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Living Room / Re: allergic to computer monitor

« Last post by justice on May 26, 2007, 02:22 PM »

This study seems to suggest to me that the level of Triphenyl phosphate will fall after using the monitor for some hours.(see below) are your monitors new?

After one week of continuous operation the triphenyl phosphate concentration had dropped to 50 % of the value measured after 24 hours. After 183 days of operation, corresponding to 2 years of operation in normal working hours, the concentration had dropped to 10 % of the initial concentration. The fact that the triphenyl phosfate concentration decreases with time is in line with the qualitative results in Table 2.11. Please note that the results in section 2.4.1.1 show that the concentration of other phosphate-based flame retardants does not peak until after 100 hours and only decreases very slowly.

Couldn't find any more unfortunately.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: tool to fullscreen (not just maximize) any application?

« Last post by justice on May 26, 2007, 11:29 AM »

I would like to see an option for Always On Top, for example when I full screen my text editor and then bring up a search/replace window, that window spawns underneath the editor which is a pain

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 07:36 PM »

Or when you've got 7 explorer windows open + 10 other applications and you want to switch to the right one

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 07:07 PM »

Always wanted to use FARR instead of the taskbar or alt-tab? Want to switch to windows or tasks quickly? Use stt:

[Select]

1000>>>Switch To Task>->stt $$1 |C:\Scripts\SwitchToTask\SwitchToTask.exe $$1>+>^stt (.*)

Change the path to SwitchToTask.exe to the folder you extract the zip file to.

Then type in farr:

[Select]

stt fox

to switch to firefox (case insensitive regexes supported)

[Select]

stt opera

to switch to opera
or any other part of a window. Or a lot more powerful using AHK regular expressions

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : go to parent folder with double-click

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 01:16 PM »

Ah use FileInstall to include the .ico in the compiled exe

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : go to parent folder with double-click

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 10:43 AM »

Hey great work
A use of controlget that I had not seen before  Well done!
I've enclosed a compiled version of the script.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Clipboard Chain broken notifier

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 08:32 AM »

Most clipboard managers allow you to specify exclusions to programs such like your password manager?

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 07:51 AM »

I spend some time Fixing tags the other day. MusicIP wanted to correct about 1000 mp3s. However some of the metadata it suggested was clearly bogus and I couldn't find any way to say mine was more accurate. OR convince MusicIP that its data was incorrect. For example it suggested IIRC that the genre of a song was a link to a forum. And it tried to change the artist "Airwave" into "Airwave 2" and "airwave 3" .

Also, I couldn't find any way of identifying why a particular track can't be analysed. I tried adding tag information myself so that it could be properly recognised but to no avail.

Apart from these very minor niggles I'm still using it for my day to day listening.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : go to parent folder with double-click

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 07:15 AM »

ah yes so it's just turn double click into backspace.

The code below should get someone started but at the moment it sends backspace to any application for anything on double click, causing problems in texteditors etc I need someone else to take it further.

Also it seems vista does the double click to parent window in explorer already. Also it might make sense to change it to double-rightclick which causes less interference.

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; DaddyClick
; see http://translatecz.svarz.cz/2007/05/en-doubleclick-to-close-window.html  for similar script
; or the various help pages on ControlSend etc.
; todo: limit it to explorer , open/save dialogue box and special folders
;         limit to only run when not selected

#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.

~LButton Up::
If (A_PriorHotKey = A_ThisHotKey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500) {
; info about window/ control the mouse is hovering over
MouseGetPos,,,id,ControlHwnd,2
; information for tooltip
WinGetTitle, title, ahk_id %id%
WinGetClass, class, ahk_id %id%
ToolTip, ahk_id %id%`nahk_class %class%`n%title%`nControl: %ControlHwnd%

; send actual keystroke to control
ControlSend,,{BS},ahk_id %ControlHwnd%
}
Return

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : go to parent folder with double-click

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 05:22 AM »

You might be able to get the value that is selected after the first click.
if that is empty then obviously nothing is selected and the ahk can go to the parent folder.

But for that you always need to know what folder you are in as well. It is unlikely that running cd.. would work.

So because of the explorer interaction adding this in a AHK script will be not trivial. Maybe someone else can give pointers or forum links to help you further.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : go to parent folder with double-click

« Last post by justice on May 25, 2007, 04:09 AM »

If you want to do this in autohotkey, you'll probably have to set a doubleclick 'hotkey' and check if it's initiated in an explorer class, possibly file open/save dialog. This is not hard to do. A double click is a succession of two clicks within the same window within a specified time, although I would advice to look at the source of some of Skrommel's AHK scripts, because I'm sure he's used one to detect a triple click.

However you also have to check you are not clicking on a folder or file but in empty space, and I am not sure how they are recognised. That will be the tricky part.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 24th, 2007 - Codename "Summer is not for Sleeping"

« Last post by justice on May 24, 2007, 04:48 PM »

I'd like to see an editorial about donationcoder inside the letter, now it's just links which is great but a paragraph or two about how the last month has been would be ace! Also probably something like an interview with one of the donationcoder people would be great to read. Btw great job as ever on the newsletter it's always an excellent read!

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Living Room / Re: Free Acronis TrueImage for Seagate/Maxtor HDD owners

« Last post by justice on May 24, 2007, 07:09 AM »

Well I think it's about as hard to use as partition magic, you need to realise what you are doing because it is a powerful program, but when you do (read through the help file) you can get things done easy enough. I have never used similar tools (although I am a software junkie) I was able to use DriveImage without any problems.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configuring user tools

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 06:55 PM »

BTW this is ideal for something like HtmlTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) copy html and reformat it in one go! I might have a go at that.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: A new name

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 06:51 PM »

If you are still looking to change the name maybe go for PasteVault. No google hits, unlike InfoVault, and the fact that you're copying and pasting information in and out of a vault / safe like container. Or even TextVault

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Feature: include windows hotkeys?

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 06:14 PM »

Hi Mouser, I've installed CH+S at home and I can't get used to the hotkeys: pressing 3 keys is quite an acrobatic feat! I was wondering if you could add support for windows-key based hotkeys? I could then just set the hotkeys to Windows-Q and Windows-V, not used by any popular functionality I use and one key less to press.

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Living Room / Re: Free Acronis TrueImage for Seagate/Maxtor HDD owners

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 01:29 PM »

I think I read some months back you can download the driver then extract the .exe with winrar and inside you'll find trueimage, but I'm sure that was for Intel drivers. hmm I'll have a look.

Can't find the intel one, and also checked their ftp site for large downloads (aren't any).
Anyway, Seagate DiscWizard installs fine on my Maxtor HD. When you walk through the Image Backup Wizard one screen lists a link to get 40% off Acronis True Image! Now I'm confused what the difference is, but I thought I should mention it.

As an alternative I am currently trying DriveImage Xml, I've made images but I haven't restored from them yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 01:28 PM »

I had slight trouble with playing the whole mix, I think the same applies to playing albums.
In every other player double clicking on the first song in a mix plays the whole mix.
In MusicIP it plays the one song only: double click on the label of the mix (usually called 'Mix' or the name of your playlist) plays the whole list. Probably the same thing applies to your album, try double clicking the album, that works.

You can see what is playing under "now playing".

And because you have double clicked on the first song in the list, it only plays one song, and you can't use the previous/next button.

Regarding album art: it shows the art for the song you have selected browsing the library, not the one playing: right click the album art and select Image View -> Prefer playing track

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 11:02 AM »

It says "Saving library cache...", with a stop button.

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Living Room / Re: Why don't you pay for software?

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 07:08 AM »

Well.. even on a forum like this where I wouldn't know how to make it easier to reward a developer, can you honestly live off the donations from people? I hope people could, but I can't imagine 1 person per hour donating..

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 06:29 AM »

BTW if you enjoy revolutionary software you should definately check musicIP out:

or instance, you might create a file called Happy.m3u and store 10 songs which make you feel happy. After saving this in the Moods directory, you can choose Moods/Happy from the menu bar, and MusicIP Mixer will automatically create a new playlist which reflects those songs.

A "binary" mood file is stored as a .m3mood file instead of a .m3u file - the difference is that the .m3mood file contains a binary description of your mood. You can swap .m3mood files with your friends, and they will be able to make mood mixes based off your original playlist, but using songs from their collections.

Also something I have never seen before is the 'scan button'. Press the green button with the man walking icon on it and it will preview files, click on it again when you hear something you like and musicIp will create a mix based on this. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 05:28 AM »

@urlwolf:

CUE Splitter - A CUE file splitter for Windows. Support: MP3, APE, FLAC, WAVE.
CUE Splitter is a freeware tool that split a single big audio track, mostly an album or a compilation, into the relative individual audio tracks, using informations contained in the associated "CUE" file. Sometimes you can find a big compressed audio file (for example MP3, APE, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMA, etc...) equipped with a small "CUE" text file that contain informations about tracks title, artist and length. Usually these couple of files are generated by programs like EAC (Exact Audio Copy), CDRWin, BPM Studio, GoldWave or similar.With CUE Splitter you can obtain splitted audio track files without burn any CDR or decode/re-encode any audio data! Moreover audio files are automatically named using a user-defined "file mask" string, it's tags are filled with informations extracted from "CUE" file and, optionally, an M3U playlist file can be generated (option enabled by default). CUE Splitter is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

http://www.shareup.c...-download-30218.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.82 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - APRIL 26, 2007

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 03:21 AM »

It already does search its own history Have a look at the Launch History tab. Maybe you'll want to increase history related entries in the Heuristic Scoring section of the advanced options. This way matches from your history will get more priority.

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Finished Programs / Re: PutAside: declutter and cycle through windows

« Last post by justice on May 23, 2007, 02:40 AM »

I know I am not very consistant with naming scheme lol
0705 stands foor 2007 month 05 which is may 2007 which is 1.0

I'm not really keen about version numbers but I guess I've not found the ideal alternative.
I'll rename the zip to putaside-1.0.zip

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on May 22, 2007, 07:27 PM »

Seems like a mix between a good media player, last.fm and Picard music matching.
Instead of regular playlists, it can create a playlist based on one song, then you can select whether you want to hear "more like this" or "less like this". Also compares song analysis with an online database so you can select 'a mix' on mood etc.

Good for big media collections. Plusses for  pointing you towards legitimate free music with similar qualities as what you are listening too. Best way I've seen to discover unknown talent!

Mind you that is a 5 minute review. After a few weeks I probably have a better opinion.