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1801
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Staff rotation tool
« Last post by tinjaw on November 29, 2006, 02:10 PM »
lanux128,

Are you still looking for this? Do you still have the need? I saw your posting in the N.A.N.Y. thread, but wasn't sure if you just pointed it out our if you still have the need for it.
1802
Living Room / Re: What's your "Autism Quotient"?
« Last post by tinjaw on November 28, 2006, 07:58 PM »
22 for me. I noticed some overlap with my ADHD, but they are distinctly different. I'm no Rain M..... oooooooooo! Look at that!!! Shinnny! :P
1803
Official Announcements / Re: --> Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced
« Last post by tinjaw on November 28, 2006, 06:46 PM »
First of all I would like to thank the academy. Without them none of this would have been possible. I would also like to thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for giving me the power and inspiration to click the submit button, despite all of the hardships. Hardships that have made me a better person.  :P

I am so happy to have won this prize. I want to code up an infinite recursion loop to send thanks to Veign, mouser, and the Donation Coder community. This is not only going to provide me with, literally, years of fun, but it just might be the last little boost I needed to send me down the path of developing my first "real" application for release in the commercial software market. I have been kicking around many ideas and it is time to put my prize where my mouth is!

Of course, I am going to christen this prize by building my first Donation Coder program for N.A.N.Y. I hope it will be the first of many.

Now if you please excuse me I need to start downloading a terabyte of software from Microsoft.  :D
1804
Living Room / A Picture Is Drawn From A Thousand Words
« Last post by tinjaw on November 27, 2006, 11:08 AM »
What do you get when you mix a picture of Cody...

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and mouser's reply on the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup?

[attachthumb=#1][/attachthumb]

This image was created using a neat website app, Textorizer. What other combinations can DC folks come up with?


1805
Living Room / Congrats Veign: Quick Thumbnail Mentioned on Lifehacker
« Last post by tinjaw on November 27, 2006, 10:19 AM »
Our very own Veign [1] has one of his masterpieces, Quick Thumbnail, mentioned on LifeHacker. I'm proud to say I, personally, gave him some advice [2] while he was working on the beta of the site.

LifeHacker.com
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[1] I'm just posting what mouser was, most likely, thinking.  :P
[2] I was just one of many on #DonationCoder that day on IRC and my advice wasn't all that great and want used, but hey, this makes for a better story for my grandchildren. It doesn't matter that I don't have children of my own, let alone, grandchildren.  :-[
1806
General Software Discussion / ColorBlender: free online tool for color matching and palette design
« Last post by tinjaw on November 26, 2006, 02:45 PM »
I'm doing a complete overhaul of one of my personal websites and I need to choose a color scheme to use. I've been messing around the past few days with some online tools, but I found one that I really like.

colorblender.com
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To get started, choose a preferred color using the color picker below, and a 6-color matching palette (a "blend") will be automatically calculated.
Using the radio buttons you may switch to Direct Edit mode to tweak or edit individual colors of your blend.
Blends can be saved for future use, and will be available whenever you return to this site from the same workstation, given that your browser accepts cookies.

[update]
I stumbled upon a web page that lists the good ones and what they are used for. It is a good place to start exploring.


edit by jgpaiva: fixed links. thanks lanux!
1807
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Command Line move
« Last post by tinjaw on November 24, 2006, 07:24 PM »
How about using Cygwin? Then you would get mv an a bunch more!
1808
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Race Brackets Program
« Last post by tinjaw on November 24, 2006, 06:28 PM »
Good finds there thesteve. The first one you listed looks like it might fit the bill if all they need is a simple way to display the names. It is limited to 32 players. The second one seems to have disappeared off of the Net, but it seems to be available via the Internet Archive from back in 2004.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel if any of these meet your needs CaptainCowPie.
1809
Living Room / Re: Lifehacker looking for DonationCoder
« Last post by tinjaw on November 24, 2006, 12:30 PM »
If this is the same thing I saw, somebody already mentioned DonationCoder in the comments.

[update]
Yes, it is.
1810
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple PC Usage Timer
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 07:36 AM »
fealeit,

Ah! I misunderstood the purpose.  :-[ Gotcha now.
1811
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Race Brackets Program
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 07:29 AM »
Are you going to take this one on Tinjaw? It sounds interesting :P
-Ruffnekk (November 23, 2006, 07:27 AM)
I think so. Maybe for my N.A.N.Y. entry.
1812
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Race Brackets Program
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 07:28 AM »
Doing my research:

GottaLuvGoogle

1813
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Race Brackets Program
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 06:46 AM »
This sounds interesting, especially when you mention that other packs might find it useful as well. I have to confess to being a huge geek and not all that into sports. I don't pay attention to the basketball tournaments for example. So I had to read up on Double-elimination tournaments.  :-[

Can you expand a little on what you need it to do. Maybe find some example screenshots from the Net to illustrate your ideas.
1814
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple PC Usage Timer
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 06:32 AM »
fealeit,

I know you mentioned most are too complicated, that you are looking for something simple, and that you have tried hundreds of them already..........

but that isn't going to stop me from searching my bookmarks for some I've spotted.  :P

ComputerTime

1815
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Command-line spellcheck utility
« Last post by tinjaw on November 23, 2006, 06:10 AM »
Check out tinySpell+ at http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/. Although it is a GUI app, I think it will fit your needs.

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1816
Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year
« Last post by tinjaw on November 21, 2006, 08:23 AM »
I guess this would be a nice venue to release my first program on the site. I'm in.
1817
Living Room / Re: Smilies With Speech Bubbles
« Last post by tinjaw on November 15, 2006, 08:26 AM »
PitrPaulus,

How you do it depends on the software you use. First, use your web browser to save the picture as a .GIF. Then open it in the tool of your choice and resave it as a transparent GIF. For example, I use IrfanView. There is an "options" button on the save dialog that I click that allows me to check a box for transparency. I also choose the option to choose the transparent color at the time of the save. When I save I click on the green background. But, as I have said, how you do this will depend on what tool you use.
1818
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: setting up a simple encrypted ftp offsite backup
« Last post by tinjaw on November 11, 2006, 07:26 AM »
Then I would agree that a batch file that zips with encryption and then uploads is simple enough of a solution that a more formal one would be a waste. Especially since a short batch/script would be eminently more adaptable then a hardcoded solution.
1819
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: setting up a simple encrypted ftp offsite backup
« Last post by tinjaw on November 10, 2006, 02:34 PM »
The obvious reply is that almost any backup program these days does what you are looking for. Are you just looking for free or single purpose or something else?
1820
Living Room / Re: Flowchart and Diagramming Review
« Last post by tinjaw on November 10, 2006, 02:02 PM »
It's too bad this idea never made it off the launchpad. I am in the market for a poor man's Visio. I need it for flowcharts and network diagrams. So far it looks like Dia for flowcharts and Network Notepad for network diagrams. I am willing to pay $20-$30 for a program if it is $20-$30 better than Dia or Network Notepad.  ;) They are pretty good, but not as good as I would like for the work I need to do.

What do you folks use? Any up and comers out there in the visio-like arena? Can we get one of the ones in the $75 range to give DC members a 50% discount?
1821
General Software Discussion / Re: For those that need a System Information Tool and haven't heard of SIW
« Last post by tinjaw on November 10, 2006, 08:14 AM »
Well. There goes Ken's good idea for the month. Now we need to wait until December for the next one. :P

[Just Kidding. :D We all love Ken.  :-* He's dreamy, AND he can interpret your dreams.  :huh:]
1822
Living Room / Re: Smilies With Speech Bubbles
« Last post by tinjaw on November 10, 2006, 05:48 AM »
never mind  :-[ jgpaiva already mentioned it. [attach=#1][/attach] (see nudone, another use of coffeesmilie)  :P
1823
Living Room / Pivot Stickfigure Animator
« Last post by tinjaw on November 09, 2006, 10:33 PM »
Peter Bone's Pivot Stickfigure Animator

A cute freeware program that is sure to eat up some of your valuable time.  8)

Pivot makes it easy to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated gifs to be used on web pages. An example animation is included.

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[attach=#2][/attach]
1824
General Software Discussion / Re: Website download management program/script
« Last post by tinjaw on November 09, 2006, 09:50 AM »
I suggest you take a look at http://www.fileshome.com and if you like the functionity of the site, you can download the PHP that runs it from a link near the top right-hand side of their home page.
1825
Living Room / Re: does having many program windows open slow the sysem?
« Last post by tinjaw on November 09, 2006, 08:28 AM »
nudone,

Several things come into play, and they all depend on how the application's developer wrote the application.

One considerations is drawing on the screen. If the application redraws the windows when in the background, this will take up processing power. That same app will not redraw when minimized.

Not all applications will free up memory when minimized. Most will not.

Some applications are set to have different priorities based on whether they are in foreground or background mode. Generally running at a lower priority when in the background. So being open on the screen, but not the focused app, may cause the app to take up less resources.
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