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Official Announcements / Re: Working to improve speed of the forum/site - UPDATED 10/26/05 - READ IN

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2005, 08:31 AM »

I've just gotten confirmation that our new dedicated hosting account has been activated, and I will be mirroring the site on the new computer in the next couple of days.

This is so exciting - a dedicated server is a big deal! 

Hopefully soon the site will be smooth like butter 

I'll post more details as I make progress in moving the site to the new computer.

Thanks to everyone who has donated to the site so far - your donations have made this possible.   

though I note that this new dedicated server is a huge financial leap and in order to keep it we need to have a good month of fundraising in november and get enough people who want to join in the webhosting project.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2005, 08:24 AM »

in newspaper writing they call this "burying the lead" (http://en.wikipedia....rg/wiki/News_writing).

and i should know, i do it a lot 

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Living Room / Re: Enhanced supporters yearbook

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2005, 08:20 AM »

i like the idea of having a link to the supporter yearbook on the homepage.

and i think having a link from yearbook avatar to the person's (public) profile page sounds like a good idea too.  how exactly should we do the link? right now clicking on name or avatar brings you to person's webpage if they have one.  should we have these go to profile instead of webpage, or have one go to one and another go to the other? or add an additional little icon on yearbook when they have a website or something?

i will look into different optional viewing modes for it, including alphabetical and paged (i.e. split them into pages); i'm not sure yet how hard that will be to do.

there is a feature that lets you view from profile to view all posts by that person - but i'm not sure it's enabled for you guys/gals - is it?

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

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2005, 08:10 AM »

that looks quite useful..

It took me a minute after reading your post to realize which program you were actually recommending   
In case others have same confusion as me:

HandyFind -> http://www.handykeys.com/

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Finished Programs / Re: simple tool needed: start x.exe in y seconds

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2005, 07:29 AM »

i'd like to hear about a simple program for this as well - surely autohotkey would  be overkill.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 09:09 PM »

that first one is pretty damn cool - actually made me break out laughing.. 

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the QuickZip Joseph Leung ^_^

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 06:46 PM »

quickzip entry has been revised by me (zaine may have more revisions later):

https://www.donation.../index.html#quickzip

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Screenshot Captor / Re: License Key browse problem

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 05:50 PM »

you're right, i'll see if i can fix for next version.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 11:37 AM »

http://robert.accett...nt-go-with-bugzilla/

i think we will probably go with Mantis

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Living Room / Re: Some ideas to help do more full length reviews..

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 10:40 AM »

and another advantage of using a wiki for storing info about the alternative programs is it would be easier for people to add info after the review goes live.

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ProcessTamer / Re: priority settings question 2

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 10:24 AM »

garnet - i just visited your site - i love the collages!
are those your pieces?

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ProcessTamer / Re: priority settings question 2

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 10:09 AM »

again, a video editing pro will be able to talk for hours about tweaks and optimizations,

but the simplest path to best gain in performance wrt hard drives is probably just to have 2 so that your temp files are on a separate drive from working files, or so that you can have source on one drive and target file on another.  and having a very fast drive (sata would be nice) would make a big difference as well.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some problems

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 08:29 AM »

quick update, #1 and #2 above have been fixed, will be in next version updated today; looking at other problems now.

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Mouser's Zone / Bug Tracker - How to Submit Bug Reports and Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 08:08 AM »

We are going to install a bugtracker system at DonationCoder, to make it easy to submit and track bug reports and feature requests.
Anyone want to suggest their favorite (open source) tool for this?

Here's one brotherS was telling me about on irc channel, seems pretty good:
http://bugs.miranda-im.org

The tracker will be used by all software on our site and provide a uniform interface for tracking issues on all of our programs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Managing Favourites

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 06:40 AM »

great post patteoks,
this ability to quickly add a bookmark with comments and keywords from the browser itself sounds like exactly the right way things shoud be done.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Send screenshot via email?

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 06:31 AM »

blat looks very useful - thanks stefan!

i wonder if it would be better to have a util that sends it directly, or one that opens up the computer mail program and starts off a message.. i guess finding a solution for both methods would be nice..

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Screenshot Captor / Send screenshot via email?

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2005, 12:28 AM »

Before i write an email function to mail a screenshot to someone,
does anyone know of an existing commandline tool that could be configured using the tool menu?

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General Software Discussion / Simpletidy - html cleaner

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 09:28 PM »

for those of you who work on web pages, one of the more frustrating things is that there can be erros in the html code that makes it not quite up to standards compliance, and yet it looks ok to you in the browser, although you might have trouble in the future or in another browser.

here's a nice little freeware mentioned on fileforum today, Simpletidy:

http://kotisivu.dnai...umpu1/simpletidy.htm

sounds nice and simple and useful:

• Cleans your HTML code
• Convert your webpages to wellformed XHTML 1.0 strict
• Cleans Microsoft code
• Shows validation errors and warnings
• Drag and drop from Explorer
• Freeware

makes use of the open source htmltidy code, which is a good thing.  definitely a nice tool for your web design toolbox.

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Living Room / Re: Some ideas to help do more full length reviews..

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 07:40 PM »

right, the wiki would not be the final review - i was only playing with the idea that as a group we could fill in pages for all the apps in the category, with different people adding info about each app and screenshots, and people adding opinions, and then one person writing the review proper, using the wiki as a kind of appendix of sorts...

the only thing this raises is again the same issue with the blogs and the issues raised with wikis in the past, and that is, would we be better off just using the forum for this.. and i think the answer may be yes..

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Living Room / Re: Some ideas to help do more full length reviews..

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 05:41 PM »

hmm.. maybe we could use a wiki for this...
so that different people could add a different page for different apps in a category, with their opinions?

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Official Announcements / Carol Haynes First Column - Great read for new web site builders

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 04:11 PM »

Please welcome Carol to the blog columns - her first post is a terrific discussion of getting started building websites:

https://www.donation...om/Columns/mts/b_dc/

really a great read 

--

not to plug this too much, but in the next week or two we will be pooling our money to provide cheap+superior web hosting for our members, so this is a great way to learn about the kinds of things you can do on a site and how to write and maintain your pages.
(for more info see https://www.donation...index.php?topic=1261)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS - Program Goals

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 12:55 PM »

i should say though that i find it does help me to keep talking about longterm goals and interface and organization, because it shapes design decisions earlier on.

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ProcessTamer / Re: priority settings question 2

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 12:45 PM »

i'm not an expert in such things, but there are a few hardware things that you should consider:
1) make sure you have plenty of ram (1gb)
2) get yourself a nice hard disk for video; sata or scsi hd, separate from the operating system hard drive.
3) fast modern cpu.

keep in mind i dont have any experience in video editing, these are just some things that seem likely to me to yield the biggest payoff in terms of bang for the buck.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS - Program Goals

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 11:34 AM »

stefan - cool new sc watermark

try this great png optimizer for irfan view:
http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS - Program Goals

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2005, 11:33 AM »

I figured it would be easier to get the backbone in place, then work on the clipboard stuff

this is generally true kfitting, but in this case i think its most important to get these features in asap even if it means a little more work later to move the clipboard stuff to a more independent module.


stefan - yes exactly, an easy paste screen is on the short list.