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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone know of some good voice mail software?

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 12:55 PM »

i tried a bunch a year ago or so and these were the 2 i liked best:
http://www.nch.com.au/ivm/index.html
http://www.toscintl.com/callsoft/

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Living Room / Re: Can I post discount to my own shareware product?

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 11:42 AM »

post it here (members only can go in here):
https://www.donation...index.php?board=85.0

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Living Room / Re: Can I post discount to my own shareware product?

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 11:26 AM »

thank you for asking. jiri!

you are very welcome to post it here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=39.0
(just keep in mind it will be visible to everyone who reads our forums).

we do however have a more formal different kind of discount that we present, a few each month, only to members, and always >= 30%, which get mentioned in our newsletter. 

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Living Room / Brainsplatters 2: Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 06:50 AM »

As you might infer from the title, this game has some violence and so may not be suitable for children.
It's a very low budget indie thing but it has some real personality, and it's a kind of hybrid of the "real-time click on the flash spot type game" like dragonslayer, and a more open ended thing.  I got a real kick out of it.

http://www.arcadestr...brainsplatters-2.htm

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Living Room / Re: StumbleUpon: Real or Fake?

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 05:04 AM »

see:
http://www.stumbleup...com/promote_faq.html

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Living Room / Re: StumbleUpon: Real or Fake?

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2006, 04:51 AM »

as one reply to tht pointed out, this is actually official policty of stumbleupon:

Stumbleupon’s advertising practices are spelled out very clearly in every page of their introductory and help pages.

All members are told about the ads, and are given the ability (unlike many websites) to turn them off! It is guaranteed that no more than one stumble in 10 will be paid stumbles.

Anyone who chooses to become a ’sponsor’ can avoid them all together for $20 a year.

i’ve been stumbling for a little over a year, and while i HATE being marketed to in normal life, in stumbling it is well worth it for the sheer number of fascinating websites i’ve stumbled on randomly- ones i’d never thought to look for otherwise.
i became a sponsor a year ago, and turned off all of the advertising at that point. in fact, it’s almost time for me to pay another $20 for another year of carefree exploration and discovery!

...

i just wanted to put it out there that yes, stumbleupon members know they are being marketed to- and it’s a very passive, mild and avoidable inconvenience. there’s nothing shady or underhanded about the stumble format.

~Zaxy

I would disagree that it's very clearly spelled out - most people don't realize that some of the pages they are sent are adverts - and it's not that clear when you are viewing an advert, so thumbs down for that.

On the other hand I do agree that i find the paid sites served fairly innocuous and i mind it much less than seeing ad popups or banners, so i don't really mind it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Super Efficient Extended Hotkey Mapper

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 10:24 PM »

really nice work neil - i knew it would be easy in ahk, but that's quite impressive.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DM2 - Your Windows Mate

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 09:57 AM »

the images are fine.

ps. if you want to show them as click-to-expand thumbnails you can use

[Select]

[attachthumb=1][/attachthumb]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DM2 - Your Windows Mate

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 09:28 AM »

you're not a moron, it just takes a little getting used to, then it's second nature.
this might shed some light: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1996.0

basically, you just stick in those attach things where you want your images, you can leave the # if you want the images displayed in order, or use 1 for first image, 2 for second, etc.

then the key is to actually attach the images to the post using the attac buttons at the bottom of the post.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DM2 - Your Windows Mate

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 08:43 AM »

really the best is to attach images..  it's really easy.

(maybe we should even block the use of the IMG tag so that we know for sure images wont dissapear, etc.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Super Efficient Extended Hotkey Mapper

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 06:45 AM »

also pays to reiterate the strangth of this solution is that it would basically give you a generic way to use these unusual hotkeys with any program..

you know.. i actually wrote something very similar to this when i first started farr, the mini tray helper.. whose only purpose was to catch hotkey and launch program..

why dont i just modify that for this task!  ok i will..

shouldnt take more than a couple of days.

lets call it "TapTap Extended Hotkey Mapper"

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Living Room / Re: Pranking a telemarketer - priceless!

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 06:13 AM »

sounded fake to me, but funny idea.

i only wish we could do that to a much worse creature, the email spammers.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Super Efficient Extended Hotkey Mapper

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 04:47 AM »

i see your point, but one solution would allow you to configure impossibly annoying hotkey stuff for your other program.  for example, configure farr to open on ctrl+alt+shift+F10.  then use this tool to send that.  im sure you could find a few unsed hotkey combos that could be used for this purpose.  the program could even come preconfigured with these which would suit most users..

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Mobysaurus / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Mobysaurus Thesaurus - 1.0.36 - Oct 24, 2006

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 03:59 AM »

Is there a way of getting the web address of a page when using find online?

a good solution would be to do what website watcher does, have a button that when you press it launches your default browser at the url of the offline page.  that way you can easily open the offline word page in your real browser for more intensive web work.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Is there a better TreeView control that works with BCB

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 03:45 AM »

let me speak up against virtual treeview.

vt is an extremely powerfull component, that can do quite a few things, and is designed to support very large trees generated dynamically.

it's also a tiny bit unstable in BCB, its big, has some bugs that need to be worked around, and can be frustratingly and consistently flakey.  It can also be a real pain to code.

that's my experience from using it on a few projects in a serious way (ie i havent just "tried" it, i use it).

so my advice is, if you NEED to create extremely large trees at runtime, vt can be a great thing and indispensable.

but if you don't need to create huge trees, do yourself a favor and save yourself the heartache and use something else.  just my 2 cents.  it's way overkill for most stuff and you'll pay a price in frustation if you try to use it.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Task Log - virus? bug? help

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 03:40 AM »

see here for info about these annoying false alarms from virus protectors on compiled ahk scripts: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5615.0

you can download latest version of the ahk source code of skrommels programs from here, andcompile it yourself with two clicks of the mouse, for total confidence in its integrity:
https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

To compile an .ahk script, just install auto hot key (http://www.autohotkey.com/), and then right click on a .ahk file and say "compile to exe".

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ProcessTamer / Re: ProcessTamer error - Bad License Key File

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2006, 03:36 AM »

and clearly i should do some error checking at the time of entry and simply not accept bad license keys.  once they are put in as you say, it will pop up with that error when the program starts, which you need to then press the "Enter New License Key Information" button and paste in a good key (or delete the bad one and make it blank at the least).

i'm sure i can help you get it sorted out - it's usually a case of just pasting in the wrong key or a partial key.  email me and i'll help you personally.

ps. i guess this is good motivation for me to finally make the license keys .reg compatible so that people can just pop them in their registry or system directory and not have to worry about entering them wrongly..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Mouse distance travelled

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 09:10 PM »

i hear ya springro - i'm sure there are non-network fun programs that do this as well just to help keep track yourself..  whatpulse is really trying to make a team sport of it

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Idea: launching of farr by pressing the control button twice

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

This idea prompted me to write a new coding snack request:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=5926

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Super Efficient Extended Hotkey Mapper

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 08:07 PM »

People have asked for support for non-standard hotkeys in some of my programs (like Ctrl+Ctrl tap for Find+Run Robot) (see https://www.donation...index.php?topic=5925).

I'm a little bit hesitant to add this because my understanding is you could only do this by hooking keyboard events in a more cpu-intensive way.

Of course i could add it and make it optional, BUT i had another idea, that would make a great coding snack.

What about an ultra-efficient, ultra-lightweight tray tool which had only 1 function:
It would capture hotkeys like ctrl+ctrl taps, or shift-shift taps, or alt-alt taps, and trigger a configured hotkey when pressed.

A Bonus would be detecting winkey+ combinations.

So for example, the config would simply be something like:


==============

TapSpeed: 1
Shift Tap -> Ctrl+Space
Ctrl Tap -> Ctrl+Space
Alt Tap -> Ctrl+Space
Win+F -> Ctrl+Space

================


that config file simply says how to convert taps and winkey combos to other standard hotkeys (all to Ctrl+space standard hotkey in my example above), and could be used to provide such functionality to ANY apps.

Note this could probably be done with something like AutoHotKey, but i'm really thinking this would be an ideal VisualC++ coding snacks, designed for maximum speed and efficiency.

Anyone up for this?  I'd love to feature such a tool on DC and include it with Find+Run Robot.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Testing help request for a new "portablizing" app

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 05:27 PM »

Welcome to the forum redlar - sounds like a really interesting project!

My experience with getting beta testers goes something like this:

If you are google or another big named company, OR if you have some very clever hype/marketing experts, you can round up a few thousand volunteers to test an electric chair.

But if you're a normal little developer, it really helps to be specific about what you'd like tested and make a download available, or some other way to make it as easy as possible for people to help out. 

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UrlSnooper / Re: Network adapter can not be detected still. help please, mouser.

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 01:23 PM »

If you are using IE7 then this may be the cause.

Until I update the program, just try this:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5546.0

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: find and run robot license key

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 09:12 AM »

people seem to be having some trouble entering the license key lately, i think it must be full moon or something..
Carol, i responded to your email - if you mail me the license key i can try to help more specifically, but
when one of our programs reports a bad key it should pop up the about box where you can hit the button to enter a new license key.

the most common program seems to be when people post in a key for a different program or else paste in wrong information.  the key should start out *r1... and continue for a few lines.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE URL Lock

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 08:52 AM »

cool idea.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ProcessTamer error - Bad License Key File

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2006, 05:09 AM »

hmm..
you can email me if you want more detailed help ([email protected]).

to test if the license key was really accepted just go to the about box of the program - it should say your name+email if the license key was saved.

make sure you paste the license key starting with *r1...

i know i have to improve the errors displayed when a license key is not accepted.

like i said, email me if you keep having trouble and i can help figure out what's going wrong.