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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Problem with TFLM

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 05:49 AM »

Hi Heidi,

We have talked over email but didn't quite figure out what was up -- let me contact you again and see if i can understand what the nature of your problem is.

-mouser

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

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 12:41 AM »

note to anyone who is impatient to read stuff and  makes same mistake as me -- the download tranglos just attached above (controlStopWatch) is *NOT* the stopwatch utility!!! It's an optional helper script you can use to control it.

You still need to download the main utility from the first post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using noscript to force https ssl links in firefox

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 12:28 AM »

thanks for the info Brahman, i didn't know anything about secure cookies and now i'm off to learn a bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2009, 12:27 AM »

nice find zacharyliu 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error in photoshop

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 11:30 PM »

may i ask what version of photoshop?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Would you recommend friends to use XP or Vista?

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 07:59 PM »

1. If you are currently running XP, stick with it until you decide you need to switch to Windows 7. This late in the game there's no point in migrating to Vista if you haven't already done so.

2. If you are currently running Vista, switch to Windows 7 when it become available.

40hz advice above seems right on the money to me.

however, it doesn't quite tell you what to tell someone who is considering a new system and doesn't know whether to use vista or xp.  i am still using xp pro, but i suppose i would tell a new pc buyer to just not worry about it and use whatever of the 2 (vista or xp) comes pre-loaded, and keep your eye open for windows 7 when it is ready.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 07:55 PM »

look out everyone.. tranglos is on a roll -- best to grab the downloads and then stay well clear

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error in photoshop

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 05:46 PM »

thats a huge clue, and probably tells me what i need to know -- let me see if i can fix.
the error probably occurs with sc trying to highlight the active window in the screenshot, and somehow getting dimensions that exceed the screenshot.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: dosearch only shows the first line

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 05:43 PM »

yes, use \n

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Find And Run Robot / Re: dosearch only shows the first line

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 02:40 PM »

right, restartsearch seems what you want for that.
dosearch is more useful when you want to have farr interpret what you are typing and transform it to something else behind the scenes as you type.  restartsearch is more useful when you want to present a menu of searches to the user.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Confessions of a Freeware Junkie updates their list of recommended freeware

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 02:28 PM »

The problem with any such list is that it depends on personal preferences... I like to read these lists solely to find new software that I might not have heard about.

i think this is exactly they way to view such lists.. don't take them as clear indications that one program is better than another -- take them as a list of programs that are worth trying and comparing to the ones you currently use, or as suggestions for types of programs you didn't know you needed.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Occasional hangs

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 02:26 PM »

i think i'll do it -- i'll combine it with something i've been meaning to do, which is autodetect and disable of plugins which crash on loading -- which will prevent people from installing a malfunctioning plugin and making their FARR unusable until they manually remove it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error in photoshop

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 01:59 PM »

there could be one big clue:

does it ONLY happen when photoshop is the currently active window and you take a screenshot of current screen?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Occasional hangs

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 10:16 AM »

past experience has shown that that usually happens when FARR is trying to resolve some kind of network share or offline shortcut.
your approach was right -- see if you can find the location of the item that is causing the problem and disable/exclude it from the search list.

maybe i can add a feature to FARR that will detect and log such problems to make them easier to troubleshoot.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: dosearch only shows the first line

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 10:06 AM »

yes, you can only use one dosearch, as the effect of it is to silently behave as if the user had typed in the stuff after the dosearch word -- and it happens instantly.  i guess that was what the question was about.

if you want to present a LIST of choices to the user, where they can hit enter and restart with that search, you would use restartsearch instead of dosearch.

just for the sake of discussion -- what did you want farr to do with the multiple dosearch lines? i.e. how would you have liked farr to behave?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Game Review: Defense Grid: The Awakening

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 09:23 AM »

i played it to the end -- very well done.  at 75% off it's kind of ridiculous not to get it if you like tower defense games

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General Software Discussion / Re: Want to print artist/album list of ogg/mp3 files

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

maybe better if you host the actually download on a web page instead of an attachment, so the link doesn't change when you update?

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General Software Discussion / Confessions of a Freeware Junkie updates their list of recommended freeware

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 09:20 AM »

Worth a read, concise list of recommended everyday freeware tools from someone who knows his stuff:

Note that this is a list that I recommend for every baseline installation...I will recommend various specialty applications over the course of my musings, but this is something that I believe everyone should install. Enjoy - every product here is one that I use or have used.

http://thefreewareju...re-list-6-23-06.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with running FARR in portable mode on a USB drive

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 08:51 AM »

About the history, would it be possible to store the history of relative applications, relatively? Meaning,  if the app is launched from the FARRDRIVE then could FARR store the history as a \path\app.exe instead of X:\path\app.exe ?

that's not a bad idea -- i'll see if i can do it that way -- the effect should be pretty much the same though.  either way i'll make it so the history doesn't get lost.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with running FARR in portable mode on a USB drive

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 08:49 AM »

i probably didnt update the configdir.ini with FARR (i will now) but it doesn't really matter -- here is the new bottom of the file:

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// NEW:
//  You can now signify that an app should run in portable mode (no files saved to anything but app dir)
//  by specifying the uncommented line:
//   PORTABLE=TRUE

so basically just add to your configdir file anywhere you want:
PORTABLE=TRUE

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with running FARR in portable mode on a USB drive

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

sounds like you figured out the hard part, the configdir file -- as you found out, in vista the default location for options files is the users documents directory, so you need to set the "CONFIGDIR = ." line.  you should also uncomment the new PORTABLE line near the bottom, which will make FARR only save license key info to the current directory.

you're point about the history list is getting cleared is one i didn't think of -- it's because of the drive letter changes confusing FARR.  I can fix this however -- i'll put it on my todo list to make it adjust drive letters of the history list items instead of clearing them.  i should have a new version up by monday.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: dosearch only shows the first line

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2009, 08:23 AM »

did i break dosearch now?  nitrix uses them all the time, let me ask him to check and see if i broke this feature recently.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: access violation error in photoshop

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

can you check to make sure you have the most recent version of Screenshot Captor?
what operating system are you using -- and are you triggering the capture from a hotkey or the system tray menu or?

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

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 04:48 PM »

great stuff! thanks for the cheat sheet 

mouser: any reason not to allow PDFs to be used as attachments directly?

im not sure.. with all the pdf vulnerabilities i just felt it was less of a risk to have a zip file.. less risk of accidental click.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Magmahost.com | $6.95 for cPanel/WHM Reseller + Fantastio [Instant Setup] 99.9 Uptime

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 01:53 PM »

Andy, this kind of post is appropriate for this section, BUT since you've already made a post last month about your company, it's not appropriate to keep doing so.  i'm going to merge the two threads and ask you not to start new ones.