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Living Room / Re: IRLDD Down Under

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 10:05 PM »

A mug?!?!?!? Shoot, I haven't even gotten my badge for attending with my wife and skrommel!

-Josh (September 03, 2008, 09:46 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for...a wiki?

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 08:37 PM »

I think the primary question you should answer first is:
are you open to using an online web service (ad supported probably), or do you require something you will install and run locally.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- key reasons for its debut

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 08:13 PM »

I often don't agree with those who are so vociferous about these privacy concerns and data sharing issues and get so worked up about such things.. BUT on the other hand whether any specific concern is real or imagined, i have absolutely no doubt that if such people weren't out there on the front lines making noise about these things, these big corporations would be running roughshod over all of us and doing worse things than the most paranoid people worry about.  So I say thank you to all the "paranoid" ones who protect us against the abuses.

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Living Room / Re: IRLDD Down Under

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 08:07 PM »

In case it helps motivate you reclusives.. DC Mugs for all who attend (but only if wordzilla attends).

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for...a wiki?

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 08:06 PM »

This is a great question -- i hope we hear some good suggestions because i'll bet a lot of people would benefit from the right thing.

My intuition is this:
Your first instinct to use a wiki is a good one BUT you'd probably be better off with a web service slightly more specifically designed for this function -- ie events, quick notices, etc.  Rather than a pure wiki which is more flexible in some ways but will be harder for novices to use.

Looking forward to seeing what other people suggest.

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Living Room / Re: Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 06:59 PM »

I am going to try Diigo and I will report on my view of which is better for GROUP work.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A plugin based information bar in Windows

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 04:35 PM »

let me know when it's back up and  i'll try and report.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- key reasons for its debut

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 02:37 PM »

A negative take on Chrome from OSNews.  Not saying i agree with all of it, but i think it's worth sharing:

Google Chrome Considered Harmful
http://www.osnews.co...e_Considered_Harmful

..in the following text I will demonstrate that Chrome [based on what we are allowed to know] puts strain on the Designer and Developer communities, is not innovative (save for one feature), and copies ideas liberally from Google's worst enemy.

And google jumps on the apple marketing bandwagon:

My greatest problem with the cartoon strip is that while it's supposed to explain how Chrome works, it really explains how all major browsers work, implying that these features were invented for Chrome alone.

This is the #1 trick apple uses to sell their products (in my view), and i find it depressing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: new icon for Screenshot Captor?

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 04:37 AM »

how about having the mascot (Cody) with a camera?

great idea.. just dont think its going to fit too well in 16x16

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Living Room / Samarost Developers Working on a Full-sized Adventure Game: Machinarium

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 03:55 AM »

Way back in 2005, DC member m_s told us about an incredibly beautiful and charming flash hunt-and-click adventure game called Samarost.  Samarost 2 is easily still one of the best and most charming flash games of its kind.

The developers have released a few follow ups which have all been good.  Now comes word they are working on a full sized commercial adventure game called Machinarium set to be released in early 2009.

There is a video preview on the site and it does definitely has that samarost2 look and feel.  Can't wait!

http://www.machinarium.com

from http://www.tigsource.com/

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Confused with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Alt+V

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 03:41 AM »

great.

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General Software Discussion / Re: USBDLM -- deserves a thread!

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 03:15 AM »

Very nice find 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: new icon for Screenshot Captor?

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 03:15 AM »

i think i like the two main icons from first set and timer icon from second.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Confused with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Alt+V

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2008, 03:13 AM »

I think what you are probably experiencing is the Max Size limit option, which tells CHS that when text copied is bigger than certain amount to ignore it.  Go to the "Capture Options" tab and make the Plain Text size larger.

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense TWO

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 10:07 PM »

Long write up by JayIsGames.com: http://jayisgames.co..._tower_defense_3.php

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug? Search Folders File Extension Restrictions and Keywords

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 06:16 PM »

yes - you might also try to select the item with the mouse and check statusbar to see full location.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Another learners (web) coding site...

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 06:14 PM »

nice find 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Show directories even when using file extension restriction

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 01:52 PM »

this certainly seems needed -- ill add some option for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 10:14 AM »

by the way -- does anyone know if there is a term in the field of commercial marketing where a company releases a product without the actual intention of spending much money marketing it -- but instead just to scare away or keep the competition in line, using the threat of large-scale marketing if a competitor tries to challenge them?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome -- a new browser coming (in beta) in a few hours

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 10:03 AM »

from www.webware.com:

Mozilla CEO John Lilly on Tuesday waxed philosophical about the release of Google's new Web browser, Chrome, despite it signaling an attempt by the search giant--and Mozilla's major financier--to become its biggest competitor.
..
Mozilla and Google have had a long and very fruitful relationship. Google is the default search engine on the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the company pays Mozilla large sums for the privilege: $56 million of the $66 million that Mozilla Corp. made in 2006.

But Lilly, writing in his blog, said he welcomed the competition posed by Google. Lilly said Mozilla would continue its financial relationship with Google until 2011 and would continue to work with the search giant on technical collaborations such as crash reports system Breakpad.

Paul Kim, vice president of marketing for Mozilla, said that Google staff would be allowed to continue to contribute to the Mozilla Foundation's projects. "As a 100 percent open-source project, we welcome contributions to Firefox from everyone," he said.

I think it's quite possible what we are looking at here, from a business standpoint, is google covering its bases in the way that only a giant corporation with money to burn can. Recently we heard that google and mozilla agreed to continue for the time being their business arrangement where google massively funds firefox and firefox makes google the default search engine in the firefox browser.

It seems plausible that what google is doing with Chrome is basically saying to firefox: we have an alternative browser we can market and spend the money on.  i.e. they are covering their bases -- their goal is to dominate the search space -- if that means buying their way into the top browser then they will do that, but what if firefox demands too much money or changes their mind and decides to use a different search engine as their default (they can't really change search engines even if they wanted to now because they need google money).

Chrome may be the shot across the bow from google warning firefox not to think about trying to mess with having google as the default search engine.  So basically my guess is google won't push the new browser to hard as long as firefox stays in line.. But the threat will be that if firefox ever tries to stop partnering with google then google will go all out against firefox.  If true it's not exactly happy news. Or maybe i am just being conspiratorial.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug? Search Folders File Extension Restrictions and Keywords

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 09:40 AM »

Regarding the modifier keywords, it is supposed to do #1, BUT you can make it act like #2 if you just add * to the modifier list.

Regarding the optional file extension restrictions, can you try disabling all the other search paths to make sure the problem isn't that it's finding files in other search directories.

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General Software Discussion / College Alarm Clock - Freeware Alarm with Different settings for each day

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 09:05 AM »

Basically a simple alarm clock with a different tab/alarm for each day.  Looks like a simple solution that could be just the thing some people might need.

College Alarm Clock 1.06 is a personal Alarm Clock for your PC. Features a 7-Day Format so that you can wake up earlier/later on different days of the week. Save/Load your weekly schedule to your hard drive. It will play any media file stored on your PC or LAN. You must have a player installed for each media file you wish to play (e.g., Winamp for mp3's or CD's, media player for avi's, Real Player for .rm's) Created by a college student for college students... in other words, freeware.

http://www.geocities...cac/screenshots.html

from http://tech.cybernetnews.com/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Fuzzy matching" during dir lists

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2008, 08:53 AM »

sorry i missed this -- i think it might be easy to add, perhaps as an option.
i should release a new version of FARR soon and i'll see what i can do.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: $$c for $$2 or another regular expression?

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 11:28 PM »

if i forget to reply to this in next day or two please remind me -- i just need time to digest it.

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense TWO

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 10:50 PM »

I really enjoyed #2, so i'll definitely give #3  try 

http://www.ninjakiwi...Tower-Defense-3.html

Welcome Ninja.