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Developer's Corner / Re: Motivation For Freeware Maintenance?

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 02:36 PM »

Pride.  Also, the satisfaction that somebody else is using something you created.  In regards to Coding Snacks, I thoroughly enjoy taking somebody's idea and creating something tangible for them.  For me, it's never been about donations though I do appreciate, and use, them.  I'm gainfully employed full-time, so I keep my donations as sort of a "fun money" account for me to buy bits, bobs, toys, games and software.  =]

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 01:21 PM »

Games gifted.  =]  Enjoy.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 01:10 PM »

But having seen what YOU found - I'll take the X-Com pack! Is my donation still acceptable

-timns (December 21, 2010, 01:06 PM)

Sure.  =]  PM the email address you'd like me to gift this to.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:53 PM »

Thanks...which game on Steam did you want?  This one?:

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/964/

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:41 PM »

If I track something down that's steam-only and we give this a try, what sort of payment options would be acceptable?

-timns (December 21, 2010, 12:20 PM)

You can either PayPal me the money or send me DC credits for the amount.  Easy peasy...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:37 PM »

Hmmm...I did notice the mouse cursor stuttering (and CPU spikes) while using this app.  By chance, are you polling the mouse position constantly?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:31 PM »

Nice application.  Well done. 

You may want to consider disabling the movement function while the options dialog is present.  That way, the cursor doesn't go away if people decide to type values into the options instead of using the up/down controls.  Also, an enable/disable via a hotkey or tray menu would be nice, too. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a game for Christmas: turn-based

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:05 PM »

The downside is that's it's delivered via Steam. I have had a lot of trouble with those clods. They cannot seem to get the hang of my address at all, and keep insisting that I don't live in the country that I do!

-timns (December 21, 2010, 09:15 AM)

One of us could always gift the game to you...then shouldn't have to worry about their GeoIP thing hanging you up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 12:00 PM »

and ended up installing several new apps as a result! Better than wrapping Xmas pressies!

-Beth UK (December 21, 2010, 11:51 AM)

There's no cure for this disease.  Just ask Curt, or Darwin, or....   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 11:47 AM »

For the record, I use ArsClip and, when necessary, my own ClipTrap.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any better Clipboard program.

« Last post by skwire on December 21, 2010, 09:12 AM »

Check here first: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=22650.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: My tribute to the guys and gals of NANY 2011

« Last post by skwire on December 20, 2010, 08:09 PM »

Awesome.      

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2010 Proposal - Duplicate Photo Deleter

« Last post by skwire on December 20, 2010, 07:49 PM »

That's perfect for a NANY.   

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Could a US gamer help me with gifting the "2k mega pack" on steam?

« Last post by skwire on December 20, 2010, 02:54 PM »

Crap like this is why people pirate

-Eóin (December 20, 2010, 02:47 PM)

Beg pardon, Eóin?  The OP wants to buy the game pack...how is that pirating?

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Finished Programs / Re: Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss

« Last post by skwire on December 20, 2010, 01:49 PM »

You're welcome.  Happy holidays.   

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

« Last post by skwire on December 20, 2010, 12:29 AM »

Not at this time.  I run Windows XP.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: rename files according to a list - not the usual rename - please read on!

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 11:05 PM »

Real men don't need undo.   

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help from Inno Setup gurus

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 08:33 PM »

Create a [Tasks] section like this:

[Select]

[Tasks]
Name: desktopicon; Description: {cm:CreateDesktopIcon}; GroupDescription: {cm:AdditionalIcons}; Flags: unchecked
Name: quicklaunchicon; Description: {cm:CreateQuickLaunchIcon}; GroupDescription: {cm:AdditionalIcons}; Flags: unchecked

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: rename files according to a list - not the usual rename - please read on!

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 07:50 PM »

I hope you don't mind, Krish, this is what I came up with for Tom:

Intro:
Tom's Audio Renamer (TAR, for short).   It uses simple regular expressions for matching groups within a filename and allowing the user to use those matched groups to reformat the name.

Download:
http://skwire.dcmemb.../apps/snacks/TAR.zip

Notes/caveats:

• Pre-populated with a match string and a format string that should work for your files.
• No settings are currently saved.
• Minimal testing so use this app with copies of your files, please.

Usage:

• Drag-n-drop an album's worth of files to the list.
• Adjust the match and format string if necessary.
• Highlight a file in the list and move it up and down with ctrl-up and ctrl-down (or the right click menu).
• Once you have the list in the order you want, click the Rename button.
• Click the "?" button for more help information.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 02:34 PM »

I've added them all to my list.  Thanks.  =]

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 10:42 AM »

When it comes to fantasy, there aren't too many series that I don't enjoy.    kyrathaba (and any other Martin fans), did you know that HBO are making a series based on the Song of Ice and Fire books called Game of Thrones?  It looks completely badass.

http://www.hbo.com/g...f-thrones/index.html

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Finished Programs / Re: Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss

« Last post by skwire on December 19, 2010, 10:38 AM »

I updated the name and links:  http://skwire.dcmemb...acks/HarvestTime.zip

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by skwire on December 18, 2010, 09:12 PM »

I'm reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.  Good stuff if you're a fantasy reader like me.  Really deep, take-no-prisoners type of style (similar to George R. R. Martin).

http://en.wikipedia....n_book_of_the_fallen

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Living Room / Re: Can we compare file transfer protocols?

« Last post by skwire on December 18, 2010, 08:10 PM »

superboyac, you can do what you want (map remote drives locally) with Hamachi.  I've done it myself.  However, and this is a big however in your case since I know how particular you are, you're probably not going to be satisfied with the speed of working with files over what boils down to you and your friends' internet links.  If the files are small, fine, you can probably get away with it.  However, let's say you're working on a text file that is five megs in size.  You open up your text editor, browse to the remote file and open it.  You will now have to wait until that five megs of data is uploaded from your friend's internet link.  In other words, he's uploading five megs of data to you and will be constrained by whatever his internet upload speed is.  Now, once that's done, you make some edits and choose to save the document.  You now have to upload those five megs back to him...all the while constrained by your upload speed.  Each and every time you make a save, that five megs will need to be uploaded to him.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: JottiQ

« Last post by skwire on December 16, 2010, 07:58 PM »

Add to JottiQ(ueue)