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Living Room / Re: The end of the line for cursive writing

« Last post by skwire on May 16, 2011, 06:01 PM »

After all, how hard can it be to spell bee?

-cranioscopical (May 16, 2011, 05:14 PM)

Aunt Bea would someday like be a bee but it's just not possible.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Volume Lock Program

« Last post by skwire on May 16, 2011, 02:24 PM »

I've tried that, and it doesn't seem to work so well. There are a few games that change the wave sound level. And Volume Locker doesn't seem to protect the wave volume.

-Captain_Crunch (May 16, 2011, 08:34 AM)

Sorry to hear that.  Which OS are you using?  It wouldn't take much to write an app that would poll the master and wave values every second or so and reset them if they're changed from the original value.  I realise this is a brutish way of doing things but it should work fine.

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Living Room / Re: The end of the line for cursive writing

« Last post by skwire on May 16, 2011, 08:52 AM »

If we're getting rid of cursive, why not go a step further and make English more efficient?  I like the famous bit that Dolton Edward wrote, years ago: "Meihem In Ce Klasrum"

-kyrathaba (May 16, 2011, 08:39 AM)

Ironically enough, I think it bears a resemblance to the lolcat language, lolspeak.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: email troubles

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2011, 09:58 PM »

Much as I hate to rely on a cloud based service GMail may be the ultimate fix - given that it's unlikely that I'll get much assistance from the ISP and the fact that it's so intermittent it may not be worth trying to troubleshoot it (plus it insulates us from future ISP changes)

-Target (May 15, 2011, 09:12 PM)

With my GMail accounts, I never use the web interface.  I use them via IMAP within my email client of choice, Becky.  I periodically back up the GMail accounts with IMAPSize.

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Living Room / Re: The end of the line for cursive writing

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2011, 06:55 PM »

My oldest daughter (age 11) can read and write very well in cursive.  As for our youngest daughter (age 7), we'll be teaching her cursive at home if it's out of the curriculum by the time she should be learning it.  I think it's a skill that one should have.  For one thing, I can't imagine block-printing a signature.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2011, 04:20 PM »

And, if you refresh it manually, it updates?  (I have enough grey hair to go around  )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Volume Lock Program

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2011, 04:10 PM »

Perhaps Volume Locker might be worth your money?  $14.95

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 14, 2011, 05:25 PM »

Maybe you're experiencing the behaviour I describe in this post?

https://www.donation....msg243928#msg243928

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 14, 2011, 03:50 PM »

Hmmm...I cannot reproduce the issue.  I've left it open all day and it's updating just fine.   

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 13, 2011, 10:38 PM »

AFAICT, seems to be working fine here...at least I have not seen the NA icon in some time.

-ewemoa (May 13, 2011, 09:22 PM)

And it seems to be updating hourly even after a hibernation, right?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 13, 2011, 07:22 PM »

Seems to work here fine.  Are you seeing this after a hibernation?  ewemoa, are you seeing this as well?

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General Software Discussion / Re: VoicePics - A Toy App that encourages toddlers to Babble

« Last post by skwire on May 13, 2011, 10:51 AM »

Toddler Talk
Baby Vox

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2011, 02:25 PM »

Dochappy, let us know how this app worked out for you when you're done testing it.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: IDEA - lock window positions on startup

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2011, 01:54 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26728.0

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA - lock window positions on startup

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2011, 10:40 AM »

Furthermore, look up CoordMode in the AHK docs.  Specifically: CoordMode, Mouse, Relative

Good luck!   

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA - lock window positions on startup

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2011, 10:37 AM »

Give Skrommel's WinWarden a look:  https://www.donation...index.html#WinWarden

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2011, 09:24 AM »

Nice find, MilesAhead.

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Living Room / Re: Droid Texting - Fail!

« Last post by skwire on May 11, 2011, 07:07 AM »

FWIW, I've had no problems texting on my Droid X.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] A simple and handy MP3 Cutter and Editor

« Last post by skwire on May 11, 2011, 01:23 AM »

Beautiful UI.  Well done.   

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: missing separaters in forum topic displays

« Last post by skwire on May 11, 2011, 01:22 AM »

I've seen it happen when you adjust the font size for the browser.  Perhaps that's the issue?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 11, 2011, 12:58 AM »

Thanks for the testing and feedback, ewemoa & joiwind.  Much appreciated.  =]

Website | Download
v1.0.9 - 2011-05-11
    + sWeather will now attempt a refresh fifteen seconds after coming out of
      hibernation mode.  (Thanks, ewemoa & joiwind)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic Archiving?

« Last post by skwire on May 10, 2011, 05:26 PM »

Being able to choose between either would be great, but if only one then I think last modified would be best. Thanks so much if you're planning to code this up!

-Hyphen (May 09, 2011, 11:39 AM)

Give this a shot: 30 Day Archiver



I wrote it around the 7-zip commandline app (7za.exe) so you will need to provide that yourself.  You can download it from here: http://downloads.sou.../sevenzip/7za920.zip Just put the 7za.exe in the same folder as the 30DayArchiver.exe.

The options should be self-explanatory.  Notes/caveats:

• To use the different types of archive formats, simply specify that in the Output field i.e. c:\path\file.zip or c:\path\file.7z, etc.
• If you attempt to use the same archive file, the program will give you option to update the existing archive file.
• If you cancel whilst updating an existing archive file, you will corrupt it.  If this proves to be an issue, let me know and I'll code around it.
• Obviously, choosing zero compression will lead to the fastest results.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WHS2011? Sorry - no evaluation copies. Try our nifty simulator instead!

« Last post by skwire on May 10, 2011, 01:44 PM »

What do you think?

-40hz (May 10, 2011, 01:38 PM)

I think I'll be sticking to my WHS v1 for a while to come yet.   

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 09, 2011, 08:13 PM »

I just uploaded v1.0.8 build 2 with the standy/hibernate tweak.  I have it set so that, fifteen seconds after a resume from standby/hibernation, it will attempt a refresh.  After that, it will go back to the default hourly refresh.

joiwind/ewemoa, please let me know if this works.  Thanks.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 09, 2011, 04:21 PM »

My opinion is one of, "is it really that big of a deal to manually refresh it?"  Furthermore, just because a device comes out of hibernation doesn't guarantee that there is a network connection.