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Living Room / Re: Unread/Aggregated Topics/Forums

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 09:20 PM »

If you have pressed the "Mark all as unread" button that clears the list, so maybe you did that recently?
Or maybe visiting the "Unread since last visit" clears the list?

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Living Room / Re: Unread/Aggregated Topics/Forums

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 08:33 PM »

Of course it has paging.
Are you clicking the proper Unread Posts page, which is: https://www.donation...hp?action=unread;all

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Living Room / Re: Unread/Aggregated Topics/Forums

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 08:04 PM »

thats what the latest topics, and unread posts pages are for aren't they?
i never browse the forum, i exclusively use "unread posts" page.

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Living Room / Re: Unread/Aggregated Topics/Forums

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 07:54 PM »

there are two links at top for unread posts -- one for all posts you have not read, and one for just new since last visit.

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Living Room / Re: Unread/Aggregated Topics/Forums

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 07:39 PM »

i'm confused -- what are you wanting?  The Unread posts list shows posts you haven't read.. somehow you want it to show you "more" than that? 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.88.01 - Oct 8, 2010

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 05:13 PM »

Moving a file with objects using MoveTo Folders should also move the .png.objects file but doesn't seem to?

that absolutely should! i will check into that right away.

Renaming a file doesn't seem to maintain the .png.objects file which stores the markup objects (arrows, etc.).

that should also happen, but depending on how you rename i wouldn't be surprised if one way didn't work.  you can rename using the thumbnail strip (hitting f2 or right clicking on the image and choosing to rename) -- that way i'm not sure will work.

the other way that should definitely work is if you select the image and then click in the file name field at the bottom, change the name, and hit enter.  that should rename the image and the associated object file.  note you can also use this image to change the file TYPE by specifying a new .extension.

i will check into the MoveTo method right away -- if that's not moving the associated object files then for sure that needs to be fixed asap.


Thanks for the donation!

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Living Room / Re: Bad News for Heroscape Fans

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 10:34 AM »

Strange.. but then again.. there is more than more than enough Heroscape expansions out there.. you don't really need them to produce anything more to enjoy the game to its fullest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software idea for speed reading/skimming text by color-coding important keywords

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 09:41 AM »

This is because I think there would be not many cases where a "static" or "custom" word list would be the same even for only as little as two different web pages, blog lines or the like.

ok so i see reading back now that this part of your idea is actually more interesting/novel than i gave it credit for initially.  you are saying that, for any given page, it would be interesting to see highlighted words with some frequency pattern local to that page.  You suggested that high frequency (but globally uncommon) words might be most useful to highlight though i can see the opposite being the case..  Either way it is an interesting aspect of the idea (though i'm still a bit doubtful about it being more useful that coloring based on custom tweaked manual word sets).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best The BAT! version?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 09:03 AM »

well that does concern me in general, and specifically.  you can export messages from thebat, but there is no good way that i know of to export and preserve the account structure let along multiple accounts.  so yes, it is a concern.  especially if i were a new user coming to the question of what email client to use, it would weight heavier against thebat.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software idea for speed reading/skimming text by color-coding important keywords

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 09:01 AM »

I think the easiest thing would be to separate the task of *AUTOMATICALLY* determining what words to highlight using frequency analysis, from the task of actually highlighting/coloring words based on manually configured wordlists.

Then a separate tool can be used to create wordlists based on frequency counting, etc.  Lot's of tools for that, and people can share their lists, etc., i don't see too much value trying to build this functionality into the addon itself.  Just have it let the user create and switch between WordColorSets that specify which words should be shown in which colors.

I think it's a great idea, and would make a terrific NANY 2011 project for someone looking for an idea and willing to make a FireFox plugin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software idea for speed reading/skimming text by color-coding important keywords

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 08:30 AM »

seems like a great idea to me.. and i can see just as interesting would be to let user define their own custom word sets that list certain words that should shown in certain colors.. would be great for people who are specialists looking for certain things.  nice if you could switch wordsets depending on your task.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best The BAT! version?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2010, 04:03 AM »

I'm very satisfied with thebat latest version.  Can't say i ever have felt any really compelling reason to upgrade but i do anyway.  But then again, that's a good part of why I'm so happy with the program -- it has always does what I need it to do and never given me any trouble.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.88.01 - Oct 8, 2010

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 08:08 PM »

and let me guess that it's only the region capture that has this effect, right? the other capture modes probably work fine..
(and in fact if you go into red box mode options and set it to use red box for region capture, region capture probably will work without screen resizing).

region capture actually first captures the entire screen and then lets you draw on it, so something must be confusing it and causing your trouble. do you have multiple monitors (that shouldnt cause it but maybe it does); do you have some unusual desktop skinning tool?

ps. i never understand why everyone loves to region capture -- i much prefer setting SC to show itself after capture (not use popup dialog), and always take a full screen capture and crop it myself the capture.

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Site/Forum Features / All known drawings of Cody, the DC mascot

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 07:25 PM »

I think it would be a good idea to have a thread with all drawings of Cody, the DC mascot, in any form.

This first post is just a placeholder until we start to fill it up.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: dot Net complaints

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 05:50 PM »

Thanks for sharing that kyrathaba 

Here's how i prompt for desktop icon with Inno.

First add an ICON line:
[Icons]
Name: {userdesktop}\Name of your application; Filename: {app}\YourApplicationProgramFile.exe; Tasks: desktopicon

Then add a TASKS line:

[Tasks]
Name: desktopicon; Description: {cm:CreateDesktopIcon}; GroupDescription: {cm:AdditionalIcons}

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Mouser App - Webcam Diary

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 05:31 PM »

Thanks for the interesting ideas insert_nick.
I really like the idea of a tool for lucid dreaming.

However, i'm fraid that the idea of storing words at locations on the video frame is a bit outside the scope of what i was thinking.

I was thinking more something where you could simply record videos and take snapshot images quickly, where they would be stored in a folder hierarchically by date, and where you could leave notes associated with videos or photos.

So something very simple.. at least to start out with.

But keep the ideas coming.

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Google Boomerang / Re: Google Translator Boomerang - Latest Version Info - v1.06.01 - Feb 16, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 04:40 PM »

Should now be fixed in new version just uploaded -- let me know.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Dominion Rules Character Creator

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 04:07 PM »

not that i have use for this, but it does look fun to use 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Access violation when deleting all images

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 04:05 PM »

sounds very annoying -- i will try to reproduce and track it down right away -- thank you for the screencast -- makes it easier to see the problem 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a folder monitor app...

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 11:44 AM »

Watch 4 Folder looks nice.

There is also Belvedere from Lifehacker/Adam Pash: http://lifehacker.co...our-self+cleaning-pc

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Programmer Libs / Re: MwImporter php script - Batch import html site into MediaWiki - v2.0 - 5/26/10

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 09:34 AM »

Is it possible to modify this script so that I do not need to use the commandline to do so? My web service provider does not (as far as I can tell) allow commandline access. So I want to run it just from clicking on the script or pointing to the url where the script is found.

i think you are onto the problem.. and your question is the right one..

it's been a while since i worked on mwimporter but my memory is that 1) i always intended to make it so you could do this 2) at some point i realized it wasn't going to be so simple to it.  but i can't remember if #2 is really true or why i have the vague memory of thinking it was going to be tricky.  it seems like it should be doable.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.88.01 - Oct 8, 2010

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 09:31 AM »

hi emcemc, that is very strange!

Does it happen when you do other types of capture?
Does it happen if you use the shift+PrtScr keyboard shortcut to start a region capture?

ps. i will probably split this thread off into a separate topic, so look for it in Screenshot Captor section.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SMF or phpBB... that is the question?

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 09:28 AM »

SMF is pretty great right out of the box and has proved very stable, and has a wonderful feature set and organization that just makes sense.

However the one thing I will say, and i think i've said this in another thread, is that SMF is part of the past-generation of web applications, where "add-ons and extensions" are not handled through hooks and signals, but are instead handled by actually *modifying* the code.

What this means is that addons and mods are not easy to maintain, and can be a bit hairy to deal with when applying updates to the core forum.

So SMF is a great forum system for someone who wants a powerful and easy to maintain forum system, but who isn't planning on installing lots of addons.   Although there are some great addons for SMF, if you are the kind of person who will want to install lots of addons and modifications for your forum, you should look elsewhere, in my humble opinion, because of the difficulty in maintaining and upgrading in the presence of addons.

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Living Room / Re: Snail Videos

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2010, 12:28 AM »

I love the photo Edvard just posted.. it made me laugh and told me everything i needed to know to know i do not want to watch those videos.
Thanks for the saving me from some nightmares Edvard 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Icons not showing in LBC

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2010, 11:20 PM »

yep, ok and the shortcuts are simple normal shortcuts.
i have all i need, now i will try to fix.
thanks for your patience!