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Best Weather Monitor Tool / Re: some comments after using some of the programs

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 09:16 AM »

have you tried weather pulse yet?

it's listed in part 1 of our weather tray review
https://www.donation...erTray/index_p1.html

its very similar to weather watcher, but it has a special page for maps, and has some animated maps too.
they are organized a little differently.

definietly worth checking out though.

still i would say they arent perfect.

does anyone who loves looking at such map know any other weather tools that are really good at letting you navigate around weather maps?

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Best Weather Monitor Tool / Re: some comments after using some of the programs

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 09:11 AM »

the maps are definitely fun - but there are so many its a little overwhelming.
the map history menu is useful, but a "favorite maps" menu where you could choose what to put in there might be more useful.

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General Software Discussion / alphabetic file mover

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 02:49 AM »

as seen on freeware world team site today:
http://users.skynet....ultibox/filesort.htm

takes a big dir of files and sorts them into subdirs.

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Living Room / Re: Software Listing Sites - Hall of Fame vs. Hall of Shame

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 02:32 AM »

i agree with you zaine about security risk downloading from another site.. but then some software authors dont have good hosting of their own.

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Living Room / Re: Software Listing Sites - Hall of Fame vs. Hall of Shame

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 02:32 AM »

the one thing that fileforum (betanews) does better than any other site i know about is list program updates, with lists of whats new.  can be really helpful though it is a bit uneven regarding which authors provide good change info.

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DesktopCoral / Re: window classes?

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 02:01 AM »

glad to hear it works.
yeah i was talking about your nicely organized desktop and launch bar thing.
might be nice to hear more about the software you are using if you feel like it.

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Best Weather Monitor Tool / Re: some comments after using some of the programs

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 01:59 AM »

thanks for that great post - very helpful actually.
i also got the impression that weatherbug might have the best combination of features.. the advertising really turned me off though, and the non-advertising version requires a regular subscription which i think it unacceptable.

weatherwatcher is the one i currently use, but you're points about weather.com not updating frequently enough is good.

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Mircryption / Norton antivirus false alarm

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2005, 01:55 AM »

there is a known false alarm about a virus in mircryption full pack.

first things first:
it is a known false positive, and norton seems to be the only
antivirus that is upset about the file (stdio).  email to norton to
get them to correct their database to not false alarm on this file
have been unheeded.

however, it's an
optional file (stdio.mrc) that it not used in a normal install.
its only used if you want to run the mcboard addon to mircryption from
your local mirc (instead of using an eggdrop bot).  in other words
only .01% of people would ever use this file.

so, i really need to just remove it from the setup and re-upload a
version without it and tell people where they can download this file
if they want to use it.

the mircryption .exe setup files are purposefully made to be zip
compatible.  so if you like you can open the .exe in any zip program
like winzip and extract the files and you will see that norton is only
mad about that one useless file which you can just let norton delete.

it's LONG overdue that i upload a new version of the setup packages, and leave out this file, etc.
i will do it this weekend.

sorry for any worries.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Older Project Url Snooper Forum

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 09:17 AM »

thanks veblin, removing now.

ps. check your personal messages on this forum.

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Living Room / Re: What Programs Run In Your System Tray?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 08:15 AM »

provides annoying reminders of scheduled tasks -- which, apparently, I require

hahahahahahahah 

gives me idea for making a new program and calling it: "Annoying Reminders"

i think we should review notes programs after graphic viewers.

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Living Room / Re: This "keyboard" looks so cool for customization freaks

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 08:02 AM »

nice.

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DesktopCoral / Re: window classes?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 07:50 AM »

btw those are some nice looking screenshots.

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Living Room / Re: This "keyboard" looks so cool for customization freaks

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 07:47 AM »

oh those ymouse keyboards look fantastic.

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DesktopCoral / Re: window classes?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 07:46 AM »

i'm not sure i fully have a grasp on the problem but try:

TMainForm

as the name of the window class of desktopcoral.

see if that works and let me know.

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Living Room / Software Listing Sites - Hall of Fame vs. Hall of Shame

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2005, 02:31 AM »

i think i'm going to make a web page with this info but i thought i'd start it as a thread here to get comments and additions, etc.

I don't know if you guys know how software submissions work.. basically there are tons of sites that list shareware and freeware.  A very few of these sites have some really dedicated people who go and find software on their own (i've heaped well deserved praise on freeware world team for example).

most other sites rely on authors to submit their software announcements.

now there are two basic main ways that an author can submit software announcements, with lots of minor details different between sites.

the main ways are using an industry standardized PAD file, which describes the program, its license, download and screenshot urls, etc.

sites which support PAD file submissions are 1000x easier to submit too, and much less prone to mistakes.  such sites get much love from me.  here are some noteworthy sites that i have gradually accumulated that support PAD file submissions:

RocketDownload
Sofotex
Softpedia
DirFiles
SixFiles
3d2f.com

other sites insist on having their own unique forms which gather exactly the same info as a PAD form but make you type everything manually. REALLY ANNOYING.  thumbs down to these sites. i am seriously thinking about trying to mount a letter writing campaign/boycott to get them to convert to PAD file support:

FileForum
SnapFiles
MajorGeeks
Shareware Junkies
NoNags
Tucows

There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for a site not supporting PAD files, except plain laziness.  These sites are in my hall of shame - if you know people at these sites, or you are a member of their forums, or just want to help, please drop these sites an email and tell them to get with the 21st century and add support for submitted PAD files.

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Programmer Libs / JrDebugLogger and other tools

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 11:31 PM »

Feel free to post any questions or bug reports regarding JrDebugLogger here.
https://www.donation...buglogger/index.html

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Mirc Script Pack / TileMinimizer and SuperSlapper

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 11:29 PM »

I'll be adding some mirc scripts to my download page soon:

• TileMinimizer - userful for people who like to use the "tiled" view mode in mirc, but have too many windows to comfortably display on screen at the same time.  This script automatically minimizes and restores channel windows based on recent activity.
• SuperSlapper - fun and highly customizable and randomizable insult (or compliment) script.

ps1. mIrc is an irc (internet relay chat) client (www.mirc.com).
ps2. there is a donationcoder.com irc channel (#donationcoder on efnet).

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder Club - maybe silly idea

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 11:22 AM »

yeah i think we might need to have a contest for the design of a mascot..

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder Club - maybe silly idea

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 10:06 AM »

the cat is called "dog dog"

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Living Room / make your own (legal) US postal stamps

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 08:57 AM »

http://photo.stamps.com/PhotoStamps

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Living Room / The DonationCoder Club - maybe silly idea

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 08:10 AM »

so, we've talked in past about putting up a little thank you page to list people or organizations who have donated to the site (and who do not ask to remain anonymous).

it has also been suggested that we might have like a DonationCoder.com tshirt or something to encourage donations.

i don't have any expectation that this would be a major draw for people, but it could be a fun thing.

so i was thinking of putting these two ideas and maybe like a fun postcard, under the heading of a "DonationCoder Club"

it would be in the model of public broadcasting fund raising.. all those who donate would automatically be part of the DonationCoder Club, and would be listed (if they want) on our thank you / member page with picture and website (again only if they want to be listed).

if you donate a certain amount you would get a little thank you gift, postcard, tshirt, bumper sticker, etc.  just something fun.
or a membership kit of some sort (secret magic decoder ring, secret handshack instructions, etc. hehe), maybe like membership card with charter membership id#. again just stuff that might be fun and very cheap to produce.  each membership card would be stamped for authenticity with a pawprint by my cat using animal-safe ink.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Schedule for Next Coding Snacks Weekend

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 07:45 AM »

I think it looks like the next Coding Snacks Weekend will on July 15, so keep the requests coming.

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Best ScreenCaster / Re: Open Source Alternative (CamStudio)

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2005, 02:53 AM »

yup: http://www.rendersoftware.com/

something is really fishy..
looks like they must have made some deal with macromedia to promote robodemo/captivate and stop providing their software.
but at the same time its on sourceforge.

you can see in the sourceforge downloads mentions of camstudio that used to be available on rendersoftware page.
sounds like macromedia made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

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Best ScreenCaster / Open Source Alternative (CamStudio)

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2005, 08:09 PM »

http://sourceforge.n.../projects/camstudio/

haven't tried it myself yet..

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General Software Discussion / control startup program times

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2005, 02:24 PM »

someone asked a while ago about being able to control startup times of apps.
just saw this via (http://startupguru.l...beach.com/sug_ss.asp):

http://startupguru.l...beach.com/sug_ss.asp