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

« Last post by nudone on May 27, 2006, 04:45 PM »

forgot to say: any suggestions welcome on chopping and changing stuff, etc.

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

« Last post by nudone on May 27, 2006, 04:40 PM »

a few more...

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

« Last post by nudone on May 27, 2006, 04:38 PM »

some more...

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

« Last post by nudone on May 27, 2006, 04:34 PM »

i'm trying not to scare the children this time.

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Official Announcements / Re: Please welcome two new DontionCoder Official Volunteers: Ampa and Josh

« Last post by nudone on May 27, 2006, 01:18 AM »

I read through this and almost forget to welcome you 

So Ampa and Josh - Welcome and THANKS.  It's always nice to know that folks will take on a supportive volunteer role to help the rest of us out 

Anything you, or any of the other volunteers, can do to help keep mouser sane is a big help to us all.

-Rover (May 26, 2006, 11:35 PM)

my sentiments too.

it will be fantastic to see more screencasts.

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Living Room / Re: Photoshop Tutorials

« Last post by nudone on May 26, 2006, 06:41 AM »

might be worth stating if the tutorial is in a movie format also?

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Living Room / Re: Photoshop Tutorials

« Last post by nudone on May 26, 2006, 05:47 AM »

  are you going to start us off then, Carol?..

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Living Room / Re: Photoshop Tutorials

« Last post by nudone on May 26, 2006, 05:32 AM »

lynda.com is great and so too is www.vtc.com (same sort of monthly subscription deal).

www.totaltraining.com will cost more but i think they are the worth it if you want to get serious.

i think posting a list here of all the 'tutorial' sites would quickly suffer from what all (or most of) the 'tutorial list' sites suffer from, i.e. repetition/redundancy.

or, maybe, i'm just being negative.

i'd like to see a 'definitive' list of tutorials that really show clear methods for various techniques rather than 'here's another link for a tutorial on how to make a glass button.'

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

« Last post by nudone on May 25, 2006, 12:50 AM »

can i just ask, if the new banners follow a completely different colour scheme to the rest of the forum (as it is at the moment), then, will the forum colour layout be changed to match a winning banner that has a novel set of colours?

i.e. are we keeping the colour scheme throughout the forum consistent or doesn't it matter?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: meter my bandwidth during specific daily interval each month

« Last post by nudone on May 24, 2006, 06:35 AM »

my isp has now changed the 'peak time' interval so now i just need to monitor my bandwidth between 4pm and 12 midnight. they provide a webpage that displays my current usage - with amounts broken down between what types of network traffic it is, so i don't really need a special util anymore to monitor things.

i sometimes don't download anything at all - the most i think in one month was 80 gig. sometimes i just get the urge to download everything i can find (to justify to myself what i pay my isp). it's easy to get the gig downloads going when you download tv series and game demos/videos, etc.

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Developer's Corner / Re: making money from webpage ads, nice blog article from someone who knows

« Last post by nudone on May 22, 2006, 12:35 AM »

sounds like a good experiment to try.

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Living Room / Re: PREY trailer - looks funky

« Last post by nudone on May 21, 2006, 05:21 AM »

i'll play it just to see the new ideas for all the portal stuff - otherwise it looks a bit too like quake 4 with all the neon lights.

as for it being repetitive - isn't EVERY genre under the sun until you've spent time getting to know the subtleties and nuances? not trying to defend this game or other shootemups - it certainly doesn't look as varied as half-life 2 - i just find the 'games are for kids' attitude a bit out of date these days.

i find things like classical music and opera repetitive and boring - not because they inherently are, i simply have chosen not to spend any time learning to appreciate such things as there are other types of noise i already enjoy.

other than that i think you're right about it being mainly a boy thing, Carol.

vrgrrl may be able to offer a more authoritative opinion on the subject of computer game gender preferences.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Musicians

« Last post by nudone on May 20, 2006, 05:35 AM »

ah, i see. sorry, although i may not be using these programs right now (like 95% of the things on my machine) i dream of using them at some point in the future - hopefully before i have to be resurrected from a cryonics chamber.

have you looked on ebay - i once sold steinbergs the grand on there for half the price i paid so i'm sure you'll find a good deal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Musicians

« Last post by nudone on May 19, 2006, 02:03 PM »

in the past but if you are going to ask a question i'm probably not the man to answer it... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fyre, a tool for producing computational artwork from chaotic functions

« Last post by nudone on May 19, 2006, 12:44 PM »

i look forward to a release version too, Eóin.

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Best Firewall / Re: Software firewall issues in general...

« Last post by nudone on May 19, 2006, 12:41 PM »

i follow Carol's strategy.

not had any trouble following this 'common sense' sort of plan with the free version of zone alarm - over several years.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Organize the Taskbar, organize the System Tray

« Last post by nudone on May 19, 2006, 01:27 AM »

that 'TaskbarEx' is pretty amazing. love the way you can drag the buttons onto the desktop. great find, lanux128.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on May 18, 2006, 12:57 PM »

amazing.

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Living Room / Re: New Hardware Forum Starting Up

« Last post by nudone on May 18, 2006, 12:54 AM »

yes, thanks Tekzel, that's what i meant.

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Living Room / Re: Help Needed! - A Request from an old friend of Mouser

« Last post by nudone on May 17, 2006, 01:11 PM »

i know there are some awfully big good hardware forums around, so you are going to have your work cut out for you building a new one - but i wish you luck!

-mouser (May 17, 2006, 12:19 PM)

will there be some kind of novel take on it all? i haven't any suggestions - just wondering what could make a difference...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on May 16, 2006, 01:26 PM »

great work, jgpaiva.

just a quick question: in the shortcut keys config section, do i put...

#F9

instead of 'F9' if i want to use the 'windows' key and the 'F9' key at the same time.

single keys for shortcuts tend to get confused with other programs from my experience - and many double key shortcuts are already taken up (adobe, etc) except for 'windows' key combinations.

i suppose i ought to test what i'm asking in my question - i'll do it in a minute after i've clicked 'post'.

edit:

tested and working.

fantastic. feels like a 'real' program now. 

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on May 16, 2006, 01:11 PM »

interesting...

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Living Room / game for people with more than half a brain

« Last post by nudone on May 15, 2006, 08:46 AM »

enjoy beating yourself up? have no friends to play with? enjoy discussing the finer points of last nights tv with your imaginary friend?

then try this...

http://www.tetris1d....ah/twinoo/twinoo.php

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on May 15, 2006, 05:19 AM »

this is the 2nd link i found http://www.techdirt....050222/1258255.shtml

i first read the rumour over at digg.com

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on May 15, 2006, 03:54 AM »

anyone still using 'allofmp3.com'?

no, i didn't think so.