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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 06:48 PM »

Great write up Paulo - I think (as has been discussed in this thread), that keyword tagging for a note program is a very important element. It's interesting to think about the different ways to view notes that are important in different cases (view by date, view by keyword groups, view in hierararchy).

I'm going to go through your full essay more later, but it's a great addition to this thread.

Welcome to the site by the way

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: an article about SQL AM :-)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 05:41 PM »

congratulations!

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Living Room / A New Update from the Samarost-Style Game Blog

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 05:05 PM »

We've posted about this blog and several of the games mentioned in this recent update, but there are still some new games mentioned in the vein of one of the most beautiful flash click adventure games, Samarost2:

Turns out that while I haven't been paying attention, people have kept on making games. A lot of them. It seems that a lot of my old favorite designers have been cranking out new games in their series, too -- quite a few new titles I'm pretty excited to play. And I'm not even going to think about the room escaper situation. I have a lot of catching up to do.

It appears that one of my dearest and most favorite game catgories -- that's right, Samorost-style -- has accumulated a more manageable number of new members since my last headcount, so let's start with those.

http://bluewyverntea...ost-style-games.html

mycaps Screenshot - , 05_03_PM , Sep 23 2006_thumb.png

from http://monkeyfilter.com/

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Living Room / Cool Flash Game - Surf the Tunnel of Death

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 04:45 PM »

Hard to describe this mystery game where a skeleton surfs a tunnel of obstacles.. Pretty cool though.

http://ghost.aesthetic.ru/tloader.swf

Screenshot - 9_23_2006 , 4_41_51 PM_thumb.png

from www.stumbleupon.com

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Living Room / Cool Poster of How the Domain Name System Works (and other posters)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 04:01 PM »

this is just one of those cool nerdy posters for those of you who like this kind of thing, and for those of you like me who feel like DNS is completely perplexing.

http://www.lifecleve...ould-know-about/#dns

Screenshot - 9_23_2006 , 3_59_47 PM_thumb.png

from stumbleupon.com

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: PhinisheD

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 02:15 PM »

agree, fantastic find.

vrgirll is on a phd mailing list she also likes (might be from same site?); if not i'll ask her to post it.

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General Software Discussion / What Labeler / Cover Printing Software Do you Recommend?

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 12:33 PM »

I've never found the perfect labeling / cover printing software.. Does anyone have recommendations?

I'm interested in things like:
Printing out a song list on a cd tray.
Printing out mailing addresses from an (avery) sheet of mailing addresses.

I'm interested in ease of use as much as power.
And having a program that knows about lots of existing label layouts so i don't have to configure labels manually is important.

Any suggestions?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: who dares wins - my challenge to you.

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 12:27 PM »

I'm in.
I have to write an outline/draft for a series of papers i want to write. I'll make that my end-of-september project.

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Official Announcements / LATEST PODCAST: "Getting Things Done - An Interview With David Allen, Parts 1+2"

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 11:58 AM »

Podcast #5 - "Getting Things Done - An Interview With David Allen, Parts 1+2"

Produced by Marcus Codling (Mukestar) [JavaJones - voice talent]

Part 1 - September 15th, 2006 - 29 minutes
Part 2 - September 23th, 2006 - 14 minutes

http://podcast.donationcoder.com

(discuss here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5274.0)

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: LATEST SHOW: "Getting Things Done - An Interview With David Allen, Part 1"

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 11:56 AM »

Part 2 has been posted (http://podcast.donationcoder.com)
thanks again to mukestar and JavaJones.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting Links

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 11:50 AM »

Alice looks extremely impressive.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: powerful screen capture-----ACA capture PRO

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 09:57 AM »

im not defending anyone specifically, but authors are in a kind of no win situation regarding getting the word out, unless they have tons of money to spend on advertising.

most forums they might post on, if they admit that they are the author, most forums will kill the post and say "SPAMMER!!!"
so there is a strong incentive not to admit you are affiliated with the company.

that's why we made this section so that authors and companies wouldnt have to do that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 09:42 AM »

ok ok let's get back to fun stuff.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: powerful screen capture-----ACA capture PRO

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 09:41 AM »

ok let's all take a deep breath and move on, i think the point has been made.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Bad key

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 08:57 AM »

you can email me at [email protected] for more help,
but a common problem is people copying and pasting the wrong thing.
you want to copy from the *r1 all the way down to the end of that block.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help: How to make a bitmap resource for component in C++ Builder?

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 08:26 AM »

it's not hard but it's one of those things that you really need a tutorial to help with, because things have to be named very precisely. hopefully you can find a tutorial on the web and tell us where you found it, or someone else can. if you give up trying to find one perhaps i can help. i have a very old c++ builder book (http://www.amazon.co...oblem/dp/157169109X/) which is quite out of date but still incredibly useful for such help.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Procrastination vs. Having Great Fun Wandering

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 08:11 AM »

I've been thinking a little that maybe one of our problems in trying to "fight procrastination" or "be more efficient with our time", is that we often classify things as "wasting time" that are really sources of real enjoyment for us, though we don't consider them to be; and that maybe admitting how much we actually enjoy doing them might help us to manage our time better.

For example, many of us surf the internet a lot and search for new software, etc. And we sometimes view this as a huge time waster. But if we admit that we obviously get real pleasure out of this, maybe it would help us to figure out how to fit it into our schedules and time management.

Maybe it just means pro-actively allocating yourself time to surf and treating it like a daily item that you need to make time for.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: i'd like to buy some discipline please.

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 08:06 AM »

great post arjendk.

i find this intriguing:

Decide for how long you would like to work as the first "burst" (say, 20 mins.) and set the time on your timer.
Feel how that feels. :-) If you get this really ugly feeling in your stomach or if it feels like someone is grabbing you by the throat, go back to the previous step and choose a shorter period. Repeat until you say "I can do that!", then...

to me this seems clever because (as forster points out) often the hard part is just STARTING. once you get started its not as hard as it might feel. so this is sort of a trick to make it possibile for you to kickstart the thing, even if you end up telling yourself, ok im just going to work on this for 2 minutes.

as for internet addiction and procrastination - it's very real and i suspect many of us hear suffer from it. make sure you read this:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5287.0

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Please Read This Before Posting Here

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 07:56 AM »

We want people to express their opinions about software.
We understand that authors have opinions too - and personally i think the general rule most forums have that prevent people from talking about their own software is silly.

BUT we take VERY seriously the obligation of disclosure - you absolutely must disclose when you have a relationship with a company or product when you post about it.

(if you post in this section it will be assumed you have a relationship with the company so it's not necesary to reiterate that when posting here).

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General Software Discussion / Re: MOVED: powerful screen capture-----ACA capture PRO

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2006, 07:55 AM »

I just want to reitterate something:

Unlike most forums, we actually companies and authors to post info/announcements about their software on our forum.

However, we do have a few requirements for such posts:

Such posts need to be made in this section of the forum: https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=172.0
If you post there, it will be assumed that you have a relationship with the company you are posting about. If you ever make a post in another section praising some company or software and you have some relationship with the company (especially financial) then you MUST make this relationship clear. (If you are posting a complaint about some software and have a relationship with a competitor you also need to make this clear).

We understand that authors have opinions too - and personally i think the general rule most forums have that prevent people from talking about their own software is silly.

BUT we take VERY seriously the obligation of disclosure - you absolutely must disclose when you have a relationship with a company or product when you post about it.

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