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Living Room / Re: Creative PC Cases

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 02:38 PM »

short of such a mod, i could at least print up some nice removable vinyl DonationCoder/cody stickers that could be places on laptops and stuff

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Living Room / Re: Creative PC Cases

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 02:27 PM »

i wonder what a cody modded computer would look like..

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

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 02:23 PM »

yep, i think it makes a lot of sense where you guys (especially carol) are going with this.
i think the open source community is also helping to shift things in this direction.
it sort of makes some sense to me that software may move more towards being "free" out of the box (or at least very cheap), and perhaps even open source, with Support Costs being where the real money is made from companies.  People who can't afford pay support can get support (and provide support) in the free public forums.  In this way, as carol alluded too, your free users could become a valuable part of the support system to everyone.  In a sense then, you are giving the software out for free in order to create a base of users to provide support to others.

The real fly in this ointment (especially for open source tool) may be the fact that 3rd party companies may step in and offer support services, undercutting the main company and making that approach a non-viable way to profit. maybe there could be some way to solve this?

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Living Room / Re: how to pronounce 'Haneke'

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 01:58 PM »

i am not the best at these things, but if i had to guess i would guess
han-eh-key
or
han-uh-key

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

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 01:49 PM »

right, ok so too different things here.
superticker - wants a hotkey so he can select, hit hotkey to APPEND new selection to clipboard.
jgpaiva (and others) - want command to select a bunch of clips and merge them to one.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 01:46 PM »

carol you seem to have gremlins eating your posts.. or cody is doing it!

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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 18, 2006, 09:22 AM »

i hope the best solution has to be an existing freeware print image tool.. would be nice tool to find.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: restore to original setting

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 09:17 AM »

I should make an option to restore all settings to defaultsm, but you can do this instead:
exit the program, delete the ScreenshotCaptor.ini file in Screenshot Captor directory, then restart.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 08:36 AM »

Also:
more testimonials/quotes are needed!

So if you want to say something about donationcoder.com, good or bad, or if you know a site where someone said something worth adding to that list of quotes (https://www.donation...om/About/quotes.html), please send it to [email protected].

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Living Room / Re: Ebooks & Readers...and all for FREE

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 08:05 AM »

great post!

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Living Room / Re: I've bought a Mac

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 07:23 AM »

shall i make a little mac hideout section and linux hideout?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Keepass Password Safe mini-review

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 06:41 AM »

i agree with jgpaiva's suggestions.  also the first pic is broken for me.

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

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 06:39 AM »

ok so one option is to merge with some separator string between them.

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Living Room / Re: I've bought a Mac

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 06:30 AM »

if/when there are enough mac users here we could create a section for mac soft..

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Official Announcements / Re: The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2006, 05:49 AM »

they arent on forum page.
and some web pages dont have them - i may add them now that they are not pure ads.

but like i said, view some of the review or software pages and you should see them, like https://www.donation.../Software/index.html

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

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 11:20 PM »

its one of the features that has been requested a lot - a merge functionality.. doesn't exist yet.. i'll see if i cant add it in the next week.. how would people like this functionality to work?

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Living Room / Re: Creative PC Cases

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 11:04 PM »

lol

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 11:01 PM »

i wonder if this is a good time to remind people of what the original banners looked like...

i just have to warn you, don't stare too long or you might start to feel ill:



and forum:

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:59 PM »

let me add something:
i am in love with the new banner.

i can't quite say why, but i think it somehow captures the playful spirit of the site..
and perhaps it captures a bit of the fact that this site is a bit convoluted and it's features are not easily explained in one word.. but somehow when you look at it you kind of know it's going to be fun to discover the details.  at least that's what i see.

and i love the 2d-3d combo look, that kind of feels like an old fashioned Diorama.

here's the winning banner to save you time from visiting the main page:

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Living Room / Re: New Smiley Requests

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:55 PM »

yes.  i added it to the first [more] group.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:49 PM »

Well after several months.. this contest has finally ended with a glorious winning banner - the one you see at the top of the site now.

It should come as no surprise that Nudone, who created our mascot Cody, came up with the winning design.  We had some lovely entries, and i think the interaction of testing and iterating through versions helped inspire the winning design as well.  Thank you to everyone who submitted something.

Congratulations again to nudone.   

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Official Announcements / Re: The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:42 PM »

ps.
if you are a donating member your ads will turn almost completely off by default.
this effects the CodyQuotes too (because they are like an internal advertisement).

due to popular request, you can control this - so you can turn them back on (or completely off) at your pleasure.  see instructions here: https://www.donation...1228.msg8509#msg8509

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Official Announcements / Re: The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:36 PM »

maybe later we can add it little trivia things, and other words of wisdom from Cody.

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Official Announcements / The DC Website is free from google ads - CodyQuotes are here!!

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 10:34 PM »

(I'm leaving in the context-sensitive google ads on the top of the forum for now only because they can be amusing and/or relevant to topics (for now), but other than that..)

Big announcement: the website pages have been scrubbed of google ads!

now we have something very new.. CodyQuotes!

Here's a screenshot:



The idea is to show a random little excerpt (teaser) from some of the fun (and some negative!) testimonials/quotes sent in by people.  When you click on it you can read the whole thing and other quotes - and on that page we make a pitch to donate.

The idea of replacing the ads with these are that:

• we have more control and don't feel like suckers begging for advertising dollar pennies
• we might even do better financially if this encourages more donations
• they are just more fun and less obnoxious.
• it will encourage more people to send in comments

Note: currently while testing, many pages show 2 blocks of these, one at top and one at bottom left.  I think we will make it alternate between these and not show both at same time.


Well, what do you think?
(if you are a member you might have ads turned off so you might never see them anyway).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Keepass Password Safe mini-review

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2006, 09:57 PM »

fantastic mini review!
program looks beautiful too.