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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 08:59 AM »

if there's one thing we should all know by now it's that different people have different needs, and different styles demand different tools as well.

it's always good to hear about new tools, so keep em coming!

( just don't let brotherS hear you say anything bad about autohotkey or he'll go off like a firecracker  )

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Living Room / Re: Get a Dell Notebook With Participation !!

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 08:29 AM »

yeah i think this qualifies as something we don't permit here: you can't post links with reference numbers and stuff where you get benefits when people click on it.

it's fine to post deals and discounts (though it should go here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=39.0), but you can't post such links where you get some special benefit when people click through.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 07:44 AM »

heheh people sure have strong opinions about these utilities - that's a good sign really, but you guys please don't go to war over it!

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General Software Discussion / Re: U3 Smart Drives

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 04:59 AM »

very interesting idea.  i can see that being quite useful.

i know the general issue of being able to move your "working set of docs and settings and preferences" around between machines is a very hot area of research in ms labs and similar companies, and i do expect it to be something that is ubiquitous in the future.

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Best E-mail Client / Re: The Bat - how to customize?

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 02:41 AM »

i also like the full height left account list.
i then have a 1/3 height message list on top right, and preview window below.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 01:37 AM »

nice find cpilot.  is there a web page for this project where one might read more or is it all just in the forum?

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Best E-mail Client / Re: The Bat - how to customize?

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 01:35 AM »

sent mail and outbox is very useful distinction:
inthebat after you write a message you can either send it immediately or be smarted and just QUEUE IT in the out box.
this can be useful as it gives you a little time to catch yourself before you make a stupid mistake.
then when yousay send and mail is sent it moves from outbox to sent.

see my previous message also about how i create new folders in my accounts for different purposes.

there is a newsgroup+online archive at ritlabs somewhere that you can search - that may be the best way to search for answers to questions.

i always use preview pane so im not sure about other modes of reading - make sure you check out the different ways to arrange the different panes in the window - it may be that once you find a good layout of panes youll like using preview window better.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible slight bug.

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 01:31 AM »

no please do post it - much appreciated.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible slight bug.

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 01:17 AM »

you are absoluletly right - as to the cause as well.
i incorrectly adjusted IE window capture assuming their was a horiz+vert scrollbar; i'll try to have it fixed by next week.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible slight bug.

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 01:15 AM »

posting in the bugtracker is always very helpful to me.
actually all my tests on scrolling may have been with windows that have horizontal scroll, so let me test your scenario.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible slight bug.

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2006, 12:33 AM »

what web browser are you using? this might be a good time to have alternate browsers like firefox, ie, opera.
let me know which ones work and i might be able to come up with an exception rule or fix for it.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Special Users thing on the software drawings page.

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 11:27 PM »

mail me direct:

   [email protected].

i'm always very happy to hear from freeware programmers and we're delighted to give you full membership in the site. 

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ContextMenu Commander / Re: ContextMenu Commander

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 10:26 PM »

we've actually been working on cmc a lot off an on.
and i am ABOUT to release a beta of Launch Bar Commander any day now.
(Launch Bar Commander is the precursor to context menu commander sharing the same core code, and will be one of at least 2 and possibly 3 or 4 apps that we release build on the same engine). 

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General Software Discussion / Badware

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 05:35 PM »

StopBadware.org is a "Neighborhood Watch" campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers make better choices about what they download onto their computers. We aim to become a central clearinghouse for research on badware and the bad actors who spread it, and become a focal point for developing collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

http://www.stopbadware.org/home/help


[link from lifehacker]

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Living Room / Coding Horror blog has become must reading for programmers

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 05:18 PM »

The blog http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ by Jeff Atwood Is rapidly becoming my favorite programming-related blog.

It's not a hardcore coding page, so non-programmers may find it interesting as well.  It's usually a breezy read which is very regularly updated with very short interesting posts and links.

Latest post tells us about an interesting new book on user interface design, and the online website it was created from (http://www.welie.com...terns/gui/index.html).

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Living Room / Re: Simply to much nagging here

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 04:56 PM »

hahaha 

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ProcessTamer / Re: doubleclick vs hotkey...

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 04:54 PM »

thanks for entering it into bugtracker.

ps. we're working to integrate the bugtracker login with forum login to ease this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which app stays open on your desktop all day?

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 04:53 PM »

type and run looks really interesting jgpaiva, like there might be features there that F+R could learn from.

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Living Room / Re: Simply to much nagging here

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 04:48 PM »

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA
that picture is hillarious!

 

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

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 11:14 AM »

ps. took me a while to find the composer (click the little white lightbulb at the top middle).
i'd like to see an option to auto save and auto reload the composer notes - would make it useful as a kind of scratchboard for keeping notes on words.

more requests:
1) option for whether moby should stay resident on clicking close or not.
2) auto detect when user tries to launch mobysaurus twice while its already running and just switch to previous running version instead of starting 2nd copy.

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

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 11:10 AM »

The thing that strikes you about mobysaurus is you can feel the 'love of language' in the program.  just check the References and Online References menus and you know it's true.

Here's an idea, there is so much in mobysaurus, it's easy to get overwhelmed.  Maybe some kind of "simplified use mode" would be an option? just a thought.

Another thought, don't know if it's possible.  Instead of radio boxes for selecting different "dictionaries" maybe it would be possible to use checkboxes, and then show all results from activated dictionaries with a nice big divider line betweent them..  might make it easier to just search and say i don't care where the results come from just show me all.  dont know if this is feasible though for incremental search results box..

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

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 11:06 AM »

i just love this project

anderson you really need to set up a paypal link so that those of us who want to can send you a few bucks to say thank you.

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ProcessTamer / Re: doubleclick vs hotkey...

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 09:54 AM »

nice idea; i'll add that to todo list (or you can submit it on the bug tracker link above which is always easier for me to remember to implement).


hehehe thats a funny face to make with that sentence.. maybe its the face after getting off of a fun but scary roller coaster.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: clipboard enhancements

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 09:18 AM »

allen -
this is off topic but are you involved in those projects that are on the web page you have linked in your profile?
they are really wonderful, i'm sure people here would love to hear a little about them on a new thread if so..

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Living Room / Re: Simply to much nagging here

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2006, 07:44 AM »

ah one other thing:

we decided recently that none of our applications should ever "expire" and only resume "nagging" after some time in order that you return to the site to get a new freeware license key (as described on the page), and recently added 2 additional new features to make things easier:
1) people who really dont want to sign up at the forum can still download a shorter-period license key as many times as they want without signing up for anything.
2) after 1 year (two 6month freeware license key renewals) a non-donating user gets a full non-expiring license key for all apps.

i know it sounds complicated, but i'm just pointing out that we're trying to address the concerns people have raised.

the biggest concern from all this is that the complication is getting out of hand, and that is the issue we are struggling with the most now.. i'm confident that we will find a good balance if we keep at it.