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Best E-mail Client / Re: opera deserves a real try

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2006, 01:12 AM »

however, it should be said that 90% of allen's emails are between him and his other personalities, so i'm not sure if they should count. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2006, 01:07 AM »

not only that but wink may even be superior if your desire is to not record a movie live, but rather manually make one from static screenshots.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: a better PowerDimmer screensaver alternative?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2006, 12:47 AM »

report on 1.4:

the effect is really great here on multimon.

when its configured to stop on mouse move, it stops right away despite my best effort to test it without moving mouse. i think this must be a bug.

it uses 99% cpu while dimming, but then changes to no cpu usage at end.  this is acceptable but not ideal.  i wonder if you aren't stepping through dimming levels much more then you have to be.. in other words, maybe a slighlty less smooth dimming transition would look identical but not use much cpu?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Boot optimisation software

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 11:43 PM »

just remember, that like cleaning your registry, such attempts at optimization can frequently lead to situations where something might stop working and you don't notice it's stopped working for a few days and then you can't remember what you disabled and you find yourself confused and distressed.

so just take notes about what you do and treat carefully.

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Living Room / Re: talking cats

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 03:43 PM »

i love the black and white crazy cats at the end 

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 02:16 PM »

hahah, redhat i meant.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 01:49 PM »

redhate, you should be able to add any browser, just add an entry for it in the config text file.

one thing i am going to try to add however is autodetection of browsers, which should make it easier.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

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

great idea - i should be able to add that next week along with some minor improvements.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Delete double lines (all but the first) in a text file

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

finally some perl on the site! 
it's about time.

welcome to the site DanD, glad to have you here.

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Living Room / Re: forum suggestion

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 09:15 AM »

didn't even know such an option existed.. i'll look for it.

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Dr.Windows / Re: Dr.Windows Dialogs - Add Yours!

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

hehehe

might be fun to do another release if we can think of new features that might be wanted.

post any custom dialogs you might make so they can be added !

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paessler Site Inspector has moved to freeware

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 09:13 AM »

nice find!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 08:13 AM »

ah i see, so its timed frame capture mode, i understand now.

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General Software Discussion / I want a Freeware Utility to ... 300+ common problems solved.

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 07:58 AM »

This is a nice clever list arranging programs by tasks

http://www.econsulta...utilities/index.html



from http://www.furl.net/furledPopular.jsp

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 07:36 AM »

thanks very much for the report and samples wr975! very very helpful.

i should say i havent tried wink 2.0, but last time i tried it it wasn't good at all at producing smooth flowing movies automatically (or at least i didnt see how to do it).  my memory is i had to tell it when to snap a screenshot. this new result you are demonstrating seems to suggest that it can make a nice video movie now, which is a huge improvement.  unless i was missing something before. which is possible.

thanks again for the samples, really helpful.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Beta Testers Requested

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 05:30 AM »

sorry i should have posted a follow up -
this program left beta a while ago and is now fully available for download, though new feature requests are welcome:
https://www.donation...owsertray/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 02:32 AM »

wow, congratulations to the wink developer(s), thats great news 

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General Software Discussion / Email Syndication Services - nice article

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 02:09 AM »

I'm about as big an RSS advocate as you'll find on the Web, yet even I recognize that a lot of people don't use RSS - and until Microsoft embeds it into Outlook are unlikely to. Although it's early days for both Zookoda and Yutter, they look to be very promising email notification services for blogs.
Read more...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/

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Living Room / Website for people to arrange (legal) trading of stuff

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 01:38 AM »

You pay them 1 dollar per trade, and find people to trade your stuff with.

http://www.zunafish.com/

from nytimes.com

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 12:26 AM »

Thanks for your support 4vrqrisPt.

Now that we have the microdonation system set up we are going to make soem more changes to make it easier for donationware authors to make a home here.

ps.
does your forum name have a meaning?

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

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2006, 12:24 AM »

welcome to the site sugar, glad to have you here 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronisation tools

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2006, 05:45 PM »

you know the use of the term "sync" in Eóin's post is somewhat confusing.
2 very different kinds of programs are being talked about here:
1) a sync tool for synchronizing directoris
2) an incremental versioned backup tool

even though Eóin mentions wanting a "sync tool", his description is really for an incremental versioned backup tool:

I’d better explain what I’m looking for first, I want a neat way to backup my programming projects, my ideal tool would perform incremental backups with a possibility to rollback.

in this case, you really want to look at that backup review and section and look for a backup tool not a sync tool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synchronisation tools

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2006, 01:23 PM »

Eóin,
we defininitely need to do a proper review of incremental versioned backup tools.

for a review that touches on these, see:
https://www.donation...ckUpGuide/index.html

and the discussion related to that review:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=29.0

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for April 13, 2006 - Codename '3 Big Things'

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2006, 01:20 PM »

As always, if you find any of these items (especially #3, the article) linkworthy, by all means please do submit it to slashdot, digg, stumbleupon, etc.

It would be nice if it had a larger audience.

See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3201.0 for a list of links of places that might be appropriate.

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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2006, 12:28 PM »

thanks nudone 

i still feel like i wasn't quite able to capture the amazing spirit that users have brought to this site - it far outweighs any monetary issues.  but it's hard to convey that, so i ended up mostly speaking in business terms i'm afraid.