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General Software Discussion / Re: something to save file/program/icon associations

« Last post by nudone on June 17, 2006, 06:07 AM »

http://www.spearit.c...t_AssociateThis.html

-skywalka (June 17, 2006, 05:59 AM)

thanks, skywalka, that looks like the perfect program for the job - will try it later when i'm home.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for June 15, 2006 - Codename 'Banners and Betas'

« Last post by nudone on June 17, 2006, 02:31 AM »

I'd prefer a smaller weekly newsletter.  It takes me a whole day to go through the newsletter.  Also, readers would be more likely to participate in the forums because discussions won't be over by the time they find out about them.

-skywalka (June 17, 2006, 02:26 AM)

sounds like a good point.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?

« Last post by nudone on June 17, 2006, 01:00 AM »

anyone using the 'mylife organised' pocket pc version - and using the pc version too?

(just wondering as i'm tempted to get the ppc edition.)

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 03:29 PM »

thanks, Carol, you've prompted me into making more of an effort - i shall now seek again.

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 02:44 PM »

yeah, it's kind of weird i can't find other people talking about in on the forums - unless it's something to do with just my machine????

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

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 02:41 PM »

we've had plenty of discussion on PowerPro before and it sounds like a fantastic macro type thingy.

i really haven't the time at the moment to dedicate myself to learning ANY macro/script util so i'm more than greatful for those that do.

ajp, how about posting your powerpro thing here for all to try out (and maybe modify). what you've described doesn't really sound like something i'd personally use - i really did have a specific method i wanted implementing when i made my original request - but i'm sure something as versatile as you've created would be appreciated by a great number of people.

it may even get a few more people interested in powerpro - i can't remember why autohotkey sort of took a hold around here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 12:58 PM »

'rainlendar' is a great little app. almost everyone who has seen it on my monitor has asked what it is and then downloaded it.

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 12:57 PM »

never thought of phoning adobe - good idea.

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Living Room / Re: Is firewire better than USB?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 12:52 PM »

that is a really fantastic explanation, superticker.

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 10:54 AM »

yeah, tried shift and alt and alt gr and probably other things too. i couldn't find any solution looking on illustrator forums either - i'm probably just not looking hard enough.

i'm sure it will be a simple solution - i'm probably just doing something daft.

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 09:51 AM »

Go into Illustrator Help and search for Transform Pattern.

Sorry I don't know Illustrator well enough to know if it makes sense (it came in Creative Suite CS2 but I don't use Illustrator very much).

-Carol Haynes (June 16, 2006, 09:20 AM)

that's the bit i can't get to work, Carol. if i press '~' (or even the '¬' where i think adobe expects the '~' to be) it doesn't perform the transform.

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

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 08:54 AM »

i can't really speak for how jgpaiva is creating the script but i think an auto detect screen size hasn't really been built into 'gridmove' so far.

i'm sure it will be a fully working function soonish.

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Living Room / Re: What's your significant other's favorite key on the keyboard?

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 08:42 AM »

anyone know how to get the 'tilde' key working on a UK keyboard in adobe illustrator?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting tad bit - MS Windows Genuine Advantage Phones Home Every day

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 03:44 AM »

excuse me if this has already been asked/answered - but is it possible to remove WGA after it has been installed?

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by nudone on June 16, 2006, 03:42 AM »

i must say i like the idea about having a different email address for every contact - i might try it - something like just appending the initials of the individual onto the address (or the initials of the service/company).

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by nudone on June 15, 2006, 02:20 PM »

i've an audigy also and i can hear it (as i mentioned above). i thought all pc sound cards would go up to about 20 kHz - i've not checked the numbers but 20 or 22 doesn't seem too unreasonable. maybe i'm living in a fantasty land.

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by nudone on June 15, 2006, 08:37 AM »

. . . I always thought nudone was pretending (or not pretending, I wouldn't know) to be nude at his computer.  Nude one . . .  I'm not sure what the bigger shocker was, the pronunciation of the name or the fact that he sounded like he was sitting in a posh arm chair with a glass of wine and a fat story book . . .

-allen (June 15, 2006, 07:29 AM)

  not a bad description, allen - both of them.

it's nice to see your beard back around these parts i have to say.

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General Software Discussion / Re: soft and hard links in ntfs

« Last post by nudone on June 15, 2006, 07:05 AM »

how do you pronounce *u*x ?

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Living Room / Re: Mosquito tones

« Last post by nudone on June 14, 2006, 12:33 PM »

i heard about this on BBC Radio 4 the other day i have to say i could hear the tone when they played it.

i can also hear the tone that is in the link that ljbirns has provided but it does sound of a slightly higher pitch than what i heard from my car speakers that i was using to listen to the radio broadcast.

i wonder how the tone is effected depending on the quality of the speaker and the volume it is set at.

oh, i'm 37 so i shouldn't be able to hear it. there were  plenty of people calling in to the radio show saying they could hear it also even though they were meant to be too old.

i am very surprised that the tone is meant to be outside the hearing range of anyone over 20 years old - maybe if you have the volume right down and use a poor set of speakers ???????????

i guess for all us old timers that can still hear it we can feel like we've got one up on those darn whipper snappers.

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

« Last post by nudone on June 14, 2006, 01:39 AM »

so far i've really only used the original method i asked for - the drag to screen edge to trigger and resize window.

the new function you describe above sounds like a good idea to me - anything that provides more stable and intuitive operation is good.

as for including all the operations - i guess, all i would really like to see is the ability to work how i originally asked for - all other features i think are very good but i'd probably disable them - just to keep it simple for myself. this is mainly because i usually have windows either fully maximised or just covering the main center of my screen - my original request was to be able to simply have auto resizing windows that would cover half of the screen so that i could use my monitor as if it were two monitors - this is still really all i would be doing.


i have an additional idea, if you think it worthy of inclusion...

i'm sure you will have seen little utils that allow you to 'scale' a window so that it either 'grows' to fit the screen horizontally or vertically (but not both at the same time as this would just be maximising the window).

could it be possible to include something like this in 'gridmove' or maybe in a similar autohotkey script.

i was thinking that it could work like this:

a: you drag the bottom border of a window to the bottom edge of your screen - you pause there at the edge with your mouse left button still down and then the window automatically resizes to fit the screen vertically - but not horizontally.

b: you drag the left or right border of the window the nearest side of the screen - pause with the mouse held down, etc. - and then the window resizes to fit the screen horizontally - but not vertically.

c: of course, you drag the top border of the window to the top of the screen and then it resizes the window to fill the screen vertically but not horizontally.

i guess there are other variations that could be included but i think these functions would fit in well with how 'gridmove' currently works.

i certainly look forward to the next version. keep up the good work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: soft and hard links in ntfs

« Last post by nudone on June 14, 2006, 01:15 AM »

right, so as i don't ever use the command prompt (unless i really have to) i've no real use for hard/soft links.

thanks for putting my mind at rest, Gothi[c]

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General Software Discussion / soft and hard links in ntfs

« Last post by nudone on June 14, 2006, 12:43 AM »

i found a link on shellextension city for this little app, 'NTFS Links' http://alax.info/blog/ntfslinks

can someone just explain why i'd want a hard or soft link and not just a shortcut?

i'm not trying to say hard and soft links are a waste of time - i just feel like i'm missing out on something that could be useful but i can't understand their purpose.

thanks.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's Haiku Mug

« Last post by nudone on June 14, 2006, 12:23 AM »

rover gets my vote.

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's Haiku Mug

« Last post by nudone on June 13, 2006, 09:55 AM »

i already have a mug so this is just for fun.

my name is cody.
donationcoder.com
is where i belong.

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Living Room / Re: Seriously?!! I can't hardly believe this

« Last post by nudone on June 13, 2006, 06:28 AM »

i can't say i'm a fan of ANY team based sports but good old 'soccer' does appear to have become a complete pantomime.

but then, i suppose it does take years of training to fall over at the slightest touch and writhe around in pretend agony.

how these 'professioal sportsmen' aren't completely ashamed of themselves i don't know. i'm not sure what football/soccer is but it's not a sport - where's the sportsmanship.

what a load of deceitful overpaid b*stards.