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Living Room / Re: Article: A Woman's Primer for Building Her Own Computer
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 12:41 PM »
smilie aside answer
second time today I'm looking for a different smiley. I often looking for a whistling while looking innocent one.
there is such a smiley, i've seen it.  anyone have a link?

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Living Room / Re: Article: A Woman's Primer for Building Her Own Computer
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 12:41 PM »
I'd get much better value for money building one.
just a warning: my experience has been that this is *not* the case.  i would highly recommend you try to build a pc for one and only one reason: because you enjoy the process.  My belief is that currently building your own will cost you more in parts, is MUCH more risky in terms of something going wrong, and puts you in a much more precarious situation should your computer need repair.

in summary: building a pc on your own can be fun -- but that's the only reason you should try it.
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Living Room / Article: A Woman's Primer for Building Her Own Computer
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 12:11 PM »
The computer world has known for a long time that girls are to be taken seriously. Games can be ridiculously fun and appeal to everyone. And it's not just about The Sims and Bejeweled; girls want to grab a lightsaber or don platemail and save the world from Oblivion just as much as boys do, so what's stopping us from building our own computers?

Instead, we buy the first computer our budget allows just to get away from condescending sales people, or we accept hand-me-down machines that have been configured by someone else and are slow, buggy, and dirty. In both cases, we aren't getting our money's worth.

I have always enjoyed playing video games with my brothers. We fought each other over who gets to use the computer next. Eventually, we had new computers replace old, and we each had a machine to ourselves. Even though I was the oldest, the computers were the boys' endeavors, and I was stuck with the hand-me-down of the hand-me-downs. And when they both left for college, I had the same tattered and torn computer, only even more out-of-date.

I guess I didn't really mind, but my family took notice, and one Christmas I got upgrades. A new case, a new hard drive--and by the time it was all unwrapped, I had a completely new computer!--all in separate parts. This was orchestrated by my best friend, who then walked me through assembling and setting up my amazing, tiny (it's the size of a shoe box) computer. He didn't do any of the work, since he knew I liked to do things at least once by myself. It was terrific, and once again, I had to fight my brothers over who got to use it first. This time, I had the upper hand. This computer was all mine.

This taught me how easy it is to do, and proved to me that I could handle the upgrades from then on out. I mean, I built the thing myself. Everything else is just a walk in the park.

Truthfully, it's not too hard to build a computer by yourself. It saves a lot of money over buying one off the shelf, and it's a lot of fun to do. Once you're done, you'll know exactly how your computer is configured and what hardware you've got, because you picked out the parts yourself.

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Living Room / Amazon to expand their payment system to compete with PayPal?
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 12:08 PM »
We here have actually been using Amazon's Honor System to accept donations for quite some time, and they charge very reasonable fees.  So i'm looking forward to this.

Look for a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments, adding to their S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual server) and other services. They’ve been quietly testing the service, which will compete with PayPal and Google Checkout, for a few weeks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 10:39 AM »
Like Tinjaw i have used Funduc's Search and Replace for a while, it's reliably good (not saying it's the best, but it's good):

http://www.funduc.com/search_replace.htm

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Official Announcements / Site of the Month for August 2007: NirSoft.net
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 09:49 AM »
Our site of the month for August is one that has been mentioned many times on our forum, but is long overdue for some official accolades and recognition from us: NirSoft.net:


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In July of 2006, Microsoft aquired the SysInternals team who had demonstrated incredible knowledge of Windows with their small freeware utilities.  It's been over a year since then and Microsoft should get on a phone to the NirSoft folks and make them a similar offer.

NirSoft is doing amazing work.  Their power utilities for windows reach into the very guts of the operating system and do things no other utilities can do.  And they are all free.  Our only warning is that you please don't visit their site unless you have some serious time to kill.  If you are one of those people who love to use programs that let you see what is really happening behind the scenes on your computer, a visit to the NirSoft site is going to be a bit like getting a visit from santa claus on crack.

Some of the tools NirSoft makes are completely unique and wonderfully surprising.  Some of our favorites include:
  • OfficeIns, a tool for viewing and disabling Microsoft Office Add-Ins
    officeins.gif
  • ZipInstaller, an ingenius tool for "installing" programs that are packaged in zip files without their own installers
    zipinst_install.gif
  • ShellExView, a tool for viewing and managing file shell extensions
    shexview.gif
  • ShellMenuView, for investigating and managing the right-click menu items in your system
    shellmenuview.gif
  • Volumouse, a tool for controlling your sound volume using the mouse wheel
    volumouse.gif
  • NirCmd, a great commandline tool that can do all sorts of useful things like shutting down windows, changeing sound volume, etc., (very useful for calling from other tool (we use it in FARR)
  • SmartSniff, a tool for reconstructing network traffic conversations
    smsniff.gif
  • And their newest utility, GDIView, which lists GDI resources in use.
    gdiview.gif

They also have a ton of password recovery tools, browser investigation tools, and much more.

Rarely if ever has a collection of such powerful utilities for Windows been gathered together in one place.  And they are free! Unbelievable. What can we say besides Bravo to NirSoft, we salute you.</p>


Archive of past site-of-the-month winners: https://www.donationcoder.com/Links
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General Software Discussion / Re: Win-Get: Anyone tried this?
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 08:46 AM »
Is it possible that DCUpdater could use it's database?
extremely possible.

Justice has been investigating these kinds of programs, and he and i are going to work together to identify the best features of these tools.

And my current plan is to try to make dcupdater (or a close relative of it) be able to read as many of these kinds of database formats as possible so it can be compatible.
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UrlSnooper / Re: help with webcam streams on www.stickam.com
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 06:17 AM »
lol :)

i dont really know the answer to this, or how possible it is, but you might try something like the site and then a ? and then the parameters..

http://www.stickam.com?autoplay=1&userIP=127.0.0.1&langID=en&userSiteID=1015547&skinType=large&userType=204&userID=174282002&webID=9B64AFBF1A92ADDBD74D5C6A1AD204B4&userName=amyrachel&app=stickam_chat_large.swf
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Developer's Corner / Short Article: When To Dump That Great Idea
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2007, 12:20 AM »
Short but useful to be reminded of this sutff occasionally.

A while ago, you had an idea for a new company that would change the world. You stayed up all night feverishly sketching your plans for global domination.

Yet there you are, months later, still sitting in your cubicle, that brilliant flash a distant memory.

Wake up: Not every idea--even a great one--turns into a money machine. In fact, it's often just as useful to know when to dump a good idea as it is to pursue one--if only so you can get to work on that next "great" idea.

Here are three ways to know when enough is enough.



from http://www.workhappy.net/
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR 2 Public Release postponed from July to August
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2007, 11:23 PM »
Oh, i forgot about that section! Thanks for the reminder.
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Find And Run Robot / FARR 2 Public Release postponed from July to August
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2007, 11:10 PM »
After a feverish month of work on FARR v2, i've decided to push back the official public release another month.

The currently available alpha version is still available to anyone who wants it and is very stable.

I've decided to postpone the official release because I want it to be as smooth an experience as i can make it when it is finally given out to the public, and we aren't quite there yet.  Plus I still have some minor work to do in making the DcUpdater tool as friendly as I can.

So, if you want to start using version 2 don't hesitate to message me on the forum or email me ([email protected]) and i will happily provide you the download link.

Thank you for your understanding,
-mouser
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one of the features of my program Clipboard Help+Spell is a hotkey that will count the characters selected:
https://www.donation...pandspell/index.html

Screenshot - 7_31_2007 , 10_56_58 PM.png

The program is a bit overkill for what you want though..
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Developer's Corner / Blog Article: 25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS
« Last post by mouser on July 31, 2007, 09:35 PM »
Nice article with pictures and links..

Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques even the father of internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with her Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are a lot of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript. So i select some quality and usable rounded corners with CSS techniques for you to have the best choices.



from http://www.veign.com/blog/
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all good ideas and bugs, thank you.. will be working on them, especially the couple of show stoppers.
treeview for plugins is a good idea.
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I've uploaded a new version (1.18.01) but im not going to upload the file that would make everyone's updater update itself, since i expect to have to release minor fixes in the next day or so.

This new version has major changes to the look and feel, but i haven't added any pad file stuff yet.  You will notice however that there is a new tab for programs not yet installed but available for installation.

Screenshot - 7_30_2007 , 11_48_31 PM.png


Version 1.18.01 - July 30th, 2007
  • All options are now in a separate dialog.
  • Main form now has two tabs, one for installed packages, one for available packages.
  • New simple mode button.
  • Self-upgrade now takes place after all other items are updated.
  • New-install update files will be automatically overrided by installed versions of the same pacakge.
  • Checkboxes let you disable items from checking.
  • View menu lets you hide disabled items.
  • Sorted columns are preserved between runs.
  • Added (and set default) an alertbox mode of displaying update from tray.
  • Doesn't pop up on failure to connect to network (better for resuming from sleep issues)
  • Updater was staying minimized to tray if there were updates that had already been reported.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Dev-C++ Questions ?
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2007, 09:48 PM »
as Lahiec says, there are wxwidgets packs for dev-c++, which basically just help you get wxwidgets installed; you don't actually need them. opengl is same situation i believe.  in general expect to have some frustration while you are getting a big library set up but after that it's easy.

i'm a big fan of dev-c++, and like it a lot.  for wxwidgets c++ coding you might also try the free cross-platform and excellent IDE called CodeBlocks: http://www.codeblocks.org/

you probably can code qt apps with dev-c++ though i've not done it and i know qt is more focused on visual studio since they aim for the commercial market.

regarding lua, that's a separate language and you wont be able to use dev-c++ or codeblocks to do lua development, you'll need a lua IDE for that.  Unless you are asking about adding a lua interpreter to your code, in which case you should be able to add that library without much trouble.

to summarize in general:  in plain standard c++, these things like wxwidgets, opengl, and other stuff, are libraries that dont require any special integration into your IDE -- they are just libraries you need to configure/compile/link.
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One of the members on DC also posted a program they wrote to view a page in different browser engines.. does anyone remember the link to this post?
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From freewareworldteam today:
http://wonderwebware...com/webpage-preview/

it's a tool for previewing web pages at different resolutions:
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ok i'm helping with this.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best search and replace software discussion
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2007, 05:06 AM »
This is a great question, and i'm looking forward to hearing about other similar programs.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Multiple Start menus
« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2007, 01:30 AM »
By the way, LaunchBar Commander does allow you to create multiple menus (in your system tray) or docked bars, with their own contents.  You cannot trigger them by hotkeys yet but this is something i plan to add this month.
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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum
« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2007, 07:19 AM »
Don't be fooled by Wordzilla's screenshot of the search-topic edit box, the real power of this feature is that you can now select this from the quick search dropdown box for the topic you are currently browsing, or from *within* the results page.  This is reallly useful for long threads:

Screenshot - 7_29_2007 , 7_15_15 AM.png
Screenshot - 7_29_2007 , 7_15_32 AM.png
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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?
« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2007, 03:39 AM »
A wonderfully told story  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

made me really wish i could have been there.

the part about your pants falling down, well i guess now you know you met cody; when i told him about the trick you played on me telling me the meeting was canceled, he must have decided you needed a little taste of your own medicine and flown out to greet you in his own trickster style.
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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?
« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2007, 03:28 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
love it!!!
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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum
« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2007, 11:36 PM »
Simply Incredible.
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