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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2015, 03:19 PM »

QuickJump already written up on ghacks(!):
http://www.ghacks.ne...auncher-for-windows/

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Living Room / Raspberry/Arduinoe/etc. - Choosing a device questions?

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2015, 01:24 PM »

I have a few mini-pc type project ideas, and I'm looking for advice on which ones would be best for which projects.. I hope some of you with experience can help point me in the right direction.

For one project the requirement is to be able to record and play audio files (mp3 preferably), through a speaker.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2015, 11:25 AM »

good idea.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2015, 09:41 PM »

You can bring up options from the main window.
Maybe you are asking how to get the MAIN window to show on startup?
I could add a commandline for that, or you could edit the ini file to have it not start minimized.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / NANY 2016 Pledge/Alpha: Mouser's Media Browser

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2015, 02:37 AM »

WEB PAGE: https://www.donation...iaBrowser/index.html
OFFICIAL FORUM SECTION: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=49204

This will be a small utility for browsing directories containing images.

I decided to make a standalone utility that could be used as a helper for other tools, like my other NANY (Automatic Screenshotter).

It will start out with a fairly simple feature set but there is plenty of room for improvement.

Key feature:

• Lots of viewing modes to find the one that works best for you.
• Option to show recursive contents of folder tree (with search filtering and sorting)

Note that there are excellent powerful free image viewers/browsers (irfanview, xnview, etc.), and it would be foolish to try to compete with these.  My aim here is to make a more streamlined, focus helper utility.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2015, 11:50 PM »

The second board game we played this christmas day was "Evolution".
https://boardgamegee...ame/155703/evolution

(note: we actually played with the FLIGHT expansion).

I have played this game before with my nieces (12 and 20), with great success.

This is a game where players evolve species and struggle to feed them (or each each other).

There are few games I've played that do as good a job of capturing an engaging theme as this one..  It is a wonderful experience that everyone I've played with is captured by and quickly embraces.
Very fun to see how your creatures struggle to compete with each other.  We had some great moments in the last game where a bird evolved to become a carnivore predator and killed off a bunch of us and then quickly found itself in the unfortunate position of having to canibalize its owners other species.  Great fun.

This is more of a gamer's game, with a higher learning curve, but one that is extremely engaging and thematic.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2015, 11:41 PM »

This christmas day we played two great board games that I would highly recommend to casual gamers.
The first was Tokaido:
https://boardgamegee...dgame/123540/tokaido


Tokaido is a very casual, stress-free, beautiful board game where players travel along a famous road in Japan and choose from a few basic activities.  The activities are things like eating at a restaurant, visiting a souvenir shop, etc.  It's a very relaxing experience but with real strategic elements, and it was enjoyed by a new gamer who was scared of complicated rules.  It's a very atmospheric experience and feels like traveling in a foreign land.  Perfect for non-gamer families.

I'm not sure it would hold up to dozens of plays, but highly recommended as a gaming experience for a non-boardgame family looking for a relaxing but engaging experience.  The art design is incredibly elegant.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LOLCODE: a silly snack in a silly language

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2015, 01:24 AM »

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2015, 11:58 PM »

It's pretty much full functional as of now -- the one big thing missing is a built-in image browser, which is not needed but would be useful, especially for folks who don't have a good 3rd party image browser (like xnview).

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2015, 09:40 PM »

A little more exposition on the nature of this tool:

• It's made to run in the background, taking screenshots of either the currently active foreground window, or the entire desktop.
• You can configure how often the screenshots are taken, and how they are named.  The naming can include putting them into subdirectories and can be based on the data,time, and application name.
• It will automatically prune older screenshots based on limits you set regarding screenshot age, # screenshots to keep, and total file space you want to use.
• It will also try to be smart about avoiding saving multiple screenshots when the window (desktop) contents don't actually change, with some configurable tolerances, to minimize disk space used.
• It can also be told about certain applications to never capture, or alternatively a small list of applications that it should only ever capture.
• It can be configured to ignore capture when your pc has been idle for a certain amount of time, or when screensaver is running, or when full-screen games are running.
• You can also manually trigger a capture with a hotkey.
• You can also toggle capturing on-and-off easily from system tray menu.
• Screenshots are saved as standard png files.

In summary, the focus is on an automated system of recording recent activity on the screen, and trying to be well behaved regarding disk space usage.  You should be able to set it and forget it, until you need to go back and see what was on the screen at a certain time in the near past.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2015, 08:14 PM »

For BRAVE experienced folks who know what they are doing and like testing buggy things (others should wait for official release!):

• https://www.donation...nshotterPortable.zip
• https://www.donation...reenshotterSetup.exe

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2015, 05:25 PM »

Screenshot showing summary stats in main window while running:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Is there a way to get start menu program sub tasks to appear at FARR?

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2015, 03:12 AM »

Zircle, I'm not 100% sure what you are asking, but your latest reply sounds intriguing!  Tell us what you have in mind (or email me directly, [email protected]).  Perhaps you are considering a FARR plugin/alias that could be a NANY 2016 release? https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=323.0

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ProcessTamer / Re: Upgrade

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2015, 05:33 PM »

Yes, I really do need to release an update -- long overdue.
The current version should still run on Windows 10 in the meantime though..

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 23, 2015, 01:20 PM »

Some screenshots of options:

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Edge Case Saloon - a fine establishment (Bill Sempf on Testing)

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2015, 02:20 PM »

That twitter screenshot is hillarious -- love it 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2015, 02:04 PM »

Ok so i think i understand PART of the problem..
Most of your clip "titles" are blank and it's trying to force them all to be the same size by using an UNDERSCORE character.

Here's what you should do, at least for now: Uncheck the "equal width titles" option (see second screenshot).

That should solve your problem.

But now you might also do this, go to your main CHS window, click the tiny = box at the far left of the clip grid header, and make sure the "Title" column is showing.  Then check out the titles of new clips you capture.  By default the title should have the date and the name of the application.  That's what is showing as _______ in your quick paste popup.  The format of the Title is set by the Clip Naming option (see first screenshot), and there was a bug in older versions which could reset that.  Just go check yours is blank (no spaces) in that option.  And try capturing from different applications.  Let me know if for some reason the Title is not being set properly.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2015, 01:53 PM »

ok that's a clue, now let me try to figure out what could be causing it.. i will report.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Mousewheel pan instead of zoom

« Last post by mouser on December 22, 2015, 11:56 AM »

Let me look into adding such an option.
By the way in case you didn't know you can pan by holding down right mouse button and dragging.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 11:44 PM »

WEB PAGE: https://www.donation...enshotter/index.html

OFFICIAL FORUM SECTION: https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=327.0

I will be submitting a utility intended to run in the background grabbing screenshots of desktop or active window at predefined intervals, and keeping the last N copies, with some hopefully smart options to avoid duplicates, add exceptions, etc.

The intention is to be a fairly lightweight primitive "backup" tool, like an airplane black box, so that in a case of last resort (app or system crash) you can go back and see what was on your screen at a certain time in the past.

Future versions may expand to perform more general purpose automatic-screenshotting for folks who want to keep a complete history of what they were doing over time, etc.

Suggestions are welcome.

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Living Room / Japanese (?) character readers - please tell me what my sake mug set says!

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 07:46 PM »

please help me solve this mystery.  i have a sake set and all around the main container and the little cups are writings.
i'd love to know what they say.  so many characters!!
i am assuming it's japanese but could be chinese -- correct me if i'm wrong!






NOTE: I attached 4 images since the text is repeated 4 times around the containers, but i see the characters are just repeated 4 times.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 06:39 PM »

How strange..
And if you go to those clips in the main window, and select one of them, do you see the _________ anywhere?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with "_____________" lines in every line

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 02:37 PM »

Can you check this for me: Go to "Clipboard" tab of options, and look in the "Clip Naming (OPTIONAL)" field, and see if it's blank or has __________ in it.
And maybe give me a screenshot of the "Quick Paste Pop-up Menu" option tab?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016: Iconus - a Handy Dandy Quickie Icon Viewer

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2015, 12:12 PM »

Looking good 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Calcupy! - your semantic desktop calculator

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2015, 01:53 PM »

Shouldn't you be presenting this as your NANY 2016?