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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Let's try to get collectorz.com discounts/reviews

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 06:49 PM »

actually josh already seems to have contacted them and gotten them to offer a good discount i think
but emailing them again and letting them know it's desired can only help!
stay tuned for details

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FaRR running slowly?

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 06:47 PM »

ohhhh...

one quick clarification - does this delay only happen the first time you bring up farr after a long time of non-use? or if you bring it up and close it 10 times right after one another is it still slow.

if it's only the first time, then this kind of falls into the "it's a feature not a bug" thing, but i've been meaning to make it an option.
after farr is minimized for a long time it gives up its memory to windows so that it uses almost no real memory.  as a result it can be a bit slow to come back to life after it's been minimized for a long time.
i can add an option to not give up memory so easily.

if it's always slow to come up then it is probably the networked recent files thing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: License Key is Invalid

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 06:43 PM »

i apologize for the trouble -someone else just reported a similar bug to me yesterday..  what program are you using?  did you use the installer to install it? is the program in some location that might be causing the confusion?  I will have to add a message reporting where it is trying to save the file so that we can identify the problem.

once you tell me which program this is i can tell you how to set the license key manually using a file, and i will make an improved version which may help us know what the problem is.  feel free to email me directly for more help ([email protected]).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Num Lock

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 06:38 PM »

ah good idea - right now it uses arrow keys to navigate but i can see some people wanting to use keypad for launching no matter what.

so is that what you are asking for - even when numlock is not toggled, you want pressing the 2 to always launch result#2?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FaRR running slowly?

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 06:37 PM »

the freeze for a couple of seconds thing may be a bug regarding searching networked files..
do you guys with the slowdown have a lan?

if you go into search directories and Uncheck the "Recent Documents" directory, does it solve the problem?

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Living Room / Re: feedyes.com - service that makes rss feeds from any webpage

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 12:24 PM »

another one, feed43.com:

Your favorite site doesn't provide news feeds?
This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.

http://feed43.com/

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Living Room / feedyes.com and feed43.com - services that make rss feeds from any webpage

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 12:23 PM »

In depth: what can you do with FeedYes.com?
» Generate feeds for any website or specific page
» Save those feeds, so you can read them in any rss reader. One click adding.
» Syndicate those feeds: put the headlines on your own website
» Monitor websites realtime: always know the latest news from any webpage

http://www.feedyes.com/


from geeknews

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: SpellWindows Object

« Last post by mouser on March 08, 2006, 11:23 AM »

sorry i missed this the first time chrisk -

you aren't missing any files - it's just an experimental feature that needs more perfecting.
i will try to come back to it as soon as i can.

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Living Room / poweruser tv - 31 mp3 radio shows so far

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 09:42 PM »

for those of you who love techy audio shows to download (podcasts):

http://www.poweruser.tv/index.aspx?c=1

Latest Shows

• Episode 31: Blog Phones, Game Ratings and More!
• Episode 30: Mac Attack, Eight Vistas and More.
• Episode 29: RIAA, Chip Implants and Flying Cars
• Episode 28: Microsoft vs. the EU, Second Life and More!
• Episode 27: IE7, Taxes, WoW and More!

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Living Room / Re: firefox made 72 million dollars from click ads last year

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 09:16 PM »

followup from mozilla person:
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=182

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General Software Discussion / Re: Auto-synchronize FTP folders with HD folders?

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 08:49 PM »

nice links rjbull.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Farr's 'Calc' program completely revisited!

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 08:46 PM »

nice! when you combine this with the regular expression support in farr it should let you do some powerful stuff!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Driver backup

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 04:14 PM »

the best thing would be if you can make a drive image of your current drive so you can go back and get files or examine stuff after the fact.

all i can tell you is that you'll feel so much cleaner when you reinstall and youll be so happy when you actually have a new install.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.04.01 - February 21, 2006

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 12:27 PM »

i need to add some stuff to the scrolling windows capture code to make it easier to abort, and easier to detect failures in scrolling.
it does sound like if there were two instances that one was left running.

two things can confuse screenshot captor and minicap with scrolling window capture:
1) animated gifs can sometimes confuse it
2) if you are in an edit box when you trigger the scrolling windows capture

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Living Room / Free children's audio stories, plus downs fm

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 10:32 AM »

Free children's audio stories (read by the site owner?)

http://storynory.com/


from lifehacker from frugal for life

also from that page is this insteresting link to "Downs FM":
http://www.downsfm.com/

Welcome to the website of The Downs FM...
the radio station of The Downs CE Primary School.
Children at our school produce and record their own radio broadcasts on a regular basis. From this site, you can listen to their shows using the Show Player, subscribe to the show (to receive the latest shows as soon as they are made), find out more about how the shows are made and the children who make it, and also contact us to let us know what you think about it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Minicap resize jpg?

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 06:27 AM »

very nice idea - i will add it for next release.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Only matching .exe files within a folder (or its subfolders)

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 04:13 AM »

this is absolutely coming -
we've discussed the concept of modifiers before as well, so you will be able to define types of searches and restrict results to certain extensions and subdirectories easily using a search pattern.

like

dylan +mp3 +mydocs

would say search for files with "dylan" in their name with modifiers "+mp3" and "+mydocs"; +mp3 modifier might say to find only files with extensions .mp3 and .pls, and +mydocs would specify certain directories to search in.

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General Software Discussion / Multiplayer word games - dzwords is a good one - know of any others?

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 04:06 AM »

i've played dzwords with my family before and really enjoyed - sort of scrabble with some options,
and good multiplayer support with chat functionality.  well done and cheap ($20):

http://www.dangerzsoft.com/dzwords.html

anyone know any others?

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Living Room / Ralph Koster looks back at the writing of his book, a Theory of Games

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 04:02 AM »

Nice read - i'm enjoying his blog lately:

http://www.raphkoste...tone-and-postmortem/

useful for anyone thinking of writing such a book.

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Living Room / Play Lemmings online through your browser

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 03:54 AM »

If you have never played the game lemmings, stop what you are doing right now - it is truly one of the great classics - and you can play it for free now ovn the internet using dhtml and your browser:

it's available to play on a bunch of sites, here's one:  http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

(if you type 'play lemmings' in google youll find more, but they should all be the same script)

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Living Room / Geeknews Podcasts (audio shows) - cool

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 03:50 AM »

http://www.geeknewscentral.com/

listen to audio radio shows about tech issues. fun !

(i think we need to start a dc podcast)

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Living Room / Re: Digitally Animated Flipbook

« Last post by mouser on March 07, 2006, 12:11 AM »

that page and some others are also listed on sidebar of our very own Flipbook Printer program:
https://www.donation...okPrinter/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 catalog/database programs

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 10:25 PM »

i've been using musikcube recently, it has some catalogging function though i must admit i don't use them (http://www.musikcube.com/).

vrgrrl has praised collectorz in the past as well on this forum (i think she uses the dvd collectorz programs).

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Living Room / cool stuff shop with stuff like exploding rose surprise

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 09:53 PM »

http://www.bimbamban...Prod&prod_id=252

Rose Surprise is a romantic table firework filled with fragrant rose petals.

also check out the puzzle alarm clock:

This is the alarm clock which is guaranteed to wake you up! Nobody sleeps through this! It wakes you up by firing four puzzle pieces up in the air, and then it is your task to get the pieces and put them back in the alarm clock - it won't turn off until then.

[link from boingboing]

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Living Room / firefox made 72 million dollars from click ads last year

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 06:14 PM »

http://www.calacanis...ation-made-72m-last/

The best piece of information I got out of BarCampLA was that Firefox, which is produced by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees this year. I have no idea if this is true (anyone?), but it makes sense. I mean, there have to be 72M people using Firefox out there, and making $1 a year seems low to me! Mark Pincus brought this topic up recently.

Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you search with that box (which I do all day long) and you click on the Google ads on the results page Firefox gets ~80% of that. They also have Amazon in the search box, and other services that I'm sure kick them back some affiliate fees. Brilliant.

What an amazing business: make a kick-ass browser for $10-15M a year in expense and make $72M (and growing) in revenue. It's such a good business that the folks at Flock.com are trying to do a similar thing by building a wrapper with value-added services (like bookmarking tools) on top of Firefox.