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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: One click to add to search url date defining parameters

« Last post by lanux128 on September 09, 2009, 10:50 PM »

you're welcome.. glad to be of help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FavesSoft programs page on Softpedia

« Last post by lanux128 on September 09, 2009, 10:49 PM »

thanks MilesAhead & mouser. seems like i have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to pad files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redirect screen output to clipboard

« Last post by lanux128 on September 09, 2009, 10:47 PM »

thanks for taking the time to do this. your efforts are much appreciated.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: Send Twitter updates from Farr

« Last post by lanux128 on September 09, 2009, 10:29 PM »

hamradio is right. since this is an alias, it's not possible.

thanks for answering the queries hamradio.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: One click to add to search url date defining parameters

« Last post by lanux128 on September 08, 2009, 10:57 PM »

a bookmarklet can be used to do that.

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javascript:if(top.location.href.indexOf(%22google%22)!=-1){location.href=top.location.href+%22&as_qdr=y15%22};

• Source: http://www.labnol.or...e-of-web-pages/8410/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Hogging RAM?

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 11:31 PM »

procexp shows almost the same figures on my pc. but i always believed in giving Farr copious amounts of memory.




however if you want to reduce the memory usage, you can go to Options > General and change the "Inactive Memory Usage" settings.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FavesSoft programs page on Softpedia

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 10:42 PM »

good work, MilesAhead.

btw, an OT question: what's a good tool to create pad files?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Top ten geek bussiness myths

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 10:32 PM »

a good read!

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 04:37 AM »

Whats the ratio roughly of where people are from on here?  I assume the majority are from the U.S?

-awopbamboo (September 07, 2009, 04:17 AM)

you can check out the member map for a better picture.

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Finished Programs / Re: ARGH!!!! How To Save View In Open/Save Dialog???

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 04:33 AM »

yes, FileBox eXtender has been covered here in the forums quite well.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension which would let you choose which browser opens a hyperlink

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 03:14 AM »

another alternative is featured on lifehacker today: Browser Chooser.

Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task. It is developed in VB.Net and geared towards Windows Vista and Windows 7.

-website

• Source: http://lifehacker.co...to-open-new-links-in

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General Software Discussion / Re: Choice of application installer?

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 12:22 AM »

as an end-user, i prefer mostly extractable zip installers. unless the installer package has some customised dll or activex stuff, zip installers mean i can extract the contents and run the .exe without needing to install it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Done: AutoStart Program(s), if key is pressed or CapsLock On/Off with Parameter

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 12:16 AM »

the calculator is not a very good example because i think calc.exe doesn't recognise the 'Run mimimized' command. even a normal shortcut pointing to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\calc.exe" and set run minimized will always start in normal mode. that's what happens on my PC.

i'm going to do some googling to see if this is common behaviour.

edit: even this command - "cmd /k start /min calc.exe" in the run box starts the calculator in the normal window.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.0.1]

« Last post by lanux128 on September 07, 2009, 12:09 AM »

thanks, that will be very useful. it would save me a lot of scrolling in the 'cities' crop-down list.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Done: AutoStart Program(s), if key is pressed or CapsLock On/Off with Parameter

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 11:58 PM »

this must be just of the those things that refuses to work. maybe i should make a screen-cast showing that it works here, what do you think?

anyway, if you're willing to try again, please download from this alternate link and let me know the results.

• http://lanux128.dcme...c/Caps-Run-v1205.zip

P.S. are you running this on WinXP or some other OS? because i have tested only on WinXP.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Done: AutoStart Program(s), if key is pressed or CapsLock On/Off with Parameter

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 06:10 PM »

hmm.. did i upload the wrong file? so how about the timestamps?

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School Showcase / Re: Hangman - A Game by Ruffnekk from VB.net Assignment 1.10

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 06:04 PM »

that is cool! so we might have a chance to play the game after all..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Redirect screen output to clipboard

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 06:01 PM »

I guess I really should run through them and see whats there.. Maybe this is the little push I need to package some of these up for general use..

-ChalkTrauma (September 06, 2009, 12:06 PM)

i'm glad that i was able to provide the motivation..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 05:57 PM »

i hadn't noticed #1 that much due to saving the PDFs via print drivers such as NovaPDF but item 3 gives me the same confusion, is it a copy of the existing file before or after the change. so much so that i normally resort to "Save + New Version (auto-name)" with its Control+Shift+S hotkey.

to add to tomos' suggestions - in view of the management of the scanned documents, perhaps the "MoveTo" menu can be changed into "CopyTo" as according to the users choice. this is because i copy more than i move (always need a backup copy somewhere).

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 05:44 PM »

Every time I see this thread I start singing in my head the following. Anybody else want to admit their age by saying they recongize it?

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself
I'm A Man Of Wealth And Taste
I've Been Around For A Long, Long Year
Stole Many A Man's Soul And Faith
And I Was 'round When Jesus Christ
Had His Moment Of Doubt And Pain
Made Damn Sure That Pilate
Washed His Hands And Sealed His Fate

-edbro (September 06, 2009, 11:07 AM)

one could claim that they heard it first on that brad pitt/tom cruise movie..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Done: AutoStart Program(s), if key is pressed or CapsLock On/Off with Parameter

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 05:34 PM »

Thank you, but setting the shortcut to "Minimized" won't make the child of capsrun.exe run minimized.

-Scott (September 06, 2009, 08:39 AM)

that's strange because it works here. can you post an example? that'll help to get into the bottom of things.

Regarding quotes, when I use these settings in Caps-Run:

Program:
c:\program files\console\nircmd.exe

…

And:
cmdwait 20000 execmd "start "" calc.exe"

Results in:

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cmdwait 20000 execmd start  calc.exe    

Don't worry about any of this though.  I can live with Caps-Run without driving you nuts over this.  I'm sorry.

-Scott (September 06, 2009, 08:39 AM)

there is no need to apologize. i'm learning as well from this. from what i see, nircmd launches two commands, one is 'cmdwait' and the other is 'execmd'. my guess is that since execmd parameters (start "" calc.exe) have a space in between them, it's best to quote so that it becomes "start "" calc.exe" instead, leaving the internal quotes intact.

hmm.. i think it's best to check timestamp of the Caps-run files. there are two files: one is the GUI: Caps-Run.exe and the helper app: capsrun.exe. if timestamps do not match the screenshot then try clearing out the folder and extract Caps-Run.exe again.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 08:09 AM »

welcome aboard awopbamboo! we're already excited about the print utility..

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Circle Dock / Re: How do i change it so its not always on top of other windows

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 08:02 AM »

@jet345: is this what you were looking for? you can change this under Settings > General.

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Circle Dock / Re: How do i change it so its not always on top of other windows

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 07:39 AM »

hmm.. Eric has been away for some time. maybe an AHK script could be of help here.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.0.1]

« Last post by lanux128 on September 06, 2009, 07:14 AM »

It must be the same timezone as Berlin? Make Berlin the Favourite and add "Stuttgart" as the Label and tick Replace ("Rep")

-Perry Mowbray (September 06, 2009, 06:21 AM)

must be constraints of the system to have only certain number of cities. anyway, both cities are in the same time zone and therefore substituting Berlin for Stuttgart works fine. luckily it's not timeandweather.com. so thanks for the superb suggestion.