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Living Room / build your own shirt folding machine:

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 07:34 PM »

build your own shirt folding machine:

http://www.all-tribe...6/01/20/1-first-post


[link from boingboing]

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Living Room / Re: Mouser's Software Reviewed

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 06:39 PM »

thanks dajo,

just reading through furman87's past mini reviews - they are really excellent.
nice entertaining and useful reads.

definitely bookmarking the site and looking forward to future posts.  nice find. 

im sure if he had hated donationcoder apps i would still feel the same way..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

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

right, gotcha.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 05:26 PM »

good poins.
0) yes i will make it close after sending the text back, that makes complete sense.
1) i will try; i know i already do something like this to try to guess whether to initiate a ctrl+c or not; it should be possible to add an option to try to smartly do a select all and then ctrl+c when appropriate.
2) ill look into that -  do i understand that you're basically pointing out a user interface annoyance/baddesign or is there something deeper i'm missing?
3) ill fix this to do focus shifting and then auto closing - makes sense to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: startup/tasks manager?

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 05:17 PM »

welcome Jimdoria! (great first post by the way!) 

ps.
i too am a fan of the pc mag utils, and a great hater of their system of having to pay a yearly fee to be able to continue to download them, even the old ones (even if it's not expensive, that just seems wrong).

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Living Room / Re: cool or fool - microsoft's scalable fabric

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 04:59 PM »

it does sound to me like a neat idea in theory.  to my ears much more practical than the 3d desktop ideas.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: The Bat! (Some constructive criticism)

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 12:38 PM »

i can't answer the microed question, but i thought it might be useful in this thread to point out that Jibz has written an extremely cool little plugin for thebat called PIPER, that lets you shell out and execute any commandline program and capture its output to feed back into a message:

https://www.donation...ibz/Piper/index.html

(as usual if you use it please send jibz a little donation to support his work)

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Site/Forum Features / minor improvement to downloads page

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 12:28 PM »

minor new site feature:
downloads page now has direct links not only to homepages of each app, but the forum section for each app:

https://www.donation...ftware/releases.html

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 12:23 PM »

updated with fixes requested by members.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: clipboard keep

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 11:54 AM »

what is the clipboard keep? sounds like a dungeon.

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fSekrit / Re: Post your links to places to read and add reviews of fsekrit here

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

yes, we submit all software to a bunch of sites (mostly those that accept "pad" files).
a pad file is an xml file used to describe shareware and freeware.

many of these sites exchange pad files so it propagates around.

one interesting thing to look for is whether a site uses the description and screenshot from the pad file or makes their own.  some of these sites actually have people that try the programs and write their own summary and picture (for example see downloadsquad above), most just display the pad info.

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ProcessTamer / Re: New version 3 ?

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 10:00 AM »

coen99, if you don't mind entering your requests (one request each entry) in the bugtracker (see button at tom), it REALLY helps me keep track of them, and garantees i will not forget them.

all 3 you have requested are planned for v3.

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ProcessTamer / Re: New version 3 ?

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 08:40 AM »

process tamer 3 is in the queue but right now it's behind find+run robot 2, which i've committed to release by our 1 year anniversary around mid march.

so expect PT3 either middle march if i get very ambitious and lucky, or middle-late april more likely.

however, i am happy to release more intermediate updates before then, so minor feature requests are welcome.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: pandora.com - Internet radio for EVERY taste! FREE!

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 08:22 AM »

recent blog comparing pandora to another similar site last.fm:
http://www.stevekrau...pandora_and_las.html


[link from slashdot.org]

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fSekrit / Re: Version 1.0

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 06:37 AM »

fun tutorial stefan.

by the way i want to say thanks to stefan as well for this great idea.  it's really a thrill when a good idea posted by someone on this forum can turn into the butterfly of a good program, all before our eyes 

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Living Room / Re: Spell with flickr!

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 05:41 AM »

i remember a previous script for this but the results were no where near as good; this script is really producing some nice results.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another similar app (disclaimer: I haven't tried it)

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 05:11 AM »

sounds good to me, i don't mind having a score based on recency and on frequency.
makes sense, both are easy.
in fact i think nontroppo has been arguing for a frequency based scoring for a while, and has been very patient.
i think i better start seriously working on FARR 2 again in the next week while all these ideas are still fresh.

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for January 31, 2006 - Codename 'Secrets and Lines'

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 04:05 AM »

thanks to joto for alerting me to the fact that the autoit vs. autohotkey link was broken.  fixed now.

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fSekrit / Re: Version 1.0

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 03:12 AM »

f0dder may be able to fix this, i'm looking forward to seeing his reply!

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fSekrit / Re: Version 1.0

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2006, 02:25 AM »

its only 70k download and doesn't install anything, so its safe to try.
i'd like to know the answer to that question as well, why not download it and let us know if it does?

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Found Deals and Discounts / anyone want aaai2000 proceedings book?

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

AAAI-00: Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (year 2000, Paperback)
http://www.amazon.co...p/product/0262511126
(ps. i have a paper in the AAAI-04 proceedings)

i have an extra copy of this for first person to reply who wants it.

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Living Room / who here is in the WYHI club?

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2006, 11:43 PM »

WYHI = wear your hat inside.

habbit i seem to have picked up from my dad.

note: i don't mean wearing your hat when you go over to someone's house or a restaurant, i mean when you wear a hat just while hanging out alone in your own house/apartment.

who else is with me in this club?

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fSekrit / If you like fSekrit..

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2006, 09:49 PM »

a key to the success of this site will be if we can all agree to donate to authors on this site who make software we like.  in doing so we will all benefit.

on the fsekrit page you will see that you can make a donation directly to f0dder or buy him a programming book through amazon as a sign of your appreciation.

so if you like the program, visit the fSekrit page and send f0dder a couple of bucks or a book (see links in left sidebar) to say thank you and encourage him to keep up the great work.

thanks f0dder for sharing this program with all of us - i love it 

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

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2006, 09:44 PM »

can i move this very useful thread to the general software discussion section?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: All these F+R ideas are wonderful

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2006, 09:42 PM »

i have a big launch bar on my desk and use FARR.
for me i use a launch bar as a kind of "visual memory"
it's like a menu for me, it helps me remember the programs i have available that i use alot.

i guess it depends on how good your memory is

in cognitive science there are concepts of "recall" vs. "recognition"; if you can recall what you want to launch you can use farr, but if you need a visual image to remind you what apps are available, then a launchbar can help you