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Find And Run Robot / Re: It it soup yet? And interesting behavior

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 08:47 PM »

it seems on rare machines FARR has problems inserting itself to be run at windows startup.  basically i tried to get fancy and avoid registry by creating and removing items from the start menu startup menu but for some reason it ends up making itself twice. i will try to move to the new startup code this month when version 2 comes out and this should fix it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Keyboard shortcuts? (photoshop/paintshoppro users especially)

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 02:34 PM »

Thanks carol, that's useful.

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Official Announcements / Re: NOVEMEBER FUNDRAISER+CELEBRATION HAS BEGUN! -- EVERYONE READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 02:28 PM »

welcome to the site jan, and on behalf of our members thank you for the discount and donated copies.

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Living Room / Re: Made me chuckle ... how's the upgrade Mouser ...

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 02:10 PM »

hahahahahahaahahahhahhahahahaha 

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Living Room / Re: Benefits of web hosting with DonationCoder from my perspective

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 04:17 AM »

thanks for the really nice words vegas

let me just point people also to the special section we've set up for discussion of the web hosting team up idea here: https://www.donation...index.php?board=60.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Req: Making Objects moveable with cursor keys on the keyboad!

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 03:51 AM »

adding now.

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Site/Forum Features / New Translation Buttons

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 03:48 AM »

You should see on all of our pages now a set of bttons that can be used to translate the current page you are viewing into a variety of languages.  If you don't see your language there, send your angry letters to google not us, we're using their translation engine.

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Official DonationCoder.com Reviews / Re: Best Anti-virus

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 03:47 AM »

kerio and tiny are great lessons to developers of how to take a fantastic simple small program that is much loved, and turn it into an unfinishable giant mess that no one can use..

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Living Room / Invitation to Programmers who want to review Programming Components

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 12:37 AM »

I'm interested in trying to start doing some reviews here of programming components.. activex, .net, delphi/c++builder.

Are there any programmers who would be interested in writing such review or manageing such a review section?  We'd want to carry over the same ideas from our main reviews, i.e. comprehensive identification of the best components in a given category.

[Like everything on this site, the primary drive to do these things should not be money or you'll be sadly dissapointed; rewards would be same as for everything else on this site, encouragement of people to donate to support your work, any ad revenue from those pages, free copies if they were donated, any money from syndication of reviews..]

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General Review Discussion / Reviews - syndicating to magazines?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 12:32 AM »

Relipse made a good suggestion to me, and others have brought this up in the past -
the idea that maybe we should try to find a print magazine partner that might want to run our reviews.

i don't really see any harm in this and it would be a nice way to get the reviewer some extra payment for their work.

any thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Personal Translation/Dictionary/Thesaurus Software?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2005, 12:18 AM »

i think this is really 2 dif kinds of programs, translators and dictionaries.
i've never seen a program that was good at both.

i love to see dictionary and translator reviews, hint hint.

ps.
doing a big long review is probably a good way to get a free copy; certainly the reviewer would be the first inline for such a donated copy.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Work-Mode Lock

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 11:50 PM »

should i move this to coding snacks section, seems like a good coding snacks request.

i think this would be a fun idea and let me elabortate on some ideas.

what about if the gui for this had 3 listboxes:
1) list of running programs
2) apps marked as play
3) apps marked as work

then you can put the app into work mode and play mode
when it work mode it should bug you like mad when you launch playmode app.

maybe it could keep score for you in a nice display like
Time spent in work mode vs play mode (today / thisweek / this month).

just an idea.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some problems

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 11:08 PM »

ok i've added a flag to turn antialiasing on and off so as to make file saves look like screen.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Made with Screenshot Captor" object

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 10:55 PM »

i would love to have a collection of these to add to the next release.

stefan and and anyone else - care to make some? a variety of sizes and appearance is fine we can add a few.

i think they should also somehow say
"made with Screenshot Captor"

and if they also say "DonationCoder.com" that would be nice too, though it would be ok i think for some not to.

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Screenshot Captor / Keyboard shortcuts? (photoshop/paintshoppro users especially)

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 10:53 PM »

i'd like to add some keyboard shortcuts - not go crazy but some useful ones.
i'd like to use some standards so if people want to let me know some common ones not yet in screenshot captor that they'd like to see i'd appreciate it.

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Official DonationCoder.com Reviews / Re: Best Anti-virus

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 02:46 PM »

antivir has quite good resident protection - it's my favorite free antivirus.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 09:16 AM »

ok carol is right, with the info on the other page above,
it should be possible to do what i want in a three step process
1) render text into image at something like 72 point and have it autosize the image to fit the font.
2) shrink the image if its too big to fit on desktop target size
3) put the image on a nice background.

i think this would be a very useful front end commandline tool to use with imagemagick...
anyone want to give this a shot before i do?

here's what i was thinking: commandline tool
MakeTextImage myimage.bmp -x 1600 -y 1200 -t "Text to display\nLine two of text"
or
MakeTextImage myimage.bmp -x 1600 -y 1200 -f testfilename.txt

would be nice to have options also for font and colors.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 09:04 AM »

that's exactly what i want, except i need to be able to have it figure out pointsize based on text.  but that is damn nice and maybe good enough with a little bit of guesswork.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: $6 fellowed paper shredder at office depot

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 07:25 AM »

looks like $60 to me..
that might be good price for a paper shredder, i don't know...

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 06:37 AM »

great find!
going to check those out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A few new programs

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 06:32 AM »

i think you need to start "Eingame 3d"!

ok maybe not..

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General Software Discussion / Re: A few new programs

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2005, 03:52 AM »

hi relipse old buddy
glad you could make it to our forum ! took you long enough.

i have to say i still have a fondness for your eingame just for its pure strangeness

was just playing thinkfast and i like it!!!
but i got a negative score

glad to see you here, hope you hang out a little.

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 11:11 PM »

color lasers have come really far in recent years, but you still probably wouldn't want to use one to print pictures, just keep that in mind.
fine for color charts and stuff though.

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 09:22 PM »

you might do like this:
buy a cheap laser printer for printing papers.
buy a cheap ink jet for occassional photos.

i would rather do that then try to buy a highend inkjet.

the lower end ink jets are extremely good, and most of the price is the ink, so if you dont use it much it should be very cheap.

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2005, 06:38 PM »

well maybe i spoke too generally but -
i print out TONS of academic papers, and the idea of using an inkjet for that is just not pleasent.

laser printer text looks better, its faster, cheaper, more reliable, less smudging, etc.

so for pure text, which is what i use 99% of the time, i use a laser printer.