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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.
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Official Announcements / New Software Release (11/01/05) - Piper
« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:42 AM »
At long last, Piper, Jibz's plugin for TheBat! Email client is now available:

https://www.donation...ibz/Piper/index.html

This is a tool only for advanced users of TheBat!.  From the information on that page:

"Piper is a simple plug-in for The Bat! e-mail client. It provides a macro which can be used to execute an external program, capture the output, and insert it back into The Bat!"

I'll soon be posting a demo movie showing how useful Piper can be in using tools like our own program, TheFormLetterMachine.
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Official Announcements / Welcome Skrommel Into Official Software Pages!
« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:29 AM »
It's hard to imagine there was a Coding Snacks section without a skrommel, but there was..

We started the Coding Snacks section thinking we would try to do a couple requests a month, in some spare time.  The section proved to be a favorite part of the site, but we couldn't come close to keeping up with all of the requests.

Sometime in the middle of July appeared the first post by Skrommel, an autohotkey script to dim inactive windows, an interesting request that had been languishing.

Soon after that post came another and another, and soon it became hard to find a request that hadn't been implemented by Skrommel.  What was going on and who was this skrommel?  :tellme:

When he ran out of pending requests, to everyone's surprise, he delved into the requests that had already been parked in the coding snacks subsection devoted to rejected requests  :o

It's a constant pleasure to see his solutions and the names and icons he gives to them.  I know i'm not the only person who views his presence on the forum as one of the nicest surprises we've had since we started this place.



Skrommel has until now had a separate auxilliary page on a separate little site we made to host such things.

Today it gives me great pleasure to announce that we've incorporated his pages into the main site:
https://www.donation.../Software/index.html
http://donationcoder.com/skrommel

I think the best way you can welcome skrommel to the site is to go check out his new page and if you haven't already,
make a small donation to him to let him know you appreciate his work.

Thank you Skrommel for being a part of our site; it's our honor to have you here.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Weather Watcher 5.6 - now better than ever!
« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:02 AM »
Excellent.

An older version of Weather watcher was actually recommended by us in our review of weather tools:
https://www.donation...atherTray/index.html

the new version looks a lot nicer too!!
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Drupal Pages
« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2005, 03:00 AM »
The most immediate use we have been thinking about is as a tool for collaborative writing of Reviews.

That is, a place where many people can add content to about different programs so we can more easily build comprehensive reviews; different people might write up descriptions of different programs, etc.

It also might serve as an alternative portal for tracking feature requests and bugs, and an alternate way of hosting blogs where anyone on our site can write them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Ta-da List - nice online to-do list
« Last post by mouser on October 31, 2005, 07:41 PM »
nice finds!!
going to check those out now.
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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer affecting Internet connection?
« Last post by mouser on October 31, 2005, 04:55 PM »
are you asking if changing an app's priority could change the internet connection speed of that individual app?
it's possible that it might i guess, if its a very cpu/bandwidth intensive download or upload..
it certainly shouldn't effect the internet connection of any other program - at least it shouldn't make it worse.

i use pt to tame website watcher all the time when it does tons of internet traffic.. never noticed anything unpleasent though i have no idea if it's slowing down the connection.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Confessions from a Wiki Hater ??!?
« Last post by mouser on October 31, 2005, 12:12 PM »
after playing more with drupal i have to say it is not ideal for collaborative editing.
so i'm still really torn.

i think what this site would benefit from most is a kind of collaborative editing system that wiki is meant to be.. but i think our intended use (collaborative reviews) would really benefit from some more access control options, including who can edit which sections, upload file permissions, etc.
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Living Room / Flowchart and Diagramming Review
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 11:09 PM »
i have to tell you that this would be an incredibly useful review.
there are a lot of diagramming applications, and it's hard to know which one is best for which tasks, and they have a steep enough learning curve that it can be a really hard decision.  a nice comprehensive review with some advice for users would be *extremely* useful i think.  i myself would love to read this review.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Drupal Pages
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 10:43 PM »
i'm reading that mambo/joomla integrates much more easily with the smf forum system.. so i'm going to try a mamo install next.
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Living Room / Flowchart and Diagramming Review
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 10:41 PM »
sword i've been hard at work trying out content management systems like wiki, drupal, mambo, and i think this would be a perfect test case for building a hierarchical collaborative review.. let me just spend another day setting up another couple of tools, and we can see which one we think is best, and then maybe you would be willing to start off outlining this review using this new system? i think it would be very illuminating for us to see how well it suits such a task.
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Jibz's Tools / LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - PIPER - v1.04 , November 1, 2005
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 08:29 PM »
Piper is a plugin for RITLabs "TheBat" email client, which makes it easy to execute external programs and capture their output using macros when writing emails.

The Piper page is now up and you can download the first version of piper:
https://www.donation...ibz/Piper/index.html


ps. Works great with our own program, https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/TheFormLetterMachine/index.html.
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Jibz's Tools / LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DINA FONT - v2.88, October 30, 2005
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 08:28 PM »
The latest version of Jibz's Dina Font, for programmers, is now available:

https://www.donation...ther/Dina/index.html

Changes in this version:
Full bitmap fonts now included for bold and italics, at 8pt and 10pt.



ps. If you do any form of coding or html writing, you owe it to yourself to check out Dina.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Drupal Pages
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 06:40 PM »
cool, ill have to try it.

so many addon modules.. hard to know where to start.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: X Windows Style Death Mouse (xkill)
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 05:54 PM »
very nice idea - i think i will add this to the next release of process tamer.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Confessions from a Wiki Hater ??!?
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 05:53 PM »
i'm quite new to wiki so it's a little hard for me to compare;

there are some pages though:
http://wiki.bryght.c...iki/drupalwikirecipe
http://wiki.bryght.com/tags/wiki

i found this thread particularly useful in arguing pro and con:
http://drupal.org/node/15588
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Confessions from a Wiki Hater ??!?
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 04:20 PM »
i noticed some wiki addon modules for drupal -
that might be a good compromise.

having played with drupal for only a couple of hours though i have to say i am very taken by it and it just feels right to me.

there are things about wiki that i really really like, but so far i can't bring myself to accept the poor support for managing users and content that i've seen so far.

if we can find nice wiki + blog + issuetracking modules for drupal it may be the ideal solution.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Made with Screenshot Captor" object
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 04:17 PM »
i can imagine it must be difficult to make these readable at this size,
but i do agree they do need to somehow say "made with"
and "Screenshot Captor" with a bit of a space.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Drupal Pages
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 03:52 PM »
there seem to be a ton of module addons for drupal - i saw some with bbcode support, and wysiwyg editors..
and some graphics addon modules too.. i suspect we just need to explore it more.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for finance app
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 02:59 PM »
great thread.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Wiki
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 02:43 PM »
please see this post:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1362.0

i am considering removing the wiki and moving to drupal.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Bug Tracker + Feature Request System
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 02:43 PM »
please see this post: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1362.0

i am considering moving tracking to a drupal based solution.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: NEW SITE FEATURE: Drupal Pages
« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2005, 02:39 PM »
I think we may try to move all non-forum and non-main-site content to drupal, i.e. blogs, bug tracking, etc.
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