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General Software Discussion / KnowledgebasePublisher v2.0 - Nice CMS Software for Hierarchical Articles

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2006, 09:30 AM »

Our very own Chris Hanscom (veign) has been blogging away like a mad man lately, and I just noticed his entry praising this open source content management tool for faqs and other hierarchical information called KnowledgebasePublisher. Really looks sweet.

KnowledgebasePublisher is an opensource knowledge base software, FAQ software, or just content manager about any other type of article that you want to publish on your website. It's so easy to use that you can be managing knowledgebase on your website right from your own web browser.

The KnowledgebasePublisher allows a content administrator in your company to easily add/edit/delete and post current information to your website at any time, day or night.

http://kbpublisher.sourceforge.net/

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Living Room / Podiobooks.com - Free (Serialized) Audio Books - Donations Shared with Authors

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2006, 07:47 AM »

I'm not sure I really get the point of serializing these books (means you get a new chapter each week), but they are free and I really like the idea that they run on donations and share donations with authors..

Podiobooks is a term coined by Evo Terra of The Dragon Page and Slice of Scifi to describe serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format. Subscribers to the podcast feed for each book will receive a new chapter each and every week. Some listeners keep it on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most (hopefully) transfer the file on to their mp3 player so they can listen no matter where they are.

All the books you'll find on podiobooks.com are provided by the authors to you for free. Many authors do this to get exposure for their work, others do it in the hopes you'll buy their next work in development. Still others simply do it for the sheer joy of writing. And while it's not required, you have the option to donate money to the author of your choice. When you consider that audio books run usually 50% more than their hardcover counterparts... we hope you'll be generous. Authors receive 75% of all the proceeds from the donations from listeners. The smaller portion goes to the maintenance and upkeep of podiobooks.com.
...
1778 episodes available for download in 80 titles
5,738 Active Members
Over 1,067,585 episodes downloaded since 10/1/2005

http://www.podiobooks.com/

from www.boingboing.com

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General Software Discussion / musikCube 1.0 Final Released

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 11:47 PM »

musikCube is an open source grid-centric media player that has received a lot of attention on the DonationCoder.com forums and is a fantasticly clean program designed for those who prefer clean organization above exotic skins.

musikCube is an mp3 player for the modern generation. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere. For the technical user, musikCube is based on an embedded SQL database engine known as sqlite. For the non technical user, that means its fast. Really fast. "Dynamic playlists" allow fully automatic, randomized playback of songs based on your observed listening habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable, user reorderable playlists.

Cube also makes transferring audio between home and work very easy with it's unique support for removable storage devices. A "removable storage device" is any flash memory, thumb drive, or portable mp3 player that acts as a hard disk when you plug it in.

http://www.musikcube.com/

from http://www.neowin.net

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Giveawayoftheday - Jetstart Pro - for a very limited period

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 11:05 PM »

Thanks for the heads up patteo - and please keep these kinds of posts coming - very useful! 

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General Software Discussion / Ask City: "The Online Map With The Best Features Hands Down?"

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 11:03 PM »

CyberNetNews.com is quite excited about the new AskCity page:

I didn’t think an online mapping service could keep a clean interface like the one Google Maps has and still add more great features. Ask has done just that with their new Ask City and it is hard to even describe how smooth the site operates. In the screenshot above you can see that there is essentially three “frames”: search, results, and map. At first I was wondering “what if I don’t need the results frame” but then I realized you can maximize either the results or the map by clicking the little box in the upper-right corner of their respective frame.
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Read review..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Problem with closing and an invisible dock :S

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 10:05 PM »

your bars are not lost, just do file open and find them - it just didnt save its memory of which launch bar files you had open.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Problem with closing and an invisible dock :S

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 09:04 PM »

ok im guessing its probably trying to ask you if you want to save changes, but the window is hidden due to a bug.. ill see if i can find the bug if i'm right..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Keep a given windows to front

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 08:28 PM »

SingleApp is something different.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Keep a given windows to front

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 02:12 PM »

I like TurboTop (freeware):

http://www.savardsof...re.com/downloads.asp

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Developer's Corner / Re: ACNP Software: Anti Cut and Past Software

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 01:14 PM »

Note there is a free version of this, which only compares documents you have locally (good for if you are a teacher and want to check for plaigarism amongst the submissions you have received), and a commercial tool which scours internet for duplicate content.

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 11:55 AM »

excellent skwire!

ps.

Games are welcome as NANY entries - and you can even use your submission to the accessibility game contest (deadline dec.22nd) as your NANY entry:
https://www.donation....com/Contests/agame/

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Official Announcements / What changes would you like to see on DonationCoder.com in 2007?

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 11:11 AM »

Now's your chance to have your voice heard - what changes would you like to see take place on DonationCoder.com in 2007?

Ideas large and small are welcome.

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Living Room / Re: Tony vs. Paul - The Coolest Stop Motion Video Ever Made

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 10:49 AM »

Did i speak too soon about this beeing the coolest stop-motion movie?

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw

from http://www.neatorama.com/

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2006, 08:24 AM »

a new article:
http://news.com.com/...3.html?tag=nefd.lede

Digg executives say they are on top of the situation.

you can't fix a system like this - at the very core of it is a huge incentive to manipulate and game the system, and like google ad clicking fraud, you cannot win the war against people manipulating the system (and these companies probably don't really whole heartedly want to, since the fraud ends up helping them).  the only way to "fix" such a system is use a different system that doesn't incentivize fraud and manipulation.

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Living Room / Re: MS paint sucks... but artists don't.

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:08 PM »

Amazing.  Credit where credit is due - the car artist is here:
http://www.pixelgod.net/

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Tip: Keep your Desktop Empty and Put it on your LaunchBa

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:01 PM »

All this and you need no extra software to do it!

shhh!!! don't tell them that!! 

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LaunchBar Commander / Tip: Keep your Desktop Empty and Put it on your LaunchBa

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 06:48 PM »

I know a lot of people like to put things on their desktop, but i find it very cluttered when there are icons all over.
So here's a little tip for something you can do with LaunchBar Commander if you feel like me and like an empty desktop.

First, right click on your desktop and choose "Arrange Icons By" ->  and UNCHECK "Show Desktop Icons"


At this point, your desktop icons will all dissapear.  They are still there, dont worry, just not visible - you can always bring them back by rechecking that option.

Ok now open up Launchbar Commander, and make a new node somewhere, of the type "Folder Node" and for the folder choose "%DesktopAll%" from the drop down list.


Now you've added a menu on your launch bar which will list all "invisible" files and shortcuts on your desktop (except not the MyComputer and recycle bin, sorry!).

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Problem with closing and an invisible dock :S

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 05:31 PM »

ok so when you choose to exit from the tray, what happens? does it just ignore you and not exit?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Problem with closing and an invisible dock :S

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 02:22 PM »

note: you can exit launchbar commander from the tray.

if it doesnt exit when you choose exit from a minimized dock on the tray, then i might have an idea what is wrong..
let me know.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 11:41 AM »

Try this just to be sure:
exit program, delete the Settings.ini file in your url snooper directory, then restart and reselect network adapter, etc.
and make sure NOTHING is filled in in the "Keyword Filter" box at the top of the Search tab.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 11:39 AM »

it makes no sense to me that the packets are going up but its not displaying urls..
the packets going up means its sniffing them.. it's hard to imagine a scenario where that would happen and yet it wouldnt find urls..

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General Software Discussion / Internet Explorer 7 or "Is MS determined to make everyone hate them by 2010?"

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 11:24 AM »

I resisted firefox for a loooong time, and for a long time I used netcaptor, which does tabs really well and uses the IE engine.
I finally started switching over to firefox in the last 6 months or so, as i got used to the excellent tab externsion addons.

When IE7 came out I tried it and while i was not exactly happy with the new UI, the tabs seemed to work well enough, and IE7 starts up so much faster than FF for me that i have been using it.

However it seems that the development team on IE really must have missed the Windows 98 phenomena where you would run out of user resources (user interface handles, etc), and programs would start locking up and beeping and breaking and just randomly misbehaving for no reason.  They missed it so much in Windows XP which seemed to have solved this problem, that they put it back into IE7.

In fact this seems to be a trend with MS (who i have defended in the past and continue to think does some great work).  No one write programs that are more incompatible with and prone to break and abuse Microsoft Windows standards than Microsoft itself.  It's one of the great mysteries of the universe that they can't seem to write well behaved programs on their own platform.  Maybe ms should concentrate on writing software for the mac and let other write for windows.

After two or three windows of IE7 are open, all hell breaks lose on my computer (win xp sp2); IE7 itself and other programs start to fail to be able to open new dialogs and windows.  Instead, if i'm lucky, they just beep incoherently when they try.  After much cursing i remember i have to close IE7 and then all programs start behaving ok again.

So, to IE7 i say: "get the F* off of my comptuer."

[ this message cross-posted to http://www.shitware....threads/Default.aspx ]

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 10:49 AM »

here's the thing..
it doesnt make sense that it could pick up none on that test i gave you, and yet still be picking up some in some other case.

let me ask you, after you click "sniff network" and then start browsing and opening cspan.org, etc.  look at the bottom statusbar on url snooper.. does it show an increasing count of packets it has processed?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 10:28 AM »

ok if its not finding anything when you search in your browser it means its not properly sniffing urls from your browser.

the manual download function just scans the web page and is not as good as scanning the network live from your regular browser.

what adapter have you selected? do you know what brand of network adapter you have?

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Living Room / Re: Agnitum Outpost 4 .... dumped

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 08:51 AM »

ah, nice find marc 

now we see perhaps why agnitum is still so highly regarded by so many - it really does have a great feature set and a nice interface.  they just need to improve the quality control and pre-release testing.