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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF Explorer

« Last post by kfitting on October 05, 2005, 05:52 AM »

Anyone use it yet?  I'm going to give it try soon, but just wondering if anyone has experience with it.

Kevin

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General Software Discussion / Re: top 10 freeware apps from "snakeoillabs"

« Last post by kfitting on October 05, 2005, 05:50 AM »

Also, there's Bulk Rename Utility by Jim Willsher.  Regex renaming and more!

http://www.bulkrenam...co.uk/Main_Intro.php

Kevin

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General Software Discussion / Re: How i organize my email

« Last post by kfitting on October 04, 2005, 07:55 AM »

Once I started using Opera's email.... good bye manual organization!  Opera's folders are merely database filters in disguise.  There is no more moving mail around.  Just make a filter and Opera takes care of the rest.  Though I havent done it, you can also have Opera make up a filter as you drag messages into it.  No need to worry if making a new rule should copy or move the message because the message is not copied or moved!  Thus, you can make rules without cluttering up your harddrive (with redundant messages) or yanking a message out of a current folder and (notice the boolean logic here!) you can tell the same email to be shown in as many filters as you wish.  I come to work and try to use Outlook (no choice.... silly government)  and cant stand having to make all these arcane rules just to manage my email.  I will admit, Opera lacks a few features I would like, such as formatted emails (maybe I just dont know how to use it properly, but I cant find this feature), but the low organization requirement is so nice.  Mark an email as read... and you're done!

Kevin

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some Performance Questions and Suggestions

« Last post by kfitting on October 03, 2005, 10:50 AM »

What's one more option?   Heh heh, I'd be willing to give it a try if that's the cause of the slowdown.  FindRun takes 5 meg of memory while open on my machine.  I would however make the option well documented so people would not get all excited by this "low footprint" app taking up "so much" memory  (for people like me, in other words!).  But, I'd be willing to put up with some more memory usage.

Kevin

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some Performance Questions and Suggestions

« Last post by kfitting on October 03, 2005, 09:45 AM »

While I do not have any hard data, I was wondering if there was any way to speed up FindRun upon hitting the pause/break key.  It seems to take a second or two, during which you cant type any search characters in.  Just wondering.... version 1.0.67.43.678.07.18 works great so far!

Kevin

edit: Actually the memory cache would be interesting... especially if it went away when FindRun was minimized.  Memory usage doesnt matter while FindRun is up and working.

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Living Room / Re: Making websites, for complete beginners

« Last post by kfitting on September 30, 2005, 06:07 PM »

Similar to Frontpage but free: NVU (http://www.nvu.com/).  Frontpage makes some pretty lousy html, though it does seem to be easy to use.  I used AceHTML before (its not WYSIWYG, but it allows easier hand coding).  I havent done any html in awhile though...

Kevin

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature Request

« Last post by kfitting on September 30, 2005, 08:49 AM »

I would agree with your 6 priorities... they are the reasons I am not using CHS full time.  I would also add basic format support since you are intending to capture RTF data (both in the batch modify tool and the editor window).  But, beyond that, those are the fundamentals.

Just a thought, nothing that needs to be determined just yet, but if you are eventually going to make CHS more database generic, you may want to start making the CHS backend less clipboard specific.  This is based on my assumption that CHS is specific to clipboard database things (which is based on how I code things... start specific, then try to kluge in more generic features later!).  It may be helpful to start breaking those links now while focusing on only one type of database.  This would help troubleshooting.  Like I said, just a thought and probably more involved than I realize!!

Kevin

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Feature Request

« Last post by kfitting on September 30, 2005, 07:58 AM »

I'm in the process of doing a bunch of copy/pasting from the internet into my hierarchical-tree-note program of choice (Keynote ) and I was wondering if you could make the text pane more editor-like.  Currently you can do a fair amount of text editing in CHS's window, but when you bring in portions of webpages from the internet, they dont copy well and you have to go back through and change the formating.  I know, you can do this in the app you are pasting to, but CHS already has some cool batch features like removing linebreaks, whitespace, extra characters, etc.  It seems kind of silly to use two different apps to collect data.  In particular, the editing window graphic bug gets annoying (the one I mentioned earlier that caused garbled text after scrolling or heavy editing). 

I know, I know, this points in favor of making CHS into a full fledged note program.... and I agree.  And, since I've been looking around at the relative lack of progress on these apps maybe another one wouldnt be a bad idea!  There are many out there but they all lack at least one major component.  (Major component being, but not limited to, the following: intermediate text editing, table support, picture support, and perhaps the most often overlooked, full-featured import/export (if I can put the data in, I will more than likely want to pull it out again!). 

So, just making this request for whenever you ramp up development on CHS again!

Kevin

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Clipboard Help+Spell / New Program Found...

« Last post by kfitting on September 23, 2005, 07:14 PM »

Well, it's new to me!  mouser, this appears to be very similar to what you and I have been talking about regarding CHS... no, it doesn't do mind-mapping   But, it looks like a seriously well thought out program and has an excellantly clean interface.  Check it out here:

http://www.neomem.org/neomem.htm

Don't just look at the screenshot, it's got a ton of features.

Kevin

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ProcessTamer / Re: ok finally about to do a round of work on Process Tamer - make your requests now

« Last post by kfitting on September 23, 2005, 09:12 AM »

One thing I've been wondering... could you make it easy to see all processes being tamed by Process Tamer?  Right now, mousing over the tray icon sometimes shows one process being tamed... sometimes it doesnt.  Perhaps a pop-up like you have for your reminder to register would work.  Just some way to look at all tamed processes without opening the program window.

Kevin

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and BBLean — some incompatibility issues

« Last post by kfitting on September 18, 2005, 02:30 PM »

Hey mouser, in reading your last post I've got a question.  The third option only applies in the "launch and stay open" mode?  It won't cover if I launch an app, FindRun closes, and I reopen FindRun for another launch? 

Kevin

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Living Room / Re: calling all creative game inventing type people.. READ IN

« Last post by kfitting on September 17, 2005, 01:35 PM »

Sudoku = addictive.  Great mind-bender!!

Kevin

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Unfinished Requests / Re: [IDEA] Simply Desktop Calendar & To-Do List

« Last post by kfitting on September 17, 2005, 08:22 AM »

You may have already checked this out but Rainlendar does something like this.(http://www.ipi.fi/~r...p;project=rainlendar)

Kevin

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: AcdSee like program

« Last post by kfitting on September 15, 2005, 07:21 AM »

Unless you're not trying to further compress the files, but keep them all in one place... I've done it to send in an email... there may be other uses! 

I havent heard of any other program that does it, doesnt mean there isnt one out there though.  You may try putting in a feature request to XnView or FastStone authors. 

Kevin

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Anyone use FilZip?

« Last post by kfitting on September 13, 2005, 06:04 PM »

I use it... but I don't really use compression software all that much.  Basically, I just expand stuff I download from the internet and, every once in a while compress stuff.  Nothing fancy.  That being said, from what I've used of FilZip it is relatively simple to use, has good shell context menus, and doesn't seem terribly bloated.   As far as specific things you tested in the review, I don't really know! 

Kevin

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - Memory utilization

« Last post by kfitting on September 12, 2005, 07:18 PM »

Ok.... I think I did it.  Not real sure though...

Kevin

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA - Memory utilization

« Last post by kfitting on September 12, 2005, 10:52 AM »

Yeah, the GUI I understand... far better to get the core working before concentrating on looks! 

Regarding:

- Remembering settings: this is a highly important feature (though I understand the complexity involved!)  Could you maybe have an option to go off of a process name?  In many cases this would be enough (though, as you mentioned there are some that use the same name... but something would be better than nothing).  Or, is there a way you could work around it?  Like, being able to script UM so that it automatically grabs the next process that starts with a certain name.  This way, you could start UM and then start your program and it would automatically grab it.  Just some ideas.

- Alarms...  A two limit alarm sounds good to me.  The critical level is more for "hey, you're almost out of memory here!" or if you know a program crashes at a certain memory limit.  I dont know if you meant this, but another type would be one that changed based on some increment over a given time (like 10 meg/20 min).  This type of alarm isnt necessary for the CAD app, but it would probably come in handy for developers.  Would you be able to have both types working at the same time?  One other thing, could the position of the alarms be made customizable?  Once again, not a very important request, but it would be kind of nice to have some alarms come up in the center of the screen (like critical alarms).

- Customizable Alarms:  I agree entirely... as I said is was more of a joke type thing!

Any other questions on my questions/comments, let me know.

Kevin

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: suggestions: what I would love in Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by kfitting on September 12, 2005, 09:50 AM »

While mouser is out of "down," a response to your questions (obviously, if mouser contradicts any of this... he's right!)

- Did you look at RAM usage while CHS was minimized or had a window open?  Remember, CHS is using a database component so RAM use will be higher than other apps.  But, while minimized (in the systray), I dont think it went above 8 meg and I thought it was down around 2-3.

- This pop up is coming... mouser is updating other programs and will be back to update CHS in the near future (near meaning when he gets to it).  Actually, if you read some of the other threads you will see that CHS will be getting quite a major overhaul!

- Ahhhh... new name... any suggestions?  There is a thread somewhere where people were trying to come up with new names.  Nothing stuck yet, so feel free to add your own suggestions.

Welcome to the forums and keep asking!

Kevin

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA - Memory utilization

« Last post by kfitting on September 12, 2005, 07:05 AM »

Gave the program a try this morning and took it over to the guys who had requested it... it does the job!  A few suggestions (you may already be working on these I dont know):

- The GUI is a little obtuse.  I didnt realize at first that you had to have UsageMon "running."  maybe putting a toolbar button or something so this is more apparent would help.  What are the other "set" commands (GDI, etc)?  Do they monitor other resources for each process?
- Could you make two alarms available?  One (a warning) at some limit, and then another one if the memory continues to climb past a second limit (less of a warning, more of an alarm... maybe center of the screen)?  See below for the reason why.
- Could you make UsageMon remember it's settings?  This way you could set it to monitor an exe and when you exited and restarted, UsageMon would be already configured to watch for the desired program.
- What is the refresh rate for updating the watched process?  It seems to be a little slow for when the process first goes above the threshold, after that, it's fine.  Could this maybe be an option? (Like from 1 to 30 seconds or something)
- Can the text of the alarm be customizable?  This is a very unimportant request... one of the guys at work just thought it would be funny to have a message like "You idiot, what are you doing?" 

Talking with our CAD admin (he's the one who came up with the request), what he would like to be able to do is put usagemonitor on someone's computer and have a script run it whenever our CAD software starts.  That's the reason for making UsageMonitor remember settings, or even be able to be programmed for certain settings.  Basically, he wants to make user interaction not necessary.  You start the CAD program and UsageMonitor goes to work.

The reason an alarm is needed is because some of our drawings use over 2 gigs of memory.  Unfortunately, the CAD program doesnt quietly tell you it's about to crap out on you because of a memory problem, it just exits!  That's the reason for the two alarms, one to say "hey, you're getting high," and a second to say, "you're about to blow." 


But, overall, the program works for what I had requested.  THanks a lot for giving your time to coding it!

Kevin

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Living Room / Re: Mouser will be out of down until Sept. 15

« Last post by kfitting on September 11, 2005, 01:36 PM »

Out of "down" ... roger that.

Kevin

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by kfitting on September 09, 2005, 07:27 AM »

i think the keyword here is 'optional'. if it doesn't interfere with the the find and run performance we've all come to love then it can't do any harm - can it?

-nudone (September 09, 2005, 06:37 AM)

Agreed.  I think maybe the best idea would be to forget skinnning for now, but code the program so it can be added relatively painlessly in the future.  If skinning could be added while allowing FindRun to optionaly remain in it's pure unadulterated form, it may be worth considering in the future and you wouldnt want to have burned your bridges before jumping off them. 

Kevin

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by kfitting on September 09, 2005, 05:39 AM »

Not really in favor of it... FindRuns is small and designed to only be shown for the minimal amount of time when it's used.  I know some people love skins and such.  If it doesnt add to memory footprint or cpu cycles I suppose it could be ok.  But it seems interface should take the backseat (as far as eyecandy is concerned... usability ought to be at the top!).

Kevin

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by kfitting on September 08, 2005, 04:48 PM »

And to think just two days ago I realized that home and end took you to the top and bottom of a page (opera 8.1).... oh well!

Kevin

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by kfitting on September 08, 2005, 03:58 PM »

Look in the light blue bar that runs across the top and bottom of the thread... there are "Go Up" and "Go Down" buttons in it.  Seems kind of nice.

Kevin

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Fix ReDownload of Incomplete Downloads

« Last post by kfitting on September 08, 2005, 10:11 AM »

I'm pretty sure resuming a download was an option decided by the server.... not the client downloading.  Therefore, certain files may not resume because the person setting up the server has not allowed resume and no amount of code on the client's machine will correct that.

Kevin