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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: Drawskrit

« Last post by Jibz on December 20, 2014, 01:50 AM »

Almost like handwriting PostScript, except without the reverse polish notation .

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Developer's Corner / Re: Experimenting with Other Programming Languages

« Last post by Jibz on December 15, 2014, 01:22 AM »

The first edition of Programming in Lua is available free online, and is still a good resource when learning the language.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by Jibz on December 11, 2014, 07:29 AM »

I enjoy taking pictures of flowers, and some of them end up on 500px:

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Coding Snacks / Re: Quick method to do simple task -must be a one click fix for those who need it :)

« Last post by Jibz on December 07, 2014, 08:15 AM »

There are patch generators that could do something similar, but I think using an inno setup installer to do it is a good idea -- it is likely to be left alone by most AV software.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Looking for a good Android launcher

« Last post by Jibz on December 07, 2014, 04:17 AM »

I used Nova launcher for years and it is very nice and customizable, but I switched to Smart Launcher because I liked the much more simplistic UI. It's still quite sleek, and the app drawer is categorized.

I don't think it does all you mention, but might be worth a look .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extremely simple and minimal sticky notes for windows

« Last post by Jibz on December 06, 2014, 05:46 AM »

Years ago on Win2K, I used a pretty simple one called ATnotes. It has been discontinued since 2005 by the looks of it, but it may still work.

http://atnotes.free.fr/

If you do not need them visible on your desktop at all times, you could also consider something like CintaNotes, which is more of a minimalistic note manager with search and clipping.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VMWare Player 7.0 Released

« Last post by Jibz on December 03, 2014, 03:36 AM »

I switched to VirtualBox back when my VMware 5 license expired. I did not want to keep paying the upgrade costs when there was a free alternative that worked well enough.

There were some minor differences in features and speed, but for my use it really didn't matter.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals

« Last post by Jibz on December 02, 2014, 10:49 AM »

VMware 30% off (link)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals

« Last post by Jibz on December 01, 2014, 04:38 PM »

FontLab Studio 50% off (link) - still darn expensive

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals

« Last post by Jibz on December 01, 2014, 02:02 PM »

SpiderOak 1 TB for $129/y (link)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals

« Last post by Jibz on December 01, 2014, 09:33 AM »

CodeWeavers 65% off (link)
Axialis 50% off (link)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black friday deals

« Last post by Jibz on November 29, 2014, 02:02 PM »

WinPatrol 80% off (link)
MalwareBytes 40% off (link)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black friday deals

« Last post by Jibz on November 29, 2014, 12:29 PM »

Nice one, thanks .

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Found Deals and Discounts / Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals

« Last post by Jibz on November 29, 2014, 04:33 AM »

Here are a few I noticed:

• Macrium Reflect 25% off (link)
• Adguard 30% off (link)
• Pragmatic Bookshelf 50% off ebooks (link)
• CrashPlan ~30% off(link)

Any other deals on stuff we discuss here on DonationCoder?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can anyone advise this developer on commercial licensing?

« Last post by Jibz on November 24, 2014, 01:27 AM »

Personally I think the way software patents are handled is a detriment to advancing software development, but I think many people take the risk because it is a relatively low risk in many cases.

Unless you become a huge success, there isn't enough money to go for that it is worth the cost of litigation. Until that happens, I think you are more likely to be targeted by a larger player in the field simply to shut down the competition.

And open source projects with many developers in different countries are hard to target, and I think it is far more likely you will get the site taken down instead of an actual lawsuit.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Announcing .NET 2015 - .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux

« Last post by Jibz on November 13, 2014, 04:03 PM »

^ It's a little more tricky than it looks.

Basically, under this wording, if you are using .NET and you ever assert an IP claim against Microsoft for any reason, you automatically become a provable infringer on Microsoft’s IP because their "personal promise" is automatically withdrawn. So in short,: use .NET, try to sue us, and you're now an infringer.

-40hz (November 13, 2014, 01:45 PM)

It says "by any covered code", so I do not understand it as any legal action against MS on anything. It sounds a lot like the patent clause in the Apache license.

It looks like the GPLv3 has something similar as well.

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Living Room / Re: Stephen Fry's eloquent response to Grammar Nazis

« Last post by Jibz on November 10, 2014, 11:43 AM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Jibz on November 10, 2014, 01:24 AM »

It is strange that it defaults to something that looks like a Win95 app. But perhaps that is because it still supports every OS back to Win95 (and there is even a 16-bit version available for Win3.1). But it would be nice if it included a couple of styles that looked a bit more modern.

To me the functionality is more important though, and the standard orthogonal file manager interface with NC compatible keyboard shortcuts .

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Atom - A new editor is born

« Last post by Jibz on November 06, 2014, 02:00 PM »

Official linux packages,

http://blog.atom.io/.../linux-packages.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by Jibz on November 05, 2014, 02:17 AM »

And the conclusion:

The Winner
In my particular case, “Dina” is the best.

Dina is, of course, created by long-time DonationCoder member Jibz, and can be found here: https://www.donation...m/Software/Jibz/Dina

-mouser (November 04, 2014, 03:39 PM)

Wow, I am really happy to see Dina doing so well .

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Living Room / Re: location triggers for android

« Last post by Jibz on November 04, 2014, 01:08 AM »

Automagic is similar to Tasker (but has an interesting flow designer to build programs) and can also do things like that. Llama has the advantage of being free though.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ExportSnapshot - Lightroom plug-in to create snapshot on export

« Last post by Jibz on October 26, 2014, 06:39 AM »

Just wanted to note that I have used ExportSnapshot along with BackupHelper without any issues for the past five months.

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Living Room / Re: Google's new Inbox powered by Gmail

« Last post by Jibz on October 24, 2014, 03:25 PM »

I agree with Inbox being a silly name. It looks like it's primarily a mobile app (there is even an iphone version), so perhaps that is part of the reason it doesn't support all browsers.

Just speculating .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ad Muncher 5 will be free

« Last post by Jibz on October 19, 2014, 03:19 PM »

Looks like admuncher 4 has been releases as freeware now.

http://www.admuncher.com/free

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: NaNoWriMo Scrivener Offer

« Last post by Jibz on October 09, 2014, 01:16 AM »

I seem to remember some discussion about the Windows version of Scrievener being left behind feature-wise compared to the Mac version?

-Jibz (October 09, 2014, 12:36 AM)

List of differences: http://www.literatur...php?f=30&t=16056