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Living Room / Re: How to Lucid Dream -- Nice wikiHow page
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 10:31 PM »
although can get the same effects by attending a PowerPoint presentation

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Find And Run Robot / Re: I think I'm missing the basics
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 05:42 PM »
i'm going to be making a video for every plugin that exists for farr in the coming weeks, so stay tuned to the screencast show to learn more about them :)
https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
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DAY 10:

Today's video continues to look at some of the default alias files that come with FARR; this one is on the tiddlywiki aliases and shows off the built-in web browser functionality:




The entire screencast video series can be seen here: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
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Find And Run Robot / Re: date and time in statusbar
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 12:10 PM »
that would be really easy for me to add.. why dont i go ahead and add an option to show date+time in status bar on display.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: "found 3 results in 2 seconds", but shows only 2 results
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 11:14 AM »
if it says "found 3 results" but only shows 2, then it is showing less than the maximum number you have set to display (by default 9), so the only reason it is only showing 2 is because one of them was a duplicate link to the same file.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alt tab 2.0 beta
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 09:56 AM »
yep, i understand now -- basically the idea is to not require user to type in a special alias to search for open windows/running apps, but have it search for them as if it was a normal search directory with a score.  wouldn't be too hard to do.. i'll give it some thought.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Am I missing something obvious? How do you paste???
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 08:44 AM »
my apologies -- a few projects have dominated my attention recently, not least of which the screencast video series (this will benefit CHS when i finally get to making the CHS videos, since i always seem to find a few bugs when i do that).

i understand the frustration.  i promise to try to work on this over this weekend -- and let's see if it's an easy fix.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alt tab 2.0 beta
« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2009, 08:39 AM »
can you elaborate a little more what you want to have added?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Redirect screen output to clipboard
« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2009, 11:32 PM »
don't burn yourself out before this year's NANY 2010 event!
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There is a conflict between plugins that use different versions of the fscript.dll and fsubscript dll, and we really need to get them all updated.
Part of the problem was probably my fault, but the result is that plugins with older versions of fscript/fsubscript can crash with some non-fscript plugins (klipkeeper),
but upgrading the fscript.dll causes these plugins to misbehave, like showing the settings screens over and over.

For an example see this thread: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18622.0

SO I think the solution goes like this:
If you authored a plugin using fscript, please go get the latest fscript from this page:
http://e.craft.free.fr/farr/FScript/

And then test your plugin and make sure it all works fine, and then upload a new version with the new fscript and let us know it's updated.

In the coming weeks i'm going to be making screencast videos of all the plugins in action so i need them to be working for others who want to try them.
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DAY 9:

Today's video continues to look at some of the default alias files that come with FARR; this one is on the web searching aliases:




The entire screencast video series can be seen here: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrFox not working for me?
« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2009, 10:00 PM »
Firefox 3 needs a configuration change to work with FarrFox:
https://www.donation....msg176861#msg176861
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In firefox 3 -- the new default method of storing bookmarks is incompatible with the way FarrFox searches bookmarks.
If you still want to use FarrFox you can do so by following the short instructions here on telling Firefox 3 to keep the bookmarks html file updated regularly:
http://www.lytebyte....ks-to-bookmarkshtml/

After making the change on that page i had to exit firefox and give it a minute to update the bookmarks file -- after that all worked fine.
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Living Room / Re: How to Lucid Dream -- Nice wikiHow page
« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2009, 08:51 PM »
i read the cognitivedaily blog regularly -- you'll see it linked above after the word "from.."  ;)

(my academic background is artificial intelligence and neuroscience)
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Living Room / How to Lucid Dream -- Nice wikiHow page
« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2009, 08:27 PM »
The most basic definition of lucid dreaming is "being aware you are dreaming while dreaming". Most lucid dreams are about things you want to happen. Although most people know they're lucid dreaming, you can change your dream to how you want it to be... You can control your dreams using the lucid dreaming methods that follow...



from http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: Freeware and Tech Sites Search Alias Group
« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2009, 12:21 PM »
great stuff!!

so users should unzip this zip file in the following subdirectory:
FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\Installed\

and then to have an already running FARR rediscover the new alias file, type: goreload
or simply exit and restart FARR.
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Developer's Corner / How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 11:00 PM »
Neat article on designing voting/ranking algorithms:

Many web sites allow users to casts vote on items. These visitors' votes are then often used to detect the items' "popularity" and hence rank the rated items accordingly.

And when "rank" comes into play things gets tricky:
  • The system can have inherent deficiencies in ranking items.
  • That is mostly because developers tend to "re-invent the wheel" and throw in their own algorithms instead of basing their calculations on well-established statistical formulae
  • (I'll come to that in a moment, just bear with me ).
  • There will be people (i.e. spammers) trying to fool the system and try to take their submissions to top.
  • There will be system inefficiencies due to computational complexity.

In this article,  I'll try to give examples on how to approach the problem; describe the weakness of each particular approach; and explain how some well-known social community sites implement their ranking algorithms..



from http://waxy.org/links/
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DAY 8:

Today's video takes look at using a built-in alias to send email from FARR:




The entire screencast video series can be seen here: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Lacuna Launcher
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 06:27 PM »
featured on freeware genius today with a long writeup:
http://www.freewareg...with-a-single-click/

congrats app  :up:
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: idea: FARR plugin school / tutorial / wiki
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 04:58 PM »
i just went with http://farr.dcisv.com
because it was the shortest url.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bookmark Searcher
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 04:28 PM »
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Living Room / Re: 1p2u: a new twist on the micropayments
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 11:59 AM »
great post and links.

One thing i will strongly disagree with is this:
..can kill just about micropayment system before it gets off the ground due to high transaction fees.

As i wrote about in my article on experiences after one year at donationcoder.com, i think the focus on payment amounts and fees is completely misplaced.

In short, I believe that the reason that micro-donation and micro-payment systems don't survive is not because of the small amounts or fees -- it's because:
  • People are highly reluctant to go through the considerable effort and distraction of making a payment for something of relatively little value to them
  • People are highly averse to taking the security risk of sending a payment to someone they don't know and fully trust (especially if it's an optional payment)
  • The google-dominated advertisement culture of the web means that most people assume websites are making loads of money from advertising and that they are already doing their financial support part by watching the adverts on the web.
  • There is no culture of optional-support on the web; people seem to view software as either commercial (for which many happily pay), or open-source/freeware which they tend to view as something that no one should ever pay any money for, optional or not.

The first two items can (and i think will) be solved eventually -- by one of the big trusted monopolies like google decides to do a kind of univeral account/payment system that will make it trivial in terms of effort and security to send small amounts money to websites.

The last two items are going to be a matter of slowly changing the culture to think about a model of directly rewarding authors and artists for their creations, even when such payments are optional and of user-chosen amounts.

-mouser
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General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone tried Perfect Utilities ?
« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2009, 10:59 AM »
not only that, but it appears to be free and donationware -- which we should all support ! :up:
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i don't think i implemented that option yet  :huh:
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