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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.47.01 - Feb 15, 2009

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 11:14 PM »

2.47.01 beta is up.
It's mainly improvements to the region capture modes.

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DcUpdater / Re: Dcupdater problems - v1.23.01?

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 09:37 PM »

ok thank you.. damn libcurl (the library i use in dcupdater) is not following the redirect the way it promises it will.. i may have to detect it manually and simulate the redirect myself if i can't get libcurl to work.  i'm not all that thrilled with libcurl.

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Living Room / A free album of music from Edith Frost - one of my favorite singers

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 06:51 PM »

Edith Frost is a very special singer and songwriter.. It's hard for me to fight my tendencies to want to keep such discoveries secret and sacred.  This is music that I find deeply moving and rare and haunting and heartbreaking and thrilling.  The kind that makes you want to keep everyone on the planet from hearing it.

But it also seems fitting to share some sad music about love and romance on valentine's day, for those that need it.

Download the album of outtake songs here (see top left to download entire set as zip):

• http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/027/

Note that these are sparser less polished versions of the full album songs, but it will give you a good feel for the music.


Visit Edith Frost's Blog here: http://edithfrost.com/
Edith Frost on Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.co.../ref=ntt_mus_gen_pel

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Wrap Up

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 12:32 PM »

Don't miss the interviews that Mahesh did with some of the NANY 2009 people:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=17047.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY Developer Interviews

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 12:32 PM »

The interviews are really terrific.. very fun and informative.. great stuff. 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Signatures now not shown if you have under a certain number of posts

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 12:29 PM »

i don't have the slightest idea what you guys are talking about  
just kidding, thanks for pointing out the bug -- fixed now.

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Living Room / Re: DC should be Twittering its new topic posts!

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 06:22 AM »

maybe there is an existing rss -> to -> twitter service that could do it.

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DcUpdater / Re: Dcupdater problems - v1.23.01?

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 04:40 AM »

we should probably continue this discussion over email, but one thing that is important for me to know is if you've just manually put up a redirect html page, or whether you have told the webserver to send a 301 return code for an official redirect.

i ask because the downloader should follow the redirect if it gets a proper 301 status code reply from the web server.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 04:39 AM »

ok i understand -- i will try to have sc go back to whatever state it was before capture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 03:42 AM »

I notice that double clicking now closes ScreenCaptor.

can you explain what you mean?

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DcUpdater / Re: Dcupdater problems - v1.23.01?

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 02:59 AM »

owen, can you send me your dcupdate file (or program) and ill see if i can't get redirect options working.  if you send me what you think are the important bugfixes i can try to get them done this week as well. ([email protected])

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2009, 02:54 AM »

Can you guys (and anyone else who wants to check out the new region capture features), try:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

v2.47.01 BETA - February 15th, 2009

• Attempting to make all region and object capture modes work better on multimonitor setups; no need to activate from desired monitor.
• Adding ability to abort region captures with escape key.
• Trying to skip the cleared screen message which used to show on saving image.
• [Bugfix] Trying to eliminate floating point error some were seeing on region capture.
• [Bugfix] Main form could stay hidden even when there was a pending overwrite/cancel/save dialog trying to be shown.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 09:59 PM »

working now on some long-overdue fixes to region capture (escape to cancel, full desktop selection not just current monitor) and will try to find this error as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any easy way to see how much each Firefox addon weights you down?

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 09:58 PM »

well it's a great idea.
you could sort of do it and it would be a great idea for a firefox plugin, whose job it was to benchmark firefox with each plugin enabled, one at a time.  bit of a complicated plugin programming job but does seem like a cool idea.

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Living Room / Re: Why do so many micropayment systems fail?

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 03:06 PM »

that is a really excellent point about "divorcing pleasure from pain" -- that has to be a central element of any viable system like this.

netflix is another example of how appealing and how much people love the idea of being able to decide how much they want to spend for a subscription, and then not have to worry about how much they use, view, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 01:36 PM »

ps. For programmers wishing to extend Drupal I can *highly* recommend the book "Pro Drupal Development" (by John K. VanDyk).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "push" alternative to "copy" in context menu

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 12:58 PM »

you know that working in the start menu itself is not an efficient way to work with many shortcuts -- if you simply go to the hard drive folder where the start menu is kept (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\) then you can use your favorite file explorer tool to do the kinds of things you are interested in, or move+copy bulk stuff much more easily.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 12:56 PM »

app,

i didn't realize you had such a bad experience with the GOE.. i knew it didn't help you but didn't realize it caused so much damage.

perhaps part of the problem was that these systems make it seem like they are right for everyone and if they don't work for you then there must be something wrong with you; and therefore they set up expectations that are unrealistic.

do you think it wouldn't have been such a bad experience if you had just gone into it thinking "let me try this idea and see if it has any value to me or not?".. or was there something inherent in just learning about or trying these approaches that threw you off your stride so dramatically.  i guess what i'm trying to get at is if you think merely learning about and trying to follow any of these approaches will somehow doing lasting damage to a person's productivity.

as many people here know (as it's been made fun of plenty of times) i have taken away some ideas from these systems and formulated by own system of index cards which i have found extremely useful.  so for me learning about these systems has been a good thing, but i never went into it expecting a miracle or expecting to slavishly follow their rules, only to survey the field.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "push" alternative to "copy" in context menu

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 12:15 PM »

Maybe you want something like Piky Basket?

PikyBasket lets you select files from different folders before actually pasting them all together (copy, copy, copy & then finally paste). Integrated with Windows Explorer and other popular file managers.

(30% donationcoder discount here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=14845.0)

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Living Room / Re: Windows Secrets jumps shark

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 12:12 PM »

give 'em a break, they made a mistake in terminology.  an embarrassing mistake, but just an honest mistake.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 12:07 PM »

ok well with this new info, let me see if i cant figure out the cause.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor use problems

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 08:25 AM »

selected region capture - ok that's a big clue.
klk -- does the problem ever happen when doing other kinds of captures?

and to confirm -- it happens AFTER you select the region to capture and capture initiates?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on February 14, 2009, 08:22 AM »

I have also noticed that on the drupal forums a huge number of posts asking for help or clarification go ignored.. I'm not sure what that tells you but it's not a great sign.

What is true however, and is very impressive, is that the Drupal developers have gone to extraordinary lengths to make a system that is extensible without having to modify the core code.. Drupal uses an elaborate system of callbacks that makes it possible to modify nearly any aspect of the system using a "plugin" module.

You come to appreciate such things after working on a system like the forum software we use here (simple machines forum) where modifications and extensions are done by actually changing the core codebase -- the problem being that when the system software is updated the chance of something breaking or requiring intricate fixing is very high.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: BUG: Config file path missing slash

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2009, 09:49 PM »

go to the file menu and browse to and open one of the config files, see if it works from then on.

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Living Room / Re: Mintcamp: a new blog of interviews with developers and web designers

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2009, 09:31 PM »

mahesh are you ready to let everyone know about the nany 2009 developer interviews?
you never tell us when you post them - that's insane!