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LaunchBar Commander / Re: bug - tiny but a bug

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:13 AM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: Interesting Simple Machines Forum Thread on Why SMF is Free

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:02 AM »

yup, ill be upgrading soon.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:02 AM »

What we could really do with is a simple app that checks all outgoing data for personal information which warns you and lets you manually block such traffic.

i'd like to know about such software too - i seem to remember that some firewalls had this.
(it could be written as an agnitum outpost firewall addon by the way - maybe a nice NANY project if someone is feeling brave..)

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General Software Discussion / Re: NOD32 Technical Support - Interesting response

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 07:00 AM »

cool - thanks for sharing that carol.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: bug - tiny but a bug

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 06:51 AM »

Hi Curt -
i don't think that bug is related to Launchbar Commander - it's not a launchbar commander hotkey that i can remember; it sounds like a a clipboard tool of some sort.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Sniffing, but can't smell

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2006, 05:33 AM »

well the fact that you said it found some urls once suggests that it's working.

let me just walk you through a test to make sure you're using it correctly, etc.

Start URL Snooper.
Go to Advancd mode, and set your network adapter manually in the General Options tab.
Now go back to Search tab, and check that your "Keyword Filter" edit box and "Also Search For" edit boxes are empty.
Set your Protocol Filter to "Show All", which should show you all urls found (not just streaming media ones).
Now click "Sniff Network" button.
Now the program is watching for network traffic.

Ok now GO TO YOUR WEB BROWSER (like firefox or internet explorer), and open up http://www.cspan.org
NOTE: do this in your normal WEB BROWSER, not using the built in "Manually scan a url" box.

If the program is working correctly, when the cspan page loads, you should see a couple hundred urls shown in the url snooper results list.

Some people don't realize that you have to visit the page in your browser while url snopper is running.
Let me know how that works with you.

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Living Room / Re: Invisible Bike And Other Cat Signs

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 04:16 PM »

More (thanks housetier):
http://www.acc.umu.s...zqad/cats/index.html

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

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

it's interesting to read so much agreement that v4 (and really every new release they've made) is buggy.  they seem to have some quality control issues.  i am alsos till using v3 and it seems quite stable and good to me - but clearly they need to do something to fix their approach.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: change monitor brightness with keyboard

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 03:56 PM »

how soon we forget!!

Gamma Panel:

https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=331.0
http://www.dcmembers.../index.php?show=gapa

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Developer's Corner / An Entrepreneur's Take on "The Long Tail"

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 10:19 AM »

Yaro Starak writes an interesting blog on entrepeneurial business issues, marketing, small business stuff, etc.

Today he wrote a long piece on "The Long Tail", a very influencial article that became a book.

We've discussed the idea of the "Long Tail" before on the donationcoder.com forum, and if you are already familiar with the concept, you might not learn much new.  But if you aren't familiar with the concept, this blog is as good a place to start as any.

The Long Tail is the transition from a hit-focused marketplace to a millions of niches marketplace. While the majority of profits previously were made by selling a handful of products (the hits) to a lot of people, now millions of products are being sold to smaller amounts of people based on niches.

http://www.entrepren...m/587/the-long-tail/

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Developer's Corner / Re: DelphiFeeds.com - Great Delphi/C++Builder Daily Info and Tips Site

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 09:40 AM »

Similarly useful blog from people running DelphiFeeds.com: http://software.gurock.com/

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Developer's Corner / DelphiFeeds.com - Great Delphi/C++Builder Daily Info and Tips Site

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 09:38 AM »

DelphiFeeds.com is a great site for getting your daily news about delphi and delphi-related tools and software.

DelphiFeeds.com is a side project from Tobias and Dennis Gurock (our blog: software.gurock.com). This site has been developed as an internal project for the Gurock Software intranet. We decided to make it public when we noticed how useful such a site would be for the Delphi community. Although this site originated from Gurock Software, this site is purely a private project of us and is not provided by Gurock Software.

This site collects many different feeds from blogs, newsgroups and other Delphi sites. We then publish short excerpts from the postings or articles on the DelphiFeeds.com front page. The whole process is automated and we cannot review every single posting that is added to this site. We try to include quality blogs and sites only so that the signal/noise ratio should be good. If we notice that a blog mostly contains off topic postings or offensive content, we will consider removing the site in question.

http://www.delphifeeds.com/

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UrlSnooper / Re: Feature removed from URLSnooper?

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 04:48 AM »

i just went and checked.. hehe i guess i did remove that feature; figured people would use something else if they really cared.. but actually now that we have advanced vs. simple modes, i don't mind putting it back in advanced mode

i have a new version i'm currently beta testing for vista compatibility, so it will be back soon when that next version is released.

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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 02, 2006, 04:19 AM »

great! keep 'em coming!

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Living Room / Re: Would you like a rare & valuable Cody mug?

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2006, 04:13 AM »

Congratulations Dr-Leech! Thank you for making us all feel like unproductive slobs with your typing count. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 09:54 PM »

great find deozaan 

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Official Announcements / Re: --> Announcing December's Discounts and Giveaways

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 09:41 PM »

but i still listed wrong url for tidy; thanks corrected now.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Folders in Drag and Drop??

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 04:37 PM »

you can see why i made it easier to run perl and other language scripts from d+d, because its common that we want to launch a small script on each entry, like the kind you are doing.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Folders in Drag and Drop??

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

i understand what you are trying to do;
here is my memory and 2 possible solutions.

1) i think you might be able to do:
cd C:\Scripts\Bb\fixes_drapdroprobot.bat

which basically SHOULD mean, switch to the dropped folder directory and then run the script.


2) a cleaner more general solution would simply be to make a batch file or script which looks like:
cd "%1"
run C:\Scripts\Bb\fixes_drapdroprobot.bat

something like that.

in other words, d+d isnt great at running built in shell commands, so instead put them in a bat file and run the bat file, and let the bat file do the cd.

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Official Announcements / --> Announcing December's Discounts and Giveaways

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 03:39 PM »

Another great month of discounts and giveaway, to make your life a little brighter during this holiday season.

Decembers's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

• Tidy Start Menu (50% discount)
• Vista Start Menu (50% discount)
• My Life Organized (50% discount)
• Surfulater (35% discount)
• Direct Access (30% discount)
• Axialis Icon Workshop (discount was last month)
• Real World Icon Editor (discount was last month)
• Microangelo Toolset (discount was last month)

IMPORTANT: The software giveaway this month will end on December 14th, so make sure you submit your entry to win before then.  The discounts run throughout all of December.

Big thanks go to all of the authors and companies that have made these generous discounts and giveaways possible - show them some appreciation by checking out their software!

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Folders in Drag and Drop??

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 03:09 PM »

d+d is very happy to have folders dropped on it and to process folders, you just have to make sure you've checked the right option on the far right.



ps.
I actually have an updated version of D+D robot that i need to upload, with better support for running scripts and stuff (old version complained if you tried to run a non exe/bat script like perl, etc.)

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Living Room / Re: LED Mirror that displays scrolling messages

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 11:56 AM »

i want one!

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

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2006, 08:31 AM »

This stop-motion video (where individual frames are composed and then played back rapidly to generate an illusion of movement), is incredible, and shows what kind of brilliant work can be done by some dedicated individuals..  Pure fun and brilliant!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AJzU3NjDikY

from http://www.nedbatchelder.com

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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 01, 2006, 07:46 AM »

1. the last two apps i wrote were during work hours for work tasks, so the intellectual property belongs to work and we have patented them

Keep in mind that for this challenge we are not asking for any exclusivity or intellectual property rights. in fact we never have for any of our contests or challenges - this site is not trying to own the rights for anyone's hard work!  you write it, you own it!

It's just more of an attempt to get a bunch of people to release some brand new freeware/donationware all at the same time on Jan 1, 2007, and *announce* it as part of N.A.N.Y. project.  You could even still keep the software on your own website, with just links back and forth.

But you might be saying that you can't make your programs available free to the public, which is a different matter of course.

I'm sure people here can help brainstorm some new good ideas (or chat in the irc channel to think up some).

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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 01, 2006, 05:21 AM »

two more pledges!! i think we are going to meet our 15 goal very soon.