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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple web database to keep track of camping sites for Boy Scouts?

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2008, 07:49 AM »

One of the coders on this site (hamradio) works a lot with boyscouts -- hopefully we will come by and post.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: I love the Bulk Rename Utility!

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2008, 06:24 AM »

From the message linked by Abterix:

After many years, Bulk Rename Utility is retiring. It has run its course and is now a reasonably stable product. There may be one more release, to tidy up some loose ends, but that is not confirmed. I WILL be continuing to support it though. Thanks to everyone for the support and suggestions over the years.

Thanks to Jim for his hard work on BRU. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Incomplete Backups - Avoiding and Handling

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 06:43 PM »

It's a very good point.

One thing you can do is that most of the best backup tools have a "verification" option, that is a bit time consuming but can verify that the backup was made successfully and can be read, etc.

The other thing you can do is as you say, not make a compressed backup but instead use a mirroring mode which essentially makes a file-by-file copy, which is very big but can be useful if you want really fast access and you want to really know that you can get the data when you need it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Underline matched characters

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 04:53 PM »

it's a fun idea but maybe a bit difficult for me to implement given the current display components i use.. let's come back to this after the next release.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Any plans for freehand capture mode?

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 04:05 PM »

i've never been a fan of freehand capture..
i just say take a full screen cap and then crop once it's in the program, freehand or otherwise.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Window Tags

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 02:48 PM »

kind of a cool idea.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel in PC Magazine 91 Utils

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 09:25 AM »

ps. I believe this is the first time (inexplicably) that donationcoder has been mentioned in PC Magazine, which makes it all the more exciting. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC doesn't remember print-options

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 05:31 AM »

I have a LOT of fixes+features to add in the next release which should be this month.. Remembering print settings will be one of the ones i try to get done -- I agree it's important.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Vista SP1 Now available....as toilet paper

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 04:42 AM »

inline attachments are working fine, your jpg file is not an image.. it's a web page -- looks like you saved it incorrectly.

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Living Room / Re: International fame for DonationCoder?

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 01:58 AM »

I can now reveal that Cody himself was knighted "sir bird" by prince Charles.  The ceremony took place in the austere environs of Buckingham Palace.

A minor international flap occured when after being knighted, Cody proceeded to rob the place of a massive collection of British coin pound coins. I understand the coin is his favorite coin in the world, treasured for its wonderful feel in the hand or beak.

Unfortunately our beloved Cody is now on the run from the law.

I am requesting that all loyal DC members prepare a nest and place it in a shaded area of your yard or apartment (leave window open) for Cody to hide out in.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Yet another focus-related feature

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 01:53 AM »

I will check this, but what FARR *should* be doing is hiding and then launching the url in browser, which should allow the browser to get focus.  But it's possible that I somehow changed this recently by accident.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel in PC Magazine 91 Utils

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2008, 01:38 AM »

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another shortcut problem

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 06:54 PM »

well done for finding the option that makes it work for you.. it's not entirely clear to me why this happens to some people.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 06:27 PM »

of course it will be an option.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Finally a Quality 3D Box Shot Maker On Sale !

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 03:55 PM »

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: hotkey with execute? (as if Enter was pressed)

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 01:42 PM »

No way to do that currently.  You mean just use FARR as a hotkey program to execute something without even needing to become visible, right?  It could be easily added though it seems like something best left to a proper hotkey utility.

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Living Room / Re: Got to Love Flickr

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 01:40 PM »

This is adult-themed, moderately NSFW (near nudity).
Nothing wrong with it, but please remember to say so when posting links for those who care.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Finally a Quality 3D Box Shot Maker On Sale !

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 01:38 PM »

Count me in the group of people who find the box show images appealing..
It may simply be that having a 3d-looking representation of something makes it more concrete and thus easier to work with mentally.

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Living Room / Re: ASP Members/Posters, Come Out of the Woodwork!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 06:28 AM »

ASP seems like a really good resource for anyone in the shareware business, and the historical documents were well worth joining initially for me.

But while I think the shareware community is a great thing and deserves support, I don't feel like I quite fit into it, and actually DC is my one real community online, so I guess I just figured I'll focus all my energy here.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Finally a Quality 3D Box Shot Maker On Sale !

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 05:47 AM »

Other box shot programs (free and commercial) mentioned on DC:

• https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12513.0
• https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5846.0
• https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10201.0
• https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=17709

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 04:05 AM »

it's on the list of things to add in april's release.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Dangerous Drag & Drop in editable lists

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 03:38 AM »

ouch!@
that sounds like a real bug.
ok it's on todo list -- i'll be able to get to these very soon.

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Living Room / Re: We need to do something about Skrommel.. but what?

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2008, 03:28 AM »

Skrommel doesn't seem very interested in money.. He has several hundreds of dollars of credits built up that he shows very little interest in.  That's one of the reasons I think we need to figure out something non-monetary and special to get him.

However, I like the idea of paying for his transport to a DC gathering, so let's definitely say that anytime skrommel is willing to attend a DC gathering, DC should foot the airfare bill.

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Living Room / Re: ASP Members/Posters, Come Out of the Woodwork!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 07:37 PM »

I joined for a year to see what it was all about but didn't feel like i could afford to stay permanently.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Optimization Suggestion: Adjusted Priority_Range

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2008, 07:16 PM »

See here for reason for temporary hibernation of development: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12798.0