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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your top 10 Tech/Software Blogs?

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 08:17 PM »

Paul Graham is one of the writers on creative tech business stuff.  he writes in essay form but no matter what you call it, he is good:
http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your top 10 Tech/Software Blogs?

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 08:14 PM »

Joel is a very good writer but it seems in the last year or two the only thing he ever writes about is pure self-promotion.  i miss the more general insightful posts he used to make but at this point i don't even bother checking out his blog.

at least he hasn't gotten as bad as robert scoble yet

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Living Room / Re: FOUND: Free Internet Dial-Up Access

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 06:40 PM »

cool.  someone should make a web page listing such free #s in each state.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Qimage, "Professional Photographic Printing Software" - a second look

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 06:07 PM »

definitely a mini-review and belongs here. 

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newletter for October 15 - Codename "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK"

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 05:18 PM »

it takes 2+ days to send the newsletter emails because there are 45,000 of them and they have to be staggered over time or they will kill the server.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Redirecting the userdata tree directory on pre-Vista OSes

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 01:16 PM »

Yes that should be the case in CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL,

but if you are talking about The Form Lettter Machine, it doesnt yet have configdir.ini support.  I'll add it on next release.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your top 10 Tech/Software Blogs?

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 01:01 PM »

Cliff's Newsletter is a must read:
http://freewarewiki....ifsCurrentNewsletter

We need to start a new thread of our top newsletters don't we?

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General Software Discussion / Re: GemX - missing in action

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2007, 08:42 AM »

i think good point, let's keep this thread for GemX, please continue helpmaker discussion on a dif thread.

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Living Room / Re: COLOURlovers

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2007, 09:24 PM »

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Living Room / Re: COLOURlovers

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2007, 09:01 PM »

please attach a picture to your posts (screenshot of web page or whatever), so it's more enjoyable to read and easier to blog.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: Picture Codyfier

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2007, 01:21 PM »

fill in her name and address here and she will get a cody pack:
https://www.donation...MemberKit/index.html

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQUEST: Picture Codyfier

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2007, 01:13 PM »

hahahahaa

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Living Room / Re: The Ugliest Products in Tech History

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2007, 11:14 AM »

ps. We owned that 300 baud acoustic modem pictured in the first post, and it worked great.  you dial the number with your phone, wait for it to start whining "eeeeeeeeeeee" and then mash the receiver down onto it.  to my eyes it's a beautiful thing. 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review of Fineprint (Virtual Printer)

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 11:55 PM »

maybe now would be a good time to contact them about a repeat discount for our members and a few donated copies for us to give away? patteo might you inquire about it?

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Living Room / Cybernetnews.com Special Day of Environmental PC Posts

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 10:56 PM »

Today it looks like cybernetnews.com did a whole day of blog posts about environmental pc software and gadgets and info.  Very cool, check it out:

http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/15/

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General Software Discussion / Re: GemX - missing in action

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 10:17 PM »

In all fairness to Ron, it can be so much work responding to requests and posts on a forum.  One can understand how it would be a difficult choice between closing a forum, which obviously upsets some people vs. keeping it open but not having the time to reply to everyone's request for help - and therefore leaving the impression that the company doesn't care.

Of course it would have been good to give the forum members a generous advance warning about the change, then at least people would have had time to adjust to the idea and not assumed the worst.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: DonationCoder.com Getting Organized Experiment 2007 - starts in November

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 03:41 PM »

damn it, why do i keep forgetting that september is *before* october.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Strange customer...

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 02:02 PM »

I think veign makes some great points.
This is one of those cases where the extra work up front both serves to protect you *and* will convey to the other person that you are a professional and know what you are doing.  You may increase your price based on preparing a proposal or quote, but it's bound to be worth the time.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 01:10 PM »

Very helpful to have this summary, thank you.

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Official Announcements / DonationCoder.com Getting Organized Experiment 2007 - starts in November

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 12:25 PM »

Ok get your brains ready to focus.. The GOE 2007 starts in November: READ MORE.

See this section to read about last year's GOE 2006.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / DonationCoder.com Getting Organized Experiment 2007 - starts in November

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 12:24 PM »

Ok get your brains ready to focus.. The GOE 2007 starts in November.

See this section to read about last year's GOE 2006.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Public release ? Next Update ?

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2007, 10:42 AM »

i've got 30 todo cards for FARR in front of me, so i'm working on it (except when cat tries to scatter them onto the floor); i'm trying to get a last set of bugfixes and updates this week. 

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Found Deals and Discounts / MOVED: What Programs Would You Like Us to Try to Get Discounts On?

« Last post by mouser on October 14, 2007, 09:29 PM »

This topic has been moved to Shareware Discount Section where we have now established a master list of pending discount requests..

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1456.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: Microsoft providing .NET Framework source code!

« Last post by mouser on October 14, 2007, 07:01 PM »

The issue for me is not that i believe MS is setting a trap by making the source code available for inspection.

My concern has always revolved around Microsoft's intentions with regarding to making dot net cross-platform, which is the issue that prevents me from embracing it.

If Microsoft want .net to be cross-platform, why not help create a cross-platform version of dot net?  I have not yet seen a clear statement about their intentions in this direction.

My concern is that MS is doing a little wink-and-a-nod thing by not explicitly coming out against a cross-platform version of dot net (Mono), but working to make it hard enough to get right, and hard enough to keep up to date that it's never going to be a clean and stable thing, so as to retain their monopoly of it.  I don't think that's being paranoid.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR often loses my Search folders and all search history

« Last post by mouser on October 14, 2007, 11:28 AM »

I've never heard of this before.  maybe send me an email ([email protected]) and i can try to ask some more questions and figure out what it might be.