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Coding Snacks / MOVED: One word, three dictionaries

« Last post by skwire on February 14, 2011, 10:13 AM »

This topic has been moved to Unfinished Requests.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=24453.0

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: Change screen brightness w/ hotkey

« Last post by skwire on February 14, 2011, 10:13 AM »

This topic has been moved to Unfinished Requests.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23809.0

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: autohotkey - reload script on screen number change

« Last post by skwire on February 14, 2011, 10:11 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23470.0

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: Utility: Convert Multiple Columns in Excel to a Single Column

« Last post by skwire on February 14, 2011, 10:03 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=25175.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 11:59 PM »

Website | Download
v1.2.3 - 2011-02-14
    ! 'Copy column data' option didn't always copy all the column's data.

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Skwire Empire / Skwire Empire - Software Launching Pad

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 11:49 PM »

This post will serve as a central, forum-based list of my software.  You can reach my main website here.
If you have an idea for another free utility, by all means, post it on the Coding Snacks forum!

Album Printer Build a list of artists and albums in your music collection. Forum link
Anuran A rotating, automatic-prompting personal text log. Forum link
Arti (Aspect Ratio Tool for Images) Small application that lists aspect ratios for images. Exact ratios are listed in addition to a nearest match ratio based on a configurable preset list. Forum link
Barbecue Generate progress bars related to your projects. Forum link
Bestimate Track the accuracy of your goals, predictions or promises. Forum link
Birthdays A simple, straightforward app to help keep track of birthdays. Forum link
Boot Snooze Reboot your computer and make it automatically hibernate/standby. Forum link
Chopping List Split text files out to multiple files based on a custom delimiter. Forum link
ClipTrap Aggregate text copied to the clipboard. Forum link
Comic Book Archive Creator Quickly create Comic Book Archive files from PDF and image files. Forum link
CovArt Ops Scan your album folders for missing cover art. Forum link
Deletist Delete files and folders sourced from a text file. Forum link
Dimensions 2 Folders Sort image files into folders based on their dimensions. Forum link
Drive Letters Tool Change the way drive letters are displayed in Windows Explorer and other Windows dialogs. Forum link
Drop Zone Simple drag-n-drop windows to quickly copy or move files. Forum link
Earl Convert .URL files to .LNK files. Forum link
epCheck Easily track and view TV series data. Forum link
File Bucket Create a collection of files and then copy them all to new destination. Forum link
File Punter Use regular expressions to copy/move files into dynamically generated destination folders. Forum link
Files 2 Folder Shell extension to create a folder & move files into that folder. Forum link
Frameless Borderless, captionless image viewer with commandline options for display placement. Forum link
IE Proxy Toggle Tray-based program to quickly switch the Internet Explorer proxy on and off. Forum link
KeyCounter Keep track of the number of keystrokes you make. Forum link
kLED Tray icons for num/caps/scroll lock status. Configurable OSD, too.
List Numberer Quickly number a text listing in various ways. Forum link
Looper Gaplessly loop an audio file. Forum link
Lucidity Sets an image as your wallpaper and then creates a neat translucent effect on your entire desktop. Forum link
Mat Change mouse acceleration and speed settings from the commandline. Forum link
MPH (Media Player Hotkeys) Control various media players from one set global hotkeys. Forum link
OMDb Tool Look up IMDB data using the OMDb API and format the output. Forum link
PDFInfoGUI Graphical user interface front-end for pdfinfo.exe from the Xpdf package at FooLabs. Forum link
Piggy Banks Track 'fund' accounts where a little money is put away each day. Forum link
PlayTime Determine total playtime for music and movie files. Forum link
Power Scheme Toggler Easily switch between two power schemes. Forum link
RecursiView Quickly view all images in a folder structure. Forum link
sCheckbook Simple bank account or check register app. Forum link
sChecklist Simple checklist app. Forum link
Sensatronics Tray Tool Tray-based monitoring tool for Sensatronic temperature sensors (E4 and U16 models). Forum link
SFV Ninja SFV (Simple File Verification) application. Forum link
SigcheckGUI GUI front-end for sigcheck.exe from Sysinternals. Forum link
sImgurUploader Simple commandline application that uploads a single image to Imgur and automatically puts the URL on the clipboard. Forum link
Simple Word Gen Create random word lists. Forum link
Size Matters Easily track lists of files and their sizes. Forum link
sLyrics Lyric app using the ChartLyrics API from the ChartLyrics website. Forum link
Snap DB Simple, flat-file database/list app. Forum link
Spews Wallpaper switcher with a twist. Forum link
sPinger Wallpaper switcher with a twist. Forum link
SpinZip Compression app with some unique methods. Forum link
Splat Profile-based application launcher. Forum link
sPlaylistMaker Recursively create .m3u playlist files. Forum link
Squeaky Mouse Tiny, tray-based utility allowing you to play WAV files when clicking mouse buttons. Forum link
sStockQuote A simple stock quote application with CSV export. Forum link
Steam URL Converter Convert Steam URL shortcuts to regular Windows shortcuts. Forum link
sTray Tiny, tray-based utility that gives you the option to shutdown, restart, switch user, log off, lock, sleep, or hibernate your computer. Forum link
SubAHK Subsonic desktop client. Forum link
sWavPlayer Commandline WAV file player. Forum link
sWeather Tray-based weather app. Forum link
Switcheroo Switch two file's names with a drag & drop GUI. Forum link
Tags 2 Folders Sort audio files into folders based on their tags. Forum link
Ten Timer Simple, multiple timer app. Forum link
Text 2 Folders Create folders based on a simple text file. Forum link
tiffInfoGUI View information related to tiff image files. Forum link
TIFFsy Turvy Extract multi-page TIFF files, rotate and export to jpg in one  step. Forum link
TrackErr Quickly find malformed, i.e. DRM, audio tracks in your collection. Forum link
Tray Host Checker Tiny application which periodically pings a configured hostname or IP address and displays a tray icon to show success or failure. Forum link
TrayLang Small appliation that displays a tray icon indicating the currently selected keyboard layout. Lots of included flag icon themes. Forum link
Trout Music player. Forum link
Video 2 MP3 Automatically extract audio from a video file and make an MP3 of  it. Forum link
Volt System tray hotkey-driven volume controller. Forum link
Wallpaper Welder Create a wallpaper using a separate image per monitor (for mutlitple monitor setups). Forum link
Waste Not Keep track of what's in the fridge and their expiration dates. Forum link
WHAT (Window Hotkey Activator Tool) Assign hotkeys to activate/focus windows. Forum link
Zero Zipper Clone a folder/file structure as zero-byte and zip them. Forum link

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 11:24 PM »

[...]
How's that?

-superboyac (February 13, 2011, 11:01 PM)

Waaaay out of scope of what I was thinking.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 10:26 PM »

skwire, I know a user mentioned adding an alarm clock feature to trout.  Is this still planned?

-superboyac (February 13, 2011, 10:17 PM)

Nope, I hadn't planned on adding this.  If you just want an alarm clock app that will play an MP3, I'm sure there are a myriad out there.  If you can't find one you like, I'll consider writing one for you.   

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Living Room / Re: DC Front Page

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 06:34 PM »

The only concern is that it would be too chaotic..

-mouser (February 13, 2011, 05:59 PM)

And a TON of work to keep it up to date.  I'm just sayin'.  =]

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Organize files into folders based on flename wildcard parsing

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 06:06 PM »

It obviously took it's toll on him

-4wd (February 13, 2011, 05:53 PM)

OMG...fixed!  Thanks.  =]

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Organize files into folders based on flename wildcard parsing

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 03:05 PM »

Magician62 has been doing some really good testing of File Punter on his image files and, I'm happy to say, we've got File Punter to what I feel comfortable for a Skwire Empire release.  Thanks, magician62!  

I also merged his topic into this original File Punter thread.

Website | Download
v1.0.4 - 2011-02-13
    * Made simulation mode the default option.  (Thanks, magician62)

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General Software Discussion / Re: WHS 2011 ("Vail") Release Candidate now available for download.

« Last post by skwire on February 13, 2011, 02:31 PM »

I'll be keeping my WHS v1.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 01:28 PM »

Website | Download
v1.2.2 - 2011-02-12
    ! Add/Update/Insert & Options dialogs should now always come up on top of
      the main Snap DB interface instead of centered on the main monitor.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: SHOUTcast Radio Notifier - notifies you in the way you like

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 12:58 PM »

You just want the websites monitored or do you want the actual streams monitored?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Site improvements for https connections

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 12:32 PM »

Thanks, mouser. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to cleanse a playlist, for dublicates?

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 10:38 AM »

lol, shows how much i know about the program..

-lanux128 (February 12, 2011, 10:30 AM)

Well, to be fair, I really ought to add at least M3U writing support.  =]  Trout can read most major formats like M3U, WPL, ASX etc.  It only writes to its native TPL format, though. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to cleanse a playlist, for dublicates?

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 09:13 AM »

my pardon to be wide off-mark but allow me to try again. you may have noticed app's mentioning of Trout, which is Skwire's magnum opus. you can load a playlist (tpl,m3u,pls,wpl), choose to remove duplicates and save the playlist. hth..

-lanux128 (February 12, 2011, 09:10 AM)

Unfortunately, it removes duplicates based off of path and it doesn't save to m3u or wpl so I don't think it would help Curt much.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 08:38 AM »

In the following examples i can put "myfolder" anywhere needed in the path i.e. drive:\\myfolder if it makes things easier.

-magician62 (February 12, 2011, 07:30 AM)

The application lets you make a list of source/pattern/destination entries and save them.  Sort of like a profile.  You can use simple wildcard matching to move files but, in your case, you will need to use regular expressions since you want to move them to dynamically created destinations.  After setting up your entries, you can then check/uncheck entries as necessary and only run those.  Here's a screenshot:

Most of the images are either in the format

myfolder\image00001 - location.jpg
or
myfolder\location - image00001.jpg

There are a number where I incorporate date such as

myfolder\image00001 - location 15-02-2004.jpg
or
myfolder\2004-02-15 location - image00001.jpg
or
myfolder\location 15-02-2004 - image00001.jpg

In these cases i can see the extra "-" being a possible problem, but i can work around that as once they are in their sets, I have other tools I can utilise.

-magician62 (February 12, 2011, 07:30 AM)

Shouldn't be a problem with regular expressions.

There are also a few files in the format

location - 15022004 - image00001.jpg

But i have means to easily remove the first "-" so reducing it to one of the previous variants.

-magician62 (February 12, 2011, 07:30 AM)

Again, regular expressions should easily be able to work around this.

Destination for each set would be
mydestinationfolder\location\

Though as we are only starting in

myfolder\

and there are no existing subfolders, unless there is a programming reason, I can see no reason why the destination can't just be

myfolder\location\

-magician62 (February 12, 2011, 07:30 AM)

Yep, not a problem.  The software offers a test mode that creates a text file of what will be move/copied and where.  This way, you can test your regular expression to see if it does what you want.  If you use instant messaging, feel free to add any of the accounts here:

http://skwire.dcmemb...wb/pages/contact.php

If you don't mind and, since this app hasn't been released to too many people, I'd like to work with you directly to make sure it does what you want.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2011, 06:28 AM »

Would you mind giving me some examples of the filenames and paths you're working with as well as how/where you would like them to end up?  If they're sensitive names, either change them or PM me the list.  I can then let you know if this application will work for you.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« Last post by skwire on February 11, 2011, 11:55 PM »

Also, can you give me more information on the types of files you want to shift around?  Are they music files by chance?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Extended function for Files2Folder

« Last post by skwire on February 11, 2011, 11:42 PM »

Hello, hopefully in this my first post, I get things right.

-magician62 (February 11, 2011, 08:27 AM)

Welcome to DonationCoder.  Thanks for posting and enjoy your stay.

First Files2Folder is a great utility

-magician62 (February 11, 2011, 08:27 AM)

I'm glad you find it useful.   

The thought I have which may be a new utility or enhancement of the existing.

I often encounter files in the following formats

first part - middle part - last part.extension
or
first part - last part.extension

It would be nice to be able to select a group of files and have the utility folderise by a defined segment, though to make it easier.

option 1
Anything before the first " - "

option 2
Anything after the last " - " (ignoring extension)

-magician62 (February 11, 2011, 08:27 AM)

I think this is well out of scope for Files2Folder but you're in luck.  I have another application that I haven't fully released that should do what you want.  What it lets you is specify source folders and then write a simple regular expression with which you can create destination folders that uses data matched by the regular expression.  If you're not familiar with regular expressions, that description probably won't make much sense so here's an example (based off of yours):

Source folder:         c:\path\to\
Containing files like: first part - middle part - last part.extension
RegEx string:          (.*?) - (.*?) - (.*?).extension
Destination folder:    c:\path\to\??2

Each "(.*?)" represents a matched subpattern.  I've highlighted in red the second matched subpattern and how you could use it to automatically create a destination folder based off of text within the filename.  The app then gives you the option to copy, move or simulate.  Based on the above, it would copy/move said file to the following:

c:\path\to\middle part\first part - middle part - last part.extension

Does that make sense?  Would you be interested in something like this?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by skwire on February 11, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Website | Download
v1.2.1 - 2011-02-11
    + Added 'Run/execute cell contents' to the list context menu.  This will
      attempt to run/execute text of the cell you right-clicked on to bring up
      the context menu.  You can also hover over a cell and use the Ctrl-R
      hotkey.
    + To copy a cell's contents, you can now simply hover over a cell and use
      the Ctrl-Shift-C hotkey.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2011, 11:25 PM »

Website | Download
v1.1.9 - 2011-02-10
    + Added 'Copy cell contents' to the list context menu.  This will copy, to
      the clipboard, the text of the cell you right-clicked on to bring up the
      context menu.
    + Added 'Copy column data' entry to the header context menu.  This will
      copy, to the clipboard, the entire column's contents.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2011, 09:02 AM »

Thanks for the kind words, camerb.    I'm glad you find Snap DB useful.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: IDEA (silly help really)

« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2011, 08:21 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=25567.0