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Developer's Corner / Re: Potential Commission: "Super WebPage Post-Processor"

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 08:15 PM »

What's the sweet spot for this kind of App? And for apps of this rough range of complexity?

About the highest I can go is a shade over $100.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 08:08 PM »

Sure, you're almost there, so I can wait a day. If nothing else, do a refresh on the whole desktop, maybe with just a tail end script call or something.

Yay! Go away MS Wizard!
"You have opened a wizard. (next) This wizard will extract files. (next) Do you want to extract them here? (fair enough) (next) Wizard will now extract files. (next) Wizard has finished. (Need to uncheck box to not be bombed with the folder opening.) (Finish.) Are you sure you want to finish? (Yes) Clippy says you might need assistance finishing the wizard. (No I don't.)"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to sort your Gmail messages by size using Google docs

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 08:03 PM »

Hehe I am at 24Gigs of a 25 Gig quota!

It seems to be running now. Here goes!

Edit: It only found about 10 emails the first run before it timed out! What use is that?  I can do manual heuristics faster than that!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:53 PM »

It's just so much nicer to do math in words rather than fart around so much.

-Renegade (April 22, 2012, 09:55 AM)

"Number of farts allowed safely before causing global warming catastrophe." 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.42

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:52 PM »

You have about 150 colours there, but Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia..../wiki/List_of_colors">lists about 900</a> (not sure if there's a better source). Now if I can find a HTML table to CSV converter...

-Twinbee (April 11, 2012, 09:29 AM)

It looks like it saves almost sanely into text, so you geniuses should be able to make a 50 line script that cleans it up and then just open it as a text file imported to Excel (or your choice of other useful spreadsheet), then just save out as CSV. Maybe?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:40 PM »

Close, but I dunno if this is a quirk on just my machine or not, when it extracts it seems like the folder isn't created, so when it puts the archive into the folder, it looks like it's gone! However, Right Click - Refresh makes it appear.

Any advice?

(In a related note, another app that modifies show/don't show file extensions needs a refresh too.)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:33 PM »

Wonder why that didn't catch on or get built right into Windows Explorer... I'd love for a utility to handle .rar files that way.

-nosh (April 25, 2012, 01:43 PM)

I got the impression that MS used to like to build "purposely bad knockoffs" of famous utilities just enough to cannibalize the premum app, and the extract wizard always felt like a junk copy of things like WinZip. I've seen more effort from some of y'all on like 3 weeks on an app than lots of MS's little trinkets. (System Restore was another one, felt like a junk copy of GoBack.)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:27 PM »

I want a webpage like that with each square being a link!

-TaoPhoenix (April 25, 2012, 04:30 PM)

Here you go!

http://www.ludumdare...e-23/?action=preview

Not quite what you asked for, but it's the best I can do.

-Deozaan (April 25, 2012, 04:32 PM)

I saw that page - are you the webmaster of LudumDare?

And at the rate I'm invoking my Resident Pest status I'll have to donate another couple bucks soon! (Stop glaring at me Cody!)

Wouldn't it be as simple as (copyright aside) saving all the link art in one giant folder, then just forcing the image size down to whatever miniscule size works best, like 10x10? It feels like a really simple page, because it has no real layout, it's just a smash-up of a zillion pictures in a row times x rows.

I just had the idea at work to do it like that Lincoln & the Woman painting, where it is a woman up close, but the broad textures turn out to be a low-res picture of Abraham Lincoln if you stand back. In this case it would be Big Brother made up of a zillion links to all the news stories.

I'm *almost* good enough to write that if I had the art say somewhere else on commission. But I just thought someone knew how to blast it off with their eyes closed so to speak. (Really, it feels like under 25 lines of "real code" and then just the links and maybe a lot of BR's at the end of lines.)

(P.S. I can also smell an App at work that can take any picture and then per the settings of # and size of pieces, split the big picture precisely into that collection of link art for that page.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.5.0.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 07:17 PM »

Hmm. I'm getting a No Application is Associated error for the script. What should I download and run?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 04:30 PM »

I want a webpage like that with each square being a link! Then I think we'll have a new winner for World's Worst Webpage!

At this rate we can probably make a page like that with all of the Big Brother new stories and maybe the Patent/Copyright ones too!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 11:57 AM »

This topic here on DC is very relevant to this discussion (actually, I think there are other similar ones).

-jgpaiva (April 25, 2012, 11:20 AM)

It is! However, I think I'll be happiest with the Snack in the works that Chris is working on. 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 10:32 AM »

Here is the app. FastUnzip Snack. There is no settings dialog or anything. Just install and it will associate to ZIP files (may add more by request). Then just double click on a ZIP file and it will extract to the current folder as a sub-folder of the ZIP file name. So if you have a Zip file called MyZip.zip, it will extract to a folder called MyZip. Once extracted, the folder is opened.

For now that is all it does, but I may add other features.
Maybe adding a settings box that gives an option to show a popup menu when double clicking a ZIP to Extract Here or Extract to sub-folder.

Any other ideas?

-c.gingerich (April 25, 2012, 09:50 AM)

That's promising too Chris!

Please add about three more features:
1. Option on/off whether the new created folder opens. A lot of times I am just managing programs, and I don't actually want to look at it/run it.
2. Add support for Rar files. Seems like a lot of those Ludum games are Rars.
3. Add an option what to do with the original Zip. A. move it inside the created unzip folder, or B. Trash it.

These should be  in settings, not individual dialogs. Then once the user gets his patterns down, he can just cruise.

Thanks for jumping into Snack Land!

--Tao

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 25, 2012, 12:43 AM »

Result: Extract-Now is close, unless Mr. Gingerich wants to write a brutal even faster one that runs on (double clicks or something.)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 11:49 PM »

Okay, Better, "extract automatically" seems to have worked, so score 1 for Auto-Extract.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 10:41 PM »

Edit: Seems the first test file was an invalid archive, stand by.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 07:19 PM »

Thanks everyone at least for looking!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 06:10 PM »

"You" came up with this - but Cnet claims it's $29.95 to buy! It's 5 clicks man, not $29.95 worth!

Or is that something evil that CNet stuck on there?

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Finished Programs / DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 05:28 PM »

I'm on XP and lately I'm downloading a lot of zipped stuff. The slightly clunky design of the WinXP extractor is finally irritating me! It's between 5 and 6 clicks to unzip a file via the wizard.

What about a "Turbo-Unzipper"?

Something like click to select the file, then either a hotkey unzips it, "yes I want it here, no, I don't want to open the resulting folder." Then at the very end it does something like the Files2Folder trick and jams the Zip inside the newly created folder.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 05:07 PM »

Apparently it ended with 1402 games - that's a lot of games!! 

I might have to call in "sick" to work tomorrow... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft takes on Dropbox with major SkyDrive update

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 09:12 AM »

Glad I looked at the whole thread then.

I have XP, so I guess I don't get to play!

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Living Room / Re: Google looking good today

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 24, 2012, 06:42 AM »

That's a cute logo.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CintaNotes 1.6, 10 April 2012, goes "Freemium" (pay for extra features)

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 23, 2012, 07:49 AM »

Hi,

On Notesholder, the tabbed categories looks very nice, but I do not not see any attachment to specific Windows, like your utility program opened.  That is a big part of my sticky use, potentially, to keep an ongoing note for each program.  When it opens, the note comes up and says hi.

Steven

-Steven Avery (April 23, 2012, 02:59 AM)

I think that feature is only in a few of the notes-holder programs. The only one I've heard of doing that (and much more bare metal) is Anand's Stick A Note from here, though it doesn't hold notes at all, more like "pops them out of thin air when they matter". It's a clever app, though I simply haven't used it much just out of inertia.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CintaNotes 1.6, 10 April 2012, goes "Freemium" (pay for extra features)

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 22, 2012, 11:37 AM »

Still too simplistic looking for me - it seems to stack all the notes into one giant heap.

And I can't seem to test out the HTML export *before* paying the license fee, so this is a no go for me.

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Living Room / Re: The case for and against Censorship on the forum

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 21, 2012, 01:17 AM »

Naw, I think the original post from Mouser was locked, not to get flooded. I added a couple of new test topics.

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Living Room / Re: The case for and against Censorship on the forum

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 20, 2012, 11:58 PM »

Thought from the 2nd thread:

mouser has always said that he feels that dc is not the right place for political and religious subjects. He's often ignored, but that wish does keep most of those discussions in check, which is helpful imo. I dont consider that censorship.
I've never seen a post censored here in the sense of removed.

-tomos (April 20, 2012, 02:50 AM)

-IainB (April 20, 2012, 11:54 PM)

Combined with your other nice shout out of my post, this is mostly "superseded" with the advent of the Soap Box.