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Official Announcements / DECEMBER SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 08:19 AM »
Thank you to all of the companies and authors who donated copies of their software for us to give away this december (42 programs!).


Many of these programs are still available with significant discounts to members (though many expire after this week so you may have to act quickly if you intend to take advantage of a discount): https://www.donation...Discounts/index.html



Prizes were assigned using our custom stochastic optimization program according to user preferences, past prizes won, etc.  For more info see this post: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1684



Winners of the December Drawing

Winners of 'Copernic Tracker' (5):
  • bnz
  • bratliff
  • DreadLord
  • Leander
  • m_s
Winners of 'XFilesDialog' (5):
  • abstrackt
  • JeffK
  • karl58
  • rkrause
  • superboyac
Winners of 'XDesk' (1):
  • koncool
Winners of 'SysTrayX' (1):
  • Josh
Winners of 'Direct Folders' (5):
  • IvkovicD
  • ken03
  • NewKreation
  • spj
  • tinyvillager
Winners of 'File-Ex' (5):
  • aruvam
  • dantheman
  • Darwin
  • lrosebur
  • peteg05
Winners of 'FileBox eXtender' (5):
  • deadfan
  • dnourse
  • Donn
  • Isaac Patch
  • thomthowolf
Winners of 'DoubleKiller Pro' (4):
  • Loonier
  • rkr3
  • Seagull
  • singfjf
Winners of 'QuickFolders' (5):
  • algasys
  • gussan
  • Hellie
  • Jan-S
  • Yukon
Winners of 'Surfulater' (6):
  • bktcarey
  • brotherS
  • Catalin
  • crono
  • doncodfish
  • patteoks



Congratulations to everyone who won. Winners will be receiving emails tonight confirming they have won.  If you do not reply acknowledging your prize within a week or two it will be given away to someone else.  Good luck next month!
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Living Room / Re: sticking two routers together?
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 08:02 AM »
yes, many (most?) routers ive seen have a designated "uplink" port for this purpose, where you can use one of the ethernet ports to connect the router to the other to chain them together.  one of them just acts as a simple switch and let's the other do the main work i think.  never tried it myself.  no idea about crossover - im sure one of the sites on the links page will have some more info.
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General Software Discussion / Wordpress 2 released (blogging software)
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 06:46 AM »
Wordpress is one of the better blog systems (open source as well):
http://wordpress.org...lopment/2005/12/wp2/

while I'm add it, let me make a plug for our shared web hosting thing here at DC; if anyone is interested in some web space to start a blog and stuff, check it out: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1261.0


From web page:
User Features
Completely Redesigned Backend — The first thing you’ll notice when you login to your blog is the backend has been completely overhauled for both aesthetics and usability. This is the first iteration of exciting things to come from the Shuttle team of designers that has been volunteering their time, and look for even more aesthetic improvements in the future.
Faster Administration — Call it AJAX, call it DHTML, call it Larry, but we’ve paid close attention to streamlining some of the most common tasks in managing your blog. For example if you’re writing a post and you can add categories on the fly, much like tagging in Flickr. Also instead of having two separate UIs for “simple” and “advanced” posting, we’ve combined them and let you customize the layout of the page on the fly by dragging and dropping the dialogs around. It saves where you put things so when you return it’s just like you left it. When you delete a comment or category it will fade out without a page load.
WYSIWYG Editing — WP dev Andy Skelton and the TinyMCE team have done a tremendous amount of work to bring a smooth WYSIWYG editing experience to WordPress. As code purists, we are very picky about what kind of HTML is generated, and while it’s not perfect yet (for instance nested lists can cause trouble) for 95% of what you do post-to-post the WYSIWYG should save you time. And if it doesn’t, you can turn it off on your profile page. One note: Safari and older versions of Opera, both fantastic browsers, don’t yet support everything that’s needed to do WYSIWYG, but we fully expect new versions of those browsers will continue to improve their standards support, so it may just be a matter of time.
Included Spam and Backup Plugins — We’ve included two of the most popular WordPress plugins: Skippy’s DB backup can backup your database to a file and optionally email you a copy; Akismet is a distributed anti-spam system which gets smarter the more people use it.
Resizable Editing — This is one of my personal favorite features. Ever been writing a post and that textarea seemed a little small? Happens to me all the time, and our new rich text editor includes a feature that lets you resize the editor on-the-fly by clicking on the corner, just like a regular window.
Inline Uploading — We’ve optimized our uploader for image, audio, and video files and put it inline with the posting screen. You don’t have to bounce around any more when writing a post! It also will organize your files for you as you upload them to make them easier to find later. On the backend, each uploaded file is actually a “sub-post” so it can have individual comments and pingbacks, its own permalink, and even a custom template based on what type of file it is. You can click on attached files to get a menu of options, or if you’re on Firefox you can drag and drop them into your WYSIWYG editor.
Faster Posting — In the past if you were linking to a number of posts or pinging a lot of update services, your posting time could appear to slow to a crawl even though everything was instantly done on the backend. We’ve modified how this works now so posting should be near-instantaneous, like everything else in WordPress.
Post Preview — Another enhancement to the post screen, now when you save a post it shows a live preview of how the post would look on your site, with the stylesheet and theme and everything. No more publishing a post just to see if it works.
Streamlined Importing — We’ve rewritten our import system from the ground up to be much easier to use (you no longer have to edit files), put it behind authentication, and also made it easy for new importers to be dropped into the system, much like plugins.
User Roles — We had a ton of feedback on our old numerical user level system. No one was exactly sure what those numbers meant! We’ve distilled the basic functions into a set of roles — such as administrator, editor, contributor — that make it easier to understand what sort of capabilities you’re giving your blog’s users. The new system is completely pluggable too, so plugins can modify roles and create groups that have access to certain things.
Header Customization — If you’re tired of the blue header in the default theme, you can now change the colors and text of it, which we’ve included as a demo of some of the new features available to theme authors.
Developer Features
On the backend we’ve done a ton of changes to clean up code, make things more consistent, and enable a lot of new types of applications to be built on top of WordPress.

User Level Options — You can now store options on a per-user level rather than having them apply for the entire blog. An example of this in WP2 is with the rich text editor, which can be turned on or off per a user’s discretion.
Improved Abstraction — We’ve eliminated almost all direct SQL queries from the code and moved them to functions and classes that make the entire program more consistent.
Built-in Caching — WordPress now includes a completely pluggable object cache system that cuts the number of queries most pages do in half. By default it is disk-based, but there is already a plugin to use memcached and we expect more are on their way. We’ve only begun to tap into this.
Plugin Hooks Galore — We’ve added hooks for plugin authors wherever we could think to, so what you’re able to do in the new system is pretty dramatic. Ne features like the WYSIWYG and the inline uploader are completely pluggable and can be replaced entirely.
Import Framework — The new import framework allows you to create an importer with about a third of the code you used to need, and it can have a consistent interface with no extra work.
Theme Functions — Themes can now include a functions.php file that will now be loaded like a plugin attached to the theme.
Theme preview images — You can now include a screenshot of the theme with the download so in the WP interface your users will see a quick preview of what it looks like.
Hundreds and Hundreds of Bug Fixes — 2.0 has hundreds of tracked bugs and enhancements, many that are very subtle.
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website is down here too, though google shows that the url is correct.
maybe the intelligent design folks saw my link and took legal action against it :)
should be back up soon i expect.

here's the review of it:
http://www.eurogamer...php?article_id=58149
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Living Room / Re: Happy Near Year 2006 to all DonationCoders
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 03:53 AM »
start the new year off with some energy and enthusiasm, like these creatures (found on political blog http://www.balloon-juice.com/, no animals were injured):
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Registry Cleaning Software
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 02:04 AM »
If and when one does a backup and lets say you decide to do a full system backup it pays to have a spare HDD to test it on the last thing you want is for there to be a corruption on one of the backup disks and cannot continue (it maybe possable to make a clone of the faulty disk and with luck it may work) or you'll end up doing yet another windows install...lol... best backup is cloning from one HDD to another


i could not agree with this more.
i'll only add that having a spare hard drive / computer to "test" a restore on has the MAJOR advantage of being able to test out a restore procedure before an emergency actually happens.

in fact, with the price of computers these days, you could almost justify buying yourself a very low-powered spare computer for just this purpose, experimenting, testing software, testing restore procedures, etc.

very good idea for the new year.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Windows system tray clock replacement
« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2006, 12:00 AM »
whoa! nice find kimmchii!
source code included with tclock2, so it can be modified.  excellent.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: explorer extensions
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 11:59 PM »
excellent post by kimmchii - those are good ones.
ps. our new upcoming programming "Context Menu Commander" should fullfill these needs and more :)
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Living Room / Happy Near Year 2006 to all DonationCoders
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 06:19 PM »
Happy New Year 2006 to all the wonderful people here.

2005 was just practice for us, tentatively taking our first steps...
I hope that 2006 will be a chance for DonationCoder.com to really shine.

From the bottom of my heart, thanks you all for making it possible.


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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Windows system tray clock replacement
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 04:52 PM »
did you try alfaclock free? (see link by nudone above)
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eurogamer, my new fav game review site is raving about this odd little game no one knows about... does look very interesting:

http://www.darwinia.co.uk/

btw a demo is available for mac,windows,linux
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General Software Discussion / Re: On Strike for your Favorite Lost Sheep
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 02:27 PM »
Here are some strikers for Jibz, who can be found on the forum occasionally but has been absent from the irc channel for too long.



the following smilies are on a hunger strike until Jibz comes back to the irc chat channel:..






EDIT: BREAKING NEWS..
Jibz's smilies have been set free since he showed up in irc channel yesterday.  Congratulations little fellas you are now free.





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General Software Discussion / On Strike for your Favorite Lost Sheep
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 02:22 PM »
I've set up this thread for those lost sheep who have been away from this forum for too long.
Number 1 at the top of the list is Zaine, who moved to chicago and still hasn't finished unpacking his computer.




the following smilies are on a hunger strike until we hear back from zaine ridling:



EDIT: zaine has posted so the smilies have been set free


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General Software Discussion / free rss reader, "GreatNews"
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 02:14 PM »
haven't tried it yet but it looks quite nice:
http://www.curiostudio.com/feature.html
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the above was just a sample idea - in the end i decided not to allow scripting, for fear people would use it for evilnes..
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat!: two questions
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 02:06 PM »
there are a lot of options, no shame in not finding it -
in fact i never knew it was there, it used to be on by default.  maybe they changed it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat!: two questions
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 01:07 PM »
should be in Options -> Preferences dialog here:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: @artists: clipart missing
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 11:46 AM »
stefan - great tutorial - very nice!

i even created a new section for tutorials in the wiki - may i movei your wiki article from the Software page to the Tutorial page?
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Living Room / Re: Wireless question
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 09:53 AM »
wow carol has a future in tech support i think..

i'll just add that on our links page we have a couple excellent home networking sites listed:
https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html
(see Best Help / Tech Support section)
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id love to see drupal integrated as well - but let's get this one done first.  someone is working on it at the moment; keep your fingers crossed for success.
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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 01:53 AM »
yep, joel was the one that wrote the other article too - he is an interesting character we have talked about on this forum before.  his obsession with money troubles me a bit but he is very smart and insightfull on these matters.

maybe we should charge $1000 for charter membership in the site, but then allow some "coupon" that lets you choose how much of a discount you want, up to $999.
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i think what backslash is asking for is not the same as the save windows as group feature in maxthon and netcaptor.

i may take a look at this later backslash, though ie itself does keep such a history that you can view and search, so another less-cpu intensive solution would be to read that history list rather than monitor for urls in the address bar.
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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy
« Last post by mouser on December 31, 2005, 12:51 AM »
hi icfu -

some good points, and let me say i think that article is excellent and agree with nearly all of it.

(one thing i probably disagree with in the article and your post is pricing - there is some interesting and depressing data that seem to suggest that higher prices sometimes increase sales due to a psychological effect; there was a post here about it recently i think).


i do think that most of this discussion really boils down to a simple empirical question: is the license key thing helping to get more people to donate and participate in the site.

if not, we should remove it right away.  if so, then we have to ask if the inconvenience is worth the benefit.

your advice is very similar to that suggested by some people on alt.comp.freeware newsgroup, which basically comes down to: if you want to make money, make the software shareware - and lock it down with nags and limits until people pay some set amount.

this is a bit of a confusing argument to me - it basically says that it's too inconvenient for a user to get the "freeware" license, and so the "solution" is to stop calling it freeware and stop giving people a way to use it without paying!



i think the starting point for proposed changes for our site policy has to start out with the understanding that we are *philosophically* opposed to charging a fixed price for our software, and believe that people who cannot afford the software should still be able to use it fully.

we are very much interested in promoting a donation-based model of software financing where people pay what they want to, and what they can afford.

i've described in detail my experiences in the past with donationware and why i came to the conclusion that people need some motivation/encouragement to actually follow through with donating, and that's what we've tried to implement.  finding the balance for this is the hard part and what we are still trying to do.

i do appreciate the thoughts though, and i'd like to keep hearing more from people.
as i've said before i think we will try a month of making it easier and see if donations go down or up, and see what the reaction is..

-mouser

ps. regarding process tamer - if i remember, the performance querying metrics make "virtual" calls to the registry (they aren't really file reads); but maybe you could post again on the process tamer section reminding me the issue so i can check into it again if you think it might be something else..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another similar app (disclaimer: I haven't tried it)
« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2005, 02:26 PM »
i know that the mac world is gaga over quicksilver.  i think it's half just the normal mac fanaticism, but i know that quicksilver has some nice features - i'm very happy to implement them all in F+R in time, just let us know which features are wanted.  the only reason F+R 2 isn't out already is that i'm trying to revamp it's infrastructure a little, and because i'm doing some work on a new set of programs coming out from donationcoder (see contextmenu commander section of forum), which need my attention so that some other people can work on the project while i get back to F+R2, PT3, CHS, etc.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: a little progress report
« Last post by mouser on December 30, 2005, 02:23 PM »
i'm not sure how useful it would be to people to open source F+R since it is written with borland c++ builder, a commercial compiler (doesn't mean that it can't be open sourced, just that it's not nearly as attractive to open source community as a program that can be compiled with free toils). 

my other concern of course is with regard to donations.  there are a couple of apps here of mine that are open source, including a very popular irc encryption addon, which really doesn't get donations.  i'm not sure if people would be less inclined to donate to the site of F+R was open source, and if other versions were written an distributed by others.. maybe we can think about a new kind of open source license that says it's open source but derived versions should somehow redirect people to still visit this site? i'm not sute..
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