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ContextMenu Commander / Re: ContextMenu Commander

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 08:41 AM »

i really look forward to writing about context menu commander when it comes out..
basically ive been spending a lot of time making a really nice friendly and very powerful infrastructure for letting users design custom hierarhical menus and stuff, which would be useful for designing custom context menus, launch bars, and more.  i'm really very proud of it and i plan to be using it in several programs.

but the good news is that the code is specifically designed so that a very lightweight windows dll will be used to handle the context menu stuff.  in fact because of the way the cmc is being designed it will be incredibly light on resource usage

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ContextMenu Commander / Re: ContextMenu Commander

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 06:34 AM »

the 2 things you requested will be in context menu commander for sure.

release date is a bit hard to estimate - i've been working very hard on the shared infrastructure that will be used in a series of programs inlcuding contextmenu commander, and the first app to use this will be launch bar commander and it looks like farr 2.  contextmenu commander is a joint project with another programmer so it's a bit harder to give a real date.  However, a good deal of the code is already written and working, so it's not vaporware, just a matter of scheduling

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Living Room / Re: Filthy Rich

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 05:53 AM »

carol - ROFL!!!   

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com Logo Contest is Over - We Have a New Official Mascot/Logo!

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 01:54 AM »

the new cody is now official, look at top of this page and on site pages and you'll see him in all his shaded glory.

ps.
the previous cody has been given a very generous retirement package and is now on a worldwide vacation romp.. i expect we might be receiving some postcards from him in the near future.. keep your eyes open..

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

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 01:18 AM »

Do we have any serious photoshop users here? I'm thinking it might be fun to set up a regular series of photoshop filter reviews.  These wouldn't be nearly as exhausting to do as normal reviews since i think each plugin would be an independent little review.  But we'd want to find one or two people to do a whole series of plugin reviews, not just one or two.
if anyone feels like they'd be interested in this and has the skills to do it, mail me ([email protected]).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR version 2 - discuss the best way to handle 'actions'

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2006, 01:09 AM »

jd can you talk a little bit more about what you think the ideal way would be to tell farr to switch tasks?

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Living Room / stripgen - make your own comic strips - wow

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

found this while looking at Cliff's latest newsletter (http://freewarewiki....ifsCurrentNewsletter),
it is a super cool flash thing for making your own comic strip type things; fun to use too:


Stripgen: http://www.thirdfram...com/adgame/stripgen/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Form Letter Machine - soon to recieve a spotlight

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 11:52 PM »

for those that don't know, you can sign up at cliff's newsletter here:
http://freewarewiki....ifsCurrentNewsletter

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Developer's Corner / Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 11:43 PM »

Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption

Agile development sounds great; what could go wrong? Matt Heusser examines some of the myths, mysteries, and classic mistakes in Agile development, including some things to consider before jumping into Agile with both feet.

http://www.informit....sp?p=441115&rl=1


[link from osnews.com]

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Living Room / Re: Ricky Gervais new audio show mp3 (from the british version of The Office)

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 11:35 PM »

episode 10 is up.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Windows system tray clock replacement

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 11:00 PM »

thanks for posting drivesoft, i was just going looking for this thread to add a pointer to the discount on clock tray skins, but you beat me to it

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General Software Discussion / Re: does anyone of you believe in defragmentation programs?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 10:49 PM »

i must admit to having kfitting's fears regarding defragging as well.. but i don't know anything about whether its well founded, it's just a gut level reluctance to having the hard drive going insane moving stuff around like mad more than it has to.  my general approach has been to use a defragmenter occasionally, maybe once every coupld of months.  but that's based just on superstition not on any informed information.

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Living Room / Re: Tonight show phony photo booth.

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 10:40 PM »

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BRILLIANT!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Form Letter Machine - soon to recieve a spotlight

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 10:38 PM »

cool!
congrats on being part of infopackets - i subscribe to it myself - nice mailing list

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Fewer system tray icons?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 02:04 PM »

also see this thread: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2315

BREAKING NEWS:
Author of PS Tray Factory has decided to make a 50% discount available to all donationcoder.com members throughout february.  now that's a bargain: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2339

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Tray Management Utilities Mini-Review

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 02:04 PM »

also see this related thread: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=997.0

BREAKING NEWS:
Author of PS Tray Factory has decided to make a 50% discount available to all donationcoder.com members throughout february.  now that's a bargain: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2339

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Fewer system tray icons?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 01:03 PM »

just two images to show winxp in classic mode, and how to "activate" this tray management function in windows:

vs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: extremely good gif editor required

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 10:43 AM »

some finds:
http://www.webopt.co...reenshots/index.html
http://www.boxtopsoft.com/colorsafe.html
http://www.boxtopsoft.com/photogif.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: extremely good gif editor required

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 10:39 AM »

another way to ask this is that you don't nescesarily need a good gif *EDITOR* right?  A good image converter with advanced tools for color reduction might also suffice?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 08:33 AM »

wow!
awesome list alexp; i think you've just inspired me to upgrade to the lastest firefox and try some of these..  thanks for all those nice web developer oriented extensions.

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Living Room / how to write a good email

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 08:22 AM »

12 tips for writing good (business) emails:

http://blog.guykawas...the_effective_e.html

[link from boingboing]

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

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 07:56 AM »

sure, just send them to me, [email protected]

we will try to go for the biggest world wide publications first, and then narrow our way down as need be.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What Programmer Tool/Component/Library Reviews Would you Like to See?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 07:41 AM »

i added GUI Toolkits, that would cover things like codejock; i agree it would be nice to get some discounts on that kind of software.  i hope we'll have a review of these soon and with that some good discounts.

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Living Room / Re: Improving Review section;what website has the best layout for reviews?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 05:35 AM »

cg, print review link is a very good idea; in fact it's been asked for even in our current format, since the sidebar makes it harder to print.

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General Software Discussion / Re: startup/tasks manager?

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2006, 05:09 AM »

i'm actually browsing and enjoying www.appcheck.net, nice site, cg