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Living Room / Re: Do you remember THIS guy?

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 10:06 PM »

despite the techincal difficulties, it's still a joy to watch. 
it just goes to show you how influential the "super mario brothers" game and nintendo were.
ps. if you don't know about that video game this video is gonna seem awfully dull..

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 11:27 AM »

fun!  
more please!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Disclib - a library of your CD/DVD contents

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 11:25 AM »

We could really use a review of these tools.

Don't forget
CD Bank Cataloguer - http://www.qunom.com (50% discount through donationcoder in september)
WhereIsiT: http://www.whereisit-soft.com/ (perhaps the best known and most respected?)
SuperCat: http://no-nonsense-software.com/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Disclib - a library of your CD/DVD contents

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 11:08 AM »

Disk Explorer Pro looks really nice, and free for personal use(!):

http://www.tjelinek....m/main.php?section=d



Definitely worth a try!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature request

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 10:43 AM »

Hi David,

I know what you are asking..
currently the easiest way to do it is, just drag your file from the file explorer or desktop or whererever it resides, into the THUMBNAIL panel in screenshot captor.

you can then edit it in screenshot captor, save.

and then drag it FROM the thumbnail back to target folder.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 10:27 AM »

yep, makes sense nudone, but some of forsters other suggestions like:
"Stop Right as You Begin a New Item" (i'm paraphrasing that)
and forcing yourself to stop at specific times even if you are in the middle of something
might still be worth thinking about even if your work periods are in blocks of hours not minutes.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: GETTING ORGANIZED EXPERIMENT - WEEK TWO ASSIGNMENT (SEP 5, 2006)

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

welcome Lilly!
I also have no use for the tickler stuff.

I've been using an index card approach lately and i like it.  based on gtd.

what i've been doing is i have sections for "TOMORROW, WEEK, MONTH, LONGTERM" so that each day i go grab the stuff i PLAN to do the current day and bring those cards up front.  then i put stuff for tomorrow in the TOMORROW section, and file others into week, month, etc. 

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

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 09:31 AM »

I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks to JavaJones and especially for this podcast, to Mukestar (Marcus), for spending so much time making the podcast sound so professional.  Really makes all the difference 

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Living Room / Re: CreatingMinds

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 06:24 AM »

hey that's cool lifeonmars!
has anyone posted yet about lifelogger.com?  sure looks interesting.
someone post and tell us about it.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 04:03 AM »

please ignore my above grumblings, just due to lack of sleep and cold tea. 
now let's get on with our fun here. 

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Living Room / Secret Shopper Scams: How to tell real from fake offers?

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 01:00 AM »

This page contains a detailed description of "Secret Shopper" scams.

http://www.snopes.co...ployment/shopper.asp

It's quite fun reading, and at the ends sums up with a long list of "How to Avoid Falling Victim to 'Secret Shopper' Scams: "

Hey is it just me, or isn't the easiest way to avoid falling victim to this to realize that no one is going to pay you tons of money to go shopping.

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Living Room / Re: How Digg Gets Everything Backwards.. And How to Fix It

« Last post by mouser on September 16, 2006, 12:19 AM »

Interesting post up from Federated Media, which i guess is paid to promote Digg.com? or am i getting that wrong, maybe they are just a congolmerate of sites? sell advertising on digg.com pages.

One of the maxims of running a business is as it starts to get traction, folks will notice, and when they notice, they will start to question it. That's happening more and more here at FM...Had the poster done his homework, he'd realize FM has a large (12 and growing) direct salesforce, which is very focused on selling Digg, as well as all of our other sites...

http://fmpub.net/arc.../digg_and_fm_get.php

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Developer's Corner / Re: WANTED: PHP CODER (other languages possible) TO BUILD A CMS-LIKE REVIEW SYSTEM

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 11:54 PM »

Thanks for that link sri.
It's good to collect links to these things if for no other reason than to study what exists before making a new system.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: pc fasting (from lifedev.net)

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 11:44 PM »

i've been thinking about some of these issues myself recently (am i spending too much time on email, etc?), related to working more efficiently.

i think one of the things we also really have to remind ourselves to ask is, what non-efficient stuff do i get PLEASURE from?  There are always going to be things we do inefficiently.  But if they give us some pleasure, they aren't nescesarily good targets for fixing.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: pc fasting (from lifedev.net)

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 11:41 PM »

loads here now too (wasn't before)

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Living Room / Re: The Onion isn't the Only Funny Fake News Site

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 11:31 PM »

 
Brilliant!
nice find nudone.

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Developer's Corner / Nice blog entry on Code Coverage

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 11:26 PM »

I don't use code coverage but here is a nice intro post by Erik Sink (author of a book on the small software business) advocating it:

...
Code coverage is a controversial subject.  Gurus have been debating the related issues for decades.  I won't pretend to be one of those experts, but I see no reason not to pass along a few thoughts from my own experience in this area.
...

http://software.eric...s/Code_Coverage.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZIP 2 Secure EXE - Freeware

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 09:08 PM »

cool, nice find Terry 

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Note Taking Software / Re: SuperboyAC's Notetaking Software Roundup #1

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 08:03 PM »

Just wanted to congratulate SuperboyAC on a great review, which has just gone live 
https://www.donation.../Archive/NoteTakers1

A very difficult subject handled very well.
Now let's please remember to send him some of our donation credits to help him take that well-deserved vacation!

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

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 07:57 PM »

Welcome to the site melitabel, glad to have you here 

ps. SuperboyAC's big Roundup of Notetaking Software #1 has now gone live:

• https://www.donation.../Archive/NoteTakers1

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

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 01:32 PM »

not to bring anyone down, but after all the work involved on something that seems so much of a amazing thing for us to get, when i visit the digg pages and see 7 diggs i feel depressed... it's ok i'll get over it in the morning, but i just don't get it.. do we not even have 10 people on this forum who think this is worth telling a friend about or rating it as a good thing

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for September 15th, 2006 - Codename 'Go GOE'

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 01:30 PM »

slysoft offered a discount for members (maybe 10% cant recall) and a 25% affiliate commission for us on top, but when we tried to get them to pass on commission directly to you guys when you ordered it they said they couldn't do it.  based on previous discussion on the forum (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5115.0) we turned down the offer of the discount completely.  i think it was a wise decision.

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Official Announcements / Sep 15, 2006 - New Newsletter, Review, Podcast Interview

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 09:16 AM »

Today brings a lot of activity on the site, including a new newsletter, a great review of notetaking software by SuperboyAC, and part 1 of an hour long interview with David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) on our podcast radio show. Wow!

This is also the final days of the September fundraiser, which means your last chance to take advantage of some special opportunities..

Newsletter: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5273.0
Review: https://www.donation...Archive/NoteTakers1/
Podcast: http://podcast.donationcoder.com/

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Copy to clipboard option?

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 09:02 AM »

Believe it or not, this forum is the target of the "Discuss Now" link on the MiniCap page...

  fixed now, thanks 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy to Clipboard -- should it close the post cap popup

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2006, 09:00 AM »

yes, my plan is to offer a small "Options" set for the popup, that will let you say whether you want to dismiss the dialog after choosing copy to clipboard or print commands.