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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the ALTools Evangelist :)

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2005, 04:09 AM »

what a fantastic post!

i have to say from my personal standpoint i find myself very close in position to ALTools, especially regarding the proprietariness of rar, and the bad things that brings, and the decreasing importance of compression ratio.

i think zaine will be along soon to update the review to update the review with some of the points you've made about ALZip.

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ProcessTamer / Re: feature request: kill process if...

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

process tamer is long overdue for an update and this sounds like a good feature to add; we've already discussed in this section that i will be adding a place to specify "advanced rules" for processes and this sounds perfect.  what i'd really like to do is put together a kind of consensus of advanced rule type things that need addding, and then add them all.  so more ideas about this kind of stuff would be nice.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: bug in v2.00.09: does not remember window size/position

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 01:27 PM »

always nice to hear where people discovered us.
if you look around the forum you'll see that one of the best things about this forum/site is the interaction between users and coders; it's my favorite part, and i love hearing how i can improve the programs to make them work better for their users.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 01:26 PM »

i promise to add pop up pasting functionality as good as any existing clip tool -
to do this i'll need help from people like you to figure out the best user interface for it.
as far as memory use, i think kfitting has it exactly right, CHS is going to eat some memory when brought to foreground but i will work hard to make it use minimal memory when minimized in the tray.
your other suggestions are going to be implemented.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 11:57 AM »

it definitely needs a new name;
right now it's sort of inbetween functionality, and needs much work.
but i hope to give it the same treatment as i hope all of our other software gets
i.e. with user feedback get it up to the level of the best shareware product in its category.

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General Software Discussion / Re: So you want to write a review...

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 11:55 AM »

maybe nudone can post his thoughts on his review as well.
i should say that nudone and zaine wrote massive reviews, and they don't all have to be so comprehensive - i think that's just too high a bar to reach on a regular basis.  but they do serve as examples of the ideal review.

and like zaine says, i and others would be happy to help as much as is needed; and we really do need more guest reviewers.  if you feel like you would like to do a review of a category, contact me.  although we don't pay for it, we've always been able to reward reviewers with some donated software

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good UI design blog: flow|state

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 11:51 AM »

i really love these user interface discussions, especiall the ones that discuss user interface bad design - because you kind of know it when you see it, but it's sometimes hard to put your finger on why, and how to fix - and it's great to read some of these people who just intuitively know the proper way to design things.

having helped a person set up a mac mini, i have to say my distaste for apple has only grown; on one hand it was super easy to set up - but on the other hand, when it had a bit of trouble connecting to the lan, the behavior and error messages were totally useless.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: bug in v2.00.09: does not remember window size/position

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 11:48 AM »

i certainly will fix that this weekend - no excuse for that; probably got messed up in the recent version when i got start-minimized behavior to work perfectly.  like stamping down bubbles under a rug, there always seems to be sideeffects

thanks for bug report, will be fixed next version (this coming weekend) 

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Official Announcements / Re: A way you can help DonationCoder.com

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 11:47 AM »

yep, march is when the site opened - not too long ago.
forum membership has gone up very dramatically since we required users to join forum in order to generate freeware license keys, so probably  just looking at forum membership is not going to be too informative.. would be nice to look at posts over time though

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 07:51 AM »

i like the drag and drop idea!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Bug: Error MSGs on v1.04.16 startup

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 07:43 AM »

hi sagamal,
did you my any chance install one of our older versions of clipboard help and spell - it almost sounds like an error that would come from an older database.

the best way to fix would be go into database folder in the clipboard help+spell directory and delete (or move) the database files so that new ones are created on the next run.

clipboard help+spell is going to get major improvements and refinement as soon as some of our other programs get their turn getting updated; it's still in an early development stage.

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Living Room / Re: Clif Notes Newsletter - September 11, 2005

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 07:40 AM »

great! keep 'em coming!

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Best Text Editor / Re: UltraEdit 11 - Best text editor?

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 07:39 AM »

thanks jussi,
i will update the text editor review with the info about zeus,
and i will also update w.r.t. dispossesed comments.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Options do not display correctly

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2005, 07:37 AM »

thanks for the reminder chris,i will try to fix this this coming weekend when i get back in town.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Handling of spaces

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2005, 03:33 PM »

hi bob,

actually one of the main features that should be ready in the next couple of weeks is treating of spaces as separate words instead of as a phrase, which would do what you want, it would catch files with both words in them, and would also match "last first"

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

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2005, 01:38 PM »

correction noted.  come on now and admit it, what would a post by me be without some typos?

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Official Announcements / Major Software Update - System Path Commander

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2005, 01:37 PM »

DonationCoder.com is proud to announce a major release of "SPC: System Path Commander":
https://www.donation...Other/Spc/index.html

[Packaged in our new zip-compatible installer for both manual and automatic installs]


System Path Commander is a power-user tool that allows you to easily and safely enable and disable directories in your windows system path environment variable (the paths searched when launching programs).

Such a tool is useful in a variety of situations. For example, the System Path sometimes grows too large and can cause problems if it isn't shortened. Being able to temporarily disable and enable directories on your system path can be a great way to do this safely, while still keeping all the paths available to you should you decide to re-enable them at a later time.

Features:

A friendly GUI interface helps you make changes to your system path.
Easy nondestructive enable/disable of directories.
Adding, deleting, editing of directory entries.
Aids in converting directories to short form to save space.
Identifies invalid paths.
Keeps a detailed log so you can alway see what you changed and when, and for maximum safety.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2005, 01:31 PM »

I'll be out of town from september 11 to until september 15.
ill be able to get online once or twice a day i think, but i'd appreciate it if the regular members kept their eyes open for any posts that need some immediate attention, etc. and try to put out any fires 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Calendar software

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 04:54 PM »

someone else just asked me today for us to do a pim review.
make sure you vote in the running poll of what to review next - it's highly determinitive:

https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=482.0

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Living Room / Re: Curiouser and curiouser ...

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 04:32 PM »

clever idea 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 01:19 PM »

could be a tiny bit faster, but probably not significantly.

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Living Room / Re: 50% DISCOUNT CODE FOR OUTPOST FIREWALL NOW POSTED IN MEMBERS ONLY SECTION

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 12:37 PM »

i think for our 1 year aniversary, we may try to contact all the companies that have offerred discounts to our members and try to get them all to offer again for a couple of weeks..

but thats 6 months away 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: NirCmd Setup, a guide of sorts

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 12:17 PM »

ps.  does the nickname "nontroppo" mean anything?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: NirCmd Setup, a guide of sorts

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 12:17 PM »

thanks nontroppo, the nirccommand stuff is working great here! fun!

ps. new version is up which should fix the 2 issues pointed out here.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 12:14 PM »

https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

Version 1.07.09 - Sep 10, 2005
 · [feature] you could now be able to launch files that are in system path without specifying directory 
 · [bugfix] escaping digits \# was broken on last release 
 · [bugfix] regular expressions were not being saved the first time you created a particular alias group.