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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Executable Compressor Programs

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2006, 10:21 AM »

you already mentioned pecompact: http://www.bitsum.com/pec2.asp

a good free (open source) one is UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/

i also would like to hear what people view are advantages and disadvantages of the different tools.
there are also protector programs which include compression (asprotect for example).

one point of clarification - bitsum is giving free licenses of pecompact to most donationcoder.com members (the discounts are for new members who want to upgrade to a higher edition). See https://www.donation.../drawing/drawing.php.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: HELP: Screening an entire Web page

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2006, 09:52 AM »

i'd love to get a list of programs people use to capture scrolling contents from on a regular basis so i can test for those.

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Best Virtual Machine Tool / Re: A Gift from VMWare

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2006, 06:26 AM »

DonationCoder.com does comprehensive reviews of software *categories*:
https://www.donation...m/Reviews/index.html

Note that a review is not of a single program but of a category of programs.
It's a lot of work and requires some discipline and attention to detail - definitely not something that everyone is cut out for
(see zaine's review of archive tools for an example of how big these reviews can get: https://www.donation...hiveTools/index.html)

But we are very much in need of some good objective reviewers and we try to make sure they are well taken care of in terms of software, etc.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: January's Poll - What Area Should DonationCoder.com Focus on Most in 2006?

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2006, 06:16 AM »

as for #1:
here's the get to know each other thread, i'm making it sticky now:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=124.0


as for #2:
i think this is an interesting idea.. maybe we can make a child board under "general software discussion" for betatesting..

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Best Virtual Machine Tool / Re: A Gift from VMWare

« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2006, 05:24 AM »

just a reminder that we tend to give out vmware as a reward to people who write full reviews
- but on the other hand given the amount of work involved in writing a full review, it might be faster to get a part time job to save up for vmware   

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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 08, 2006, 04:47 AM »

well one idea comes up right away when you combine what darwin and hirudin have mentioned about virtual folders as menus - which would be some sophisticated virtual folder menu support.  like being able to say that a menu should show files from certain directories that meet certain criteria, etc.

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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 07, 2006, 06:00 PM »

id love to hear a description of the essential features of tlb that you guys like the most.

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Official Announcements / Re: PROGRAMMING CONTEST: Write an open source mod for SMF forum

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2006, 05:35 PM »

might be relevant: http://www.simplemac...ndex.php?topic=64642

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General Software Discussion / Re: beeping, cheeping, chirping :-(

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2006, 02:59 PM »

open up your computer case and remove any bird nests.

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Official Announcements / Re: DECEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2006, 01:47 PM »

all of the prizes should have been sent out - anyone who hasn't received, check your email accounts as set up on your forum profile, and email me if you still havent received ([email protected]).

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Site/Forum Features / Re: January's Poll - What Area Should DonationCoder.com Focus on Most in 2006?

« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2006, 09:23 AM »

writing a review of address book programs would be a good way to discover the best and lay out a blueprint of what you think the best such tool should look like, missing features, etc.  it would be a service to users and might help get those features implemented.  having such a comprehensive review would be a good first step before a programmer here embarked on writing a new address book app.

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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 07, 2006, 06:21 AM »

thats a useful picture hirudin - i hadn't thought of combining big and small icons on one toolbar.. i'll have to consider that.

i know there are a lot of application launchbars out there - hopefully ours will find a little niche and be able to implement some useful features.  i suspect that over time we'll all be able to think think of enough new features that will make it something special.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: HELP: Screening an entire Web page

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 10:40 PM »

spent all day working on this..
needs a quite a bit more tweaking but i do have it so it will auto scroll+pan and capture *some* windows, including internet explorer engine.
hopefully ill be posting a test version of sc with scrolling capture soon.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Datasbase errors

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 02:40 PM »

did you maybe start two instances of it? i really have to prevent that as it drives it crazy until you kill both and restart the app.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: January's Poll - What Area Should DonationCoder.com Focus on Most in 2006?

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

here's an offer: i'll write a custom program for every new review someone writes

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Living Room / MOVED: DATA ENTRY

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 08:13 AM »

This topic has been deleted because it was an advertisement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software license upgrade experiences: pricing, support & the stuff that matters

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 07:21 AM »

nice post - i like this idea.

this site is committed to supporting good developers, be they open source, freeware, shareware, or commercial.
but it is also here so users can share experiences about developers who have not treated them well.
carolh should add her bad program experience as well.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: HELP: Screening an entire Web page

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 06:28 AM »

id really like to hear from people about if different screenshot capture apps have different success with this feature - are there times it fails? when? any feedback about what you'd like to see in scrolling window capture etc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: HELP: Screening an entire Web page

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 05:57 AM »

i can see im going to have to give in and implement this feature soon.

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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 06, 2006, 05:39 AM »

i actually find myself using a launch bar a lot (i use advanced launch bar above).
mainly it offers me a quick visual choice of commonly used apps - and i find it sort of like a "reminder" of the tools i use the most.  without it on the screen i don't remember my available tools

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

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 05:20 AM »

DonationCoder.com will be releasing a launch bar app soon, as a precursor to Context Menu Commander.
It will be focused mostly on functionality rather than slick appearance (ie nothing as visually fancy as the mac osx dock).

I'm interested in hearing what "launch bar" apps people use:

• what's your favorite and why?
• best feature?
• things you'd like to see added or improved?

examples of some launch bar tools:
http://www.truelaunchbar.com/
http://www.freelaunchbar.com/
http://www.alentum.com/alaunch/index.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sharing files: How to P2P with password among few friends?

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 04:42 AM »

is waste actually being maintained?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any recommendations for caller ID software?

« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2006, 04:18 AM »

i'd also like to hear recommendations of pc answering machine software..
one that seems pretty good is callsoft http://www.toscintl.com/callsoft/
but i haven't really tried many.

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Living Room / Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2006, 08:21 PM »

http://physics.nad.r...cs/English/top10.htm

based on ny times article.
[link from cynical-c.com]

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias broken if name contains dot...

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2006, 07:59 PM »

ah good find - i will fix.