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27301
Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 10:10 AM »
Part of the problem with FARR aliases is that they are a hard concept to explain, so people tend to get excited when some other launch program claims to have a few special built in keywords that do special things, wheras FARR uses the much more generic concept of aliases.

FARR v2 now comes pre-installed with a ton of default ones (most actually contain menus of subcommands), but the main point is that you can create your own powerful aliases that:

  • launch programs, open documents, present menus, open urls, parse regular expressions, copy and past clipboard text, conduct more complicated virtual searches, and more.

And this of course doesn't even include the new FARR v2 plugin system which really extends the kinds of things you can do with FARR.

27302
Find And Run Robot / Configuring wordweb to search from FARR
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 10:04 AM »
You can type "ww definition" and that word will show up in WordWeb if you have SlickRun configured correctly.

want to be able to bring up wordweb with definition for the word you type in farr in exactly the same way as you cite for slickrun? add the following alias (just select this text, go to alias tab and right click and say paste preformatted alias):
[Select]
1000>>>ww>->WordWeb - $$1 | C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe WWEB32.DLL,ShowRunDLL $$1>+>^ww (.*)

ps.
farr (v2) has a built in alias "define" so you can type define WORDNAME and get a menu of online dictionaries to search for the definition of your word.

of course you can add your own aliases, etc.
27303
Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for March 23rd, 2007 - Codename "Dinner and Drinks"
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 09:47 AM »
Is everyone doing their cody tasks?
27304
Find And Run Robot / Re: Key Launch - the indexed farr we want?
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 09:03 AM »
I agree 100%, when indexing is added it will be completely optional.
27305
Find And Run Robot / Re: Key Launch - the indexed farr we want?
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 06:55 AM »
are you using farr v2 alpha? ms word office 2007 should work fine with v2.
27306
Find And Run Robot / Re: Key Launch - the indexed farr we want?
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 05:48 AM »
nice find, i think i had another tool with same name "Key Launch" in my Related Programs section of the help file, but not this one.

another vote for me adding indexing huh? i hear ya.  it's still planned as an optional feature in farr.
27307
Site/Forum Features / Re: Feature request for DCPostNotifierLite
« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2007, 05:40 AM »
these are great points.

I think the best solution may be #2, to add a tagging feature and then a nice page which would organize categories (maybe hierarchically) so that you could browse by subject.

I have implemented a very specific kind of alternate tagging system already that lets us dynamically generate pages like:

I think expanding this idea to a more robust system of tagging and category browsing is a good idea.  I've posted about an existing preliminary tag mod that someone wrote for smf, and it is our intention to add something like that to DC.
27308
Living Room / Re: The First DC Get together Dinner and Drinks event
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2007, 10:01 PM »
It was definitely a fun visit and for some antisocial people we did pretty well  :up:
27309
Find And Run Robot / Re: Do any of you customize/alter the Aliases that come with FARR?
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2007, 09:16 PM »
how about aliases & search folders in a separate ini file?

this may actually be the right way to go -- treat alias files like plugins, so you can easily enable and disable addon sets of aliases.
27310
Find And Run Robot / Re: In depth look at Quicksilver
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2007, 01:52 PM »
Thanks for the tip about the lifehacker post  :up:
27311
Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.65 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - MARCH 27, 2007
« Last post by mouser on March 27, 2007, 09:51 AM »
New version is up (2.00.65), which has some non-trivial changes to the aliases.

Most importantly is the new addition of a checkbox in each alias that marks it as a built-in default alias, which will be OVERWRITTEN on update. This is very important because it means that users should not modify these aliases (if you want to modify them, make a copy of them and disable the original, or uncheck the built-in/readonly checkbox to indicate you never want it ever updated).

This change was important because it will now allow me to improve the default aliases.  A special backup is now made of your ini file every time a new version of farr is installed so you will have backups in case something goes wrong. Those of you who have customized your aliases may need to re-tweak them again and there may be a case (i think the email alias) where you find a duplicate old alias that might need deleting.

I would *strongly* appreciate any suggestions about aliases i should add.  There are a few aliases that really need some more entries in them, and i encourage users to post their suggestions here.

You'll also find a bunch of new aliases in this version, including a special helpfarr alias which shows you a menu of more farr built-in search phrases.  See the help file as usual for more details, and version history on the first post in this thread.

Hopefully i can move to plugins/visualupdates/speedoptimization with next update.

--

ps. I hope these new alias changes don't cause too many headaches for existing users -- please realize it was important to do so to make sure we could fix and update these default aliases when the need arises because we see a better way to do something.
27312
Find And Run Robot / Re: Do any of you customize/alter the Aliases that come with FARR?
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 09:40 PM »
how about aliases & search folders in a separate ini file?
extremely good idea
27313
Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 07:48 AM »
It went well  :Thmbsup:
It was really only Gothic and Della and two local friends who also visit dc so it was a small gathring.
We went to a local Thai food place which is excellent, then to bar for a few drinks.
Saw 300 on sunday (i was dissapointed).

Gothic and i chatted in irc channel as normal even though we were in same room :)
27314
Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 07:33 AM »
im incorporating all of these into new FARR v2 default aliases, but I'd love to hear more suggested aliases to add..

speak up -- now is your chance to have your favorite aliases make history!  :P
27315
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini-Review: TimeKeeper v2.20c by TSM, Kevin Pluck, Crypto-Central
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 07:30 AM »
Fantastic mini review  :Thmbsup:
27316
Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 07:12 AM »
Sorry for your loss Darwin.
(see if you can find this song: Joan Baez "Old Blue")
27317
DC Website Help and Extras / Re: How to linkifice an image?
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 06:20 AM »
let me extend from 20 to 200 :)
27318
Find And Run Robot / Re: Do any of you customize/alter the Aliases that come with FARR?
« Last post by mouser on March 26, 2007, 05:33 AM »
oh good, thanks for reminding me about that thread.  how about giving me your define and search aliases lanux so i can add them to farr.
27319
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 11:55 PM »
It's getting really good.. but for the love of god add better gravity and acceleration control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See those posts i made about the other game (ball revamped) that i really am a big fan of for examples.
27320
General Software Discussion / Anyone know any good cheap, easy to use software for interior design stuff?
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 09:38 PM »
I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for simple software that would let you sketch out your floor plan and then move around furniture and experiment with different objects (chairs,etc.) in different places?
27321
UrlSnooper / Re: Is it Possible to Run 2 Versions of WinCap?
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 08:59 PM »
the latest version that used winpcap3 was:

Version 2.16.01 - Nov. 30th, 2006

So i think that is the one you want, or any version before that.
27322
Screenshot Captor / Re: Endpoint Text getting cut off
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 08:53 PM »
i completely agree with these requests.. but it's not so easy.. i will bring them up with the author of the library i use to do the arrows.. perhaps i can pass on some screenshot captor donations to him :)
27323
UrlSnooper / Re: Is it Possible to Run 2 Versions of WinCap?
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 01:01 PM »
url snooper used winpcap3 up until just a few months ago, so ill find a version with all the new features and which uses winpcap3.  just give me a couple of days.
27324
General Software Discussion / Re: how tidy and complete is your music library?
« Last post by mouser on March 25, 2007, 12:02 AM »
This was just posted on freeware world team today, and seems relevant:

WheelTag - http://www.ipod-software.com

WheelTag is a unique id3 tag editor which enables you to tag all of your mp3s quickly and easily
Whether you have an Ipod full of music or simply a few mp3s, WheelTag is the software for you.
WheelTag Key Features:
Batch tag editor for viewing/editing entire albums/folders at once (including sub-folders)
Spreadsheet style tag editing
Auto Tagging feature which enables you to tag entire albums at once
... many more

b_autotag.jpg
27325
Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?
« Last post by mouser on March 24, 2007, 11:46 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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