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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Screensaver that does *nothing* except run a .bat file

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 10, 2006, 01:26 PM »

It's curious.. This is already the third time someone asks for this.

Here's the links:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3039.0
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3149.0

(maybe people keep asking because it's not really solved.)

SAE140: would you like to just have a bunch o stuff running when the screensaver starts and keep running, or would you like to have them running only while the screensaver is active?

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fSekrit / Re: Congratulations on fSekrit

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 10, 2006, 01:15 PM »

Congratulations f0dder!

I definitelly like the following quotes:

Much like previously-mentioned LockNote, fSekrit's even better because (...)

-http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/download-of-the-day-fsekrit-178599.php

and:

This one should've originally gone into the Carry your life on thumb drive article.

-http://lifehacker.com/software/downloads/download-of-the-day-fsekrit-178599.php

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General Software Discussion / Re: Giving gamers two windows to the Web: Opera for NDS

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 10, 2006, 10:25 AM »

As an opera user (or should i say lover? ), i find this very interesting, and a great oportunity for opera!
I just love the way they made the way they took advantage of the dual-screen layout! Here's a screenshot:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Great little app for sharing/transferring files to others (or yourself?)

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 10, 2006, 04:18 AM »

Great post, JavaJones, i think this might be something really interesting to look into!
Just add it some screenshots, and your post is very close to a mini-review

[edit] BTW, you're 1 post away from 100, don't forget to post on the 100 posts thread [/edit]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser racism???

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 09, 2006, 09:06 AM »

Seems pretty silly of the site to do something like that.

-f0dder (June 09, 2006, 05:15 AM)

I think f0dder is the only one who understood what i mean. This is not one of those rendering errors.
I believe this was intentional, since there's distinction where there's no need, since in any other betanews page, i can download the files using opera, this is the only one that redirects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vista beta preview program begins

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 09, 2006, 04:37 AM »

kimmchii: posted follow-up here: https://www.donation...63.msg27832#msg27832
(it worked when i tried firefox!  )

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General Software Discussion / Browser racism???

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 09, 2006, 04:36 AM »

Ok... Following up on the following message: https://www.donation...56.msg27826#msg27826
I'm protesting against browser racism!

How is this possible? In that thread, kimmchii mentioned he could download the file from betanews and i couldn't. The problem was that i was under opera and kimmchii was using firefox. When i tried using ff, it also worked for me.
(notice that this must have been intended, since opera is redirected to another site, and firefox is given the download)

Is this normal, have you ever seen other cases of "browser xenophobia"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vista beta preview program begins

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 09, 2006, 04:09 AM »

  weird... i got this:


Maybe it is because i'm not registered (or because i'm in portugal...).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vista beta preview program begins

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 09, 2006, 03:51 AM »

it is quite simple, just 2 clicks:
1)http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_Vista_English_32bit/1149728719/1

2)download now.

-kimmchii (June 09, 2006, 03:04 AM)

Not quite... Loads of work to download the OS! the "download now" link takes you to microsoft's ultra-bloated site where you never can find anything. Then you have to look for the download link, register a "live id" if you don't have one, and then, finally, download it.
Then, you just have to wait for the 3.2 gb download to end

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Living Room / jgpaiva's 1000th post!

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 06:17 PM »

Ok... Here it is, the 1000th post! Next stop... 10 000! 

Imortalized:

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Living Room / Re: Rock Paper Scissors 25 - an old game, a very cool twist

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 05:56 PM »

  Nice Phil!
You could add a number of repetitions, though. So that i could take a bunch of tries, and see who gets the best score.

This might be a good way to make decisions in life...
"should i suicide myself? Let's ask RPS%2025.exe
 I choose axe. The computer chose scisors. I Lose.. Ho well.. Where's that rope?"

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Living Room / Re: Rock Paper Scissors 25 - an old game, a very cool twist

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 03:54 PM »

The USA Rock Paper Scissors League is getting ready for its national championship on June 12, 2006, where the winner will receive $50,000. The tournament will air on A&E.

-momonan (June 08, 2006, 11:35 AM)

There's a "USA Rock Paper Scissors League" ?? 

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Living Room / Re: Do we care about HD-DVD/Blu-Ray?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 07:51 AM »

@zridling: great post.
 I absolutely agree with you. It's stupid to be always replacing the hardware "only because 5 years have passed".
It is my opinion that in terms of movies (or music), the switch from dvd to hd-dvd/blu ray is meaningless. It just won't matter, since dvd's already provide enough space. The only difference is that one movie box won't come with 2 dvds (one with the movie, and another one full of crap in most cases), but only with one hd-dvd.

I believe there's only 3 fields that will win with this: backup storage, games, and mass illegal downloaders, which download every single crap they find in the internet, and spend half of their life recording dvds.

For me, the only reason that would make me switch is if i bought a new laptop at the same price i bought my current one, and it came with a hd-dvd recorder. And i'd be glad, only because i'd be able do to decent full-disk backups. (or maybe not, since at the time, the disk/hd-dvd relation will be about the same it is right now)

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Living Room / Re: SPAM reaching epidemic proportions

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 07:43 AM »

@carol: I'm not a big expert in regex, but i think that this should do it:

[Select]

carol.*carol.*carol+.*

At least, it worked in farr's regex parser

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 05:53 AM »

I've been using this for a while, and i found out that i constantly snap windows to the grid without really wanting to do that. Doesn't that happen to you?
I always forget i have the program on, and drag the windows during too much time.

I'm thinking.. Maybe i could add a transparent button to the caption of every window, that had the snapping functionality. I mean, if you dragged the window elsewhere, it'd have no effect, but if you dragged the window by that button, it'd snap the window. This would also take out the need for waiting for the grid to appear.

What do you think?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR with custom Opera (9b2) searches

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 05:47 AM »

One other thing... with the alias named starting with Opera (I used "Opera Search") if I launch FRR to open Opera, I only get the alias as a result, the exe's no longer show.  I tried decreasing the alias from 1000 to 100 but to no avail. 

-kfitting (June 08, 2006, 05:40 AM)

Oh, i think what your problem is. Go to the options menu, and under the tab "interface", uncheck "Stop search on exact alias match"

I understand the problem with aliases, the regular expressions feature can scare people away. On the other hand, it's the most powerful feature about it! 

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Living Room / Re: Making the Bellagio fountain with soda and Mentos...

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 04:06 AM »

OMG!
This one's worth watching! Here's a screenshot:



Anyone actually ever tried this? I can't believe it works, it's just as they say, in the video comments:

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.

Insane really is the only description i can find! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR with custom Opera (9b2) searches

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 08, 2006, 03:49 AM »

@kfitting:
HeHe... Alias have a bunch of useful features, actually
You got that behaviour while using the alias i posted?
Try placing " " before and after the name:

[Select]

"c:\program files\opera 9 beta\opera.exe" "$$1"

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 07, 2006, 06:56 PM »

Remember the game worms?
I loved to destroy the scenery in that game. Here's a stick figures version of that game: http://www.sfdt.com/...ed/movies/15005.html
(found through Deozaan's latest post )

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR with custom Opera (9b2) searches

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 07, 2006, 06:31 PM »

Ok... Here's a way to create a group alias, that you can type:

o g foobar

and it'll search for foobar in opera. This will work for everything defined in opera.
Remember that you'll have to change the path to the path where you have opera installed. I you'd like to use another prefix, just replace 'o' for anything else. (leave the ^ at the beggining of the prefix).


(click to zoom in)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : Create your own Tool Tips

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 06, 2006, 10:06 AM »

- I am new to this, so if your PC bursts into flames and melts, it was not me, I am not that clever.
lol! good point

-dB (June 06, 2006, 10:01 AM)

- a TTP editor, with mouse coord display etc

-dB (June 06, 2006, 10:01 AM)

EhEh.. You made this post exactly at the same time i send you an e-mail with this done

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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 06, 2006, 09:26 AM »

having a low maximum volume on the handset

-vegas (June 06, 2006, 09:13 AM)

I'm not sure if you already know about this, because it might be in the manual of your qtek, but it wasn't in my father's qtek manual.
You can put it on speaker by pressing the "call" button, and keeping it pressed.

(probably it's stupid to tell you this, but i read the whole manual of the qtek 2020i, and this was not mentioned anywhere)

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Living Room / Re: Awesome advertising

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 06, 2006, 08:52 AM »

This is creativity working! Glad to know there's still smart people working in advertisement!
Latelly, there are only lame somercials on tv, using the usual models saying the usual "oh, i use this because it makes me feel great" crap 

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General Software Discussion / If you're developing a game, here's the way you should feel about it!

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 05, 2006, 05:41 PM »

Here's how a good developer feels about his projects!
(or maybe he's just a good seller )

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=fWvAznIRVLA

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by jgpaiva on June 05, 2006, 10:34 AM »

Amazing flash animation
this is really brilliant and beautiful.. one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

-mouser (June 05, 2006, 10:24 AM)

OMG... I am so with you on this one... Amazing! I don't even know enough english adjectives to describe how fantastic this animation is!
So much creativity, very smart, wonderfully made.. I love it!