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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: USB Safely Remove, 50% discount on January 17th

« Last post by Ath on October 29, 2011, 06:18 AM »

And again a special offer from Crystal Rich:

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the program we are glad to offer you a unique opportunity to purchase the
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once, can power off drives in Vista and Win 7, has better safe removal tool and
many other improvements that make your work with USB and SATA devices even more
comfortable.

Grab the deal here:
  http://safelyremove.com/order.htm?50poff

Hurry, the offer is valid only until November 2nd!

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And because it's still the same deal, added to this thread again.

2602

Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Log off & Standby in 1-Click

« Last post by Ath on October 29, 2011, 04:44 AM »

OK, took 5 minutes so I've got it working.

-4wd (October 28, 2011, 05:54 PM)

Kudo's, 4wd

I'll be testing this later today, looks like fun

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Log off & Standby in 1-Click

« Last post by Ath on October 28, 2011, 05:32 PM »

Certain system settings I won't change for testing scripts.

-MilesAhead (October 28, 2011, 03:50 PM)

That's what a virtual test-system is good for

2604

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware

« Last post by Ath on October 28, 2011, 03:49 PM »

Correct

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware

« Last post by Ath on October 28, 2011, 03:32 PM »

I'll be investigating DownThemAll as an alternative. Been using DSB ever since FF 1.x, so I'm just as disappointed as all the rest in this thread so far. And yup, if I'd meet the DSB author and have a shotgun within hands reach...

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Log off & Standby in 1-Click

« Last post by Ath on October 28, 2011, 02:01 PM »

Have you looked at Boot Snooze by our estemed moderator ? Boot Snooze Its a slightly different approach

-magician62 (October 28, 2011, 11:14 AM)

That's why you're magician (at least for today )

I was searching for this to suggest as the solution, but couldn't remember the name.

2607

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Box.net offering 50Gb free lifetime accounts thru Dec 2 to iOS users.

« Last post by Ath on October 28, 2011, 01:32 AM »

Great, thanks, just made an account and shared it this info with my colleagues

2608

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows H8 - On Physical Hardware

« Last post by Ath on October 27, 2011, 02:23 PM »

Thanks for sharing this, SJ

The Metro/IE10 UI makes perfect sense on my phone ...(kinda)... and is mind blowingly annoying on a desktop.

-Stoic Joker (October 27, 2011, 11:39 AM)

That's what I read in about 95% of all reviews so far and ppl talking about it, so let's hope for MS to hear the complaints.

2609

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by Ath on October 24, 2011, 03:31 PM »

Is it possible to make the buttons transparent? The idea would be to create all the graphics for the buttons in one large single background image - all carefully arranged, of course, so that the positions matched the transparent buttons above.

-nudone (October 11, 2011, 03:51 PM)

I've been experimenting with that a few weeks back,

-Ath (October 11, 2011, 05:08 PM)

Did some more experiments (and been busy with work-stuff, so it took some time), but reversed it all, because all I could get working was a set of nearly invisible buttons, with no graphics on it. I think I'll leave the transparent stuff out for now, unless it is very important to anyone.
I have other things on the list that are imho more useful, like a multi-state button, and combining button-groups into 1 layout, that would like some attention, but time is still a bit limited ATM.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLBGN: DonationCoder Board Game Night - Champaign IL, Sat Oct 22, 2011

« Last post by Ath on October 24, 2011, 11:59 AM »

had a great time

-mouser (October 24, 2011, 10:22 AM)

Nice

To far a travel for me to go there (EU).

2611

Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on October 24, 2011, 10:03 AM »

Here's another milestone that deserves a little attention:



Congrats, Ampa

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Living Room / Re: XP computer, widescreen options

« Last post by Ath on October 22, 2011, 01:33 PM »

Hm, found this page on a HP server stating some limitations on resolution

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Living Room / Re: XP computer, widescreen options

« Last post by Ath on October 22, 2011, 01:29 PM »

Doesn't the drivers force the card into the right resolution? Wouldn't expect that to be a hardware limitation, though it's not impossible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by Ath on October 21, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Visicalc!

-IainB (October 21, 2011, 04:31 PM)

Wow!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: RegMerge - Import REG files safely and selectively, or compare their content

« Last post by Ath on October 21, 2011, 05:45 AM »

Nice, but why didn't you enter this for NANY2012?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on October 19, 2011, 10:34 AM »

Congrats, 40hz a real milestone.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : XML Stripper

« Last post by Ath on October 18, 2011, 03:28 PM »

SED or PERL are good choices for this case, I guess, the file-layout is rather static.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : XML Stripper

« Last post by Ath on October 18, 2011, 02:59 PM »

Usually, anyone requiring special XML formatting I direct to the Apache FOP project, but you'll find FOP is quite a tank to swat a fly with

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Alcohol 120% 8 Platinum incl Audio 180% deLuxe: €30

« Last post by Ath on October 17, 2011, 05:27 PM »

AFAIC, Alcohol 120% could bit-copy CD's like the older CloneCD, but I'm not sure if that feature is still in there. There was a 'lighter' version (less percentage, 60?) that couldn't copy any protected CD's while 120% could, hence it's name

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not a commonly downloaded program?

« Last post by Ath on October 15, 2011, 09:46 AM »

Long live Firefox! 

-dantheman (October 15, 2011, 06:46 AM)

+1, that's a good reason to avoid IE like the plague

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: App to search for specific internet radio guest

« Last post by Ath on October 14, 2011, 06:35 AM »

"It would take too much time"

Have you tried to search for the data in any search engine? And then tried to interpret a calendar out of the garbage that is the result of that search?

I know there are services available for TV station programs (usually per country), but AFAICS these are filled with the calendars supplied by the TV stations, not from something 'simple' as a search-engine result.

I wouldn't know where to start getting all radio station program info, and neither what region to 'limit' the search to, there will be several thousands of stations to process, nor parse the (often even hardly human comprehensible) program information, if that is available.
Guess I'm not alone in this assessment...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which programming IDE for Web development?

« Last post by Ath on October 14, 2011, 01:41 AM »

Eh, what? I always had the impression it was slow due to being Java based.

amongst things

-Ath (October 13, 2011, 02:01 PM)

-f0dder (October 13, 2011, 03:09 PM)

That is another reason, and why I wrote it this way

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Living Room / Re: Can anyone help? Windows 7 permissions

« Last post by Ath on October 13, 2011, 02:57 PM »

The solution is to put the driver packages back and I need access to the winsxs and FileRepository folders.

-Carol Haynes (October 13, 2011, 02:52 PM)

Have you tried putting the harddisk as a secondary disk in another Win7 system, so it isn't booted from, just a data-disk? Then the permissions should be less stringent, and allow you to add the missing files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which programming IDE for Web development?

« Last post by Ath on October 13, 2011, 02:01 PM »

But I read a lot of really bad comments about it (slow, buggy)...

-highend01 (October 12, 2011, 06:05 AM)

How recent are those comments? If over 1.5 years, then disregard them, as then Eclipse was slow and buggy, because of, amongst things, migration to Vista/Win7.
Current Eclipse (based) IDE's (3.7.x) are much better and quite very stable.

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AutoHotkey / Re: Always on top

« Last post by Ath on October 13, 2011, 01:51 PM »

except for the slight timelag caused by the fact that I've put a 2 second delay on it

-oblivion (October 12, 2011, 05:05 PM)

I'm using a loop delay of 0.1 second in WinButtons, and I don't see much cpu load while it's running, but that could be my system, as I'm running it on an i7-860 (quad-core with HT, so 8 virtual CPU's )