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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 11:06 PM »

2012 is the next one 

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 07:27 PM »

My view is, the longer you have been a DC member, the more you are expected to be polite and kind even in the face of withering attack
Long time members are expected to embrace the calming zen spirit of Cody the Bird.

I think it's also a matter of trying to avoid getting into the situations where everyone feels the burning need to have the last word or pile on.  The longer you are a member the more you should know that sometimes holding your tongue or taking the high road leads to a better experience for all of us.  And of course we have enough humour on this forum to survive anything

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Living Room / Re: Contact information in one's profile

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 06:16 PM »

im thinking we might just have a separate text box where users can put all their random contact info.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 05:32 PM »

Ok still waiting for the dif icons, but i have now given everyone their proper years.

You can see the lists broken up by year now here:
https://www.donation...10,nany2011,nany2012

NOTE:
It's almost certain that i missed a couple of year entries for people.  So if you released something in a NANY year that you aren't listed for, please let me know! (send me a pm) and i will get it fixed right away.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Options Window keeps popping up...

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 05:29 PM »

fantastic.

new release of FARR will come out tomorrow then, with a fix.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 04:17 PM »

what happened to trying to be nice and constructive to each other?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Problems with attaching an attachment to a post...

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 01:54 PM »

yes i wonder.. did you attach an image to the post you lost?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 01:43 PM »

If the year went where the 01 now is, you would actually be able to read the year.

yes that is exactly what we will be doing -- and coloring each year differently.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 01:00 PM »

Looks like we have a case here of there being some useful issues to talk about (how to deal with passwords in such programs) -- but being raised in a less than ideally helpful manner..  Let's try to remember that we are trying to be helpful to each other here not to score debating points.  And yeah, we all need to keep our sense of humour or we'll never survive

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Problems with attaching an attachment to a post...

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 12:35 PM »

hmm -- i am seeing this error more frequently in the server log.

i'd like to figure out why it might be happening.. any clues?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2011, 12:34 PM »

 
fixed.

now i just have to figure out how to add everyone to the other years.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Exclusions

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 04:53 PM »

ok will add.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Exclusions

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 04:43 PM »

i could certainly add ability to exclude by window title.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 04:31 PM »

Will each one look different at some point? Colour-coded? Renumbered?

yes, both. soon.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 03:55 PM »

nah, there has to be an easier way.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 03:45 PM »

now i just have to figure out an easy way to build a list of what users were in what NANY's..

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: That NANY badge

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 01:02 PM »

so i think maybe there is a consensus that we shouldnt have just one nany badge, but a separate badge for each year of nany..
so let me see if hamradio is willing to modify his icon to show the YEAR as the number (07,08,09,10,11) and get those in place.

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Living Room / Gizmo Puts Out The Call For Freeware Reviewers

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2011, 08:07 AM »

Most of you here know and love Gizmo's Freeware site (TechSupportAlertNews), one of the best freeware sites out there.

Gizmo has been a *great* friend to DC, and many of our forum members even discovered us from reading about something on that site!

Well Gizmo's is a completely volunteer community, and I've received word from Gizmo that they are having a little trouble at the moment recruiting enough volunteers to keep the site going. What they need is more people to manage review sections.

Since we have some serious software reviewer types here on DC, Gizmo asked if I would help him put out the call on DC for anyone who might be willing to help them do reviews and be section editors.

Gizmo says:
There are a lot of different software categories than need editors at the moment but these are the one of greatest need:

• Best Free Adware-Spyware-Scumware Remover
• Best Free Disk De-fragmenter
• Best Free Program Un-installer
• Best Free Drive Imaging Program
• Best Free Portable Apps

And if none of these interest you then you can see a full list here: http://www.techsuppo...lert.com/unallocated

You can help by selecting a category to review and then letting them know here: http://www.techsuppo...ecome-a-reviewer.htm

According to Gizmo you should allow about two hours a month as a volunteer reviewer.


Gizmo is one of those those treasures of the web -- if you've been itching to get more serious about doing reviews, this would be a great thing to try -- and you could share your reviews with us too, so everybody benefits.

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 10:48 PM »

i didn't take your post as criticism at all -- just raising an issue for us to talk about 

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 10:27 PM »

yeah actually wasn't the idea originally that the giveaways would be for the volunteers, but we just didn't have many volunteers (or perhaps we didnt need them).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skwire's DC member site marked as suspicious

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 08:10 PM »

thanks for the link -- i reported a suggestion to fix the rating as well 

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: A piece of Sh**

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 06:19 PM »

the site can sometimes be frustrating -- occasionally severely so.
the one thing we can promise though, is to try to help if you'll let us.  you can always email me ([email protected]) and i can try to help.

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 04:41 PM »

I can only advise not to go for Axiallis.

Weird.  I love axialis icon workshop -- really excellent product if you ask me.

DC member HamRadio actually did a review/comparison of it a while ago, see: https://www.donation.../IconTools/index.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skwire's DC member site marked as suspicious

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 03:37 PM »

what the hell!?!?!

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Living Room / Re: Link: Why Google does not qualify for searching the web anymore

« Last post by mouser on January 13, 2011, 03:03 PM »

Slashdot link's to an article reporting to compare google and bing objectively:
http://searchenginel...-search-engine-60928

slashdot discussion of it: http://search.slashd...uasi-empirical-Study