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General Software Discussion / Re: completely unjust disregard for 'farr'

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2006, 10:29 AM »

Nico,

is the problem just when farr hasn't been running for a while, it takes a bit of time to start up and come to the front?

i.e. press break -> delay -> comes up -> close it -> press break again -> comes up right away?

so that if we could get it to come up as fast the 2nd time as the first, the problem would be solved?

this is actually an issue on my todo list and it has to do with farr being paged out of memory because it tells the system it's safe to do so.  saves a little bit of memory but the plan is to add an option to disable this so it always loads fast.

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Living Room / Invent a new term

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2006, 06:33 AM »

Here's a new term i've invented.  Feel free to post your own.

markeshar - adjective used to define any service which has no non-trivial advantages over its competitors but is simply dominant because it has a big market share advantage. May also be used as a noun to refer to any such service.

example:
"their website sucks in every way but it's a markeshar site, so there is no point trying to compete with them"

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General Software Discussion / children's story with pictures about Open Source

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2006, 12:35 AM »

A wonderful parable about open source told as a children's story with pictures.
Really lovely.

Chap.1:A Fruit Tree On the Outskirts Of A Village
Chap.2:Add One Sentence on Notice Boards
Chap.3:About Complicated Notice Boards

http://www.catch.jp/...ts_oss/index_en.html

from digg.com

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

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 11:37 PM »

i love it
and i finally understand now the connection with egg yolk and the previous shed banner -
i think we have a kind of birth-of-the-universe metaphor going on here with cody as the creator..
or something like that..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Updating the help file

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 03:38 PM »

i knew this was going to be a problem for dialuppers..
yeah i guess i will offer a plain mini download without the help or clipart.

only question is whether the default download will be this big one or else the mini one.

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Living Room / Re: Beakins' Mango Quest - fun funny flash game with tons of character

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 03:33 PM »

hahahaha what an ending..
only the british..

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Living Room / Re: Beakins' Mango Quest - fun funny flash game with tons of character

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 02:08 PM »

this game is pure brilliance.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Suggesion: show image size in statusbar

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 02:03 PM »

good idea, putting it on todo list.
you mean image size in pixel dimensions yes?
not expected filesize.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Suggestion: add some pre-configurations to the distribution

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 02:00 PM »

nice idea about default email/browser/control panel/key folders.
a related idea has been discussed here:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2580.0

one thing i might do is have a command for creating a toolbar copy of the Start Menu - that would be a nice way to start out i think, and user could disable stuff and move it around as they see fit.

im working my way through doing moderate updates of all of my apps.
Done so far recently: browsertrayswitch, processtamer, url snooper, screenshot captor, google translator.
Coming up very soon: Launchbar Commander
and of course this summer's main project: FARR 2

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: interface suggestion

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 01:56 PM »

Thanks Masu.. putting on todo list..

Actuallly I'm not sure anyone on the planet uses Unicode Image Maker..
even though when I made it I thought it would be popular overseas..

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Living Room / Re: Madness is contagious!

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 01:51 PM »

congratulations to Mouser for founding the best British bulletin board in America

we're in cyber space here, not america

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request for group alias

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 12:57 PM »

this request is very much in line with the idea of making ACTIONS and FILES work together well and in a sophisticated way, so that you could have actions that get applied to specific kinds of files and vice versa.

so that if you chose an .rfp type file, farr would know to present you with a set of actions which included custom actions like you say, OR
you might type like an action "passcard" which would know that the next thing you need to specify is an .rfp type filename.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Shouldn't ProcessTamer be running with High priority??

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 12:35 PM »

you'll find that option and more in the latest beta:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1656.0
https://www.donation...proctamer/index.html

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Updating the help file

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 12:09 PM »

I just want to take a moment to say what i have said occasionally in the past, but probably not often enough.

Look around at some of the other freeware available on the internet and see how many have big comprehensive help files.. not too many.

Work on the help files, which aren't fun to do, is due to your donations to this site, and your continued support, both monetarily, and in terems of encouragement, bug reports, and expressed interests.

Your donations have a real effect - they make it possible for us to spend time on these things that may not be fun but are important.  Part of our commitment to all of you who have donated is to work on the aspects of this site and our programs that might not be fun, but which you tell us are important. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: 7-Zip 4.42 Final now available

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 11:56 AM »

sounds great.. wonder what has been changed...

read this for a laugh:
http://sourceforge.n...3&forum_id=45797

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Updating the help file

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 11:54 AM »

aside from typos and spelling, the Screenshot Captor help file is now done!!!
3.5 mb big (yipes!!)

ps.
you can view it online here: https://www.donation...beta/help/index.html


i hope at least one person reads it 

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Living Room / Re: Plasma Pong

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 11:52 AM »

absolutely beautiful and has a wonderful "sandbox" for those interested in particle effects and simulations.

now whether it is a fun game to play.. almost doesn't matter.

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Living Room / Beakins' Mango Quest - fun funny flash game with tons of character

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 09:48 AM »

How can you not love this game.. dripping with style and character..
great loading screen too i love it.  Very droll.

Being a parrot Beakings can't simply go to a restaurant and order a Mango.
Instead he has to climb a tree packed with animals trying to prevent our hero from stealing their mango.

http://www.bubblebox...game.php?game_id=145

from http://flash.plasticthinking.org/

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General Software Discussion / c-evo, nice looking free civilization type game

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 09:25 AM »

C-evo is a freeware empire building game for Windows.
With a time scope of several thousand years, it covers aspects of exploration and expansion, industry and agriculture, warfare and diplomacy, science and administration. C-evo follows the spirit of popular turn-based strategy games from the mid 90s, but with more emphasis on powerful AI and careful design of the rules, resulting in a true challenge.

http://www.c-evo.org/

from freewareworldteam

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm Looking for a good Video Conversion app,must be able to convert real media

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 09:18 AM »

Some real audio+video converters i know about:

http://www.audio-war...y-real-converter.htm
http://www.wisecroft.com/
http://www.allformp3.com/rm-to-mp3.htm
http://www.eo-video.com/

eo is worth a try.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 01:49 AM »

ok, i will officially expand this contest to include some prizes for Banners that don't get used but are totally out there and fun, so feel free to make some really bizzarre ones.

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Developer's Corner / Re: MOANTS Database Design

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 12:57 AM »

im a novice in database design - im looking forward to reading this discussion. 

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Living Room / Re: MSN Search Spoof

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2006, 12:48 AM »

hahahahahaha 

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Find And Run Robot / farr v2 planning - use cases and action idea

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2006, 01:17 PM »

i did come up with what i think might be the clearest description of the source of the major conceptual problem for the farr v2 interface.

and that is that the major "use cases" are somewhat in conflict.

Use Case One:
User has a program/file in mind, and wants to type in the name of that program, and then optionally specify an action relevant for that program/file from a nice context-relevant list (maybe with action search at that point).

Use Case Two:
User has an ACTION in mind, and wants to type in that action and THEN perhaps be presented with relevant parameters or files to operate on (maybe with action-context-relevant file search at that point).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 7 requests: wheel, pg up, filters, action mods, resize bug, minimize, 2xCtrl

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2006, 01:14 PM »

yeah maybe a wiki might not be a bad idea..  i took the wiki down recently because it was just not being used at all.

i really want to get farr2 out this summer.. but i want it done properly, and i want the design to be something special