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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder Size Explorer Extension

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2005, 12:45 AM »

quixos forgot to mention, this software is open source and free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Folder Size Explorer Extension

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2005, 12:44 AM »

thanks quixos-

i have this kind of feature built into directory opus, and i can tell you i really truly love it.

for anyone who doesnt have this feature in their file explorer, it's definitely a very helpful thing to be able to see, so well worth a try.

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Living Room / Re: If you ever get email from DonationCoder.com telling you to execute attachment..

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 05:27 PM »

yeah, you have to give them credit for creativity - the idea of pretending that the attachment was already scanned is clever.

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Living Room / Re: Discount for BB FlashBack Screencasting Tool now available - and commentary

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 05:26 PM »

i know that bb flashback are actively fixing the multimon; they may in fact have already fixed it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PowerPro

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 04:25 PM »

thanks edvard.  also i think frogblast is the powerpro expert on this forum.. if he sees this maybe he can add some info; i know he swears by powerpro.

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Living Room / If you ever get email from DonationCoder.com telling you to execute attachment..

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 03:57 PM »

we would NEVER send anyone an attached exe and ask you to run it.

i got this in my email today; i don't know if anyone else has gotten or will ever get one of these, but if you do, its a virus trick, and not from us:

"Dear Donationcoder Member,
 
Your e-mail account was used to send a huge amount of unsolicited spam messages during the recent week. If you could please take 5-10
minutes out of your online experience and confirm the attached document so you will not run into any future problems with the online
service.
 
If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to cancel your membership.
 
Virtually yours,
The Donationcoder Support Team

 
+++ Attachment: No Virus found
+++ Donationcoder Antivirus - www.donationcoder.com "



total fake email - always beware such things - never execute any attached exes even if your mom sends it to you and says it's your birthday present.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: modify system path (System Path Commander)

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 02:32 PM »

new version (1.20) uploaded with fix:

1.20 - 06/29/05
 bugfix for problem reported by scott on the forum:
   https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=222.0
   System Path Commander 1.18 changed the data type of the Path value from
   its default of REG_EXPAND_SZ, to REG_SZ, which could cause windows to
   fail to expand path variables like %SystemRoot% - thanks scott!
 new versions of spc will autocorrect this issue when run for the first time.


thanks chr for the super fast fix, and thanks scott for spotting the issue and diagnosing.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: recent document timeline

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 01:39 PM »

i wonder if it might be fun to make a program called

Screenshot Timeline of App Usage (STAU)

basically it would do this:
take a screenshot of every time the current foreground window (currently used app) changes.

and then you could view this almost exactly like the adobe album sliding timeline.

so you could see visually how long you spent in each app with each document before changing..
could be fun..

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: extra window functions

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 12:32 PM »

who was it that was going to write up a little something on Powerpro?

our new mini-user-review section of the forum would be an ideal place for it
https://www.donation...index.php?board=42.0

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General Software Discussion / For those who like all-in-one utils

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 12:31 PM »

http://www.martinsof...rol/screenshots.html

freeware, found via snapfiles announcement:


Take Control is a small application with many tools and utilities. It can help you with:
Virtual Desktops
Virtual Clipboards
HotKeys manager
Minimize to tray other application
Windows Startup apPlication manager
Kill process
Notes on desktop
Mail notification
Split and merge files
Search files or directories
Magnifier
Picker color

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ProcessTamer / Re: Final version

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 10:43 AM »

the latest beta is completely stable and could very well be called a final release..
i probably would have called it final if i had known it would be so long before doing more updates.

here is my plan wrt coding:
my first responsibility is to finish the new Cheat Sheeter app, and get some sample stylesheets and help packs available so that other authors can see how to make new sheet packs for it.
after that i will work on major improvements to Find&Run Robot and Process Tamer.
the additions to Process Tamer are less open ended than those that will be made to F&R; mainly a new taming algorithm as described in this section and some minor improvements.
Haven't decided yet which one to do first.

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Living Room / Re: vmware workstation with agnitum outpost firewall rules?

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 07:15 AM »

 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: modify system path (System Path Commander)

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 07:14 AM »

well it seems you found a super important bug;
i will try to contact chr today and get a new version uploaded asap.
until then, as you say the workaround would be to open the control panel and edit the system path and resave, which should reset it.

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Living Room / Re: vmware workstation with agnitum outpost firewall rules?

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 05:40 AM »

i might be able to help with this.

i have vmware running with agnitum well, in the normal Rules mode.

here is what i had to do:
In agnitum options, System tab, Rules:
I added a RULE that said to allow all traffic in and out from the particular ip that my vmware runs as
(ie on my lan its 192.168.0.5).

note that this is not an APPLICATION RULE, but rather a SYSTEM RULE.

this works perfectly and everything else stays tight as a drum (note that you can also run an independent firewall on the virtual operating system to block incoming and outgoing traffic from WITHIN the vmware).

one caveat:
in the past (haven't checked recently), i had to DISABLE this system rule when i tried things like running an ftp server on my main machine.  just something to be aware of if you have troubles in this regard.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem report (1.05.12)

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 05:34 AM »

i don't know that error, but try the latest beta and let me know if it fixes the problem:
http://donationcoder.../FindAndRunRobot.zip

this is just a replacement exe; copy it over existing one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Earth - free tool/toy

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 04:25 AM »

it's quite amazing really.

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Found Deals and Discounts / ratetheoffers.com

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 12:55 AM »

http://ratetheoffers.com/

interesting site where you can see how people rate various offers for free stuff on the web.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2005, 12:15 AM »

yeah i don' know yet, i was just playing with ideas..
it would probably be more oriented to more interactive search.

so for example the current interface is designed to be very minimal, so it can just pop up, list only top 10 items or so, and let you activate by pressing number key.

but for those of you who want to use it to do real search of files,
i'm guessing that having a tiny interface with top 10 results might not be your primary concern;
you may be more interested in more easily adjusting areas searched, and having more flexibility with regard to results.

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Living Room / Re: Scripting utility suggestions?

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 11:45 PM »

that kind of pricing really upsets me.
it's a conscious decision to completely ignore individual users and only sell to businesses.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 05:27 PM »

yeah, i wasn't disagreeing with idea of different configurations,
i was just trying to think out loud about the idea that f&r might he able to be configured to run in two very different ways.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: extra window functions

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 04:19 PM »

do you have multimonitor?

it's a common problem with apps not designed for multimonitor that when they try to display a dialog centered on screen it ends up half off.

other times it happens is when the last time it was on screen you had a different resolution.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Small shell switcher for windowsXP

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 03:35 PM »

anyone who has some code to share and needs a place, just email me [email protected] and we will be happy to host it.

if you want some web page/ftp space for several tools we'd be happy to do that as well.

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General Software Discussion / Google Earth - free tool/toy

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 02:08 PM »

http://earth.google.com/

Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

   Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in. 
   Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
   Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
   Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your own annotations. 
 

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com Mascot needed

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 01:29 PM »

jibzy!
shame on you!

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com Mascot needed

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2005, 12:49 PM »

nah, donationcoder.com is a more of a family oriented site.