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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: [Minor] Mini-Parking Lot Tool: Timeline Maker Alternative
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 07:30 AM »
i'm lost.. somehow youve combined popup wisdom, a notepad program, parking lot tools, timeline makers, and a bunch of different formatting and nested sections.. but i don't get how it all fits together.. my head hurts.
18502
Living Room / Dice Tower starts Top 100 Board Games Video Series for 2009 w/ kids perspectiv
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 07:13 AM »
I've posted before about Tom Vassel's Dice Tower board game reviews.  He is now going to do his top 100 board games series for 2009, which is a great tour of board games in a way that is a great way to learn about the variety of good board games out there.

He always has one of his young daughters in the videos helping him out, which is very cute -- but this time one of his daughters is going to talk about *her* top 100 board games -- and this could be a really fun thing to watch if you have a young daughter, to discover board games you might like to play as a family.

MELODY is doing her top 100 this year!  I think her list will be much more interesting than mine.  I gave her complete freedom when putting her list together, so it should be interesting to see how our lists compare.  We have 11 of the same games, so maybe you should take special note of them.

18503
The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Live as if Today was a Quantum Superposition of the the Rest of your Life
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 06:57 AM »
Paul that is a really interesting approach.. i love the idea of it.. i feel like my days are very unstructured and would really benefit from something like that.

My original post was just a thought really, and not a particularly deep one -- but your idea of making days very different is really intriguing to me -- especially since i find it very hard to do context-switching on anything shorter than a day long period.

I think this is an important an often-overlooked issue.  Some people seem to be able to switch working contexts very quickly.  They can have a meeting at 10am and then switch to working on a different project at noon.  Others, like me, find that almost impossible -- once i switch to thinking about one project, it's basically stuck there for at least a day.
18504
Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 34-09
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 05:46 AM »
Nice edition this week!
ps Roomates gets pretty funny by episode 2  ;D
18505
Living Room / Re: Postmarks
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 05:45 AM »
im in the US and could send a few stamps of different face values.
18506
Developer's Corner / PayPal fee change dust-up
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 05:42 AM »
This doesn't necessarily seem like a bad thing to me, but it has caused some confusion, and it's definitely something to be aware of if you are sending money to friends and family:

In June, PayPal made a number of changes to its User Agreement and posted an update to the PayPal Blog. At that time, director of product marketing Heinz Waelchli wrote that PayPal had now begun allowing those with business and premium accounts to make personal transfers to friends and family for free. This, in itself, is a welcome update—I use my PayPal account to receive payments for items I sell on Etsy, but now I can send money to my brother from the same account without either of us having to give PayPal a cut.

What PayPal failed to do was inform users of the fact that any transfer having to do with goods or services will be charged the 3¢ + 2.9 percent fee no matter who or where it's coming from. This includes payments sent from personal accounts as well as payments made after someone has sent you a request for payment (even if that request has nothing to do with goods or services).
...
For example, a personal account sending another personal account money for a one-time payment for, say, mowing your lawn was not previously charged any fees on either side, but is now charged the usual transaction fee (the sender gets to decide who pays). The only way to avoid this is by selecting "gift" when making the transfer —something you can't do if you're following through on a purchase or invoice from someone.


from Tech News Weekly - https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=19634
18507
General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 23 - Keyboard Options in FARR
« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2009, 12:21 AM »
DAY 23:

Today's video takes a look at the Keyboard Interface Options of FARR:



The entire screencast video series can be seen here: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
18508
The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Hypothesis on Productivity: Why bother with Parking Lot Tools
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 09:19 PM »
i just meant that if you intend to think of them as well-edited, thoughtful, complete articles, then the requirements might be different, and you might aim not for short concise things, but very well organized and structured presentation that only a few people will really read, and less will comment on, but could be a more permanent resource for people who are super serious about the material.  but that's like writing an academic paper and is a lot more work.
18509
General Software Discussion / Printable forms and more for teachers
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 02:06 PM »
Nice collection here

More than 60 teachers printables and classroom printables that you can download, customize, and print for free. Choose from attendance charts, grading sheets, lesson planning forms, parent communication forms, office passes, school calendars, and more.


from http://www.freedownloadaday.com
18510
Argus / Re: Argus Panoptes Release & Download Information
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 12:58 PM »
this program doesn't need a license key  :up:
18511
DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam, and the gift of game...
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 10:36 AM »
just for the record, i love paypal  :up:
18512
Post New Requests Here / Re: Program similar to Process Tamer to assign affinities on multi processor systems
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 10:00 AM »
I've been planning to add some multi-core affinity features and more for a while, and i soon will.

Check out Process Lasso: http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php
18513
General Software Discussion / Nice network monitoring utilities and other free donationare at "the sz"
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 07:33 AM »
Here's one of those very cool one-man development sites filled with useful utilities.  This one is called "the sz".
Some really cool looking network tools and other utilities, and the author seems open to feature requests.  Clearly a very skilled coder.

A quick list of utility names to give you a flavor of the site:
Doro::Free PDF Printer , Last.FM Downloader , York::Network Traffic Trace , Hotmail Email Notifier , Flash Builder/Flash Player , Homedale::WLAN Monitor , PortScan , Yale::Network Usage , Nassau::Network Info , Royal::RSS Reader , SpyEx , Parkdale::SpeedTest  , Carroll::Resolution Per User , VisualCVS , mod_auth_msfix , Bear::GDI Usage , RequestTrace , NetChat , Quartz , Rimhill , CDInfo , CheckSum , PE Header Patcher , SZ_OS


This is donationware, so if you like his stuff send him a donation!

from http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorlds
18514
General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 22 - The External Tools Tab in FARR
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 12:46 AM »
DAY 22:

Today's video takes a look at the External Tools Tab in FARR:


Sorry today's video is so lame.. they get better soon.


The entire screencast video series can be seen here: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
18515
Developer's Corner / Re: Web Page Designer needed for small DC related game project
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 12:37 AM »
libeco and jammo you are the first 2 to reply.. happy to send off 2 mugs by the way, so no one will be turned away.

keep in mind jammo -- that sample screenshot i sent has too much info on it, and its not just a matter of coming up with a different layout for showing that info -- somehow a cleaner screen is needed.  agentsteal is willing to change things in the code to make it better match a good UI.  so i think best thing might be for me to get agentsteal to contact you guys.
18516
PopUp Wisdom / Re: Suggestion: PopUp window should automatically close after a specified interval
« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2009, 12:17 AM »
hopefully this coming week.
i've been delayed in updating some of my programs because i've been busy working on screencast videos for them.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Hypothesis on Productivity: Why bother with Parking Lot Tools
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 08:48 PM »
Paul,

This is a completely meta critique, but let me PLEAD with you to try to make (much) smaller posts, boiling down your thoughts into pieces that you can make multiple posts from.  I'm just dying to read and comment on this stuff but it's just too much at a time to get a firm hold on and post a cogent reply about.

If you aim for a post that is like a half page long, with just one major point -- then we can all jump in and participate, and you can elaborate in follow ups.

Alternatively..
Instead of viewing them as posts, they could be viewed as articles, not meant so much for discussion but for a thoughtful structured presentation.  If that's to be the case, then what would help is a hierarchical organization of your points in small manageable chunked sections no more than half a page each.

No matter how you look at it, speaking as one who has committed this sin myself innumerable times -- there just has to be a way to organize and post these really thoughtful and valuable writings in a much more concise way.
18518
Find And Run Robot / Re: Output to Farr's memo mode
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 07:22 PM »
no need for it -- it's built into farr now.
as a test, check out the runcap alias that comes default with farr now -- it's in the systools alias or something like that.
to test it do:
[Select]
runcap ping.exe 127.0.0.1
then go examine the runcap alias to see how its done.
18519
General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox --3.5-- Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 04:21 PM »
ok, my mistake then.. sorry :(
didn't realize we were talking about a FF extension called "Launchy" -- I suppose that makes a lot more sense now that it is being discussed in this thread.
Sorry!! I'll go hide in the corner in shame.
18520
General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox --3.5-- Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 03:57 PM »
https://www.donation...r/findrun/index.html
videos here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
overview video:
https://www.donation.../dc/3ds/fr1/fr1.html
18521
Living Room / If you have a samsung 204b or 204t or similar that doesnt work/blinks off
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 03:27 PM »
I have a bunch of samsung 204b lcd monitors that i've always loved, until in the past few years they started to stop working.
They gradually die, flickering, working for a few weeks, then stopping to turn on with a blinking power light.

Turns out it's a well known problems with these samsung lcds, due to faulty capacitors.

After some bad experiences with samsung tech support, I found this howto guide on the web that tells you how to fix the monitors with a few parts and a soldering iron:


While it wasn't something i felt comfortable doing, john (the dc server admin) and wife is staying with me for a bit and he's a real hotshot with a soldering iron, and he managed to do the repair in under an hour.

Monitor now works as good as new.  :up:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox --3.5-- Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 02:56 PM »
Anyone using an external app link launcher alternative to Launchy?


hahahahahahahahaahhaa
18523
Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 02:04 PM »
So the inevitable has happened Monday night at 1:30 am

i didn't notice this thread until now!

IQ I am so sorry.. those videos made me cry..  but also the happy part is how lucky he was to have you as such a good friend and to know he will be remembered.
18524
General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Fix all the wrapping issues...now!
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 01:08 PM »
well i mean you really DO have a point --
they keep messing with features that probably get used by 1 out of 100 people, once per year.

where the editing of email text messages happens many times per day by every user -- so it's not so much to ask to get this right.
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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2009, 01:06 PM »
is that p3lb0x before he needed a robotic right hand?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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