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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2008, 02:28 PM »
the aspect ratio of last one is not ideal.. better that it be wider rather than taller.
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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2008, 12:20 PM »
How does the brain work?
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DC Gamer Club / Hedgewars: Excellent Free Clone of the Classic Game "Worms"
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2008, 07:27 PM »
Today on freewaregenius.com, Samer introduces us to Hedgewars, an extremely faithful and polished clone of the terrific Worms game series.


Hard to say it better than Samer did:
Description: Hedgewars is multiplatform, a free turn-based blast-em-up in the vein of Worms. It features a wide range of weapons, multiple maps, and excellent graphics and audio. Offers single player, multiplayer, and (in theory) multiplayer over the internet modes.

If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many Worm clones and offshoots here’s the reason: Worms is an extremely playable, fun game. Although there are many freeware Worms clones but many of these are DOS games that lag behind in their production qualities (and/or do not readily run on XP/Vista), which is why Hedgewars was such a fantastic find for me personally: it offers excellent graphics and sound and excellent playability and physics.

In contrast to Worms variations such as the brilliant Soldat (which abandoned the turn-based model in favor of real-time gameplay), Hedgewars is a very faithful adaptation that sticks to the turn-based model and recreates most of the original elements, from the wacky range of weaponry to the destructible environment, and even the cartoonish look and feel all the way down the little one-liners that the characters utter at the end of each turn.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Photo Downloader Kiosk
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2008, 06:31 PM »
This seems like a useful thing to have -- a kiosk type photo interface.. Anyone know of one?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Fullscreen of Control
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2008, 07:57 AM »
Martin wrote about Window Extractor on ghacks today:
http://www.ghacks.ne...extractor/#more-7439
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Fullscreen of Control
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2008, 11:05 PM »
That is pretty darn cool.. I can see how that would be very useful for a presentation.. sort of a smart zoom.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.14.01 - October 05, 2006
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2008, 05:54 PM »
Uploaded v1.14.01.
Very minor changes since last version, but if you capture skinned windows (bblean, etc) then this might be useful.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: copying and pasting web pages with images... does it copy the image or url?
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2008, 01:55 PM »
tomos has it right.

CHS stores only plaintext (optional copying of images is planned but many people like that CHS only works with plaintext).

So if you copy and paste one thing, nothing changes -- images and formatted richtext still copy fine since you aren't using CHS for a single copy and paste.

But when you want to retrieve something copied earlier, only plaintext is stored.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: ctrl + space activates language bar settings & not FARR
« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2008, 02:55 AM »
excellent -- thanks for reporting that for anyone else who has same problem.  :up:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.43.01 - Oct 5, 2008
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2008, 08:11 PM »
I've posted a beta of new version 2.43.01 because i want to make sure i didn't break anything in latest version before making it official.
You can find changelist in first post on the thread.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2008, 05:07 PM »
i think thats a good idea going forward.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2008, 04:39 PM »
hahahhaha 40hz that's a great sign for Ehtyar -- i think he should use it  :up:
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 0.2.0
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2008, 04:38 PM »
The new workflow of selecting a task and then choosing what to do is soo much more intuitive to me.. love it.  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

Huge improvement on an already amazing plugin.

ps.
By the way for people who dont know about the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Backspace, FarrMilk is the ideal place to use it -- it removes the last word on in the search box, which for FarrMilk almost always is like a back button.  :up:
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Mouser's Zone / New Portable Mode for My Apps
« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2008, 12:16 PM »
Just wanted to mention that i've finished coding an improved Portable mode for my bigger apps, which has been long requested.  I will add support for it as I release new versions (first up will be Screenshot Captor).

I'll post more details with the individual programs, but basically the Portable mode uses the special ConfigDir.ini file that I introduced in earlier versions that let's you customize the configuration/settings directory for a program's data files.

Now if you edit the ConfigDir.ini file and add a line saying:
Portable=TRUE

That setting tells the program to use the application directory for the settings/configuration files, and to not write any license key information or other data to any other directory.

Entering a license key in Portable mode will also only save license data in the app directory (you can also copy your license key from your installed version on your pc).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Programs you can use during a financial meltdown!
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 11:48 PM »
maybe this would be useful: http://www.abc-ware.com/cashprinter.htm
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: 41
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 09:57 PM »
I love the new format, big thumbs up  :up:
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Circle Dock / Re: Easy Unicode Paster 2.1 is Released
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 09:55 PM »
Great stuff.

(ps i think it's better to not put the files in attachments only because the result is that old posts still have old files attached and people could end up downloading older version; especially when you have such a nice web page)
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General Software Discussion / Re: It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 06:30 PM »
AFAIK it's not about AHK, but the compression used when compiling. Uncompressed AHK exes shouldn't be affected. AHK's compiler is a left over from AutoIt, so I don't think something will change soon.

There is one flaw in that reasoning.. the false positives always stop after some complaints, but then re-emerge on the next release of ahk.  So it does seem to be version-specific to the ahk releases, at least it seems that way to me.
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General Software Discussion / Re: It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 05:44 PM »
but honestly, I don't think there's much to be done...

If i had to guess, i'd say that the problem could be solved by a concerted effort to make the right contacts at the antivirus companies.  My guess is that they have whitelisted applications that they test with new virus definitions to avoid false positives.  And that the solution is for the AHK main coders to make sure that before releasing a new version of AHK they get it into the hands of the antivirus companies.  But this will take some effort on their parts.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New Plugin: GooglePlus - View Google search results in FARR as you type
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 03:47 PM »
It's time we put a stop to this antivirus ahk recurring nightmare: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=15210
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General Software Discussion / Re: It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 03:46 PM »
I posted on the ahk forum as well, here: http://www.autohotke...ewtopic.php?p=223437
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General Software Discussion / It's time to do something about these AutoHotkey antivirus false positives
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 03:37 PM »
I am fed up with these repeated ridiculous false positive antivirus triggers on autohotkey programs.

They help no one, except to the extent that they demonstrate the irresponsibility and laziness of these antivirus programs.

For those who aren't familiar with the problem I will summarize it:
  • AutoHotkey is a popular scripting language for MS windows which allows people to write very cool utilities.
  • Like any other programming language there is always some idiot that uses the language to write some malware program.
  • But unlike other programming languages, the antivirus companies tend to not be familiar enough with autohotkey (or else to lazy to care), and when they find one of these malware programs, they add a new signature to their database which ends up marking EVERY program written in autohotkey as having a virus.
  • Eventually after enough people are completely freaked out by the false alarm, and scared to death that they have a virus, and after dozens of complaints from authors, the antivirus company will inevitably remove the bad signature from their database, and things go back to normal (except for the fact that they've scared a number of people off of ever using autohotkey).
  • BUT, then a new version of autohotkey comes out, and these damn antivirus companies get amnesia again, and repeat the process all over again right from the start.
  • This cycle of false alarms has been going on for a couple of years now and in my opinion it is starting to cause irreparable harm to the autohotkey community.

I keep waiting for these companies to clean up their own mess but they never do.

I'd like to begin a more organized process to petition these antivirus companies to take this issue more seriously and behave more responsibly.  I don't know how much effort the official autohotkey developers have spent trying to get this issue addressed -- but this is something that really needs to be solved.  Perhaps greater communication with higher up engineers in the antivirus companies can ensure that they have proper ahk signatures of each new version included in their known-safe whitelists which would prevent them from erroneously marking generic ahk scripts as malware.

I'd like to ask ahk users and developers to organize an effort to reach out to the antivirus companies and establish a line of communication and not give up on this until it gets resolved.  DC stands ready to help in any way we can.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New Plugin: GooglePlus - View Google search results in FARR as you type
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 03:16 PM »
I think settings.exe is small autohotkey utility which presents an options dialog to the user.

And like many autohotkey programs, infuiratingly, the stupid antivirus programs seem to regularly, repeatedly, and inexcusably, give false positives.

See here for more ranting about this issue: https://www.donation...e+positive+antivirus
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Living Room / Re: Mintcamp: a new blog of interviews with developers and web designers
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 12:49 PM »
Great!! :up:
It's fantastic reading these interviews.. really fun  :up: :up: :up:
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Living Room / Re: I can haz LOLMouser plz?
« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2008, 02:54 AM »
lol, srikat.
this thread is just one big inside joke -- i hope the non-regulars here don't lose their mind trying to decipher these..
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