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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by Ath on November 24, 2011, 01:41 AM »

Count me in

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Source Code Line Counter

« Last post by Ath on November 24, 2011, 01:30 AM »

+1

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Living Room / Re: Need Advice on a TV...

« Last post by Ath on November 23, 2011, 09:11 AM »

the only DVD player we had was/is built into the old TV that will be getting hauled off this Saturday

-Stoic Joker (November 23, 2011, 06:57 AM)

But for something like $40 or $50 you'll have a plain DVD player, with hdmi output, so that shouldn't be much of an issue

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Living Room / Re: Need Advice on a TV...

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2011, 01:26 AM »

Well, that one sure is big enough
And you're quite OK on the feature side. Can't say much about the deal, haven't bought a flat TV yet, but the pictures look good.

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Living Room / Re: Need Advice on a TV...

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2011, 09:13 AM »

It will need 'a couple' of HDMI input connectors, as you'll be connecting from cable set-top box, harddisk recorder, network mediaplayer, computer, videotape player (probably on SCART), and hen some...

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Living Room / Re: Can anyone help - win 7 x64 driver issue

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2011, 09:10 AM »

Unless the camera is internally connected

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Living Room / Re: Can anyone help - win 7 x64 driver issue

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2011, 08:56 AM »

Did you install the driver first, and then inserted the USB connector?

If not, uninstalling and disconnecting, reboot, re-install, then connect could help. (Old-fashioned USB installation procedure)

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Living Room / Re: Scanning photos

« Last post by Ath on November 19, 2011, 08:42 AM »

I'd go for a pretty good scan of the image at 600 DPI, and have that printed on the canvas. The texture of the canvas makes it relatively coarse, so I'd expect the extrapolation not to hurt the quality of the final print.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by Ath on November 18, 2011, 01:26 AM »

Practice makes perfect, the pictures are getting better and better

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: Printer PaperSource Explorer

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2011, 05:07 PM »

It's just info available from the printer driver, but not query-able elsewhere, as far as I found. And it does sometimes change based on OS or after a driver update

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: Printer PaperSource Explorer

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2011, 03:43 PM »

Where were you when I needed this many moons ago?

-cranioscopical (November 17, 2011, 03:40 PM)

I was here, and also was this tool, but I didn't know...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Release: Printer PaperSource Explorer 1.2.0.0

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2011, 02:59 PM »

NANY 2012 Entry Information

Application Name	PaperSourceExplorer
Version	1.2.0.0
Short Description	Display information about your printers Paper Trays (the source of the paper...)
Supported OSes	Windows XP forward
Setup File	DCMembers page
History	2011-12-07: v1.2.0.0 NANY2012 Release version! Several extra information options, display printer Location, Stores options and main form position/size between sessions Improved the print information option (Ctrl-P) to include all selected information Has the application icon on the main form too Displays main form and then loads data 2011-12-03: v1.1.3.0-beta Added bin-name match for if it's tagged in the printer name (Win Server 2008R2 on VMWare) 2011-12-03: v1.1.2.0-beta Improved bin-name match algorithm 2011-12-03: v1.1.1.0-beta Remove whitespace in bin-name match algorithm 2011-12-02: v1.1.0.0-beta Separating Active and Hidden/Disabled trays 2011-11-30: v1.0.0.0-beta Pre-release for NANY2012
System Requirements	.NET 4.0
Author Info	Ath
Description	Ever needed to setup Tray numbers in an application for a complicated, multi tray, office printer? Then here's the way to find out the correct tray/bin numbers.
Features	Displays the printers trays by number and the name the Windows driver assigned to it Print information about the trays on paper
To do	Print a page from each available paper tray Design/find a spiffy application-icon(done) Add the spiffy icon to the main form without adding it twice in the exe(done)
Screenshots	On Windows 7: On Windows Server 2008R2 (VMWare):
Installation	Run the installer, that'll create the shortcut(s) for you and take care of installing .NET if it's not yet installed.
Using the application	View the information on the investigated printer by expanding or collapsing the tree (Default printer pre-selected and expanded) Print the info on a page if required (File/Print or Ctrl-P) Display Hidden/Disabled printer bins by expanding the corresponding tree-node
Uninstalling	Run the un-installer from the Software/Programs and Features Control panel option
Known Issues	Localized printer driver papersource names don't match with English tray-names from the Windows PrintServer
Disclaimer	Any discrepancies caused by drivers are the manufacturers' responsibility
History	This is one of the first .NET applications I made, back in 2007/2008, using WinForms but never actually released to anybody but myself

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Living Room / Re: Moving up to ESET NOD32 v5

« Last post by Ath on November 17, 2011, 02:00 AM »

and it updates automatically alongside your Windows

-Jibz (November 17, 2011, 01:29 AM)

... unless you're behind a proxy, in that case it'll update about 1 out of 10 times successfully, even though Windows Update works like a charm

It's Avast for me, does a definitions-update about every 4 hours, and the yearly 'license upgrade' is painless from within the application, entering a non-existent e-mail address is accepted without a hitch

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text search & replace via system shell menu (using preconfigured profiles)

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2011, 01:54 AM »

Would sed for Windows be usable?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on November 16, 2011, 01:42 AM »

You could check it out for a quite cold place (I just found some rather cold North American place ) : (metric/Celcius)

[Select]

http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=4224&u=c

The data looks rather OK to me, having all kinds of negative numbers in it?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on November 15, 2011, 03:33 PM »

There is a small chance that sWeather is not entirely up to some winter-weather conditions, over here in the metric system-world.
Now that it's freezing during the evenings and nights, sWeather doesn't show the minimum (Low) temperature if it's below 0 degrees centigrade:



The other temperature values all show negative values when needed, for as far as I can see.
Can't tell if It's also affecting the High temperature(s), as it's not that cold in some places yet



If I change the settings to non-metric it shows the expected figures for my location, but my brain doesn't comprehend the Fahrenheit numbers very well.

No need for any rush, but it would be nice if it got fixed.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by Ath on November 15, 2011, 01:29 AM »

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Android OS] - DC Forum App (FREE)

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 05:42 PM »

Eclipse + ADT plug-in is most advised/endorsed by Google, you'd probably be starting here: http://developer.and...com/guide/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Version File (without opening)

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 04:50 PM »

I found this shell-extension, but it's rather old and 32 bit only: http://www.cushat.co.uk/di/ (and there's another s.e. on that site adding a column in Windows Explorer)
And that link comes from this thread in the AUGI forums, that also reveals some interesting info on how to determine the version

And this AutoCAD Blog entry shows all known release numbers, so we can guess/ interpolate the correct AC10xx numbers and all file-identifiers are in a list a bit lower on the page

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Android OS] - DC Forum App (FREE)

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 04:25 PM »

For those concerned, iBuildApp, the service Stephen used, appears legit and non-evil

-mouser (November 14, 2011, 04:14 PM)

That's the part I was the least worried about It's more that the app is rather big (1.35 MB) for the features it offers, but it's good to start with something, and leave room for improvement

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Android OS] - DC Forum App (FREE)

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 03:44 PM »

Oh, and you could make the QR code clickable, so one can browse there directly from their phone

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Android OS] - DC Forum App (FREE)

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 03:40 PM »

Stephen,
Could you elaborate on the vast amount of permissions requested by your app? About half of it shouldn't be needed, I guess

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 01:23 PM »

As someone reminded me recently -- this is baby Cody, not normal cody

-mouser (November 14, 2011, 10:48 AM)

Ofcourse, Cody is watching over DC, counting the coins coming in  

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Living Room / Re: Moving up to ESET NOD32 v5

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 01:22 PM »

+1 to superboyac, but MSE can be replaced by at least 3 other free AV packages, with exact the same result. I'm curious about any answers to his questions too 

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Cody is going to Disney World

« Last post by Ath on November 14, 2011, 01:31 AM »

Looks like you're all having great fun!

Enjoy!