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General Software Discussion / Re: Could Authotkey make my life easier?

« Last post by brotherS on January 05, 2006, 10:59 AM »

I work on two laptops, and maintain my lists in MyLifeOrganized (watch for a mini-review here within the next fortnight).

-m_s (January 05, 2006, 10:51 AM)

Looking forward to that!

Is it as simple as recording the various steps of: 1) closing down MLO to gain access to the data file (this is necessary before copying the data file), 2) opening a new message, 3) addressing it to myself, 4) attaching the data file, 5) send the message, and then playing back this recorded macro whenever I want to repeat the process?  I don't mind the manual steps of receiving the message on the other machine and comparing to be sure I am not overwriting a newer version of the file. 

You probably could do all that, but what about bringing your personal FTP server into the equation? Setting all the rights right, you could probably let AHK monitor MLO and when you close it on PC 1 it will automatically back up the data file to the FTP server, where the script on the other PC will get it from and 'install' it when you click a button there.

I don't know AHK at all, so I don't know if this would be the way of doing what I need - can anyone advise?

Lets see what skrommel thinks about our thoughts, but you should the "I don't know AHK at all" part even if you won't use AHK for this task: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1167.0

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Living Room / Re: Predictions 2006 ...

« Last post by brotherS on January 04, 2006, 04:37 AM »

Ok, here are my first PNYP (personal new year's predictions)

Software:
the world will see more open source projects

Internet:
projects like wikipedia will continue to grow, so will P2P, even if the hunt goes on

TV/movies:
more content will be available online, instead of DVD rental services we will get to see new download-to-view-once (or twice) services

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Living Room / Re: The Edge Annual Question — 2006 - What is your dangerous idea?

« Last post by brotherS on January 04, 2006, 04:14 AM »

"Fantastically stimulating... It's like the crack cocaine of the thinking world.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about that question." — BBC Radio 4

Great find, thanks!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / a billion sites to send big files - and then some...

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 12:35 PM »

You probably all know www.yousendit.com - right?

Today I found http://www.jdempsey....file-storagesending/ - offering a biiiig list of such sites. Wow!

This isn't really a review, but I think it kinda fits in here

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General Software Discussion / The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 12:32 PM »

http://slackermanage...the_several_hab.html

I stumbled of the Firefox extension for del.icio.us more than once, but haven't installed it myself yet. I think I should! Any del.icio.us users on DC?

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Finished Programs / Re: Screensaver On/Off/Auto

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 11:58 AM »

Hmm, right after I installed it I was able to launch a screensaver from it, now I don't? Might be related to other problems my Windows has today though...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you backup your files?

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 05:27 AM »

Ok, thanks! Would be great if we had someone here using "Differential backups" with DVD. Lets see

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you backup your files?

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 04:46 AM »

Differential backups are the more space efficient, as it only keeps the first FULL backup and then makes a single differential backup of changes which means previous differential 'lumps' can be deleted as required without affecting backup integrity -so effectively you have only two two parts to your backup. It can also automate the deletion of previous diffential 'lumps' by specifying how many backups to retain.

-Carol Haynes (January 03, 2006, 03:29 AM)

Is this meant to backup to another HD or is this a good choice too if you backup to DVD-RW?

Incremental backups allow for easier rollback to a previous state because it always saves all changes since the last backup - so you have a FULL backup plus a number of incremental backups which can be restored independently ad files can be extracted from different dated backups. This can allow some control over version fo files to recover which can be very useful. Note that ALL increments must be retained for a successful restore.

But if one of the backup DVDs is destroyed I'm able to restore all of the files on the other backup DVDs, right?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: script to prevent near-sightedness!

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 01:28 AM »

Hmm, I have another problem with this: When I use

[Select]

Sleep,%interval%
SetTimer, EYES, %interval%

to prevent the timer being executed immediately after starting the script if will prevent the timer in the script below from being set correctly. How do I prevent this?

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General Software Discussion / wanted: nice and small screensaver

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 01:01 AM »

Hi,

thanks to Carol I'm now using http://www.stardusts...ds/tools/sscontrol3/ .

Description:
Stardust Screen Saver Control™ 2003 is a free taskbar accessory that lets you launch and configure all your screen savers.

Features:
4Launch default screen saver with a single click.
4Select from a list of installed screen savers.
4Launch/configure/disable any screen saver.
4Quickly enable/disable current screen saver.
4Set Windows to randomly pick a screen saver.
4Easy install/uninstall.

Now I need nice and small (I don't want big screensavers that take long to start up) screensaver(s). Do you know a source for nice ones? Artistic, minimalistic, whatever.

Thanks

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Finished Programs / Re: Screensaver On/Off/Auto

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 12:54 AM »

Fun little freebie here that does most of what you want and more:

http://www.stardusts...ds/tools/sscontrol3/

-Carol Haynes (January 01, 2006, 06:47 PM)

Nice find, thanks!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: script to prevent near-sightedness!

« Last post by brotherS on January 03, 2006, 12:50 AM »

Thanks, that works! I just wonder why the AHK page does not warn about using loops then...

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Ideas i want to bounce off you guys

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 02:07 PM »

I just don't see one method of freeware/donationware making much difference over another method because the bottom remains that it's still free.  I think there is great motivation as it is because you offer shareware programs as prizes and stuff to members and the discounts.  That's more motivation than changing the license key method.

-superboyac (January 02, 2006, 01:52 PM)

Donationware seems to promote a better coder <-> user relation. Hadn't Screenshot Captor (the first DC program I used) been donationware I probably would have posted a few bug reports or would have mailed them to mouser, but I'm not 100% sure DC would have had the same impact on me as it did have - and vice versa.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Mode Instant Messenger Client (Source Available)

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 02:01 PM »

I guess you have to use and love console mode applications to appreciate them...  Even the lightest weight GUI application will be of a porker compared to a dedicated console mode application.

-Hoak (January 02, 2006, 01:54 PM)

Well, I used the console quite a lot too, but now it's 2006!

I now prefer to use programs where much could be done with just the keyboard.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: sync single files HD <-> USB stick

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 01:54 PM »

I made it!

I'm not checking if drive letters changed (yet?), just checking if the destination path exists on the USB drive (using the letter it always gets on my PC so far).

It checks for the existence of that destination path every x minutes and updates the file I want to have updated there.

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Living Room / Re: Unofficial fix for recent (and serious) windows vulnerability

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 12:38 PM »

Hmm... after thinking about that a bit I wonder if Firefox could protect you (again).

The article doesn't even mention Firefox, maybe because it's on MSNBC?

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Living Room / Re: Unofficial fix for recent (and serious) windows vulnerability

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 12:36 PM »

Nasty stuff out there! 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: script to prevent near-sightedness!

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 12:26 PM »

I almost went crazy when trying to add another script - AutoExec6 - below that script from my last post. Somehow it prevents other autoexec scripts below it from being executed...

Any idea why and how to fix it?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Movies of coding snacks.

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 07:54 AM »

The find and run robot video was funny.

-alecjw (January 02, 2006, 07:04 AM)

I don't even know that video! Where does it hide? Do you have an URL?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: January's Poll - What Area Should DonationCoder.com Focus on Most in 2006?

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 06:32 AM »

In 2006, I'd like to see
- more improvements of existing programs (I'm totally satisfied right now!)
- more Coding Snacks
- more discounts
- more nice discussions in the forum
- more nice discussions in the IRC channel (read my signature)
- more forum users
- more DC account users ( https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1261 )
- more users getting involved with great programs like https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1167.0 and https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1201.0

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Living Room / Re: Interested in teaming up for good web hosting / website accounts?

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 06:29 AM »

Thanks mouser for setting this all up, my DC member accounts works perfectly!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: make script only work if not started from USB stick

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 05:03 AM »

Works!

Script looks like this now:

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#Persistent
IfExist,D:\data\program files\
SetTimer, X1, 800000
else
return
SetTitleMatchMode, 1
return
#Persistent
X1:
IfNotExist,D:\data\program files\Autohotkey\daily\0815_%A_YYYY%-%A_MM%-%A_DD%.txt
If WinExist("special title")
MsgBox, page already open
Else
{
  Run,IExplore.exe http://www.whatever.bla
  FileCopy,D:\data\program files\Autohotkey\daily\0815_info.txt,D:\data\program files\Autohotkey\daily\0815_%A_YYYY%-%A_MM%-%A_DD%.txt
}
Return

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: helpful tool to show some shoutcast stream titles / Winamp etc.

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 04:39 AM »

Anyone saw jazper recently? 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Movies of coding snacks.

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 04:21 AM »

I like that idea!

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Mode Instant Messenger Client (Source Available)

« Last post by brotherS on January 02, 2006, 04:02 AM »

As you say, Miranda is "already very mature and very 'light weight'", so why would you need a "text mode only Miranda"?

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1201.0