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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: clipboard enhancements

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 11:05 AM »

assuming we are talking about clipboard help+spell, you can do it even easier than you say
1) select the text from any app
2) hit ctrl+alt+v (or whatever chs shortcut you have set in the capture tab).  the will capture the text, launch chs and show it with spelling errors underlined.
3) press spellcheck button (maybe i should have an option to have this trigger automatically?), and do your spellcheck.
4) now press the icon that looks like a clipboard with an arrow leaving it to the right, that will copy the spellchecked text back over your original text.

you can use the same process for doing quick formatting of your text, not just spellcheck.

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Living Room / Re: Marc McDonald - Microsoft's First Employee

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 08:31 AM »

hahaahahahaahaha

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mobysaurus V2 -encyclopedic, authoritative free English thesaurus and dictionary

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 08:26 AM »

one thing i'd like to see in future version: ability to bookmark our favorite words.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mobysaurus V2 -encyclopedic, authoritative free English thesaurus and dictionary

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 08:25 AM »

welcome to the site anderson - really glad you came by, and glad we could provide a home for mobysaurus, which seems to be getting better by leaps and bounds.

i'm a huge fan of computer dictionaries and i love what you're doing with mobysaurus.  the instant incremental search is fantastic, and the wildcard search is super useful. and of course the addition of a dictionary to the thesaurus features is the best

ps. for anyone that's interested i have nominated mobysaurus for our list of best new apps of 2005:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1881

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Small App To Turn Background Windows Transparent Automatically

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 07:52 AM »

any idea you have has been thought of and implemented by another people.  the only question is how many people, how long ago, and how good was there solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Celestia-free space simulation-very cool stuff

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 07:50 AM »

agree - it's a beautiful program, and it gets a little better each year while remaining free.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 01:57 AM »

here's a useful package integrating phpbb with mediawiki, probably could serve as the basis for smf-mediawiki addon.

http://meta.wikimedi...BB/Users_Integration

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Advanced Text Replacement

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2005, 12:42 AM »

ah, only works with filenames huh?  well then sounds like there is still a need for this.

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Living Room / Re: Nominations for DonationCoder's Top 10 New Programs & Websites of the Year.

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 08:41 PM »

I'll nominate the only game i played this year (or even wanted to play), GTA: San Andreas.  Quite astounding technical feat and thoroughly enjoyable to play.

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Living Room / Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Forget before You Build (a PC)

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 07:41 PM »

"This article details simple, yet sometimes forgetable, steps a builder must take before building a custom PC. "

http://www.extremete...TRSS02129TX1K0000532


[linked from DailyRotation]

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 07:31 PM »

rofl 

an alternative strategy: just keep saving up and tell yourself that the longer you wait to upgrade, the more wonderful the feeling will be when you finally do.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: sync single files HD <-> USB stick

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 07:21 PM »

there are lots of "directory watching" tools that do stuff like this..  can't remember the names but if you search for "watch directories" + freeware i'll bet you find some.  let us know what you come up with.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Advanced Text Replacement

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 07:17 PM »

looks like exactly what i had in mind - nice find!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Morse Code as You Type

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 01:10 PM »

could be very fun for kids if you made words like "APPLE" for A, etc.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Advanced Text Replacement

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 01:09 PM »

i think i remember a renamer that worked similar to this.
but its an interesting idea - what if you hade a program that let you drag and drop file and folder names into a "memo" field (like a text editor) where you could perform any kind of search and replace or manual editing of the list of files and folders just as if you were in a text editor (you could even copy text into a text editor and work on it there and then paste it bacl), and then hit GO to have it rename all files and folders to their new changed values.

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Living Room / Re: nudone's new pc

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 05:31 AM »

looks great except for that big white bumper sticker on it - i hope that's removable.

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Living Room / Re: google holiday images

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 03:28 AM »

ok now we really need to get him in the front page banner!
nudone can you send me a png vector version, i have a simple idea of how to add him to the pages.

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Living Room / Re: google holiday images

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 03:27 AM »

hahaahahahahahaahah

SO CUTE!!!!

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General Software Discussion / freeware tool to switch between network profiles

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2005, 02:10 AM »

freeware tool to switch between network profiles

there are a couple such tools out now (netswitcher is one i've used in the past).
here's a new free one (pro version also available):

http://www.iljaherlein.de/netsetman/

looks nice.


[linked from snapfiles]

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General Software Discussion / add disk usage columns to your windows explorer

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 09:55 PM »

Aurionix FileUsage integrates smoothly with Microsoft Windows Explorer to add extra columns to Explorer's Detail View. The extra columns display the total size of all files and subfolders within a given folder, the total percentage disk usage and the total number of files within a given folder.

http://www.aurionix.com/


[linked from freewareworldteam]

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

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 07:16 PM »

Ok guys+gals,

I don't know if this is best described as a contest, or more of a sponsorship, but any way you slice it, we've decided to offer a reward for a programmer who can make 2 mods for the smf (simplemachines) forum system, that will let the mediawiki wiki system, and the mantis bugtracker system share smf login info.

We do not expect or want to have multiple programmers working on this at the same time - the main purpose is to find a person who wants to get this done properly, and give them a little incentive and reward.

The final result must be made open source and shared with the SMF community.  We will be happy to provide web space for the programmer who writes this so that they can maintain a page on it (and for any other smf or open source mods they might want to write).

We are looking for someone who wants to implement this correctly, i.e. improve it over time and correct bugs that are found, not just do a quick and dirty job to win a prize.

This is not a horribly complicated mod, and similar mods have been written already which will provide a good starting point, however it is a bit tricky so probably only someone who is a bit comfortable working with smf mods or php/mysql already should try this.


More Details:

• the aim is to use the SMF login info as the definitive login for mediawiki and mantis bugtracker logins.
• user should not ever have to log into media wiki or mantis manually if they are already logged into the forum.
• must work on existing smf accounts (i.e. not just new ones)
• should have minimal (preferably none at all), messing with the original smf database tables (certainly nothing that would make the tables incompatible with a clean install of smf or mediawiki or mantis); ie we want minimal impact and minimal potential for troubles.
• we will want to coordinate groups in smf with groups in mediawiki, so that certain member groups in smf map to member groups in wiki, with the mod checking this to keep up to date so that we don't have to manually update databases when status of a user changes.
• expect to tweak it to get it working right.
• coder should ideally have their own installation of smf, mediawiki, mantis.  if its an experienced programmer who is SURE they will be implementing this we could set these things up for them in a test account, but we're not going to set up 10 such accounts just for people who are curious about attempting to code this

Rewards:

• Fully license copy of VmWare
• $100 cash reward
• Custom DonationCoder.com t-shirt
• Some more free software
• The thanks of tons of people on this board and othe SMF boards.
• Chance to do more such mods for more rewards.

Feel free to discuss here or email [email protected]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Morse Code as You Type

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 04:36 PM »

cool!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Top or bottom?

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 04:12 PM »

i guess this should be considered a bug, since the program is meant to automatically sort the thumbnail list so that new thumbnails appear at bottom...   but maybe it's better classified as a christmas miracle since i don't know why it would be doing that nor how to change it

in all seriousness, i intend to replace the thumbnail view completely in the near future with a different implementation that should solve some of the oddities in the thumbnail view.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For dictionary lovers

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 10:19 AM »

mobysaurus was the thesaurus i posted about recently (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1881.0)

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

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2005, 10:09 AM »

http://thebat.zetema...minimal_history.html


from forum post (you'll find the download mentioned below is available on above page)

>> just as I wrote a few days ago. download
>> http://www.trybik.je....okey.pl/tb3skin.zip, extract it in your bat
>> folder and edit batskin.ini. You have to guess the settings, since
>> the official docs haven't been published.

B> Did anyone figure out how to do this yet? I hate the new large icons!
B> Thanks!

 The following worked for me, but YMMV.

Try the following changes. This changes them down to 24x24.

; Buttons=GlyphList32x32
Buttons=GlyphList24x24

; BigIcons=GlyphList32x32
BigIcons=GlyphList24x24

; [GlyphList32x32]
[GlyphList24x24]
; fixup=32,32,0,0
fixup=32,32,5,4