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Found Deals and Discounts / Pay What You Want: SitePoint Design E-Book Bundle

« Last post by app103 on January 15, 2016, 07:20 PM »

Pay What You Want: SitePoint Design E-Book Bundle
(10% of the profits goes to the charity, Save the Children)

Beat the average offer to get all 10 of these e-books*.

- Killer UX Design
- The Web Designer's Roadmap
- Photoshop CS6 Unlocked
- The CSS3 Anthology, 4th Edition
- HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World
- Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 3rd Edition
- Photography for the Web
- Jump Start Bootstrap
- Jump Start Responsive Web Design
- Jump Start CSS

https://shop.sitepoi...k-bundle?rid=1364224

*If you pay less than the current average price, you will only receive the last 2 ebooks in the list.


DISCLOSURE: I work for SitePoint, and while they did not ask me to make this post, the link does contain my StackSocial referral ID. I may receive some compensation, in the form of StackSocial credits, should anyone make a purchase through my link. StackSocial credits can be used towards the purchase of items offered through StackSocial shops.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by app103 on January 06, 2016, 08:28 AM »

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The Internet’s Latest Debate: How Would a Dog Wear Pants?  TIME

-Arizona Hot (December 31, 2015, 12:55 PM)

Silly people. Anyone that knows a dog, knows that if the dogs have anything to say about it, they would wear them like this:

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by app103 on January 04, 2016, 11:57 AM »

Harry and his wife are having hard financial times, so they decide she'll become a hooker.
She's not quite sure what to do, so Harry says, "Stand in front of that bar and pick up a guy. Tell him a hundred bucks. If you've got a question, I'll be parked around the corner.
She's not there five minutes when a guy pulls up and says, "How much?"
"A hundred dollars."
"Damn. All I've got is thirty."
"Hold on," she says and runs back to Harry. "What can he get for thirty dollars?"
"A handjob," Harry replies.
She runs back and tells the guy all he gets for thirty dollars is a handjob.
He says okay, she gets in the car, he unzips his pants, and out pops a simply HUGE male unit.
She stares at it for a minute, and then says, "I'll be right back."
She runs back around the corner and says breathlessly, "Harry, can you loan this guy seventy bucks?"

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Living Room / Re: pass time during flights

« Last post by app103 on December 25, 2015, 07:37 AM »

Then I suggest you experiment with indie artists who offer free downloads, and skip Youtube for this trip.

-TaoPhoenix (December 25, 2015, 02:52 AM)

Jamendo!

You might also want to consider some grown up coloring books and a set of colored pencils. You can get them at some of the larger brick & mortar book stores like Barnes & Noble, or if you have time to order them online, you can get a bunch of nice ones, reasonably priced, here.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Black Friday Deals 2015

« Last post by app103 on December 15, 2015, 09:41 PM »

SitePoint's Christmas sale: https://www.sitepoin...emium/christmas-2015

Keep in mind that the freebie bundles on that page do come with a free 14-day trial of SitePoint Premium, and that you will need a credit card to take advantage of those offers. But if you cancel before the end of the free trial, you will not be billed for a renewal.

And there's 2 days left on the Mighty Deals sale of SitePoint Premium lifetime memberships, for $44: http://www.mightydea...tepoint-premium.html

Disclaimer: Yes, I do work for SitePoint, but I was not asked or offered any incentive to post those links here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by app103 on December 14, 2015, 12:58 AM »

If you want lots of controls and options, PotPlayer and VideoLAN are good players as well.

-Shades (December 13, 2015, 12:48 PM)

Honestly, I don't. All I want is quick, fast simple done - done is a beautiful thing...I love being done. Especially in an industry where everything invariably turns into an epic saga of some - generally horrific - kind.

When I feel like -(vegetating)- watching a video, I don't want to be faced with the dashboard of the space shuttle. I just want play, volume, and pause incase I need to take a leak if the vid goes for awhile. Now granted I'm not really into media stuff, but WMP augmented with the Shark007 codec pack (worked for XP/Vista/7/8.x - Haven't tried it on 10) plays damn near anything I've ever come across. So that's what I use.

Come to think of it...I did have BS Player installed on the old machine for some reason that I don't recall. It was actually rather nice IIRC.

-Stoic Joker (December 13, 2015, 10:42 PM)

And that's why I love VLC. I set it as the default player so that when I double click a video file, it just opens it and plays it. No need to install codecs or any other fussing around. It just works. If the dashboard of it looks like the space shuttle, I wouldn't know. All I know is the window that pops open to play a video file is nice & simple and does what it is supposed to do.

And for audio, I use Trout. (which can also play just the audio of MP4 video files, in case I just want to listen instead of watching them, as I most often would do with music videos.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by app103 on December 08, 2015, 08:31 PM »

I suspect that the mistake we all make is to let Windows dictate to us that we put any program files that we wished to control, into either:

    C:\Program Files\, or
    C:\Program Files (x86)\


Recognising years back that the Windows OS did and probably always would take a somewhat proprietary control over those folders, I had always maintained a directory C:\UTIL\ which contains catalogued "type" directories (e.g. C:\UTIL\PIM\Infoselect) holding all of the no-install and installed programs that I use that are not Microsoft software (e.g., including FARR and all its associated plugins, Autohotkey, Firefox, and InfoSelect), with the sole exceptions being any program which:

    (a) seemed to have a dumb "no options" installation proggie that insisted on everything being installed into its own special explicit directory (e.g., Google Chrome Canary wants to be in C:\Users\UserID\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\), or
    (b) had to install only in the usual explicit proggie directory (i.e., C:\Program Files\, or C:\Program Files (x86)\), or
    (c) which could not  work properly if you moved it out of any of those explicit directories once it had been installed there.


This means that when I want to I migrate to another computer, I simply port the C:\UTIL\ directory across to the new computer, and pretty soon I have most of the proggies I can't live without, running on the new computer.

-IainB (December 08, 2015, 07:10 PM)

I go a step further by putting that special self-created folder that I install my programs into, on a different partition than the OS.

Should there ever be an issue with the OS, where it is unbootable, and there is a need to format and reinstall the OS to get things running again, all my program files are safe, not on the same partition as the OS, and in most cases I just need to run them all once and reinsert my license key. A few apps might need to be reinstalled, but for the most part the whole process of getting back up & running is a lot shorter if you don't have to reinstall everything.

And yes, setting up a new system is much faster and easier when all you have to do is copy that folder over and run everything once to insert the license key and identify the handful of apps that need to actually be installed first.

I have even cut down on the number of those by identifying why some of them have to be installed, and including a fixit subfolder with a .reg file, instructions, and/or special files that need to go in the system folder to make it work. (this is also good for repairing apps when something goes wrong)

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Living Room / Re: Your own paper planner and calendars for 2015

« Last post by app103 on December 01, 2015, 06:05 PM »

Thanks! 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AppSumo presents SitePoint Premium deal of a lifetime

« Last post by app103 on November 30, 2015, 09:29 PM »

Yeahhhhh!!! The Deal Is Back!

http://www.appsumo.c...oint-lifetime-offer/

-llc_silly (November 30, 2015, 03:18 PM)

And if you miss it, there is another special going on for the rest of this week, where you can sign up or renew your current membership for either

• a monthly membership (online access only, with no downloads) for $7 per month (normally $15 per month)
• an annual membership (unlimited downloads) for $48 (normally $108 per year)
• a lifetime membership (unlimited downloads) for $199 (never offered on-site before, but valued at $450)

And for the monthly and annual memberships, that's not just for the first month....that's for as long as you remain a member and don't do anything that switches you to another plan. 

For new members: https://www.sitepoint.com/premium/join

For existing members: https://www.sitepoin...remium/account/plans

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Living Room / Re: Your own paper planner and calendars for 2015

« Last post by app103 on November 20, 2015, 07:57 AM »

Howdy!

I am still working on renaming them all ''nice'' and ''clean.'' But if you guys want you can check
it out already. More than 90 printables I collected past year (lot of them used myself as well). Not
only calenders with date- some you can adjust yourself. And there are all kinds of others printables
like to do list templates and mealplanners. Enjoy! 

Scroll down for the download link (files are located on mediafire)

-n8wachT (November 18, 2015, 05:52 AM)

Nice collection. Too bad one can not just download them all in a zip (to save time) without purchasing a pro account.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by app103 on November 20, 2015, 07:53 AM »

I'm not easily impressed but.... this blew my mind.
15 minutes, you won't regret it 

-n8wachT (November 18, 2015, 06:11 PM)

A little more info on this one:

Here we are again: a short film with heavy use of VFX has attracted the eyes of a studio, which has bought rights to turn it into a feature. The short, Sundays, is described by its creators as “an ambitious philosophical science-fiction proof-of-concept short.” It’s pretty, I guess, but it also looks like a pastiche of a bunch of other recognizable concepts stitched together with glossy CG. (Think The Matrix meets District 9 as a basic starting point.) Nevertheless, Warner Bros. has now bought rights to the 14-minute short, and is making some plan to turn it into a feature.

The backstory here is a bit different than other similar-sounding situations. This isn’t just a short that came out of nowhere. It is based on the concept from a commercial director that a producer brought to agency UTA, which helped the director, Mischa Rozema, set up a Kickstarter to raise $50k, and it was shot and finished at the production and VFX house the director co-owns. The idea all along was to create interest in a feature version.

http://www.slashfilm...days-into-a-feature/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by app103 on November 20, 2015, 06:04 AM »

Yes.  But if you turn yourself from a man into Lucy Liu then you are TransLucent.

-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 01:59 PM)

TransLucent...I thought that term described what happened to AT&T, after their surgery back in 1996.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by app103 on October 23, 2015, 08:01 AM »

How to troll a cat.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by app103 on October 20, 2015, 09:00 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: 1Password Leaks Your Data

« Last post by app103 on October 19, 2015, 08:59 AM »

I just checked this with mine.  Everything is correct, up until the last line.  There are no passwords stored in that file.  Just the addresses of the sites.

-wraith808 (October 19, 2015, 12:28 AM)

The article never said it was leaking password data.

The meta data can present just as much of a privacy or security issue, in some cases, depending on what's in there and where you store your keychain file. It's pretty much a list of every site you have a login on. And as the author stated, it could also contain password reset URLs that are not one time usage urls.

1Password has always known about this issue but doesn't seem to really care about it (it was a deliberate design decision), and doesn't inform their users about it. I wonder how many of their users just assume this data is all encrypted, because they haven't been told otherwise.

People get upset when their government wants ISPs to save a history of every URL visited by each of their customers, to be made available to them upon request, calling that an invasion of their privacy. How would this kind of data about 1Password users, made available to the public in plain text (depending on where you store your keychain file) be any less of a privacy risk?

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General Software Discussion / Re: dfx audio enhancer pro

« Last post by app103 on October 18, 2015, 11:50 PM »

Hi Demogorgon...welcome to the forum.

I am sorry to say this, but if the developer doesn't offer a lifetime license, there isn't anything we can do to change that.

That said, I checked their website and I don't see where a pro version is mentioned. I do see a plus version, though. Is that the same one you are referring to?

I also do not see where on their site that it mentions that the license is only for 1 year.

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General Software Discussion / 1Password Leaks Your Data

« Last post by app103 on October 18, 2015, 09:40 PM »

For those of you who don’t know, 1PasswordAnywhere is a feature of 1Password which allows you to access your data without needing their client software. 1Password originally only used the “Agile Keychain” format to store their data (not including when they were OS X keychain only). This format basically stores your data as a series of JavaScript files which are decrypted your data when you supply your master password. Since the files are JavaScript and implementations of various crypto algorithms exist in JavaScript, there was no reason why AgileBits couldn’t come along and make a HTML and JavaScript client for viewing your data, so they did.

If you browse to your .agilekeychain “file” on disk, you find that it is actually a directory. Inside this directory is a file named “1Password.html”. If you access this file over HTTP (note that using the file protocol won’t work), you will be greeted with a grey page which has a lock image and a password field. Enter your password and your keychain will unlock and you have a read only view of your data.

So what’s the problem? Well, it turns out that your metadata isn’t encrypted. I discovered this after having a sync issue with Dropbox (I use Dropbox to host my keychain). The file that had issues was 1Password.agilekeychain/data/default/contents.js. Being a curious kind of guy I opened the file to see what was in there. The answer is the name and address of every item that I have in 1Password. Every single one. In plain text.

The implications of that are rather serious, in some cases. To understand just how serious and hear what 1Password had to say about all of this, read the full article.

http://myers.io/2015...ord-leaks-your-data/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by app103 on October 06, 2015, 07:30 PM »

Thanks for the great tips! It looks like PS Tray Factory will fill the bill perfectly. Even more options than I could hope for. It looks like the last update was in 2010 but it works fine on Win7. $25 is a little steep for this trivial need, but hey, it supports a struggling coder!

-wysocki (October 05, 2015, 07:36 PM)

I have been using PS Tray Factory for eons, and I love it. But one of its features is broken on Win7 x64. You do not want to try using the Application Minimizer. Don't even click the tab for it in the UI. (that's the feature that lets you minimize any app or window to the tray)

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 06, 2015, 07:05 PM »

And freaky eyes!

-Deozaan (October 06, 2015, 06:39 PM)

I didn't add those. Stoic did. 

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 04, 2015, 09:06 PM »

Nope, can't open that PSD in Photoshop CS2. 

But I was able to export mine out of Paintshop Pro as a PSD.

It will look the same but it won't have all stoic's layers included in it. His will be as a single layer, with mine on top of it.

You can download the PSD, PSP, and JPG here.

You can copy those layers from my PSD over to stoic's, being careful to make sure they are in the same order and the transparency settings are the same.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 04, 2015, 07:24 PM »

I'll see what I can do about exporting each layer out of PSP and reassembling them in Photoshop.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 04, 2015, 05:01 PM »

Oh FFS... ...the PSD is 216MB, but I'll zip and post it if you want me to.

-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2015, 04:56 PM)

I am working in Paintshop Pro, which doesn't handle PSDs very well.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 04, 2015, 04:49 PM »

Added ghostship.

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Living Room / Re: Any photoshoppers feel like trying to hauntify a house photo

« Last post by app103 on October 04, 2015, 04:15 PM »

added

• Moon
• Bats
• Ghost
• Raven
• Mist

Can't find my tombstone tubes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers?

« Last post by app103 on September 21, 2015, 12:24 AM »

Don't most anti-virus/anti-malware apps flag applications that collect this type of data and phone it home, labeling them as PUPs, spyware, or malware?

And search/browsing history isn't always anonymous or non-personal. History says it isn't.