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Site/Forum Features / Re: Read/Unread PM Counts

« Last post by mouser on May 22, 2009, 01:41 AM »

i dont get it -- doesnt the unread count always tell you the info you need to know?

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Living Room / Historic Tale Construction Kit - Create a Medieval Tapestry Story Online

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:20 PM »

I love this beautiful and wonderfully coded online Medieval Tapestry Story Generator, discovered by Edvard on the forum.

It's not unlike other online sign makers -- you drag and drop images and add text.  But the style is incredibly well done and you can really make things that like ancient medieval tales from history.

http://www.adgame-wo...d.de/type/bayeux.php

from Edvard on DC forum

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:09 PM »

Edvard that tapestry generator is FANTATSIC.  Going to blog about it now.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.56.01 - May 21, 2009

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:00 PM »

Another quick update, mainly bugfixes:


v2.56.01 - May 21st, 2009

• Cursor was not being captured in object/region modes
• New program icon (thanks Hamradio!)
• Adding hotkey shortcuts to mouseover hints on SC toolbar buttons.
• Redbox object capture could sometimes capture the red borders.
• Sort by date of thumbnail panel was failing on users who have file extensions hidden.
• Sorting in details mode now works and user can sort on any column.
• Maybe fixed a problem with SC hanging after capture on rare occasions.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Possible to open/close multiple programs (portable mode) with one button?

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 06:16 PM »

Yes, though i can't remember the last time i checked it.
Just make a group submenu, and you have some choices of how it is treated:

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Bug: tray context menu instability

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 06:13 PM »

anything that is reliably reproducible is fixable.. i'll look into it.

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Living Room / Re: poor? Pay up!

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 05:38 PM »

I'm afraid the age old saying is more true than ever.. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer -- that's how the world's economies are set up -- while not impossible, it's a very hard syndrome to break out of.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Create simple installation file.

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 03:22 PM »

Inno Setup is a great setup tool, and very flexible..

BUT.. it is not very easy for novices to use, even with the essential ISTool helper utility (which makes it a lot easier):
http://files.jrsoftw...ack/ispack-5.2.4.exe

If you try Inno/ISTool and find it frustrating, don't give up on your journey -- it just means you need to find an easier to use free tool.  Hopefully someone else will recommend one in subsequent post.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 11:07 AM »

you can use updater to check for updates, and go to dcupdater options to tell it not to run the installer but just download it for you.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 10:38 AM »

i love the stichings one.. i'm a sucker for anytime a modern joke can be retrofitted to something from the distant past. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:39 AM »

ok well then it sounds like farr is being naughty -- i'll try to fix tonight.

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What's the Best? / Re: Word document compare?

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:26 AM »

it's a jibz post!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 06:58 AM »

in cases where the command-line output only contains linebreak separated file/folder paths it would be really cool if there was a version of appcapp that automatically displayed the results as a regular FARR results list..

yes definitely i was thinking the same thing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 01:12 AM »

on my farr if i run that command, i can do exactly as you wanted -- hit escape to terminate it and then start my new search.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Forum Upgraded to 1.1.19

« Last post by mouser on May 21, 2009, 12:20 AM »

nope, just security updates.

actually i'd like to think that i helped them understand how the recent exploits were taking place, see post here:
http://www.simplemac...sg2057480#msg2057480

so we already had the fixes in place before today.

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Site/Forum Features / Forum Upgraded to 1.1.19

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 11:10 PM »

Forum Upgraded to 1.1.19 - please let me know if you spot any unusual behavior or errors.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 09:13 PM »

i know why it's happening -- i added some more advanced folder drive auto-fixing suitable for people with removable drives.
what i can do is add an option to disable this.

question:
in the search directory entries, do you actually have them listed as "N:\"
or is it more like "N:\Program Files\" , i.e. specifies a directory which also exists on C:.

the reason i ask is that i thought i coded it so that it never reassigned just a plain drive letter.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 08:35 PM »

you can use the included core run alias to do anything you would do from an alias, but perhaps it would be useful to include one just for appcap.
so for example you can do currently:

run showmemo Pinging;;;appcapappendmemo c:\windows\system32\ping.exe www.donationcoder.com

but perhaps a new alias would be better like:

runcap (.*)
which did
showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1

Here is is for you to import, but i think ill add it to defaults since it seems pretty useful:
1000>>>runcap>->Run and Capture $$1|showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1>+>runcap (.*)

with that alias you could just type: runcap ping.exe donationcoder.com

which would have same effect of typing run ping.exe donationcoder.com *except* that with runcap the output is shown in farr window.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 08:07 PM »

there sure is.
you create an alias that uses the dosearch function.  here's a thread with an example:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8781.0

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Feature Request: [easy] export/import settings for all apps

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 04:45 PM »

correct, except if you are using vista, in which case they default in the documents and settings application data directory.
(note for the sake of completion -- that you can override this behavior by editing the CondigDir.ini file)

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Living Room / CometDocs.com -- free online file converter

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 03:59 PM »

DC member Veign recommends on his blog today an online service called CometDocs.com, which will freely convert between many different file types.

http://www.cometdocs.com/

Conversions supported:

A List of Our Online Conversion Types:

Convert from PDF:
(some conversion support OCR conversion for scanned PDF)
PDF to Open Office Writer format
PDF to Open Office Calc format
PDF to Open Office Impress format
PDF to image BMP
PDF to image JPG
PDF to image GIF
PDF to image PNG
PDF to image TIF
PDF to text
PDF to HTML
PDF to MS Word
PDF to MS Excel
PDF to AutoCAD (dwg)
PDF to AutoCAD (dxf)

Convert to PDF:
Bmp to PDF
Word (doc, docx) to PDF
Gif to PDF
htm to PDF
html to PDF
jpeg to PDF
jpg to PDF
log to PDF
mht to PDF
mhtml to PDF
ODF to PDF
ODP to PDF
ODS to PDF
ODT to PDF
PNG to PDF
PPS to PDF
PPT to PDF
RTF to PDF
SDA to PDF
SDC to PDF
SDD to PDF
SDS to PDF
SDW to PDF
SXC to PDF
SXD to PDF
SXI to PDF
SXM to PDF
SXW to PDF
TIF to PDF
TIFF to PDF
TXT to PDF
WRI to PDF
Excel (xls, xlst) to PDF
Publisher (pub) to PDF

Convert from XPS:
Convert to Open Office Writer format
Convert to Open Office Calc format
Convert to Open Office Impress format
Convert to image BMP
Convert to image JPG
Convert to image GIF
Convert to image PNG
Convert to image TIF
Convert to text
Convert to HTML
Convert to MS Word
Convert to MS Exsel

Other File Conversions:
Excel to CSV (XLSTOCSV)
XML to LINT (XMLLINT)
HTML to RSS (HTMLTORSS)
ASC TO PDB
ASC TO EBC
UNIX TO DOS
DOS TO UNIX
MAC TO UNIX
FIX TO DELIM
DELIM TO FIX
CSV TO DELIM
SORT FILE
PDF INFO
COMPARE FILES
MP3 INFO
FILEINFO
ICONV

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error in photoshop

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:56 PM »

can you make sure you are running screenshot captor 2.55.01 and try again? if it still happens email me at [email protected].
it's strange because i was able to reproduce it and then fixed it and it doesn't happen to me anymore.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Feature Request: [easy] export/import settings for all apps

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:49 PM »

all of my programs use INI files that you can simply copy from the program directory (or replace)*; though there are a couple of cases where there is an additional settings file.  but regardless, they all use files to store settings, so import and export is not critical in my mind because it can be done manually.

*Clipboard Help+Spell uses a database file for efficiency.  While CHS includes a backup+restore function, i really do want to add an xml export function for easy of transfer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:38 PM »

I'll have them fly me out first class to personally install it on each pc, since end users cannot be trusted to run the setup program themselves.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:33 PM »

can you explain how you are launching that command?