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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 09:48 AM »

well #2 is definitely fairly easy to do and wouldnt involve changing the licensing system, so if that would help alleviate some of the pain of having to copy and paste the license keys i think it's worth doing.

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: Click2LogIt

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 09:37 AM »

congratulations.. that is wonderful to hear. 

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 09:36 AM »

czb,

what if instead of two versions of each program, which would really be painful given all the programs and all the different releases, we could make the license key thing a lot easier.

for example:
on the license key page could provide:
1) a file you could download for portable use of any of the programs (just put it in the program directory)
2) or a tiny exe you could run on your pc to create and store your universal license key on your computer or a registry .reg file you could double click to register all donationcoder programs forever after.

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: Click2LogIt

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 06:09 AM »

I agree with appyface -- inquiring minds want to know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: OCR too expensive? Try freeloaders!

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 06:07 AM »

in other words, their *real* goal is to create lots of fake myspace accounts in an automated fashion.
to do that, they need to solve the myspace captchas.
so they are tricking downloaders from their site to solve the myspace captchas for them.

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 04:31 AM »

Educational / Non-profit Organization Should receive Non-expiring key immediately, isn't it?

yes.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 04:24 AM »

All I can say Carol is that i'm looking forward to the next 5000 and I'm glad you're here

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Living Room / Re: Chinese -> English translations

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 04:22 AM »

Every Heart Will Be Attacked

Love it. 

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donation

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 04:20 AM »

I actually have a new idea i've been meaning to try that emerged from discussions with Anderson (author of Mobysaurus), which i would very much like to implement as an experiment.

Let me explain the basic idea of it and see if people have some feedback.

I think one of the problems with the current approach is simply that it is a bit confusing to people.

This idea would change the donation page into more of a multi-step wizard, where the first step asks the person to "self identify" themselves into a number of categories with nice images and short descriptions like:


Please choose the description that best matches you:

Just Curious!
I am just curious about your software and site -- I don't want to have to sign up and i'm not prepared to make any donation at this time.  Please just give me a temporary 60-day license key for now and I'll come back to the site later if I want to support your efforts or get a non-expiring license key.

Commercial User
I plan to use your software in a commercial setting and I'm most interested in knowing I can get technical support if I need it.  I'd like to pay for a commercial license at this time.

Reluctant/Skeptical Donator
I'm still a bit unsure about whether DonationCoder.com has much to offer me but I'm willing to make a small nominal donation to speed along the process and simplify getting a full non-expiring license key.  If I end up using your programs a lot I may come back and donate more later; if i decide that your site and software is not useful for me I understand that i can request a no-questions-asked refund.

Limited Income Supporter
I don't have much money but i'd really like to support your efforts and receive a lifetime membership and license key for all of your current software.  Please let me choose how much I'd like to donate at this time, and I'll choose how my donation should be allocated on the site.

Deluxe Supporting Member
I would like to support the site with a donation of $50 or more and receive priority support and guaranteed access to all current and future software produced by DonationCoder.com.

Big Shot Funder
I would like to make a large donation to the site in order to support the funding of future software on DonationCoder.com.

Educational / Non-profit Organization
I belong to an educational or non-profit organization and I would like to receive a free license key for a particular DonationCoder.com program for use by my organization.

Conscientious Objector
I will not be donating to your site because it is against my principles, or because my economic situation makes it unfeasible.  I am interested in receiving a permanent non-expiring license key to your software.

Repeat Donor
Hey you know me! I donated before and I'm so happy with the site I've decided to come back and donate a little more.  I understand that I can choose how my donation credits will be allocated to specific authors if I so choose.


The idea being that a user can choose which category best describes them, and then have the website guide them through their specific case.

My hope was that this would achieve a few things:
1) Better communicate the spirit of the site and the non-scammy nature of the site
2) Be simpler to understand what to do
3) Provide some nudging for people to donate if they can, but also a simpler path for those that know they don't want to donate
4) Make it easier for people who just want to quickly come and get a license key to see what to do without annoying them.

The wizard approach would carry through so that people who aren't ready to donate and just want a license key would be able to choose between Signing up at forum and automatically being scheduled to receive a non-expiring license key, or getting a temporary key immediately without signing up.

Again the idea is to improve the workflow so that people could come in and get what they want in the smoothest fashion.

And hopefully convince some people that the description of the donor best matches a description of themselves.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: FARR alias/plugin to quickly edit startup items

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 03:34 AM »

yeah i wasnt suggesting to add such features -- i agree with lanux's statement that there are a bunch of good startup managers, and trying to do all that functionality in a FARR plugin seems a real waste.

but i can see just wanting to list items that are run at startup (these items come from various places -- start menu and registry), and being able to re-launch them from FARR.  i'm not sure, just an idea.  maybe it wouldnt be so useful after all..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Secondary monitor support

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 03:02 AM »

just an update -- i now know and have confirmed enough details to know i will be able to add multimon support to LBC.
i expect it to be ready in next week or two.

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General Software Discussion / Re: microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 01:50 AM »

micropledge has announced that they are closing up their current services:

We’re sorry, but we’ve decided to halt microPledge.com. The complete site is still viewable, but everything is disabled. We’re very sorry to have to halt the system, but we just didn’t have the user support we needed to continue. Please contact us if you’d like more information.

It's awfully hard to make such a system work and they were one of the better ones with some impressive solutions and well thought out ideas.

They are a resourceful team, i wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see micropledge reborn in some form or another in the future.

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General Software Discussion / Re: OCR too expensive? Try freeloaders!

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 12:54 AM »

I think what he's showing us is that one site (a crack site) is having people solve the MYSPACE captcha in order to download a file.

There is a term for this though i can't recall it at the moment.

Basically you are tricking unwitting humans into doing an automated solution of a captcha on another site, by making them think they are solving a captcha to get something on a different site.

(That's why myspace put a watermark on their captcha image, to warn people).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Critical vulnerability in Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2008, 12:14 AM »

Ditto -- thanks for the heads up.. Installed on winxp 64 no problem.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Secondary monitor support

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 07:24 PM »

I think i'm going to take a try at this this weekend.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Updated plugin: FARR MostRecentlyUsed 0.5.1

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 05:48 PM »

I wonder how hard it would be to add a flag to let user display items from STARTUP groups/registry section.. could be useful maybe, as requested here: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=15447

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: FARR alias/plugin to quickly edit startup items

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 05:48 PM »

You know it would be really cool if the MRU plugin could be asked to list startup programs:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13899.0

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.70.03 - Oct 22, 2008

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 05:13 PM »

great to hear it.. are you actually using it to bring up a menu of an launchbar dock as a menu -- or did you assign separate hotkeys to separate functions?  or are you using it to toggle the display of the entire dock.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Updated plugin: FARR MultiMonitor (and center) 0.3.0

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 01:26 AM »

nice 
Thanks for the update!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tray Icon ..

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 12:49 AM »

People have asked to be able to hide icon for quite a while.. maybe i will give in and add this feature in the next release.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Residue" problem when launching with an alias via numpad key

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 12:48 AM »

This bug has reared its head before and i thought i fixed it.. i will tackle it again and try to slay this beast for good in the next week or so.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - Small Enhancements for Directories Browsing.

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2008, 12:46 AM »

Leaving aside control panel expansion, which is not currently possible, you could do what you want by setting up a regular expression alias and using the "dosearch" alias command.

so let's say you wanted to use FARR's built in directory browsing functionality for some folders but you dont want to have to type out their whole names just to browse/find/search them.

create an alias like this:


After that you could just type:
mycode

To show the contents of the E:\MyDocs\Programming\ directory, as if you had typed that whole string.
This also allows you to type: mycode\cpp to browse E:\MyDocs\Programming\cpp
And so on.

The dosearch alias command lets you type one thing and have FARR behave as if you typed something else.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Member Map not working? Or is it just me?

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2008, 11:02 PM »

member map is down temporarily until we improve the code to not use 1 gigabyte of memory to show the map to one person

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Can't run 1.70.01

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2008, 09:04 PM »

should be fixed in latest beta.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tiny Watcher - a tool hosted at DC

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2008, 08:54 PM »

Tiny Watcher was all over the internet again today!.. Starting on Samer's freewaregenius and then migrating around to other sites including lifehacker.

Congratulations on the well deserved if long-delayed attention.