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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Congratulations on meeting (or nearly meeting) your fund raising goal

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 10:27 AM »

I presume you've seen that great thermometer up above?  

I would be curious to know the frequency of 'large' donations, vs a bunch of small donations...

-db90h (April 14, 2012, 09:15 AM)

Drawing upon my penchant for semi-science, "When there is info to be tracked, as the number of users/visitors increases, the probability that someone is/has tracked it increases. A sample concept formula is ((interest of participants)*(type of data to be tracked)*(rewards for tracking including satisfaction)) / (Some constant that weeds out the number of people who don't wish to bother.)  

So what you're really asking, since there's a 73.1415926% chance someone has already made the chart, is "Will the real DC Shady Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up!" 

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General Software Discussion / Re: MuPDF-based enhanced GUI

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 10:18 AM »

Except I can't get it to display a scroll down to any other page!

Though it does seem to notice page up and down.

Edit: Shift-Scroll seems to zoom too, so that's almost enough!

Otherwise yes, it is pretty fast, and it takes the extra trick of loading page 1 then loading the rest, so that it does seem to snap! I set it as default for a while.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Congratulations on meeting (or nearly meeting) your fund raising goal

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 10:13 AM »

Interesting TaoPhoenix, thanks for explaining what makes the difference for you - and likely most everyone else. I'm not sure how many other active developers there really are here besides Mouser, but I know there are a few willing to pick up odd jobs. That's been one of the goals DC hasn't accomplished, to be honest -- in that attracting other developers would require some sort of donation distribution system. Or has this been tackled via direct donations to specific developers?

As you say, the Forum content and community is a good one. Troll control is indeed *very* important too.. they can kill an entire forum very easily.

@nosh - I suspect we're not the only ones with such an affliction ;p.

-db90h (April 14, 2012, 09:59 AM)

Well, less'ee - the donation system lets you both put moolah into the general fund for server costs etc, or parcel it out to specific people. (Mouser, can it be any member at all? Or just "registered developers?") This segues into my next topic:

"Active Developers" - in a sense, any time you see any NANY entry, any "announce my software" entry, and any bugfix, that's active development. It's fine that "some are more active than others". I can say that I paid equal parts to Mouser, Skwire, and Kyrathaba from my donation. I've chatted with Anand on a couple of his apps. MilesAhead is looking into a bug for me on his app. I've probably crossed paths with a couple more devs here at lesser levels.

Meanwhile, in the "Odd Job" dept, I know my suggested price ranges have been low, but I think the current big hole is what I've been calling "Coding Lunch Commissions" - bigger than the "Snack", but we can't normally afford y'all's professional rates either. My quick instinct is to make a commission a minimum of $50, with a little room for more, and try to "minimax" the feature set - I always ask "This sounds simple, but is it in fact damn hard?". Rule of honor is to try not to crush the guy with a single 500-hour feature. So I don't yet have the economics of that mastered yet, but I'm always willing to listen to/for volunteers.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 10:00 AM »

Oh, you had the correct one , you can check on anyone's memberpage what the last posts are (one of the links at the bottom of that page, see: TaoPhoenix )

-Ath (April 14, 2012, 09:35 AM)

I love it when dumb guesses prove to be right! 

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Congratulations on meeting (or nearly meeting) your fund raising goal

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 09:54 AM »

Congratulations on meeting (or nearly meeting) your fund raising goal!

I must admit that I am surprised by the generosity shown to DonationCoder. My experiences in the F/OSS world have shown me that a simple 'Donate' button doesn't do it. To get donations you must be truly engaged with those people in a pretty intimate way. I would be curious to know the frequency of 'large' donations, vs a bunch of small donations, but I know that's private info . It just amazes me.  It's contradictory to this mucked up capitalist world, and I have to give you credit for pulling it off and not compromising on your principles. Of course, I haven't compromised on my principles either, but I have had to charge a modest fee for software rather than solicit donations. I am not sure I would survive if I tried your approach - too few people like me on a 'personal' level ;p. The few who do like me I tend to drive away at some point or another.

Anyway, congratulations ... That's not a small number, at least not to me. It's an amazing number.

-db90h (April 14, 2012, 09:15 AM)

There's some important differences here vs a traditional donate.
1. Multi donation processors. I despise Paypal; and that's the polite version!   I am willing to consider (and did) donating, without it becoming a fight between the receiver vs having to deal with Paypal. So here, I used Kagi, and it went fine. I've seen Plimus elsewhere too. They seem okay.

2. Multi value. There's a little bit of a different feel when it's just 1 guy doing a thing, yeah it's helpful to donate, but soon you're out $300 by the time you're done. Here, while the choice of programs has a couple of gaps, the coders are usually actively responding to pests like me!   So it's like an entrance badge to a slightly crazed carnival. Then in between playing with the apps, the discussions have some of the best comments I've seen, the troll control is very good, and it doesn't have the junk-post 10-year memes of places like slashdot. (Which is also in my top 5.)

3. Meanwhile, the "donation spread" isn't 100% private - this is the age of the internet gang, and before you jump all over me for being Captain Obvious, what the internet does best is Long Tails. So follow me here - we just had this giant bar telling us how much money came in... are you telling me that not one of DC's 100,000 members made a chart? "Gentle Obscurity" is a Pre-Internet notion! : )

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 09:44 AM »

But if I beg and plead can we set one of them to default on LeftClick? Pleeese?  

-TaoPhoenix (April 13, 2012, 05:40 PM)

If you had the option, would you want just the simple left-click configurable, or would you want to allow shift, ctrl & alt combinations too?  That would give you four methods with a click or key + click.

-x16wda (April 13, 2012, 07:25 PM)

Depending if it's either-or, or both - (it's easy to say "moar featurz!"), I am just trying to fine tune SS-C into a total replacement for Snippy. I saw this early on, and it just bothered me to see such an immense program be not usable for me!  (At that particular stage.)  So for myself personally, I'd just want the Left-Click configurable, because my ailing memory begins to lose count of which is alt-something, or control-something, or shift-alt-etc. My workhorse use case (with Snippy, and requested here) is click tray icon which launches the crosshairs, click then hold left mouse button to draw the capture box, send it to the clipboard (I found that already in the prefs), then paste it into a Sticky (Tom Revell of Zhorn.)

So I'm all for there also being those shift-click things too, I just wouldn't use them all that much. I'd probably go back to Mouser's other suggestion, so if I needed something fancy, rightclick pulls up the whole menu list. But since that one use case is 95% of my workflow, that's why I requested it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 09:35 AM »

Oh well. Thanks for trying.

It's still a cute idea. I have one more suggestion. If I launch it behind an instance of a Transdesk second desktop node, is there a setting that keeps it from "barging into the main desktop node"? Aka When I start to launch it, say the first 3 pages load, then I switch back to my primary node, the other 5 pages then load there.

Any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 14, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Edit: I actually don't know which of 40hz's posts is the 6000th. I just was dazzled by the nice shiny number! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 05:40 PM »

you can trigger any of the capture modes from a right click on tray icon already.

-mouser (April 13, 2012, 05:32 PM)

Fairly enough pointed out!

But if I beg and plead can we set one of them to default on LeftClick? Pleeese? 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 05:26 PM »

can we make one of the "hotkeys" clicking on the tray icon?

what do you mean?

-mouser (April 13, 2012, 05:19 PM)

Currently my hot(key/etc) is PrintScreen to go to Selected Region. Aka, pull up the (small!) crosshairs and start drawing a selection box.

But instead of that key or any other, can that be given to a mouse click on the tray icon?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture cursor?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 05:15 PM »

Yes.

I posted my notes in the other thread.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 05:13 PM »

We're getting there!
I think I have one more mini-feature request - can we make one of the "hotkeys" clicking on the tray icon? That way it can all be mouse driven without reaching over to PrintScrn.

Otherwise it's getting close to replacing Snippy!
If anyone wants to know, I am running with the following options:

Save & Load Files / Don't AutoSave
Window Capturing 1 / Do not try to capture Aero (on XP)
ScreenShot Folder / Adjusted Folder location
Post Capture / Copy Image to Clipboard
Post Capture / Do not play sound
*Selection Capture Options/ Uncheck Full Size Crosshais
*Selection Capture Options/ Uncheck Zoom Panel

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 04:36 PM »

Sorry, where is the link we should go to for testing the beta?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 01:56 PM »

I don't think I understood what was bothering you at first. I'm thinking if you are typing in an editor applet in the browser, then you run UrlPack on another browser, even though the first browser is on top, the keyboard focus shifts to the other one. I can see the annoyance factor while trying to type.

If I still have it wrong please let me know. But in the meantime I'm going to play around with some code and see if there's a way I can launch the program(the second browser) with a No Activate flag.

If I find anything promising I'll post.

-MilesAhead (April 13, 2012, 01:07 PM)

Yes, this is pretty much the problem. If you're doing stuff (editor applet - is that what they call these forum boxes?) and you run URL pack, it yanks you away multiple times. If you can get it to NotActivate, a trick that's fun with other apps is to slam them behind a second section of Transdesk, like throwing them in their own locked room. (I have to do it with Stickies because I have over 75 open which is an eye-explosion, but I want that program to make my 5 new stickies for that day. )

Same kind of thing with URLpack - Switch in Transdesk, launch it, then switch back to DC etc, and some 2 minutes later it will all be there loaded on that second desktop instance.

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Living Room / Re: Free Hugs Campaign Video.. Wow.. A Must See..

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 01:50 PM »

wow, mouser really IS lagged...
that hug campaign is OLD.....

-Dell[a] (March 18, 2009, 09:16 PM)

So quit carping and give Mouser a hug!

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 11:37 AM »

Only about 2.5 days left for the fundraiser!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 20, 2012

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 09:59 AM »

option to switch between full screen crosshairs and tiny crosshairs now implemented; will be in next upload.

-mouser (April 13, 2012, 06:29 AM)

Great! I hope that I can replace Snippy.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Funny Videos Here [NSFW]

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 06:38 AM »

"Good, peace, freedom loving terror. Like Diet Terror. Terror Lite."

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Living Room / Re: ATTN All Gamers - YOU Are Terrorists~! =P

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 06:28 AM »

It's quite easy. We're terrorists unless we buy continual non-terrorist vouchers, compounded per minute. Then when you run out of money, your guilt transfers from "paper" to reality, with automatic dispatch of officers.

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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 04:30 AM »

"While he said he didn’t want to get into copyright math,..."

Haha! So the minute a properly calculated hard number appears, it might reverse his "noted that" talking points!

And when do we get to bring Hollywood Accounting into all this, where despite all that money, the second tier actors and scriptwriters get none of it? (Same thing for music.)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 20, 2012

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 04:23 AM »

Will the king kong sized cross-hairs be reduce-able? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 13, 2012, 04:19 AM »

Heh! I like playing "Combo" with utilities as much as the next guy, but I do like a little vertical integration into utilities so that something grows into something awesome to behold. I do get that doing it vertically leads to a bit more linking, but it's a tricky call of churning user energy to remember fancy combos vs programmer energy. Quick guess is this begins to creep out of my range for remembering all the pieces. The alternative I've been using is I just have a semi-private "jump page" with all my favorite sites linked, which open in new tabs, so I just bang clicks down the page and out pop my pages in tabs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 12, 2012, 10:09 PM »

I was just testing this out, and it's close!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rightnote, commercial alternative to abandonware Keynote

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 12, 2012, 07:46 PM »

Fair points, TaoPhoenix. Yes, softwares get their features through their developers and user communities.  

My concern is, if today there are quirks showing up in areas that aren't significant, it shakes my faith in the quality of the development. I don't want a quirk showing up tomorrow that directly affects the data because the devs are juggling a bit more than they can handle. Robustness is critical, esp. considering the kind of data a program of this nature is meant to handle.

-nosh (April 12, 2012, 05:44 PM)

A good strategy for Shareware or even Freeware is "What bugs are on outlying features" and "what bugs are on core function?".  I am satisfied with the basic saving and loading and processing and exporting of my data. Properly done an edge feature shouldn't statistically correlate to a mission critical disaster in the core code. I believe that's a profound concept to work over. So even if Firefox botches a VLC file it's still going to serve html pages.

Edit: We're moving off the model of "100 pure code" because it looks like you're doing nothing forever. The new model is Basic Code + 3 Beta Addons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 12, 2012, 05:38 PM »

Some great notes there but not what I hoped for.

When I launch it, my "secondary neo default" browser keeps trying to become an active window. So suppose I was reading DC. I'd launch the pack, and I'd hope to minimize it to keep reading DC. Instead, it keeps grabbing active window status. So I'm stuck staring kinda into blank space for 1-2 minutes while it all loads. Is it possible for those tabs to load but not to trigger active window status?