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Developer's Corner / Re: Jeff Atwood revisits the issue of best programming fonts..

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 05, 2007, 03:09 PM »

I always use cleartype, and thing both dina and consolas are great. I use dina as my primary font for programming, and andale mono for notepad.

Is it me, or inconsolata looks damn fuzzy with cleartype?

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Living Room / Re: Versioning of files

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 05, 2007, 10:30 AM »

I usually use a system that keeps it simple, fast and organized, and at the same time allows me to always work on the same filename. (note: this probably makes more sense for folders with more stuff inside than for single documents)

I work on a directory named "current". When i want to save the current state, i go one directory up, copy "current" to "copy of current", create a new folder with the current date/time and move both the "copy of current" and the other "date/time" folder inside that new one.

The advantage of this is that i only keep 2 folders at the root (the current and the last backup), and i can still quickly browse through the older copies (by double-clicking the top folder as many times as i want until i find the one i want).
Here's a folder tree of gridmove's folder:

gridmove
-20070906
--20070810
---20070705
----(etc)
----Copy of Current
---Copy of Current
--Copy of Current
-Current

The big advantages are that i can do all this in XYplorer, and all in a matter of seconds, and that i can quickly browse the tree of older revisions and choose one.

ADVISORY: using this system with something that takes a lot of space (like images) and has frequent revisions is a VERY bad idea, you'll run out of space pretty fast. For that kind of thing, a CVS/SVN or filehamster would definitelly by a better idea!

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General Software Discussion / Now you can know what a tinyurl corresponds to

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 05, 2007, 10:08 AM »

I thought some of you would like this. I know i do

Preview a TinyURL

Don't want to be instantly redirected to a TinyURL and instead want to see where it's going before going to the site? Not a problem with our preview feature.

-http://tinyurl.com/preview.php

http://tinyurl.com/preview.php

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: Create New (Customized) Folder Wanted

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 05, 2007, 09:52 AM »

This topic has been moved to Post New Requests Here.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10233.0

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Living Room / Re: DC Unofficial Meeting #5 Took Place - Veign and Mouser meet

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 05, 2007, 09:37 AM »

ps. chris is the one smiling.

-mouser (October 05, 2007, 09:27 AM)

We agreed that there really needs to be a large DC gathering at some point in the future.

-mouser (October 05, 2007, 09:27 AM)

Let's expect that by that time, i'll be working in the US and will be able to join you!


ps:
just noticed the way you handled the "attachment missing" problem... Smart!!

(see attachment in previous post)

-mouser (October 05, 2007, 09:27 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Help Identifying a Program

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 03, 2007, 05:25 PM »

There are several programs out there that can do that.

Assuming it isn't running under a service, please download [http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/processesandthreads/processexplorer.mspx]process explorer[/url], run it and select file->save as... Then attach that file to a post here, so that we can see which processes you have running (if you don't have problems with that).

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AutoHotkey / Re: AutoHotkey- alternative?

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 03, 2007, 08:23 AM »

Right, then it makes sense

Here's and interesting thread about a todo list in ahk

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Living Room / Re: Update on member KenR health status: Surgery went well

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 02, 2007, 04:50 PM »

In other words, the operation appears to have been a complete success.

-KenR (October 02, 2007, 04:39 PM)

Best sentence i've ever read on DC

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AutoHotkey / Re: AutoHotkey- alternative?

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 02, 2007, 07:59 AM »

mahesh2k: wouldn't that be a bit of overkill?
I mean, there probably are tons of apps out there that already do that.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 02, 2007, 07:58 AM »

Pretty good, painz!
I'll make it dualscreen and post it on the "post your grid here" thread

As for the resizing problem, i also have it, as i have a similar config. Currently, the best way to do that is press win+g followed by 'r', and gridmove will be reloaded.

Auto detection is on my todo list, but it probably will take a while

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 01, 2007, 03:41 PM »

What I don't get is why a shameless plug for DialogMove, and not for GridMove. 

-steeladept (October 01, 2007, 03:37 PM)

EhEh... You're right, a shameless plug for gridmove would also be suitable
The difference is that with dialogmove, the used doesn't have to do a thing, the program moves the window automagically, whereas with gridmove you have to press a hotkey for the window to move. Also, DialogMove doesn't resize the window, while gridmove does.
Still, thanks for the publicity

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 01, 2007, 03:23 PM »

I use Dialog Move and is happy with it. No need to be a shame  - the only problem I have found is that some info windows which really shouldn't move, also are moving.

-Curt (October 01, 2007, 01:55 PM)

I'm glad you like it, curt!
If you find any window that shouldn't have been moved, just press F11, and it won't be moved next time

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by jgpaiva on October 01, 2007, 01:47 PM »

I see, tekzel!
What i don't understand, tekzel, is what are the advantages of using the "span" mode.

Here's a solution:
<shaaaaameless plug>
Use DialogMove, which moves the new dialogs that come up to your mouse position
</shameless plug>

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Living Room / Re: competition: win an unread copy of 3ds max 5 bible

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 30, 2007, 09:01 AM »

There are no words that can express how much i've laughed in the last 2 minutes!

(but cool smilies help!)

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 30, 2007, 08:51 AM »

I dont like how dialogs that pop up centered are split between the displays, anyone know how to fix that?

-Tekzel (September 29, 2007, 11:45 AM)

How exactly are you splitting monitor signal?

If windows identifies your system as having 2 monitors, the taskbar should only be on the first mon and all windows would appear centered on the first monitor.

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Living Room / Re: (Webfind) Flash game: Double maze, twist your mind

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 30, 2007, 08:40 AM »

Funny game!
And hard too 
(at least for me )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Run on exit

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 28, 2007, 01:30 PM »

Here's one solution for your problem:
I've made one ahk script that accepts 2 command line parameters: the first program and the second program.
It'll launch the first program, and when that program is closed, it'll launch the second one.
I've included a demo shortcut that demonstrates how to use this program.

So, configure the shortcut properly and just have your client open thunderbird through this it.

(the program is attached to this post, both in source-code and compiled version.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: RoboTask for free...

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 28, 2007, 10:49 AM »

No problem, jerome.. If everyone checked for dupes, it'd take forever to make a post (although zillarank does reduce the search time significantly! )

I'll lock this thread, please reply on https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10168.0

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Living Room / Re: Screenshot Captor featured Windows Download on Lifehacker

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 28, 2007, 10:43 AM »

eheheheh

Fantastic!
Everyone will know how great Screenshot Captor is!

I'm now locking this thread, please post replies here!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LifeHacker features ScreenshotCaptor

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 28, 2007, 05:10 AM »

 
I see everyone's reading lifehacker, these days!
Good to know, it means that SC will get a lot of attention!
(this was already posted twice... )
I'll lock this thread, please reply on the other thread

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: What "Traffic"? ..using ZA Pro.

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 27, 2007, 08:16 PM »

If i understand correctly your request, you're looking for something along the lines of a network monitor.

Microsoft has a free one available at: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837243
But i'm pretty sure there should be others a bit more user-friendly.

[edit]
Here's another one by microsoft: https://www.microsof...C&displaylang=en
[/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 27, 2007, 07:35 PM »

 
Cool!
Congrats, mouser!!!
And thanks for the heads up, Dirhael

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 20$ off XYplorer and lifetime license

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 27, 2007, 06:46 PM »

Funny, Curt. That one doesn't work for me. I use the F12 key to toggle between the info panel and a full screen length file list. I almost always have Preview tab on the Info panel selected, wonder if this has anything to do with it? Anyway, can't reproduce that one, but it sounds sweet!

-Darwin (September 27, 2007, 06:40 PM)

The feature curt mentioned (which i think is the one which originates the double-click problem curt mentioned in a previous post) is only available in thumbnail view, you probably use the details or the details + thumbnail view

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Living Room / Re: Forum Signature Spam: Let's discuss how to handle..

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 27, 2007, 09:13 AM »

I stand with f0dder, affiliate links make no sense and significantly reduces the quality of the forum, but i think that has been discussed in other threads and has been declared as banned. What intrigues me is why IQlover still uses that sign, showing an absolute disrespect for the rules of the forum.

As for links for other sites, please don't ban those, i like to visit other member's sites, and find some of them are very interesting!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Locate32 Plugin for FARR by Okke

« Last post by jgpaiva on September 26, 2007, 08:26 AM »

I agree. It's a "locate.exe command line" issue. I am going to play with switches... in the meantime can anyone of you confirm that issuing "locate.exe a" immediately gets (in the CMD prompt) the list of files with an "a" in the filename?

-cettolox (September 26, 2007, 08:23 AM)

I can, it gets me a VERY long list of files!