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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your Favorite Recent Computer Game, and Why?

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 15, 2006, 08:22 AM »

Counter-Strike 1.6!!
There's no game that provides me more fun that that, that's why it's the only game i own and ever bought. (well... 14€ at the time for the game was quite a good deal ). Also, it currently has the best price ever: 10€.. eheh

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Living Room / Re: flashgame: pong-like anger/frustration booster

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 13, 2006, 06:36 PM »

Amazing game!!
But definitelly frustating... I can't pass the 31second mark! BAH!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tip of the Day: HowTo Disable AutoPlay in Windows XP (works on removable drives)

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 11, 2006, 08:03 PM »

Good idea!!
This is most anoying when you have a 250gb external usb disk filled with stuff, and the stupid OS thinks it is a usb drive and takes 2 minutes to check it all for media.
Now following your advice on using teakui

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Run Dialog aliases

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 11, 2006, 11:02 AM »

I had the most amazing program ever that did that. Looks like it's discontinued already, but you might still find it. It's name was "typeandrun". I was damn amazing!

Then, there's also slickrun, i think. Not as powerful, though. (imo)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know someone that just hates Clippy?

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 11, 2006, 04:36 AM »

  I'm now running this guy. It comes up every 20 seconds or so. Very funny!! And it has a pack of not-useful-at-all phrases. Makes me remember ms's office (which i don't use for some time now). 

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Living Room / Re: How Microsoft Chooses New Sounds

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 11, 2006, 04:22 AM »

18 months for that?? G... These guys spend way too much time (and money) in stuff that doesn't really matter!
And at the end, i still prefer ubuntu's start sound. Way more discreet that vista's.

But thanks for the post, app. As i won't have vista so soon, now i know yet one more reason not be sorry for that

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Skrommel's Software / Re: LabelControl

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 11, 2006, 04:11 AM »

do you, does anyone, know how to _add_ things one would wish LabelControl to recognize??

-chrisk (November 11, 2006, 02:51 AM)

Sorry, i can't help you with that. Maybe you could ask at the ahk forum (www.autohotkey.com/forum) for some pointers on if ahk recognizes all types of controls or, if not, which ones does it recognize.

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Living Room / Re: Your Greatest NEED: A Mouse-Phone Combo Shaped Like a Volkswagon

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 10, 2006, 05:53 PM »

 

Incredible! Still, i prefer the better-looking tvr:


also, at the page you linked, there's some interesting stuff, like the "Magnetic Rube Goldberg Machine For Your Fridge"

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Living Room / Re: Draw Function Graphs: A Website for Graphing Math Expressions

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 10, 2006, 05:46 PM »

Cool!
Gald you posted it, that means it's now in my favourites list

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: setting up a simple encrypted ftp offsite backup

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 10, 2006, 10:49 AM »

I meant "csbftp" (contextmenu quickuploader: http://www.toffi-net...P-support/eindex.php).

-wr975 (November 10, 2006, 07:22 AM)

Hum.. That looks good.
I was hoping to find something more command-line based, though

Well, jamo.. any comments on wr975's method?

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Living Room / Re: Smilies With Speech Bubbles

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 10, 2006, 04:10 AM »

PitrPaulus: here's an interesting thread here on DC about Creating animated gifs.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: setting up a simple encrypted ftp offsite backup

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 10, 2006, 04:07 AM »

Your solution looks interesting, wr975. (it misses the symphonic orchestra though. and i though it was the most important part of the coding snack .)

I couldn't inf any hit on google for cspbftp, though. What's that?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop Teleporter

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 09:03 PM »

How did i guess that the option that you'd most like would be option 2?

You're right about option 1, it might force you to move the windows.

I also think that option 2 might be the best compromise between easiness of use and computer organization. Now... Let's try something:
Either someone is so kind as to post a program that will do that (i don't think that the unnused shortcuts will help you here) or someone does the script to do it, or i do it myself

Also, notice that your request can be acomplished if you'd prefer it. I can make a script that will monitor the desktop for changes and move the file to another folder as soon as it's dropped there. Do you think that this is the best solution?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: FTP Uploader

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 08:59 PM »

Ok... Now i see your point. Well... FtpUploader works quite well (well enough for me to use it ). I think it misses one feature though: upload to an arbitrary folder. curently it only uploads to the root folder of the ftp. I think i could easily add it, though

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Living Room / Re: 3Wish.com: Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 08:52 PM »

I'm glad you are "back in the active", ken!

That game was a bit too easy, but quite fun! I think it lacks a story, though... (where did that alien come from anyways? )

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General Software Discussion / "Mouser": a new concept of a keyboard mouse.

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 12:10 PM »

No, i'm not talking about our beloved admin, mouser.

I'm talking about an ahk script made by Adam Pash , an editor of lifehacker.
It's about making a different way of controling the mouse through keyboard. It's quite smart for getting the mouse in places far away from the current, but i think it's a bit ennefective to move tho a place very near by.
Still, it's definitelly worth a look if now only for it's clever interface and for the good fun it provides. Here's the link:

http://www.lifehacke...-keyboard-212816.php

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Living Room / Re: does having many program windows open slow the sysem?

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 06:10 AM »

I think it does have impact.
From my 30-second testing with adobe acrobat, it makes a big difference. (actually, i never thought of that, maybe that's one of the reasons why my computer tends to be SLOOOOW!).
When windows are minimized, they reduce (drastically, i must say) their memory use.
Opera goes from 70mb to 19mb and acrobat goes from 10mb (or more, it was still raising) to 2mb.

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Living Room / Re: Go for a good laugh in this comparison between regular Europeans and Italian

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 05:41 AM »

defeating the purpose of the animation

-Lashiec (November 09, 2006, 05:36 AM)

I wouldn't say so... I think that the purpose of the animation is to make people laugh... And that sure was acomplished!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Desktop Teleporter

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 05:38 AM »

I know that sindrome. A friend of mine keeps filling his Desktop up until there's no space there. It gets damn ugly!

As for your request.. I have a few comments about it.
Do you really want the Desktop to be cleaned exactly when you download the stuff? I mean, it'd make it very easy to save stuff, but way harder to get to it (since you'd have to browse through your computer to get to that other folder where the stuff would be stored).

Also, the other folder would get all the stuff you currently have on the desktop, which wouldn't help much with organization.

So, i have 3 suggestions:

• Have soft links for folders on your computer linked to the desktop.
• Have a program that would store stuff after it's been on the desktop for some time, and store it according to some pattern.
• Use a download manager like Flashget

Now... For option 1, you'd have the folders on your desktop, and when you dropped stuff into them, the stuff would be stored inside those folders, somewhere else in your computer. This'd make you have to organize your stuff, but it'd be as easy as drag and drop. Also, the folders would be stored somewhere else, but quite accessible through the desktop.

For option 2, you'd have something not as organized (since it's impossible for the program that examines the files to identify which ones are which by any other method than their files unless you add some kind of tags to the filenames), but easier to keep.

For option 3, the download manager would ask you which category that download was, and automaticly store it in the right place. (i think the download manager can also store stuff based on the site where the download comes from). This'd make drag-and-drop unnusable, and might not be exactly what you want, but it'd be the more organized solution.

Also, you could do like i do: instead of saving everything, just clicking "open" on the download box, and the stuff gets stored in the browser's temp directory

Now, which one do you prefer?

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Skrommel's Software / Re: LabelControl

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 05:26 AM »

Yes, all of skrommel's apps are autohotkey scrips.

As for your question, i don't know. But i didn't, i only used it enough to answer your questions

You don't actually have to learn ahk, i think. You could only use the "window spy" and edit label control's settings by removing what you don't want the script to recognize.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: FTP Uploader

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 09, 2006, 05:14 AM »

I am very interested in using this for webdevelopment.

-jammo (November 09, 2006, 01:45 AM)

Hum.. Not really. I've tried to use rcftp, but the cost to learn to use it through command line was harder than the hasle that how the current method works.

What do you mean by webdevelopment? How'd you like to use it?

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Living Room / Re: 1 Sheet of Paper

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 08, 2006, 06:49 PM »

Amazing... That's all i can say!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Should we add a ratings/vote mod to the forum?

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 08, 2006, 06:48 PM »

Hey, is this the mouser i know? You are thinking about adding a "wisdom of the crowds" mod to the forum?
WTF... What did those nice aliens do with you?


As for my opinion... Usually, a good thread gets lots of posts and views, so a need for an explicit rating might be overkill. I think that maybe a "sort by views" and "sort by replies" might be the best way to go if you really insist on this.
I don't really see a "need" for it, though.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: LabelControl

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 08, 2006, 10:33 AM »

Afaik, the stuff in the settings are the controls that labelcontrol is able to recognize.
Each of the entry stands for a type of command. I don't exactly know where they are defined, though. Still, most of them should be there already.


As for detecting which ones are which, you could try using window spy, which comes with autohotkey. That'll tell you what kind of control a control is.

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Living Room / Re: how wide can you stretch the width of your windows?

« Last post by jgpaiva on November 08, 2006, 08:44 AM »

  You are absolutelly right! I cannot stretch opera more than the sum of the widths of both my screens. I had never tried it, it's rather strange to see my browser streched through both my screens..
Curious find, though. I'd never think of it. I see no reason for this limitation, though.