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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Download directly to CD
« Last post by justice on August 23, 2007, 03:02 AM »
Read more about Burn to the Brim (fantastic program btw): https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7716.0
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 06:34 PM »
I'll definately try it again pitosalas :)
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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 11:05 AM »
groups of words are probably more common between your research documents then between your research document and your electricity bills? Yeah it won't be easy at all.
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Living Room / Re: download all updates for XP in one go?
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 08:24 AM »
Never used this, but heard it mentioned:
http://autopatcher.com/whatsautopatcher/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 07:09 AM »
Hi pitosalas and welcome to the donationcoder forums!
Let me just explain why I was unsure about the website:

It has several characteristics that are unlike other small software sites (for example when compared to the GreatNews Website). If BlogBridge is about a good software product and accompanied by an account system, then the following items make it look suspicious:

  • Consulation links (am i being enticed into downloading suspicious marketing software?)
  • Products and services (i thought i was already on a product site, you are not trying to sell me something else?
  • an Image of a person who has nothing to do with BlogBridge, instead of a screenshot of the program. (makes it look like the intention is not really on the software)
  • Wording like Expert Guides, top 100 blogs, link hovering javascript saying "21st most popular outgoing link", Pricing link under BlogBridge on open source software etc. which I normally don't expect to see on a site like this.
  • Having sponsored links above information about the product. (on the sidebar)


So I would suggest to take the listitems under "for your information" and make that the primary navigation items, just show information on the product  (by moving all the consulting stuff to the company website).

Hope that helps and best of luck.
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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 06:18 AM »
I'm wondering if it's possible to have an organisation filter based on for example the Bayesian spam filter.
It would learn how you categorize your start menu and my documents and then do it for you. Based on the content of these documents.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recomend an RSS Service that can add tons of feeds, filter out most items?
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 03:09 AM »
I would like to see what you have chosen, I installed blogbridge but then it asked to register for an account (which was optional). That together with the spammy looking website had me look into greatnews which I am testing now.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Download directly to CD
« Last post by justice on August 22, 2007, 03:01 AM »
Even if you can't download to cd directly, there should be a piece of software available that can fake it, ie you download to cd, but in reality the software would write it to a temporary directory and then copy it on cd afterwards.

The benefit would be in it being easier to use, rather than space savings.
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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 08:58 AM »
Lanux128, I created a small AHK application that you can use to check for updates for itself.
http://www.amasan.co.uk/downloads/dummy/
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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 08:41 AM »
I'm opting for 3. Unfortunately it clashes with Microsoft's idea, as My Pictures and My Music is not sorted by project or theme. That's more no2 thinking.
so I have a folder called Projects which contains project files, and Administration. Most of the things fit in here. The key for me  is not to make another folder for only 1 file or one folder, only if you can no longer maintain the current hierarchy.
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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 05:16 AM »
Like mouser said. My reasoning is that I like to put files that the user doesn't have to know about out of the way so they don't accidentily click on it.
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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 04:50 AM »
Right the issue is now solved with both a bugfix in dcuhelper and code changes in my code. PutAside is now the first third-party app to support DcUpdater  :Thmbsup:

For AutoHotkey coders feel free to use the following subroutine:
[Select]
Gosub,EnableAutoUpdate

EnableAutoUpdate:
; Register with DcUpdater and check for updates.
; When no updates are found nothing is displayed.
; make sure the dcuhelper.exe is in a subdirectory called 'dcuhelper' of this script's location.
cmdParams = -ri    ;r = register app, i = check for updates
uniqueID = yourprogramidhere   ;anything allowed
dcuHelperDir = %A_ScriptDir%\dcuhelper
IfExist, %dcuHelperDir%\dcuhelper.exe
{
OutputDebug, %A_Now%: %dcuHelperDir%\dcuhelper.exe %cmdParams% "%uniqueID%" "%A_ScriptDir%" . -shownew -nothingexit
Run, %dcuHelperDir%\dcuhelper.exe %cmdParams% "%uniqueID%" "%A_ScriptDir%" . -shownew -nothingexit,,Hide
}
return
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Finished Programs / Re: PutAside: declutter and cycle through windows
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 04:31 AM »
release v1.11 - AUG 20 2007
Updated PutAside to add support for mouser's DcUpdater tool. DcUpdater is a program for Microsoft Windows (95% of the code is cross platform and may be ported to linux/mac), that can check for and install updates for software.

PutAside now asks DcUpdater on every start to check for new versions. I might change how often and add options to disable checking if desired.

From the DcUpdater help file:
Nothing happens behind your back, and you can see exactly what files are being retrieved from where, including access to a complete activity log.

· Full control over checking and installing - you can do all installation manually if you prefer, or let the program do it.

· One program to check for updates for lots of software.

· Easily visit program websites, and get more information about each program.


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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 20, 2007, 02:53 AM »
After the -r call, launching DcUpdater by itself should list your program in the complete list of all known stuff that can be updated.  If it doesn't, check to see if the file "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DonationCoder\DcUpdater\RedirectFiles\PROGRAM_LABEL.dcupdateredirect" is being created, and if the contents of that file point to the directory of your program.
-mouser (August 17, 2007, 10:41 AM)
There is no C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DonationCoder on my XP system.
I've reinstalled 1.21.01 but after running dcupdate it still hasn't appeared.
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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add update checking to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 10:34 AM »
Ah right it now checks for updates. Many thanks.

quick glance
if I run dcuhelper with -ri options it does run DCUpdater and checks for my program, but if I run DCUpdater on itself my program is not in the list.

The way I still think it should work is that you register it, after this act the registered program is part of the regular update cycle. At the moment it's not.

I'll look at it again on the monday.
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General Software Discussion / Re: intellicomplete and vista
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 09:50 AM »
If this is all a bit daring, then take your notebook in to a local pc shop, they're usually faster and better than the big brands.
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General Software Discussion / Re: intellicomplete and vista
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 09:49 AM »
Spoke to a colleague here on ICT Support, and he thinks it's probably SATA issue.
Some SATA drives can fall back into a compatibility mode so XP thinks it's an IDE drive, then it installs ok. However others can't and if this is the case then you'll need to supply drivers to get XP to recognise it on install.

If you have been able to install XP in the past then this might not apply.

Looking for drivers, I found the following for you that might also be of use:
Apparently there's a BIOS Update that's recommended. These sometimes help, but as always with bios updates if incorrectly applied and stop your pc from starting altogether.

also there's a chipset update to improve SATA support, and an Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver update. Whatever that is.

Hope that helps.
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General Software Discussion / Re: intellicomplete and vista
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 07:43 AM »
Yeah went back from vista to xp, no problems.
just booted from the XP cd, deleted partition, recreated partition.
Same as a regular XP total reinstall.

Do you have your HDs set as RAID? you might have to add drivers in that case I think.
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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add update checking to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 05:05 AM »
What happens:
I have the dcuhelper.exe in a subfolder "dcuhelper" inside my program installation folder (d:\scripts\PutAside01).
I also made svd-putaside.dcupdate in the program folder.

My program runs the command if it hasn't been run before:
[Select]
d:\scripts\PutAside01\dcuhelper\dcuhelper.exe -r "PutAside" "d:\scripts\PutAside01"

a commandline window flashes up with no text in it, and my program is not recognised by dcupdater.
If I run svd-putaside.dcupdate then dcupdater comes up for my program only (not for the other installed programs).

What i was expecting:
I was expecting that by running the dcuhelper program it would add my program to the list of all the other programs recognised by dcupdater. if this was not the case then I thought the first time I would run my .dcupdate it would also register it.

I don't fully understand what "program_labelname" should be, should this correspond with the filename part of my dcupdate file, should it correspond to the local -> label  value or can it be anything (if so what's the use?)


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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add update checking to their apps: dcuhelper.exe
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 04:28 AM »
Oh wow just in time!
I was considering writing your dcupdater invoke code as Autohotkey code to include, but this even easier :)

and by the way mouser i've started creating that document we talked about comparing various updater programs during lunch hours. I hope to have it finished next week.
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Finished Programs / Re: PutAside: declutter and cycle through windows
« Last post by justice on August 17, 2007, 03:28 AM »
Thanks all, I've now updated the release at the top. :) (and added your names to the about section).
I actually stopped using the program on vista, but now back on XP am running it again.
Hopefully I'll have some time soon to spend a few more hours on this program.
So if any of you are still using it and have suggestions then feel free :)
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Finished Programs / Re: PutAside: declutter and cycle through windows
« Last post by justice on August 16, 2007, 03:40 AM »
Thanks for that cemole, sorry to hear about it. I'll investigate.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Q: Preferences backup for installed applications?
« Last post by justice on August 15, 2007, 08:54 AM »
It's not important but looking forward to the screencaps :)  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Smashing Magazine's Best of July links — holy freakin' moly
« Last post by justice on August 15, 2007, 07:35 AM »
omg no now i'll never get to do any work  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use
« Last post by justice on August 15, 2007, 07:24 AM »
2. Opera
1. Outlook
3. The programmer's editor flavour of the month
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