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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggestions for Usenet Binary Downloader?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 11:46 PM »

price: $27.

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hard to go wrong with that 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 10:07 PM »

your newsletter gets better every week cliff - love the table of contents thing - fantastic!

31953

Best ScreenCaster / Re: Wink - Another freeware alternative screencaster?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 09:32 PM »

see also:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2281.0

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Best ScreenCaster / Re: Wink 2.0 in the Works

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 09:31 PM »

yep, see here also where wink2 is compared:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2985.0

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Seedling's Software / Re: Hi Everyone

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 04:51 PM »

a related idea:

what if an additional tab was "make playlist from file list", and let users drag and drop files.
this is almost identical to the randomize playlist function, and in fact maybe you could use the same exact process:
ie when you select randomize existing playlist, all it does is initialize a list of songs, which users could also create by dragging and dropping files into it.

the purpose of this would be that we could manually select and drag in a ton of files and dirs and have it make a random playlist from that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: nice and small screensaver

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 04:38 PM »

 

i agree, it's always nice finding new stuff here.. even when discussion starts out in one direction it always ends up making some fun detours.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Other Borland Developer Studio Languages?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 03:55 PM »

i'm afraid this contest is only for c++ builder.  there are some great delphi communities out there but so little for c++ builder users so we thought we would focus this one on c++ builder.

but most of our contests in the future will be language neutral so stay tuned for more programming contests where there will be no specific ide/language.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshots from movies

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 03:12 PM »

you have 2 choices:

the easiest and smartest is to use a video player which has a built in screenshot taking function.
see here -> https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1208.0

the other option is to turn off "hardware/video acceleration" in your video player.  Both windows media player and real player have options for this, and when you turn it off (and restart) you will then be able to take screenshots.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggestions for Usenet Binary Downloader?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 11:28 AM »

i would love to see a newsreader review (maybe 2, one for binary usenet downloaders and one for article reading/posting)..
anyone want to volunteer to spearhead this? it's definitely something needed.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR also all entries within a special favourite folder?

« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2006, 09:58 AM »

i don't think i fully understand the question, can you rephrase it?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR can't list system entries...

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:38 PM »

it's coming in v2 but check this thread for carol's workaround for including control panel items:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3324.0

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Developer's Corner / Panda3d - nice looking new 3d game engine

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 02:19 PM »

Panda3D is a 3D engine: a library of subroutines for 3D rendering and game development. The library is C++ with a set of Python bindings. Game development with Panda3D usually consists of writing a Python program that controls the the Panda3D library.
Panda3D is unusual in that its design emphasis is on supporting a short learning curve and rapid development. It is ideal whenever deadlines are tight and turnaround time is of the essence.

http://panda3d.org/download.php

from digg.com programming section

31963

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Window manager/organizer

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 02:04 PM »

I read DNeb's idea on Joel's page and i think it's actually a nice one.

Basically he wants to be able to say to the program (maybe through right-click and choosing "Memorize" in system tray), for the program to memorize the size and positions of any visible windows.

Then when he wants (from right-click and choosing "Arrange") for the program to take any visible windows that it has previously memorized position and size and restore them to their positions and sizes.

I think this is a really nice idea.

Might I add it would be nice in an advanced version to work with multiple layouts:
1. Be able to save multiple layouts by name (ie it should ask you to name your layout when you click Memorize), and then choose from the right click menu which layout to invoke.
2. Be able to delete layouts.
3. If you really want to be clever, have a double-click find the stored layout with the most matching windows visible and activate that one.

I'm looking forward to this tool, I think it would be useful.

31964

Living Room / Re: Man Using Paper Clip to Barter for House

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 01:54 PM »

History of the PaperClip:

http://inventors.abo...tors/blpaperclip.htm


paperclipmaking machine

...Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor with a degree in electronics, science and mathematics, invented the paperclip in 1899. He received a patent for his design from Germany in 1899, since Norway had no patent laws at that time. Johan Vaaler was an employee at a local invention office when he invented the paperclip. He received an American patent in 1901 -- patent abstract  "It consists of forming same of a spring material, such as a piece of wire, that is bent to a rectangular, triangular, or otherwise shaped hoop, the end parts of which wire piece form members or tongues lying side by side in contrary directions." Johan Vaaler was the first person to patent a paperclip design, although other unpatented designs might have existed first.

American inventor, Cornelius J. Brosnan filed for an American patent for a paperclip in 1900. He called his invention the "Konaclip".

But it was a company called the Gem Manufacturing Ltd. of England who first designed the double oval shaped standard looking paperclip. This familiar and famous paperclip, was and still is referred to as the "Gem" clip. William Middlebrook, of Waterbury, Connecticut, patented a machine for making paper clips of the Gem design in 1899. The Gem paperclip was never patented.

People have been re-inventing the paperclip over and over again. The designs that have been the most successful are the "Gem" with it's double oval shape, the "Non-Skid" which held in place well, the "Ideal" used for thick wads of paper, and the "Owl" the paperclip that did not get tangled up with other paperclips...

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 09:20 AM »

i received a fantastic segment from zaine for the radio show, so we're making progress.
but we still need more segments!!

i'd love to hear some man (or woman) in the street interviews with just normal people walking down the street.. reminder: there will be a nice prize for best such entry!

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UrlSnooper / Re: Help with this url please

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 06:30 AM »

ahh i see your problem.

you need a program that can record real media streams.
search for: Streambox Vcr or Net Transport (those are the 2 i know but there are others as well).  StreamboxVcr is abandonware but works well.

See this post for some good resources links: https://www.donation.../index.php?topic=7.0

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

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 06:00 AM »

hahaha i love the view of cody in a bubble (or in some plasma field or something)

just for the record though, it's a bit too large - see the dimension limits stated above.
(it's a lso a bit dark on my bad monitor)

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UrlSnooper / Re: Help with this url please

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:58 AM »

that's an easy one, url snooper found it as (5.8mb):

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/news/olmedia/n5ctrl/progs/06/hardtalk/nicholson13apr.rm

you really shouldn't have had any trouble getting the url from urlsnooper unless you've got something misconfigured - it should be picked up as soon as you start viewing the video, and it's the only url it should find if you have "multimedia urls" selected as the protocol in url snooper.

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Living Room / Re: this is the first site I ever donated to... :)

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:48 AM »

I must admit that this is the 3rd site I have donated to however.

welcome to the site tony. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:47 AM »

never heard of alley cat - got a pic?
Cloq - gabriel knight was excellent.

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Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast Audio Radio Show - Upcoming Show Planning

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:43 AM »

love it - perfect show music! 
very catchy, da dum da dum da dum da da.

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Developer's Corner / Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column

« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2006, 05:39 AM »

By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, April 06, 2000

wtf! ok my bad.  it's an old article i thought was new.

i guess i should leave up this post since
1) it's still a good article
2) it's a testament to others what happens when you post beyond your bedtime.

31973

Developer's Corner / joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column

« Last post by mouser on April 21, 2006, 07:33 PM »

i cant say i like joel but you simply cannot deny he is a damn good and insightful writer.

latest article is quite good:

Things You Should Never Do, Part I
..
Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

http://www.joelonsof...s/fog0000000069.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: the übergenerator for htaccess

« Last post by mouser on April 21, 2006, 04:36 PM »

great find - extremely useful. 

31975

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by mouser on April 21, 2006, 04:09 PM »

i remember that game!
but how can you forget Lode Runner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner