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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: RealWorld Cursor Editor 2006.1 released

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2006, 08:30 AM »

looks very cool, and i like the website too 
going to give it a try. seems to me like you guys are doing good stuff 

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Living Room / Re: Atomic Computer — gimme, gimme, gimme!

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2006, 08:18 AM »

i'd love to be there as you try to take that through customs..

[edit: well, not *right* there.. i'd prefer to be watching from a considerable distance]

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Living Room / Re: Companies paying people to say good things about their products on forums

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 08:52 PM »

recent blog post about bloggers getting paid to say nice things:
http://www.geeknewsc...archives/006175.html

Paid Product Evangelist that hide they are getting Paid
I have a friend that is a pretty popular blogger, and I asked him today why he had been talking about a certain product so much. He confided in me that he was being paid to be a product evangelist. When I told him that I had never heard him disclose that he was getting paid to evangelize the product he said that his contract had forbid him from disclosing this.
...

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Living Room / Re: Up and coming photosharing site

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 08:13 PM »

i've actually posted here before about steven from rack911.com

he solved our very difficult email cpu server load problem, which the entire support team at our hosting service failed to improve.  it was really eye opening to me about the value of finding someone who has some substantial background knowledge.

he's a great guy and i would recommend him as well, 100%.

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Living Room / Re: OISV - Organization of Independent Software Vendors

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 06:59 PM »

well to be fair, they may want to show potential members the kind of articles that are available so they have some basis to know whether to join.

and we also don't know if they are letting anyone join.. though i suspect that they are.

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Living Room / Re: My graphics card went out on my PC

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 06:57 PM »

good for you to keep track of warranty stuff!
i need to learn from this example.
i also had an nvidia card burn out due to cat hair in the fan.. too bad i never kept track of warranty info

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Living Room / Re: Up and coming photosharing site

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 06:19 PM »

welcome to the site florian.  looks like a fun service!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 04:53 PM »

anyone not using tab mix pro should see a psychologist immediately. 

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Living Room / Re: Browser discussion

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 01:16 PM »

very well thought out responses, both of you.

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Best Virtual Machine Tool / Re: virtual pc vs. vmware

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 10:42 AM »

and another more recent comparison review suggesting both have their strengths and weaknesses:

http://www.informit....sp?p=474241&rl=1

(link from osnews.com)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print large pictures on multiple pages

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 08:40 AM »

that might work, but its not exactly an elegant solution..
surely there is a free image printer out there that already does this well..

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Official Announcements / Add a cool DonationCoder.com rss feed image to your website latest dc threads

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 08:38 AM »

see this post for details:

https://www.donation...index.php?topic=4073

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Site/Forum Features / Add a cool DonationCoder.com rss feed image to your website latest dc threads

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 08:37 AM »

Add this code to your page to show a nice rotating list of the last 10 posts on the dc forum:

<a href="https://www.donation....com/forum/index.php"><img src="http://feeds.feedbur...om/donationcoder.gif" style="border:0" alt="DonationCoder.com Forum"/></a>

here is the image that will appear:

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Living Room / united states post office new guide - ok i know this sounds geeky but..

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 07:50 AM »

i really enjoyed this new brochure/booklet from the united states post office.

http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm100/intro.htm

you can download pdf from that page.




covers just about everything you would want to know about mailing different kinds of things and different services.

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Living Room / Re: OISV - Organization of Independent Software Vendors

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 07:43 AM »

it's woth noting that they are not (at least not currently) asking for any money to join - so that is a very positive sign.  the organization is mostly for small software developers, so it wouldn't be so strange if they wanted to restrict reading of the articles to people who want to join the organization.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print large pictures on multiple pages

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 07:27 AM »

just to summarize: i believe the request here is for a simple free program that can print big pictures by splitting them onto multiple pages.  sort of like a poster printer, but not for enlarging, more for automatically splitting overwise images.

so perhaps the way to think about this would be that one dimension of the image will be sized to fit the full width or height of a page, and the other dimension would span multiple pages.

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: IDEA: Print an autoscroll screen capture that is legible (DC credits available)

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 07:19 AM »

This topic has been moved to Coding Snacks.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4066.0

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Print an autoscroll screen capture that is legible (DC credits available)

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 07:18 AM »

sure.

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Living Room / Re: OISV - Organization of Independent Software Vendors

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 04:41 AM »

to tell the truth, the organization seems mostly focued on marketing, and so it's not really for my tastes, and not really a good match for me or for donationcoder (there is an article about why making freeware is bad for business and why to avoid giving discounts).

however, having said that, i can see how it would very much be a useful organization for small software companies to be able to band together and compete against the big companies (as long as it doesn't turn into a club for a few companies to have a vehicle to promote themselves).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: restore to original setting

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2006, 04:10 AM »

yes, i think that would be a good thing to add, i agree. i will put it on the todo list.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Gamechat entry

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 06:36 PM »

stop by the irc channel (#donationcoder on efnet); i'm busy sunday but i can help on monday.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Doing an append to the clipboard

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 05:05 PM »

well like any clip in chs, you can open the main window, edit it and reselect it to make it your current clipboard, so that's not a problem.

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Living Room / Re: New Smiley Requests

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 04:45 PM »

i wonder if you can make a cody giving thumbs (wing?) up or down, as in approval or disapproval.

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Living Room / Re: New Smiley Requests

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 04:42 PM »

you could just do a generic tiny (48x48 or so) cody with a thought balloon and cody with a speech balloon.
and people could make custom images with the desired text or thought words.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 04:33 PM »

good point f0dder..
this actually reflects my fear about the current direction of financing open source projects - that middlemen support providers will make money while coders wouldn't.

i dont know if it's practical but..
imagine this scenario:

what if there was a law that anyone could provide support for any software, BUT
companies provifing support for free/open source software had to kick back 50% of profits to the software author.

i know it would be a hard law to implement, but that would actually address the issue and might be a good tradeoff of work vs. pay and put money where it belongs.