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General Software Discussion / Re: LogMeIn

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:53 PM »

that was the one i was having trouble remembering the name of.
lot's of people seem happy with UltraVNC.

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Living Room / Re: Acronis TrueImage version 9 now available - but be warned ...

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:22 PM »

Do commercial companies really release ALPHA software to the general public (the first version 9 download couldn't be consider even a beta release because so many of the functions didn't even have a stab at working).

one thing i've learned in talking to companies.. its completely impossible to predict which ones are professional and which ones are dysfunctional.  famousness of program is no guide.

The trouble is backup software is a tool that has to be 110% dependable - all the bugs, missing code, poorly thought out new 'features' leave you wondering if it is safe to use this software for critical backups.

very good point.  security soft and backup soft really need to be treated differently than other soft. you cant just release buggy versions of them.


i have personally advocated using different programs for these tasks.
i do a FULL IMAGE backup once per month.
and then do incrememntal backups of only my personal files every couple days.
i'd rather do that then incremental image backups of whole drive.
just my 2 cents.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Examples

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

see our review of screencasting tools
https://www.donation...enCasting/index.html

also see the recent post by cliff on an update on CamStudio which i would highly recommend you try:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=427.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:58 PM »

sure, that's a great idea.  btw the solution here is relevant for C++ Builder and Delphi.  It may not be direclty relevant for other languages that use the RichEdit control.

the first thing to realize is that it is a bug in the RichEdit control.

normally to set the text in a RichEdit control you could do this:

InfoText->Lines->Text=message;

instead i changed it to this:

InfoText->Lines->Text="";
InfoText->SelStart=0;
InfoText->SelText=message;

i also went into the properties for the RichEdit and changed MaxLength from 0 to 16000,
which should not be necesary but i figured i might as well.

the ideas to try these things came from google groups posts describing that RichEdit has some bugs that are triggered when you try to set text the normal way and that you should try setting it using SelText kludge.  Seems to work!

Thanks for helping me find this lanux, it really is appreciated since this could be a really nasty surprise for anyone trying to enter a license key in one of our programs!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Examples

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:10 PM »

Alias groups (sometimes i say "commands")  are one of the best feature of F&R, and you can find many threads on it in this section, but we really need to add some default ones to help people start using them.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Examples

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:07 PM »

this is good timing -
in the next week im going to be collecting some various "commands" that people (especially nontroppo) have given me and then i'm going to make those commands available which make it easier to do some special stuff with F&R, like run special web searches, etc.

and then i'm going to make a new demo movie of F&R showing most of this stuff in a useful way hopefully.

that should help show you how to get the most out of F&R.. but maybe other people can post some hints of how they use it so i can add their suggestions to the new demo movie.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Copying files, timestamp existing files and copy new ones in

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:04 PM »

thefritz i've been wanting such a tool as well for a long time!
i'm actually trying to get it put into our new ContextMenu Commander tool that will be coming soon - but if anyone knows of an existing shell extension that can do this i'd love to hear it.

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Living Room / Re: Worst Band Photos. Ever.

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:02 PM »

i don't think we are meant to recognize the bands (i know i don't); i think they are like pictures of unknown local bands and stuff.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: option to remove status bar?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 07:45 PM »

i also noticed that all skins get a bit messed up when you are in options changing the top+bottom placement of editbar.  i'll fix.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: option to remove status bar?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 07:44 PM »

skinnyitunes is looking great!
headers look great!

i was thinking maybe 2 things that would perfect it:
1) can the statusbar grip be moved a few pixels to the right?
2) maybe the titlebar icon at upper left is a bit cramped? maybe move it 1 or 2 pixels right and add a line of pixels above and below it (ie expand titlebar height by 2 pixels)

its good as it is, im just thinking of perfection

and can i include this skin in the default installation of F&R?

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General Software Discussion / Re: LogMeIn

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 02:00 PM »

Don't know LogMeIn.
i've used Remote Administrator and RemotelyAnywhere in the past and been quite happy with both (both commercial).

a lot of people seem quite happy with some open source VNC software.. i'll let them post about that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.12 brotherS bugfix edition - beta available now (10/01/05)

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 01:28 PM »

thanks for the kind words darklight..
yeah, sometimes i update a slightly newer version to fix some tiny thing after i post the release info and don't bother to update them if it's not really important.

2.00.13 is most recent (in about box); installer still shows 2.00.12

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UrlSnooper / Re: URL Snooper Update (v2.04.04)

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 01:03 PM »

maybe if you tell us the error we can help more,
and let us know if you get it figured out and how it works.

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UrlSnooper / Re: URL Snooper Update (v2.04.04)

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 12:59 PM »

all winpcap downloads are here (including full source code):
http://www.winpcap.o.../install/default.htm

theres a support faq here:
http://www.winpcap.org/misc/faq.htm

theres also an archive of support issues here:
http://www.winpcap.org/contact.htm

ps.
after you see this i will move this thread to the url snooper section of the forum.

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UrlSnooper / Re: New License Key Page now online !

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

UGH!!! SORRY!!!

thank you for the person that emailed me to point out that i typed one thing when i meant to type another.

i originally wrote:

ok first - there is mandatory donation required to get it to work.

everyone should know by now that there is NOT NOT NOT NOT a mandatory donation required to get any of the software here to work!

my apologies!!

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UrlSnooper / Re: New License Key Page now online !

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 10:58 AM »

ok first - there is NOT a mandatory donation required to get it to work.

what you are experiencing is most assuredly due to your intel adapter, and a very recent fix was put out for it.

read these threads:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=905.0
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1087.0

then download the latest version of url snooper here:
https://www.donation...loads/URLSnooper.exe

then make sure you go into the options tab and CHECK the box marked "Only scan from this computer (non-promiscuous)"

hopefully that should solve your problem 100%.

let us know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.20 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 10:16 AM »

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:54 AM »

th itunes skin also has a messed up skin for table headers when you mouse-over them, if that's correctable..

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Living Room / Re: strange RAM problem - any ideas?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:53 AM »

i don't see anything strange, but that other app that was taking 100% of your cpu could have messed things up.
i would also try running without the ram saver app.. who knows.

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Find And Run Robot / OLD FARR v1 - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.13.01 - October 8, 2006

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:51 AM »

download from program web page or summary download page.

Version 1.13.01 - Oct 08, 2006

• Hitting hotkey to switch to farr when its already visible but not focused will bring it to focus and no longer reset the search [requested by lanux and jgpaiva - https://www.donation...index.php?topic=5617] 
• Improved startup speed and efficiency. 

Older History:

Version 1.11.01 - Oct 02, 2006 - Beta

• Added option to try to keep program in memory for faster wakeup.
• Improved wakeup-search on alias, so it doesn't do further search in this case.
• Improved custom explorer/browser links to work even when there are spaces in path.
• Improved custom explorer/browser to allow custom launch strings with parameters.
• Improved (hopefully) some odd focus issues when working with options.
• Added Help item to tray menu.
• Attempting to improve catching of first key when window not yet visible.

Version 1.10.02 - Sep 19, 2006 - BETA

• Fixed bug when . character was in alias name [thx lanux and bugtracker submitter]. 
• Alt+P from farr edit box now shows options. 
• Confirmation is requested on deleting alias/scoring items. 
• Fixed bug where using digit keys to launch on non-standard keyboards could result in superfluous searching. 
• Added option to specify starting search text (useful for starting with an alias menu). 
• Changed default startup mode to tray based (use -standalone) to exit immediately after display. 
• Fixed bug in launching all results (Ctrl+Enter). 
• First attempt to improve some inefficiencies in launch display speed and focus grabbing. 
• Added experimental directory cacheing attempt (see General options) to reduce startup delay after long disuse.   

Version 1.09.04 - Mar 06, 2006

• Fixed bug that wasn't displaying all past history items on blank startup.
• Only keeps history of real files launched in the past (not aliases).
• Fixed bug when changing display options while skin activated - thx jgpaiva!

Version 1.09.02 - Mar 05, 2006

• Added a bunch of default aliases for internet searching, pasting common expressions, and more.
• Added the the FBSL calc exe and alias (thanks to the Freestyle Basic Script Language http://www.fbsl.net/phpbb2/index.php); see https://www.donation...index.php?topic=2344 for more informaiton.
• Fixed crashing bug with danish Jaws v6.0x screenreader (if anyone had any other odd shutdown crashes this might also fix)
• Ctrl+Space option for launching added
• Trying to remove the occasional "ding" sound on hitting enter to launch an application
• Option to launch programs with numpad keys
• All forms are skinned if skinning is enabled
• A skin is now configured as default.
• Options are saved on windows shutdown.
• Options button now directly opens options form (configure toolbar from that menu)
• Improved speed of startup and filechecking by limiting filechecking of initial history list.
• Added random startup statusbar hints
• Changed some of the default settings for new installations.

Version 1.07.20 - Oct 05, 2005
statusbar now reports total search time after search finishes
options to disable statusbar
options to show editbox at bottom
startup statusbar text now always shows welcome.

Version 1.07.19 - Oct 04, 2005
mailto: containing spaces in subject fixed
trying to fix lanux window sizing bug

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Living Room / Re: strange RAM problem - any ideas?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:22 AM »

GDI Objects and User Objects are columns in the table.

Youd want to look for any program with insane numbers like > 1000

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

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:14 AM »

nothing wrong with real alternative, but i'm just not a real player hater
i'ts always done right by me (once you turn off all the annoying stuff).

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General Software Discussion / NING - make your own web applications

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 09:00 AM »

This is getting a lot of play in the news lately, and was mentioned on slashdot:

http://www.ning.com/

Welcome to the Ning Playground BetaNing is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.
Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:52 AM »

i suppose it would be in bad taste to list donationcoder.com apps in my my top 10.. so here is my list after having removed any donationcoder.com apps:

1) Streambox Vcr
2) RealPlayer (i use #1 and #2 to keep up with politics at cspan.org)

3) dev-c++ (c++ ide)

4) inno setup (for building setup programs)

5) xnview or irfanview (graphics viewers)

6) ollydbg (debugger)

7) startup cop pro (probably any startup manager would suffice; this is only semi-freeware, as pc mag utilities are no longer easy to find+download)

AntiVir personal (antivirus, sometimes i use this instead of nod32)

9) perl+php (scripting languages)

10) smf forum software (ok not a windows program but still it deserves mentioning)

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Living Room / Re: strange RAM problem - any ideas?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 08:25 AM »

search for Leerlaufprozess and youll get about a million german hits saying (i'm guessing) the equivelant in german of:
"WTF IS LEERLAUFPROZESS AND WHY IS IT EATING UP ALL OF THE CPU!@$$@@#"