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Older Newsletters / Newsletter for August 17th, 2006 - Codename ''Working Wisely"
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 11:41 AM »
Newsletter for August 16th, 2006
Codename "Working Wisely"


"If you read nothing else on our site, read the newsletter!"



1. Audio Radio Show Podcast #4 is ONLINE!
Mukestar and JavaJones, the new producers of the DonationCoder.com Podcast Audio Radio Show have unleashed their new creation, Podcast #4!

2. The Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006
Are you not working as efficiently as you could be?  Do you want to learn how to bettter manage your time and energy, and not waste time thinking about useless stuff?  Join the Club! Lots of us on the forum are interested in the Getting Things Done approach to time management and working more efficiently.  So we are going to spend three months, from September 1 to December 1 practicing GTD principles, and sharing our experience.  We'll have an informal "coach" of sorts available to help people who want to participate.

3. Software Updates and Releases
DonationCoder.com is first and foremost a site about software.  Let's see what's new since our last newsletter.. And remember to donate some DonationCredits to these coders to support their hard work!

4. August's Discounts and Last Chance for August 21st Shareware Giveaway
This month's discounts last throughout all of August, but you only have until August 21st to enter this months free drawing!

5. Site News
There is always room to imrpove the site, that's our motto.

6. New Mini-Reviews by Members
The mini review section is looking great and Josh is doing a superlative job as the official demo screencaster on the site.  If you have a program that you think deserves a screencast be sure to drop Josh a note.

7. Programming Contest Updates
The deadline to enter our massive C++ Builder Programming Contest is now over.  You can check out the entries and download and use most of them now.  We will be announceing the winners on or around September 1st. And if you missed out on entering the C++ Builder contest, you can still enter our new Accessibility Game Programming Contest, where the object is to design either a game whose output is audio only, or a game with a single button as input.

8. General Software Discussion
Lots of great software discussion on the forum in the last two weeks:

9. Fun and Games
Who ever said not to mix business with pleasure? That's all we do here! 

10. Web Discoveries, Debates, and Articles
What's worth reading on the web? With so much information out there it can be hard to know.  Here are some recent discoveries we're talking about on the forum.

11. Developer's Corner

12. Site of the Month



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30152
Living Room / Endurance Challenge Mordred's Isle: Episode 1 - Cartoon
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 11:26 AM »
Funny cartoon parodying reality shows like survivor.
Watch episode 1 online.



mycaps Screenshot - 001 , 11_23_AM , Aug 16 2006_thumb.png


from http://www.wired.com/support/blogs.html
30153
Living Room / Stevia - the nocal nonsweetener sweetener (herb)
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 11:16 AM »
This seems as good an article as any to mention www.slashfood.com, a cool website that discussed cool foods.

Stevia is not a sweetener that is approved for use by the FDA. It is actually classified as a dietary supplement, an herb, that happens to be sweeter than sugar and can be - and is - used as a sweetener. It is all natural, has no calories (or carbs) and is getting more and more popular, though it makes up only a small portion of the non-sugar sweetener market.

30154
Developer's Corner / Mike-O-Matic Blog Entry: Model for an Open Source Corporation
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 10:55 AM »
Mike-O-Matic Blog Entry: Model for an Open Source Corporation

Mike Arace writes very well on software; his latest blog entry looks at the idea of an open source small business.

Small businesses need to find ways to maximize the amount of productive work they can get out of a day, and do it without spending a lot of money. If there were a way to organize a company along open-source principles that would improve the work/money ratio, it would be a big deal.
So what would an open source corporation look like?
...

30155
General Software Discussion / Good Logo Creation Tools?
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 10:48 AM »
I thought people might post some good Logo making tools..


Here's one mentioned today on http://www.larkware.com/:
GreenBox Logo Creator - http://www.studio-v5...m/greenbox/index.htm

mycaps Screenshot - 001 , 10_47_AM , Aug 16 2006_thumb.png



And a well known one, LaughingBird The Logo Creator 5 - http://www.thelogocreator.com/

mycaps Screenshot - 002 , 10_47_AM , Aug 16 2006_ver001_thumb.png

Those are both commercial.

Anyone know any others? Should we include some box-art creation tools?
30156
Screenshot Captor / Re: Question on license
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 10:25 AM »
Techincally our software is free/donationware for personal use, but we welcome business customers, and we are happy to issue site-wide business licenses.

For site-wide business licenses, I generally ask for $25, plus $1 to $2 per computer that would be using the program, depending on the number of licenses (figure anything < 100 users would be $2 per license).

(You dont need each user to enter their own license code, a simply file in the program directory will make the program and any future versions licensed forever.  We can provide a custom installer for large orders).

We are happy to provide some special support for business licensees, and are happy to discuss adding custom features, etc. and provide a formal contract.

Feel free to email me to discuss further: [email protected]
30157
Living Room / techTAGG - digg like site with revenue sharing
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 09:02 AM »
techTAGG - digg like site with revenue sharing

interesting idea though i'm not sure success in this market has anything to do with anything but existing market share and chaotic random fluctuations in the matrix of space and time. but i really do like the idea that ad revenue is split with users who submit stories.

techTAGG is an alternative to other user driven technology related news sites! However our primary focus is on technology related news from main stream medias and blogs.

techTAGG allows you to decide which news should make it to the front page and how it should reach the front page.

Our primary focus is technology. We want to get technology related news to the front page. If you are a blogger then feel free to submit your blog stories to our site as well.

We are also the first user driven site that does profit sharing. Your adsense ads will be displayed 50% of the time for all the stories you submit. More exposure and more money for you. Now this is a real user incentive.

We have setup techTAGG so that the system allows our active members to share adsense revenue.

The site displays an adsense ad on the top space of each page. We are currently using Google Adsense to serve relevant ads in that space. As an active member you can submit your Google Adsense publisher code in your profile section.

Our system will then publish your Google Adsense for the links/stories you submit. We randomly display your ad about 50% of the time. Our ads will share the other 50% with you.


from digg.com
30158
Living Room / Re: Computers just can't seem to get past Go
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 07:02 AM »
please resize your pictures!!  max width of 400 is good.

ps.
from an AI standpoint, GO remains a huge challenge where chess has basically been solved with fast hardware and small improvements on brute force searching.
30159
Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: list of all programs sorted by categories ??
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 05:39 AM »
very good idea, i'll be working on it and will post soon.
30160
Mobysaurus / Re: Mobysaurus Thesaurus v1.0 Released
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 04:50 AM »
One of the coolest things about this is the hierarchical tree of synonym roots so that you can go exploring.  It's not obvious but you can double click on words in the root tree to go deeper and deeper.

Hard to describe in words.  maybe josh can make a screencast.  definitely has to be tried to experience it.  And I love the new streamlined user interface :Thmbsup:
30161
Borland C++ Builder Contest / C++ Builder Programming Contest Update: Deadline to Entry is Over and More
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 03:59 AM »
The C++ Builder Programming Contest Entry Period is now officially over.
Congratulations to everyone who entered!

We received over 30 entries in a variety of categories, and you can see screenshots of most of them, and download most of them here:

We will begin evaluating the programs now in conjunction with Borland, and expect to announce winners around:
  • September 1st

Stay tuned in this forum section for news and updates.


PS. If you've entered the contest and your program isn't listed on that entries page, please make a post in this section describing your program and attach an image so we can add it.
30162
General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 03:27 AM »
not used this one myself but i know TexNotes was mentioned on this thread; it's 50% off today here:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/
30163
General Software Discussion / Re: Photosynth — one step closer to Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report'?
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 03:01 AM »
well i think it's a great idea to be able to put tons of pictures in a virtual 3d environment you can navigate, and it looks cool.  Doubly nice if you can use some gps-like system to automatically tag and place them where they belong.

Having said that,
I don't find the idea all that innovative.

But even more:
That video gives me a very stong of people who are living in a fantasy world of hype, how they are changing the world and creating new realities, etc.  Come on guys, this is one of those things where a 13 year old kid with a year off from school could do as good a job, and these guys probably have 100 million and team of 20 people in an office with jelly bean machines on each floor of their hip office building.
30164
Living Room / Re: Forget the Royal Ballet, these boys are good!
« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2006, 02:51 AM »
brilliant treadmill stuff  :up:
30165
Living Room / Drawspace - Art Lessons (some free, some not)
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 12:59 PM »
This is kinda cool - the membership thing sounds reasonable.  I like the idea that you can still get one free lesson of your choice each month even if you choose never to pay.  All by one artist (Brenda Hoddinott).

FREE MEMBERSHIP
A basic membership is completely free – and allows you access to all articles in the A-Resources section, as well as one free lesson of your choice each month. We are currently reviewing our bandwidth usage and site costs, and may change this to 2 free lessons per month.
Many of our members are very happy with this option for an indefinite period of time, and continue to enjoy the additional features on the site, such as the gallery and the forum for no cost whatsoever.

PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP
After you have been a member for a while and are completely satisfied and happy with what you find here, you are offered an opportunity to upgrade your basic membership to a Premium membership. If you choose to not become a Premium member, your free membership will still continue for as long as you wish!
A $20, three-month subscription (renewable if you wish), provides you with immediate, complete, unlimited access to the over 100 lessons on the site, as well as the 3-4 new lessons posted each month for the duration of your membership. You can either download or view all lessons on the site, whenever you want, and as often as you want. A Premium membership also entitles you to improved forum and gallery benefits.


from http://www.furl.net/
30166
Living Room / Re: Cody's story
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 12:35 PM »
pulled out an empty bag from underneath his wing.
The bag had a big dollar sign on it.
30167
Living Room / Re: Workware
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 09:42 AM »
yes this is an interesting concept..
my feeling about it would depend on what the author made you do to get a license - but it's definitely a promising idea in terms of an alternative to money if a user has time but not money.
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Living Room / Indie Superstar - video blog about indie games
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 04:04 AM »
Indie Superstar is a web-based videocast created to tell you about the latest independent video games and the studios that create them.


from http://www.jayisgames.com/
30169
Developer's Corner / Re: Make (and play) your own Xbox game
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 03:56 AM »
useful follow up, the Torque engine is being made compatible with this:
http://biz.gamedaily...ry/feature/?id=13516
30170
Living Room / Re: DC's "EVIL DEAD" Get Together
« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2006, 02:28 AM »
the idea of meeting up in second life is not a bad one..
30171
Living Room / Re: Necrofile or other... ?
« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2006, 01:33 PM »
yeah it does look a bit scary but yep, its only going to erase unused disk space, not your files.
still, never hurts to do a system backup..
30172
Living Room / Re: Anyone know how to "escape" bb codes?
« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2006, 11:45 AM »
from another page, bbcode help and examples:
http://www.phpbb.com.../faq.php?mode=bbcode
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Living Room / Re: Necrofile or other... ?
« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2006, 08:11 AM »
Eraser is a very high quality file wiper that can also wipe free disk space and end-of-file clusters (or whatever the proper term is).

freeware:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with P2P and VoIP BCB Programming...
« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2006, 07:55 AM »
torry is always good for delphi/bcb components:
http://www.torry.net...g=voip&Title=Yes
30175
Official Announcements / Re: COMING SOON: Site tour section w/ screencasts
« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2006, 07:47 AM »
Josh you are doing an amazing job  :up:
(i think even hardcore members are going to find some new stuff on that tour page soon that they didn't know about).
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