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Screenshot Captor / Re: Timed Auto Capture

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 07:57 PM »

you should definitely check out bb flashback; they are offering a 50% discount to our members as well.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: website for the informed netizen: GROKLAW

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 03:20 PM »

wow - wonderful post.
I'm adding Groklaw to my daily watch list.

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Living Room / Wikipedia found to be as accurate as Encyclopedia Brittanica

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 03:16 PM »

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2...ipedia.ap/index.html

[from balloon juice]

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Dr.Windows / Re: Dr.Windows Dialogs - Add Yours!

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 06:23 AM »

hehehe Windows works without probs.png - lol

thanks for more dialogs for the next release!!

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Living Room / Re: Samorost - beautiful puzzles

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 03:59 AM »

i've emailed the authors, and suggested that we loved it so much, i would like to see if they wanted to let us buy 10 full copies of chapter 2 for the price of 5, to give out as gifts.

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Official Announcements / Re: Change to Official License Key Policy

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 02:26 AM »

a new optional page has been added to the license key generation section; for those people who are dead set against signing up at the forum for whatever reason, they can now generate shorter lasting (you have to return to the page to make new key every 30 days) anonymous license keys.  At least this is a viable option for people who aren't sure yet they want to sign up or are having trouble signing up, etc.

See it in action here -> https://www.donation...om/Keys/nosignup.php

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Timed Auto Capture

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2005, 12:27 AM »

your best bet might be to use a screencasting tool; we did a major review of them here:
https://www.donation...enCasting/index.html

these are normally used to make demo movie, but the advantage in your case would be that it would be ideal for playing back.  bb flashback has some nice things for adjusting speed and does a great job of low-bandwidth recording, so that might be your best bet. though its not free.

these tools will record exactly what keys user presses as well so you can see them interacting; and they will export movies so it seems to be they would be what you want.

a free similar tool is camstudio:  http://www.camstudio.org/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Timed Auto Capture

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 11:17 PM »

keep in mind that there are much better programs designed for making movies of the screen.

but to answer your question:
go to the "On Capture" tab in the preferences and set the auto capture timer details (rate: 1s, stop after 1800,type=screen).

then close settings and minimize the screenshot captor window.  now right click on the screenshot captor try icon and select "Engage Auto Capture Timer".   To stop it, go to the tray menu and disable.

i really do need to update the help file with all of the changes that have been added recently.

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Living Room / Re: Samorost - beautiful puzzles

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 10:33 PM »

i've just added samarost2 to our best-of-the-web links page and made it site of the week:
https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html

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Living Room / Re: Google in the sixties

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 10:00 PM »

hahahah i love that one.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: Program Closer

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 06:35 PM »

carol, rofl.
sounds more like a bubble convention to me.

to prevent, go to Clipboard Help+Spell options, capture options tab, and add the following to exclude list:
clip.exe
pv.exe
CloseMany.exe
ShowVer.exe

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Living Room / come on, tell me this isn't clever, lightbulb shaped salt+pepper shakers

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 05:26 PM »

http://www.wrapables...003&cate3=030103

[found from http://www.cribcandy.com/]

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Official Announcements / Re: ANNOUNCING - DonationCoder.com Logo Contest

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 12:43 PM »

I suppose I should make an official announcement somewhere at least and say that Nudone's Bird is the new, official mascot of DonationCoder.com.

Thank you Nudone for giving us such a nice gift.  It's everything I had hoped for in a mascot/logo, and I think it somehow captures the helpful spirit of the site and is unique and memorable.  In a word, it's perfect.

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Finished Programs / Re: MP3 Player

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 11:15 AM »

hey i'd love to know a foobar plugin for that feature too, for listening to audio books.

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Living Room / Re: Am I meant to laugh ??

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 10:21 AM »

joel writes good user interface books, and he is a good writer.. but i increasingly feel like his specialty is self promotion.
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1550.0

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Forward button on Mouse Explorer to Open Link in a New Window

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 09:03 AM »

ahh... i understand now what you are saying..
but it's beyond my knowledge - skrommel or someone else will know hopefully - definitely should be possible.

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Living Room / Re: Samorost - beautiful puzzles

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 08:58 AM »

i have to say it was quite enjoyable all the way through.

on the site there is also a simpler, much shorter game in the same spirit but with music throughout, and you might want to try that one, its the "quest for the rest" one: http://analogik.com/multimedia_quest.asp

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: creating HTML lists from URLs in clipboard

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 08:55 AM »

very nice idea; i think i will add something like this to our "Clipboard Help and Spell" program on this site.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Forward button on Mouse Explorer to Open Link in a New Window

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 08:44 AM »

great question.

there are programs that will tell you the windows classes of other windows; often they have "spy" in their names, like windows "spy" or something.  i can't remember any off hand but if you can't find a good free one with google and no one else posts the link for one i'll look again.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignoring rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 03:11 AM »

a major release of pt is in the works, this was just minor maintenance release.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignoring rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on December 14, 2005, 03:04 AM »

not fixed yet.

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Official Announcements / Re: New Beta Release - Dr. Windows - Help Needed and CONTEST!!!

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 11:19 PM »

stefan has won - and thank you everyone for submitting dialogs and helping make enough to get it out the door.
stefan, make sure you enter this months contest; you will received whichever program you indicate you want most.

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Living Room / How much ram do you really need?

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 10:40 PM »

New article says 2gb helps:

http://www.tomshardw..._do_you_really_need/

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Re: New tapes available and more coming: World of 2XL and Voyage to Outer Space

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 07:53 PM »

can't tell you how nice it is to have new tapes TheSmJ,
on behalf of all 2XL fans, I thank you

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Finished Programs / Re: MP3 Player

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2005, 07:52 PM »

foobar2000 is free and is a favorite on this forum: http://www.foobar2000.org/