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Mouser's Zone / Re: Im going to be mostly away from the internet this week (Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2011)

« Last post by Ath on August 28, 2011, 02:31 PM »

Have a nice trip. You'll be missed here at DC, so hopefully we'll survive the week without you

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of alternative wifi management software

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 11:41 AM »

Would this help:
http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/

-brahman (August 27, 2011, 10:49 AM)

It's 'limited' to WPA2 protection, so not usable in the scenario for nite_monkey, as he requires WEP protected WiFi at most. Unless he can build his private version of it, downgrading the protection to WEP.

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 09:08 AM »

+1 Now that is motivating

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... external video support

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 08:33 AM »

For that kind of money I'd get ViDock 3 or 4 I guess, that holds a 'real' video card, giving a real performance-boost, and can be upgraded if needed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: a light notetaker/word processor that autohides to the side of the screen

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 08:29 AM »

I have NotesHolder by A!K Research Labs installed, as suggested in another thread on DC

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 08:19 AM »

@nudone, I'll support WinButtons for as long as it seems feasible, meaning I'll (try to) solve any issue you may have


I have a Wacom PenPartner2 that I 'inherited' when I got my wife a (proper) Bamboo drawing tablet, but I hardly use it, as I don't do any graphics stuff, most coding and 'investigating' (aka web-browsing)
That PenPartner is so totally un-fit for WinButtons (combined with a 1920x1200 monitor), I've actually been thinking about getting a real touch-screen, but (tmp lack of) financial means have stopped me so far

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... external video support

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 07:27 AM »

Would this be of help?

And as it doesn't support a proper docking station, maybe a USB dock like this Targus (as offered by Dell) with an extra DVI port could help?
Most likely the performance is not up to par with the expectations or requirements, so the ViDock combined with a multi-monitor card (advice: choose a (mini)DisplayPort model, so a lot of monitors can be connected) could be a better solution.

OTOH, if you need much better graphics power then available in a laptop, you could have bought a more than decent desktop that allows for multiple graphics adapters with multi-monitor capabilities .

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 04:52 AM »

@nudone
You might be pointing at Photoshop Touch? http://www.photoshop.com/products/mobile
Especially Eazel should be what you need, imho.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Helpinator 3.5 - feedback required

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 04:41 AM »

Did we miss something important?

-DmitriPopov (August 26, 2011, 09:06 AM)

The only important missing feature missing so far, after only looking at the website , is a feature comparison between the Free and the Pro version. And the discount offer on the Order page expired some 4 weeks ago, so probably isn't of use any longer...

For the rest it looks like a useful tool, that might finally induce me to write some proper walk-troughs of some of my tools...

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on August 26, 2011, 01:52 AM »

Would be cool as hell if I could also control the TV with it

-Stephen66515 (August 25, 2011, 09:10 PM)

Like these?
http://www.l5remote.com/
http://news.cnet.com..._105-10462439-1.html
http://www.amazon.co...ontrol/dp/B0038Z45IW
http://www.amazon.co...6PU/ref=pd_cp_e_pw_1

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by Ath on August 25, 2011, 02:03 PM »

cause the mouse cursor to jump to the touchscreen button location

-nudone (August 25, 2011, 01:56 PM)

I didn't get that far into it, so I don't have any solution for that built in. I'll see if I can anticipate a fix for that

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by Ath on August 25, 2011, 02:01 PM »

I'm pleased to see that WinButton is now 1.0.0.0

-nudone (August 25, 2011, 12:12 PM)

It's WinButtonEdit, the configuration editor for WinButtons, that has gone the 1.0 release , WinButtons is already on v3.3.2


I tried to do something for Android devices acting as the controller-device by using/modifying PRemoteDroid, but I couldn't get it to work (no WiFi - dev-PC connection available, and USB also doesn't work for me) and the project seems to be abandoned by it's developer(s)

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Living Room / Re: "good" LCD monitors - what are their type

« Last post by Ath on August 24, 2011, 09:30 AM »

It's amazing - maybe this is all a dream.

-nudone (August 24, 2011, 08:03 AM)

Did you forget to break some mirrors, recently, so finally some luck is heading your way?

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Living Room / Re: "good" LCD monitors - what are their type

« Last post by Ath on August 24, 2011, 07:40 AM »

...it's very good indeed.

-nudone (August 24, 2011, 04:33 AM)

Glad it worked out so good

I'm not sure what the type of screen is, maybe I can find out from the model number. To me, it looks like it's slightly inferior to the main HP ZR30W screen (s-ips) but a whole lot better than the bog standard screen it replaces.

-nudone (August 24, 2011, 04:33 AM)

The docs on the Dell site talk about TFT Active Matrix ('Thin Film Transistor'), and AFAIR that's the old original name for an IPS panel, so assuming s-IPS meaning 'Super-IPS', the HP is expected to be a bit better, but the Dell should indeed be a whole lot better than any TN panel and most VA panels.

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Living Room / Re: "good" LCD monitors - what are their type

« Last post by Ath on August 22, 2011, 02:46 PM »

Today I saw an announcement from Iiyama on a 24" and 27" full-hd (1920x1080) monitor that support portrait mode, and by using VA panels, claim a viewing angle of 178 degrees. The specs seem to be available from the Japanese site only, and I found this link to a Japanese language pdf

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Living Room / Re: "good" LCD monitors - what are their type

« Last post by Ath on August 21, 2011, 09:52 AM »

You could have a look at the Dell UltraSharp 2007FP model, 1600x1200, IPS, pivot-able and a dot-pitch close to a 30" monitor (0.255 mm vs. 0.25 mm)

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Developer's Corner / Re: A bit of help C# and MySql

« Last post by Ath on August 21, 2011, 09:20 AM »

if (exist == true)

-.Beatz (August 20, 2011, 07:15 PM)

Why do you code double comparisons? 'exist' is a boolean already, so it's either true or false, writing 'if (exist)' is sufficient.

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Living Room / Re: Patent Wars: Apple Hits Samsung in EU

« Last post by Ath on August 19, 2011, 06:35 AM »

The restriction has already been resized to Germany-only (from EU without the Netherlands where a separate lawsuit has been filed), as the German judge decided he might not have jurisdiction across all of Europe. IMHO he should be dismissed, as that was rather obvious before enforcing his ruling and it now looks like he's been favoring Apple in some way.

my opinion

And with that probably the entire lawsuit, but that might be too political.

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Ath on August 18, 2011, 04:05 AM »

Hmm, I think I'll wait until Stone 2 is released (they never enable all the features on the first release).

-nudone (August 18, 2011, 03:03 AM)

But Stone 1 has been out there for quite some time already, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Stone 2
It's feature set is already rock-solid

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on August 18, 2011, 03:42 AM »

I knew this was all just kids-play

Congrats nosh

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Mozilla trying to do?

« Last post by Ath on August 18, 2011, 03:38 AM »

I didn't notice any changes at all.

-Curt (August 17, 2011, 12:22 PM)

Just an occasional plug-in no longer working because of the version checks built in. Same as from FF4 to FF5. But the (plug-in)updates are usually quick and painless.

Can't see much improvement going from FF5 to FF6 either.

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Living Room / Re: Google to Acquire Motorola

« Last post by Ath on August 16, 2011, 03:45 AM »

So what's next? MS acquires HTC?

-Renegade (August 15, 2011, 10:08 PM)

Well, MS bought Nokia already, so why buy another phone maker? Yeah, to kill more competitors

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Living Room / Re: Bought a desktop and monitor today

« Last post by Ath on August 16, 2011, 03:26 AM »

so I want to know where you're shopping!

-wraith808 (August 15, 2011, 03:50 PM)

It's at the local "Media Markt" (these 3 monitors pages, sorry, all in Dutch, but the prices and specs you can prolly extract from there)
I've been talking about 22"/23" monitors mostly, but they have a few bargains on 24" and 27" as well.

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Living Room / Re: WinXP: monitor USB port disconnects when computer is locked

« Last post by Ath on August 16, 2011, 03:17 AM »

How is the monitor reacting to the system going into low-power/standby state? My system with DisplayPort connected monitors, switches screen-resolution (to 800x600 from 1920x1200) when the monitor is turned off, with Windows in a Locked state. Didn't test with USB devices yet, but it could be that a stand-by state of the monitors disconnects the USB ports also (the off-state certainly does).
Try connecting your USB devices directly (or using a USB-hub if you need extra ports) to the system, and see if that improves the matter.

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Living Room / Re: Bought a desktop and monitor today

« Last post by Ath on August 15, 2011, 01:27 PM »

The difference between 100 and 180 euro isn't all that small, though, IMO

-wraith808 (August 15, 2011, 11:36 AM)

Correct, but the gross of the 22" monitors is between 130 and 160 Euro, the low-life 100 E model I would never buy myself, not even to give away, and the 180 E models are a bit more shiny than the 160 Euro models.