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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 01:08 PM »

yes, let me give you the list of additional things we came up with for reviews:
1) links to other reviews if you know any
2) trial version available? limitations?
3) support forum available?
4) upgrade policy/price?

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Living Room / Longbets... very cool idea - get your prediction on the record

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:59 PM »

Longbets... very cool idea

...as an arena for competitive, accountable predictions (Long Bets).   How Betting Works »
...as a forum for focussed discussion and debate about prediction.
...as an attractive tool for philanthropic giving.
...as a way to foster better long-term thinking.
...

http://www.longbets.org/predictions

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Living Room / Spamradio: turning spam into a radio show

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:43 PM »

listening to this will give you a headache but its such a cool idea how can you not love it.

Spamradio is a non-profit making project which is focussed on turning spam (junk) email into an Internet audio broadcast.
2. Why?

This is the most frequently asked question (if you can believe it). There are many reasons that we felt inspired to create spamradio, but this is the main one:

Everybody hates spam. Mass-marketing junk email is the bane of the Internet. But it thinks very highly of itself. It invades your inbox every day with a sense of confidence. There is always a new sales pitch -- a new way that you can improve your life, if only you will take a few minutes to read. Anything this important shouldn't be ignored. Anything this important deserves its own radio show.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:22 PM »

i think part of a mini review should include a discussion on how it compares to other similar programs the user has tried.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Powershell from Microsoft (free)

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:08 PM »

sure sounds interesting.. i'll take a look.  though i dont do much shell scripting stuff on windows.

Read the Powershell Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/

And official home page of it:
http://www.microsoft...ershell/default.mspx

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: db90h's best kept secret #1: Command Prompt Explorer Bar (Free OSS)

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 11:40 AM »

nice find, never heard of that one before.

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General Software Discussion / Congratulations Ryan (Renegade) on shareware award

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 03:45 AM »

Ryan has been a member here for a long time.

Nice to see he won an award recently for his shareware program Guitar & Drum Trainer:
http://renegademinds...Entry&EntryID=49

Congratulations! 

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Living Room / Re: Digg, the wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, netscape, and competitors

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 03:32 AM »

more from Ian Betteridge's Technovia which strikes home with me:

There's a distinction to be made here between some of the Web 2.0 sites and others.
...
The social aspects of Flickr, while great, aren't necessary for it to have value. It's an online photo service, and on that level no more or less ”Web 2.0“ than Yahoo! Photos was/is.
...
Services like Digg and Netscape, on the other hand, have precisely zero value other than as aggregators of user-generated content.
...
Kevin's hypocrisy is this: he's implying that people should and will continue to do it for love, because they feel like the site belongs to them. Yet, of course, the site doesn't belong to them - it belongs to him, and he will sooner or later make money from it. You can call that hypocrisy, or you can call it the oldest Capitalist trick in the book. Either way, it smells bad.

http://technovia.typ...a_response_to_s.html

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Developer's Corner / Aptana: javascript/html/css ide

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:50 AM »

looks promising:

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features:

• Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
• Error and warning notification for your code
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Cross-platform support
• Free and open source. (Source available soon)

http://www.aptana.com/

from http://insignificantthoughts.com/

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ProcessTamer / Re: any plans to "force" stubborn programs?

« Last post by mouser on July 30, 2006, 12:00 AM »

i'll look into it - it may be that process tamer is not running with as much permissions as it could to handle it.

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Official Announcements / Unexpected server downtime for 1 hour on Sat July 29 - UPDATED AGAIN 7/31/06

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 11:31 PM »

The server went down unexpectedly from 11pm to 12 midnight New York Time, on Saturday July 29.

Please excuse the downtime; still trying to figure out what caused it.

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Living Room / Recent video of microsoft voice recognition demo going awry

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 09:53 PM »

recent video of microsoft voice recognition demo going awry..  

http://video.google....-1123221217782777472

personal communication from clisp

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINRAR free this sunday 30th July 2006

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 06:40 PM »

read the massive review zaine wrote:
https://www.donation...hiveTools/index.html

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Living Room / Dead2.0 blog/website

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 04:40 PM »

Nice new blog or website, Dead2.0.

http://www.dead20.com/

Recent posts:

In its most generic definition, a mashup takes two things and blends them together.  I think the first ever was Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but I haven’t done enough research to confirm this.  In our present time, there are two dominant usages of the term:

http://www.dead20.co...ome-missing-mashups/



Ask skeptics mom:

So I’m kicking off a new recurring “column” (and I use the term loosely) called “Ask Skeptic’s Mom” in which I will ask my mother a question related to Web 2.0, and we’ll see what she has to say.  The rules we’ve agreed to are as follows:

http://www.dead20.co...ptics-mom-whats-rss/

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Living Room / Imagination Cubed: Draw online with your friends

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 04:33 PM »

Imagination Cubed: Draw online with your friends

Very well done drawing page where you can invite friends and draw together and then send off the result by mail to someone.

http://www.imaginati...cubed.com/LaunchPage

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Screenshot Captor / Re: error downloading

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2006, 04:08 PM »

urgh.. i tried and got the same thing.. looks like a single byte somehow got corrupted (!).
i've re-uploaded and it works fine now.  sorry for the troubles!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copying/Moving files utility

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 11:20 PM »

id like to know about such programs too.

directory opus has some features for this, but i'd also like to see a special program for this with more options like you say.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request : Auto Rotate, Auto WaterMark, Arround DropShadow

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 11:13 PM »

it is done this way by design, yes.
so that you can edit something in an external tool but still keep all your objects.
after you save the file in the external tool screenshot captor will load it back and put the objects back on it.

however you have 2 choices if you want to do it otherwise.

1) use the "flatten all objects to background" first to convert all objects to normal bitmap (non-editable) before you launch your external tool.
2) configure the external tool to use a temporary flat file.  here you would use a file argument like:
"%tmpfile%.jpg" which tells the program to create a temporary flat file (all objects merged into image) and then invoke the tool on that.  you would use this for example if you were wanting to ftp the image somewhere.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 06:48 PM »

lol

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Living Room / Re: Demotivational Posters

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 05:58 PM »

more:

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Living Room / Demotivational Posters

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 05:56 PM »

Demotivational Posters..

http://www.caughtatw...otivations/index.php

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Living Room / filedestructor - a purposeful file corruption tool..

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 05:50 PM »

Want to play games on your Playstation but got a deadline for an exam or report that didn’t match your gaming ambitions?

Then you have come to the right place.

Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.

http://www.filedestructor.com/

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Official Announcements / Re: Were you a radio interviewer or disk jockey or producer in a past life? read in!

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 04:52 PM »

mukestar, we are definitely still looking for someone to take over production of the podcast!
talk to me in irc chat channel next time you stop by.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My rant against php...

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 02:01 PM »

what he is talking about is a web page with embedded php.
and yes, it would be nice to hava a wysiwyg web editor which dynamically interprets the php; basically just a local web server with php installed for rendering the pages, with a web page editor frontend.  it may exist but i dont know any off hand.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request : Auto Rotate, Auto WaterMark, Arround DropShadow

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2006, 01:33 PM »

auto launch app is not yet possible, but i could ask it, it has been discussed before.

however you can configure other programs to launch and work on the file using the Extrernal Tool configuration, and then launch them through the menu manually.

Auto rotate - i could add it.
I'm starting more and more to think we might need a little script system for specifying actions to perform on captore (or a menu of them), which could include cropping, shadows, borders, resizing, rotation, etc.

as far as transparent corners.. i'll look into it.