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Living Room / Save the web!
« Last post by Edvard on September 22, 2006, 01:23 PM »
What happens when Leslie Hall, Peter Pan and Tron Guy team up to save the web? I have no words to describe. I'm all for it. Watch the video.

http://www.wearetheweb.org
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Living Room / Blattophobes, click not...
« Last post by Edvard on September 21, 2006, 03:50 PM »
Ewww.... Cockroach smacking flash game

http://www.gamedesig...roach/cockroach.html

blatta.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by Edvard on September 21, 2006, 11:38 AM »
Hoo boy... Can o' worms comin' through!!

These are the ones I use either constantly or on a regular basis...

PowerPro- For oh, so many wonderful reasons.
xplorer^2- Man, what a concept... Two file panes=more work done. Who'd a thunk it?
JS Pager- Since discovering the concept of Virtual Desktops in Linux, I can't live without it.
FireFox- Sorry Opera lovers, it just rubs me wrong. Don't try to convert me, I've made up my mind.
Avira Personal- Not.One.Virus.Ever.
7-Zip- Obvious.
GNU Utilities for Windows- NOT the Cygwin ones!! (ech!)
AutoHotkey or AutoIt- Your choice, they're both good.
Scite- For editing my Auto-whatsit scripts.
PDFCreator and PDFTK and PDFBlender- Cause I'm too cheap for Acrobat Distiller...
XnView or IrfanView- Take your pick.
ContextEdit- h@x0r those pesky context menus! (linked from a google search because PCMag wants money for a freeware product...)

And I probably missed a few...
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General Software Discussion / Re: Help! How can I grab embedded streaming videos?
« Last post by Edvard on September 19, 2006, 12:01 PM »
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No doubt Ubuntu is very easy to use with all the power you could expect from a linux distro. But being a "everything included" sort of thing, I was not fully aware of all that was/was not installed. Sure I could open the package manager and take a peek, but I prefer knowing what I'm installing and why and where it is.
So I run teh Slackware, natch!
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Living Room / Re: Ben Franklin's Lightning Experiments Digitized
« Last post by Edvard on September 18, 2006, 12:38 PM »
There were certain rules, obviously and if I remember correctly, it's always the first 's' gets it. I remember a friend of mine and I used to smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and his favorite tobacco brand came in a marshmallow-green tin and was called "Three Castles" except the first 's' looked like an 'f' so we pronounced it (on purpose) "three caftuls"
 Ahh... memories ;D
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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.
« Last post by Edvard on September 18, 2006, 12:12 PM »
OK, here's what I did to maximise my icon flavor choices...
Download the GANT3 icon set from Mattahan at DeviantArt: http://www.deviantar.../deviation/15364715/
Inside is a little command-line utility called "png2ico" that was written by Andreas Verhoeven (yes, THAT Andreas Verhoeven). This is NOT the png2ico by Matthias Brenkmann, it us much more advanced and can batch create icons from a directory of pngs with multiple sizes and bit depths. The one by Matthias can only do one at a time in 256 colors max. Using Andreas' png2ico you can use all the Linux png icons available at places like KDE-Look, Gnome-Look, and a million other places.
My Favorites?
Tango: http://www.winmatrix...x.php?showtopic=7810
Nuvola: http://icon-king.com/?p=15
Almost everything Everaldo does: http://www.everaldo.com/
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General Software Discussion / Re: Social Bookmarks for Developers
« Last post by Edvard on September 14, 2006, 11:35 AM »
I thought the article on How your GUI looks to Color-Blind folks was interesting, you're right I probably wouldn't have seen such a thing except at a place like dzone.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations
« Last post by Edvard on September 13, 2006, 02:19 PM »
zridling, did you see Trandesk in the C++ Builder contest winners?
https://www.donation...93.msg33859#msg33859
http://www.xhirl.com...are/trandesk/webhelp
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General Software Discussion / Chatbots... the nuts and bolts.
« Last post by Edvard on September 13, 2006, 12:05 PM »
In a reply to Deozaan's topic here, I inadvertently stepped into a world I never knew existed. Much has been said about AI in research white papers and college theses, but where does it all shake out? Well, it appears that chatbots are the primary outlet for all this, so start here and learn AIML, the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language.
http://www.alicebot.org/

Then you can go here to speak with a few:
http://www.pandorabo...om/botmaster/en/home
http://www.knytetrypper.com/ain.html
http://www.runabot.com/
http://www.lots-a-bots.com/

Go here to talk about the subject:
http://www.alicebot....g/mailing-lists.html
http://knytetrypper....ards19.com/index.cgi
http://www.digitalgirl.co.uk/
http://www.vrconsulting.it/vhf/

and as soon as you think your bot is ready for prime-time:
http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/
http://www.personalityforge.com/

Show me your bot! (add animation and voice)
http://www.mediasemantics.com/
http://haptek.com/

*gulp* We should all have seen this one coming... *slaps forehead*
http://karigirl.com/
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General Software Discussion / Social Bookmarks for Developers
« Last post by Edvard on September 13, 2006, 10:46 AM »
(found on the ever-cool ShellCity)
Social bookmarking site for developers. There's almost nowhere with developer-focused links as active and interesting as what the dzone.com community produces. Worth your while.
http://www.dzone.com/

Check it out, it's pretty groovy and content quite relevant to the fine crowd of folks we have here on DC.
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Living Room / Re: Chat with God online!
« Last post by Edvard on September 12, 2006, 08:06 PM »
Deozaan, if you didn't already know, AIML is a chatbot language that "God" was written in. More here: http://www.alicebot.org
I told "God" that I knew AIML...
This is what He said...
Me:
 i know aiml
God:
How do you know?
 The ALICE software implements AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup
 Language) a non-standard evolving markup language for creating chat robots.
 The primary design feature of AIML is minimalism.  Compared with
 other chat robot languages, AIML is perhaps the simplest.  The
 pattern matching language is very simple, for example permitting
 only one wild-card ('*') match character per pattern.

 AIML is an XML language, implying that it obeys certain grammatical
 meta-rules.  The choice of XML syntax permits integration with
 other tools such as XML editors.  Another motivation for XML is
 its familiar look and feel, especially to people with HTML experience.

 An AIML chat robot begins and ends with the <alice> and
 </alice> tags respectively.



And here is an interesting concept. You've heard of social bookmarking, here is social chatbotting!
http://www.personalityforge.com/
Welcome to the The Personality Forge, the world's first community of living people and artificial intelligence entities called bots. Come on in, and chat with bots and botmasters, then create your own artificial intelligence personality, and turn it loose to chat with both real people and other chat bots. Here you'll find thousands of AI personalities, including bartenders, college students, flirts, rebels, adventurers, fairies, gods, aliens, reconstructions of real people, cartoon characters, and even an AI hamster.
(whoa... I just got a mental image of two "God" bots chatting each other up... The horror!!...)

Apparently chatbots are looking to be the premier way of testing AI engines, so this is bound to get bigger. Not sure if that is a good thing.

Also, check out the Chatterbox Challenge: http://www.chatterboxchallenge.com/
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I'd put Clippy in charge of the toilet paper.
tpclippy.png
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Living Room / Re: Cool ASCII Banner Site
« Last post by Edvard on September 07, 2006, 01:31 PM »
Or if you want a stand-alone, check out Jave:
http://www.jave.de.
Does ascii art, figlets, and ascii-mations!!

<edit>
Holy smokes, Jave is the engine behind asciimaps!!
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Living Room / Wolfenstein 5k - The classic, miniaturized
« Last post by Edvard on September 06, 2006, 03:53 PM »
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Living Room / Re: Darth Vader vs. Japanese Police
« Last post by Edvard on September 06, 2006, 11:36 AM »
I agree, the pimp slap to Darth's polished bean was priceless. And his reaction to the policeman in round 2 who snapped his lightsaber in half...  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations
« Last post by Edvard on September 06, 2006, 11:26 AM »
Yep, still using it and still learning how it works. :) I experimented with skinning it two weeks ago, and drove myself batty and then suddenly it worked....
rjbull suggested I do a mini-tutorial but I don't know where to start... I guess I can tell everybody how I made my launcher and hotkeys, but I also make use of a lot of 3rd party apps. I use JSpager for virtual desktops because I dislike powerpro's VDM, I use Hawkeye ShellInit because I can't get PowerPro to do desktop margins consistently, and I use AutoHotkey/AutoIt because I don't like PowerPro's scripting language, things like that.
Maybe I could answer questions as I have time in a "Ask PowerPro questions here" thread, who knows? I don't get to this forum as often as I used to, so it may be sketchy. Whaddya all think?
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Living Room / Darth Vader vs. Japanese Police
« Last post by Edvard on September 05, 2006, 07:49 PM »
I am laughing with tears in my eyes at this moment... ;D ;D ;D ;D
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=INmz-EntcvM
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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations
« Last post by Edvard on September 05, 2006, 07:33 PM »
Personally, I cannot get on without a VDM. So much so I wrote a mini-review a while back...
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2485.0
and BTW, if you use Litestep, there's at least 5 different ones available as plugins.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: eyeOS - Online "Operating System"
« Last post by Edvard on September 05, 2006, 07:20 PM »
And here comes another: YouOS.com
YouOS
A Web Operating System
YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform.
    * Access from anywhere.
      Create a document at an office computer, drive home, continue right from where you left off.
    * Built-in sharing.
      Instantly share music, documents and more with your buddies.
    * An application community.
      Everyone from professional software engineers to high school age programmers can participate at no cost. Choose from a growing list of over 619 released applications developed by our users.

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Living Room / Re: Pagefile.sys
« Last post by Edvard on September 05, 2006, 11:36 AM »
PageDefrag from Sysinternals.com
http://www.sysintern...ties/PageDefrag.html
PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
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Living Room / Fascinating weird creatures...
« Last post by Edvard on August 28, 2006, 06:44 PM »
Made from paper, modeling paste and bamboo.
http://www.pinktenta...fantastic-creatures/
Apparently, this was hot on del.icio.us a while ago, but I just rediscovered it and thought I'd share...
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What? No Avira? (Formerly Known As H+Bedv AntiVir...) Was it one of the Rejected Ones? Sure it's the Free version. Sure it isn't as feature-full as others, but dang...

Not.
One.
Virus.
Ever.

Shouldn't that count for something?
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