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DesktopCoral / Re: Width Value Resets If below 14

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 02:56 PM »

i should be able to fix this.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: "Go" Alias SLOW!

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 02:55 PM »

it sounds like maybe it's launching a second copy of firefox.. when this slow thing happens, does a second instance of firefox get launched?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Portability of Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 02:52 PM »

i just mean i can't remember if the latest build has this -- i think it does.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Windows Key ONLY for hotkey

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 02:35 PM »

I'll see if i can enable this internally -- seems like a neat idea to use windows button for FARR.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Portability of Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 02:51 AM »

As with most of my programs, you can use them portably, just edit the ConfigDir.ini file and remove the // in front of
// CONFIGDIR = .
to tell the program to use the current directory it's run from to save the date.

Actually I think you should be able to put the line
PORTABLE=TRUE

at the top of the file to have the same effect.

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Living Room / Re: Donationcoder: How did you find it + What has your experience been like so far.

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 12:41 AM »

I hate to tread on everyone's sense of temporality and causality, but in 1984 I received a mysterious dossier on microfilm format that had a list of 500,000 users, and instructions to set up this site.  Your names and emails, along with your forum names, avatars, and and some additional unknown symbols, are all present in this original dossier, along with several hundred thousand users that have not yet signed up.  It also lists emergency procedures for dealing with a situation where someone on the list attempts to leave the site (very unpleasant procedures i must say).  The only thing i took the liberty of changing from the dossier instructions was the name of the site -- which i was instructed to call DOCO40948093823342352352352352350893425093485.com -- i thought that was a little long.

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Living Room / C-Span Finishes Project to Put Full (US Govt) Video Archives on the Web

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 11:37 PM »

This is pretty huge for (recovering) political junkies like me -- this week c-span has finished putting it's entire video archives online, with an awesome search engine.  Some amazingly good stuff to watch here, and a big step forward for US citizens.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/

from NY Times via slashdot.org

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Living Room / Re: Cafepress Alternatives - Find out the truth about 'CP's' biggest competitors.

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 06:33 PM »

the cafepress mugs are outstanding quality.. i've been dissapointed with the tshirts ive seen.

as javajones notes, this article suggests that printfection has much better quality shirts, so it would be nice to evaluate.

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Living Room / Re: Windows doesn't recognize HDD.

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 06:04 PM »

i agree with javajones and 40hz -- i adopt a zero-tolerance for hard drive problems.  once a hard drive starts acting hinky, i immediately put a label on it saying "untrustworthy" and will never again use it for anything important.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 05:00 PM »

ps.
If anyone wants my copy of Mass Effect 2, i'm willing to send it out; i haven't activated the downloadable content, so that is available as well.  US only please, just to save me shipping costs.  If more than one person wants it i will send it to a person who has written a coding snack or mini-review.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 04:59 PM »

Deo i like this idea -- let me take it further, i think a nice really casual mode that games could have might be to be able to play them on "advice" mode, where the game would basically play itself, but take "advice" from the player.

So if player wanted to move the character, the game AI would do the shooting.. If player wanted to do the shooting, the AI would take over moving, etc.  Up to the point where the game would basically play itself and let the player occasionally do things like set a general goal or make an important choice.

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Living Room / Re: Yay, Upgrade time! - Inspire me with hardware I can buy =-D

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 04:55 PM »

We've had this discussion before -- i always recommend leaving the old working pc alone and buying a new pc.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Does anyone use Process Tamer with Minimum?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2010, 09:48 AM »

Welcome to the site will.

The programs do completely different things, so it's fine to run them at the same time.  People have suggested i add some memory minimizing features to Process Tamer, but i haven't done so yet -- and you should know that there is some debate about whether minimizing memory does any good.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we experiment with google ads on the site for 1 month?

« Last post by mouser on March 15, 2010, 05:40 PM »

i think for now this issue is settled, and we won't be placing ads on the site, even as an experiment.  we might set up some strange opt-in for ads system at some point just for those curious about how it would look.

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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 5

« Last post by mouser on March 15, 2010, 01:48 AM »

Nice news update, thanks for this 

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Just got approval of posting into AlternativeTo

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2010, 11:07 AM »

Let me clarify: The Form Letter Machine is a program I wrote, and i was saying that it is not one of my most well known programs.  Those who have use for it find it good -- it's just not something that too many people have a need for.

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General Software Discussion / StreamTransport: Free Stream (youtube,hulu,etc) Downloading Tool

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2010, 05:34 PM »

FreewareGenius has a write up today about a (new?) free downloading tool StreamTransport.  Sounds promising, and even seems to have some url capturing features like those found in URL Snooper?

The app is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh, Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video, CBS, etc.  The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no bother to add URL manually.

http://www.streamtransport.com/

from http://www.freewareg...crypted-media-sites/

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (alpha - download)

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2010, 04:10 PM »

might be nice to have a quick summary of what's new?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Stream is not continuous

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2010, 02:59 PM »

maybe they are breaking it up into sections.. not sure how to solve that.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] BatchBlitz - batch process digital photos

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2010, 01:22 PM »

Initial testing was very positive.. Really friendly user interface, great that you can save and load projects.

I did experience some hanging (at least in my vmware test environment) that seemed to happen often when i tried to add text -- and the text would not show up when this happened, so seems like some problem with the text generation maybe?

A feature i'd love to see is the ability to invoke BatchBlitz via commandline and give it the name of a project file and then the name of some source files and have it run the saved-project settings on the specified files.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: TBS Cover Editor - Create virtual boxes and covers for your software

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2010, 06:10 AM »

Very nice 

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Living Room / Re: Will you miss newspapers when they're gone?

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2010, 08:51 PM »

The Onion tackles this important question:

http://www.theonion....ill_the_end_of_print

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] BatchBlitz - batch process digital photos

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2010, 09:55 PM »

very nice to meet you, please make yourself at home 
-mouser

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] BatchBlitz - batch process digital photos

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2010, 09:50 PM »

The interface looks great, and freeware too? wow nice!
Definitely going to give this a try.

Are you the programmer?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: MP3Drive

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2010, 07:11 PM »

that's very interesting wetsmellydog, as someone who generally does not like these fancy custom media player drivers, this is something i might want to check out.