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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2006, 07:03 AM »

how about using alan's image text changer thing to change the slogan?

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2006, 07:02 AM »

i agree too. less coin more positive imagery please.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2006, 02:31 AM »

thanks, tsaint and Carol, for the links explaining the royalties question. i'm not going to become an investigative journalist to see just exactly how things are done in Russia. maybe receiving comparatively low royalties (in dollars per track) is favourable by the artists/labels rather than receiving nothing at all.

i think i will fire off a few emails to the artists that are available to download by the service and see what their views are (hopefully some spokesperson will reply from the labels). that's about the only way i'll put my conscience to rest on this matter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VistaGlance

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 03:12 PM »

great to hear from you, Konstantin.

i believe 'vistaglance' certainly has potential even without the artificial intelligence that you are striving for. if you could make it more keyboard friendly then i'd carry on using it. there really needs to be a way of navigating throughout the entire program without using the mouse.

my only other recommendation that i can think of straight away would be the option of turning off the 'skin' that the program uses. 'classic' windows appearance compatibility is always going to win you a lot of favour as it will allow your program to 'merge' with more users desktop environments. providing a skinning feature is nice but there are still a great number of us that prefer just the plain old windows look (with a bit of personal colour changing here and there).

i'll certainly look forward to further developments with 'vistaglance' and i'll start using it again as soon as the keyboard issue is cleared up. expect donations aplenty after you've made a few tweaks to the program. and good luck with the artifical intelligence that does sound like a cool feature.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 02:21 PM »

my only question and interest is why someone would use a service that doesn't pay the artists that they are making money out of.

why pay such a company when you can save yourself the cash and just get the same artists completely free when using a p2p file sharing program. the artist still misses out on royalties this way but you save money at the same time. the only difference is that one is 'technically' legal whilst the other is considered almost certainly illegal. under the eyes of the unfortunate artists/labels they are still being robbed whether it's a technically legal robbery or an almost certain illegal robbery.

buying region 1 dvds doesn't sound like the same sort of thing to me either as the royalties from that sale will be going to the artists - providing the dvd came from a country that respected the rights of artists.

don't get me wrong. i'm not mr.clean. i've copied, downloaded, video taped, borrowed and photocopied things that i should have payed for. but i also make a point of paying those i respect and it doesn't look like 'allofmp3' share the same opinion. i may as well be sending the money to someone at the other end of a p2p program like emule because they've told me that they have paid for the music they are sharing when they bought the CD from their local record shop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VistaGlance

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 01:01 PM »

i thought there would have been more interest in 'vistaglance' as it's similar to 'find and run robot' - but only for files... no?

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 12:59 PM »

thanks, Hirudin.

so i have to ask, if the artists/labels aren't getting any money from the 'allofmp3' service why exactly are people using it at all and not just using things like emule. or is it more a case of not wanting to run the risk of being caught downloading illegal files rather than the rights or wrongs of artists receiving royalties? i think i know the answer to that one.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 11:57 AM »

Btw, I've never had the shrinking window problem you and nudone have experienced (running XP Pro, SP2).

-AndyM (April 09, 2006, 10:55 AM)

do you use any progams that use 'tabs' or window panes inside the main 'parent' window? i've only had the shrink window problem with these types of programs. i imagine that the window properties get messed up in these kinds of programs so that autohotkey doesn't know how to treat them. maybe jgpaiva can say if things are not quite like that.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 08:17 AM »

it does feel a bit crippled at the moment with it only matching specific windows on my machine. fingers crossed that there is a solution for the shrinking windows. does it still shrink windows if the script looks for windows that are 'smaller' than a set dimension rather than exiting when it finds a window that is larger than the currently set dimensions?

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Where is Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0??

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 08:13 AM »

you could also use the 'keywords' instead of the 'tags' (categories) in a similar way as i mentioned above.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Where is Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0??

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 08:08 AM »

I just started tagging images with ACDSee... and find that it sucks at it. I can't even drag multiple tags onto one image at the same time? It will take me twice and thrice as long to tag everything if I can't do that.. and APE does it just fine. I think I'm back to APE for image organization. Good try, ACDSee, but at organization, you suck. Sadly . I like the speed of ACDSee and just about everything else about it. But organization is the key feature that I need in an application of this type, more than anything else in it. APE just wins in that department. For now.

-moerl (April 08, 2006, 08:35 PM)

i've woken up a bit now and just realised what you said. you're right in saying that you can't 'drag' multiple tags onto images but CAN add multiple tags if you use the 'properties' pane to do this sort of thing...

just select the image(s), then with the 'properties - database' pane in view, simply click on the tags (categories) you want to add to the files.

i'm wondering if people don't quite 'get' acdsee because they don't adjust the layout that it installs with. i really find the default views of no use and the only real way of tapping into the power is to arrange the 'organize' and 'properties' panes to be in view at all times. the default set of buttons are pretty useless also.

once you've removed the 'context sensitive toolbar' and replaced it with the 'main toolbar' with your favourite buttons and menu commands you'll get more use out of acdsee. this combined with an arrangement of the panels being in view will certainly show you the power that the program has. oh, and the workspaces you can save and call up when required take it to another level altogether. each workspace can have it's own set of menus, buttons and panels in view - just stick a 'workspace' button on one of your menus so that you can get to it at all times.

tomorrow i'm going to try and dedicate a bit of time to have a look at photoshop elememts and imatch and maybe a couple of others to see just how they compare.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 07:28 AM »

it's a real shame about the shrinking windows problem but on the other hand the method for specifying windows to look for and move appears to make things a bit quicker on my machine (i could be imagining it).

also it's a pity that the window is visible before it is moved to the cursor location but we can't have everything.

i'll wait for the final exe version before making my final comments.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 06:50 AM »

ah, right, i see. i was changing the wrong variables then. i'll try it now. thanks.

er, oh well, i'd not even seen the functions at the bottom. serves me right.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 06:30 AM »

thanks for all the great work so far, jppaiva. DC credits will be on the way shortly. i'm just trying to get things working here but i'm not really finding a way to avoid the shrinking window problem.

i've also noticed that in the code above you put 'DetectableWindows' and 'NotDetectableWindows' shouldn't both of these variables (or constants, i can't remember the terminology) have the 's' taken off of them so they match the rest of your code?

if i could just get 'maxthon' and 'notepad++' to stop shrinking i'd be very happy.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Where is Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0??

« Last post by nudone on April 09, 2006, 02:34 AM »

maybe the real answer is to find the graphics manager that supports the powerful tagging you've described (and it certainly does sound impressive) but with the speed of acdsee, or, something quicker.

it shouldn't really be too much to ask that there be an image manager out there that has no editing functions (not really essential for this kind of app) but supports quick load up and supper tagging/notes/metadata/etc/etc.

any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: TyperA - test your typing skills

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 02:53 PM »

must say i'm amazed at these high speeds people are getting. perhaps yet another example of how we tend to believe we are above the average in most things - well, i certainly have to accept my typing is certainly below the average around here. i thought 50 was fast before i saw this thread.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 12:47 PM »

well, i certainly can't argue with that. whatever it actually means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allofmp3 was interesting i thought. in that it states that 'allofmp3' considers itself the same as a radio station so pays the same license fee (how true this is, who knows, it's on the net). i wouldn't be too surprised if such a license is a lot less that what they would be paying if they considered themselves a 'download' service and not a 'radio' service. so, technically it's all legal (or is it) but i sense someone isn't getting their full payment.

i suppose the only real question is whether any of the artists that are on the site for download actually object to being there. i'd email some of them and ask but i doubt i'd get a reply.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 12:13 PM »

how about we have a cycle of banners anyway. or are we looking for a permanent identity?

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 12:08 PM »

i was just looking at this 'allofmp3' thing as it sounded so good. can't argue with the price can you. and, i will now admit, i'm a bit slow on the uptake of this itunes malarkey but i will have to repeat what has been said many other places online...

how legal is 'allofmp3'. yes, i've read the articles online that say it's technically legal (though this is also disputed) but what i find more interesting is whether the artists are receiving any royalties from 'allofmp3' sales/downloads.

if the artists aren't being rewarded then this system still equates to theft as far as i can see. if the artists aren't being rewarded from 'allofmp3' then i don't quite understand why people are using the service - just load up a torrent program or emule and download all your music that way - the artists won't see any reward from that either.

i feel i'm sticking my neck out here but just paying all 'allofmp3' so that it all seems legit seems immoral to me. aren't the artists meant to be rewarded and isn't that something DC members favour?

please correct me if i've jumped the gun. i just couldn't find anything stating that the artists aren't being ripped off.

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Living Room / Re: 10 minute video of Japanese Rube Goldberg Machines

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 11:45 AM »

If you like that cool Honda commercial try to get your hands on "Der Lauf der Dinge/The Way Things Go" that I mentioned above! 30 instead of 2 minutes - AND they use chemical reactions too!
 

-brotherS (April 08, 2006, 10:02 AM)

i've got it and it certainly is the definitive thing to watch in this category.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2006, 07:28 AM »

oh well, it looked promising for a minute.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Find and Run Robot got an Award

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2006, 05:07 PM »

About damn time! I feel sorry for the saps, er, I mean, poor souls who haven't discovered it yet.

-zridling (April 07, 2006, 04:03 PM)

got to agree with that.

everyone capable of using the keyboard with more than one finger ought to really know about and use 'find and run robot'.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2006, 05:00 PM »

if it helps any, the strange window shrinking i have is with windows that contain tabs with panes inside. so far it does it with 'maxthon' and 'notepad++', i've not seen any strange shrinking with other windows.

i'm really looking forward to the final version, jppaiva.

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Living Room / Re: DIY madness ...

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2006, 09:02 AM »

here's uk link http://www.zebracomp...-turntable-i467.html

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2006, 08:54 AM »

maybe we don't need a special section for such a thing - just make the graphics request and you can always hand out your DC credits as you see fit.