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20176

DcUpdater / DcUpdater v2 Preliminary Flirtations

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2009, 05:38 PM »

20177

Site/Forum Features / Meta Survey Survey for Fundraiser Survey

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2009, 05:29 PM »

I thought it would be a good idea at the end of fundraiser month to have a little survey we ask people to fill out, to solicit opinions about what the site should focus on, etc.

I'd like to ask for suggestions about the kinds of questions it would be useful to ask.

Please suggest some questions!

20178

Screenshot Captor / Re: FEATURE REQUEST - Edit Enhancements

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2009, 01:36 PM »

I can add file -> open easily and will do so.  Keep in mind that this will change the current screenshot directory though.
One thing you could do, which is what i do instead, is just drag files into the left hand thumbnail view when i want to touch up an image that is in another place.  Then i edit it, and drag it back out.  The advantage here is that you are working on copies of files in case you mess up.

As for your second request, easily possible in current version:


Tips: You can use Ctrl+G to bring up resize dialog; enter a value in Quick Border to set equally-sized borders on all edges.

20179

Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report]keeping on asking for cd-rom disk files?

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2009, 11:14 AM »

its basically querying it's history of launched files to speed up search, causing the OS to poll that removable drive.
what i need to do is have it not do this for missing drives.. automatically if possible, or with a list of drives to ignore if not.
thanks for the report -- what you can do in the meantime as a workaround is go to options -> launchhistory -> delete the entry.

20180

The Form Letter Machine / Re: Feature requests for The Form Letter Machine

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2009, 09:11 AM »

You can drag and drop items.
Just make sure you are in edit mode: Use the menu to go to Edit -> Edit Configuration Tree.

20181

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: P2Labs.com

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 04:52 PM »

Welcome to the site P2Labs -- looks like some useful tools 

20182

General Software Discussion / Re: Backup software à la dropbox (backups differences in file - revisions)

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 03:40 PM »

just a warning.. backing up only the parts of changed files seems inherently more prone to restorationg problems than backing up entire changed files (which is what i use).  i can see some cases where you might want it, perhaps if you have giant files that change just a little.. but i would think long and hard about it.

20183

DcUpdater / Re: Dcupdater problems - v1.23.01?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 03:19 PM »

yes i saw that -- doesn't really pose a risk to dcupdater though. -- at least i can't see any way for it to be exploited to make dcupdater do anything bad.

20184

FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: is video editing software necessary?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 01:59 PM »

it has to be in a format that flipbook printer can understand, such as .avi or .mpg.
whether you need to first process it in a video editor depends on whether you camera saves files in that format.

20185

FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: is video editing software necessary?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 01:41 PM »

explain what you mean please.

20186

Developer's Corner / Re: Frustration with User Feedback

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 11:43 AM »

I think it would be really useful if we set up a kind of repository thing which made it easy for people to browse, find, and get updates on software released by dc members.  Take a look at skrommel's page and you can see how easy it is to be overloaded.  any suggestions?

20187

General Software Discussion / Re: Backup software à la dropbox (backups differences in file - revisions)

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 11:24 AM »

are you specifically looking for online backup tools or local ones?

20188

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Portable Application Wrapper

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 10:48 AM »

ah very nice!

20189

Living Room / Re: Scenes of the Recession from around the world

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 09:59 AM »

How about 10 or so who work online get together and buy a big building together to live in?  DC House!

20190

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Portable Application Wrapper

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2009, 09:20 AM »

another nice feature might be if you could configure the tool to open the target app with specified commandline options.

20191

Find And Run Robot / Re: last window id

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 11:52 PM »

beta uploaded to https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe
i'd appreciate some beta reports before i make it official.

20192

Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] alias/plugin? shows for no reason in results list

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 11:41 PM »

what you are seeing is something that the delicious plugin is doing on its own, not a farr bug.

20193

Developer's Corner / Re: Frustration with User Feedback

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 08:51 PM »

We should mention that elitefreeware has been spending this entire month writing about DC apps and coding snacks! 

20194

Find And Run Robot / Re: last window id

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 06:23 PM »

done and done.  will be in next update.

20195

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: HotKeyz

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 06:22 PM »

Welcome Magnus!
Various posts mentioning hotkeyz on the forum: https://www.donation...rch2;search=Skynergy

20196

DcUpdater / Re: More than a year since the last updates!

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 06:18 PM »

just to follow up -- i have been updating all of my apps this month.. 13 updates so far i think.. so DcUpdater *will* get updated this month.

[edited to correct typo -- thanks josh]

20197

Living Room / Addictive Tips Blog

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 05:53 PM »

This isn't a new blog, but it's new to me, and I like what I see.  Lots of nice short tips and tricks focusing on software discoveries.

At AddictiveTips we review the best software and services from around the web and routinely cover different tips and tweaks on Windows and other Operating Systems.

http://www.addictivetips.com/

20198

FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Can you duplicate a frame?

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 03:44 PM »

That is absolutely possible.. flipbook printer has lots of options for deciding how to lay out pages to customize binding methods.

The key is to select STACKED printing, and then.. and here is the non-obvious part, set the # of copies to the # of images (cards) on one sheet of paper.

Use the preview button and the View Page selector to preview the printing plan ahead of time.



If you think about it a little it will make sense why this combination of option does what you want -- the idea of stacked printing is that when you stack pages on top of each other, each copy of the flipbook exists as a single stack.

20199

FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Can you duplicate a frame?

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 03:26 PM »

can you elaborate a little bit about what you want?

20200

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

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2009, 03:25 PM »

New release.  Anyone who experienced crashing after the program woke up from hibernation (especially if you had a multimonitor system), then this new release should fix that problem.  Thanks to Roman for helping to diagnose the problem.

v2.53.01 - March 17th, 2009

• Fixed rare bug that could cause an exception when waking from hibernation (especially on multimonitor systems); or when turning off secondary monitors [Thanks Roman!]

v2.52.01 - March 12th, 2009

• Added some new variable/macros based on image filename that can be used when calling commandline tools.

v2.51.01 - March 10th, 2009

• Added new advanced post-capture commandline tool box where you can configure multiple commandline applications to run after a screenshot is taken.  See here for more options you can pass to the post-capture commandline tools.