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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ITSJUSTHOSTING ~ Premium Web Hosting | cPanel + 99.99% Uptime| From $2.50/mo

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 09:26 PM »

i didnt look at the page source, but the page appearance itself is nice enough.

it's one thing to complain about someone posting something a bit more advertisey than we like, but i think it's not quite in the donationcoder spirit to start saying bad things about people's sites and designs.  think how you would feel if you posted your website on a forum and all of a sudden people were criticizing it, etc.

let's endeavor to provide constructive criticism and not negativity.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free WinUtilities 6.2!

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 05:55 PM »

hahah...
i think i can guess what happened here:

Ashraf is not a bot.  A spammer probably posted after his first post.  Then Ashraf responded.  Then the spammer's post was deleted.
Now it looks like Ashraf is accusing himself of being a spammer 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Please Read This Before Posting Here

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 04:57 PM »

VERY IMPORTANT:

While this site (unlike many) allows people to post announcements about their services, we do require that you be a real person making a real unique post telling our members about a project you are involved with.

Because of the large number of advertisers/spammers we will delete posts that are just cut and paste jobs listing standard info about your company.  You need to write a personal message here in this section if you want it to be read and not deleted.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody In Yorkshire with Carol (and a new friend) ...

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 01:55 PM »

 

love the aerobatics picsture.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 08:00 AM »

i love when dogs do that thing when they want to be chased where they lower down on their front legs and stare at you intently and happily and do that little bouncy thing where they are daring you to chase them.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: What is the cost to use Flipbook Printer to sell flipbooks

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 02:02 AM »

Hi mmelvis,
I'm currently exploring the possibility of selling the exclusive commercial rights to the program, so it's a little bit up in the air right now.
You can email me at [email protected] to discuss further.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 01:53 AM »

ok so that's it for my initial series on Screenshot Captor.  Next up.. Find and Run Robot.

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts -Day 11- Screenshot Captor: Saving Tips

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2009, 01:02 AM »

DAY 11:

The video demonstrates some file saving tips within Screenshot Captor:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc15/sc15.html

For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 03:18 PM »

I started out this thread over a year ago asking if anyone had any recommendations for software that would help in planning woodworking projects, etc.

More than a year later I actually went looking for home design software -- not quite the same but close enough.

After testing quite a few (TurboFloor, Punch, SweetHome 3d) I settled on one that I liked best, called Home Designer.  There are actually a series of different editions, and a guide for picking which edition you need here.  I would recommend the "Suite" version which is $99.

Based on the capabilities of the program I'd say $99 was a bargain -- it's a *VERY* impressive tool.

My original aim was just to model my kitchen so I could experiment with tearing down a wall, but I eneded up creating a complete model of my condo apartment which is startling accurate.  Note this is a serious tool and it will take you a while to get the hang of it, but it's really cool and fun stuff.

Some images:

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 10:50 AM »

that is truly bizzarre..
what operating system?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Web Page Designer needed for small DC related game project

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 10:31 AM »

the main important thing is the "story" which you can see at the very very bottom of the page in a tiny box.
in my opinion that story might be better off having the main full height right hand side of page, with the controls mostly moved into a sidebar or menu or even moved off the main screen; the current lefthand sidebar can be removed and put on a separate page.

note:
i think i said this clearly but in case i didn't -- agentsteal doesnt need someone with super technical abilities to make the page look some exact predefined way.  what we need here is someone who can work with agentsteal to understand the concepts and then come up with and make a good web layout page for it, of their own design.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Web Page Designer needed for small DC related game project

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 10:09 AM »

updated with screenshot.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 09:57 AM »

let me ask a silly question -- are you sure that you dont have 2 copied of FARR, and you are putting plugins in one and launching the other?

or go to the options, configure plugins, make sure you dont have fsubscript disabled.

the thing is -- from what you are pasting it's not even trying to load the plugin, which suggests to me either its disabled or its not finding the plugins.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 09:34 AM »

you might try this, restart farr -- see if farrSubScript is in list when you type: aplugins

if not, go to options and the new troubleshooting log tab, and scroll to bottom and look for the list of plugins it has loaded -- see if you see it in there.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 09:32 AM »

Is there a script I need to run to register the DLL or something?

no -- there is nothing you have to do.

it sounds like you installed it in the right place, in Plugins\FSubScript\

if installed it should show up in the plugin list as "FARRSubScript"

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 09:16 AM »

ok sounds like you havent installed fsubscript, which is a separate download:
http://czb.dcmembers...cript/FSubScript.zip

Even if it does work, I'd be a little disappointed. It used to be that Timer was a first-class pluging: typing "tm" would bring it up. It sounds like (once this is working) I'd need to type "fssc tm", right?

incorrect -- tm will work exactly as it did before.


one note: i think the last time i tested, the czb pack may have an outdated fscript.dll which conflicts with other plugins.. i know this is a bit confusing and ill try to figure out a solution to this.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 09:06 AM »

thats normal that they dont show up there because they are fsubscript plugins.
type: fssc
to see a list of fsubscript style plugins.

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Living Room / ghacks examines tools to download Youtube videos

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 08:25 AM »

Nice roundup at ghacks discussing various ways to download Youtube videos:

There are basically three ways of downloading Youtube videos: Using a web service, a web browser add-on or a standalone software program. All methods have their distinct advantages and disadvantages...

http://www.ghacks.ne...load-youtube-videos/

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts -Day 10- Screenshot Captor: External Tools

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2009, 07:31 AM »

DAY 10:

The video demonstrates how to interface external tools with Screenshot Captor:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc14/sc14.html

For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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Developer's Corner / Web Page Designer needed for small DC related game project

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2009, 11:15 AM »

DC member agentsteal embarked on a very fun proof of concept "game" / storytelling script thing, which I have helped a bit with.

It's a really cool idea for a minimalistic storytelling website, and I think it could be great fun.

Here's the problem:

Agentsteal and I both are very bad at web design.  Even though it's only really 2 pages (one really), this site is god awful from a user interface standpoint, just a confusing mess.

What I think is needed is someone who is comfortable with html and css (and maybe some jquery) to design the web page.  It really needs someone to put some style into it and just take control over the look and feel, and try to bring some order to the chaos.

In other words, technical skill is not the most important thing -- more important is someone willing to jump in and wrangle this page of buttons and input forms and make it look nice and simple and clean.  And maybe help with the wording and instructions to make it understandable.

This is not a paid job, looking for a volunteer who can spend a day or two on this for the fun of it, to have your name on the project, and for a wonderful rare DC mug or tshirt of your choice.


Here's a screenshot of the current page to give you an idea of what you are up against.  It's just much too chaotic.


I should note that agentsteal is ready and willing to edit the php and page generation to work with any design changes.  But he needs the help of a designer to set up the css and layout and also just help with organizing and wording stuff to make it clearer.  In other words he needs someone to work with back and forth to tweak this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for use with scanner?

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2009, 09:22 AM »

I'd like to scan several pages of a document into a single PDF.

I will be adding the ability to combine several images into one pdf in the next week or so, but there may be more flexible free tools to do this already.
If someone finds one that supports drag and drop, it would be VERY easy to configure it to work with Screenshot Captor and let you just drag files into it.

Here's one that looks like it might do it:
http://www.derring.com/swiftpdf/

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License key does not work

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2009, 06:30 AM »

Choose the about item from menu and see what it says in the about box -- does it list your name/email?  if so then the license has been accepted.
The menu item will still always say "About (Enter new License Code)".

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2009, 05:11 AM »

Video demonstrating some of the new scanner functions:
https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc13/sc13.html

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General Software Discussion / 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Day 9 - Screenshot Captor: Scanning Funcs

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2009, 04:23 AM »

DAY 9:

The video demonstrates the scanning features of Screenshot Captor:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc13/sc13.html

For more info about this screencast series see here.
The entire series will be quickly browsable from here, please pass it on: https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fileinfo (file extension seeker) at top of list

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2009, 02:09 PM »

ps. all next week and probably the week after i will be posting at least one screencast video each day demonstrating various features of farr.