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Living Room / Re: An idea for the forum regarding disclosure

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2008, 12:02 AM »

Perhaps a checkbox people have to click saying "I agree to disclose my affiliation with products when i post about them" when people sign up for the forum or something, and make it stand out from the rest of the signup formalities.

this gives me a good idea --
we could have that checkbox only on the first time they ever post -- that seems to be like it might be a good compromise.

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Living Room / An idea for the forum regarding disclosure

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2008, 11:47 PM »

We recently had a fake question and answer pair of posts made by people who were affiliated with and trying to spam about a product while pretending to be making honest recommendations.

Because so much of the discussion on this forum deals with people recommending software they like, it's definitely something we have to work hard to prevent.

I had an idea:
What if we added some warning to the post/reply form saying "if you are in any way affiliated with (or have a financial stake in) a product mentioned in this post, you must disclose it.  And we could even have a pop-up confirmation any time an html link is included in a post if we wanted (or is that too annoying).

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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 May 13, 2008, 01:17 PM »

I don't use twitter, but it seems to me that if there was ever a plugin that would be a natural for FARR, it's a twitter plugin.. doesnt anyone want to write this?

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UrlSnooper / Re: very confused: downloading youtube with urlsnooper?

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2008, 08:23 AM »

One more:

1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader (free)

http://eurekr.com/download.html

downloads youtube videos and claims to convert to any format in the process.

from www.shellcity.net

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Living Room / Re: JJJunk: Miraculous coincidence - sites that praise DC software are cool site

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2008, 07:38 AM »

jhshbbe,

Welcome to the site and I'm very glad you posted!
I'm really sorry if it came across that I was suggesting anything of the sort -- it was not my intention at all.

I had very recently posted about another blog I found which had posted about some of our programs, and said how it was a nice site, and I was feeling like people reading might be thinking "oh there he goes again saying he found a good new site and what a coincidence it mentions one of his programs.." So I was trying to make a joke about myself, about how I keep finding cool sites and they just happen to like my programs 

Your site looks great, and I'll be visiting regularly.   

-mouser (jesse)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Where does Farr keep all the settings?

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2008, 12:27 AM »

in an .ini file in the program directory.
aliases are stored in separate file.

note: i will likely move to a non-ini file soon to speed up settings save+load.

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Living Room / JJJunk: Miraculous coincidence - sites that praise DC software are cool sites

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2008, 12:23 AM »

The title of this thread is just a play on the fact that I occasionally come across a blog which says good things about a DonationCoder.com program and I inevitably look around and come to the conclusion that it's a cool site with other content of interest.

Probably a good part of that is just innate human bias to like someone who likes you, but I think also there is probably something more to it.  Very few bloggers take the time to actually write up a real description of why they like a program, and when they do, they are almost invariable producing regular content that is worth reading.

If someone can find some negative but thoughtful and non-trivial reviews of DC software, please post them and we can see how these sites compare and if they are as interesting as the sites that like our software.

This is from a blog called JJJunk.com..  Some nice posts on various software.

http://jjjunk.com/20...shot-captor-windows/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Plugin Request: Open dropped local files Using Local Server URL

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 11:23 PM »

Holy Cow I'm blown away.  It works.. Kinda perfectly actually.

 

Great find lanux! And huge props to the author of this extension.. Truth is I never guessed this would exist.

As the extension page describes, this could be useful for many cases where you want to toggle back and forth between different versions of a website you are working on (test and production versions, etc.).  It support multiple project pairs as well.  Fantastic.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Quick plugin question

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 11:13 PM »

What you want to do is pretty easy using the special alias command called "dosearch"

basically, you can create a new alias with a regex pattern like:
ld (.*)

and for results put
dosearch l -ld $$1

that basically says that whenever you type "ld SOMETHING" it will be treated as if you had typed "l -ld SOMETHING"

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General Software Discussion / Firefox Plugin Request: Open dropped local files Using Local Server URL

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 10:14 PM »

When i do web development i often just want to drag a local file (html,php) from explorer into firefox.

The problem is that this results in firefox opening up file://E:\MyDocs\MyWeb\MyFile.php or something like that.

What i'd love is a firefox extension that keeps a list of mapping like: "E:\MyDocs\MyWeb/ -> http://127.0.0.1/www/"
So that when i drag the file into firefox, it opens up "http://127.0.0.1/www/MyFile.php"

Anyone know of any such existing extension?

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Living Room / Re: any existing collidoscope program thing...

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

CWuestefeld's comments made me think how cool it would be to see a list of known dynamic physics-based screensavers.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 12:45 PM »

I should say that i'm not very happy with using muparser as the mathematical expression parser.  It's very well suited for some things but it's not very flexible or end-user customizable.

It would be pretty easy to replace the parser with a different one -- if someone wants to recommend another free c++ math parsing library let me know.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 12:36 PM »

Is it possible to have an option so that the ` key would only clear FC display and not persistent values

Added and will be in next release.

I've also added functions to list variable values, clear specific variables, and a few more things.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 08:47 AM »

The best way to show my true feelings is through the use of smilies:


Really nice job sri and it's cool that you went so far to create and share your own aliases.  Actually that's what i was going to add -- rather than have them paste your created aliases into theirs, FARR v2 was specifically designed to facilitate alias sharing, and so the better way to do this is for you to go to your myaliases.alias file in the FARR directory and upload that file for people to download.  Just upload it with a different name like sri.alias and instruct others to download it and put it in their FARR subdirectory Aliases\Installed.  After that they can restart FARR and have all the aliases you've created.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review InfoLayout

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 03:47 AM »

Thank you very much for sharing your insights wraith, excellent job

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General Software Discussion / Re: Two nice technology/software blogs with nice words about DonationCoder software

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 02:13 AM »

Welcome to the site Syahid 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Output to Farr's memo mode

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2008, 01:31 AM »

I've added a new variant of the dosearch special alias function called dosearchontrigger which basically says to only actually perform the search when user hits enter.  That will be useful for using things like the console plugin to run programs that could take some time to execute.

This is essentially what the restartsearch alias action does EXCEPT that dosearchontrigger will NOT change the editbox the way restartsearch will, so it looks much nicer for things like this.

It will be in the next update.

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General Software Discussion / Two nice technology/software blogs with nice words about DonationCoder software

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2008, 11:12 PM »

Stumbled across a nice review of my Screenshot Captor program recently on a site called www.online-tech-tips.com.  It's rare and always very satisfying when someone takes the time to actually put up their own images and write their own text.

Following the link about the author (Syahid bin Ali) i found he had a nice technology blog of his own (www.techmalaya.com), and what do you know, DC Member's Wordzilla's Mobysaurus Thesaurus was featured there.

Anyway, two nice sites with computer tips and software reviews.   

• http://www.online-te...s/how-to-screenshot/
• http://www.techmalay...s-desktop-thesaurus/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How can I enter 2 seperate arguments?

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2008, 10:02 PM »

it sort of depends how you need to capture the arguments.  Each email needs to get captured as a separate argument, or just as one?

There are probably a lot of ways to do it using regular expressions but one easy way would be if you used some special identifier to mark where the message title was.

for example if you changed the way you type it to:
sendemail [email protected] [email protected] t=this is title1 this is again title

then you could simply grab:
sendmail (.*) t=(.*)

where $$1 is all the emails, and $$2 is the title.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater/Google translate "loop"

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2008, 01:09 AM »

it probably means that czechboy forgot to pack the new 1.01.04 update info with version 1.01.04, so the solution is to wait for him to do so.

the way DcUpdater works is that it relies on author to pack an extra file in with each new version which identifies the version -- and it's a little too easy to forget to update this file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Page Scrapecan be used to Screen Scrape specified data from a given target web

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2008, 12:57 AM »

This is PERFECT for use with czechboy's console plugin.

Combining these two, you should be able to make an alias that will fetch and extract data from a web page and display it inside the farr window.

I'd love to see some intrepid soul try to make it work.  See that thread above on the console plugin for more help using it with this program.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Procedural Game Coding Contest (May 5 to June 2)

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2008, 12:48 AM »

right you are -- thanks for clarifying that.  i've corrected it now in my post.

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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 May 10, 2008, 10:56 PM »

sabot, we definitely need these plugin.  I have quite a few ideas for it too, how to make it even better by letting it search on tags as well as text.  eventually i'll have to code it if no one else does, but i'd also be happy to help someone else work on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to change tooltip settings in XP?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2008, 09:26 PM »

nice find nogojoe!!

I actually had wondered if such a thing was even possible.. very cool to see that it is.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How can I enter 2 seperate arguments?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2008, 07:18 PM »

i think what might be good is a little wizard or helper on that alias editing dialog, that would help walk the user through common scenarios.  advanced users could always customize the regex, but it would at least hold your hand a little if you want to use a simple, typical type of trigger (like you said before a series of space or comma separated arguments, etc).  at least that would handle most common scenarios easily.