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Living Room / Re: Copyright legislation - Copying to an MP3 player becoming illegal !!!

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 08:29 PM »

it seems often that the question is not who is legally in the right, but who can afford the lawsuits.
again the little guy loses.

as for fighting the drm stuff - i suspect it is a losing battle.  big corporations have jus too much power.  i suspect we will see digital rights management hardware in all pcs/electronics soon.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Morse Code as You Type

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 08:28 PM »

i should also point out that the idea of having a program which can be configured to play specific sounds when specific keys are pressed (whether morse code or speaking the letter, which might be fun for kids) has been suggested in the past in our coding snacks section and still seems like a fun idea and a program we will eventually write as freeware if no one else here does it as a coding snack, and could easily be used to implement this morse code program as well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Morse Code as You Type

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 08:26 PM »

just my 2 cents:
1) the colorpilots (twopilots) site has some nice software, definitely worth checking out
2) the price $25 for the program does seem a bit high to me for what it does; and for some people $25 is not cheap.
3) the original idea for this was not taken from that program and was independent, and surely was thought of by many people before and after this program.
4) i don't see anything wrong with the idea of making an open source or freeware alternative to commercial software.. in fact i think it's an important thing.  by all means be respectful of citing existing work and crediting people where due, and be mindfull of borrowing ideas from others especially if they are especially unique ideas.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Usenet/NewsReaders — suggestions?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 08:08 PM »

interesting chart comparing newsreaders:
http://www.binaries4...eaders/overview.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Usenet/NewsReaders — suggestions?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 07:49 PM »

thanks jpfx i'm going to check out newspro.

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Living Room / Re: Copyright legislation - Copying to an MP3 player becoming illegal !!!

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 07:12 PM »

Mentioning software on a website could be considered advertising such products and hence illegal!

totally ridiculous and stupid and seems a clear infringement on free speech.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: suggestion: copy objects

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 07:04 PM »

yes definitely, i want this too
i will add it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [.13] there is no CANCEL in Settings dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:59 PM »

actually your suggestion is even easier than you say, since the settings arent saved immediately,
so on cancel i could simply reload the settings of interest from the last config file.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Poll] SC settings questions

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:27 PM »

let me think about default auto save.. im not sure what is best.

clipart dir button -> i will fix.
"Select the Image Editor Program" bug - i will fix.

looks like next release will be Stefan Bugfix Edition

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key-binding

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:25 PM »

it might be overkill to let people customize the hot key for bringing up preferences.
let's just figure out what to use.. maybe alt+z

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature req: disable hot keys

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:23 PM »

ok i can add this if people really need it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [.13] there is no CANCEL in Settings dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:23 PM »

yes, this is a flaw in my programs, i really need to start making the settings dialogs able to cancel without taking effect.
i'm afraid that its a bit hard currently to add that to my existing programs though

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request: flip and rotade

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:22 PM »

i will add flip.
i will look into fine rotate - might be a little bit hard.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [.13] failure 'cus old changes are not saved yet

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 09:50 AM »

ah i see what you mean - ok i will fix.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Examples

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 09:32 AM »

great

and don't forget to give us your suggestions and feature requests!

much of the recent additions to F&R Robot have been from suggestions from users like you who are interesting in maximizing efficiency and expanding the range of what F&R can do.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key-binding

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 09:29 AM »

im having second thoughts about adding like normal hotkey shortcuts like ALT+O for options, because i think we might want to add numbering results by letter like 1.9 A-Z and then letting ALT+letter or CTRL+letter launch.

how do you guys feelabout setting up a special alias group for internal stuff like options dialog.

so for example if you typed something like: options
then it would show a list of results like:
1) Find+Run Robot - Help File
2) Find+Run Robot - Options Dialog
3) Find+Run Robot - Configure Toolbar
4) Find+Run Robot - Visit Webpage

or is that too much typing just to get options?

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 08:40 AM »

textpipe really looks like a great application; probably even with a real discount it would be out of range for most of us but still any discount for our members would be welcome, and you might just make someone's day  

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UrlSnooper / Re: Finding exact URL

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 07:38 AM »

you are probably going to have to first upgrade to a media player which supports drm (license restricted files) and allow the mtv license to download.

you'll find several posts about recording stuff from mtv site here:
http://p082.ezboard....12.topic&index=6

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare File Properties

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 06:37 AM »

i think this is going to need a way to configure names of windows which should be excluded from processing.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Config always says Tray prog isn't running.

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 06:16 AM »

it sounds like the problem is that the program is not able to get a list of running processes on your computer, or something else which is completely rendering the program inoperable.

ill bet its not finding a dll or something that it needs and yet is not complaining but is just silently failin.

maybe i can make a test program to list processes running and you can try it and let me know what it displays?
i will try to add some error reporting to help find such problems in the next version which should be out in the next week or so.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 03:03 AM »

cool links, thanks stefan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Usenet/NewsReaders — suggestions?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:42 AM »

for reading text posts, NewsRover (version 11 just released); has great filter/search functions.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key-binding

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 01:02 AM »

good ideas all; i will add them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2005, 12:00 AM »

thanks dajo, i'm always overlooking the simplest solutions

but still i can't help but wonder if there are some existing tools that offer some more functionality i might not have even thought of yet..

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General Software Discussion / anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 11:08 PM »

anyone know a commandline tool to add a line of text to end of a text file?
e.g.

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addlinetofile.exe "c:\notes.txt" "this is a line of text to add"

i could code this easily enough and it would probably be 2 lines of perl but i wonder if anyone knows any existing tools to do this, maybe with some extra functionality?