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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:54 AM »

jibz just gave me an alternate email regular expression alias you can use if you dont want to be bothered typing in "email xxxxx" and would prefer just to be able to type in someones email adress to create a mail to them:
just copy this and go to Group Alias tab, right click and say "Pase Preformatted Alias Group" and paste it in:

1000>>>email3>->email $$1 | mailto:$$1>+>^(\w+(?:\.\w+)*@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)

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DesktopCoral / Re: Help

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:39 AM »

it does exactly what you say already with regard to saving settings, but someone else had this problem too that it wasn't saving them.  i will have a new version of desktop coral up this weekend and hopefully it will fix these issues.  if you are willing to test and report back that would be great!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:07 AM »

see my separate post with a sample command file to import.

in the future these commands and MANY more will come pre-installed in F&R, so this is just a teaser.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:05 AM »

btw if you ever forget what commands are available, you can get a list of them by typing (stands for allgroups):
agroups

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Find And Run Robot / IMPORTANT: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:02 AM »

OK,
all the questions about can you use F&R to go to websites, launch email,etc.

I've made a little sample alias file you can import in.

In the next major release of F&R it will come with these and many other commands already configured.  and of course you can always write your own.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1) click to download the file: https://www.donation...wnloads/aliases2.ini
2) go to F&R options, and from Import&Export menu, choose import and then browse to and select that aliases.ini file


close the options.  youl now have some new commands in your F&R:

imdb -> to get info on web about a movie just type: imdb [MOVIENAME]
search -> to run one of several web searchs just type: search [SEARCH WORDS]
define -> to run a web dictionary search on a word type: define [SEARCH WORDS]
www -> to go to any site just type the site url (for example www.donationcoder.com)
music -> search for info about any band or artist type: music [BAND NAME]
email -> begin an email to someone type: email [EMAILADDRESS]
email -> begin an email to someone and specify subject type: email [EMAILADRESS s=SUBJECT]
paste -> paste date or time into current program type: paste (then choose from menu)
run-> to run any program on your computers search path: run [PROGRAMNAME]


thanks to nontroppo's opera page for some of these.

note the some of the above will show you full menus of choices, like the search and define commands.
you can easily add your own stuff to these from the Options-> Groups tab.


let me know if this works for you and how you like it!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Menu / Tray / Settings => sync problem

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 08:33 AM »

thanks for the bug report about tray menu sync.

in my struggles to tweak the left hand thumbnail browser it seems a recent change has caused problems with it again.

those who have followed discussions know that this thumbnail browser has been a constant source of struggle and i am trying to replace it; thats probably whats causing your file save errors also.  im going to test and see if i can at least get it back to where it was before asap, and then try to replace it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 06:00 AM »

just to give you some idea of the flexibility of F+R,

in addition to making a rules so that you can type in any url to visit it with your browser you could also do something like make an alias group with 4 different browsers listed, so you could just type a url and then hit the key corresponding to which browser you wanted to use to surf there.  i know its not useful for many, but thought id mention it

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 05:58 AM »

you absolutely can - i posted an alias rule for it earlier.

i will include a bunch of useful aliases in the next major release.

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Find And Run Robot / Another related app : Mayk

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 05:32 AM »

freeware

http://www.beotel.net/~darkdst/

[found via ShellCity.net]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Controlling hotkeys

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:39 AM »

i'm trying to remember how systemwide hotkeys work -
won't it remove itself on reboot?

there are freeware tools to list all the systemwide hotkeys and remove them -
that seems a better solution than reinstalling.

i can't remember any at the moment but would love to hear a report if you find one that works well.
could be useful in other occassions too.

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Unicode Image Maker / Ascii art

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:36 AM »

previous thread mentioned wanting to use Text-to-image with ascii art.

as was pointed out to me, the way to display ascii art is to choose a proper font. specifically try the font:
TERMINAL

below see an example of ascii art in default ARIAL font and then in TERMINAL font:

(ill be adding quick button to change into terminal font in next version for exactly this purpose).

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft and RealNetworks have settled,almost a merger.

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:11 AM »

as someone who has been a fan of Real for a while, i'm happy to see this got settled.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 10:33 PM »

very useful comments and i think very wise advice that mirrors my thinking.

people seem to like the low footprint of F+R and i think any constant monitoring of keyboard would be counter to what F+R users want, so all of those features are going to be left out of F+R.

the only thing i'll mention is that F+R now has (though we need to include a bunch of prewritten commands to make it a lot easier to use) a full system for supporting commands to:
launch web searches and any other kind of web-based stuff like dictionary lookups, etc., start mail messages, paste boilerplate text after selecting items from a menu, etc.

so i think in the area of the flexibility to launch certain kinds of commands and stuff that F+R might have the most to gain from looking at what ActiveWords did right, though the triggering system in the two cases is different.

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Post New Requests Here / Movies of coding snacks.

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:42 PM »

movies of coding snacks..

i was thinking it might be nice to have very short simple screencasting movies of coding snacks that get written -
especially skrommel's coding snacks.

if anyone decides this is something they would like to do, there is our screencasting review (https://www.donation...index.php?board=41.0) and some good free tools, and we'd be willing to give anyone who decided to take on this job as a regular task a gift of BB FlashBack or another commercial screencasting tool.

or if skrommel himself would like such a tool to make movies of his tools he is welcome to a copy of bb flashback, just ask.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Registry Cleaning Software

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:29 PM »

bottom line:
treat a registry cleaner like working with dynamite, be very very very careful with what you delete, and don't let it delete anything that you aren't convinced is really junk.  when in doubt, LEAVE IT in your registry.

i would go with the registry cleaner that is most conservative and least aggressive, and most able to explain what it intends on deleting and why and makes it easiest to decide whether something is safe to remove.

again getting back to carol's problem, a registry tool backing up your settings is not quite as helpful as it might sound at first.
because once you start installing new programs, you can't simply "roll back" your registry without breaking stuff you've done since the backup.
a good idea might be to run a full system backup (drive image),
then do your registry cleaning
then make a real effort to test your computer and make sure there are no issues.

and again, be conservative in cleaning your registry!


ps.
i've yet to see a single real quantitative report about the "gains" of having a "cleaner" registry.

having a clean registry brings peace of mind to those who like to "know" that their registry doens't have so much junk it in.

can anyone show me something concretely showing any real benefit from it though?

if not, then good advice is to treat your registry like that closet filled with spiders in the basement, just don't go in there.  let the spiders live in peace.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Registry Cleaning Software

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:27 PM »

This point by carol bears repeating:

You may not have experienced problems (in which case you are very lucky in my experience) or, more likely, you may have only experienced the problems some time later and lost the association with registry cleaning.

this is what is so damn dangerous about using something like a registry cleaner -
you may cause a subtly problem that you don't notice for weeks or months... then suddenly you realize that double clicking on a pdf file results in a game of solitaire starting up.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Idea - Weighted Audio Inputs

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:22 PM »

not sure i understand clearly the request.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Macro programs - advice sought...

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:21 PM »

johk (and any other Activewords users) - im really interested in hearing about where Activewords is better then Find+Run Robot.
If you have any thoughts on it, would love to hear about it on the Find+Run Robot section of the forum.

there isn't a perfect overlap in the programs, as there are probably things that ActiveWords does that Find+Run Robot doesn't want to try to do, but i know there is a lot of common ground and I'd like to hear about any areas that ActiveWords users think F+R could be improved.

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Living Room / Website for Cats!

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 04:28 PM »

"Is your cat fascinated with movement on your computer screen?
Well, it's about to get a lot worse.
Congratulations!  You've found the worlds first website for cats!  "
 

http://www.cattv.com/catwebsite.htm

[found via cynical-c blog]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunch of neat and fun freeware apps

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 03:01 PM »

something i noticed:
if you hold mouse over any icon on the site youll get  a description of what the prank app does.

great collection of funny utils.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunch of neat and fun freeware apps

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 02:59 PM »

wow !!! great find!!!!

that site is definitely one to bookmark for when you are in the mood for some mischeif

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Living Room / Re: Thinking about a DonationCoder.com fundraising thing and a celebration..

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 02:05 PM »

i thought of another possible real benefit of ads (again remember they would only normally be shown to non-members), which is that as more authors join the site, any ad revenue on their pages can go directly to them, so this could potentially offer a way to share some revenue more easily with other coders.  same thing with reviewers - im quite willing to have any ad revenue from review pages go to the reviewer - and this could really be a nice way to suplement any donations that a reviewer would be likely to get.  this could be a really nice thing actually.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: You need to make a selection first?

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 01:02 PM »

do you have "auto zoom to selection" checked in your "on capture" tab of options by any chance?

i'll fix it so it doesnt complain in an update tonight.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: You need to make a selection first?

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 01:00 PM »

i was just about to say this is crazy,
BUT
i'll bet i know the problem..

i'll bet you have some automatic action selection in the "on capture" tab of options that requires a selection -
a new change i made, and its causing the error!

let me play around and find which one might be doing it and repost. and then upload a fix.

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Living Room / Re: SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK - SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK - SIGN YOUR YEARBOOK!!!

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 10:40 AM »

come on people, if you are an honorary or charter member and haven't set an avatar image for your forum identity or haven't set a supporter yearbook quote, get with the program!!!!





Click this link to go to your forum profile:

https://www.donation...ofile;a=forumProfile

and then click on "Forum Profile Information" on the left hand side (see picture below).

Your yearbook quote is at the very bottom of the page, and your avatar image configuration is at the very top, it's just that simple.