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

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2008, 01:17 AM »

few things are as frustrating as these false positive virus alarm accusations.  the antivirus industry has to do something about this.

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Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 11:42 PM »

i have plenty, anyone who wants just email me with your shipping address ([email protected]); only requirement is you have to post a photo of it on this thread on something after you get it (doesn't have to be a car).

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Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 11:29 PM »

here's a picture of it:

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

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 11:22 PM »

ps. once i get a 6400x1200 cody wallpaper ill have that on my desktop 

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

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 11:17 PM »

My new desk and workspace:


Compare to old:

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Updated plugin: FARR MostRecentlyUsed 0.3.0

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 06:33 PM »

if you are collecting feature requests, one nice one might be to specify at the end of the config file a list of patterns (regex?) which if they match an item mean the item should not be displayed.  in this way we could configure it to ignore certain files or folders.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Updated plugin: FARR MostRecentlyUsed 0.3.0

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 04:04 PM »

so so so good. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 12:56 PM »

Christian, i think i might understand.  You ay:

If I type it, FARR first displays 'Alias - from myaliases.alias' (there is only one result).
If I then select this one entry, FARR displays 'Alias hibernate'. Only the second invokation triggers the command.

this behavior happens if at the first time you hit enter, the alias is not fully spelled out.  so the first time you hit enter it is autocompleting the alias.  so: hibern -> [ENTER] -> hibernate -> [ENTER] -> launch

personally i like this behavior BUT i can definitely see how people would prefer farr just launch it straight away and that that would make more sense perhaps.  i will either make an option to do it that way, OR make it work like that period.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Will someone in this section please start creating a massive MMORPG

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 04:12 AM »

even if you dont plan on coding it.. it would be a great project to just seem some people here working on designing it.

the pleasure one gets from playing a game pales so much in comparison with the pleasure and satisfaction of designing one.

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DC Gamer Club / Will someone in this section please start creating a massive MMORPG

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 03:44 AM »

We really need to see a few people here (coders, artists, storytellers, gameplayers) get together and design a cool new funny fun MMORPG game instead of spending so much time playing store bought games.  It's much more fulfilling.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt 6.0 released

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 03:39 AM »

This version also introduces the ability to create and run an encrypted hidden operating system whose existence is impossible to prove (provided that certain guidelines are followed)

hahahha love it! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Implemented idea that could be useful for other users, right clicking on title

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 02:11 AM »

sounds like a pretty good idea that i could build into farr.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [bug report] Plist Plugin

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2008, 12:16 AM »

works perfectly. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:03 PM »

is it? if so let's talk about it in another thread.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 09:58 PM »

Restartsearch or search with "/n" does not do the trick for me for some reason

yes i will add.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 09:05 PM »

good for you for discovering the launch history thing. you might want to just delete all the entries on that list (right click and say delete all in the launch history).  that's just a list of previously launched things by you and as you figured out, the fact that you launched it once means its being matched from now on.

as for tiwi alias..
anyone else having this trouble? does tiwi alias not work for anyone else?

as for packaging, basically what you would do is:

• Make a standalone alias file with your new sidebarradio alias definition in it (the alias files are plain text files in xml format so you could just open your myaliases.alias and copy the alias into a new file called sbr.alias).
• Find a nice icon for your alias somewhere and refer to it in your alias like the others do (this is not required but is nice).
• Package those two files along with your sidebar.html in a zip file for people.
• These wiki packs are actually a bit trickier than sharing normal alias packs because the html file has to go into the MyLocalData directory, so the easiest thing might be a zip file with structure like:

SbrPack\Readme.txt
SbrPack\AliasGroups\Installed\Sbr\sbr.alias
SbrPack\AliasGroups\Installed\Sbr\sbr.icon
SbrPack\MyLocalData\Sbr\sidebar.html
(but change the directories to match where you refer to the sidebar.html
the readme would tell people to put the the folders in the matching folders in FARR.

I'm afraid right now there is nothing automated about it, but most people will be able to follow the instructions.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [bug report] Plist Plugin

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 08:24 PM »

the problem is that we moved member servers and it looks like the older version of plist was on the new server by mistake, so that's surely the problem.  when v0.0.5 is back it will solve the problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New FARR Plugin Display Mode: UserWindowMode

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 03:57 PM »

I had another idea for this that i think would make it even more useful.
A lot of people are concerned about plugins using up memory and resources.

One thing i could do with a bit of work is make farr able to load a special kind of plugin that is a dll or even an exe program that basically is launched ONLY WHEN IT IS INVOKED, and then is closed as soon as the farr display is switched away.

So in other words this would be like an on-demand loaded plugins, loaded only when invoked, and then unloaded right after.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: some suggestions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 01:08 PM »

screenshot does not appear to be uploaded.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Search questions from a non-programmer

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 12:22 PM »

Someone might write a farr plugin to search within a specific file or a very few number of specific files, but for general file contents searching you will need something that does detailed indexing of file contents.

Such indexing is a non-trivial load on your pc and occupies large amounts of drive space, so to do searching within all the files on your hard disk (or even a large collection of them), you really need a different kind of program, one that does very largescale indexing of file contents, like one of the Desktop Searchers.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Request for ideas for html view mode size memory

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 12:04 PM »

Mouser, can you give an example alias using the "setsize" special launch string?

setsize and other examples here: https://www.donation....msg119752#msg119752
(note how its used with ;;; to compound launch strings in an alias)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:59 AM »

If it had a minimize button it would be even better

the close button does a minimize, so that's already there unless you are saying something else?

plus an easy way of choosing what directory to search

you can do this using keyword modifiers.  go to your Search Folders tab in the options and add your 2 main directories.  for the first put "dir1" in the Optional Modifier Keywords section at the bottom of the search directory dialog.  In the second directory put "dir2" in the keywords.

now when you want to search dir1, type your search like
+dir1 my search terms (or my search terms +dir1)

and to search dir2 type:
+dir2 my search terms

Keyword modifiers let you easily use keywords to search differently.

You can even make different hotkeys to bring up FARR with the +dir1 or +dir2 already filled out so you could use different hotkeys depending on what you wanted to search.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New FARR Plugin Display Mode: UserWindowMode

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:45 AM »

No one has commented on this feature yet?!?! 

I thought people were going to be fainting in the aisles -- it has great potential to open up some advanced plugins, especially now that there are ways for plugins to talk with each other a bit, so that a plugin could be installed whose only purpose is to handle requests from other aliases or plugins to display info.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: some suggestions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:38 AM »

question: can i set the hotkeys to forms like "shift"+"alt" or double press "ctrl"???because in laptops there is no "Break" key, the "Break"="Fn"+"Delete", which are faraway from each other... i think  double press a single key might be a better way

i have a laptop with same issue -- i changed the FARR hotkey to ALT+BACKSPACE, which my mind can adjust to.

there is no built-in way in FARR to use double taps of keys BUT i wrote a special program just for dealing with such special hotkeys in any program, it's called: TapTap Hotkey Extender.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: some suggestions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:36 AM »

2. maintain a build-in list doing following things:

once you learn how to create aliases you will be able to set those up easily, and many from your list do already exist in some alias pack (like the shutdown ones), BUT your idea of adding those as defaults is a good one.