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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Requesting Ideas for DonationCoder Podcast #7

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2008, 04:13 PM »

It might be helpful to reflect on the reasons that the original podcast proved hard to keep producing:

1) too few people willing to record segments
2) no one person who loved making creating the podcasts -- i believe that this is one of those things that really needs one or two people who in their hearts have secretly always wanted to have their own radio show.
3) very uneven recording quality and volume control -- made it less pleasant to listen to.

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Developer's Corner / OSNews.com Multi-part Article on User Interfaces and Usability

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2008, 01:29 PM »

Thom Holwerda over at OSNews.com has been writing a regular series that he calls "Common Usability Terms" but the title is misleading. The series is actually quite an interesting take on different graphic user interface techniques and metaphors, discussing both historical origins and the functional motivations.

Very readable and just another demonstration that OSNews.com is improving every day and becoming essential reading for developers.

This is the ninth article in a series on common usability and graphical user interface related terms [part I | part II | part III | part IV | part V | part VI | part VII | part VIII]. On the internet, and especially in forum discussions like we all have here on OSNews, it is almost certain that in any given discussion, someone will most likely bring up usability and GUI related terms - things like spatial memory, widgets, consistency, Fitts' Law, and more. The aim of this series is to explain these terms, learn something about their origins, and finally rate their importance in the field of usability and (graphical) user interface design. In part IX, we are going to talk about the menu.

http://www.osnews.co...rms_part_IX_the_Menu

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Screenshot Captor / Re: FTP Uploader Script

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2008, 12:52 PM »

That's great cvbusa

Can i add a link to that screencast from SC page and from SC help file?

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Developer's Corner / stackoverflow.com - programmers Q&A site by jeff atwood + joel spolsky is public

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2008, 07:49 AM »

Stackoverflow.com, the site created by programming gurus joel spolsky and jeff atwood as gone from a closed beta to an open public beta and is worth checking out.

You can read the original dc discussion thread about stackoverflow.com here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13077.0

Basically the website is a community question and answer system much like yahoo answers but focused on programming-related questions. Users can vote for questions and answers (like on digg) so that popular ones rise to the top.

http://stackoverflow.com

Screenshot - 9_15_2008 , 7_43_32 AM_thumb.png

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Old News, Served Fresh

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 10:16 PM »

And that's why I don't understand the stock market and the economics of the world. People are buying and selling imaginary numbers and for some reason the government has to take control of banks to keep the country from going into economic emergency?

Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Resize and/or Move the Capture Region

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 09:14 PM »

i always recommend people just capture whole screen and then size and move crop window from within sc, as i find that easier, BUT for people who want to do what you want, just go to options and change to Red Box capture mode for Regions:
Screenshot - 9_14_2008 , 9_14_55 PM.png

once you activated the red box capture mode for Regions you should see the new interface for capture regions which allows you to resize and move the selection region prior to capturing.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 03:44 PM »

green = currently online signed into forum.
red = currently offline.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 01:47 PM »

363 members on the map.. still some time to make it 500 by monday!

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Two 'essential' features

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 08:05 AM »

thank you for reminding me -- i am long overdue in updating this.. stay tuned this month for an update.

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Developer's Corner / Re: XULRunner - XUL & JS For Desktop Applications

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 08:02 AM »

Very cool stuff.. has anyone here done any XUL application building? I have a book on it but i've only just skimmed it.

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Anti-Spam Law Declared Unconstitutional

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:46 AM »

damn it

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Living Room / Re: Vuln. Alert: Malformed URLs Crash Acrobat 9

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:38 AM »

Um.. what *doesn't* cause adobe acrobat to crash?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spore: a Codyrific journey

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:37 AM »

They now demand money from me with threats of declaring war if I don't pay up.

Definitely sounds like Cody has let all the donations go to his head.

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:38 PM »

As for who should win.. I think nudone has to call up cody and ask him.
My votes are for:
Deozaan and p3lb0x.
Deozaan for his first hillarious videos and super cute cody.
And p3lb0x for actually evolving his Cody race and taking them into space.

I can't remember if one or both of you already have a mug? If not then i say whoever doesn't have one gets it.

Special mention has to go to Stoic Joker who's evil cody creature definitely deserves to be evolved and go into space.

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:34 PM »

Deo i like your first cody better.. it was cuter.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to choose programming language?

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 07:13 PM »

DC member by the name of tinjaw is a python enthusiast here on the forum.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free uCalc calculator just for trying the new animated tutorial

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 05:21 PM »

Hi Daniel, I'm just watching the tutorial now. Very nice

Couple of observations:

First, very cool work on the tutorial -- that's actually quite fun (for those who haven't tried it, it uses MS wizard to give instructions and point out various features as it walks you through them).
Second, very nice work on the multiple base support, both in input and output.
And nice work with the tape measure history and history of past expressions.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Automatic Network adapter Dector Failed to find suitable network driver.

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:42 AM »

always nice to hear when things work out right

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Forum Guidelines - subjects to avoid?

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:05 AM »

Discussion about religion and politics is very frowned upon here on this forum (that would include debates about atheism).

Don't get me wrong, I encourage everyone to engage in vigorous debate about these issues, but just not here on this forum since it tends to divide us and not bring us together, and is not at all related to the things we like to focus on here.

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