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Older Newsletters / Newsletter for October 8th, 2006 - Codename 'Fall Fun'
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 02:39 PM »
Newsletter for October 8th, 2006
"Fall Fun"


"If you read nothing else on our site, get glasses!"


A Brief Word from the Site Admin
I want to express my deepest heartfelt thanks to everyone who decided to make a donation during our September Fundraiser - it was a big success.  As you know, we rely on your donations to run the site.  In addition to the substantial server hosting costs, which run about $300 a month, managing the site is an almost full time job, and your donations make it possible for us to devote the time to it that it deserves.  Thank you!

Many of you also asked us to put up a page describing the philosophy of the website and plans for the future. We're happy to unveil it here.

- Jesse Reichler (mouser)


1. Software Updates
We've got a whole bunch of updates available in the last few weeks.


2. October Discounts and Giveaway
October brings another amazing month of discounts for members, including some that we all know and love, like Beyond Compare (an incredible file/folder comparison tool that we recommended in a past review) and Offline Explorer from MetaProducts which has won high praise from several members of our forum..

>>> **IMPORTANT** - The software giveaway this month will end on October 15th! <<<
So make sure you submit your entry to win before then!  (the discounts will continue to run throughout all of October).


3. Software Discussion
Tons of great software discussion in the last couple of weeks.


4. Website Discoveries and Discussions
There are always new website services popping up every day, and lots of debate about the future direction of the web.


5. Flash Games of the Day
KenR on our forum has been busy posting us a new (usually) great flash game every day, to help relieve some stress during work.  Take a look at some of these great new discoveries:


6. Fun Stuff on the Web
We like to mix work with some laughs, and in today's newsletter you'll find plenty to make you giggle.


7. Hardware and Security
What's new in hardware and security? Not too much this month.


8. DonationCoder.com Site Features
What's new on the website?


9. Reviews, Mini-Reviews, and How-to Guides
Members share their views with each other.


10. Coding snacks
Skrommel's on vacation, but there's still activity on the Coding Snacks section of the forum.


11. Developer's Corner
Some interesting reading for coders in the last few weeks, and some new contests.  And if you're interested in the flash game contest, check out our self-teaching programming school for some inspiration.


12. The Great GOE (Getting Organized Experiment) of 2006 (GTD)
We are now on week 6 of the Getting Organized Experiment (GOE), and everyone seems to be learning a lot.  If you haven't started yet, make a mad dash to the section and catch up as soon as you can.  For those of you hard core members, drop by for your latest assignment.


13. Website of the Month
  • Our website of the month in October is Read/WriteWeb, a very well-written technology blog that has posted some lengthy essays comparing web2.0 sites, as well as some excellent opinionated commentary on the businesses end of these websites. A reliably informative and professional site which still manages to be fun to read.


thanks to jgpaiva for help preparing this newsletter
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Living Room / Re: Everyone's Photo Portfolio, Purlease!
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 01:08 PM »
PIKMIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :-* :-* :-*
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: PhinisheD
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:45 AM »
by the way this book has been getting good reviews:
http://www.amazon.co...ations/dp/0735620520

Improve your presentations and increase your impactwith 50 powerful, practical, and easy-to-apply techniques for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Beyond Bullet Points, youll take your presentation skills to the next levellearning innovative ways to design and deliver your message. Organized into five sectionsDistill Your Ideas, Structure Your Story, Visualize Your Message, Create a Conversation, and Maintain Engagementthe book uses clear, concise language and just the right visuals to help you understand concepts and start getting better results.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.13.01 - October 8, 2006
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:09 AM »
several fixes to speed up wakeup time and search time.
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PopUp Wisdom / Re: PopUp Wisdom - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.01.02 - Oct 08, 2006
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:08 AM »
the new hotkey for putting a random quote in clipboard is nice, and the new exporting could be useful if you use other software that needs quotes in a certain format.
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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.08.01 - Oct 08, 2006
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:07 AM »
minor update but fixes an annoying tendency to announce its increasing its own priority.
i've also added a better process killer for stubborn processes.
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Screenshot Captor / Comments on ScreenshotCaptor - Beta Version - 2.12.01 to 2.24.01
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:05 AM »
i've made the last beta the new stable version, and this now includes the ability to specify exactly where you want your settings file stored.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: DotNetNuke Keep Alive Utility
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 08:00 AM »
now i just have to learn what dot net nuke is, and why i need it out of garbage collector, and then why i need to keep it alive..
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ProcessTamer / Re: Remember sorting
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 07:29 AM »
i've added the feature to remember sorting.

as far as avg time calculations - you can adjust this on the configuration tab, just move the slider for "CPU Usage Measurement Smoothing" farther to the right.
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PopUp Wisdom / PopUp Wisdom - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.09.01 - OCT 23, 2015
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 07:19 AM »
DOWNLOAD ON Program Web Page.

v1.09.01 - October 23, 2015
  • [Feature] Added option to display quote at startup time.
  • [Feature] Portable zip now uses ConfigDir_Default.ini which is overridden by the presence of a ConfigDir.ini file, so users unpacking the contents won't overwrite any custom ConfigDir.ini  they may have.
  • [Feature] Now using a dual package (installer and portable zip), with portable zip preconfigured for portable use.
  • [Feature] Installer and executable are now signed.
  • [Feature] Option to check for updates at startup.
  • [Change] Quote box now hides on mouse-up not mouse-down.
  • [Feature] Popup quotes will not auto display (on timer) if there is a screensaver or other full screen application (game) running.
  • [Feature] PopUp Wisdom will now auto-detect when a quote file has changed and automatically reload the new changes.
  • [Feature] New edit book menu item in popup window.
  • [Feature] Better display of info about each quote book in options (file size, etc.).
  • [Feature] Added icons in menus.
  • [Feature] PopUp Wisdom will now create the default UserQuotes.txt file in the proper user configuration directory (instead of installation directory) on WinVista/7/8.
  • [Feature] PopUp Wisdom will now scan for books in BOTH the installed "Books" directory and a create user configuration "Books" on machines where configuration directory is different from installation directory (WinVista/7/8).
  • [Feature] Start-after-installation option added for WinVista/7/8.
  • [Improvement] Miscellaneous improvements on options dialog.
  • [Improvement] Better installed program icon.
  • [Improvement] Avoids stealing focus (see options).
  • [Improvement] Now much easier to select and preview skin selection, or disable it.
  • [Feature] You can now set a custom sound file.
  • [Change] The use of a skinned appearance is now disabled by default.

v1.07.01 - October 23, 2009
  • [MinorFeature] Added timer to autohide quote after some period.
  • [MinorFeature] Added ability to set explicit monitor # for multimon systems.

v1.06.01 - March 11, 2009
  • [BugFix] Time was being wasted loading excessive quote info from disabled quote files.
  • [Feature] Added support for wikiquote screensaver data files and better parsing of quote files.
  • [BugFix] Program was crashing on badly formatted quote files.
  • [Feature] Added support for configdir.ini portable/custom config directory file configdir.ini (should also improve functioning on Vista).
  • [BugFix] TaskBar icon could be shown on repeated triggering of new quotes before minimizing.
  • [MinorFeature] New option to not steal focus when popping up.
  • [MinorFeature] Fortune files with %% separators were not being parsed properly.
  • [MinorFeature] Fortune files without a first-line PopupWisdom description special line were causing an access violation fault.


OLDER VERSIONS

v1.03.01 - July 19, 2008
  • [MinorFeature] Modified some default settings to make it more attractive.
  • [MinorFeature] The initial font was not showing up on first quote display.
  • [MinorFeature] Slightly improved look when skinning is disabled.
  • %% is now recognized as quote separate for fortune (cookie jar) files. see http://www.faqs.org/...cs/artu/ch05s02.html
  • newlines are now respected inside fortune file quotes, but are trimmed from start and end of them.
  • working memory is now minimized when the program is hiding in tray
  • Installer and Uninstaller will now shutdown the existing instance if it is running.
  • Added update checking support.

v1.01.02 - 10/02/06
  • Added copy-to-clipboard button
  • Added hotkey to generate random quote and paste into current app (with hotkey support)
  • Added bugfix for richedit bug reported by lanux [ https://www.donation...index.php?topic=4900 ]
  • Added ability to EXPORT book(quote) files in either \n embedded single lines or % separated newline containing entries

v1.00.07 - 9/27/05
  • Added UserQuotes.txt file
29336
Living Room / Re: Flash Game: Zoo Keeper (Dedicated to Mouser)
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 06:10 AM »
even though i don't understand what language this game is in.. there is a storyline option, and i'm pretty sure there is no murdering of animals (or Kens for that matter) in this game :)
29337
Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 03:32 AM »
zaine don't be a tease!!
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Living Room / Re: Flash Game: Zoo Keeper (Dedicated to Mouser)
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 01:35 AM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

i see ken has learned how to use a paint program.

hahahahaahahahhaa
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Living Room / Re: Flash Game: Zoo Keeper (Dedicated to Mouser)
« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2006, 12:37 AM »
hahaha, fun!
i like the screen when you lose.
kind of reminds me of the scene that occured when ken posted that fish game and i had to call him into the front office to give him a harsh talking to and a demotion.  :P
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Developer's Corner / Re: The exponential rate at which you seem aquire programming knowledge.
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2006, 11:50 PM »
most experts seem to pass through a stage where they think they know everything, and then only as they keep learning to they realize how much they don't yet know.

another way to say it is that an expert knows what they don't know.

unfortunately i've notices that when you get to that stage it can be almost debilitating.  it's easier to write a paper on something when you think you know it all.  once you get to the stage where you can see all these gaps in what you know it's hard to write a sentence without feeling the need to add 10 footnotes qualifying it.  :(
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General Software Discussion / Re: Utility to search XP registry using keywords?
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2006, 04:46 PM »
i dont know any free ones but im sure there must be some - looking forward to what others recommend.

Registry Crawler, RegWorks are both good commercial ones, as is Resplendent Registrar
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Developer's Corner / Re: Flash Game Development Contest
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2006, 04:12 PM »
The deadline for receipt of entries is 30th November 2006 at 11:59PM (GMT).
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Living Room / Re: Buying New PC. Suggestions?
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2006, 12:48 AM »
just to clarify, i don't know anything about dell, and am not really advising buying from them or not.
i was basically advocating making a decision up front, do you want to buy different parts from different places and worry about compatibility issues and put together a custom pc by yourself (which some people love doing), and prepare yourself for the real risk of encountering issues you have to deal with, OR
do you want a nice easy web page where you can configure a system which you know will be designed with components that work reasonably well together, and have a single company to deal with if something is wrong.

so basically i just think that's the very first question to answer, and then you can move on from there.  if you identify yourself as the type that wants a single company with configurable system wizards, then you probably don't need to be worrying about power supply sizes, etc.
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Find And Run Robot / v1.13.01 test
« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2006, 12:44 AM »
i put up a new beta here: https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

i tried to tweak it a bit for slightly faster startup but i'd like some feedback and testing before i officially release it.
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Living Room / MOVED: how to have a more efficient day
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 10:33 PM »
This topic has been moved to The Great GOE (Getting Organized Experiment) of 2006 (GTD).

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2928.0
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: how to have a more efficient day
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 10:32 PM »
seems this is relevant to the goe experiment so giving it a little bump.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Screensaver Maker Recommendations?
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 10:07 PM »
im just interested in making a screensaver using the big images nudone made for us.
so just images, no music or animation.
i want a solution that will build a nice installer for me so i dont have to manually make one.
multimonitor support is required because i want to use it too and i have multimonitor.

as for what i want it to do on 2nd monitor in terms of stretch, blank, etc - the answer is i want it to present the user with options in terms of speed, transitions, and multimonitor choices.  this is partly why im asking for recommendations - i'm interested in that screensaver maker has the best options for this kind of stuff.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's wrong with XP's built-in firewall?
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 03:56 PM »
i used to have cookie blocker till i realized it was just an annoyance.
i think if you are worried about tracking the most reasonable solution is to have something that accepts all cookies, but then deletes most when you exit/start browser.  blocking cookies by default is a good recipe for not being able to navigate modern websites.
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Macromedia Flash / Re: Suggestions for modifying the assignments
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 01:25 PM »
all good suggestions; i will make you a mod when you are done :)
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Living Room / Puki, The Sci-Fi Baby Shooter Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2006, 12:33 PM »
This game is actually a bit deeper than it looks at first and is very well done.  Make sure you read the instructions for how to crouch and stuff.

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