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General Software Discussion / Re: church song software
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 11:10 PM »
ok what is the trick for moving it out of "my personal area" and into the other section or can you do that for me?

Contact mouser and have him move it for you, otherwise you have to copy and paste the bbcode to a new post, and reupload the images, and in the same order as the original post in your personal area.
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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft*
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 08:05 PM »
Payable accounts aren't generally classified as debt. Most accounting conventions place them under the general operating liabilities heading. Or at least they did back when I got my degree (please don't laugh :-[) in accounting. But I freely admit that was quite a while ago, and things have gotten much more...creative...since I last slogged through the GAAP.

Try declaring bankruptcy and they suddenly end up on the list of your creditors to which you are in debt.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 07:18 PM »
Winzip being one of them (I registered 5.0 or 6.0 I think).

They changed their licensing terms with the release of v10 back in 2005, requiring everyone to purchase another license (at half price), or be stuck with nothing newer than v9 from that point forward.

How do I upgrade to the latest version?

Registered users of previous versions of WinZip applications are eligible to upgrade at 50% of the WinZip list prices. In order for you to receive a URL that will enable you to purchase an upgrade at this lower price, you will need to fill out the form for the correct application available from the links below.

Are WinZip upgrades free?

WinZip upgrades are not free. As with other software companies, WinZip has to invest a lot in new development to make sure that WinZip continues to perform correctly on new platforms and to address general changes in computer usage, such as larger files and the need for encryption. In addition we have added a lot of new functionality that took WinZip beyond the basic zipping and unzipping functionality, including new task automation functionality that makes data backup a whole lot easier. The latest versions of WinZip include industry-leading Jpeg compression, as well as new photo management and sharing capabilities -- all thanks to the investment made in research and development.
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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft*
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 12:43 PM »
PS I did consider loading Vista Ultimate on their iMac but can't see them using a dual-boot setup and doubt they'd enjoy running Windows as a VM. Thoughts?

Don't do that! Keep that Vista away from them.

Giftmas comes every year. You could start buying the parts now, then assemble it in early December, put Win7 on it, configure it, load it up with all the best Windows software goodies that would make them wet their Mac loving pants, install a wallpaper changer and load that with the best looking wallpapers you can find, stick Circle Dock on it, and give it to them as a gift.*

If not this year, then maybe next year.  :D


*Then watch them fight over who gets to use the Windows machine and who gets stuck using the Mac.
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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft*
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 11:29 AM »
Why am I finding it hard to believe that Apple has absolutely no debt?

I don't.   :-))

why would Apple need to borrow money from anybody? its cultlike customers seem willing to reach for their plastic everytime Apple releases another one of its expensive toys.

with friends like these, who needs creditors?

One doesn't necessarily have to borrow money to have debt. Debt is a normal part of running a business, especially one that deals with physical goods.

You order parts from another company, either paying on delivery or paying partially up front and the rest on delivery. You are now in debt until the bill is paid, which even if you pay it off within 30 days of delivery, you were still in debt till you paid it off.

You hire workers. You pay them once a week. Until you pay them, you are in debt.

Unless Steve Jobs has a magical elephant hiding in his garage that craps out all his merchandise, without any need to be fed, and all his store employees are robots also crapped out by this magical elephant, Apple has debt that wasn't figured into those totals.
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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 09:11 AM »
Quote from Stoic Joker

On a side note: Spell Check suggested I replace your name with lesbians  ohmy - Not an altogether bad idea...

I was curious so I tried my spell check    It came back   jailbirds

shocking ! :o

It reminded me of this incident, with the spellchecker in wBloggar.  ;D

Incidentally, this was how the spellcheck for "ljbirns" came back in Firefox:

Screenshot - 5_26_2010 , 10_10_48 AM.png
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Living Room / Re: It's Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft*
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 09:03 AM »
Why am I finding it hard to believe that Apple has absolutely no debt?
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General Software Discussion / Re: church song software
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 08:49 AM »
PowerWorshipTM works with Microsoft® PowerPoint® to allow users to maintain a library of worship songs and to dynamically build slide shows and reusable song groups.

I don't think it would be limited to only worship songs. I am sure one could add their favorite pop tunes and use it for other purposes, outside of worship...like maybe karaoke. Might be something you might want to try when you do your review.
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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?
« Last post by app103 on May 26, 2010, 08:23 AM »
-and now it is here. But what about my lifetime license? Will Agnitum honour their words? So far, it seems *not*!!! I hope they very soon will realize that a lifetime license for Security Suite 2009 not just is a license for version 2009 only, but for the Security Suite. The word "lifetime" simply cannot point to a fixed version's number.

But maybe I yet just haven't found the proper way to update.

A lot of antivirus products offer both a lifetime license and time limited licenses (either 6 months or 1 year). This doesn't cover what you think it does.

The one year license is for that version only, and gives you one year of updates (not to be confused with upgrades). A 6 month license gives you 6 months of updates.

What this means is that the frequent updates to the detection dat files will only work for one year (or 6 months, depending on your license). After that, you can't update it any more without paying again.

A lifetime license to version 2009 will allow you to receive newly released dat files to version 2009, for life (or until they drop support for that version and stop releasing dat files, which they usually do about 3-5 years later), rather than for only one year. It does not allow you free upgrades to the next product version.

You could still be using version 2009 in 2011, and still getting updates to the dat files, where someone that only had a one year license wouldn't be able to get those updates any more.

Neither of you would be entitled to version 2010 (or newer) as part of your license.
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Living Room / Re: Power supply and SATA
« Last post by app103 on May 25, 2010, 03:30 PM »
Or you could just get a splitter to turn one of those SATA power connectors into 3 of them, giving you a total of 4.

splitter.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: New App - Floating Ruler - Feedback?
« Last post by app103 on May 23, 2010, 10:40 PM »
If you found/find/would find it useful, let me know.

YES!  :-*

And if you don't update it some time within the next year, I am going to end up writing my own version.  :P
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or Cook and Serve Robot?
-app103
I see you're posting Spam again!
-cranioscopical (May 23, 2010, 07:01 PM)

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After the now-infamous DesktopCoral I hungrily await Mouser's LunchBar Commander!
-cranioscopical (May 23, 2010, 03:56 PM)

or Cook and Serve Robot?
Screenshot - 5_23_2010 , 7_22_04 PM.png

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows shortcut hotkeys broken?
« Last post by app103 on May 23, 2010, 06:08 PM »
I have never been able to get that to work on any version of Windows. I gave up trying.
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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?
« Last post by app103 on May 23, 2010, 10:01 AM »
The button for uploading is showing on mine and works, but my avatar is hosted off-site, because it's animated.
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I remember that shortcut bar.

Mouser's Launchbar Commander might be another option. It has an option to autohide and is a great alternative to using the start menu. You could also place it on one of the sides instead of the top, if you want. And it has an option to delay, so it doesn't activate as easily as the Office bar, so you won't be tripping over it all the time. And if you are still activating it when you don't want, you can also access from the tray icon, and not from a bar at all, or use a keyboard shortcut to make it show.

To get a real feel for the possibilities, take a look at this thread of screenshots from users, showing how they have it configured. https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18759.0
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Living Room / Re: website maker?
« Last post by app103 on May 20, 2010, 07:06 AM »
Check the page source.

If webmaster hasn't removed it, it may state in a generator meta tag what it is, and what version is running the site.

For example, if it's a Wordpress site, you might find the following in the head of the page:

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.2" />

For Joomla, you might find this:

<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
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If you have a good reason to want to keep control over the "official" version of the software, you can offer the source but restrict distribution and forking - that's something i've thought about and continue to think about.

Care to offer some rational? Just curiosity on my part. I could see for example a dev being quite happy for folks to take bits of code and integrate them within their own apps while at the same time not wanting someone to fork when they could offer their additions back to the original application.

I recently tracked down the developer of a calculator application I have used for many years. The version I had was a non-expiring demo with a nag screen. I wanted to purchase the full version, if it was possible. The developer has since stopped development on it and offered me the full version, free of charge, along with the VB source. He said he never sold a single copy of it, since he never considered it complete enough to sell.

However, it is NOT open source and distributing a modified version is not allowed. And I don't think the purpose of providing the source was so that I could use bits of his code in my own apps and release them for others to use, and profit from his work.

But, having the source means I can port it to Delphi, if I want, and continue developing it for my own use, adding any features I want and/or need. I like that idea a lot, since I really love this app and I wouldn't want to live without it...and the developer is not interested in supporting it.
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Living Room / Re: Apple won't take cash for iPads
« Last post by app103 on May 18, 2010, 05:44 PM »
Picture this rather surreal scenario: A millionaire walks into an Apple store with a briefcase full of money and proceeds to buy out the entire stock of everything they sell, with cash. When he leaves, the store's stock is wiped out of everything...except ipads.
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Living Room / Re: Apple won't take cash for iPads
« Last post by app103 on May 18, 2010, 02:48 PM »
So, since I don't have any plastic, Steve Jobs doesn't think my money is green enough to own an iPad, but if I were to develop any apps for it, my money would suddenly be green enough for him to demand his 30% cut, in addition to all kinds of fees involved to get it into his app store.  :down:
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Living Room / Re: How to build website for article repository?
« Last post by app103 on May 18, 2010, 02:21 PM »
I would suggest something like Wordpress for this. Just get (or create) a nice template for it that you find agreeable to your tastes. No need to have all the bells & whistles and a million plugins that do all kinds of stuff you are not interested in. There are a lot of clean looking elegant templates available, and you can modify them to suit your needs.

You said you wanted search. Wordpress has that, built in.
You said you wanted a calendar. There is a widget for that, and it is included with the Wordpress installation. I would just suggest modifying the dates of the posts to match the dates of the games, when you post them to the blog, so they sync up correctly.

You can use tags and categories to classify season/opponent/etc and list them in groups on the sidebar. (or use a dropdown if you prefer).

Rather than copying and pasting the posts from the bbcode into the built in Wordpress post editor, I would use Windows Live Writer to make them, and copy & paste from the actual rendered forum pages. It would retain the formatting, links and all, but in HTML form, instead of bbcode.
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Living Room / Re: The Story of Conficker
« Last post by app103 on May 16, 2010, 11:25 AM »
The eye-chart that's linked to in there is nifty. Remotely pulls in images with some from anti-virus companies, that the maleware blocks.

That eye test isn't 100% accurate. There are cases where it will fail and give you a false negative (you'll see the images even though you are infected). I explained why and gave an example in this post from almost a year ago: https://www.donation....msg159239#msg159239
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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Bookmarklets
« Last post by app103 on May 13, 2010, 06:00 AM »
Krishean's Google Goo Remover that removes the tracking crap from links in Google search, so you can have clean links for copying:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:{function%20detect(el){var%20s=((el.toSource)?el.toSource():el.toString());return(s.indexOf('return%20rwt(')!=-1||s.indexOf('return%20clk(')!=-1);}var%20a=document.getElementsByTagName('a');for(var%20i=0;i<a.length;i++)if(a[i].className=='l'&&a[i].onmousedown&&detect(a[i].onmousedown))a[i].setAttribute('onmousedown','');void(0);};

Snailify It

On my old slow PC, this one is very handy when I hit a page that won't load well on an old slow computer. It takes you to the Google mobile version of the page.

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:location.href='http://www.google.com/gwt/n?_gwt_pg=0&u='+document.location.href;

Zap Colors

When you hit a funky looking page that is too difficult to read because of the web designers choice of background and/or text colors, this one turns the page into black text on a white background with blue unvisited/purple visited links. (you'll never have to deal with lime green text with yellow links on a red background ever again)

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20white%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();

Backtype Connect

This one will show you some recent discussions and tweets associated with any page on the internet. (test it out here to see what it does) This is more handy for your own pages, to track references to it on the web. (Google Alerts can only go so far and misses a lot of what this picks up)

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:location.href='http://www.backtype.com/connect/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href.substring(7).replace(new%20RegExp('/','g'),'%252f').replace(new%20RegExp('&','g'),'%2526'))+'?referrer'

These 2 work well together, for pages that have a lot of thumbnails linked to other pages, where you want to save a list of just the links, so you can hit them all later.

The first creates a page in a popup window, just listing all the links on the page:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:WN7z=open('','Z6','width=400,height=200,scrollbars,resizable,menubar');DL5e=document.links;with(WN7z.document){write('<base%20target=_blank>');for(lKi=0;lKi<DL5e.length;lKi++){write(DL5e[lKi].toString().link(DL5e[lKi])+'<br><br>')};void(close())}

This one hides all visited links, so all you see are the ones you haven't hit yet:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles=':visited%20{display:%20none}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Something cross-platform
« Last post by app103 on May 13, 2010, 05:48 AM »
No. It will be one entry for each, and there is a possibility that I won't be able to duplicate the full functionality of the original, and rather than take away features from Windows users, I would retain the original Windows version if that were to occur. (might mean having to maintain 2 separate sources for each app  :-\)

In any case where I would be retaining the original version for Windows users, only the Linux/Mac versions would be submitted as NANY projects.

I wouldn't consider it 3 projects if it supported all 3 OS's or 2 projects if it supported only 2, since it would be done from a single code base, just compiled for each OS. Skrommel doesn't consider the ahk script and the compiled version of his apps to be 2 separate projects, and I wouldn't for mine, either.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Something cross-platform
« Last post by app103 on May 13, 2010, 04:41 AM »
This is the current Instant Boss icon:

instantbossicon.gif

This is a little larger with some color:

instantbossicon_bigger.jpg

As you can see, resizing it really makes it look like crap.
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