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« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2008, 12:16 PM »I've been seeing this program/thread mentioned all over the web lately. congratulations 
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| Application Name | Mouser's Magic Keyboard |
| Version | v1.00.01 Unreleased |
| Short Description | Top secret |
| Supported OSes | Win All |
| Web Page | n/a |
| Download Link | n/a |
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| Author | Mouser |
I am so sick and tired of irresponsible antivirus companies unfairly flagging compiled AutoHotKey (AHK) scripts as viruses, trojans, and worms.
AutoHotKey is a free, open source scripting language, just as much as Perl, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript is a scripting language.
There is nothing wrong with the language itself, nor is there anything wrong with most scripts written in it. A lot of really awesome, useful, Windows utilities have been developed in AutoHotKey.
The language is powerful, easy to learn, enables you to write Windows utilities very quickly, and you can compile them to .exe and distribute them to others that don't have AutoHotKey installed, or you can give them the source script (.ahk) and they can run that if they do have it installed.
The problem is that there are idiots that will write malware in AHK, just as there are idiots that will write malware in any other programming language. You can't blame the language for this. And you can't blame all the developers that use the language, either.
But that is exactly what the antivirus companies are doing. They have decided that if a single person writes and compiles malware in AHK, then all compiled AHK scripts are malware. This results in tons of false positives, ruined reputations of innocent programmers, and a mistrust in AHK applications by the general public.
5.) Carry business cards with you every day, ALL day. (They do not do any good in the box!)
6.) Create a personal name tag or pin w/your company logo, wear it at high visibility meetings.
7.) Stay alert to trends that might impact your target market, product or promotion strategy.
8.) Read market research studies about your profession, industry, target market groups, etc.....
9.) Collect competitors ads & literature; study them for information about strategy, product features & benefits, etc...
10.) Ask clients why they hired you & solicit suggestions for improvement.
11.) Ask former clients why they left.
12.) Identify a new market.
13.) Join a list-serve (e-mail list) related to your profession.
14.) Subscribe to an Internet Usenet newsgroups or list-serve that serves your target market.
15.) Create a new service, technique or product.
16.) Offer a simpler, cheaper, smaller version of your (or another existing) product or service.
Wow, time sure does fly, doesn’t it? It flew by so fast that we almost missed our Birthday! Almost… This past Tuesday, December 3rd, was our official 3rd Birthday. We’ve taken some time this week to put together another Birthday Bash full of giveaways, just like last year. Unlike last year, we’re giving you a heads up on when to expect the giveaways so that more of you will be able to enter.
Take note, the giveaways will start on Monday, December 8th. We haven’t decided yet whether to stretch this over two days or three, we just wanted to make sure that everybody knows that come next week, the giveaways will start. If you want to participate, you’ll want to check back Monday morning. Entering will be super simple, but we’ll explain details later.
PS. OK, dumb question, what's the magic for adding an image as a thumbnail?see here:
1) I'm more command-line-ish right now, so would a batch file turned EXE qualify? (a la Bat2Exe)you might be better off leaving it as a batch file.
2) I understand that plugins are acceptable, would that include a FireFox extension?absolutely -- i'd love to see more firefox plugins created on dc.
So beside city_zen's suggestions do you have any other ideas on how to help the software to best determine what to select?
ZA forcefield kills all screenshot capture progs