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Official Announcements / New Donation Info and a Scientific Guide to Figuring Out How Much to Donate

« Last post by mouser on July 26, 2005, 02:50 AM »

We've revamped the donation pages to make them a little more concise and navigable.

We can also now receive payments through several trusted industry shareware payment services (though they take a significantly bigger cut from user donations), which are ideal for non-US donators.

We also finally have the results of our 10 year commissioned study aimed at discovering the optimal suggested donation amount to the site.  You can find the results of the study here:

https://www.donation...te/HowMuchChart.html

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Keyboard and/or Mouse Movement Simulator

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 10:36 PM »

is there a downside to using a batch to pause and unpause the system scheduler? what does that not do that you want?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Keyboard and/or Mouse Movement Simulator

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 07:50 PM »

how are you configuring apps to run after idle time?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 10:53 AM »

well it could be done with a global keyboard and mouse hook - but it might not be worth the price in cpu cycles it would eat.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 09:53 AM »

ah yes, i see now completely - that makes a lot of sense now.

of course you're original idea about detecting mouse click or keyboard click to change focus would be ideal situation, just have to figure out best way to do it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 08:22 AM »

maybe ill make 1.05.16 the default public download, that makes sense.

so currently you use the right click menu to launch the first app?
i was just suggesting an additional (menu would still be available) way to launch an app and leave F&R open, by holding control key down when launching (not implemented yet).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 06:47 AM »

the new hotkey options only work when the program is used in the main tray version (not low memory helper).
i should have made that clearer.

the new focus options aren't perfect, but i think they are an improvement; i will try to figure out a perfect solution soon.
right now the last option basically works based on elapsed time.  so for 4 seconds after you launch a program from F&R it will regrab focus; but any other time you switch away it lets you.

kfitting, do you often find yourself launching apps from F&R and leaving F&R open on the screen.. is that how you use it?
if so, what do you think about having F&R check for control key when launching app from # key or double click, and leaving F&R open if so. seems better than using the right-click menu.

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Official Announcements / New Software Update (07/25/05): Find and Run Robot v1.05.19

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 06:42 AM »

Find and Run Robot version 1.05.19 is now available to members.

Download by clicking version # on member download page: https://www.donation.../MemberDownloads.php

version notes:
fixed bug with some win9x users where system shortcut hotkeys would be disabled 
config options being broken up into multiple tabs 
new options for custom hotkey and checkbox for pause/break key 
new options for focus-retaining function (this may be improved later) 
asks for confirmation before reseting all options from the menu 
better default settings on first use 
fixed messagebox bug where it was appearing under main window.   

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Official Announcements / New Software Release (07/25/05): Mirc Scipt pack

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 06:40 AM »

https://www.donation...r/mircpak/index.html

Mirc Script Pack:
A collection of unrelated scripts for the Mirc irc client, including: SuperSlapper - highly customizable dialog based slap script; TileMinimizer - automatically minimize tiled channel windows after some period of inactivity; FunkyText - tons of colored text effects; Dict - elegant dictionary script retrieves word definitions from dict.org.

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Mirc Script Pack / Re: TileMinimizer and SuperSlapper

« Last post by mouser on July 25, 2005, 06:35 AM »

superslapper comes with some example insults and compliments but i'd love to add more.
if you add some, please send them to me ([email protected]) so i can add them to the official release.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Error EACCESSVIOLATION upon startup attempt for FindANDRun ???

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 10:13 PM »

james, don't forget to send me that config file if you get a chance.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Duplicate files in a single click

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 10:12 PM »

hi lanux,
you can do Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V to create a copy of any file, which will create "Copy of ..."

ps. DonationCoder.com is going to come out soon with a new context menu extension with tons of features, and one of the features will be very flexible rightclick on file/folder and create backup copies with various options.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 10:08 PM »

 · Verion 1.05.19, July 24, 2005 
 
 fixed bug with some win9x users where system shortcut hotkeys would be disabled 
 config options being broken up into multiple tabs 
 new options for custom hotkey and checkbox for pause/break key 
 new options for focus-retaining function (this may be improved later) 
 asks for confirmation before reseting all options from the menu 
 better default settings on first use 
 fixed messagebox bug where it was appearing under main window.   

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new v1.05.16 full setup now available on member download page

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 10:07 PM »

here's what i'm going to try to do when i get a little bit of time,
i'm going to make all the installers zip-compatible, so that you can double click them to run and install,
OR unpack files manually and do what you want with them.

just give me a little bit of time to get it working.  I already do it for mircryption, which is a security program and so people don't always like running an installer, so I know how to do it, just requires some work.

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Find And Run Robot / Version 1.05.19 now available for members

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 10:04 PM »

Download by clicking version # on member download page:
https://www.donation.../MemberDownloads.php

If you have donated to the site or are otherwise a full member but it says you aren't just email me ([email protected])
or if you cannot donate for whatever reason, email me for link.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new v1.05.16 full setup now available on member download page

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 08:22 PM »

by the way, i'm going to try to upload a new minor version tonight with support for custom hotkey and another minor addition, just fyi.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new v1.05.16 full setup now available on member download page

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 08:17 PM »

sure sue, no problem:

i just upgraded your account so you were probably getting a message about the access only being for members when you tried before; but you should be able to grab it now from the member download page, just click on the version # for Find and Run Robot (1.05.16) on this page:

https://www.donation.../MemberDownloads.php

this was perfectly good place to post this question - i'd also be happy to help via email at any time.  we're still trying to make the site as usable as possible and i'm always available to answer questions and help ([email protected]).

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Best Firewall / Re: Sygate - Very Strong Firewall

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 08:13 PM »

i consistently hear good things about sygate, and it's definitely good product, and has some very nice displays of activity if i remember correctly.
when we started reviewing we didn't spend as much time on competitor products as we do now, otherwise we surely would have talked about sygate.

i can't remember exactly where i felt sygate fell short - if i remember correctly it was the ease in customizing rules at the time of the alert.  when i get an inbound or outbound alert i want to be able to say "configure" this rule and then be able to customize ports, direction, ips, etc. from the next screen, and i think at the time sygate wasn't good at letting me do that; im not 100% sure though, and/or it may have been improved by now.

comparison of free vs. pro features and more info: http://smb.sygate.co...spf/summary_pspf.htm
(looks to me like the personal is too crippled to be useful so you'll have to go with pro version if you want this)

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Living Room / Re: IRC DAY 7/29 and 7/30

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 08:06 PM »

don't deny yourself, mirc all the way.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Update on 7/15 Coding Snack Weekend - and a prize for skrommel

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 08:28 AM »

personally i've stopped worrying about a few mb of memory usage of an app -
just like i stopped worrying about disk usage of apps.
why have a good machine with lots of memory if not to take advantage of it.

that said, if hoekey works for ya..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drag and Drop Robot Movie

« Last post by mouser on July 24, 2005, 04:49 AM »

i just can't think of something i can properly use it for - wish i could.

yeah, but if you guys loved me you'd use it anyway.

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Best Text Editor / Re: PSPAD News

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2005, 10:47 PM »

It looks to me like PsPad word wrap works, works well, and might even have some useful tricks up its sleeve -
like a couple of different ways to show you the dif. between linebreaks caused by wordwraps or hard CRs.

i'd like some more feedback and then im going to update our text review to highly recommend PsPad again, if others confirm that wordwrap works well.

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General Software Discussion / Drag and Drop Robot Movie

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2005, 09:14 PM »

Here's a plug for one of our own DonationCoder.com programs that no one uses, Drag and Drop Robot (https://www.donation.../dragdrop/index.html).

Now I admit that it's only a tool useful for a small group of power users, but i think even people who have a use for it might not realize they do.

So this is just a reminder that there is a movie demonstrating the use of Drag and Drop Robot here, in case you are not sure if it's something you have use for:

https://www.donation...agDrop/DragDrop.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: DCC gets noticed again by Fred Langa

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2005, 08:49 PM »

oh nice.  for those of us not subscribed to the plus letter, what does it say about us?

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General Software Discussion / Re: DCC gets noticed again by Fred Langa

« Last post by mouser on July 23, 2005, 08:20 PM »

just to clarify - this was from newsletter of 6/27 and i believe was the only time dc(c) has been mentioned in langa's newlsetter.

but hey, always nice to relive the good days, and hopefully he'll notice our other apps eventually