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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by Ath on June 10, 2011, 01:19 AM »

Chris,

Thanks you for your (planned) effort! It's a busy world, these days
Let's see what you find

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Finished Programs / Release: (Update) GUI Editor for WinButtons: WinButtonEdit 0.8.1 (RC2)

« Last post by Ath on June 09, 2011, 05:31 PM »

After testing for a few more days, I made a few improvements to WinButtonEdit RC1:

• Improved handling of non-96 DPI screen settings, scaling and layout issues resolved
• Dismissed systemtray icon
• Improved handling of 'Reload last used WinButtons file' option

It is now WinButtonEdit 0.8.1 (RC2), and included with the download of WinButtons.

There have been no comments or bugreports, so I'm afraid not many people have tested it yet (I won't believe it's error-free ), so if there are any remarks, feature requests, bugs found, or a desperate need for the sourcecode (that's still not included), please don't hesitate to ask/report all of that here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift Kicker 1.1.1.0

« Last post by Ath on June 08, 2011, 01:36 AM »

Almost anything besides the standard AutoHotKey and/or AutoIt icons is good IMHO. It is sitting in the systemtray all day (I've configured W7 not to hide any icons), so it's nice if it's not too ugly

For the (gui) tools I made recently and published on DC, I took a screenshot of the app and migrated that into an icon. But for commandline tools I don't even bother.

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Living Room / Re: Tablet Discussion - in the market to buy

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 03:01 PM »

And there just closed a Computex fair a few days ago, where a lot of new products are launched. This is the Consumer Electronics category listing a lot of tablets

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Living Room / Re: Tablet Discussion - in the market to buy

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 02:55 PM »

This list is not too awfully outdated, but not yet talking about any details of the 3.1 Ice Cream update.

There's so much buzz about the subject that it's hard to pick usable links from google 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift Kicker 1.1.0.0

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 02:38 PM »

Oh, and making that into an icon isn't that hard

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift Kicker 1.1.0.0

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 02:35 PM »

I tried to find an icon for a muddy boot but no luck.

-MilesAhead (June 07, 2011, 02:14 PM)

Here's one or a few 

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Living Room / Re: DoCo Banner - Animated!

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 02:03 PM »

I love the part where he sinks 

-Gothi[c] (June 07, 2011, 01:58 PM)

That's probably caused by eating too many coins

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: GameShui Launcher

« Last post by Ath on June 07, 2011, 08:13 AM »

I'm just glad you are doing a .NET(/WPF ? ) implementation of this game launcher, I was going to ask on the other thread why it's not in WPF, because it's XAML rather flexible in layout and easy to make looking good , but I'll stick to this thread for now , and not start one (thread and games launcher) myself

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General Software Discussion / Re: 7 Freeware Windows Explorer Alternatives / File Managers compared

« Last post by Ath on June 06, 2011, 05:18 PM »

Miles, you have looked in the History page to see if there's any mention of that? (I couldn't find anything about that). I stopped using it years ago in favor of Xplorer2, even though I maintained the local translation for some time.

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Living Room / Re: Suggestions for removing nVidia drivers?

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2011, 10:08 AM »

Do you have the most recent Intel INF (filter)driver set installed? That could help on the stability, and the possibility to get the Catalyst drivers installed properly.

As a side-track:
What you describe here is my main experience with ATI/AMD video cards and Catalyst drivers. I just can't get them to work properly in my PC's (and I have tried several different mainboards as I tend to build/upgrade all my systems from scratch with components bought separately). The only way to get all these systems (and their drivers) working properly for me was to remove the ATI/AMD card and put in a nVidia card with the most recent drivers (usually the WHQL certified release)
The only ATI/AMD graphics chips that work properly for me are the one's built into the laptops we have over here.

Back on track:
The HP OS-(re)install is probably going to dump the original nVidia driver onto the system, it's usually an image kind of install without much intelligence built into it.

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.1.2

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2011, 09:51 AM »

I've taken quite some time and created WinButtonEdit, a GUI configuration editor for WinButtons configuration files.
Also added a few less major WinButtons features, like standard button surface- and text-color settings, and Group context switching based on the currently focused control. So:

A new release is available: WinButtons 3.1.2

Get the download (including WinButtonEdit) and all info from the original release thread

Requests, complaints, errormessages and other question can be posted in this thread. It's all welcome!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cleaning out old dll files - advice needed

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2011, 08:15 AM »

Can you give some motivations for cleaning out the DLL's from your system?

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Living Room / Re: Should retailers be held accountable for recommendations?

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2011, 06:56 AM »

So I finally got an email back from NewEgg.  They have offered to allow returns with 100% refund on both hard drives, the NAS, or all 3 items with return shipping covered.

-cthorpe (June 05, 2011, 12:29 AM)

That sounds like the proper and to be expected reaction from NewEgg. Congrats it all works out so well , despite the hassle you have to go through to get you a NAS...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automated Snapshots with VirtualBox

« Last post by Ath on June 05, 2011, 06:45 AM »

The scripts should be fairly easy, I guess, haven't any VM's available in VBox to test ATM, but if needed I could create one (on Windows).

I've been using Workrave for some time a couple of years back (I stopped using any of those softwares, to annoying), but can't recall if it does support running some kind of user actions on a break/pause. You could ask on the Bugzilla e-mail group if you can't find this feature, they seem rather responsive.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC Server Down for 3 hours on June 4, 2011 due to datacenter power outage

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2011, 11:57 AM »

So they are now working on a new disaster recovery plan, I presume

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General Software Discussion / Re: smartphones and (lack of) security

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2011, 11:49 AM »

Bah!  WVGA+ only

-4wd (June 04, 2011, 11:21 AM)

Yeah, that's to be expected, a virusscanner that requires a high-resolution display, right... what a foolish design error

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automated Snapshots with VirtualBox

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2011, 08:26 AM »

Would this help in some way? http://tirania.org/b...ive/2007/Aug-28.html

Haven't seen any tooling that handles that, so far.
I'd go for a scheduler and a few scripts, just a few lines either in Windows or Linux scripting, and both have a decent scheduler.
Creating snapshots to often could put such a drain on the disksystem, that it influences the performance or behavior of the virtual system, so some experimenting would be needed.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automated Snapshots with VirtualBox

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2011, 08:13 AM »

Sorry I didn't get the capitalization correct...

-ewemoa (June 04, 2011, 08:07 AM)

Sorry I didn't get the content of your post in my head correctly (must have been reading backward )

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automated Snapshots with VirtualBox

« Last post by Ath on June 04, 2011, 08:03 AM »

You'd probably have a look at VBoxManage: http://www.virtualbo...org/manual/ch08.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitoring USB Ports

« Last post by Ath on June 03, 2011, 04:22 PM »

Should have mentioned USBSR and Zentimo ofcourse, I use them both 
But both didn't pop up in my Google searches

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General Software Discussion / Re: Monitoring USB Ports

« Last post by Ath on June 03, 2011, 02:07 PM »

There's payware: http://www.hhdsoftware.com/usb-monitor
More payware: http://www.sysnucleus.com/
More payware: http://www.everstrike.com/usb-monitor/
And this was once on GAOTD: http://www.giveawayo...heday.com/soft/1718/
Been unable to find freeware.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Looking for Component to Fill Boxes

« Last post by Ath on June 03, 2011, 07:51 AM »

You already have it, but it's called WPF...

-Ath (June 02, 2011, 01:32 PM)

How so? I'm not sure I'm following you.

-Renegade (June 02, 2011, 09:28 PM)

AFAIR you where coding in .NET earlier, and since 3.0 that comes with WPF. It's not that difficult to code that in C#/XAML, I'd have to start a small 'playing-man' project to come up with code, but time is a bit short ATM.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Looking for Component to Fill Boxes

« Last post by Ath on June 02, 2011, 01:32 PM »

You already have it, but it's called WPF...

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Living Room / Re: Is the Core i7 2600K really worth the extra cost over Core i5 2500K?

« Last post by Ath on June 01, 2011, 01:37 AM »

so I doubt I'll be buying this "Wish List PC" for several months.

-Deozaan (May 31, 2011, 08:50 PM)

If you wait a few more months the difference will have eroded off, because by then even faster/better CPU's in the i7 line are probably released, and the net effect of that is the current generation goes down in price