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Living Room / make a railbike (bike that rides on train rails)

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 05:47 PM »

http://www.makezine....more_rail_bikes.html

[link from boingboing]

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Best E-mail Client / Re: What's with all the blank lines in emails recieved from Outlook users?

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 05:27 PM »

could it be that they are writing it in html style,etc. and you are viewing it in plaintext mode which is adding the spaces? ive seen this before - annoying; maybe there is an option to remove double blank lines..

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Developer's Corner / Re: Tour of Programming Languages

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 05:08 PM »

i am a well known LISP hater and OOP lover so i can't say i share this guys views but i love the way he writes.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Focus Problem

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 04:49 PM »

i'm looking into it; not able to reproduce it here so that makes it hard to track down.

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Developer's Corner / Programming languages and their relationship styles

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 10:13 AM »

http://maradydd.live...rnal.com/2006/02/28/

From larkware.com

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Find&Run Robot Bug

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 08:02 AM »

what you are seeing this time is a feature not a bug.
you have 2 choices in this case:
either turn off the option to stop search on exact alias match, or change the name of the alias to something more unique:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Performance in New Version

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 07:39 AM »

for those curious - the difference in disk operations at startup relate to filling the list with items from your past history on startup - it was essentially rescoring all items in your past history on startup - now it just grabs the top 10 or so.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Inserting text into printout

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 07:17 AM »

just create a text box or caption (see the object bar on right hand side of screen).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Prompting for file name

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 07:15 AM »

not really, but you can set the prefix and form of file names, and you can easily rename any image by simply selecting it in the window, typing the new name and hitting enter.  the focus of screenshot captor is to help you take a bunch of screenshots and work with them so one usually doesnt want to name files until you have taken several.

however, it's not a bad idea to add an option to ask user the name at time of capture - i will add an option for that to the todo list.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Text scraping: instructions

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 07:08 AM »

the help file definitely needs an update.
to do text scraping, do windows capture mode, select the text object, hit ctrl+t (or use redbox menu to see preview of text and capture to clipboard).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: AutoPrint: Not doing its job

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

currently it always shows that dialog first, then you hit print.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: an idea for auto configuration

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 06:50 AM »

here's a little tip:

did you know that you can drag items found in find and run robot onto launchbar commander (both launch bar docks and in config screen

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: an idea for auto configuration

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

well it will definitely be optional, so if you dont want to use it no big deal.

and launchbar commander makes it very easy to uncheck or delete submenus, etc. so you could very easily in a coupld of clicks hide everything found so it would never display.

note also that launchbar commander makes it easy to add commands from the list of running processes, so it makes it easy to add an application you are currently using (i can make it easier too i suppose).

ALSO:
you can drag shortcuts from your start menu or from windows explorer onto the launch bar to add the commands.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.09.03 - March 6, 2005

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 05:22 AM »

you can always install new versions over old, just make sure the program is exited from the system tray during install.

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

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 05:07 AM »

all winners should have received their prizes; if you are listed above but haven't received your prize please let me know ([email protected]).

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Living Room / Re: Planet Earth starts tonight

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 04:00 AM »

only $900? why not buy two just in case one dvd gets scratched.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: an idea for auto configuration

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 03:35 AM »

tsaint your idea is interesting but it would require monitoring all launched applications forever, which is a waste of cpu.

my idea was to try to build a large universal menu structure (or allow people to build their own and share), and then have a command that would search your hard drive and find any programs you have installed from that hierarchy and link to them).

So for example it might look like this:
Utilities
+- Backup Tools
++--True Image
Text Editors
+-UltraEdit
+-Notepad
Graphics Tools
+- Big Graphics Editors
++- Photoshop

so a nice big well organized hierarchy with nice icons for menu headings.

Then you would run a command called "Find and link all"

And then it would scour your hard disk for installed programs that match the items in that hierarchical predefined menu.
Yes it would take a long time to do the first scan.

But afterwards the result would be a very nicely organized hierarchical toolbar/launcher with nice organized submenus, etc.

Sort of like an instant nice organization.

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Living Room / Re: Finally a DonationCoder.com License Key for Time Travelers..

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 02:13 AM »

welcome to the site Jim

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: an idea for auto configuration

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2006, 12:45 AM »

In a sense, running a second, helper, program sounds a bit inelegant, but so is the idea of boosters on the space shuttle, and that works.

lol.

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Developer's Corner / Tour of Programming Languages

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 10:23 PM »

http://www.cabochon....s/tour-de-babel.html

Tour de Babel
(published September 2004)
This is my whirlwind languages tour - the one I was going to write for the Amazon Developers Journal this month, but couldn't find a way to do it that was... presentable.

[link from coding horror]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Instant Text V Pro - more than the usual features of a text expander

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 09:50 PM »

instant text sounds quite good, but at $189 (ouch!!)

this may be a ripe category for a freeware/donationware alternative..  maybe harrie can tell us about what a perfect tool for this would look like, and try to think if there are any features that are missing in these tools that would be nice to have.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Performance in New Version

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 07:41 PM »

let me add that this is just a stopgap version. version 2 is still on track and will be MUCH MUCH faster.

not only am i optimizing everything but i have decided to implement (optional) indexing in a way i think will be really cool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 04:43 PM »

housetier found this which is quite a good read: http://blog.siteadvisor.com/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Focus Problem

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 04:24 PM »

does it happen with other ways of bringing up farr?

i've added ctrl+space as a way to bring it up now, as people suggested, let's see if that solves it - at least we would know if its's something specific to alt, which i suspect (it may be that alt+space while in another application can trigger the current application window menu).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.09.02 - March 5, 2005

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2006, 08:42 AM »

v 1.09.02 is a beta release - i expect there may be another release in near future as this version is tested.

a lot of the changes for this version are oriented to new defaults for new installs.