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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 01, 2008, 09:40 PM »

strange news.. don't know quite what to make of it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Multiple directories (%PATH%) in Search Folders list

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 09:37 PM »

it can't be done easily but seems like a reasonable idea to me since FARR already will resolve an environment variable pointing to a single path.  in fact i'll bet you're not the only one who would like to have %PATH% searched for files. makes complete sense.

This could be done by allowing "Directory Path" to contain multiple directories, separated by a user-specified separator (so I'd use %PATH% and ";").

works for me though i'd suggest we use ; always.

i'm putting it on the todo list and hopefully i can get it in the next release.

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General Software Discussion / Re: License Key Problem

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 03:26 PM »

not all of our programs require a license key.

Translator Boomerang doesn't need a license key, it never expires or has any limits

-mouser

22054

Screenshot Captor / Re: new icon for Screenshot Captor?

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 12:28 PM »

Ok let's make this official:
Actually 4 related icons are desired:

• Screenshot Captor Normal (currently blue monitor image)
• Screenshot Captor - While Capturing (currently red monitor image)
• Screenshot Captor - In Timed Capture Mode (currently normal blue monitor image)
• Screenshot Captor Normal but big 64x64 for desktop icon

Icons should be 16x16 with transparency.  ico format preferred i guess but png or gif would be ok too.

Winning icon set will get a dc mug with their name or chosen text on it.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam, and the gift of game...

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 11:57 AM »

paypal fee calculator: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=11809.0

(paypal takes their fee from any donation before we even see it)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Game Review: Toribash

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 11:50 AM »

Wonderful mini-review.  People have told me about this game before but it's really nice to read your thoughts about it.

[one request:
 instead of linking to images off site, can i ask that you change the images to be attachments uploaded to the post?
this request tells how to place them where you want them: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1996.0
by attaching the images to the post we insure that they live forever, dont eat anyone's bandwidth, and it makes the post easier for me to promote into a blog item.]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: new icon for Screenshot Captor?

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 07:14 AM »

sure. 

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

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 06:36 AM »

Here's an idea i have been playing with for a standalone program but it would make a perfect addin for the information bar.
The idea is to let you create progress bars for tasks or events.
An event progress bar item basically just lets you set a start and end date and shows the progress torwards that event (you might even use it to show your remaining expected lifespan), or if you had option for repeating events the progress within the day, month, year.  Does that make sense?
The task progress bar item would just be a bar you could adjust manually.

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: a blog post about GridMove

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 06:32 AM »

very nice.
I added it to the Magnolia group we are building to collect mentions of DC on the web.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: new icon for Screenshot Captor?

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2008, 06:13 AM »

sounds good to me.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Year Calendar on a Single Page - Excel-2007 Template

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 07:46 PM »

go for it.. invent a new category "self-mini-review"

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Year Calendar on a Single Page - Excel-2007 Template

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 06:35 PM »

Very nice Jim, thank you for sharing this.

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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Re: Araxis Merge is still my favorite

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 03:12 PM »

Araxis is a very powerful, very good merge tool, no doubt about it.

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Site/Forum Features / Do you have a dcmembers.com page?

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 02:45 PM »

If so there is a new banner from nudone you can use if you want:



Download at:
https://www.donation...ServerCodyBanner.zip

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: How to safely erase content from CH+S's database?

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 01:22 PM »

yeah im afraid if you need it permanently/unrecoverably ERASED then what you need to do is exit CHS
and then wipe the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell\Database\
and maybe also wipe your backups in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Clipboard Help+Spell\Backups\

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 09:54 AM »

i got a nice book on drupal and started thinking i was too hard on it.
then i spent an hour screaming today after discovering that the forum i created was in accessible to any users and spent an hour trying to figure out why and how to enable it.

i truly believe drupal is a powerful and horrible evil unusable system.  avoid at all costs is my advice.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Help us pick some new SMF mods to install on the forum

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 09:06 AM »

Credit to smf authors who wrote the mods i recently installed:

• http://custom.simple...s/index.php?mod=1275
• http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=195
• http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=451
• http://custom.simple...s/index.php?mod=1367
• me - for my own mods

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moderators can also add comments like this now.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Help us pick some new SMF mods to install on the forum

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2008, 09:00 AM »

A few minor things added:

new tag: [user]username[/user] - links to users profile.

when you click the url button you are now prompted for url and title -- should make it easier for new people to post links properly (note you can leave title blank).

added bbc code buttons to profile signature.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: An Idea: Make it Easy For DC Users To Show A Page of Their Posts

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 10:25 PM »

Im definitely going to do this.  I'm thinking we can use a cool new banner with cody that nudone did, and have some different sidebar widgets and other fun stuff. like:

• recent topics started by the user
• recent posts made by the user
• recent replies in topics started by the users
• users bio
• dc awards won by user
• profile links to other sites the user is a member of
• current forum activity of user (online, what post they are reading)
• bookmarked posts
• donation link
• custom text chosen by user

any other ideas?

I think it would be easy to get carried away and make the mistake of trying to make this like a super customizable page that is yet another myspace/facebook page, etc.  and i think that would be a waste of time and effort.  no sense doing what other sites do better.

But i do think it would be fun to have a kind of standardized dc page automatically generated for each user that looked cool and showed all these things.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies for international travellers regarding new US Customs seizure pol

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 10:14 PM »

There is an easy and safe way to travel with your laptop overseas.

Step One, take apart your laptop into small pieces:


Create a handbag out of the keys and give that to your girlfried to carry:


And give her a pair of these cpu earings to wear:


Wrap the rest of the pieces in ziploc bags and swallow them, along with a small screwdriver*.

When you arrive at your destination, merely reassemble the pieces and your are ready to compute!

[*you may want to simply purchase a small screwdriver at your destination instead of swallowing it as screwdrivers are a considered a deadly weapon on planes now]

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Help us pick some new SMF mods to install on the forum

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 09:43 PM »

For you profile freaks I've added optional profile links to:
Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr

If anyone wants me to add more profile links to other services, please tell me:

• name of service
• form of website url with userid
• and provide me a 16x16 transparent gif image

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Customizable Unicode character paster

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 11:14 AM »

Beautiful.. I love when you create these attractive web pages for your programs.
Eric -- you should make and submit "pad files" for your programs.

Also, if wikidot supports it, you can now embed a widget listing recent posts in your section of the forum using an rss feed of this board.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 10:52 AM »

i'm going to have to take another look at Diigo.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 10:00 AM »

Let me know if anyone uses the rss feed on their web page 

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Living Room / Re: Hands on A Hard Body Documentary: Full Length on Google Video

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2008, 09:42 AM »

Updated first post with new link.