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Living Room / Re: Tutorlink.com: Find the perfect tutor for you or someone else

« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2007, 09:08 AM »

Also related:

http://www.tutorz.com/



[found on http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub]

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Older Newsletters / Newsletter for March 23rd, 2007 - Codename "Dinner and Drinks"

« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2007, 01:54 AM »

Newsletter for March 23rd, 2007

Codename "Dinner and Drinks"

"If you read nothing else on our site, read our BLOG"

1. Site News and Member Software Updates
Are you going to be near the urbana-champaign area of Illinois this weekend? If so, please join us for dinner and drinks!

• DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois
• For DC Fans: Bring DC Forum to your Desktop for searching/browsing/etc.
• MARCH 2007 SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS POSTED
• Tolipo - cross-platform open source todo list for coders
• Dina for Linux/X11 - solved !

2. March Discounts - One week left for your Website Watcher Discount
Supporting Members, you've only got until March 31st to take advantage of this month's discounts!

• Software from http://www.aignes.com, including Website Watcher, Local Website Archive, and AM-Notebook - I have written frequenly about how Website Watcher is one of my all time favorite applications in the world.  See our big review of website change reporting tools here: https://www.donation...bWatchers/index.html
• Important: Discounts also extended for Neosoft (Chameleon Startup) and Nagarsoft (Direct Access) software through March.

3. Mini-Reviews by Members
The mini review section is where members on our forum can post short reviews about programs they like.  It's a great way to spread the news about an underappreciated application, and discover a new program.

• Great List of disc catalogers
• Einstein Puzzle 2.0 by Flowix Games
• SlickRun
• SpellCatcher Plus. Best in Breed
• 3D Topicscape

4. Software Discoveries, Discussions, and Tips
What's new in the world of software? Are you good at finding new software discoveries? Stop by the forum and help us find stuff!  And don't miss our Found Deals and Discounts section where people post great software discounts they find on the web.

• Better update Firefox!
• Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine
• Artweaver: free natural painting tool
• Clients relationship management software?
• Free software to create CD jewel case labels
• VORG Express: A free PIM designed to meet all your information needs
• WMHelp.com :: XMLPad 3
• Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bit
• Looking for 'Open With...' Editor
• AxCrypt2Go Alpha Preview (open source file encryption)
• MoonEdit - A collaborative text editor
• Gizmo's "46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities List" updated
• Your favorite Registry Viewer + Editor?
• Looking for a "FTP-Size" tool
• UDPixel - repairs Dead Pixel on TFT Screens
• Looking for Outlook Add-On to remove duplicates
• Text xpander that can handle RTF
• Software to compress large pdf files?
• What are your favourite Outlook plugins?
• Use SniffPass (free) to get back your passwords
• Volume Control recommendation
• What's your favorite eBay/auction helping software?
• Neat Net Tricks Software Reviews
• I found a jewel of a program: XMplay
• Strange Windows wallpaper trick
• How to tag files in win XP
• Xara Xtreme Pro / New(ish) Version
• Which software can extract pictures out of pdf ?
• InfraRecorder: Decent Lightweight Burner
• Having trouble finding files? Try CellNet and get a whole lot more.
• Does the software contain virus PECompact?
• Some more editors of mention...

5. Fun Games, Gadgets, and Diversions
Everyone needs a break from work every now and then.. I notice that we haven't been posting as many games lately -- do people want to see more posts about new games found on the web? Let us know.

• OnlyWire: One service for all your social bookmarking needs
• Choosing a keyboard and a mouse
• Yaplet chat on any page
• Flash Circle TD: Flash Game of the Day
• Telling the time is only a small part of what this watch does

6. Website Discoveries, Debates, and Discussions
There are always new website services popping up every day, and lots of debate about the future direction of the web.

• Living with Linux Ubuntu (ONLY) for 30 days
• Daylight-Saving Time Bug
• YouPorn: Like YouTube, but with a triple x rating
• New fees are big trouble for Pandora
• Tutorlink.com: Find the perfect tutor for you or someone else
• Hosting: moving away from shared, and into Virtual Private Servers (VPS)?

7. Developer's Corner
The Developer's Corner section of our website isn't just for programmers, it's for people interested in starting their own business, website developers, etc.

• Five important communication activities for teambuilding
• Money or nothing? Trade-offs in FOSS compensation
• Free HTML / CSS / Link Validation page
• Elgg: Open-source social network platform
• UI differences between web and local (installed) apps
• blog post with a list of reference pages / cheat sheets
• WordPress launches plugin directory
• stock.xchng - A pretty good free stock photo site...
• 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
• How to market your web application

8. Website of the Month
Did you know that DonationCoder.com has a list of all of our past best-of-the-web recommendations and a list of recommended websites arranged by category?

• March 2007 Site of the month: http://www.freewaregenius.com/

9. Cody's Internet Citizen's Club Assignments
Cody, our rambunctious little bird mascot, has decided to form his own club and he wants you to join it!  What's it all about? Mainly it's about being good internet citizens and active DC participants, and working as a team.  In each newsletter you'll have a small assignment or two - like finding a freeware author you like and emailing them a thank you, or participating in a forum poll.  As a Cody Club member, we ask that you perform the Cody Club newsletter task (or else invent one of your own if you object to the one we've chosen).  Occasionally you'll get a little treat, like a postcard in the mail, or a Cody Club iron-on.  Only Cody knows for sure.

• Cody's Club Task #1 - Write a mini-review on this forum of some software you like, or post a review on another site of one of your favorite programs
• Cody's Club Task #2 - Rate 3 programs you like on one or more software listing sites (like Betanews.com or snapfiles.com)
• Cody's Club Task #3 - Do the assignments in the last newsletter if you haven't yet!

10. Coding Snacks
Do you know about our coding snacks section?  It's where everyday people can post ideas for small little utilities they would like to see implemented as freeware.  Post your request and see if one of the coders on our site will implement it while you wait.  If you want to see a great example of how magical the Coding Snacks section can be, check out this request and solution from last week:

• A self-scrolling, BPM adjustable html/notepad/text file gizmo for Musicians

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: SlickRun

« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2007, 01:42 AM »

FARR is quite adept at opening documents, conducting website searches, working with clipboard, etc., plus a ton more things

(make sure you request an early preview of version 2 by sending me an email or private forum message if you want to preview the new features).

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Living Room / Re: Freeware for time recording?

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 10:58 PM »

i'm looking forward to hearing recommendations about this as well.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Network Adapter Detection Fails

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 09:15 PM »

Keep automatic network adapter detection turned off and select your card manually.  Does your network card show up in the list?  When you start snooping and then open pages in your web browser, does the status bar of url snooper show that it is scanning packets, or does it just stay at 0 packets scanned?

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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina for Linux/X11 - solved !

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 09:12 PM »

wonderful!
I hope jibz will add these to his official download page for Dina as well.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Network Adapter Detection Fails

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 06:10 PM »

on vista, url snooper may need to be run with administrative rights.

try right clicking on the url snooper shortcut and selecting the option to let it run as administrator, then restart.

let me know if it works please.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.59 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - MARCH 14, 2007

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 10:36 AM »

It would be great if you didn't hard code fonts and just used the system fonts

That's the way the program operated until recently -- but i had to modify that to deal with people who had large fonts enabled to handle a problem where the fonts were too big for the dialogs. I guess you also have large fonts enabled on your system?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.59 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - MARCH 14, 2007

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2007, 09:20 AM »

customizable fonts are on my todo list.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.59 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - MARCH 14, 2007

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 09:08 PM »

FARR can't find items in when it is in a folder that contain a folder of the same name. If I am in c:\devel and there is a c:\devel\devel\, I won't be able to see and select anything.

i'm having a hard time reproducing this -- it seems to work ok and as expected for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: screen capture tool that appends captures to single image?

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 07:44 PM »

funny you should post this -- i have thought for a while about adding such a feature to my ScreenshotCaptor program.. it's not that hard to imagine cases where it might be useful.. the only thing that has really kept me from adding it is the thought that it might be more useful to make a general purpose program for arranging multiple images in such arragements easily via drag+drop.. 

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 02:27 PM »

champaign has an airport (Willard Airport); there is also 3hr trains/busses to and from chicago.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: A Vista change to the clipboard

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 12:55 PM »

thank you for this info -- very useful.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 09:35 AM »

Addendum:
The Amtrak train station is an easy 10 min walk to my house.

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Official Announcements / DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 09:29 AM »

I've just moved into a new place in champaign-urbana, IL (that's why i haven't been around as much this last month).

Gothic and Della (two DC forum/irc-channel people) are taking a trip to visit this saturday, and on the off chance that there are other people who visit this forum who live in the area or like driving (or taking Amtrak), i thought i would extend the invitation to join us for a late dinner and drinks.  We will be going out not eating at my place, but i'm happy to host anyone who wants to stay overnight (bring your sleeping bag!).

So it will be late dinner and drinks at a downtown champaign restaurant+bar, on saturday night, march 24th.  I'll post more specifics as they become clear but the details may change as the night progresses so you'll have to coordinate with me ahead of time.

We may end up going to the movies sunday afternoon and you are welcome to join us there as well.

Please message me or email me ([email protected]) if you plan on coming - and please do come! it will be fun

ps. It's ok if you are an anti-social person who never posts, this will be just a casual get together, nothing stressfull, and we won't be talking about DC all night long either.  I'm not very social myself so it will be an interesting experience..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: not freeware !!!

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 08:06 AM »

f0dder, ROFL.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: not freeware !!!

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 07:11 AM »

edyshor, I think you make some reasonable points.  I also appreciate that you've come up with definitions that are useful (i think you made a good case about why you think it qualifies as "free software" and not "freeware").  Things become a little messy in the real world because most people don't have such a nuanced view of these word meanings.  I do think we should probably make a more determined effort to use the term free software whenever possible, and avoid using the term "freeware" except when forced to choose between labeling our software freeware vs. shareware.  I'd also agree that Donationware is not the ideal term -- the problem is that there is no existing term that perfectly captures what we do, and we have enough trouble explaining the site to not want to add to it by calling our software "PayWhatYouWantIncludingNothingButYouHaveToSignUpAtForumUnlessYouDontMindAnOccassionalReminderOrWriteToUs_WARE"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Keeping FARR open and on top

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2007, 06:56 AM »

sorry i was wrong, the commandline switch to make it truly exit when you close it and not use the tray is:
-standalone

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Keeping FARR open and on top

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 10:47 PM »

The newer versions, even if not set to start with Windows, leave a System Tray icon running after I once use FARR.  Any way of turning this behavior off?

yes, i think if you put the option -notray in the commandline arguments for your farr shortcut, it should exit for real and not stay in tray (this is a change in the way it used to operate).

I want all launches to behave like I'd right-clicked, and selected "Launch and stay open."

it seems to me that unchecking the option "close window after launch" would be smart to behave as you ask so i will make that so.

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Living Room / Re: Why maple story sucks

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 07:43 PM »

most of us probably don't know about maple story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleStory

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Find And Run Robot / Re: not freeware !!!

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 08:55 AM »

To me, the key part of donationware is that whether or not a user chooses to donate, and regardless of the amount, they should have full access to the full program, without imposing any *non-trivial* work or annoyances.

The *non-trivial* part is where things get a bit subjective and fuzzy -- but at least speaking for myself, that's the standard i use, and i do consider what we ask of users who choose not to donate to be trivial.  For this reason i also consider the software to fall under the heading of free software.

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Best ScreenCaster / Making screencasting in Linux - short but useful article

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 08:40 AM »

Many times a simple screencast showing how to do something by using a series of screenshots in sequence in a video can explain what paragraph after paragraph of words cannot. Linux and a few open source applications make the job of creating such screencasts easy.

http://www.linux.com...sid=07/03/09/2013236

found on http://www.newsforge.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: a self-scrolling, BPM adjustable html/notepad/text file gizmo

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 07:51 AM »

congratulations gothic, it's wonderful too see work like this 

ps.all this talk makes me realize that this might actually make for a good firefox extension task..

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Living Room / Re: YouPorn: Like YouTube, but with a triple x rating

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2007, 12:06 AM »

I left early, spotted the old man and tipped my hat to him.

 

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General Software Discussion / What's your favorite eBay/auction helping software?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2007, 10:58 PM »

I want to start a thread about ebay/auction helping software from those who use such tools..  There are some really great ones I know.

Anyone want to volunteer to help me build a nice list with screenshots and info for these tools similar to what tomos did for disc cataloguers: here?