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Living Room / "Making your software lovable.."

« Last post by mouser on November 02, 2005, 02:11 AM »

http://www.devsource...,1895,1880673,00.asp

"..Every developer wants her application to be loved by the users. Here are a few tips that can help you make that happen..."

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General Software Discussion / Re: Find words as you type - on the fly searching, almost anywhere

« Last post by mouser on November 02, 2005, 01:25 AM »

nice find - some other good soft (freeware + shareware) on the flashpeak site as well.

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Official Announcements / Re: Welcome Skrommel Into Official Software Pages!

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 07:02 PM »

that works too of course

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Living Room / Re: Dead Motherboard....maybe....what do you think?

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 05:00 PM »

it sounds like motherboard.

mobo companies seem to be good about this stuff, you call them, they send you a new one, often before they even get back the old one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ta-da List - nice online to-do list

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 04:02 PM »

whiteboard looks actually quite good and the kind of thing i was looking for for our collaborativet writing;
the big brother versions look even better but are way to expensive.
i'm going to try it a bit more.

a big drawback for us (though would be a real advantage to some), is that it's a remote app hosted by them, which means we get locked into them pretty much once we start, and we don't have the kind of control to customize things that are possible when applications are run on our own server.  i'd love to find an open source tool like this that i could install on the dc server.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Confessions from a Wiki Hater ??!?

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:51 PM »

i am going to set the collaborate button above to go back to the wiki for now..

It's the only tool I've found that allows the kind of collaborative editing that we are after, and i think brotherS may be right that we won't need more fine grained access control than simply limiting it to members of the site..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Find words as you type - on the fly searching, almost anywhere

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 02:32 PM »

yeah it's a pretty impressive program but too expensive.

i hope that clipboard help+spell will eventually perform the ability to spell in any control similarly to as-u-type.

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Living Room / Re: great read - "Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far"

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 02:14 PM »

antivirus blog points out how actually dangerous this kind of drm thing can be:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 01:42 PM »

never heard of scandir before - looks like its worth a try..

i couldn't use x-find if it still looks like this: http://www.xteq.com/...oducts/xfnd/xfnd.jpg

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 01:41 PM »

speaking of agent ransack, we may have a few copies to give away this month of it's bigger non-free brother, FileLocator Pro:
http://www.mythicsof...m/flpro/default.aspx

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Living Room / Re: Dead Motherboard....maybe....what do you think?

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 01:39 PM »

i had a machine that wouldnt post at all until i reseated memory about 10 times -
then it never had a problem again.  so i'm VERY suspicious always of memory, and reseating memory is always first thing i try.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to? shortcut on desktop to open URL in NEW window

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

javascript to open window:
http://www.javascrip...net/faq/openinga.htm

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Folder Cleaner

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

i love this idea for a reall flexible clearning system -
personally i'd also love to see it so you could right click on a directory and apply the rules,.

and most of all i'd like to get a report in the form of a checklist before it actually does anything, so i could unselect stuff i didn't want deleted.

i've seen some related programs for cleaning temporary program files - if you find a good solution let us know.

definitely sounds like a nice utility for someone looking for something to program, though might be a bit bigger than a coding snack, at least what i'm thinking about.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to? shortcut on desktop to open URL in NEW window

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 01:05 PM »

on a web page you would add:
location="top" to the href, but i'm not sure you can do that in a shortcut.

another good solution would be that you could make your shortcut to a tiny .js javascript file that just opened a web page on a new page.  that should work well.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Can´t get license key so i quit this damn page

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 01:00 PM »

i guess i can sympathize with him since i'm also one of those people that doesn't tend to ask for help and is quick to reach maximum frustration stage.. just ask my neighbors when they heard me cursing out the computer at the top of my lungs at 3am. 

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Official Announcements / Re: Welcome Skrommel Into Official Software Pages!

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 12:48 PM »

i had too many m's in the link to skrommel's page the first time, fixed now:
http://donationcoder.com/skrommel

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Living Room / great read - "Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far"

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 12:46 PM »

Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

http://www.sysintern...-digital-rights.html

from the blog by sysinternals guy:

Given the fact that I’m careful in my surfing habits and only install software from reputable sources I had no idea how I’d picked up a real rootkit, and if it were not for the suspicious names of the listed files I would have suspected RKR to have a bug...

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Living Room / Re: Dead Motherboard....maybe....what do you think?

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 12:44 PM »

i sympathize with the frustration you must be facing - my very limited experience putting pcs together is that somethings things work great right from the start, and sometimes you get unlucky and have to struggle with the frustration of trying to figure out what is wrong.

the cause of your problem could really be anything, but the standard approach is the same - you want to replace components one by one and see if you can isolate the problem.


given the description of your problem i'd suspect cpu+memory first.


it could be an overheating thing - make sure the cpu fan is running when you turn the machine on.  remove the memory sticks and put back only on stick - try a different slot.  maybe try with no memory at all and see if you can get the bios to post reliably.

if you have another cpu, try replacing that.  same with graphics card.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Auto-synchronize FTP folders with HD folders?

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 07:42 AM »

might also be worth a try:
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: NEW: Getright Pro Update with Bit Torrent Support

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 06:29 AM »

yeah, i wouldn't call it counterproductive, but i would call it VERY unlikely to ever be of use.

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Official Announcements / Re: New Software Release (11/01/05) - Piper

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 05:28 AM »

haahahahaha how did i know you were going to say that...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free pack of HP Paper

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 04:46 AM »

nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Find words as you type - on the fly searching, almost anywhere

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 04:46 AM »

I've long been looking for something that could spell-check on the fly, anywhere where text is entered..

http://www.asutype.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Expand Your Vocabulary

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 04:16 AM »

i wouldn't necesarily trust download.com but interlex looks very nice.

Webpage : http://www.vocab.co.uk/

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Official Announcements / Re: New Software Release (11/01/05) - Piper

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:49 AM »

I'm also very happy to announce that Jibz now has his own software section on the DonationCoder.com software hub:
http://donationcoder.com/jibz

Please consider making a donation to jibz to welcome him to the site.


Allow me to express some personal thoughts.

I met Jibz over 2 years ago on irc, talking about c++ and compression.  We ended up collaborating on a fun open source project called Octane (Open Compression Toolkit: http://octane.sourceforge.net/).  Everyone who knows jibz seems to regard him with a kind of reverance.  He's one of the most soft spoken, professional people you'll meet, with an endearing perfectionist streak.

He's also one of the most generous programmer's I know, and his help in getting DonationCoder.com off the ground has been invaluable.  I'm not sure this site would have ever started if not for his encouragement and support.

Thanks, Jibz.