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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 11:42 PM »

More satire from The Onion:
http://www.theonion....finally_unveils_ipad

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's new tablet computer, the iPad, during a presentation in San Francisco last week. Here are some of its features:

•     * Awkward name enables Twitter users to make the same joke over and over and over again
•     * Super slick design makes it impossible to hold, pick up, or stop from sliding down the street
•     * Softly whimpers if left alone for too long
•     * Maureen Dowd New York Times column generator
•     * Photo album of the Jobs family summer vacation in Aruba
•     * Free pair of black-rimmed glasses, turtleneck, and position at New York City architecture firm
•     * Can withstand breezes up to 3 mph
•     * To ensure that its users receive the constant public attention they crave, the iPad will emit the phrase "Hey, does that guy have an iPad?" every eight minutes

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Using LBC to make Windows 7 usable

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 08:25 PM »

I think i agree with everything you've said -- the first two items are bugs i think, that i'm trying to solve.

the only one i done understand is:

- I would like to better separate folders and command items and would wish for an option to change the item's position in the bar. An alternative would be to allow multiple "spacer" items in addition to the separators.

can you elaborate?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to join different screenshots in Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 04:57 AM »

then you crop -- that's the easiest thing in the world.. select the area you want to keep and hit the crop button.

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: How to join different screenshots in Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 03:49 AM »

This topic has been moved to Screenshot Captor.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21569.0

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fSekrit / Re: Development: progress and thougts

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 03:23 AM »

Sounds nice.
We have a redmine set up on http://redmine.dcmembers.com -- if you create an account i'll make an fsekrit project for you there.
The multiple document streams idea sounds interesting..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to join different screenshots in Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2010, 03:19 AM »

I'm definitely going to be either building this into Screenshot Captor, or setting up some SC external tool configurations that will do it (irfanview has nice features for combining images horizontal or vertically).

For now, as a workaround, do what you are doing, drag one into the other -- then use the Edit->Resize menu (or Ctrl+G) -- and choose to "EXPAND CANVAS" instead of resizing.  Then you'll have more blank space to align your other image.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DJ Legend - The Super DJ Software Review Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2010, 11:49 PM »

Nice work scan! 

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Living Room / MakeUseOf.com: 5 Computer Hardware Review Sites for the PC Enthusiast

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2010, 02:00 PM »

Nice roundup today on MakeUseOf.com about some good hardware review sites.  They recommend the following sites:

• Tom’s Hardware Reviews
• Overclockers Club
• HardOCP
• Legion Hardware
• Hardware Canucks

I'd only add that once you have a candidate piece of hardware in mind, the NewEgg.com reviews and Amazon.com reviews can be extremely helpful.

http://www.makeuseof...r-the-pc-enthusiast/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Forgotten Assembly Language Commands

« Last post by mouser on January 30, 2010, 07:23 PM »

 

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on January 30, 2010, 02:58 PM »

I know we have a long way to go to make the site more user friendly.  I apologize for any frustration. It's hard to balance all of the issues and still find time to code.. Often the thing that gets left for last is making the website more easy to use.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 30, 2010, 01:30 PM »

This is really looking good.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 30, 2010, 10:52 AM »

possible ways to handle it:
1) options.  i don't mind an options file.
2) two exes, hiber-restart, sleep-restart
3) when you launch it with no commandline parameters it would show buttons for: "Restart then Hibernate","Restart then Sleep","Cancel"; you could also pass -rh or -rs as commandline option to specify a choice to take automatically.

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Circle Dock / Re: One Circle Dock download for every second so far!

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 10:33 PM »

You guys are back down a bit from your insane amount of traffic, to a merely gigantic number of about 14gb of bandwidth yesterday.  That's still a huge number.

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Circle Dock / Re: Now Accepting DONATIONS via PayPal (for Non-DC Members)

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 08:14 PM »

CircleDock certainly deserves the donations -- anyone who uses it and hasn't donated yet, you know what to do.. Click the button and donate!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 06:31 PM »

there is also the issue of

standby vs hibernate.

some of us use one and not the other.

standby is what i use normally, so an option for this would be nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Generic Card/Board Game Prototyping and Playtesting Tools

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 05:07 PM »

gothic sent me this post on slashdot about the possibility of using the new ipad as a board game surface:
http://apple.slashdo...shdot+%28Slashdot%29

regardless if the ipad is it, as was mentioned before, such things are coming.. might be good timing to work on such a project.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 03:31 PM »

The "10 mins wait" command should also check if the system is idle and/or do a "10 seconds to hibernate" countdown.

i think that the timer should show on screen the moment the reboot script begins, even if that means a 10 minute countdown.  the aim is to show the user what is going to happen, and let them cancel.  if they are walking away they wont care what is on screen.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 02:47 PM »

Well, it would only ever reboot one time....no loop.  However, your concern about not being able to delete the shortcut is valid and can be handled.

what i meant was that if something goes wrong like it's not able to delete the shortcut, etc.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 01:55 PM »

go for it skwire!

i think the danger here is of something going wrong with the post-restart process, and getting into a cycle of never ending reboots.

one way to solve this is when the startup shortcut is run, it should give a countdown to hibernate, with button to cancel+remove shortcut; and if the program ever can't remove the shortcut for some reason it needs to report this and tell user what to do.

remember that you will want to give the pc some amount of time after the reboot to finish the startup process, otherwise it may not hibernate nicely.

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 01:51 PM »

A more positive (and ominous) philosophical view:
http://stevenf.tumbl...t-computers-ive-been

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General Software Discussion / Re: SubmitToTab - a Firefox add-on

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 01:44 PM »

This is one of my favorite extensions.. and it's not been updated for FireFox 3.6 yet 
Any FF hackers willing to update it?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 01:38 PM »

that is kind of brilliant.

another feature you could add is when it wakes up from hibernate it checks how long it has been hibernating for -- if its more than X days, it would offer to reboot.

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 01:06 PM »

Nice philosophical take on how cynical and wrongheaded the iPad is in terms of openness:

The iPhone can, to some extent, be forgiven its closed nature. The mobile industry has not historically been comfortable with openness, and Apple didn’t rock that boat when it released the iPhone. The iPhone was no more or less open than devices that preceded it, devices like those from Danger that required jumping similar bureaucratic hurdles to develop for.

That the iPad is a closed system is harder to forgive. One of the foremost complaints about the iPhone has been Apple’s iron fist when it comes to applications and the development direction of the platform. The iPad demonstrates that if Apple is listening to these complaints, they simply don’t care. This is why I say that the iPad is a cynical thing: Apple can’t – or won’t – conceive of a future for personal computing that is both elegant and open, usable and free.

http://al3x.net/2010/01/28/ipad.html

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 12:35 PM »

And I thought i had issues with Apple.. some of you are foaming at the mouth.  
This release really seems to have struck a nerve with some.

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Circle Dock / Re: One Circle Dock download for every second so far!

« Last post by mouser on January 29, 2010, 12:10 PM »

Here's a serious suggestion:

For such a beautiful looking tool, the webpage for Circle Dock is beyond ugly.. it's almost deliberately 1980s bad.

• http://www.markham.dcmembers.com

Don't get me wrong, the web page is functional and organized well -- just looks a bit odd.

Time for someone to revamp the look of that in Circle Dock style, with a nice screenshot on the front and maybe a quick link to some youtube videos?