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

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 08:49 AM »

I strongly recommend the 2nd bookmarklet in the "Mark In Magnolia" section of this page:

http://ma.gnolia.com...support/bookmarklets



ps. for those of you who don't know how to use bookmarklets, you just click on the link, keep your mouse held down, and drag the link to your browser toolbar.


There is also a google toolbar button and a firefox extension, but neither of these works as well since they don't check for duplicates (or they can't add to groups).

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

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 08:38 AM »

I would really love help finding more reviews of dc software and events, so please join and help me bookmark sites.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / MOVED: Mini-review of 1-hour software by Skrommel: CAPshift v1.7 and ShiftOff v1.2

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 08:36 AM »

This topic has been moved to General Software Discussion.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14530.0

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Living Room / Re: What May Happen in the Next 100 Years (Predictions from 1901)

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 08:28 AM »

nice. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mini-review of 1-hour software by Skrommel: CAPshift v1.7 and ShiftOff v1.2

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

Good find.
Here's another page talking about remapkey: http://blogs.techrep...om.com/howdoi/?p=113

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

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 06:44 AM »

I think if you choose openid it will create one for you if you dont have one already.
If not, go ahead and create an openid identity for yourself, it's a good thing to have.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to make skins?

« Last post by mouser on August 24, 2008, 06:35 AM »

i'll look into this.

22158

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

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 08:37 PM »

Your desire for a desktop application as opposed to a web service argues in favor of some languages over others.  php and ruby are less appealing, c++ and python more so.

Your need for open source again argues against using a non-free language like Delphi.

But beyond that, it's quite hard to advocate for a specific language without knowing more about what the program will do.

If it needs to be fast and efficient, that would argue for something like C++.  If not, c++ might be a bad choice.

If it needs to be cross-platform, that changes your needs too, and restricts you to certain languages and libraries.

It also needs to be said that the hardest part may be finding a good coder -- and if a good coder has certain preferences for a language that could be the determining factor.

If you feel comfortable telling us the idea, please do.  Maybe DC can help.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 05:53 PM »

i've created a "DonationCoder" group on ma.gnolia:
http://ma.gnolia.com...groups/DonationCoder

it's a moderated group but i'd appreciate help adding links related to donationcoder, so if you want to help find dc reviews and mentions on the web it would be very welcome.  just join the group and let me know you want to be added as a moderator.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 04:55 PM »

a metafilter page suggested ma.gnolia, which sounds like what i want:

Groups allow invited Ma.gnolia users to gather around a collection of bookmarks. A Ma.gnolia group can be a powerful resource for collecting bookmarks in any kind of team project, or it can just be a place for a group of friends to hang out and share stuff. Group Managers always have the option of making group contents visible to members only, so keeping some secrets and being yourself in a group is easy.

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Living Room / Request for suggestions: Group Bookmarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 04:40 PM »

I'm hoping i can get suggestions for a Group Bookmarking web service/tool.

What i'd like to be able to do is manage a group of people who should be able to easily add bookmarks (with comments) to some group list, categorized or tagged in some way.

For anti-spam purposes, it should only accept additions by people on the approved list.
It should be really easy to add items, preferably using a firefox addon button or bookmarklet.

Here is how I would like to use it to give you a better idea of what i want:

• I'd like to work with a few other people collecting links to reviews of DC software or mentions of DC on the web.  And i'd like to be able to use it also for keeping a group list of items worth posting to the DC blog.
• So it should take just a click or two to add a web page that one finds to the group list.
• And i should be able to decide who has permission to join the group.
• When adding an item, the user needs to be prompted as to what tags or category to file the bookmark under.
• When adding an item, user should be able to add comments.
• I need to be able to browse the list of bookmarks easily and maintain them.

Bonus features would be the ability to make the resulting lists public in a nice way with web page thumbnails, so that this list could actually be used as the final output, rather than having to convert it, but that is optional.

Any suggestions?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another FARR similar app - Executor

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 03:25 PM »

But speaking of Remember The Milk (to add some more off topic stuff to this thread), you'll soon be able to add tasks to RTM from within FARR, and much more.... If you don't mind downloading 6 megs of data you can check out a peek preview of what I'm working on here.

That video demo is..

O M G

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another FARR similar app - Executor

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 03:22 PM »

This forum welcomes posts about ALL software and this thread is a good place for posting about executor.
I think it's important we try hard to not play favorites with DC software and take the attitude that different people will prefer different programs.  If you have a program you prefer to its DC equivalent, no need to be shy about it.  and there is much to be learned from talking about similar programs as well.

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Living Room / Flash Game of the Weekend: BoomBot - Funny and Fun

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 10:12 AM »

This is quite simple and yet very fun.  Tip: HOLD the mouse button down to make larger bombs.

http://games.mochiad.../boombot/BoomBot.swf
(or http://www.ninjakiwi.../boombot/BoomBot.swf)

from http://waxy.org/links/

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Developer's Corner / Re: i need key

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 09:34 AM »

https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php

For help on using the license key see:
http://translate.goo...e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias thas searches special folder AND returns folder link as match no 1?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 08:44 AM »

its not a bad idea.. you can't do it currently but it might not be too hard to add.

probably the easiest way for me to add a feature to let you do that would be to let you add the fixed entries by specifying them after the dosearch line in the alias results.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Latest Screenshot Captor Version's Tiny Initial Window?

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 08:30 AM »

does it seem like you are experiencing this bug: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10455.0

the insane thing is that the new version *solved* this bug for the people who were experiencing it before.. and now it seems like the new version may actually be CAUSING it for someone who didn't get it before.. ugh!!!@!#!

can you tell me what your General Settings tab checkboxes are set to?
(ie: Start Minimized? Close to Tray? Inactive Memory Use?)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FCalc/FarFox Plugin Delays

« Last post by mouser on August 23, 2008, 08:26 AM »

well i can certainly see why the delay would interrupt your workflow, it would drive me crazy.

there should not be any delay associated with fc -- it works instantly here.

the delay could be caused by:
farr being unloaded from memory (this should cause a delay in farr waking up from tray not from calling fc)
some kind of network link searching issue (like farr is trying to query a resource on a network)
some kind of antivirus scanning issue

let's try to narrow the problem down.

first, let's only deal with FC since it's much more straightforward.

if you bring up farr, and then type the letter f, do you see the f appear and is it searching, or does farr appear to be hung?
and then can you confirm that the delay before fcalc showing is only after you hit the space after fc?
i'm trying to get a feeling for when the delay occurs even if you type really slowly and give farr a chance to fully "wake up".

try temporarily enabling the option for "Show search subdir details in status bar (slow!)" on the Display Options tab, see if it tells you anything more useful in the statusbar while you type fc.

another thing to try would be go to Keyboard Interface tab and fill in a value for the "Optional prefix character" in the Keyboard Interface tab.  use something like $ and then to call fc you would type $fc.  this would stop any normal default searching as you type $fc.. so it might give us a hint about whether the problem was a delay caused by searching your disk.

if you find one of these things eliminates the delay, make sure you try it again your old way to confirm the delay is still here, because for a variety of reasons it may be illusory and the delay may dissapear just because farr is loaded in memory and/or a network share is cached and/or an antivirus is done its scan.  that's what can make this tricky to find because it can go away on its own.

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Living Room / Take That Stupid Printer -- Stop Tricking Me Into Wasting Ink!

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 06:31 PM »

I have a brother laser printer and love it.. but it looks like next time it tells me it's out of ink i might just have to stage an intervention..

I bought a cheap laser printer a couple years ago, and for a while, it worked perfectly. The printer, a Brother HL-2040, was fast, quiet, and produced sheet after sheet of top-quality prints—until one day last year, when it suddenly stopped working. I consulted the user manual and discovered that the printer thought its toner cartridge was empty. It refused to print a thing until I replaced the cartridge. But I'm a toner miser: For as long as I've been using laser printers, it's been my policy to switch to a new cartridge at the last possible moment, when my printouts get as faint as archival copies of the Declaration of Independence. But my printer's pages hadn't been fading at all. Did it really need new toner—or was my printer lying to me?

http://www.slate.com/id/2198316/

from www.boingboing.net

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Living Room / Re: Beware the Google Threat - Big Fat Ass Brother (BFAB)

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 08:30 AM »

See my mini-howto on Cleaning Cookies the "proper" way:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=11931.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: Calendar/to-do manager with special repeat patterns (for students)

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 07:10 AM »

I completely forgot about Ethan's program.. it really needs a web page!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to view more search results?

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 07:07 AM »

Actually i was thinking of making the last result say something like "Show all # results"

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show sub menu items on mouse over

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 06:58 AM »

hotkey triggering and right-click context menus on items and a couple new fancy features are coming in the next 2 months.

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Developer's Corner / Re: C++0x: The Dawning of a New Standard

« Last post by mouser on August 22, 2008, 06:48 AM »

Yesterday I read the (59 page) paper "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006" by Stroustrup, and can highly recommend it for a variety of reasons.

The article is like an updated, more concise version of his book "The Design and Evolution of C++", which I also recommend, though it's somewhat dated at this point.

The paper is a fascinating combination of technical discussion on language design conflicts, historical explanation for why things are they way they are, and political history of how hard it can be to manage a standards committee.  Some very cool insider stuff.

I'm someone who has been coding in c++ for 20 years and has a love/hate relationship with the language.  As I've discussed elsewhere I am not thrilled with C++0x.  In fact it wouldn't surprise me terribly if the release of c++0x doesn't hasten the demise of the language.

However, I do think that there is an incredible amount to be learned from the decisions and struggles of the C++0x process, and it's must read stuff for anyone interested in the art of programming language design.

(if you are interested in this kind of stuff, do make sure you read the critique of c++ by Ian Joyner that i mention on the other thread).

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Living Room / Re: What is a mouser? What does it mean to mouser someone?

« Last post by mouser on August 21, 2008, 09:49 PM »