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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« Last post by lanux128 on August 08, 2007, 09:57 PM »

it depends on what i'm doing, usually i will launch programs by categories - web-browsing, word processing, music & movies, gaming & etc.. but off the cuff, it will look something like this:
• 1st i pay homage to this program called Farr, you might have heard of it..
• then the ubiquitous Firefox.
• and finally the indispensable Altap Salamander.

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Official Announcements / Re: Site of the Month for August 2007: NirSoft.net

« Last post by lanux128 on August 08, 2007, 07:34 PM »

ShellExView was updated to version 1.17 yesterday 

-Darwin (August 08, 2007, 04:46 PM)

yes, ShellExView is very useful.. i use it to disable the plethora of options that WMP puts on media files' context-menu..

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

« Last post by lanux128 on August 08, 2007, 07:23 PM »

Lanux has hit 1500 posts!

Congratulations! 

-Darwin (August 08, 2007, 02:57 PM)

thanks Darwin.. you're on track too for the next milestone..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Zortam MP3 Media Studio

« Last post by lanux128 on August 07, 2007, 07:50 PM »

(now I suppose I'll find out there are 100 DC posts about it).

-KenR (August 07, 2007, 12:56 PM)

  for the record, there is only one other post for the time being..

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by lanux128 on August 07, 2007, 07:46 PM »

thanks for sharing Ken.. i am sorry to hear that you've been undergoing a lot of pain. hopefully the surgery will be sooner to lessen your pain and here's to a quick recovery and we look forward to see you back at donationcoders.com..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 07, 2007, 07:18 PM »

Nod5: thanks for the idea! i've been thinking along that line too since the request from kiwi2b to include Outlook as well..

IconBoy: it hadn't occurred to me.. but then, i don't have any messages in my OE.. thanks, i'll fix it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 07, 2007, 01:20 AM »

IconBoy: you're welcome.. glad to be of help.

kiwi2b: sure, i can do that but since i don't have outlook 2003, first i have to find out what is the compose window's title.. don't worry, i'll post an update in a day or two..

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General Software Discussion / Re: ALSong - New Release :)

« Last post by lanux128 on August 06, 2007, 09:18 PM »

Let me know how that goes or if you need any other help.

-Renegade (August 06, 2007, 09:08 PM)

thanks Renegade.. i will try this when i'm back to the pc that i copied AlSong.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 06, 2007, 08:37 PM »

ok IconBoy, i've modified the script to auto-appear whenever OE's compose window is active and added a tooltip when exceeding the max chars.. check the above post for the update..

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General Software Discussion / Re: ALSong - New Release :)

« Last post by lanux128 on August 06, 2007, 08:14 PM »

Ryan, i did something that was not by the book and screwed up AlSong's interface.. i installed AlSong in one machine but hadn't the time to play around so i then copied the folder to my usb drive & tried on another machine but now the default interface is in Korean! how do i set it to English again? btw, if this is not allowed (copying to another system), please let me know.

on another note, Kimo Watanabe sounds just great! i also like the SAB setup..

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ESTsoft Releases ALZip v7.0 Beta with New Speed Extractor Options

« Last post by lanux128 on August 06, 2007, 07:56 PM »

thanks Ryan, i'll be giving more time to AlZip in the coming days.. also downloaded the halloween wallpapers, my kid just loved it..

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: ESTsoft Releases ALZip v7.0 Beta with New Speed Extractor Options

« Last post by lanux128 on August 05, 2007, 10:30 PM »

looks nice.. great job, Renegade.. as mentioned elsewhere, i already have ALZip. however there were some trivial requests i made at the ALTools forums some time ago. so here i am just wondering if it would be implemented..

• http://www.altools.n...w/topic/Default.aspx
• http://www.altools.n...w/topic/Default.aspx

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 05, 2007, 10:20 PM »

sure i can add notification whenever maximum character is exceeded.

but imo, autostart based on email address will be too resource-consuming, how about if the program appears whenever you have your email compose window open? in that case, i need to know your email program..

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your music player of choice?

« Last post by lanux128 on August 05, 2007, 03:56 AM »

i usually go for all-in-one media players and currently i'm using the truly awesome KMPlayer, which i came to know about from this thread..

• https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8081.0
• http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 05, 2007, 03:39 AM »

NOTE: Get the latest version of Count-as-you-type here

Due to virus false alarm on compiled Autohotkey scripts. i'm going to recompile the script and will post them later. in the meantime, i'm going to remove the download links temporarily.

i seem to have too much time on hand so i came up with this AHK script.. there is a list of changes below.

Count-as-you-type v1.36
• display number of characters typed.
• needs Autohotkey for the AHK script. there is a compiled EXE as well.

Changes:
• name change.
• added tray-balloon notification when exceeding max character.
• auto-appear when OE compose window is active.
• launch GUI by double-clicking tray-icon.
• 'Close to Tray' button closes with text kept in memory (no re-typing).
• Added gui for configuration.
• Changed window detection from AHK Class to WinTitle (see note below).
• Added Nod's code for GUI changes. (Thanks, dude!)
• GUI closes when existing compose window is closed.
• Escape key now works the same as 'Send to Tray'.
• Minor fix: Settings for email app wasn't being saved.

Note: After recognizing the difficulties in supporting more than the three pre-defined email apps, i've added the 'Quick-Send' feature where you can use this script as a stand-alone tool. Basically, type your message then click on the 'Send' button and your default email app will be opened with the message in its compose window. To use this, check the 'Quick-Send' and your 'Copy' button will morph into 'Send' button.

Main


Config


Count-as-you-type-v136.ahk (7.93 kB - downloaded 1337 times.)
Count-as-you-type-v136.exe (237.26 kB - downloaded 1267 times.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any Desktop Theme Software on Windows?

« Last post by lanux128 on August 05, 2007, 03:30 AM »

thanks for the link, Eóin.. i might give it a try once again..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 11:47 PM »

...but I thought Firefox had an SMS plugin that would do this...

-steeladept (August 03, 2007, 12:11 PM)

steeladept, i think this is what you had in mind: Teleflip

Send instant messages to cell phones via Firefox. It uses the free service Teleflip and the freeware SMTP mailer Blat. Currently only compatible with Windows and service areas of North America.

-website

• http://roachfiend.co...2005/03/06/teleflip/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Show number of characters as I type in email

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 11:17 PM »

IconBoy: do you want this character counting feature to be available all the time or only when you're typing inside OE? i can make an AHK gui in which you can type your message & later paste into an editor of your choice.. what do you think?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any Desktop Theme Software on Windows?

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 10:53 PM »

I once used a patched UXTheme.dll but that made my system highly unstable.. since then, i'm stuck with Microsoft releases only, here is a recent one - Royale Theme for WinXP

• http://www.softpedia...heme-for-WinXP.shtml

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Post New Requests Here / Re: FirefoxPortable.exe on a small Flash Drive that will bring up an Index

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 06:03 AM »

hi Gary, welcome to the forums! i'm not an expert on this even though i do tinker around with autorun.inf on removable drives to give each device an unique icon.. maybe this post from PortableApps.com may be of help to you..

• AutoRun Portable FireFox

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 05:38 AM »

...as WinRAR has the same ability. When you're going to compress something, go to the "Files" tab and check "Put each file to separate archive". Pretty useful feature for those long ROM zipping sessions . Although I don't know if it's capable of doing what sri was asking for in that thread

-Lashiec (July 27, 2007, 09:58 AM)

Lashiec, i'm also a big fan of WinRAR but the feature you mentioned is for creating separate archives based on filename while sri was looking for solution to create separate archives based on filesize, hence the uniqueness of SpinZip..

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Official Announcements / Re: Site of the Month for August 2007: NirSoft.net

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 03:11 AM »

J-Mac, this may be a case of false positive.. i had the same problem with AVG but since mine was a free edition, my complaints got me nowhere.. but since NOD32 is a commercial software, why not try writing to them regarding this problem with programs from nirsoft.net? this has also been discussed here before, try the link..

• https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1282.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation

« Last post by lanux128 on August 04, 2007, 03:02 AM »

Hugin is quite impressive, tinjaw would agree as it helped him to solve his problem in this thread here..
• https://www.donation...35.msg56175#msg56175

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I uninstall .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 ??

« Last post by lanux128 on August 03, 2007, 09:45 AM »

Thanks for verifying, lanux. Are you saying it is posible to after-install 1.1 on Vista?

-Curt (August 03, 2007, 01:47 AM)

Curt, i'm not sure about Vista but i installled 1.1 after i had already installed 3.0. This is on WinXP Pro..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I uninstall .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 ??

« Last post by lanux128 on August 03, 2007, 01:35 AM »

my experience.. i once had only .NET 3.0 but still some programs insisted on 1.1 or 2.0 so now i have all three..