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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Dictionary .NET Free - A MultiLingual Dictionary+Translation+Wikipedia 3-in-1

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2009, 05:16 AM »

Looks pretty cool 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Few questions

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2009, 04:57 AM »

1. Sometimes, I just want run something which the system recognizes w/o searching. like running explorer or some other application which dir is in the windows %path%.

just type:

run yourfile.exe

farr will search the path and find and run it.

---

#3 is coming.
#2 let me think about.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 10:52 PM »

If these "recommendations" or "ads" are only shown during installation, and are clearly optional, then i probably wouldn't call it spyware or adware.
it's definitely a gray area.. but if the program you install doesn't show ads then we are just talking about an installer issue -- and for me the really important thing in such a case is that the user be told clearly that the optional things to install are really optional, and not be checked by default.

i still wouldnt use it in my software, but i also wouldnt consider it evil.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File icons not showing up

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 08:18 PM »

ok i'm on it, i see what you mean about the problem.. now i just have to figure out what change i made that caused this problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ruler & Co-ordinates App?

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 07:33 PM »

some other threads on dc about screen rulers:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=14647.0
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5490.0

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 06:03 PM »

Deo beat me to the post, but I'll just add that the member map doesn't answer this question directly, but it is relevant to the discussion, and there are over 800 people on it so far:
https://www.donation...php?action=googlemap

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: re-usable floating (transparent) window notifications

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 05:18 PM »

its a great idea, but i believe it does exist, and i think we discussed such a program before.
i really like the idea though, so if the existing programs dont do a good enough job it would be a nice one to implement.

can anyone remember the existing tool for this that we have discussed before?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Occasional hangs

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 05:00 PM »

It took me a while to add the new troubleshooting log system to FARR, but hopefully it will provide useful in my other programs now as well. it will make it easier for my programs to log info that users can inspect for troubleshooting information, and can be used to autodetect and autodisable crashing plugins.

Will be uploaded with next release.

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Living Room / ZipCar.com - super cool car sharing service in the US for occasional drivers

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 11:55 AM »

After over a dozen years of non-driving, i've reacquired the skill and discovered an amazing car sharing service that is in my town and in many other big towns/cities, called ZipCar.

As someone who grew up in a city that where the most common means of getting around is mass transport, not driving was no big deal.. But in most places, having a car is important.  Still, even where I am now i get to most places on public transportation, and having a car of my own seems overkill and way too expensive, especially with insurance costs.

But this ZipCar thing is perfect for people like me who would still like to do some occasional driving, to go shopping or pick people up at airport, etc.

Basically it's about $50 a year, and then you pay $8/hour or so for when you actually use a car.  This cost includes good insurance coverage and all gas costs.

All reservations can be done online, and you get a key card that unlocks the car during your reservation -- so you never have to deal with an actual human.

Pros:

• Completely automated system.
• Cheap if you very rarely drive.
• As a member you can use zipcars in any state.

Cons:

• Useless unless ZipCar operates very near you -- within walking distance; so only useful to a small fraction of people on planet.
• They are strict about reservations (since others may have it reserved after you); so when you say it will be back by a certain time, it MUST be back by then.
• Expensive if you need to use the care for a full day (then a standard car rental becomes cheaper)

http://www.zipcar.com

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.53.01 - March 18, 2009

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2009, 11:39 AM »

thanks -- i think i messed up the ontop behavior in the last update, going to upload a new version this week.

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Circle Dock / Re: A (not so simple) solution to place icon

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 10:09 PM »

thanks for sharing jazz!

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

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 08:34 PM »

this may be a fault in farr, but maybe something i can fix?

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Official Announcements / Re: New Visitors to Our Forum - Please Read This First

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 08:12 PM »

Happy to see new people saying hello here, but as chris pointed out above, we have a specific thread where we love to hear from new members, and it's here:
https://www.donation.../index.php?topic=124

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Living Room / Re: Tell me what your software DOESN'T do... (a rant)

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 08:09 PM »

I think it will never happen. No one will ever point out all weaknesses of his software

which is why it's a good idea of a feature to look for on review sites.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My great doomed CMS search continues...

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 07:57 PM »

Then I read this and remember Mouser's recent wail and I think maybe I'd better leave it alone

make sure you read the later pages of posts where i start to waiver and decide to use drupal again as a programming platform.

however, i still say it's a truly evil nightmare from an end-user perspective.

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Living Room / Re: Tell me what your software DOESN'T do... (a rant)

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 05:58 PM »

Dear mister generic developer, please tell me what your software does not do. Upfront-like. Thank you.

great point -- we would all be better off if programs gave us some bullet points of what they don't do, or don't do well.

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Finished Programs / Re: Scan music collection for missing covers/artwork

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 05:43 PM »

skwire please slow down or your boss will call us and inform us he is doing an intervention and blocking your access to donationcoder. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Replace Hourglass with Quote from text file

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 02:44 PM »

one thing that might be nice skrommel, is if you can support the file formats i use in my various quote programs (popup wisdom and multiphoto quotes).
you can download quote files here:
https://www.donation...pUpWisdom/books.html

there are basically 2 formats:
1) standard fortune file format, which uses % on newlines to separate quotes
2) single quote per line format (and i use first line of file for extra info)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Replace Hourglass with Quote from text file

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 11:16 AM »

Great work skrommel, and much credit also to r0bertdenir0, who basically showed the way. 

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Living Room / Re: Star Trek 2009 - Discussion [SPOILERS]

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2009, 06:43 AM »

I saw it with an old friend, both of us are pretty big fans of star trek, though not trekkies/trekkers.  I thought it was flawed but quite good.  He hated it.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Source IP not matching URL hostname

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2009, 12:00 PM »

that might make some sense -- sometimes urlsnooper has to guess about the source ip or hostname i think.. if you go to advanced mode and actually click on the url found, it will show you on bottom the complete url in context -- from there you will see if the ip is actually part of the url, or if urlsnooper basically added the ip based on a guess from something scanned earlier.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Problem with TFLM

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 11:20 PM »

i looked over heidi's files and determined that what happened was that the .dat data files were almost certainly messed up by a tool that treated them as text files and converted CRLF pairs to LF characters.  i suspect this was done by a zip program.  more investigation will reveal and i will report.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: NovaPDF Professional Desktop on Bitsdujour today

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 07:07 PM »

my experience with sourceforge is that they are very generous and trusting when it comes to giving out sourceforge accounts and web/ftp space, and probably don't have the employees to police these accounts very well.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 12:51 PM »

It's definitely worth a try though.

i don't know if it really is.. but it's at least worth thinking about.

i mean there may still actually be a way to investigate the memory used by windows system and find out directly which programs have registered which global hotkeys, though obviously not easily.  i wouldn't start implementing this other method just yet -- but at least it's something to consider for the future.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 11:38 AM »

If one *wanted* to discover what applications the hotkeys belonged to.. you could have a special mode that starting closing/killing applications and watching which hotkey assignments were released, and keeping that on record.