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Dr.Windows / Re: Icon Site

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2006, 09:54 AM »

free icons:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3615.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pligg.com - An Open Source CMS for Creating Digg-like Sites

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2006, 06:46 AM »

i see that sri wrote a walkthrough on installing pligg on his blog:
http://www.sridharee...ll-pligg-a-tutorial/

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Finished Programs / Re: Advanced GUI for UPX

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2006, 02:37 AM »

just to help encourage you - it's realllllly easy to build a standalone .exe from an .ahk script once you install autohotkey, you can just right click on an .ahk in your file explorer and say "make exe".  and having autohotkey installed is nice because then you can customize your script, etc.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2006, 02:35 AM »

8 more to go!

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UrlSnooper / Re: Which link do I want?

« Last post by mouser on November 26, 2006, 02:18 AM »

im not an expert but basically i just use trial and error.

often it's a matter of one early url leading indirectly to another - so i usually just take the last url pointing to a stream that works.
so an http url will lead to a mms url, and so i take the mms.  i *think* a reflector just bounces you to another url, so you would again want the last one.  sometimes a recording program like streamboxvcr will like one url and not another, so sometimes it's trial and error.

"simplify url" just removes parameters at the end of a url, like "mms:\\cspan.org\hearing.rm?mode=compact" will change to "mms:\\cspan.org\hearing.rm", which is usually what you want.  rarely hurts to leave in the other stuff, but simplifying the url can make things a bit cleaner.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Drag and Drop saving

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2006, 03:07 PM »

many of us get mad at the save dialog not starting out where we want it.

for me, the best solution is a dialog box extender.  See our recent review here:

https://www.donation...Extenders/index.html

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

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2006, 09:46 AM »

I'd love to see someone submit some firefox or IE toolbars or extensions as part of this!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop System Specs Info

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2006, 07:10 AM »

i was going to suggest Samurize as well.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Microsoft Keyboard special keys trigger Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2006, 12:29 AM »

having a little trouble tracking this down - may have to buy a ms digital media keyboard just to fix it.

however maybe you can help me by testing the 2 exes in here:
https://www.donation...Beta/TestHotKeys.zip

to test,
just go to the top left hotkey box and do something like ctrl+alt+b, and then click add.
then you should see it in the list at the right.
then press the hotkey combo you added to trigger a message.

the question is, after you add the hotkey, does it pop up when you hit the keyboard multimedia keys?

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Living Room / Re: Cody! Do not go Golfing!

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 09:16 PM »

i dont' watch traumatic videos so i'm happy to say i won't be watching this one.
however cody has informed me he is conducting a world-wide boycott of all golfing events.
he has also begun patenting bird-safe gold balls made out of bird seed.

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Living Room / Re: Mobo dying .... suggestions please on upgrading my system ...

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 08:17 PM »

FWIW, I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the best action is to acquire a new machine and hope to get 2 (maybe 3) years out of it before a combination of obsolescence and desire for new toys moves it down the chain, to be replaced by another. 
  Thus, a brand new machine becomes my main machine; my main machine turns into reserve box 1; reserve box 1 goes to my wife (who has absolutely no interest in a machine for its own sake and wants only a minimal, stable platform); my wife's box turns into back-up machine; backup machine goes to wherever seems like a good idea at the time

chris' solution is the one most used in my family as well.

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Living Room / MOVED: Does anyone know a good scheduling program?

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 08:15 PM »

This topic has been moved to General Software Discussion.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=6270.0

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Character count bubble keeps popping up after upgrading Firefox, IE, ....

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 07:41 PM »

i have a feeling its jaws - only because i have ie7 and ff (though i have 1.5 and not 2.0), but i still am baffled how any program can cause this.

one thing i want to check though:
1. can you set the count character hotkey to something strange, like ctrl+alt+h
2. and then see if it still happens, and see if you get a pop up every time you copy something new to the clipboard.

--

there are really only now 2 possibilities i can conceive of:
either 1) somehow some program is triggering the count character hotkey.
or 2) i have code somewhere that has as an option to show count character display on every copy.  this seems most likely (and would make sense that jaws might be doing it) but i can't find that option in my program.

if you tell me that every time you copy something new to the clipboard you see the pop up right away, then #2 will seem like the problem and i will focus back on that.

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Note Taking Software / Re: Enter TiddlyWiki

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 07:05 PM »

A related program for windows, is WikiPad: http://wikidpad.python-hosting.com/

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Character count bubble keeps popping up after upgrading Firefox, IE, ....

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 06:55 PM »

so just to confirm -
you are saying that even when you change the display type to "Alert Box", that you see alert boxes showing character count that keep popping up ever few seconds, and that this happens even when the character count hotkey set in hotkey page is blank or set to different values?

one other question:
when this bug isnt taking effect, do you see the character count also whenever you copy some text to the clipboard? or only when you use the count characters hotkey?

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Living Room / Re: incircles.com - Chat with your site/blog visitors

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 12:58 PM »

gabbly, that was it.

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Living Room / Re: Lifehacker looking for DonationCoder

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 12:55 PM »

it makes me extremely happy when i see donationcoder mentioned in such things 

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What do you want to do with your life?

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 10:16 AM »

nice!

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Living Room / Re: incircles.com - Chat with your site/blog visitors

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 10:12 AM »

there are actually a couple more of these such site chat addons as well that have been posted about here, can't remember the posts though..

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Living Room / Re: Ricky Gervais new audio show mp3 (from the british version of The Office)

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 09:37 AM »

New show for thanksgiving:

Thanksgiving
November 23: In the second of three seasonal specials, Karl launches a campaign for a calendar-free society, Ricky explains the origins of Thanksgiving and Steve brings up the sterling work mice are carrying out in the name of medicine. Plus a competition to win copies of Karl's book and the new CD box set.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/rickygervais

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Character count bubble keeps popping up after upgrading Firefox, IE, ....

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 05:53 AM »

chaltain , I've posted a beta here: download chs beta 1.12.01

Can you try that and see if the problem persists.

If it does, try going into options and changing the display method to "Alert Box":



And then let me know how it behaves.  That will at least tell me if the problem is somehow with the hotkey detection or with balloon tips in general.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 03:15 AM »

This is getting good - 9 more pledges to go and we'll get the custom mugs

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Developer's Corner / Re: Writing Good Software Documentation

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 03:01 AM »

nice find. 

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Living Room / Re: Snowball: Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 03:00 AM »

cute game, it's like a poor man's Katamari Damacy, where you grow as you roll over objects and can pick up more and more things as you get bigger.

anyone know any other katamari style games for the pc?

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General Software Discussion / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report - Great Site for Windows Vista Info

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2006, 02:56 AM »

Ed Bott has been talking in detail about MS Windows Vista issues for a while now, and has established himself as one of the best sources for vista info.

Recent Entries

• Vista Mailbag: How does the performance rating work?
• Vista Mythbusters #8: That license isn’t so bad, after all
• Will Windows Vista be worth the wait?
• Microsoft and Novell in Windows-Linux deal?
• Microsoft changes Vista license terms
• 10 tips and tweaks for Vista experts

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/

thanks to zaine ridling who pointed us to ed bott first.