding Standards

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 09:35 AM »

i just cant wrap my mind around a leading _ it always feels to me like something got truncated.

i'm a fan of long variable names, so i'd even prefer using some prefix like i_

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 09:30 AM »

it's a beautiful looking gadget, you'll enjoy it -- don't be so hard on yourself.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Coding Standards

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 09:04 AM »

i also cant stand the practice of using _ prefix for internal properties.  i think it's asinine and ugly.

oops -- i see you were the one using _ hahahaahaha

i can't say i love the coding standard you have to use either -- too hard to distinguish.

i've always liked the idea of using lowercase for internal variables, mixed case for exposed stuff.

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

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 08:41 AM »

Winners have now been posted (see first thread).

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - Winners About to Be Posted

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2011, 02:31 AM »

Ok i'm about to post the winners.

I actually had to revamp and improve my prize optimizer for this giveaway since there were so many entries and some weird conditions about some things being hard to ship to some places, etc.  I challenge you to find any other site that works so hard to give the right prizes to the right people to maximize happiness

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DesktopCoral / Re: What am I doing wrong?

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2011, 05:31 AM »

Another thing i wonder if it has something to do with permissions and/or when the program is run.. if it doesn't work when run at boot time but does work when you launch it manually that would be good to know.

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DesktopCoral / Re: What am I doing wrong?

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2011, 05:19 AM »

strange.. i don't know why it would work in that case and not others..

can i ask you to do some more experimenting and see if you can find which settings work and which dont.

and can you make sure you have latest version installed (1.10 i think is latest -- check about box).

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DesktopCoral / Re: What am I doing wrong?

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2011, 05:15 AM »

oh i see Spimunk has just posted a clue!  ok let me read and try to understand why it works in one case and not another.

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DesktopCoral / Re: What am I doing wrong?

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2011, 05:14 AM »

i tested it just now on Windows 7, without setting any compatibility mode, and it worked fine..

i wonder what is going on that it's not working for you guys -- anyone else with windows7 experience can report?
does the same thing happen whether its docked to any side of the screen?
do you have any other odd desktop management tools installed?
is it possible that some applications maximize over it and some dont?

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza is Now Open For Entries - Deadline Apr 1st

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2011, 12:35 AM »

Ok looks like it's about time to run the giveaway drawing.. any stragglers better get their entries in now!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Windows error msg - "No Disk"

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 03:10 PM »

and if you exit CHS and restart it after the computer is booted -- no error messages then?

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Living Room / Re: Movies I Love to Listen To: Dialects and Accents

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 02:42 PM »

If you like listening to british accents and wonderful natural dialog, it's extremely hard to beat Mike Leigh.

Abigail's Party:

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Windows error msg - "No Disk"

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 02:01 PM »

Which version of windows are you running? did you run the installer or unpack it manually?

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Screenshot Captor / MOVED: Windows error msg - "No Disk"

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 02:00 PM »

This topic has been moved to Clipboard Help+Spell.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26261.0

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Windows error msg - "No Disk"

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 12:43 PM »

Ok first question is whether we are talking about Clipboard Help+Spell or Screenshot Captor -- these are separate programs.

Second of all, i have seen this problem in another program and i do know how to fix it, BUT in the case of these two programs, it shouldn't be needed.  Assuming we are talking about Screenshot Captor, it probably means that one of the folders you have configured in the options is on a removable/missing drive.  go into options and try to change the bad path.

Now if you didn't actually change any of these settings and this is a default installation, this definitely shouldn't happen.  Let me know which operating system you are using.

And what path it configured as your screenshot path.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / FlipSuite Commercial Users Read In For Support

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 11:11 AM »

FlipSuite Commercial users should visit the following forum for support:

• http://oae.dcisv.com/forum

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Official Announcements / I regret to inform that Cody has wasted all of our fundraiser money

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 10:19 AM »

For immediate release: April 1, 2011

I regret to inform the members of DonationCoder that our mascot Cody the bird has infiltrated our paypal account and withdrawn all of the funds, which he promptly spent on the world's largest chocolate coin:


Attempts to return the half eaten coin were unsuccessful, and so because of this minor snafu, we are going to have to redo the fundraiser in April.  Your cooperation and understanding is appreciated.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 10:11 AM »

I apologize -- it's been a busy month.  Let me upload a debug version of FARR for you today to test -- it will report when and where it is trying to load and save it's settings files and if it thinks it failed -- that should tell us what we need to know.

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Living Room / Movies I Love to Listen To: Dialects and Accents

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 09:43 AM »

I have a low tolerance for re-watching movies.. Usually after I see a movie I won't ever want to watch it again.

But there is an exception to this rule -- there are certain movies where just listening to the actors speak is extremely enjoyable because of the dialects or accents.

I thought maybe we could have a thread and share our lists of movies that we love to listen to because of dialects and accents.

A few to start us off:

• Blood Diamond
• True Grit (2010 version; great cowboy language)
• Fargo
• Gone Baby Gone (Boston Accents)
• Glengary Glen Ross

Note: the imdb trailers seem to be completely unhelpful as examples of why these movies are nice to listen to, so don't judge them based on that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor tray icon is shown twice

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 06:36 AM »

never heard of that bug before -- do you have any special tray utilities that could be making it behave oddly?

do we think that maybe two copies are running? if you double click each tray icon, do you get two main windows on screen?

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Living Room / MOVED: Screenshot Captor tray icon is shown twice

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 06:35 AM »

This topic has been moved to Screenshot Captor.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26254.0

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 05:57 AM »

Now.. who wants to make an online multiplayer version of CodyCards.. we will provide permanent hosting for it.

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2011, 05:06 AM »

I hope people will come up with variants or even completely new games based on the different cards and share them.