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Living Room / On websites: why do sans-serif fonts sometimes look great, sometimes not?
« Last post by superboyac on February 01, 2011, 01:01 PM »
I've dabbling with tweaking my website look.  I like tranglos' site very much, see here:
http://ethervane.com/

Anyway, that's besides the point.  What I don't really understand is how come the sans-serif fonts sometimes look good in browsers, and sometimes they don't?  There's something weird there.  I normally tend to prefer the sans-serif fonts like helvetica, arial, calibri, verdana...but when it goes on the website, something happens that I don't always understand.

So if you look at my site right now, you'll notice that the normal text has a jagged look about it:
screenshot_20110201105617.png

How can I get those characters to be more smooth?  More of a "cleartype" look?  Another thing I've noticed is this thing:
screenshot_20110201105404.png
Why does that happen?  I think those sites are intended to look good on macs, and not pc's.

What I would really like the font to look like is more of what we see with the fonts on Word (or any word processor):
screenshot_20110201110042.png

Actually, that doesn't look as good as I expected.  Maybe it's this XP computer I have at work.  I think these all looked better at home on my Windows 7 computer. 

The end goal of all this: what is the best sans-serif font(s) for me to use for a website?  but I don't want to turn this into another best fonts discussion.  i want to address the specific questions above.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Block/Unblock all network traffic button (one-click)
« Last post by superboyac on February 01, 2011, 11:35 AM »
Hm... That looks like a Windows (error) message. Can you disable the NIC in question from the Network Connections folder?

(Bing seems to think this is a common Windows issue)
-Stoic Joker (February 01, 2011, 11:24 AM)
you're right.  I'm at work, and i can't disable this connection.  I'm guessing it's a restriction put in place by our network admins.
screenshot_20110201093507.png
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Block/Unblock all network traffic button (one-click)
« Last post by superboyac on February 01, 2011, 10:51 AM »
I'm getting the following errors when I run the program and then try to click on the icon in the system tray:
screenshot_20110201084942.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 07:08 PM »
I tried it at home on a Windows 7 pc with no wifi adapters, and it gave some kind of GUID error dialog.
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 09:30 AM)

Really? Weird, I just ran it here (Win7 desktop/no WiFi) and it just quietly exited. Might that have been an earlier build? I gotta remember to put build numbers in these things (bad habbit...).

If you let me know which GUID error (there's several...) it threw, I'll see if I can figure out how it got there. I still gotta work out a dead adapter check too.
-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2011, 11:50 AM)
I'll make sure to do that once I get home.
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 12:24 PM)
I was wrong.  There's no error.  Maybe i was using the older version.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: BADGE IDEA: special badges for helpful individuals
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 04:25 PM »
If it's just a number, then it would fit nicely next to the "Posts:" number, and it would probably in green or gold color.
-Ath (January 31, 2011, 04:00 PM)
that's probably a good idea.  Hopefully, a forum mod like this has already been done, so mouser could just copy it.  i know I've seen it on other forums.  I just don't remember what type of engines those forums used.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: BADGE IDEA: special badges for helpful individuals
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:58 PM »
1) I like the concept of the badge counting the number of entries (or "helps" in this case).  So it would be really cool if there was a count on the badge for the number of times someone has provided a good solution for the individual asking.
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 03:53 PM)

You mean we can build up Kudo's here :-* That's nice, but I'd be expecting some folks to get way bigger numbers there than would fit in the standard badge icons we currently have :tellme:
-Ath (January 31, 2011, 03:57 PM)
Good, they deserve it.  We have amazing people here.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: BADGE IDEA: special badges for helpful individuals
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:56 PM »
Wouldnt a "Props" or "Thanks" system be easier for mouser to implement, it means he wouldnt have to spend his life adding badges to profiles, users can just thank the helpful person themselves :P
-Stephen66515 (January 31, 2011, 03:55 PM)
Yes, that's nice also.  Sure, I don't want to make work for mouser if it's not something he's going to enjoy.  It just seems to me that people get a kick out of the badges here.  But a thanks system works the same way, so that's equally cool.  I'll accept it! :up:
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Site/Forum Features / BADGE IDEA: special badges for helpful individuals
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:53 PM »
Mouser, I think I have a pretty cool badge idea.  A lot of people come here asking questions and searching for answers.  Often times, one of our very knowledgeable members gives a great solution to the problem in question.  I think these people need a special badge for doing that.  Now, i've been following the NANY badge discussion, and I have a couple of ideas:

1) I like the concept of the badge counting the number of entries (or "helps" in this case).  So it would be really cool if there was a count on the badge for the number of times someone has provided a good solution for the individual asking.

2) The badge could be very simple.  Like just a bright background color with a number inside.

COuld something like this be possible?  i think it would be pretty fun.  it can mimic what the DC credits were supposed to do, which is acknowledge those users who have helped each other.

Good?
kind of like the superboy badge, but more general...
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:47 PM »
Could it be some default hotkey from your graphics card driver software?
-skwire (January 31, 2011, 03:30 PM)
Ah!  Brilliant!  I think you may be right.  I think it started after I installed my ATI drivers.  if you are correct, that's going to be awesome!  Great intuition...
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:25 PM »
Maybe better: remove/disable as much as you can in the various Autostart sections (e.g. using Autoruns), the check the hotkeys, start the suspect apps manually and check again.
-tranglos (January 31, 2011, 02:45 PM)
I'll give that a shot.  If anyone has any tips, the hotkey I'm looking for is Ctrl-Alt-[right arrow].  My Windows installation is still pretty new, so there isn't much software installed.  if any of you thinks they might know which program is doing it, I'd appreciate it.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Shutdown Windows toolbar ( SuperboyAC special for DC!)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 03:22 PM »
Yes, ath, that's pretty much what I'm going for.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 02:41 PM »
It's nothing like that.  The problem simply is that the automatic wordwrap doesn't happen for pasted paragraphs because they missed that initially and now they just don't care to add it.  I've told them exactly how to do it and their response is:
I am sorry to say, but this is not a bug, it's a feature of MicroEd. Auto-Format works that way for years and we do not intend to change that...
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Shutdown Windows toolbar ( SuperboyAC special for DC!)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 02:35 PM »
I'm not sure yet, but I think if I set mine up the way I'm thinking, you'll be able to add whatever parameters you want in LBC to do that sort of thing.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 02:29 PM »
how do i find out which programs are using the particular shortcut?
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 12:52 AM)

Unfortunately, because of limitations in the Win32 API, you can't.
-skwire (January 31, 2011, 02:18 PM)
Aww, crap.  This is going to take me forever to figure out!
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 12:24 PM »
I tried it at home on a Windows 7 pc with no wifi adapters, and it gave some kind of GUID error dialog.
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 09:30 AM)

Really? Weird, I just ran it here (Win7 desktop/no WiFi) and it just quietly exited. Might that have been an earlier build? I gotta remember to put build numbers in these things (bad habbit...).

If you let me know which GUID error (there's several...) it threw, I'll see if I can figure out how it got there. I still gotta work out a dead adapter check too.
-Stoic Joker (January 31, 2011, 11:50 AM)
I'll make sure to do that once I get home.
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LaunchBar Commander / Shutdown Windows toolbar ( SuperboyAC special for DC!)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 11:11 AM »
Hi guys, since I'm not a programmer but always secretly wished I was, I'm going to offer something here that nobody will care about, but I think is cool.  It's a shutdown toolbar for Windows.  It will work the same as the program Quick Shutdown, except it will just be a toolbar built with LBC.  I'll put some nice buttons and icons for it also.  Why am I doing this?  No real reason, it's just stress relief for me since I'm working hard lately.

First thing I need to figure out are all the shutdown command line parameters.  I'm going to do it for Windows 7 first.  Then I might do it for XP if it's different.

PS You can find my review of Quick Shutdown here:
http://aram.dcmember...ware/quick-shutdown/
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 11:06 AM »
yes, but why can't they just fix it?
-superboyac (January 31, 2011, 10:45 AM)

In my case, I like that my client doesn't auto-format pasted blocks because there are plenty of times I don't want the pasted block formatted.
-skwire (January 31, 2011, 10:55 AM)
I understand your preference.  I'm not saying one is better than the other.  But to refuse to make the editor behave like any normal Windows text editor seems odd.  Look, they've already added the automatic wrapping feature.  Obviously it's something they considered and decided to implement.  So why not just finish the job?  Why leave it half finished?  The questions is not "Is wrapping a good thing?".  The question is "If we're going to have automatic wrapping, shouldn't it work even when text is pasted in?  Or should it only work as you type?"
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 11:02 AM »
Let's see what the bat's customer service is like:
screenshot_20110131084926.png
So that means about 1200 feature requests have been made, and less than 200 of them have even been looked at.  Same goes for just the other items below it.  it seems like they just close issues without doing much.  This program seriously has not changed much over the years.  Anything they modify or fix are tiny little things here and there, such as:
"The main improvement of the new version is a significant speed up of message retrieving via POP3 servers".
Oh yay!  So they will fix that, but not the editor, which is what all users are dealing with 90% of the time while on the Bat.  It's basically the heart of the program.  it's email, after all, what else are you doing other than reading/writing emails?!


By the way, on their website in the news, I found the following quotes:
RITLabs had proven its supremacy once again
Supremacy in what exactly?  Yes, it's a great email program.  But it's hardly popular or even recognizable by most people.  I'm sure making it a little easier to use with a manual and good support would make that statement a little more true.

Early 2010 for RITLabs is rich in innovations. Freshly launched The Bat! 4.2.23 brings quite a number of improvements and fixes.
Oh yeah?  What could they be?  let's take a look:
01/26/2010
  • "Do nothing" option for the "Watch and send files" Scheduler's action to control execution of other actions
  • Improved speed of handling folder names. This may be noticeable on very large folder trees
  • Changed DEP detection algorithm for the operating systems prior to Windows Vista (e.g. for Windows XP with SP3 and Windows Server 2003)
  • If there were an invalid birthday date stored in the address book, The Bat! did only report error "invalid argument to date encode", without further clarification for the user what might have caused the error. Now more detailed information is given.
    • [-] Clicking the "How to register" menu item have caused the "File not found" error message
    [-] (#0007845) Error Message when exiting "save as" in Graphic Viewer
    [-] (#0007852) An error after dropping a dragged attachment to a Windows desktop
    [-] The Certificate Selection window and Certificate Search Results windows did save the coordinates to a wrong location in Registry
    [-] (#0007844) Font family not set in HTML mail
    [-] (#0007859) After renaming an account, folder structure is not saved
Great.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 10:45 AM »
I'm going to guess that auto-wrap and auto-format are not designed to work with pasted blocks of text.  My email client is the same way but it doesn't bother me.  I just highlight, hit one hotkey and it's formatted.  No big deal.
-skwire (January 31, 2011, 10:41 AM)
yes, but why can't they just fix it?  Why add an auto-wrapping feature and do a half-ass job of it.  So by adding an auto-wrap feature, they are basically saying, "well, it auto-wraps for some things, and not for others".  They should call it "automatic wrapping sometimes".

Ah...screw Microed.  I'm just going to use the windows plain text editor mode.  The only thing i like about microed is that the color formatting that's automatic gets applied as you type.  In Windows mode, sometimes the formatting doesn't work all that well.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 10:31 AM »
I just tried version 5 beta.  Just as I suspected.  There are NO attempts to fix anything that most people would notice.  Seriously, I don't think anyone can tell the difference between version 3 and version 5.

So MicroEd, that fantastic text editor that is supposed to be the greatest thing in the world, well, same old annoyances still exist.  For example, microed has the following options:
Automatic Wrapping
Automatic Formatting

I turn both of those one.  I paste a paragraph into Microed, and what does it look like?  See below:
screenshot_20110131075911.png

So that's automatic wrapping and/or formatting?  So to get that to look like a normal paragraph, I have to do the stupid Alt-L thing, and I get:
screenshot_20110131082842.png

And finally, to get it to look normal, I have to scroll to the left:
screenshot_20110131082951.png

So my question is, what are the developers doing?  I mean, are we ever going to be able to fix the basics.  Stuff like the editor, manual, etc.?  Shouldn't they address those before adding some weird little feature for a particular template thing or whatever they are doing?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 09:49 AM »
OK, I found another forum:
http://www.batboard....ndex.php?page=Portal

It actually looks like a good, active forum.  Problem?  it's not english!  Son of a !@#. 
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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 09:30 AM »
Stoic, the latest file works for me.  I just tried it.  Thanks!  I tried it at home on a Windows 7 pc with no wifi adapters, and it gave some kind of GUID error dialog.  But I just tried it at work on the laptop, and it worked fine.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 12:52 AM »
This is a great program, as usual.  But seriously, how do i find out which programs are using the particular shortcut?  I'm having a problem where two programs have the same global hotkey assigned, and the one that wins is not the one I want.  So your program tells me there are two programs, but how do i find out which it is?
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by superboyac on January 31, 2011, 12:13 AM »
......But now, it doesn't make sense with all the conveniences available with regular forums.
-superboyac (January 30, 2011, 11:19 PM)

Unless, that is, the software you use and love is using Usenet only for their main support vehicle. Then it makes sense by necessity!

Jim
-J-Mac (January 31, 2011, 12:08 AM)
Well, if the question is "how do I get support for the Bat?", then yes, you are correct.

Now, if the question is "How do we set up a support system where more than 5% of our userbase will want to use it...ever?"  Then the answer is definitely not usenet.  To me, it's clear that the Bat developers have no real intention to help their users figure out the program.  You don't go this long without a user manual if you did.  Same with the forums and all that.  Now, they have this trouble ticket support system, which is ok, but the problem there is that other users can search the questions and solutions that have gone through there.  But at least they have solved all of my few issues with that system.  But if they just had a forum, it would be soooo much better.  or a manual!  Give us something!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrading RoboForm from v6 to v7: worthwhile?
« Last post by superboyac on January 30, 2011, 11:23 PM »
I'm with Josh as far as my attitude.  Yes, I hate this upgrade policy, but I just don't see any program out there that is better than roboform.  What makes it worse is that Roboform is one of the very few programs in this world that I have almost zero complaints with.  It really is amazing.  I can usually find something to complain about, but not with Roboform.  it's hard for me to go to second best, when I've tasted the best.

But yes, they shouldn't have changed their policy the way they did.  that was wrong.  I just upgraded, by the way...I had to...
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