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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.53.01 - July 24, 2006

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 08:47 PM »

new version posted with a very flexible virtual file/folder menu feature for adding menus that refer to folders on your hard disk with pattern matching etc.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: TPXonix - remake of the old Xonix game with MULTIPLAYER mode!

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 07:32 PM »

you know serveral other coders have written networked programs for the contest - martyjn specifically has an engine for playing games over the network (gamechat).  it would be so nice to see a collaboration on this.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Calling all BCB Contest Entrants - Post a Hello On This Thread

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 04:33 PM »

welcome to the site tomek and gianni and any others i missed above 
really nice to see you all here.

(ps. tpreal you havent posted the cube game yet.)

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Living Room / Re: A dot for every second in the day - cool visualization of time

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 04:10 PM »

fun visualization site.

they have other pages using large numbers of dots to show quantities
 http://www.vendian.o...e/dir2/lots_of_dots/
 http://www.vendian.o...lope/dir2/dot_a_day/

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LaunchBar Commander / Virtual Folders

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 09:26 AM »

I'm about to release a new version of LaunchBar Commander in the next day or two-
i have spent much of the last few days adding virtual folder functionality, which lets you create menus that are the contents of folders (or start menu, etc.), with various filters and options.

does anyone have any requests related to virtual folders that they would like me to consider before this release?

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Developer's Corner / Steve Palina's 10 Myths About Self-Employment

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 09:09 AM »

Steve Palina writes a popular blog about self employment and jobs and stuff.

My article 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job has quickly become very popular, so I figured it would be nice to write something about the realities of self-employment as well.  Since there are so many myths about self-employment (especially among lifelong employees), a good place to start would be to dispel some of those myths.

http://www.stevepavl...out-self-employment/

from alex3f

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Living Room / Re: Process Tamer ROCKS!!!

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2006, 05:55 AM »

 





   thanks, that's nice to hear

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: TPXonix - remake of the old Xonix game with MULTIPLAYER mode!

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2006, 11:05 PM »

i think if you split the creatures into two groups you should still fill in the smaller area, killing the creatures who live there, instead of resulting in no filling.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: TPXonix - remake of the old Xonix game with MULTIPLAYER mode!

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2006, 03:38 PM »

i have to say i really enjoyed this game, a big thumbs up for me.

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Mircryption / Re: Xirc 0.9.9 support MIRCryption

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2006, 03:37 PM »

looks really nice - i have a mac friend i'm going to have to send to your page 

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Living Room / Re: What ya got, and how d'ya use it ...

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2006, 08:02 AM »

God i feel like a turtle:

AMD XP2000
1gb ram
200gb hd + 160gb hd

Canon ip4000 color printer (cheapo but still good)
Canon LIde usb scanner (cheapo but still good)
HP 2200 Laser printer

Two Samsung 204b LCD screens

Favorite Apps:
Website Watcher (couldn't live without it)
Realplayer (for watching cspan and making myself angry with politics)


ps. i was using very old used burned out crt displays up until earlier this year when the flicker got so crazy that i finally had to upgrade to LCDs.  you can get these lcds now on sale for about $280 each -> http://www.newegg.co...Item=N82E16824001226
i'm quite happy with them though the comments on newegg are appropriate - they arent as vivid as some more expensive ones, but overall a great bargain for the price.  the best part about lcds -> increase in desk space.

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Living Room / Re: Quick change artists — WTF?

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2006, 02:58 AM »

yeah - there's also some weird stuff going on that i don't understand the implications of - check out her feet in some of those switches where she is being wrapper in cloth - she seems awfully carefull about where her feet go..

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Cursor Toggle Tray (Laser pointer and others)

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 04:12 PM »

Here is my idea:
An icon that sits in system tray, you right click it and get a menu of cursor set styles you can switch to quickly.
I am most interested in only two:

• Normal (default)
  Laser Poiner (laser red color round dot slightly blurred at edges)

I think this would be useful both when giving presentations, and when playing with your cat.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Heads Up: DonationCredits will change from 10 per dollar to 1/1

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 01:05 PM »

note you can still give out fractions of a dollar.

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Living Room / Re: Really interesting post about new netscape digg-clone and paying bloggers

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 08:45 AM »

from alex3f:
http://business2.blo...netscapes_love_.html

"In what is either an act of desperation or genius (only time will tell), Netscape's new leader Jason Calacanis is offering the top users of Digg (those who post more than 150 links a month and drive most of its traffic) $1,000 a month to switch to Netscape.."

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 06:58 AM »

ScreenZones?
DesktopZones?

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Living Room / Re: Would you drink this?

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 06:46 AM »

no, no i wouldn't.

however, i will bookmark the thisisbroken.com website - nice find. 

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Living Room / Re: E-mail process as well as content

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 06:26 AM »

fun, and it works.

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Living Room / Re: Raiden X - A fun, arcade style web game to try

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 06:18 AM »

i enjoyed this one.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2006, 05:02 AM »

nudone's suggestions are interesting but, speaking from personal experience, i might advise taking some time to let them sink in before embarking on implementing them.. they sound like they might involve some real work and im not sure about their long term use.

for example:
wheel select of grids - i may have suggested it but i realize now its not ergonomically fun to use wheel while left mouse is down and right clicking through grids feels perfect to me.  also - i dont think very many people are going to be adjusting grids on the fly very often.  i suspect we will each have our favorite and rarely change it.
grid pop up over cursor - this is a fun idea BUT it sounds like a lot of work.
red dot - this is something that seems like after you got used to the program you wouldnt need or want, but could be difficult to do without causing some side effects (occassional dots left on screen, cpu performance hit).

my #1 request in terms of efficiency would be let the digit key work after you activate grid mode even through mouse, just as they work when you hit win+g.

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Living Room / Re: Website: English for Runaways

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2006, 07:48 PM »

wonderful find - mobysaurus will love this. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2006, 07:27 PM »

i have to say a huge congratulations is due to jgpaiva for the amazing work he did getting multimonitor stuff to work.
its absolutely flawless on my multimonitor system.

it takes a tiny bit of time to get used to where you have to click near the top left titlebar area of a window, but after you get the feel for it, it comes without thinking.

really great work.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite RSS Feeds?

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2006, 04:15 PM »

by the way, what seems to have caused the problem is a spider following all the links on a page - apparently one of the paths of links was deleting stuff.  it's a good lesson if you are a developer coding a web app - to be very cautious not to use LINKS to perform actions like deleting stuff (always use a form).  otherwise if a spider hits your site... bye bye data.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2006, 04:13 PM »

a script is a program, i dont see how you could argue otherwise.  someone writing a script is programming.

if you wanted to differentiate things further you could talk about the complexity and size of the script.  the smaller and simpler, the less comparable it is to a large complicated program.

some programming languages are made for short scripts and are not as suitable for first class object oriented efficient execution, and are designed more for quick and dirty short macro commands in a program.  you wouldn't call someone who writes 3 line macros in ultraedit a "coder", but its a continuum.

there was a time when there was a clear distinction between the "real" programming languages like lisp/c/pascal/asm and scripting languages, which were program-specific simplistic macro systems, or things like the dos .bat language.

but the scripting languages of today, which include perl, python, ahk, are full fledged first class programming languages.

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Living Room / Re: Mario Brothers Epic Flash Opera Series

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2006, 03:11 PM »

found this site where you can download thousands of videogame images:
http://www.videogamesprites.net/