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General Software Discussion / AutoClose

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2005, 03:09 PM »

tiny little freeware (mentioned on our site of the week, freeware world team), AutoClose:
http://www.frankisoft.com/

its for people who use internet explorer (or related browser) who have activex disabled for security resons and are sick of the popup activex blocked error messageboxes.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Scroll Thru Clipbard Contents When Pasting

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2005, 02:29 PM »

we are going to do a clipboard tool review soon..
and i look forward to hearing opinions about desired features and stuff.

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Living Room / New Site of the Week

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2005, 04:55 AM »

Freeware World Team

https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: GrafxShop

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2005, 03:28 AM »

hahaahahahaha

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Best ScreenCaster / TechSmith has donated 5 free copies of Camtasia Studio 3

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2005, 08:26 PM »

I'm really pleased to announce that TechSmith has donated to us 5 free copies of Camtasia Studio 3 (their latest version to be released at the end of June).

Was a very nice gesture on the part of TechSmith, and we will be giving out these copies to members of the site.

My intention is to give most of them away to the next guest reviewers, partly as a sign of appreciation, and partly to help them with their reviews.

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Best Website Change Monitoring Tool / Re: compared with Check and Get

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2005, 08:24 PM »

the new version 3 beta does sound like they are adding some key features they have been missing:
http://activeurls.com/en/beta.htm

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Best ScreenCaster / Discount for BB FlashBack and BB FlashBack Express is now available

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2005, 01:13 PM »

I've posted the 50% discount codes for BB FlashBack and BB FlashBack Express in the members only section of the forum.

I was thrilled that we were able to get discounts on both the high end and low end programs from blueberry consoltants because it means a fantastic deal for both people who know they are serious about screencasting, and those that just want to dabble in it.

If you read the review you'll see that we really liked BB FlashBack Express a lot, and this discount makes the program $20, which is an incredibly amazing bargain - i highly recommend you take advantage of this even if you're not sure you really need to the program, just in case.  Let's show blueberry that offering discounts through us is a good way to reach people that might not otherwise be customers.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Spring-loaded folders!

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2005, 10:03 PM »

what explorer and others don't do it "unspring" and close after the operation.. i also dont know if auto-opening occurs only in tree(folder) pane.
personally that's fine with me, i prefer them to stay open and don't need it working in main panel..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2005, 05:02 PM »

ok i think i got it:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

other features added in this version:
 Improved multimon capture functions 
 Added new capture method - capture specific sized regions 
 

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Living Room / Nice online virus-testing site

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2005, 02:16 PM »

http://www.virustotal.com/

a friend passed this to me and speaks highly of it.  it's a free service that will let you upload (or email) files to it which it then checks for viruses using multiple well-known virus scanning engines.  great for a second opinion if your antivirus reports something suspicious.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2005, 02:06 AM »

what operating system are you using orange?
also, can you tell me if it exits normally if you right click and select "exit" from the tray?

i'm going to try some experiments on a vmware as soon as you tell me what os you have,
but another thing worth trying is going into options -> general settings -> close to tray.
(then make sure you use minimize button to make it go into the tray not close button which will close it).
if that works then at least its a clue.

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 06:49 PM »

that sounds like the official agnitum tech support team i remember, lol.
you'd think if they have these form letter replies the least they could do is send them to you more expiditiously.

ps.
imho hardware firewalls/routers are useless for almost every possible danger you should be worried about.
if you are an isp at risk for denial of service attacks, a hardware firewall is important, but for a home user, they are useless, and a software firewall is what you need.

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Mouser's Zone / how i work on programs

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 06:12 PM »

i just wanted to write a note to people who make suggestions or bug reports..
hopefully its clear over time from watching the forum, but basically i try to address serious bugs right away, and other features for my programs tend to get added in batches.  so just because i don't act on a suggestion right away doesn't mean that i'm ignoring it.  it's just with a large group of programs i'm usually only working on one or two at a atime, and suggestions for the others get recorded and will wait until i shift back into doing major work on that program.

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Best Firewall / Re: Outpost and WinXP SP2

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:40 PM »

you should run a software firewall, at any cost.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:32 PM »

can you try this version and let me know if it solves the problem?
https://www.donation...ScreenshotCaptor.zip

it's just a new exe, so copy it over existing one to use it.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Idea for this week, 6/20/05: Graphics Viewers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 03:58 PM »

great to hear that nudone has agreed to do this review, let's all give him as much help as possible by helping to identify programs, features, weaknesses, etc.

I've always liked ThumbsPlus, and i've tried AcdSee a couple times and got turned off it when it stalled in the middle of an uninstall once and left garbage all over my registry and stuff.  but i heard its gotten better.  thumbsplus seemed less busy to me and easier to concentrate on.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 03:54 PM »

thanks! it's always nice to hear that someone likes a program.
i'll try to have a fixed version up in the next day or two for you to test-
any problem that is reproducable is usually easily to fix.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Idea for this week, 6/20/05: Graphics Viewers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 07:12 AM »

there's no rush to do graphic viewer this week (also dont forget its a two week process now), so let's just postpone graphics viewers until you are ready to do it - better to have a good review by someone who knows the subject better than me.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 07:09 AM »

let me try to fix it this weekend - it's probably just a simple thing that im not obeying a request for system close - trying to minimize instead.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Idea for this week, 6/20/05: Graphics Viewers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 05:17 AM »

ok yes i see now..  this is probably a more complicated award then it first looks... you have photo management tools with some viewing ability (like acdsee), and then you have these super efficient mini viewers like irfanview.

i guess to be honest im really not qualified to review either
so back to the drawing board or search for guest reviewer.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:47 AM »

the scenario i was thinking of is perhaps if there is an "unsaved" change to a file pending.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug report: Screenshot Captor stops Windows logoff

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:46 AM »

yipe.. i guess that would be considered a bug
ill try to identify problem and fix this weekend...
is it reproducable? (ie happen every time? i have it running 24/7 on my machine and haven't noticed this, but i don't reboot often, and i can think of one scenario where it might happen).

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Idea for this week, 6/20/05: Graphics Viewers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:44 AM »

what exactly do you mean view from more than one directory?

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Living Room / Freeware World Team

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 04:35 AM »

Any freeware people not checking this site daily is really missing out.. they are seriously on fire and doing fantastic work discovering and telling people about freeware they find on the web.  some really nice unique stuff lately..

http://www.all4you.d....php?action=newlinks

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Living Room / Re: Adding New Software Authors to the Site

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2005, 01:15 AM »

one requirement that i think might be somewhat controversial is my view that an author on donationcoder.com should not have some freeware programs on donationcoder and others offered as shareware.  i don't have a problem with shareware, and iff an author decides at some point they want to leave donationcoder.com and pursue shareware that's of course perfectly fine.  but  i just think it would be inappropriate for DonationCoder.Com authors to be here and also sell shareware simultaneously. *

*i'm completely open to a kind of dual-license for commercial use, where an author might say that if you use a tool in some direct COMMERCIAL capacity, you are expected to make a certain donation after you start realizing profits.  i think it would be nice to see some programming libraries offered through DonationCoder.com of this flavor.