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General Review Discussion / Opinions on remote PC control software

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 12:19 PM »

New member KPR has expressed some interest in doing a comprehensive review of remote-pc control software.

I think it would be fantastic to have such a review, and I thought we could help out a bit by suggesting programs we know about and features we care about.

I'll start off with a couple i've tried:

• http://www.remotelyanywhere.com/ - really cool part is that the client can connect from a browser, which makes it ideal if you are in a place where you cant install a special client.
• http://www.famatech.com/ - Remove Administrator - this is one i actually use.  they seem to be a bit stuck in terms of developing it, but it works pretty well and i like the interface.

Features i care about:

• Speed
• Easy of running client
• Options for screen resizing (stretch, fullscreen, windowed)
• Nice options on local pc for warning on user connect, passwords, etc. (i want to know if someone is trying to control my pc!)
• Logging
• Encryption
• File transfer (asynchronous would be nice so i can do other stuff at same time)
• Easy to enable and disable
• Easy to keep track of different connections
• Passwords and other options for allowing connections

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Not showing history?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 08:44 AM »

yep, there is an option for this:

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

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 06:39 AM »

by the way if it's any consolation to those who have been waiting..
farr v2 will have full plugin support as well as indexing.  no doubt about it.
so hopefully the wait will be worth it.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 06:38 AM »

let's see if we cant get farr v2 out this summer and take top prize.
people should see farr and say quicksilver - fooey!

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Mouser's Zone / Re: New policy - separate beta and stable versions

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 05:00 AM »

another new policy i am going to try to follow:

i will not feel compelled to do full real updates of the help file with beta releases,
but i will make a solid attempt from now on to have full stable version releases include an up-to-date help file.

it seems to me that if we expect to earn a reputation of top quality software, our help files should be up to date.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 04:56 AM »

yep..
i think this is god's way of punishing me for not have v2 done by now 

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Living Room / Re: DC Advice: What website organizes a lot of pages and content the best?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 02:48 AM »

come on guys and gals! little help please.

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Screenshot Captor / Comments on ScreenshotCaptor - Beta Version - 2.12.01 to 2.24.01

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 02:44 AM »

v2.13.01 - added copy path to clipboard on capture (and tray menu) options.

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Living Room / KPL - Kids Programming Language

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2006, 12:20 AM »

This sounds really great if you have kids - looks like they spent a lot of time getting this easy to use and smooth.
And it's donation based? nice!

What is KPL?

KPL stands for Kid’s Programming Language. KPL makes it easy for kids to learn computer programming. KPL makes it fun, too, by making it especially easy to program computer games, with cool graphics and sound.

Can I learn to program?

If you are using a computer to read this on the Web, you can certainly learn to program! Programming is really good exercise for your brain, too.  The skills you already have that you will let you learn to program are reading and typing and math. As you learn to program with KPL, you will also learn something called ‘computer logic.’

A computer program is simply a series of instructions to the computer. Computers are very good at following instructions, but they must be told what to do very precisely, and using logic that the computer understands.  When you learn KPL, you are learning how to do that. When you learn KPL, you are learning how to make a computer do anything you want it to do – including play games!

KPL is for games?
We invented KPL because we think learning is best when learning is fun. And the whole point of games is fun, of course! It’s also true that playing games is the thing that computers are used for more than anything else in the world. Computer graphics and computer sound make for some very fun games!

Because we were thinking about these things, we designed KPL to make it easy to program computer games.  So it’s easy for you to make computer games yourself! KPL is not only for programming games – it’s for learning other things, too. But learning is best when learning is fun, right?

Show me some games!
KPL comes with several games, some of which we will show you below. Note that these are games you can play, but that they are also KPL programs which you can read, learn from, and change. The idea is for you to make your own games – but these fun examples will help you do that!

http://www.kidsprogramminglanguage.com/

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Living Room / Escape Pod - Free Science Fiction Audio Stories/Podcasts

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 11:46 PM »

This year's Hugo-nominated short stories as free podcasts
Escape Pod -- the excellent science fiction short-story podcast -- is podcasting four of the five stories on the Hugo Award's short fiction ballot, starting this week. All free, under a Creative Commons license!

http://www.escapepod.org/

from boingboing

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ProcessTamer / idea for new feature: rescue hotkey

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 11:25 PM »

so i'm thinking of adding a global hotkey that would:

• reduce any process using more than say 20% of cpu to low priority.
• boost priority of process tamer to high.
• display list of running processes for further manipulation and termination.

the idea of this would be that some people might not normally want to be taming processes; and this would be a key you could use in an emergency to regain control of your system on demand by pushing PT up to high priority so it should be able to beat out any currently ill-behaving process.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer usage tip

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 11:22 PM »

perfect timing - i was just about to release a new version when i saw this post and decided it would be a nice feature to add to make it easier for users to choose to run in this way.  so the new beta includes an option to run at high priority
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1656.0

thanks for the tip!

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ProcessTamer / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.05.01 - May 9th, 2006

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 11:19 PM »

Ok,

Keeping with the new policy, i have released the new version as a beta with both last stable version and current beta available for download.

The new version has some nice features, most of which have been requested by users, including better control over which messages you want to see, and some interesting foreground boosting options (you can choose to always boost the foreground process to high priority, or just to always keep foreground process from being tamed; make a rule to ignore an app if you want to exclude this behavior for a given app).

i've also added an option that lets you tell process tamer itself to always run at high priority which can be useful if you have apps that sometimes uses so much cpu that you can't get control of it (thanks eFotografo for the tip: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3563.0).

Screenshot of new version:

note:
if you check both "boost foreground" and "protect foreground" then you could end up in a very counter-productive situation where the foreground app is out of control and is given HIGH priority instead of being decreased in priority - which would make the situation worse.  Having both checked would really only make sense in some rare cases.  But having only one of these checked will avoid this.

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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 09, 2006, 10:59 PM »

jukla i hope you will stick around for the v2 discussions..
you've got some interesting ideas and i'm understanding some but not all - but they definitely seem like exactly the things we are trying to figure out for v2.  part of the reason v2 is still in waiting is that i feel we are still trying to get our mind grasped around a consistent solution to the main issues that can make v2 something on a truly higher level of operation.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Close the bubble message: Wireless Internet Connection is now connected

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 10:51 PM »

brilliant idea - i hope someone figures out how to do this.

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Screenshot Captor / Comments on ScreenshotCaptor - Beta Version - 2.12.01 to 2.24.01

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 05:54 PM »

good idea Roman, I will add it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch download lyrics for your mp3 songs in your library to the ID3 tag

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 01:53 AM »

love the idea..
does it already exist i wonder?

i know that seedling has made recently an mp3 tool on this site(random mixtape maker), so maybe this is a good task for him if it doesn't exist already.

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UrlSnooper / Re: How to integreate url snooper with my visual basic application

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 01:50 AM »

you really just need to leave url snooper running - it doesn't have any special batch processing (though i could add it if people wanted it).

then open each of those pages one at a time in a browser or in another program and let url snooper work in the background.

keep in mind there are some very good "spidering" programs (offline explorer, teleport pro, blackwidow,etc.) that are designed to find all the normal urls and pages on a site.  url snooper is specially designed for sniffing live traffic to discover things like hidden multimedia streaming audio/video urls.

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UrlSnooper / Re: How to integreate url snooper with my visual basic application

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 12:52 AM »

can you be a little more specific about what you want to do?

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Official Announcements / Re: Were you a radio interviewer or disk jockey or producer in a past life? read in!

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2006, 12:51 AM »

just click a litttle smiley and the text version of it appears in the editor; it will be converted to the smiley when you preview or submit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: We need here a better Syntax Highlighter

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2006, 07:04 PM »

this is a good idea i think..
with line numbering also.

what i think would be nice would be

[pastebin=php]
blah blah php code
[/pastebin]

or

[pastebin=c++]
blah blah c++ code
[/pastebin]


i think to make a programming section on simplemachine.org forum extensions so you programmers can start helping to write extensions to this forum

i'll put it on the todo like i think it's a very good idea.

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Living Room / DC Advice: What website organizes a lot of pages and content the best?

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2006, 09:28 AM »

The DonationCoder.com has a lot of different content..
In addition to the forum there is the reviews, software, specials and discounts, contests, podcasts, some articles, help pages, etc.
Then on the forum itself we have the programming school, review commentaries, etc.

It's a lot of information and i don't think we're doing the best job of presenting it..
Furthermore, it's not the easiest thing to maintain.

I keep looking at CMS systems but not found anything perfect yet.

I'm looking for inspiration from other sites that do a nice job of cleanly and simply organizing a lot of content in an easy-to-navigate way.  Simplicity of presentation is a key desire - rather than an overwhelming swarm of information all crammed on one page..

Suggestions?  Favorite sites that do a good job?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is anyone here using Website Watcher to monitor the AHK forum?

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2006, 02:43 AM »

i monitor lots of forums with website watcher.

In general you just have to set the properties to use your normal web cookies - not need to do any advanced logging in (assuming you are normally recognized on the forum).

usually the only slightly tricky part is setting the strings to pay attention to and ignore in order to only detect new posts.

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Living Room / Re: Am I the only one who watches movies in foreign languages?

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2006, 01:33 AM »

i didn't like the V for Vendetta movie all that much but the graphic novel is fantastic.
http://www.amazon.co...p/product/0930289528

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Developer's Corner / IDE for Ruby on Rails

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2006, 09:44 PM »

This is an eclipse-based ide for Ruby on Rails (the framework for Ruby that helps build websites).
Haven't tried it but it looks interesting.

RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, debugging, WEBrick servers, generator wizards, syntax highlighting, data tools and much much more.
The RadRails IDE is built on the Eclipse RCP, and includes the Subclipse plug-in and the RDT plug-ins. The RadRails tools are also available as Eclipse plug-ins.

http://www.radrails.org

from furl