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

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2008, 05:39 PM »

If there is any interest, i was thinking of ordering some bumper stickers (like 10" x 3") and sending them to anyone who would actually put them on their car.  Would be some fun free "advertising" for DC, and a fun way to see if you ever meet someone who is also a DC member.

I'm more than happy to send one to anyone who will actually put it on their car.

If I order a lot of them to myself at bulk rate, then there can only be one design with fixed text.  If we don't need so many (probably the case), i could order one at a time for about $5 and they can have custom text saying whatever each person wants.

Here's one sample with silly red text:



What would be good alternative Red Text?
Please only people who would actually put one of these on their car make suggestions!!

Maybe member name?
Or how about "Honk If You Know Cody!"


ps. for those new to DC -- the cody drawing is done by Nick Pearson (Nudone), who created our mascot.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bugs report] here is a list of outstanding bugs

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2008, 02:10 PM »

there is actually a difference.
%clipboard% should ALWAYS be replaced with clipboard text (blank if clipboard text is blank).

$$c can be used to mean $$1 unless its blank, and clipboard text if it is blank.
for example from the help file:

• So an alias might match on text gsearch(.*)
• with result: gsearch $$c | http://www.google.com?query=$$c
• When user types "gsearch hello" it will open a search to hello
• When user types "gsearch" it will open a search to clipboard text

so $$c is used where you might normally put $$1

ps.
you can also manually tell farr to use your clipboard text in a search by typing $c

so if you have an alias like "define (.*)" which uses $$1 in its search, you could TYPE in the search box "define $c" and it will be as if you typed ("define CLIPBOARD_TEXT_HERE").

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General Software Discussion / Re: Extend Firefox 2 Contest Winners Announced by Mozilla

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2008, 12:10 PM »

sri you should make a post in a separate thread about piclens with a screenshot, ive never heard of it before now.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer crashes Vista

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2008, 11:22 AM »

I've not heard about it crashing vista before, but it's possible there is some process that it is interacting with that is making it crash.

Two suggestions:

• Go to configuration and make sure you have checked the box to save a log file (upper right of Configuration tab),
• Then the next time the bsod happens, start it up and go to the log file (Log file tab of Configuration dialog) and see what the latest entries are -- see if you spot any clues.

• Do what you are doing -- dont run Process Tamer for a couple of days and really confirm that the problem is indeed Process Tamer and that it's not a coincidence.  Note that PT does not run any services or secret stuff or make any changes, so if PT is not running, and you still get the BSODs, then its not PT (i.e. no need to completely uninstall it to test).

A last thing you could try is, to disable the options to:

• Tame Applications Based on CPU Usage
• Foreground Process Special Handling (disable any checkboxes here especially!)

And see if that solves it.  That would at least be a clue that it's some process interaction with another program (not the explicit ones you've listed about that you manually force low).

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: CluGrid Discussion

« Last post by mouser on February 13, 2008, 10:59 AM »

timns should add update support for the program using dcupdater!
it's very easy and you get free support from the author (me) if you need help

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9607.0

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General Software Discussion / Extend Firefox 2 Contest Winners Announced by Mozilla

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 05:41 PM »

They finally announced the winners for the Firefox 2 Extension Contest:

Extend Firefox 2 has wrapped up and we’re super excited to announce the winners! We received well over 100 entries, representing hundreds of hours of hard work from people around the world.

Grand Prize Winners

• Minimap Sidebar Extension by Tony Farndon (UK) - mapping sidebar
• SamePlace by Massimiliano Mirra (Italy) - instant messaging sidebar
• Shareaholic by Jay Meattle (USA) - bookmark sharing and social bookmarking tool

Runners Up

• All in One Sidebar - Ingo Wennemaring
• Boox- Nicolas Martin
• del.icio.us IncSearch - Hirokazu Onozato
• Fast Dial - Sergey Suhoruchkin
• FireGestures - Taiga Gomibuchi
• FootieFox - Boris Ruf
• qtl - Gilad Kutiel
• Shrinkify - Mark Muday
• Table2Clipboard - Davide Ficano
• TwitterFox - Kazuho Okui
• Update Scanner - Pete Burgers
• URL Fixer - Christopher Finke

http://blog.mozilla....d-firefox-2-winners/

I'm dissapointed that no one from DonationCoder entered this.  Next time hopefully.

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Developer's Corner / Re: It's time for NANY and GOE mug pictures!

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 05:02 PM »

soon you are going to have to build a whole new shelf to hold all your cody mugs.

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina font in size 7, 6.5 or 6 ?

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 03:47 PM »

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need to limit all but a few applications to keep my kids focused on homework

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 01:28 PM »

Long write-up about a program for this on "Confessions of a Freeware Junkie Blog" today:

http://maximillianx....ty-and-limiting.html

"If you have kids that are on the computer and/or Internet for any length of time, you know that getting them to log off can be quite a chore. Also, knowing just what they are doing can be just as difficult, if not near impossible.

The makers of Spyware Terminator (which I LOVE) have come up with a pretty decent piece of software that can help you control just what your kids are doing on the computer. Not only does Crawler Parental Control help you keep them from getting into certain programs and folders, it can protect them as well by blocking nasty sites, and (my favorite feature) CPC can put time limits on Internet, computer, and even program usage...allowing you to shut down or log off the computer when the max time allotted is reached. The program is completely customizable in that you can add or remove sites, programs, and folders you deem inappropriate (or not)."

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Aliases/groups

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 01:14 PM »

No one replied yet huh?
Ok i guess i'll take a first shot at this:

By far the best way to see what aliases can do is to look at the provided sample aliases, they demonstrate a bunch of techniques.

The help file also goes into it in some detail.

The most basic way to use alias groups is to collect a bunch of related programs in a "group":

• For example you might make a group called "games" and put all your games in that group (there are a variety of ways to put files into a group, you can right click on a found item and sent it to a group, or from group options dialog drag and drop into that).
• Then you type "games" from FARR text box to show all games and launch the one you want.
• One nice thing about alias groups is you can name each item in a group the way you want it to display.

You can also have just one item in an alias, in which case the alias is basically acting as an "alias" for this one item, so you can type the alias name instead of the real item name, or so that you can launch a program with commandline options.

Aliases can also support regular expressions, so that you can launch programs or functions based on the pattern that you type in the main FARR search editbox.  You can check out the various web based alias groups to see this in action.  For example type "define [somewords]" and youll see the define alias regular expression kicks in and offers you some choices of web urls to launch.

In addition to launching programs or URLS in your web browser, aliases can do some cool tricks.

One such trick is that an alias can match a regular expression based on what you type and simulate a search for another string.  So for example lets say you often do a search like this "+mydocs .pdf SOMEEXTRAWORDS".
With an alias you could create a pattern like "md .*" and instruct it to act as if you typed "+mydocs .pdf $$1".  This can be very useful for repeat invocation of complex searches.

Aliases can do some other things as well, acting like a menu.  So you could make an alias containing a list of other aliases or searches.

You can also make alias entries that paste text into the last active window (for example type "paste" and youll see a few from the paste alias group).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: new FARR Plugin : Delicious - built on the Javascript SDK : FScript

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 12:29 PM »

good idea, disable aliases until it stops happening, so you can pinpoint which alias is actually triggering it.
we need to determine if its a FARR bug or a stray alias somewhere.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Enso 2 redesign...

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 07:57 AM »

I'd definitely like to hear lessons we can learn for upcoming FARR work.

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Living Room / Re: H E L P !!! I lost a spreadsheet!

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 02:38 AM »

nice idea!!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Tab to Submit

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2008, 02:17 AM »

i guess we should try to fix this, it's something in the reply post form thats messing up the input ordering.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr won't close after programme launch

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 08:07 PM »

I love this forum, you guys are so darn good at figuring out problems and what causes them!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: new FARR Plugin : Delicious - built on the Javascript SDK : FScript

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 07:49 PM »

how strange..

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: NANY Mugs are ready to be sent (GOE mugs too) - Send me your info!

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 06:20 PM »

Mugs have been sent and people should be receiving them now.

When you get yours please post here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=12259

ps.
If you never contacted me with your address to get your mug, please do!

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: GOE Mugs are ready to be sent (NANY mugs too) - Send me your info!

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 06:20 PM »

Mugs have been sent and people should be receiving them now.

When you get yours please post here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=12259

ps.
If you never contacted me with your address to get your mug, please do!

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Developer's Corner / It's time for NANY and GOE mug pictures!

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 06:19 PM »

OK those coders who participated in the recent NANY (New Apps for the New Year) and GOE (Getting Organized Experiment) Programming Challenges should be receiving your DonationCoder Cody Mugs right about now.

As is our tradition (see last year's photo thread here), I'm asking all of you to post a photo of you with your mug!

So all participants in the last NANY or GOE please post a reply with a picture of you and your mug!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: PHP IDE recommendations

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 02:30 PM »

Last time i went searching, these 2 seemed top of the line to me, though i was mainly looking for good debug features:

• waterproof phpedit
• nusphere phped

however i must say that i didn't fall in love with any of the php ides i tried.  both of the above programs were very powerful, perhaps a bit too much so.. i tend to like my IDEs to not be so busy and complicated.

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Living Room / Re: Aquaria (An independetly developed game beneath the ocean)

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 02:03 PM »

Sounds like one of the few games that girls would really enjoy too.
How about a mini-review anyone?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: new FARR Plugin : Delicious - built on the Javascript SDK : FScript

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 10:09 AM »

those aliases look ok lanux because they all have the ^ which should make them only match at begining of line.
try going to plugin options and select the plugin and check the regular expression there.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [vista bug] myalias files not available

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2008, 10:01 AM »

Thanks for the report, this sounds like its a non-trivial bug that needs fixing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature suggestion - file properties on mouse hover ?]

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2008, 07:49 PM »

i was considering adding the ability for plugins to display info about a selected file (could be used for image previews, mp3 info,etc). But it's going to have to wait for a little bit since other things have precedence first, and because of one simple fact that you can already call up the windows file properties dialogs pretty quickly.  i forget if there is already a hotkey for this but if not i can add a quick one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Send link and/or webpage?

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2008, 07:41 PM »

one thing that definitely exists which would be very close to what you want is a Bookmark Synchronizer.
Basically you would bookmark the web page on one machine.
And on the other machine it would show up in your bookmarks for you to easily click to open.