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General Software Discussion / Re: Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2007, 09:39 PM »

welcome to the site jozy! glad to have you stop by 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2007, 09:11 PM »

Ok here it is filled with books:



I had a lot of spare 1x2 that i used for trim, and so i ended up using it as the middle upright pieces.

The whole thing doesn't look quite as impressive filled with books as it does empty, but it looks nice in person.  For those who wanted me to go with a natural wood look, sorry to disappoint, but it does what it is supposed to do, which is blend in with wall and room, so i'm happy.

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Developer's Corner / Re: SkyIDE - Latest Release Information

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2007, 07:21 PM »

sounds pretty cool.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Rerun StartUp Folder

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2007, 06:52 PM »

nice idea and not hard.

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Living Room / Re: Pubbox.net is down, it's owner is deceased.

« Last post by mouser on June 02, 2007, 08:44 AM »

This brings up an interesting subject..
How many of us who manage websites have contingency plans in place in case we die or are incapacitated.
I have half of a plan in place, but i must admit i haven't fully worked it out.  This is a good reminder about how important it is..

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 24th, 2007 - Codename "Summer is not for Sleeping"

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2007, 06:31 PM »

Like someone's already posted, an editorial of some sorts would be nice. I have to admit I usually just skim through the newsletter, and see if there's an interesting thread or cool piece of software I've missed from the previous weeks. An editorial or something similar would make sure I'd spend more time reading the newsletter.

ok i think this is a good idea and you guys have convinced me to throw in a short little editorial unique to each newsletter.  it's hard enough putting out the newsletters so don't expect great stuff, but i will try to make sure there is a least a couple of paragraphs of newsletter-only editorial on some dc issue.

feel free to send me ideas for things to editorialize about.  i think it would be nice if we occasionally did a little feature of one of our members (i was thinking nudone the creator of cody our mascot would be a good example).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: uCalc Free Math Parser 2.9 is now available

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2007, 04:45 PM »

cool. and welcome to the site daniel 
i might just give this a try -- i like the samples.

the only thing that would scare me off a little is that the full version is too expensive for me to ever buy, and i'm reluctant to become dependent on a tool and then not have a viable upgrade path.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on June 01, 2007, 02:38 AM »

thanks nitrix.  to help me fix it would you mind attaching a zip with your .alias file and icons so i can test with it?
(or mail to [email protected])

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 11:46 PM »

this sounds quite intriguing, i'll have to try it and see how it works since i've never used ff keywords.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 09:16 PM »

ps. i know you guys+gals don't need me to remind you that when someone writes a mini-review you like, send them a credit, or even 0.50 credits, just to say thanks

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 09:15 PM »

Great review.  It's also shows why depending on how you come at a program, sometimes some features are more important than others, and depending on how you are going to use a program, you might prefer one kind of interface over another.

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Re: Something you should know about C++ Builder

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 06:39 PM »

Anyway, it would be easily implementable without need of an executable compressor/packer/bundler through use of a stub executable which has only system DLL dependencies. The stub executable could check for the presence of dependencies of the main executable, download and register if necessary, then pass control to the main executable.

that's a very nice idea too -- and would make a nice coding snack type program.  basically you want a tiny exe which can be configured with a list of pre-requisite requirements, along with accompanying web pages and info messages.  you run it and it checks the pre-requisite requirements, giving the user a report of what they are missing and where to get it and offering to open the web pages for them to download them.  if all requirements are found, it simply calls the true app.  very nice idea i may write this myself.

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Living Room / Re: antbuster - yet a kind of tower defense

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 06:36 PM »

for those who are interested in tower defense games this is a nice example of a game where there is no predefined paths for enemies.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 05:07 PM »

i'm also adding the ability to invoke plugins directly from alias results, and scan plugin directories for alias files.  in this way, a plugin can have its own alias file(s) with a large set of aliases which when triggered tell the plugin to do a certain thing.  this is an advantage over the current system where each plugin can have one and only one regular expression trigger.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 03:58 PM »

hi nitrix, can you clarify what you mean by "the /ICON part is added to the search string"

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DesktopCoral / Re: Er...what am I missing here?

« Last post by mouser on May 31, 2007, 03:37 PM »

It turns out that windows does not let you put icon shortcuts in this area.  As was mentioned before, if you want to do this, use LaunchBar Commander, which will in fact let you create multiple docks with shortcuts and buttons, and resize them exactly the size you want.

What Desktop Coral is still good for is for programs like Samurize which draws stuff on your desktop background, since Desktop Coral can force areas to remain free from applications.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Introductory C# web-based tutorials

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 10:56 PM »

can't wait to see what you come up with.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 09:58 PM »

in general the best way to solve file attachment issue on forum is to zip the file (added advantage is you can embed any icon files in the zip).

having said that, i'm going to go add .alias files to allowed list.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 09:35 PM »

Now that the new version can use multiple independent alias files (with custom icons for results), it would be really nice to see people post alias files for sharing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 09:07 PM »

glad to hear the new fix worked on vista and got your old aliases too. thanks for the quick report! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 07:03 PM »

liquid, can you try the latest version, i think it should now create a myaliases.alias file in the appdata location.
also could you email me ([email protected]) -- it would be nice to have a vista user who can test stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: www.mind-mapping.org

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 06:20 PM »

just a note, most of you know but in case you dont, you can also just type a url with no special formatting or tags and the forum will detect it and make a url link out of it automatically and it adds the ... stuff in the middle of long urls to make them more readable.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 02:23 PM »

i think the way the save game could use some improvement.
it's nice how it autosaves progress.
but a new player might not realize it, and might think they have to keep restarting from begining.
and if you make the mistake of pressing 1player you erase your past save game.

maybe the game should ALWAYS resume from where they left off (ie get rid of load option on main screen and always do a load if they select 1 player). and instead of Load option put at bottom "restart from first level" or "clear save same" or just let user delete the save game if they want to restart since most will not want to.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 12:42 PM »

crap, i see that it's not auto-creating the myaliases.alias file. damn that may be the problem
ok i better release an update asap or no one is going to be able to create aliases!

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Additional Templates

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 12:05 PM »

great questions.

first, as you guessed, the form letter machine comes with no templates other than the sample one.
it's currently made really for people who have their own special types of letters/emails that they write, rather than using present ones.

i think it would be a great idea to share useful templates.  we can do so simply by sharing the form letter data files and posting them on the forum here.

as for creating new templates, it's easy.  The Form Letter Machine calls a "template" a "Configuration Tree", so just go to File -> New Blank Configuration tree from the main menu, and create a new template and save it.  no programming required.