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Living Room / Re: Desktop Icons

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 22, 2010, 05:00 PM »

I'm one of those types that hates desktop icons & hide them 98% of the time.
I can go through the right click exercise,(I have XP),and do the hide/show
icon dance easy enough but I would love to have some silly little applet that
could live in quick launch or better yet in the system tray that would hide &
seek my desktop icons with the push of a button. (Yes I know I want instant
gratification!) Windows+D is fine for showing & hiding the desktop but I'm
looking for something like that for desktop icons. Maybe just a custom keyboard command/short cut or something.
I guess this post is really a suggestion for one of you slick coder guys to
come up with something,or maybe just tell me how to do it myself.
anyone?
Buehler? Ferris Buehler?
anyone?
tom?

-tomcom (February 22, 2010, 04:01 PM)

Firstly, Welcome, Secondly, if you need something like that coding, you will get a better responce posting in the Coding Snacks section 

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Living Room / Re: Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 04:34 PM »

How about: 'waking up your muse' (google books)

Here is another link describing the (exact) same subject (everything.com).

With the advise provided by these links you can still indulge each of your whims and call it....book research. 

-Shades (February 21, 2010, 04:18 PM)

Cheers, I will take a proper look at them later when I get a free minute 

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Living Room / Re: looking for a title (short story)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 03:44 PM »

http://www.amazon.co...Palmer/dp/0553255193

13 used from $14.95

$14.95 + $3.99 shipping: http://www.amazon.co...8&condition=used

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Living Room / Re: Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 03:38 PM »

If I were to tell you to clear your mind of everything else and focus on one thing for 10 minutes, then you can have a 2 minute break to do all that other stuff, then back to work for another 10...etc.

And you don't even have to watch the clock because I'll do that for you and tell you when to take a break and when to get back to work, do you think you could be more focused?

For some people, knowing they only have to work for a short time and that they have a set scheduled break to check email, reorganize their paperclips, twitter, facebook, or whatever else normally clutters their head while working, and knowing they don't have to watch the clock for fear they might miss the opportunity to do all that stuff, helps them concentrate better on what they are supposed to be doing.

It's probably why so many people love my Instant Boss application.

-app103 (February 21, 2010, 03:31 PM)

A> Love the plug haha
B> Already got Instant Boss, Already Use It, Love It, But like everything else, it fails me when writing my book.  I think it is just a literal case of writer's block, which can take unknown amounts of time to go away

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Living Room / Re: Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 01:42 PM »

I tried that lately, dusted off my old laptop (which has no internet connection), cleaned up the contents a bit, spent an intense hour or so writing, & thought great - do that again tomorrow night.
The laptop died the next time I turned it on - I even lost what I had written lol

lmfao, unlucky

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Living Room / Re: Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 01:12 PM »

Certainly seems like the logical way to do it, but it's much easier said than done.

I have tried writing a list of what needs to be done, that was an epic fail, then I tried doing 1 chapter at once, kept getting distracted, and I have tried countless other things.

I'm thinking of maybe wiping off one of my computers, putting myself in a locked room and make sure the only thing on that computer is the project I wanna work on, and NOTHING else, not even pre-installed games like Solitaire and such lol

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Living Room / Re: Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 11:49 AM »

haha, guess I'm not the only one this happens to then 

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Living Room / Right, time to work on...o_0 a shiny penny, I WANT IT!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 11:42 AM »

Right, the reason behind this post is the fact I am completely fed up of going to edit a document, or work on a piece of software and then getting distracted and either don't do it, or do something less productive.

I have been working on a novel for about 5 years, and i currently only have 72 book size pages (appx 30 A4) and for the past 4 month I have had the WORST writers block ever.

Does anybody else have times like this?  If so, how do you work around it?

Love to hear your ideas of how to get motivated into working on ONE project at once, rather than 875239 different things!

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Living Room / Re: Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 2

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 21, 2010, 11:29 AM »

lol ive had that stupid song from the video in my head all damn night 

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Living Room / Stephen's Weekly Tech News - Edition 2

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 20, 2010, 06:35 PM »

Hey Guys, here is your weekly dose of Tech News!

Hope You Enjoy!

Weekly Tech News

Chinese schools deny links to Google attacks

Two days after a New York Times report linked two Chinese schools to hack attacks on Google and other Silicon Valley companies, both schools are denying those claims.

Security experts traced the attacks to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, The New York Times reported Thursday. But on Saturday...Read More...


Contest uses art to bring scientific concepts to life

Sometimes the grand ideas behind science's most important and intriguing concepts are so abstract they can be difficult to understand. One of the main goals of the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation, is to help bring these scientific concepts to life through stunning visualizations.

The photographs, illustrations, video, and...Read More...


Google (finally) nabs On2 video codecs

Google has completed its acquisition of video compression outfit On2 Technologies. On Friday, according to brief statements from the two companies, On2 shareholders voted to approve a deal valued at approximately $124.6 million.

That's roughly $18 million more than the...Read More...


Open source - the once and future dream

For some, Oracle's $5.6bn purchase of Sun Microsystems was good news for open source. After all, a mega tech vendor has acquired a hugely popular open-source database product and project: MySQL.

But at the same time, as the European Union's anti-trust probe wore on, costing Oracle's chief executive $100m a month, and...Read More...


Opera cuts cord on first open-source baby

Opera has freed its first open source project, moving code for its Dragonfly debug tool onto the popular BitBucket hosting service.

Dragonfly - a website debug tool similar to Mozilla's Firebug - was always intended as an open source project. From its inception in 2008, it carried an open source BSD license. But until this month, the code...Read More...


Microsoft finally debuts Euro-choose-a-browser screen

Microsoft has unveiled its EU-mandated Web browser choice screen, and will start rolling it out next week.

Redmond's deputy general counsel Dave Heiner warned Explorer users "what to expect", in a not at all grudging blog posting.

He said...Read More


Toshiba outs new super-charged battery tech

Toshiba revealed a number of battery innovations at its press conference in London this week, with both SCiB and methanol fuel cell chargers getting their first airing in the UK.

First up was the company's fuel cell charger. Looking a bit like a DAB radio, the charger is...Read More...


The Blazing Backlash Against Buzz

Google would like you to know that it's very, very sorry that its new Buzz social network treated your social life like Procter & Gamble treats bunny rabbits. It's all a big misunderstanding. And by the way -- no one was actually harmed, no personal data was leaked, and you're the one who's confused, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at the World Mobile Congress this week.

The big complaint about Buzz -- which started making headlines a day or so after Google rolled it out last week -- was that it could...Read More...


Word 2011's Ribbon Will Tie Mac Users in Knots

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was under no obligation to build a ribbon component, similar to the one premiered in Office for Windows, for the Mac. That's especially true given the fact that the menu bar is such a prominent element of the Mac user experience. Ever since System 7, the menu bar -- which remains fixed to the top of the screen -- indicates which application is active. In Windows, applications have their own menu bars, if they have...Read More...


Nanotech 'Trojan Horse' Sneaks Drugs Into Cancer Cells

Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in nanotechnology.

Research in the field has recently led to several new strategies for employing nanotechnology in the fight against cancer, and -- so far, at least -- the results are promising.

'Like a Trojan Horse'

One of the hardest parts of fighting cancer is...Read More...

Video of The Week

Well, Thats it for this week, hope you all enjoyed this week top news stories!

-Stephen

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Users Beware.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 10:09 PM »

There is absolutely no point of contact.

There is, but only if you dig A LOT, and actually phone their offices - kinda hard to get through to anybody, but the receptionist I last spoke to did put me through to one of the tech guys who solved my issue on the spot.

Not simple for anybody unknowing or unwilling to take the time to background check them in order to get contact numbers, but still, its possible all the same.

In essence, Facebook require a much more efficient means of communication, even if it was as simple as ticket-support or "[email protected]" lol

Guess, for most of Facebook, if you wanna contact them about ANYTHING, try this.........

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Living Room / Re: Responsibility in Web Services

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 04:40 PM »

Then, people who are that thick, they cant understand the need to not tell people when their house is empty, deserve to be robbed...hopefully they will steal their access to the internet, that way, we don't have to deal with them.

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Living Room / Facebook Users Beware.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 04:38 PM »

As Facebook scams are seemingly becoming more and more advanced, and offer new ways to fool users into joining their groups/pages in order to receive something cool, the newest one to hit Facebook is: [scam url removed by app103]

This page asks you to invite all your friends, then visit their website (where you are prompted to do things such as surveys and such).

Due to me not knowing the full extent of what they ask for, I refused to go any further into this, but I can guarantee you that these pages are FAKE and quite possibly will gain access to your accounts by means of falsifying information.



Facebook Denies Plans to Charge Users:
http://www.telegraph...-charging-plans.html



Facebook really need to get their act together and inform people of these groups, and maybe even start manually activating groups and fan pages, in order to stop these idiots from scamming people.

It's getting beyond the joke now, and for a company who make soo much money, they seem to be against actually doing anything to help their members!

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General Software Discussion / Re: simple software to facilitate reading screen full of text ...

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 03:50 PM »

I agree, as I always seem to read 1/2 a line of text, then somehow end up 14 lines down the page without realizing until the text makes no sense at all.  Maybe you could change your cursor to a large bar, rather than a pointer?  I'm pretty sure there are icons like that available.

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Living Room / Re: Web Hosting Review

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 03:42 PM »

Aw, very disappointed now, the link takes you to an error page as they must of removed that content.  


Maybe somebody eated it? ------>    <------

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10 Things to Avoid in Social Media

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 03:38 PM »

10 things to avoid in social media...but we ain't one of them!



haha, that tickled me quite a lot

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Living Room / Re: Responsibility in Web Services

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 02:08 PM »

The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.

-PleaseRobMe

Surely they could get this message across WITHOUT actually broadcasting where people are away from home?

IMHO this website should be shut down and the owner charged with intent to aid theft.

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Living Room / Re: DC Game :: Wordsearch

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 17, 2010, 11:35 AM »

 

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Living Room / DC Game :: Wordsearch

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 07:28 PM »

http://www.fyrebug.c...me.php?gameid=230593



Created @ Fyrebug

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Living Room / Re: Stephens Weekly Tech News: Feb 14, 2010

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 05:59 PM »

Love the video 

-Grorgy (February 16, 2010, 05:50 PM)

lmao its awesome aint it 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help Me Decide How to Giveaway Some C++ Books Here on DC

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 02:12 PM »

I am moving into a new home in about six months so I am starting to determine what I can get away with not moving. I have about 6-8 brand new never-been-opened C++ books. I decided to learn C++ once and for all about a year ago and bought the best I could find and then promptly decided that it wasn't worth my time.

So, I want to find them a good new home. I want them to be used by somebody who will wear out the bindings from use. And I would like your help in coming up with some ideas about how to best find them a home.

What ideas to you have?

-tinjaw (February 16, 2010, 02:08 PM)

How about running some sort of competition on DC and the winner gets them? - or maybe run an 'auction' for which, the users much donate to DC if they win, once they win and donate, they must send credits to you (to be passed into the site fund)

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Living Room / Re: Blog Essay: In Praise of Online Obscurity

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 09:12 AM »

In regards to this, I recently wiped out 400 people on Facebook that I never speak to, mainly because I didn't want them knowing what I was up to, but secondly because I kept forgetting who i knew and who i didnt know 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Battle of the Free Online Storages

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 09:09 AM »

yeah, i login quite often, plus i have a download on there that i get at least 20 hits per week on (currently 18000 downloads) lol, so that keeps me going

Also, 200mb is perfect if your willing to break down your files into smaller RAR files

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General Software Discussion / Re: Battle of the Free Online Storages

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 05:07 AM »

yep, the only real difference with free and pro is the file sizes you can upload:

Free: 200MB / file max
MediaPro: 2GB / file max

also, paying disables the few ads they have (the ads are very very minimal and i honestly didnt even know they had them until i saw, just now, must of trained myself to ignore them haha)

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on February 16, 2010, 01:50 AM »

A very warm welcome to DonationCoder NateDogg

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the forums and our massive community of friendly programmers will be sure to help