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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 03:36 PM »

Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.
-Hans Richter

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free support ends for Windows XP and MS Office 2003

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 02:22 PM »

Day 2: still waiting for a reply. Second e-mail sent.

-40hz (April 10, 2009, 12:05 PM)

For better service, please pay a Bill at the pearly gates.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A software security dongle provider.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 10:36 AM »

So, in general, you're not recommending these?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Text-less progress bar calculator

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 10:34 AM »

Two solutions, no less!

 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: March 2009 Fundraiser Wrap-up

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 10:31 AM »

Putting out statistics like these will inspire confidence and actually encourage donations

-MischaM (April 10, 2009, 09:04 AM)

I think the more accurate term here is might inspire.
I argue the case neither for nor against publishing the kinds of statistics to which you refer.

In other words, it'll show in black and white that the donation system that looks so good in theory, actually works in practice.

May I suggest that the empirical evidence already validated the theory?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the new desktop?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 10:18 AM »

The new desktop will come about through clever harnessing of dihydrogen monoxide.
Your government is deep into secret development as I write.
See this topic.

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] how to get the search box value ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 10, 2009, 10:10 AM »

The big man probably is having a bookshelf crisis...   

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the dif? (drive icon fandango

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 09, 2009, 04:10 PM »

Found it, thanks.
It's Anvir Task Manager Pro that affects the display, (a product that is mentioned in this topic).

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General Software Discussion / Re: On developer's block, and calling it quits. Being a programmer is hard

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 09, 2009, 06:36 AM »

I'm a custodian/janitor at our local school system. And hardly hear anything except when something got missed or is dirty or some other mess.

-cmpm (April 09, 2009, 06:16 AM)

Without you and your colleagues the entire system would soon grind to a halt!
It's good to see people sustaining a positive attitude in the face of little appreciation.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free support ends for Windows XP and MS Office 2003

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 11:54 PM »

I sent them an e-mail asking for a clarification. I'll post their response here when I get it.

-40hz (April 08, 2009, 03:31 PM)

You can do that from the grave??

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General Software Discussion / What's the dif? (drive icon fandango

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 11:37 PM »

I face a mystery.

Directory Opus is one file manager that I use.
Periodically I notice a change in its display of drive icons (I refer to the appearance, not the difference in drive letters).

Sometimes they appear like this:

At other times like this:


These displays switch from time to time, but I can't see what causes it. 

I'm not even sure that the phenomenon is limited to Directory Opus or if that's the only place I happen to have noticed it.

Any ideas?

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General Software Discussion / Re: On developer's block, and calling it quits. Being a programmer is hard

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 09:15 PM »

Except for stocking books at Barnes & Noble

-zridling (April 08, 2009, 04:51 PM)

Not to mention "Suspenders Weekly" magazine...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: program menu printing

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 09:04 PM »

Brilliant! 

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 10:42 AM »

The box of unused wires/cables makes it look worse

-Perry Mowbray (April 08, 2009, 03:13 AM)

I've heard of disconnecting from the network but it seems you've taken a global view on that 

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Living Room / Re: Online Dictionary that visually shows relationships among words.

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 08, 2009, 10:37 AM »

This is pretty cool, so I made a FARR alias for it

-CWuestefeld (April 08, 2009, 08:18 AM)

Thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 10:52 PM »

Nice!  Multiple levels of undo as well.

No need to thank me for this, I know how dull your vacation would have been without it.

 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 10:30 PM »

another update, in case anyones interested...

fixed the aforementioned error, and added a dropdown list that shows the loaded folders (you can delete from this list as well)

still haven't made much progress on the MRU, but I'm not done quite yet...

-Target (April 07, 2009, 09:00 PM)

Thnks 'll g nd s hw t wrks!

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Living Room / Re: Misbehaving Tray Icon

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 04:50 PM »

No help from me, I fear.
Do you mind a question instead?
Do you use this with another pointing device attached as well?
If so, any conflicts?

Good luck with the icon hiding.

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Living Room / Re: FDA Approves Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 03:58 PM »

some b*stard has been spiking my drink with that cr*p for years

-nudone (April 07, 2009, 12:44 PM)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Macro Express - MiniReview

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 03:47 PM »

What I mainly use DA for is to launch applications and websites with quick combinations of keys, i.e. `out launches outlook.  I know it has other functions, but I've never gotten into them, and was wondering if ME had a better interface to process things other than launching applications/websites.

-wraith808 (April 07, 2009, 03:02 PM)

I think so, it's invisible for one thing. 

For your main DA stuff (above) I happen to use 'shortkeys' using two-letter (or more) combinations starting with 'q'.  So, wherever I am (in whatever window, on the desktop, 'qdc' gets me to DonationCoder. FWIW, I'll attach examples of two quick ways to set up launching URLs. The first, using a 'wizard', is as simple as putting the address into the requester, the second is through the scripting interface (which, in the example, gets me to DC using Firefox).

For other stuff, a couple of keys will, for example, gather and back up a whole bunch of stuff from here there and everywhere on my machine; or create and shoot off an email; or gather data from one source, then massage it some, then call up the appropriate Adobe app to pretty it up, then... etc.  There's a lot one can do with ME.  (It'll also record your actions if desired.)

Can I suggest that perhaps the best way to get a feel for the interface look and feel, and for the depth of ME is to view the tutorials referenced in the review?



Hope that helps.

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Living Room / Re: Moar lightsabers plz

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 02:59 PM »

Poor is the student who does not surpass his master.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

-Edvard

This Da Vinci kid wants to learn from me?  I don't know him from Adam!
Andrea del Verrocchio

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Macro Express - MiniReview

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 02:40 PM »

Could I replace DA with ME, and then take advantage of the advanced functionality also?

-wraith808

The interfaces are quite different.
ME doesn't do text completion/substitution in the same way as DA, so you have to set up keys and know what they are in advance.  Nor does ME offer lists of alternatives like some other text-completion tools.
If you're a DA addict, and are satisfied with what it can do, and rely heavily on its methods, you might not feel comfortable switching to ME.
I strongly recommend your giving the trial version a run, though. It should be possible to run them together, btw. (In the early days of DA it would conflict with ME but Andrea fixed that long ago.)

So much depends on habit and personal likes and dislikes. I ran DA for a while -- when it was relatively new -- but found myself reverting to ME because the latter is more powerful and can do a lot more for me. It is also my personal view that ME offers better value for money. (That's not to criticize DA, I think that DA offers good value for money, but feel that ME gives even better value.) Within reason, however, value for money probably matters less than a style of working with which one feels comfortable (or perhaps that is, in and of itself, a highly important value factor).

Not a very clear answer, I fear, but it depends on how much, and how, you use and rely on DA. That's one reason why I didn't mention DA in the list of competitors, I think it's really in a different category.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.0.8

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 12:07 PM »

1.0.8 is out

-fenixproductions

Here's a little cosmetic thing.
Like me, its memory isn't perfect. BBCe doesn't remember GUI size.

If I close it sized as in the upper portion, it reopens sized as in the lower.  (I have icons set to 22 under 'Appearance'.)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Macro Express - MiniReview

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 09:08 AM »

Borland's Superkey TSR

-pmcg (April 06, 2009, 11:54 PM)

Made life a lot simpler, didn't it?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: A DonationCoder job section for DC Coders?

« Last post by cranioscopical on April 07, 2009, 08:59 AM »

i'd just like to be sure about this before we went to the trouble to set up our own system.  since DC is not interested in making any commissions or money from this, we don't really need to be involved in the process in any real way

-mouser (April 07, 2009, 06:02 AM)

Just to state the obvious, you'd need to be really careful in establishing how to avoid becoming embroiled in any disputes that might arise.