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Official Announcements / Re: explanation about the Feb.21 server downtime (plus digg.com effect)

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2006, 09:44 AM »

that may be fake.. but i think i've come pretty close to that state before..

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The Form Letter Machine / Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2006, 09:24 AM »

We are making a thread for each program with pointers to review and software listing sites that accept reviews.

If you are new to this program you can read more opinions about it;  if you are already a fan of the program please visit these sites and take the time to leave your thoughts for others to read!

FileForum Entry -> http://fileforum.bet...Machine/1125198268/1 (no comments yet!)
Softpedia -> http://www.softpedia...inions/4-7-626,.html (no comments yet!)
SnapFiles (WebAttack) -> http://www.snapfiles..._Letter_Machine.html

Freeware Arena Editor's Pick: http://www.freewarea...details/id=1900.html
InfoPackets Review by Cliff: http://www.infopacke...r_machine_review.htm

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Official Announcements / Re: explanation about the Feb.21 server downtime (plus digg.com effect)

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 11:42 PM »

a look at the traffic that helped overload the server..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Similar apps for collecting ideas thread

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 10:19 PM »

nice find harrie, i didn't know about that one.

ps. Launch Bar Commander is now an actual working program - finally!
it works well enough that i can use it for my own use; i will be making a beta available to download in the next couple of days.

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Living Room / Nuvvo - Teach Online For Free

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 05:08 PM »

Sounds cool:

http://www.nuvvo.com/

TEACH ONLINE FOR FREE
Nuvvo is your way to teach on the web. Everyone knows a little bit about something, and this free, AJAX-enhanced eLearning web service is designed to bring out the teacher in all of us. Sign up and build a course in minutes; advertise your course on our eLearning Market to get the word out. 

[link from lifehacker]

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Developer's Corner / Article on Borland/Delphi/C++ Builder split-off

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 04:49 PM »

Borland recently announced they are going to sell their development products (Delphi, C++ Builder,etc) to another company.

Many of the big programs on this site (Screeenshot Captor for example), are made with C++ Builder, and I am a very big fan of the tool, which can make building big windows gui apps a joy compared to lower level windows user interface coding.

Interview with Borland on the split-off:  http://www.adtmag.co...article.asp?id=17981

ps.
I think we will be having a c++ builder contest sponsored by borland in the upcoming months..  stay tuned!

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Official Announcements / Re: Revitalizing the Reviews - Everyone Read in Please

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 04:04 PM »

great question.
since we are trying to improve the layout, i have asked reviewers to simply write their reviews in anything they like, word, notepad, etc. but do NOT do any formatting.  ie dont bold, center, justify,etc. take screenshots but either just add them simply to the text or just add a link like [screenshot1.gif goes here].  do not use hard linebreaks to format text to 78 characters, use a text editor that supports wordwrap.

in other words, write it in something that will make it easier for us to format for final output when we determine the final output formats.

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Finished Programs / Re: Move Installed programs from one drive to another.

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 02:27 PM »

another:
http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm

i know there is at least one more big app that does this, can't remember it though.

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Developer's Corner / Another good post by Jeff Atwood in his coding horror blog on icons

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 01:05 PM »

Another good post by Jeff Atwood in his coding horror blog on icons:

Sometimes, the best icon choice isn't an icon. It's a word.

http://www.codinghor...archives/000523.html

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Finished Programs / Re: Move Installed programs from one drive to another.

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 11:43 AM »

there are programs designed specifically for moving installed software from one place to another.. can't remember names off hand but they do exist.  maybe someone else can think of some, otherwise i will try to remember.

having said that, it's always somewhat of a crapshoot, and you should give strong consideration to uninstall then reinstall in desired location.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Printing in Clipboard + Spell

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 11:40 AM »

it's currently not possible; better printing options is on the todo list.

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Living Room / Google Page Creator - make a single web page for free

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2006, 01:07 AM »

http://pages.google.com/-/about.html

About Google Page Creator
Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science class? A shrine to your pet ferret?

Now's your chance. We're testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor. Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There's no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com for the world to see.

note you can't make a site, just standalone pages.


[link from digg.com]

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Official Announcements / Re: Revitalizing the Reviews - Everyone Read in Please

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 08:13 PM »

For example, I just came back from training for a specific Electrical Engineering software called SKM (which I was really impressed with from a software standpoint, I'd write a review, but no one would care here!) and this software costs thousands of dollars.  Just imagine, if an open source program came out that was truly as good as this program, this entire company would be out of business...and quickly at that!

this is definitely getting off topic, but i'd just like to add that i disagree with this.

i'm learning more and more over time about the price that has to be put on TIME and SUPPORT.

it seems that companies who buy these thousand dollar software products are buying the support system associated with a company as much as they are buying the software itself.  maybe someone like sentinel who does enterprise level purchasing can jump in here, but it seems to me that a company would rather pay $5000 for some software and be confident that if they have a problem they will be able to pick up the phone and get some tech support, than pay $0 and then end up with no one to contact for help.

this is why youll see a lot of the open source business models that are basically all about suppot.  the software is free, but you can buy a support contract for major money..

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Developer's Corner / Re: Downloadable Bruce Perens' Open Source books

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 08:06 PM »

oh wow, awesome post!  some great stuff there.
crossplatform c++ coders might be interested in the wxwidgets and qt books.

(yes, this is the right section for it.)

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Living Room / How to start a non-profit organization

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 04:21 PM »

How to start a non-profit organization - some guidelnes and advice.

http://wiki.ehow.com...nprofit-Organization

[link from digg.com]

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Living Room / Re: Browser Wars Mega Review ...

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 02:52 PM »

when roboform comes out for opera im going to give opera another try.

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Living Room / great way to make some extra money

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 01:24 PM »

build a hotel for your cat like i did.
don't charge much in the begining but then after the cat is all moved in and settled, start increasing the rent.

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Found Deals and Discounts / onetime2006 - project management soft - save $495

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 12:26 PM »

OnTime 2006 - More Than a Bug Tracker - A Project Management Solution
  The Fast & Scalable Solution for...
Defect, Issue and Bug Tracking
Feature and Enhancement Tracking
Task and Todo List Tracking
Helpdesk Ticket Tracking  

Follow these steps to purchase OnTime 2006 Small Team Edition, for 5 users for just $5:
Go to Axosoft Online Store
Add the OnTime 5 STE 5 User version to your cart
On the shopping cart page, click the link to enter discount code
Enter discount code "STE5U5"
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Your Grand Total should be $5 (unless you added other items to your cart)
Proceed to checkout

see:
http://www.axosoft.c...aspx?cn=otm_stepromo



]from downloadsquad.com

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Official Announcements / Re: explanation about the Feb.21 server downtime

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 11:42 AM »

i think i have found out the cause of the server problems.
just received this in the mail:

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 10:21 AM »

thanks for the screenshot koreth, at 12pt the Consolas really looks nice, but becomes a bit blurry as it gets smaller.

the main motivation for these bitmapped fonts is to make something that is monospaced and pixel-level tweaked for a very specific small point size.  so they aren't appropriate for tasks where you might want larger fonts.

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Developer's Corner / Re: 18 Monospace fonts comparison screenshot

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 10:17 AM »

Hi Damien, Envy Code B is nice!

People also might want to check out the links on the sidebar of jibz's Dina page.
in particular the links to Jeff Atwoods Coding Horror blog:
http://www.codinghor...archives/000417.html
http://www.codinghor...archives/000157.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: NeoMem organiser update

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 09:40 AM »

ASRT (Advanced Software Reconisence Team).. has morphed into a full fledged call for reviewers: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2232.0

discussion of upcoming review ideas can still be found here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=23.0

actually there are several new reviews in progress - so we should see some review activity soon.

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Living Room / Re: any fans here of the Internal Affairs I-III chinese movies?

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 09:36 AM »

ooh, chronilogical edition, that could be interesting.

brotherS, yep thats the one.

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Official Announcements / Re: explanation about the Feb.21 server downtime

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 09:24 AM »

seems the server is still having some troubles.. i've been working witht he tech support people for the last day, constantly, on the problems, which they seem to be having a very hard time identifying and fixing.

just wanted to let you know i am working hard on this and we will get it sorted. hopefully when it's over we will have an even faster and better tuned server.  thanks for your understanding.

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Living Room / Re: Browser Wars Mega Review ...

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2006, 09:21 AM »

18 page discussion of the different browsers! nice find.