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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing my new website (superboyac).

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 06:35 PM »

might want to put the site in your forum profile and in your signature.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Parsing of Fortune Files

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 12:59 PM »

easy to do and makes sense to me.

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Living Room / Re: Computer mods: What odd things have you done?

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 11:10 AM »

i think a cool mod would be a flat old style computer case (not tower but the kind that has proportions more like a pizza box), but with the entire top being one giant slow fan (like maybe a 20inch by 20inch fan).  now that would be cool in more than one way.

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Living Room / Re: xev windows equivalent? (detect mouse button presses)

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 10:58 AM »

could you be a bit clearer about what it is supposed to do? link to xev page maybe?

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 10:27 AM »

some of the open field views are making me jelous as well!

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Parsing of Fortune Files

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 08:08 AM »

my memory is (and it's been a while since i worked on this), that popup wisdom knows how to read 2 kinds of fortune file formats.

one involves each quote on its own line.  in such a case youd have to use \n to indicate a newline -- no real option there.
the other format uses % signs to separate fortunes.  there is no reason that it shouldn't respect newlines in such a case.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Parsing of Fortune Files

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 07:48 AM »

let me see if i can't fix this to respect newlines in fortune files that use the % format to separate items.

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Living Room / Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 06:48 AM »

Carrying on from the thread entitled "Show us your (physical) Desktop", which is great fun, I thought we should have a thread where people post pictures from outside their real life windows.

It's fun to be able to add more images to the personalities on the forum -- post a picture or two of the view from your window!

I'll start out.. Here's an image from outside my window (I'm not religious it's just what's nearby):


ps. also see this thread on getting to know each other; if you haven't posted there yet you should.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to maintain a reusable updatable code

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 06:01 AM »

As has been suggested elsewhere, duplicating code snippets in different files should trigger a warning siren going off in your head.  Whenever that happens it means you have a function that belongs in a separate file that can be shared between projects in some form.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 05:58 AM »

It's really fun to see all the desktops! Each one has a different personality.
I do think though that we are going to have to start a new thread entitled "How to clean up your work space in 10 easy steps"..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: aliases for aliases?

« Last post by mouser on July 16, 2008, 01:13 AM »

right now you can type agroups followed by keywords matched in the description, but i could maybe add code so it will match against any text mentioned even in the actions of the alias.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Similar program to Ps Tray factory that works on Vista 64-bit.

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 08:47 PM »

if you find one let us know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: RUNDLL32 - cheat sheet

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 08:43 PM »

very nice find 

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Big Skin Set Has Unnecessary Files

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 08:22 PM »

thanks for the report! sounds like i made a little mistake.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: suggestion for keyword searching

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 08:04 PM »

Welcome Josh.

More and more i'm wanting this myself and plan to add it very soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 07:47 PM »

Someone wrote about a standalone mini utility which basically just provides a simple interface to the Answers.com page for asking questions:

http://www.deefrag.com/blog/?p=42



It seems to me that it would be a useful use of the FARR web browser window to make an interface to a few of these q&a type sites.  Maybe even a way to query multiple sites and show them in one window or something?

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 07:44 PM »

J-Mac I think you made some really insightful comments, and I got the same feeling from reading the announcement that Tomos got, that there is a real difference in the way Ian is coming into it compared to Langa.  So I really think it would be a good idea to keep an open mind and give this new merger a fair chance at doing good.  The same as we would want for any of our own projects.

The DC Newsletter will not be merging into WS for a whole bunch of reasons:

• As the new privacy page says we will not share our email address with any 3rd parties.
• Our DC newsletter doesn't contain much original writing content just summaries and links to our newsletter.
• I'm afraid you guys would stage a riot.
• The DC newsletters are already too long, there doesn't seem to be much point in merging them with a bigger entity.
• It's a pain to write and send out the newsletters, but it's also a bit of fun and it's nice not being on someone else's schedule.
• I'm sure there are 10 more reasons as well.  The bottom line is that as long as this site gets enough donations to pay for server expenses and a little bit more to help offset the time spent writing stuff for the site, then we will do things here the way the members want them done.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 11:46 AM »

perhaps in the paid version of your service you could give this new newsletter a chance with an open heart and mind before becoming dismayed?

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 11:45 AM »

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UrlSnooper / Re: No Network Adapter After OS Upgrade

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 09:09 AM »

do waht razehsani suggests.  exit url snooper, then right click on its icon and select "run as administrator" then restart.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's Tech Support Alert Newsletter Merges with Windows Secrets

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 07:12 AM »

 

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater problem - v1.23.01

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 05:50 AM »

thanks owen, i'll look into this.  maybe i can do a dcupdater update this week, i think it could use one to fix a few minor issues like this.

ps.
cool to see some icons in there that i don't recognize!!

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Official Announcements / Re: Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2008, 03:01 AM »

Congratulations to those who entered.  The contest is now officially closed.

We will announce where the prize goes in the next couple of days.

I also want to express my appreciation to you.  Your participation makes the site a funner place for all of us.  I hope you guys enjoyed taking part.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 11th, 2008 - Codename "Revenge of the Mini-Review"

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2008, 11:15 PM »

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Dynamic shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2008, 10:35 PM »

what a cool idea.. i'd love to see a demo movie of some of this in action, i think it would help people understand what it's for.