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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 08:18 PM »

just a heads up that i'm going to split off the launch/dock posts and move them in a thread to the launch bar commander section.
i'm interested in a much more visually traditional launch bar, that is built for holding a lot of items in a hierarchical structure, like a menu.  truelaunchbar or freelaunchbar  is probably the closest match to what i hope launch bar commander becomes.
it won't have any of the flashy animation of rocketdock, but it should have some very advanced features in terms of being able to support drag and drop of items into commands, etc.

i hope that once its out in the wild we will be able to think of new features to add to it to make it a bit unique.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 08:12 PM »

ok understood now - basically you're just asking for a keyboard-centric way to do what the right click popupmenu provides for in farr.  i.e. easily add items to an alias group, etc.

this matches with the rest of the discussion here regarding having a way access and select "operations" on a search result easily from the keyboard.

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Living Room / Re: caffeine free week - who wants to join me?

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 03:02 PM »

after a week of non-caffeine i went back to it 2 days ago - the day i went back was fun, but im definitely feeling jumpy now, so im going back to non-caffeine for another week.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: macros

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 02:45 PM »

yes i agree, this is a tool where it should be possible to do it all through keyboard.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: macros

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 02:18 PM »

this dovetails exactly with the discussion in the other thread about the idea of providing a more farr-like way of searching for files AND operations to perform on them..

right now you could do what you are asking by adding editpad and opera to the TOOLBAR on farr, and searching for *.html and then dragging them to the toolbar button, with some macros defined.

i can also add the ability to specify stuff like you are asking in the right click menu.

the question is whether a more systematic nicer way might be found to be able to perform operations on files, as the other thread discusses is done by quicksilver for the mac.

it's always easy to figure out a custom interface for a specific task, but trying to figure out how to accomodate this stuff and still present the best interface for normal app search and launch is tricky.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 02:09 PM »

good article (and link to another) on some good extensions: http://www.linuxpipe...extension_adden.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Inconsistencies in file matching

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 01:40 PM »

if its picking up folders it's either a bug or its found a shortcut file pointing to a folder.

but folder finding is coming with v2.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 01:22 PM »

you can now easily right click on a result to add it to an alias, but i agree its a very powerful feature which is underused because it's a bit hard to use.  how can we make it easier and better?

as far as non-contiguous letters.. it's not just a matter of speed its also a matter of what do multiple words do..
this is one of the main features being added for version 2; right now farr assumes you are typing a phrase when you type multiple words, and i'm enhancing that to add more options.

farr is more strongly based on the idea of intelligent scoring than the rest of these applications.  it basically tries to heuristically score matches based on a lot of criteria to best figure out what you want, so it will match anywhere in a word but gives bonuses for when what you type matches the start of a title, etc.

so any extra matching has to fit into this framework..

so if you type "f f"
does this mean an F followed by some characters and then another F, or is order not important.

this also gets back to anothe idea we discussed and didn't fully resolve regarding whether multiwords should be treated as AND or OR.

so if i type: "word1 word2"

should this match all items with:

• word1 AND word2 in them, in any order
• word1 OR word2 in them, in any order
• phrase "word1 word2"
• with "word1" FOLLOWED BY "word2"

in general the farr philosphy would be to match on ALL of these cases but score them differently..

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Living Room / Re: Trapped in a room flash games...

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 12:41 PM »

just found this linked from http://www.downloadsquad.com/:

"ALIEN in the room"
http://www.7jigen.ne...jigen/game/aitr.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: ThePrawn!

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 12:30 PM »

brilliant - an online regex replacer! 

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Living Room / Anachronistic images photoshopping contest

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

for those who have never heard about what is commonly known as "photoshopping contests" be preprepared to enter a different world..

there are some very big sites with some very talented computer graphic artists which regularly hold contests centering around some theme where people manipulate images or make new satirical images using photoshop (or similar program), often playing off of iconic cultural images.

some of the results are sublime and brilliant, and the creativity can sometimes set you back on your heels.

definitely a good way to waste a day browsing..

anyway, here's a recent one linked by boingboing:

"Anachronistic images photoshopping contest":
http://www.worth1000...ay=photoshop#entries

and two of the most popular collections (warning - be prepared to spend a full day there)
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/
http://www.worth1000.com/

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Similar apps for collecting ideas thread

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 12:04 PM »

your post just added it to the list
rocketdock is quite well done by the way, i agree.

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General Software Discussion / ThePrawn!

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 11:58 AM »

wow! i stumbled across this extremely cool page and it turns out it's allen's page!!! 

http://theprawn.com/

some of the projects on it:
http://theprawn.com/img/?  (Image-Based Quote Randomizer - very cool; if you've noticed allen's signatures now you know what he uses to make those)
http://theprawn.com/stickml/  (come on this is cool.. markup language and rendering code for describing+generating stick figures!)
http://theprawn.com/imagiine/  (very cool online graphics generator)
http://www.protempore.org/poem/ (online collaborative poem)

allen's blog is also great - discussion of imagiine http://my.opera.com/.../blog/show.dml/58095
hope he won't mind me mentioning it here 


 

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 11:34 AM »

yeah we are talking about something like rocketdock but not nearly as nice looking as it

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 11:29 AM »

just adding another post:
from my perspective the top priority for F+R should be handling those most common cases most efficiently; issues like those just raised by jay.  i'm all for adding other stuff, but the most important thing is that farr should be designed for that core functionality.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Similar apps for collecting ideas thread

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 11:24 AM »

this thread is also very relevant: https://www.donation...pic=2037.0;topicseen

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 11:23 AM »

useful comments jay.
#1a is on the todo list, not sure if it will get done by the next version though.
#1b however, farr is designed to cache launched apps, so that the 2nd time you search for an app already launched it comes up instantly and right to the top.  in this way, you get the speed of cacheing for all apps that you have launched in the past.
#2 is implemented in farr, you can adjust the score bonus for previous launched apps in the scoring rules tab.
#3a i like the idea of being able to change font size, i'll put that on todo list.
#3b check out farr's group aliases; you could make an alias called "b" for browsers and add firefox and opera and internet explorer, and when you type b up comes your list instantly in predictable order to launch.  group aliases are meant to help you set up "menus" of reliably ordered items for instant selection.

i'm always up for learning from existing apps.
why does F F always get firefox? what does the second f do?  how do you reconcile #2 (adaptive sorting - which farr does a lot of) with the idea of things always coming up in same order.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite launch bar? Your favorite features? Missing Features?

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 07:36 AM »

hi stefan,
what is TNA?

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

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 05:37 AM »

yes, its really just a plain looking "application launch bar", but meant to grow in features.  it won't be the prettiest but i hope it will be up there with the most useful.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Integrate into taskbar

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 03:41 AM »

we've talked about this in the past.. the problem is that because of the way farr likes to show its results, in a popup listbox, it's hard to see why having it always visible in a taskbar would really have a benefit.  ie why have it onscreen all the time even when you're not using it?

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Living Room / Re: How to create these awesome "WATCH IT IN ACTION " movies?

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 03:39 AM »

with a program like those we reviewed here:
https://www.donation...enCasting/index.html

note that donationcoder members can get a copy of bbflashback express for 50% off, making it only $20.  it's a great tool for people who don't need all the power of the full version.  there are also some free tools for this, see discussions here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=41.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Digital Image Noise Reduction - Noiseware

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 03:37 AM »

looks quite nice.

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Mircryption / Serious Security Bug - All Users Should Update to version 1.15.00 or higher

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 01:49 AM »

Serious Security Bug - All Users Should Update

Today (1/27/06) we were alerted by the people at RainbowCrack-Online that they had discovered a buffer overflow risk in the mircryption dll, which could be demonstrated by a program called ircfuzz by Ilja van Sprundel. Ircfuzz generates and floods a mirc client with huge amounts of random data, and it turns out that mircryption does not sufficiently protect itself from the possibility of abnormally long channel names or nick names(>255 characters).

While it is not possible for a normal user to trigger such an attack, it is still possible that a malicious server owner could send commands that could crash your irc client while running mircryption, or possibly exploit the buffer overflow in order to execute malicious code.

While we know of no existing exploit of this bug in the wild, this should be considerd a SERIOUS risk, and all mircryption users should update immediately.

Both the mircryption.mrc script and mircryption.dll files as of version 1.15.00 have been redundantly fixed to protect against flaw.

You can update using the online updater, or by installing the new version over your old version, or by manually downloading and replaceing the new mircryption.dll and mircryption.mrc files on the download page.

Thank you to rainbow-crack-online for alerting us to this bug.

This is the first time in 4+ years that we've had reason to release a security update for mircryption



News page and update:
https://www.donation...ircryption/index.php

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Living Room / Re: Trapped in a room flash games...

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2006, 01:31 AM »

omg TONS more here:
http://lazylaces.com...nt%27%27n%27%27click
http://www.lazylaces...m/default.asp?a=1490
http://www.lazylaces...h.asp?s=crimson+room (the last one one this page, The Crimson Room, is the one i first saw many years ago, but the link on that page is dead, so try http://www.fasco-csc.com/index_e.php)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Mention of Find and Run Robot in www.downloadsquad.com!

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 08:20 PM »

thanks amadawn, that means a lot to me.

for those interested in following the long thread and discussion that amadawn is referring to see this post where we discussed it:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1756.0

and the full usenet thread here: http://groups.google...ead/7e3e5755136b0a54

its actually a thread started on the usenet group alt.comp.freeware but mirrored on some web forums.