Recent Posts

27976

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 04:02 AM »

Are there plans about translating FARR?

I've actually had a good experience translating my URL Snooper program but it does involve a bit of work and maintenance and so it always ends up on the bottom of my todo lists.

27977

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 03:59 AM »

The rest of what you are saying meshes exactly with the discussions we have had in the past about supporting "actions" in a future version of farr.  In this case you want to perform an action on a file or path so you want to be able to have farr help you find a file and then maybe help you chose an action to perform on it (or in opposite order).

Although i think a lot more thought has to go into the "perfect" way to do this.. maybe i can sneak in a preliminary implementation of this using the keyword modifiers that recently got added.

The keyword modifiers start with + and let you restrict search directories and scoring patterns.

So that you can type:
dylan +audio
Which tells farr to only find certain types of files and only look in certain places.

Now what if we added the ability to use +ALIAS syntax as well
which would say to ignore the regular expression of the ALIAS, but use the search result as the $$1 paramater in the alias.

So for example, in your case you would make an alias called hexedit
with commandline "C:\program files\hexedit.exe $$1"

Then to use it you would do
+hexedit myfilepattern
and farr would do normal search as you type myfilepattern as normal, as if +hexedit was a search modifier.
except that you would be launching hexedit on the file when you launch.

Now you gave a complex example of using 2 parameters..  That's a lot more convoluted to handle..
Though conceivably it could be done by letting you trigger the first parameter, and then letting you search for second, but that sounds like it could get a bit messy.

27978

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 03:43 AM »

Btw. The actual history score is neither shown nor updated in result list. It always stays at 100 or rather history bonus.

i think what you are referring to was on request, it's an option:


(note the history score is always used when matching against what you type).

Oh. And about the fraction bug... In alias/group score 1000,25 results in 0.

thx, fixing now.

27979

Mouser's Zone / Re: Recommended settings for ProcessTamer on software taking too much CPU

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 02:58 AM »

the donation page has a link to alternative electronic payment services we accept (including amazon.com, 2checkout, and others): https://www.donation...te/DonateMethod.html

Keep in mind we are a very informal operation here; at the bottom of the about page: https://www.donation...com/About/index.html
you will see a mailing address you can send cash, diamonds, chocolates, paintings, intelligent robots from the future, etc.

And if you are in a far away country where donating would be difficult, you can simply make a donation to a local charity and send us a postcard instead.

27980

General Software Discussion / Re: sizeasy.com - visualizing sizes made easy

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 02:52 AM »

Thank you!
ps. you can always use the

[Select]

[attach=1][/attach]

directive to place attached image inline where you want it

27981

General Software Discussion / Re: sizeasy.com - visualizing sizes made easy

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 02:15 AM »

please attach screenshots to such posts so that we can more easily blog!

27982

Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: HTTP to FTP downloader

« Last post by mouser on January 16, 2007, 12:40 AM »

emm, yes that's exactly the idea.

27983

Living Room / Re: Bang Howdy - Free Strategic Multiplayer Game

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 11:03 PM »

this is tempting.. maybe we can organize a dc town ?

27984

Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 09:16 PM »

i played it to the end - amazing that they put that into 100k.

27985

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

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

try the latest download please - and thank you for the reporting - you're a life saver.

regarding floats: it's actually a new thing for farr to use float scores - i only added it because one feature requested a lot for v2 was that the history list keep some track of how often you launched files so that they could be given higher scores, and i felt that the decay rate for items in the history list really needed to be fractional (though it's possible in retrospect that leaving it integral probably would have been ok).  Hopefully it's fixed now though so it won't matter.

27986

LaunchBar Commander / Re: minimize to tray and reboot..

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 08:55 PM »

so it's remembering that you last had it in the tray.. and you don't want it to?

27987

Developer's Corner / Re: Joel Spolsky's Recent Essays Opposing Simplicity

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 05:44 PM »

Another nice blog follow up:
http://www.yinsochen...s-not-pay-too-early/

27988

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 05:32 PM »

hornsts, can you download the latest version (same url) and see if the , vs . problems are solved?

27989

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 05:05 PM »

thank you for the information about the floating point (fractional) scores getting messed up depending on the locale - that's a huge bug.  working on it now.
ps. what locale are you?

27990

Official Announcements / Re: January 2007 Discounts: FinePrint (35%) and Net Transport (30%)

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 03:17 PM »

Exactly.  It's really a compromise to give people both a chance to win, and also time to consider using the discount.

Realize that unlike some of these other websites which have popped up recently whose entire business model is designed around making affiliate fees from sales, etc., that the discounts and giveaways as never planned, it just sort of happened.

When we first started with the discounts and giveaways we had the giveaway end at the very end of the month, and then there would be like 24 hours between people finding out they didn't win until the end of the discount.  Seemed kind of crazy and unfair to the companies too.

So now the idea is that we end the giveaway in the middle of the month, and then peopl have the other half of the month to contemplate the discount.  It also matches up well now with our newsletters since the first newsletter we can remind people about the giveaway deadline, close enough to deadline that they actually remember, and in the second newsletter of the month we can do the same about the end of discount deadline.

27991

Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 05:52 AM »

Incredible.

27992

Official Announcements / JANUARY 2007 SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS POSTED

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 03:58 AM »

WINNERS OF THE JANUARY 2007 FREE SOFTWARE GIVEAWAY

A huge thanks to all of the companies who donated software for us to give away, and made very generous discounts available for our members.  The discounts are still available throughout the month if you didn't win a copy in the drawing:

• Fineprint (35% discount)
• Net Transport (30% discount)

More information about this month's discounts can be found here and here.


Winners of 'Fineprint' (5):

• briandorsey
• doncodfish
• garywooldridge
• rkr3
• wnitzan

Winners of 'Net Transport' (5):

• angelia
• GeorgeH
• markan
• Midnight Rambler
• woolly

About Net Transport:
Let me just say a few words about Net Transport - I use it personally to record a few internet radio stations on a schedule.  Net Transport is *extremely* good at recording streaming media, and has a wonderful scheduler.  It is reliable, stable, and just one of those programs that should be getting a hell of a lot more attention than it does, probably because it doesn't have the marketing forces behind it that some of the much less sophisticated tools do.  If you are serious about recording streaming media, this should be the very first program you check out.  Really a fantastic product in my opinion - mouser

About FinePrint:
Read the long member mini-review of fineprint (and comments): Here.

All winners are now being notified by email to their forum email address.  If you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail [email protected] and let us know you never got any mail.  It can take a few days for companies to send you your serial number; if a few days pass and you haven't received it - send a reminder to the company email as noted in your winning notification email, or to us by replying to the email you received or to us directly.

Curious about how we award prizes?  See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility. Winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum slightly increases your chances.

27993

N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by mouser on January 15, 2007, 03:34 AM »

heheheh tinjaw does look mad at his cup.. perhaps he was expecting it to be full of chocolate.

nudone you got a mug too so you have to post a photo as well!

27994

Screenshot Captor / Re: suddenly my captures are all B/W

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 10:21 PM »

but i really need my captures to be in color

you sure are spoiled    hehehehe

i'm trying to think what would cause this.. Couple of possibilities:

Check in your OnCapture tab of preferences, in far right - see if you have it set to grey the area outside of active window.

If nothing strange there, try fully EXITING screenshot captor from tray and restarting.  If it still does the B&W thing then email me your ScreenshotCaptor.ini options file ([email protected]) and i'll see what i can find.

27995

Find And Run Robot / Request for new FARR aliases

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 06:42 PM »

i'd like to request suggestions for new farr aliases to release with v2.
if anyone has some nice ones, especially any cool regex ones, please post.

27996

Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: --> PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST <--

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 03:59 PM »

Here's a screenshot of what you should when you create a new topic and choose the mini-review template from the preset text drop-down:



note: make sure you have javascript enabled - i think it's used to fill the message text.

27997

General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Drag and Drop Mouse Issues Killing Me

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 03:49 PM »

logitech mouse and ms keyboard. i can actually live without the mouse driver but need the keyboard driver for keyboard volume control which i like.  i like the mouse driver too actually but i could live without it.

27998

UrlSnooper / Re: Dear Mouser is it working yet?

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 02:48 PM »

Hi little fish - i will check into win98 this week and hopefully have a fix, or at least a definitive answer.

27999

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 08:25 AM »

Actually it looks like i left it in and just changed the shortcut to CTRL+ALT+Enter.
Hit that and it should launch all results currently listed.

28000

N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by mouser on January 14, 2007, 07:47 AM »

yay !!! more pics with people and their mugs please