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Living Room / Re: Just installed new hardware... ahhh

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 05:12 PM »

nice post nudone.. very useful to hear the impressions of going back and forth..

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: BatchFTP

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 04:34 PM »

brilliant.

as you say:

BatchFTP is built around the idea that you're going to upload the same files more than once and it is streamlined to support this ideology.

it seems if one has this kind of scenario this might be the perfect tool.
(i might have to buy this myself).

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Living Room / Re: Just installed new hardware... ahhh

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 01:59 PM »

my eyes feel like they are bleeding by the time i go to sleep - that's what you get from 10yr old crts that need their brightness turned up to 100.

but on the other hand, how else would i know when to go to sleep if it weren't for my eyes stopping to work?

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: nice and small screensaver

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 11:29 AM »

nice find!

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Living Room / Re: I'll be gone for a while

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 11:28 AM »

zaine will be back!! im not giving up hope!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mobysaurus V2.4 Preview 2

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 11:09 AM »

i hate mdi but i like tabbed interfaces, a tab for each function would be lovely, imho.

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Living Room / Re: I'll be gone for a while

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 10:44 AM »

 

f0dder!!!!!
damn it you better put internet high on priority list.  after all, what's more important, food or internet?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Qslice... app to show cpu usage by process in a visual format, including threads

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 05:57 AM »

i could probably add this to process tamer without much trouble.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Categorized "Best Of" Software Lists, suggestion for a new section

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 05:55 AM »

when a new program is posted in a category thread we could add it to the first post in the thread so that the first thread would be a list off all the programs so far nominated..

there are no doubt advantages to a nicely organized and maintained section, but the overhead in maintaining it is hard, and there is some benefit to just letting people post their opinions - no need to deal with nominating, etc.

maybe this is something well suited for the wiki?

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: Screenshot for Minicap mentions Miniflash

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 03:14 AM »

This topic has been moved to Screenshot Captor.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2418.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot for Minicap mentions Miniflash

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 03:14 AM »

im not sure why anyone would have a use for it, but if so:
https://www.donation...nloads/MiniFlash.zip


I did forget to mention the main reason it was made, in addition to wanting to avoid the titlebar and menu of the flash player, is that the macromedia flash player is incapable of accepting commandline arguments, which this little tool can do.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
MiniFlash.exe - Mini Flash Player
Version 1.00.01 / Jan 24, 2006
[email protected]

 Designed to show a flash movie in a minimal window of a specific size, with
 specific title, and launched with flash variable arguements.  This last part
 is key, since the normal flash player from macromedia doesn't seem to be
 able to set variables.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------



//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Usage:
   MiniFlash.exe fullfilename argstring width height scalemode "title caption"

   for example:
    MiniFlash.exe "c:\myflashfile.swf" "arg1=1&arg2=2" 640 480 0 "my flash!"

   scalemode is from macromedia and should be a number as follows:
    0 - ShowAll, 1 - NoBorder, 2 - ExtractFit, 3 - NoScale, 4- Low
    5 - AutoLow, 6 - AutoHight, 7 - Hight, 8 - Best, 9 - AutoMedium
    10 - Medium

  the common scalemodes are 0 for normal display that preserves aspect ratio
  and 2 for fit to window and stretch (aspect ratio not preserved)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.03.01 - January 24, 2006

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 03:09 AM »

i really am glad to hear that it's useful

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General Software Discussion / Re: Qslice... app to show cpu usage by process in a visual format, including threads

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 03:08 AM »

ram might be more interesting to look at - my experience is that cpu useage is very often just one or 2 programs using the cpu, and everything else < 1%, but as brotherS if you averaged it over some period it might be interesting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Categorized "Best Of" Software Lists, suggestion for a new section

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 03:06 AM »

i kind of like this idea..
but i think a few modifications might be in order..
what if we had a child board of the reviews or mini reviews section, entitled "What's the Best Software to do this task"
something like that.

in that section, each thread would be titled like "What's the Best .. Data Recovery Utility"

in that thread people would post their opinions of what is best.

a new in that thread post about a new program would include screenshot, short description, link to website, price.

other posts can be from people agreeing or disagreeing and saying why, or adding their choice of best.

i think that while voting is fun, in this case i think it might not be all that useful and would be to inviting for abuse.
i'm actually not a huge fan of rating sites, i just feel like its begging for someone to manipulate the scores by creating multiple accounts - i much prefer to rely on people actually posting replies with their views as comments.

it would also be harder to maintain accurate voting lists, etc.

this way, its still a good way to look for opinions on each category, and we can also link to other posts on the forum about the different programs.

opinions?

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Developer's Corner / Re: indent wars..

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 02:09 AM »

code complete 2 is out now (updated version of first book) -  i highly recommend it for all programmers.
http://www.amazon.co...p/product/0735619670

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General Software Discussion / Re: Process Tamer bug...:( or is it just me?

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2006, 02:06 AM »

first, i cant think of any reason to set any processes real time, that's a good recipe for driving your computer insane
 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot for Minicap mentions Miniflash

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 06:39 PM »

hehehe, i wondered if anyone would catch that.

miniflash is a tiny captionless flash player wrapper, whose only purpose is to allow you to launch a flash movie at a specific size with a custom caption in the minimalist titlebar, and then capture it with minicap and then close it.  it was written by request from someone who needs it for that purpose.

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Living Room / strange.. alex donationcoder:

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 06:09 PM »

strange.. alex donationcoder:

http://www.alexa.com...rl=donationcoder.com


at the very bottom of that page is a link to review donationcoder.com on amazon?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: download spelling dictoniaries for other languages here

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 04:16 PM »

ps. thanks for asking about this chrisk.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: download spelling dictoniaries for other languages here

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 04:13 PM »

what i want to know is, why do people find it impossible to follow my guideliness just because my instructions are totally wrong?
can't you people figure out what i mean to type instead of listening to what i actually say  !!

in other words - i goofed up!! 

i posted the dictionary page for the OLD VERSION of the spellchecker, not the new version!

The PROPER download page for dictionaries are here:

• http://www.addictive...ftware.com/dicts.htm

there you will download a .zip for the language of your choice.

extract the .adm file from inside the zip, and put it into the Clipboard Help+Spell\Dictionaries directory.

then exit and restart clipboard help and spell (make sure you exit and not just minimize to tray) and it will automatically detect any new dictionaries.



Spelling dictionaries available on that page:

Afrikaans
 (472 kb - v3.0.0 17 Feb 2001)  Peter van Lonkhuyzen
Addictive Software 
 American
  (261 kb - v3.4.0 15 Aug 2005)  Addictive Software 
 Aussie
 (269 kb - v3.4.0 15 Aug 2005)  Addictive Software 
 Brazilian Portuguese
 (143 kb - v3.0.5 5 May  2004)  Luiz Marques
Mauricio Longo
André Mendes
Addictive Software 
 British
 (263 kb - v3.4.0 15 Aug 2005)  Addictive Software 
 Czech
 (384 kb - v3.0 15 Aug 2001)  Miloslav Skácel 
 Danish
 (550kb - v3.0.1 16 Aug 2001)  Addictive Software
Aller Press A/S - Denmark 
 Dutch
 (615 kb - v3.2.1 5 May 2004)  Paul Kavelaars
Carlo Kok
Peter van Meijel
Jeroen van Gorkum
Addictive Software 
 Estonian
 (642 kb - v3.0.0 12 May 2005)  Ilmar Kerm
 Finnish
 (37 kb - v3.0.0 10 Feb 2001)  Verbix
Addictive Software 
 French
 (246 kb - v3.1.1 28 May  2002)  Normand Peladeau
D C Al Coda
Laurent Pierre
Michel Burdin 
 German-gt3 - ("Old" Std German)
 (570 kb - v3.0.0 30 Apr 2001) Rainer Nausedat
 GermanNew-gt3 - ("New" Std German)
 (484 kb - v3.0.0 15 May 2001) Rainer Nausedat
 Hungarian
 (1027 kb - v3.0.0 8 Mar 2002) Lajos Peti
 Italian
 (67 kb - v3.0.0 10 Feb 2001)  Siade Consulting
Addictive Software 
 Norwegian
 (235 kb - v3.1.0 27 Jun 2005)  HK-Data AS
Dag Pedersen
Addictive Software 
 Polish
(958 kb - v3.2.8 26 Aug 2005)  Marcin Frankowski
Chris Gallacher
Addictive Software 
 Portuguese
 (86 kb - v3.0.0 10 Feb 2001)  António Eduardo Marques
Addictive Software 
 Russian
 (364 kb - Beta Release - Feb 2001)  Ivan Tugoy
Lucky Tesseract
Lev Melnikovsky 
 Spanish
 (418 kb - v3.0.0 10 Feb 2001)  D C Al Coda 
 Swedish
 (160 kb - v3.0.0 10 Feb 2001)  Addictive Software
Teknikhuset AB 


 Specialized Dictionaries Contributors
 Technical
 (23 kb - v3.4.0 15 Aug 2005)
Words from mathematics, statistics, computing, accounting and other scientific areas. Includes British & American spellings.  Addictive Software 
Medical
 (213 kb - v3.1.0 25 Jan 2003)
American Spellings.  Brandon Clark
David Pater
Addictive Software 
Legal
 (98 kb - v3.1.0 14 Dec 2003)
American Spellings.  J. Peter Mugaas 
King James Bible + Apocrypha
 (62 kb - v3.0.0 23 Feb 2001)
Public Domain version of the King James Bible + Apocrypha converted into a Dictionary.  Addictive Software 
 Latin
 (64 kb - v3.0.0 23 May 2001)  D C Al Coda 
 Italian Medical
 (78 kb - v3.0.0 15 Feb 2001)  Siade Consulting
Addictive Software 
 Russian Scientific
 (73 kb - Beta Release - Feb 2001)  Ivan Tugoy
Lucky Tesseract
Lev Melnikovsky 


 Auto-Correct Custom Dictionaries Contributors
 English
 (13  kb - v3.4.0 15 Aug 2005)
Common English Auto Corrections.  Addictive Software 
 US to British
 (7 kb - v3.1.0 7 Jun 2002)
Auto Corrects American Spellings to British ones.  Addictive Software 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multiple desktops

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 02:30 PM »

do i sense someone volunteering to do a full review of virtual desktop tools.. got some donated copies of virtual pc to give away in the mail today..

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Dr.Windows / Re: Can someone help

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 01:04 PM »

the easiest way is, go to the drwindows subdirectory called Dialogs.

usually in C:\Program Files\DrWidows\Dialogs

there you will find tons of .cfg files.

each one is a plain text file describing a dialog.

just open them in a text editor like notepad, modify them and save them with a new filename ending in .cfg, and that's all you have to do.

you can test then from the drwindows options page.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Per-Object Smoothing

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 12:02 PM »

ah ok, now that makes more sense - you want antialias with some objects and not others..
would you mind adding that to the bugtracker so i wont forget to try to implement it?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Per-Object Smoothing

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 11:34 AM »

there shouldnt be any smoothing on copy and paste (other than at display time)..
check transparency option though..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Executable Compressor Programs

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2006, 11:18 AM »

my impression is people prefer having the smaller executables, and that it can actually be faster to load from disk.
if people prefer non-compressed i could go back to that.