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Living Room / some links regarding how digg.com works

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2006, 09:11 AM »

I'm always finding good links at digg.com; here's a nice set of articles about how it works:

http://socialarchite...typepad.com/musings/

Wikipedia entry for Digg
Wired News story on Digg
TechCrunch: The Power of Digg
How digg Uncovers the News.
Digg Argues It Has Ways to Prevent Manipulation.
Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Dynamics of Digg.
Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence) (kottke.org)

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Developer's Corner / Nice article on how to test and secure your web apps

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2006, 08:05 AM »

Nice article on how to test and secure your web apps

This chapter is excerpted from the book titled "How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services" by Mike Andrews, James A. Whittaker

http://www.ethicalha...t/content/view/43/2/

from

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Living Room / Re: Incredible Fishing Video!

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2006, 07:35 AM »

ok that is crazy.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Config always says Tray prog isn't running.

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 09:23 PM »

i think the first thing to figure out is whether the main process tamer tray util works.
so just start it and then run the cpueater test, and watch to see if the process tamer tray icon changes and says its taming it.

that will give us a starting point.

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 07:29 PM »

another anti-mac video inspired by that first one, this time focused on gamer perspective:
http://video.google....84173497&pl=true

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Living Room / DonationCoder.com has gone shareware, free licenses canceled, all apps cost $100

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 05:35 PM »

 

come on now, you didn't really believe we would do this did you?

Just an april fools day joke to keep you on your toes

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Living Room / Re: Great Software blog has moved

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 02:48 PM »

just a friendly reminder:

this forum has a wide spectrum of members, from kids to adults, with wide ranging views.
and some of us surf from work, etc.

so if you post a link to material that is sexually suggestive, etc., please make a note of that in your post so those concerned with such things can avoid clicking on them.

[this is in reference to zaine's post above to his infamous graphics review which has some pictures which may not be to everyone's taste].

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Image Metadata Enhancer/Saver

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 01:27 AM »

this idea has come up before..
there are tools for saving notes with files.
and there are tools that can auto detect when a new file is created in a certain directory.

i'd love to see someone prepare a list or even a full review of such programs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Review of File Renamers — let's make a list

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2006, 01:24 AM »

patteo makes an interesting point - the review should mention the extent of commandline support of each renamer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Review of File Renamers — let's make a list

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 04:18 PM »

Better File Rename
http://www.publicspa...ws/BetterFileRename/

(basically its a context menu extension, but quite good and very easy to use which makes it a good chioce much of the time)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alertbear - the *different* RSS reader - free!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 04:16 PM »

great point.
any active coder will tell you that most programs create their own 10% todo list each year, so it's very rare that a program ever gets to (or at least stays) 100% complete.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some Suggestions

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 03:54 PM »

the help needs updating, but basically there is a tab on options for "red box" capture mode;
it triggers by default when you do a windows object capture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy to Clipboard always RGB 24 Bit, 72dpi

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 01:43 PM »

let me look into this and report back.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some Suggestions

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 01:41 PM »

#1 is a good idea, i will put it on todo list
#2 again i agree and others have brought this up, it's on the todo list, but near the bottom
#3 there are actually 2 region capture modes - the redbox one does allow you to adjust your region before capturing (make sure you have redbox mode option for capturing regions); however i always encourage people to just capture the entire screen and crop later.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alertbear - the *different* RSS reader - free!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 05:58 AM »

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

let me give you my 80/20 version of this that i have learned from my own personal experience and that of watching other programmers:

coming up with a 80% good idea is easy and implementing 80% of the the idea is easy

but that last 20 and 20 can be incredibly mind-numbingly hard.

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General Software Discussion / Re: what kind of keyboard you use?

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 03:55 AM »

great link nudone - those are truly some weird and cool keyboards on that page.

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General Software Discussion / enhanced simple php gallery

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 03:52 AM »

i found this while looking for something dead simple to let me upload pictures and show them without needing to do any configuration at all; it simply reads files in a directory and shows them;  add more files and there they appear automatically.
works well and free.

http://www.quirm.net/category.php?id=14

An enhanced version of Simple PHP gallery.
The original Simple PHP Gallery created by Paul Griffin has been extended by a number of people, myself included. I have packaged this together to form the enhanced Simple PHP Gallery.

Features of 1.7
Automatic thumbnail generator
Automatic pagination
Ability to edit names, descriptions and alt attributes online
Ability to upload images online
Valid XHTML 1 Strict Mark-Up
Ability to delete individual images and directories
Comment system
Random thumbnail next to category
Ability to change thumbnail quality
RSS Feed (undocumented, check files for info.)
Language File
and more...

http://www.quirm.net/category.php?id=14

test gallery: http://www.quirm.net/espg-gallery/

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Living Room / Re: Word for Word Flash Game

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2006, 01:42 AM »

took a while to get the hang of this but then it became quite fun.

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Living Room / Re: clever samarost-style game

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 09:43 PM »

there was a walkthrough posted on this site though im not sure where exactly:
http://jayisgames.com/

i'd love to see a video of this being "solved" as i'm in the same postition as you, i can make some funny things happen but i get stuck quickly.

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Living Room / Re: Great Software blog has moved

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 09:27 PM »

it's an absolutely beautiful theme for wordpress you found there by the way.

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Living Room / Re: Map tracks cereal around the globe (and lots of other stuff too)

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 06:55 PM »

i absolutely LOVE these things.

one of my favorite maps of all time is the map of different terms for the word soda/pop in the united states:
http://www.popvssoda.com/



that is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use rss feeds?

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 06:48 PM »

this might be of interest:

zaine restarted blogging recently and his latest post is:
http://www.thegsblog.com/?p=75

Well, I’m here to eat a big plate of crow. I’ve been highly critical of subscription-based software for over a year now, but FeedDemon 2.0 has surprised me..

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Official Announcements / Re: MARCH SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 06:06 PM »

hahahahahaaahahahahahahahahaha -  i love that avatar, nigel!
hahahahahahaahah pure genius whoever designed that.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: AlertBear 104 -- First Impressions

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 06:02 PM »

wow!
now this is why this forum can be so nice.

that is an excellent minireview.
i think you did a perfect job of explaining the nice things about it and the aspects that might not be best depending on your style of working.  really very helpfull!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: One Request

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 05:40 PM »

yep, i agree with this. ill put it on todo list.