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Living Room / Re: AAAaaaa!!!!! Very long post... LOST! NO!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 12:28 PM »

hirudin, did you get the email i sent you?
assuming you are talking about the post begining:

"Sorry for re-hashing an old thread, but I have an idea that might be very cool...Most of the programs listed require manually copying and pasting the serial once..."

then i believe i have the text of the message (and sent it to you i thought). i can send it again.
i'm still trying to figure out how your post managed to drive the system crazy enough that i had to manually delete it from the database.

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

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 06:52 AM »

ps. after i get replies it can take a couple of days for the winning copies/serial#s to be sent, so don't panic if you don't hear back from me before monday.

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Living Room / Re: website: stuff on my cat

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 05:07 AM »

hey you can never have too much stuff on a cat.

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Official Announcements / MARCH SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2006, 02:32 AM »

Ok, we have the winners for march's giveaways, as calculated with the prize optimizer.

Winners of 'Directory Opus' (3):

• epopuI
• patteo
• ToxMox

Winners of 'xplorer2' (5):

• alexi
• Baseman
• elempoimen
• rkrause
• wr975

Winners of 'Mp3 Tag Assistant Pro' (3):

• DreadLord
• geoptin
• jeutix

Winners of 'TaskPatrol Professional' (5):

• DrBB01
• m_s
• nigelfraser
• Nodrog
• vmcclintock

Winners of 'Double Safety Pro' (5):

• A64
• carljmoss
• Poolee
• rpcohen
• SpiderJon

Winners of 'SikUp!' (5):

• algasys
• Isaac Patch
• JeffK
• Notts
• Softland

Winners of 'ViewFolderSize Pro' (5):

• chaswill
• gmoneygrip
• rkr3
• stewcam
• xplo5iv

Winners of 'Resource Tuner Personal' (5):

• Dongra
• IconBoy
• Jibz
• mikadotcu
• NewKreation

Winners of 'PS Tray Factory' (5):

• Ampa
• fisherdood
• stuart
• vidbits
• y0himba

Winners of 'PS Hot Folders' (5):

• bparent
• chrisa52
• da.honk
• Josh
• twinkler

Winners of 'Subliminal Flash' (5):

• Betsy
• Deozaan
• elvisbrown
• ferndock
• Mark007

Winners of 'Fast Schedule Printer PersonalPlus' ( 8 ):

• david.intp
• havanamike
• JavaJones
• jjc
• rixm
• sanford98
• Terry
• Vandulus

Winners of 'Clock Tray Skins' (5):

• aphoria
• jvaudrey
• mja
• Nomadin
• Tekzel

Winners of 'Web Stream Recorder Pro' (3):

• JoTo
• meldred
• rodmeyers

Winners of 'Dr.Explain' (5):

• BrokenNails
• dajo
• Keilup
• moonwatcher
• venn

Winners of 'AmiPic' (5):

• bobdec
• CilyPudi
• IQLover
• mariank
• pmowbray

Winners of 'Almeza Apps (choose Captain Tray Pro or MultiSet)' (5):

• coen99
• Darwin
• Hypophyse
• Steph
• sylvio2000

Winners of 'PageSpy Pro' (10):

• angelia
• ark2
• dcm
• dfluck
• Jimdoria
• Jumble
• mikebd
• slave138
• stauff
• Sugar

Winners of 'All Sencesa Apps' (5):

• bbhermann
• CosmicRay
• dhays
• Loonier
• momonan

All winners have now been notified by email to their forum email address;  if you do not confirm via email that you still want your prize it will be given to someone else.  if you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail [email protected] and explain you never got any mail.

And hey, if you didn't win this time, don't be sad, just enter to win in april's giveaway, which will be up in the first week of april.

Curious about how we award prizes? See https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1684.0
Note that winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum increases your chances.

If you've forgotten what the program you won does, you can find links to all the program pages here:
https://www.donation...Discounts/index.html

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Living Room / Re: website: stuff on my cat

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 07:17 PM »

great site 

cats get annoyed at that stuff but it's really that kind of fed up annoyed that you get when your friend makes you do something - you are annoyed but you still are happy to be involved in a "project" - at least that's how i think about it

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: If you have a many-buttons-mouse, you'll like this

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 06:24 PM »

two more suggestions for perfection:
1) improve icon
2) show hint in system tray about how to toggle.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: If you have a many-buttons-mouse, you'll like this

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 06:22 PM »

addendum, you dont have to hold them for a second, but press back button and keep held while you push right mouse button - that works well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: If you have a many-buttons-mouse, you'll like this

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 06:19 PM »

ok i just installed this and its quite wonderful.

here's a tip for new users:
jgpaiva says: "back button"+"right-click button" at the same time
i found that this works perfect for me if i press both and hold for a second; if i try to quickly do it like i did at first it results in right click effects.  so just hold the two together for a second and its very natural and perfect.

really very nice.

if you don't have a volume control knob on your keyboard but you do have a scroll wheel on your mouse, and you listen to a lot of music, you NEED this program.

we need to make this a proper coding snack on coding snacks page as i predict some people will really want this.  i love the tooltip hints when its in operations, really great.

question:
i doubt this is possible, but thought i might request it if so:
would it be possible to have multimediate mouse mode temporarily active when i hold the ctrl+alt keys (or shift+ctrl keys, etc.) - i just thing for somethings like volume adjustment it would be nice not to have to toggle in and out of the mousemode but just hold that key combo down while wanting to engage it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ad Muncher: keeps the brain intact while surfing the Net - beats AdBlock!

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 05:21 PM »

donationcoder.com has no affiliations with any software companies.

in fact we have a very strict policy that we accept NO commissions or affiliate payments or any kinds of compensations, unlike many websites.

the only thing we try to do is get dicounts for our members on software that is wanted here.

everyone on this forum has different favorite programs, and we encourage everyone to talk about their favorites.

we also try to be a friendly place where authors can come to chat a little.  not advertise their software but talk about it with people here who like it. and there are quite a few freeware and shareware authors who talk here.  the only thing we do ask is that if you are somehow connected to a company you need to say it clearly when you post.

in short, we have tried to make this forum a welcome place for people to talk about their favorite programs, and a place with authors of good programs can reach their users.  we always try to find freeware alternatives to every program, both in our reviews and in our posts.


i want to repeat - it is our strict and unbending policy that this site shall have no arrangement with any company which would have us benefiting from the sales of their program, or even the appearance of benefits from the sale of their program.  period.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ad Muncher: keeps the brain intact while surfing the Net - beats AdBlock!

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 03:29 PM »

a discount is coming, but i dont know if it will be in april - probably have to wait until may.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: DonationCredits Discussion

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 02:01 PM »

does anyone have any novel ideas about fun ways we could use the donationcredits system?

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Developer's Corner / mini-review on distributed compiling software like distcc and openMosix

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 01:36 PM »

see this thread for gothi[c]'s mini review of distributed compiling software, including openMosix and distcc:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2988

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Living Room / Re: Need advice from a web designer on feed aggregators

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

im interested in what you find tinyvillager - basically you are looking for a php script or some other server script that cant be configured to build a page of headlines/links/rss feeds.  i know there are some but i dont know how they stack up and i'm looking forward to your report.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Distributed compiling and clustering

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 01:19 PM »

wow - fantastic mini review for programmers!
gothic you rock.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 08:29 AM »

see also some other screen recorders (free and commercial) in the discussion area for that review:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=41.0

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Living Room / Re: Eets

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 06:05 AM »

yeah i have to admit i got up the whales, which was starting to get interesting but still in walkthrough mode. i was impressed with the spirit of it but i just didn't stay motivated.  maybe i'll give it another try in a bit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Searching a good Screenrecorder

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 06:03 AM »

there is a 50% discount on bb flashback still ongoing for dc members.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: [The Bat!] How to change displayed email address?

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 02:37 AM »

Does the Bat have junk mail filters?

yes, though not the best; but it does have one of the very best customizable regular expression filtering engine so you can auto sort and filter stuff to your hearts delight.

Can it check all my 5 email accounts with one click?

yes. one of the reasons so many of us love thebat is how well it works with tons of email addresses; i probably have 15 or 20.

Do we still have a DC Discount for it?

yes, 50% off.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free VMware Server software

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2006, 01:57 AM »

so
basically it lets you create virtual servers and *run them at the same time* (is that right?), so basically you can have a set of isolated independent servers, each protected from harming one another, and you run your system on a virtual server, which makes it easier to do certain things (like backups, experiments,etc.).
is that about right

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free VMware Server software

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 10:58 PM »

i use vmware workstation a lot but
im still not entirely sure how one "uses" the server - i.e. what you use it to do.
rover could you tell us a little how you are *using* it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why subscription-models for software suck

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 10:56 PM »

yes definitely - i'm not trying to say that small businesses are motivated purely by money at all.
the analysis above is just meant to say why ignoring users may become a "good business decision" for big companies who are concerned just with maximizing profits.

personally i think we need to stop this obsession with maximizing profits.  the goal of life is not to maximize profits. somehow we seem to have entered an age of hyper capitalism where everyone seems to just take it for granted that the goal of life is to maximize profits.  why can't the goal be to make reasonable profits?

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Living Room / Re: Eets

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 10:50 PM »

worms and lemmings are some of my favorites so i am going to try this immediately.


played it for a bit -
very very cute and lovely personality and graphics.
somehow it didnt grab me beyond that though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why subscription-models for software suck

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 10:03 PM »

i was talking to someone about this phenomena recently and it ocurred to me that the problem is that from a business sense it all makes sense:

when you are small and word of mouth is important, a few vocal complainers could hurt you, and some vocal supporters can help you, so you spend time making sure your users are all happy, even if on a per-user basis you are losing money (ie 10 hours of customer service costs you more than the user paid).

but when you are big and own marketshare, a single user's opinions are not going to be able to effect you, so there is no point wasting customer service dollars on them.

sad but makes sense.. unless you have a more active community that pays attention to such things such that there is a price to treating customers badly.

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General Software Discussion / Office 2007 user interface video

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 07:44 PM »

13 minutes preview and promo video for microsoft office 2007 user interface

http://www.microsoft...sx/OfficeUIIntro.asx

from downloadsquad.com and others

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Best E-mail Client / somone didnt like thundrebird (firefox mail client)

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2006, 07:36 PM »

somone didnt like thundrebird (firefox mail client)

http://ask-leo.com/m...nto_thunderbird.html

In my weekly newsletter last week I announced that I was considering a switch from Outlook to Thunderbird as my email client. I received a lot of good feedback on that plan, and, after having lived in Outlook since before it was Outlook, on Monday I took the plunge.
And after a couple of frustrating hours, I aborted my attempt.

listen to audio podcast here: http://ask-leo.com/podcasts/20060322.mp3