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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Keyboard & Mouse cleaner

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2008, 03:01 PM »

actually skrommel has recently started re-updating his page and i have talked to him about automating the recompilation process -- i hope he will finalize the process so he can recompile them all when needed without too much trouble.  i do hope the ahk lead developers are trying to get the antivirus people to stop their irresponsible behavior.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hotkeys & FarrQuickView

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2008, 10:27 AM »

good idea.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2008, 08:02 AM »

Just wanted to confirm that the new build runs fine on my windows x64, nice work and thanks to those who helped figure out the x64 problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Filter images only in the thumbnail pane

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 09:12 PM »

nice idea.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SnapSuite program family/Free online computer help

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 08:50 PM »

I would still really like to see Brandon start a new, smaller more manageable project, with more planning up front and feedback from people about an idea for a unique and useful small utility.  I just think it might be a rewarding change of pace to be able to work on something smaller that you can really sink your teeth into.

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Web Log Filter / Re: Web Log Radar

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 07:40 PM »

Just remember, Web Log Filter is not designed to analyze log files -- it's designed to cut log files down to size so that they can be analyzed with other standard desktop log analyzers.

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Web Log Filter / Re: Web Log Radar

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 07:17 PM »

What i did was release Web Log Filter, the precursor tool for this that is designed to extract subsets of data from apache log files: https://www.donation...LogFilter/index.html

Web Log Radar never quite made it out of internal development..

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Living Room / The 5 Most Significant Online Property Search Websites - Parts 1 through 5

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 07:14 PM »

Over at the makeuseof.com blog (otherwise known as the blog that ignores our software when writing about cool tools), writer Jerry Kid is an honest to god real estate broker, and has a really nice set of posts on real estate related websites.

In a series of posts with lots of nice screenshots, Jerry walks us through five different real estate tools: Realtor.com, Craigslist, Yahoo Real Estate, Trulia, and Zillow (with special emphasis on the first two sites).

If you are looking to buy a house this series of posts would be a nice place to start.

So say you want to buy a house. If you read the newspapers or watch TV or even pickup your news online, you can’t help but notice that the US real estate market is in the tank. There are many good deals to be had, if you could only find them, and then be sure that they were really a smart buy.

But where do you start? The local newspaper? The homes for sale magazines in the supermarket? Do you drive around (at $4.55USD a gallon?) and look for signs?

No! You are a reader of MakeUseOf.com and you have a technology slant on the things that you do, so you want to use online tools to find that house. This is your lucky day because today I kick off a five part series on what I consider to be the 5 most significant online home search websites currently available in the United States.

• Read Part 1
• Read Part 2
• Read Parts 3-5

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tiny Watcher - a tool hosted at DC

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 11:36 AM »

ghacks write up: http://www.ghacks.ne...s-with-tiny-watcher/
Lifehacker write up: http://lifehacker.co...pened-on-your-system

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hotkeys & FarrQuickView

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 08:57 AM »

i like the idea of a local hotkey which could use the current selected item (or first result), i think i will add that and then we can talk about the other more complicated ideas.

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General Software Discussion / Re: URL Snooper 2 Setting File

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 06:27 AM »

Clearly there is a bug somewhere, but i'm not sure what the bug might be.
Can you try to reproduce the problem, and when you restart it and it fails, go into advanced mode and look at the network adapter list and see if your adapter is there.  Let's see if we can't figure out what it is about your settings file that messes up.  And also please do make sure you have latest version installed.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Timer

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 06:25 AM »

timer plugin rocks, i was just using it this weekend.

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Living Room / Re: Do you remember your first programming job?

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 06:22 AM »

My first programming jobs were in high school back in the mid 1980s, written in Basic.  Fun times.  I was very lucky to have a friend of the family who was extremely generous with his time and energy in guiding me to some paying projects and working with me on them.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 05:47 AM »

i'll look into it for next release and see how hard it would be to add.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2008, 05:44 AM »

I will create a source-forge account to host the code since the whole solution is now around 40 megs with the icons I use for testing. I can't host this on wikidot because of file size limitations. I'll post a message when I get the source-forge account set up.

Sourceforge is nice for that -- they are very generous with their space.

But DC would also be delighted to give you as much space as you want to host your stuff, just message me.

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Circle Dock / Re: Windows 7's Taskbar....Err.....Circle Dock for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 08:28 PM »

Ok just tried the new version, it looks beautiful but i did get an error on startup after it displays. Image attached.
(I have winxp pro 64, and i think i have the latest dotnet but im not positive).

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder/Veign Programming Contest Results Posted

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 05:41 PM »

And now Circle Dock (like ServiceProfiles before it) is on LifeHacker!
http://lifehacker.co...olders-and-shortcuts

For a small little programming contest these winning programs sure are getting a lot of attention.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cropping image and undo

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 12:55 PM »

what do you mean it corrupted your file?  undo has some trouble with objects but should work fine with cropping.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sorting thumbnails?

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 11:56 AM »

i dont think this trick will work any more since new version, which always tries to sort by date when it refreshes.  i'll look into how hard it would be to make it an option.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Fscript trouble

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 10:50 AM »

I hope a fix can be found for this!  I'll let ecaradec (creator of fscript) know about the issue? Anyone have any clues that might help resolve it?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: REQUEST: Prompt at startup if screenshot folder does not exist

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 10:48 AM »

Thanks for reminding me, i will try to get these features in the next release. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Suggestions for the Next Release of LaunchBar Commander

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2008, 09:54 AM »

Keep the suggestions coming -- this is good timing because i will be releasing an update of LBC in the next month or two and i will try to get as many requests done as possible.  Some of the items you've mentioned will definitely be implemented.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thank you to True Launch Bar author for the donated copies and 50% discount

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2008, 11:58 PM »

Thanks for pointing that out grorgy.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Minicap formatting does not work

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2008, 08:13 PM »

I've updated the web page now (https://www.donation...r/MiniCap/index.html)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Minicap formatting does not work

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2008, 07:33 PM »

I dont think the problem you experienced was a "bug".  you were doing a screen capture, in which case the application name has an ambiguous meaning -- and minicap wasnt capturing it.  $appname$ is for when you capture an application window.

Having said that, i've uploaded a new version with some fixes.  It now will grab $appname$ as the foreground window name, plus i added a few more options.  Let me know if it solves your problems.