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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 09:28 AM »

tiny villager - i think i agree with you 100%.
a lot of people hate on real format - i actually am quite fond of it, and cspan realmedia has been one of the best things i can think of.
and furthermore i dont find it too hard to turn off all their spy stuff, and have never been very annoyed with it.
but the damn controls on the player to bring up menus and stuff are annoying as hell.
of course i play winamp, they started this insane practice of skinning audio apps and now everyone has to do it.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 07:28 AM »

yeah i have my check if default stuff turned off always in all browsers.
i haven't had a chance to check into it but i will try.
i really wish these browsers had come to an agreement about a common scheme for this stuff, it's super annoying.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 05:37 AM »

all good points nudone, and in fact i am coming to realize the probably unavoidable tension between having an efficient user interface for both firsttime users and longtime users.  some things just do not work for both, and clearly photoshop, justifyably so, is an extreme example of a program designed for hardcore daily users, rather than making it easy to use the first time you use it.

however i find myself wondering the same thing as you:

having said all that, i still don't know why alt means reset in Photoshop. Maybe it's like an initiation process to the Adobe clan. if you don't know about such things then you obviously haven't earned your stripes - it's a way of making people like me think i've got some kind of superior knowledge over people that haven't read the manual.

which is really too much.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 05:33 AM »

ah i see what you mean now stefan.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 05:32 AM »

it does sound like something that would be really nice to have, and yeah i can't see why it would be hard to do security wise at all.
but it does sound complicated to install and configure.

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Living Room / Ramesh's Windows XP Troubleshooting site

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 05:28 AM »

jeffk found this site in another thread, it's really nice and has some good freeware programs too:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/index.html

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 05:24 AM »

hey jeff, that's a great find.
let me add that one to the help file of browsertrayswitch.

do you have any suggestions from using them of how to improve browsertrayswitch or do theey solve all your needs.

ps. im posting a link to that site which seems super useful, in the living room.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 02:06 AM »

hahaha.
i agree quicktime sucks.
in fact count me among the apple haters.

i think the whole debacle with apple mice shows exactly what the company focuses on - appearance over function.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 12:31 AM »

its hard to remember them because i usually run (not walk) to the uninstall control panel
but i do have to say i have a personal hatred for photoshop interface, even though i know its not the worst i've seen by far.

im not a fan of skinned stuff like winamp - i find it very painful to use.

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Drag&Drop Robot / v1.09.02 released

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 12:26 AM »

Version 1.09.02
bugfix: there was a problem launching batch files (thanks again bill gates for the insane quoting rules for createprocess).
added browse for file button
replacing command file with browse button or drag and drop now preserves arguments
save as directory now defaults to config file directory
if file parameter does not exist as a file, it is now used as is (useful for non-standard use of file box)
updated help file
added select-all submenu in output as well as ctrl+a key
added better warnings when command not found
added help file instructions on how to run things like perl, python scripts, etc.
bugfix: config file directory was not being set properly on first run

see download on release page (click downloads button on forum navigator bar)

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Errors with v1.09.01 when running batch files - The filename, directory name,...

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2005, 12:25 AM »

fixed, see latest post here.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Apparent bugs - newbie

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 11:51 PM »

having multiple entries in an alias is very useful -
they will show up in the results list when you type the name of the alias and you can choose between them.

note that url launching was not until recently appreciated by me as a real desired use of f&r, that's why support for it is not perfect.  but new releases will fix this, and we'll get it working perfectly.  support for searching firefox bookmarks is also coming.

the help file needs a little updating, but group aliases are in their under config -> aliases.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 09:29 PM »

as far as using email,
i understand that the lastest version beta 1.1 of smf (which we don't use here - we are using the standard 1.0.x series here), has good support for being notified by email about replied to threads.
and there is a mod that lets people post by email.

however, i don't know any forum that's really set up well for making the forum work perfectly both as a forum and as an email mailing list, which is kind of a shame since that would be a cool feature.  maybe there is some forum that will do this but i don't know of any.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 09:26 PM »

congrats carol!

its very easy to make only certain sections available to certain people.
you just set up some member groups,
then you put people in different groups,
and you can say for each section of the forum which groups are allowed to access which sections.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: Display mouse clicks and key presses

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 09:22 PM »

nice catch bmm; skrommel you might want to add a comment about that in your ahk.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets het to know each other a bit ... where do we all come from ...

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 05:09 PM »

this is fun, let's keep it going.

and don't forget to add a quote to your yearbook image here:
https://www.donation....php?action=yearbook

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 04:58 PM »

bookmarked threads would be kind of nice idea.

there is a "mark as unread" button already

what checkboxes are you talking about?

by the way, there is a forum for the software that runs this board, Simple Machines Forum (SMF):
http://www.simplemac.../community/index.php

and list of mods available (if you see one you want here, let me know):
http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php

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Living Room / Re: Congratulations on your mention in the Lockergnome's newsletter

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 12:23 PM »

thanks cliff 
lockergnome is a great place that has been around a long time. (Lockergnome's Window's Fanatic newsletter: http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/)

it's nice to see The Form Letter Machine get some attention sinch it's such a strange application that can't be of much use to most people.

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The Form Letter Machine / TheBat plugin for The Form Letter Machine

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 12:21 PM »

jibz wrote an addon for thebat that can, among other things integrate The Form Letter Machine with TheBat to make them work really well together.  It needs a little documentation before we make it available, but if there is some interest in this i can try to get it done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Active FTP vs. Passive FTP

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 12:17 PM »

great link!

it's wonderful that this section is getting some attention

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: New License Key Page now online !

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 11:09 AM »

yes, i will be doing exactly this.  and also as discussed in another thread, you will be able to copy the key to windows\system and it will never need to be entered for any other programs.  just need to finish updating some of our other programs before i get to that

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets het to know each other a bit ... where do we all come from ...

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 09:18 AM »

do i get enough air - no, not at all

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Apparent bugs - newbie

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 09:17 AM »

jdmarch, you may have downloaded a key before you were upgraded to charter member status, the freeware keys need to be renewed every 180 days.  go back to https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys and grab your universal non-expiring key and replace that from about box.

i will check the alias matching you cite - as you say both should show, although aliases are usually used by typing the full alias.

i will fix url listing, i think youve found some bugs in it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - time to get started

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 07:40 AM »

thanks for reminding me  - i keep meaning to add these - i'll add them for next version (ins, del, enter).

i have to admit, don't laugh, i never use shortcuts/hotkeys in programs

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General Software Discussion / Re: HMonitor ... a warning ...

« Last post by mouser on September 02, 2005, 07:39 AM »

heard back from hmonitor author - said he would not change his mind.
all i can say is i wouldn't buy from such a company.