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Programmer Libs / Re: Delphi and C++ Builder Components - DCTOptionsTree (Options Tree Component)

« Last post by TucknDar on June 23, 2008, 12:00 PM »

Good move, mouser! Looking forward to a more modern options panel

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Finished Programs / AltTab Fingertips featured download on LifeHacker

« Last post by TucknDar on June 22, 2008, 03:36 PM »

Congrats, justice! AltTab Fingertips is the featured Windows download on Lifehacker today, 22. June!

http://lifehacker.co...itcher-to-your-mouse

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: google dollar exchange rate plugin -- sketch

« Last post by TucknDar on June 22, 2008, 09:05 AM »

thanks, works now! very useful, but a request would be to be able to write 'ex 10 gbp usd' to change which currencies to use.

about the crash, I'll look into it a little more. It's been a while since I actually opened the plugins dialog, so maybe there's another culprit. I'll reply about it later

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: google dollar exchange rate plugin -- sketch

« Last post by TucknDar on June 22, 2008, 03:44 AM »

Great idea for a plugin, but it doesn't work for me... The screenshot explains a bit more:


both USD and NOK are valid values, but 'NaN NOK' isn't too helpful

Also there is a crash whenever I open the plugin configuration dialog in FARR. I've saved the script as fscript.js in plugins/FARRCurrency along with a copy of the latest fscript.dll I could find.

any help appreciated

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by TucknDar on June 19, 2008, 02:39 AM »

I have a folder.jpg cover image file in almost all my mp3 music album folders.

Maybe a plugin can be made that utilizes the new HTML output mode to make searching for a mp3 album much cooler!

-Nod5 (June 10, 2008, 06:35 AM)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by TucknDar on June 18, 2008, 12:56 PM »

Just tested this with a .doc file which is associated to MS Word in HKLM and Textmaker in HKCU, and it opened correctly in HKCU.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: did the latest update (2.10.01) affect file associations?

« Last post by TucknDar on June 18, 2008, 12:43 PM »

Maybe I'm on thin ice here, but sounds a bit like file associations may be read from a specific part of the registry, namely HKCR (aka HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\) while it's also possible to have user-specific (or per-user if you will) file associations in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\

Look at this post I made not so long ago: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13573.0

edit: The latter registry, HKCU\Software\Classes normally takes precedence (sp?) over HKLM\Software\Classes, but maybe FARR goes directly to HKLM?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by TucknDar on June 17, 2008, 05:42 AM »

Great review, and ironically I just (as in yesterday) purchased a license for JD. Personally I'm actually not using it's built-in backup facilities, rather I'm using SyncBackSE to sync/backup through JD which works pretty well, and gives me more options for the backup-specifics.

It's great to be able to just open up the mapped drive in Total Commander and copy some files and feel that "ah, that's them backed up and safe". And the price to pay to Amazon I suspect will be minimal with my usage.

Just a minor suggestion for the review, list the price of JD somewhere easily visible (it's $20, btw).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ugly Softmaker Office icons? No more.

« Last post by TucknDar on June 17, 2008, 05:27 AM »

scancode: Would you mind posting about this in the Softmaker forums? Or to spare you the trouble, would you mind if I posted about your icons, and linked to this thread?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Update of FarrFox Plugin (v1.03.01) for FARR v2 - Mar 29th, 2007

« Last post by TucknDar on June 15, 2008, 01:49 AM »

the farrfox source code is open source c++ so if anyone feels like messing with it, please feel free

-mouser (June 15, 2008, 01:29 AM)

Would if I could

But sounds good that you agree on the matter, mouser!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Update of FarrFox Plugin (v1.03.01) for FARR v2 - Mar 29th, 2007

« Last post by TucknDar on June 15, 2008, 01:07 AM »

I find the startup scan to be kind of annoying, can't you make a small index so you don't have to search every time? Cause it seems it's searching every time farr is restarted

-d4ni (April 02, 2008, 06:30 PM)

I support this request. Would be great if I could choose when to reindex the bookmarks myself, something I sort of expect the "ff `" command could do.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by TucknDar on June 14, 2008, 02:30 AM »

I hope that Farr  wont have much memory footprint after all these new features. I really like new features but I guess speed of Farr should be the most ultimate priority.

-kartal (June 14, 2008, 01:39 AM)

Agreed. Haven't noticed any problems so far, I should add, but this is an important point.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for June 13th, 2008 - Codename "Programmapalooza"

« Last post by TucknDar on June 14, 2008, 02:24 AM »

Great newsletter! Best in a while, actually And how did I first miss that interview with skrommel?!? Great read

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ugly Softmaker Office icons? No more.

« Last post by TucknDar on June 08, 2008, 04:13 PM »

These are awesome!

Like I said on IRC, SoftMaker should give you a free license for their office to use these icons!

Thanks for making them 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Multi-selecting in dropdown list

« Last post by TucknDar on June 06, 2008, 06:21 AM »

and another +1

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Living Room / Per-user file associations

« Last post by TucknDar on June 06, 2008, 04:35 AM »

Finally I found a solution to set per-user file association! I've been looking for this for quite some time, but never found a software that would let me do this.

Then I came across the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\ which is where file associations are stored for current user (obviously). Maybe it's been mentioned here before, but this really has been bugging me so I thought I'd just post here in case anyone else was looking for it.

Now it's as simple as copying the key from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\ and changing the default open command in the latter. That way there's a default system association, i.e. .doc -> MS Word, that's overridden by the current user's setting, i.e. .doc -> TextMaker/OpenOffice/whathaveyou

Now if only there was a piece of software that would let me do this without bothering with the registry, I'd be happy. Any takers? It would make for a nice coding snack, I suppose.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: RecentX at Bits du Jor, 4-Jun-2008

« Last post by TucknDar on June 05, 2008, 08:20 AM »

Yes, nirsofts recent files utility is excellent! And it can produce lists through command line, so perhaps there's some way that FARR can read the output? At least when the new HTML-stuff is in place it should be possible.

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Living Room / Re: Recaptcha Porn

« Last post by TucknDar on June 04, 2008, 04:09 PM »

 

So now Twitter is NSFW? Maybe I'll sign up too, then

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: RecentX at Bits du Jor, 4-Jun-2008

« Last post by TucknDar on June 04, 2008, 02:10 AM »

speaking of FARR and recent files, is there a way to let FARR read the entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\OpenSaveMRU ?

This is where a bunch of recent items is stored. My recent folder is pretty useless, since apparently it needs explorer running as shell, and I don't do that...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: OnScreen Display for Mute Status

« Last post by TucknDar on June 04, 2008, 02:03 AM »

Cool utility!

A tiny request: Could you please add a "Quit" item to the systray menu?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: RecentX at Bits du Jor, 4-Jun-2008

« Last post by TucknDar on June 04, 2008, 12:46 AM »

Me?  I can perform a lot of the same tasks with Mouser's Find And Run Robot (FARR) here at DC!!  

Jim

-J-Mac (June 04, 2008, 12:36 AM)

Yes, I'm with you on that! I was very compelled by the idea behind RecentX, but I didn't find myself using it. Even installed it a second time to give it another go a few months back, but no, not useful to me. Still a good idea and I'm sure it's great for many users, though.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: List of commandline tools that works well with Farr

« Last post by TucknDar on May 30, 2008, 08:15 AM »

Cool thread, but even cooler with a little example of what can be done with each of these tools. Either a downloadable alias file or just a snippet of code would be excellent. I've only just looked into creating my own alias' and using commandline tools, so some examples would be VERY helpful!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR in other languages?

« Last post by TucknDar on May 26, 2008, 12:49 AM »

I agree. And I'd be happy to work on the Norwegian translation

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker vote, stage 2, final voting

« Last post by TucknDar on May 23, 2008, 07:30 AM »

using the words best, top or sex in any title gets more views see, which is what it is all about for sites trying to become the top best sexy software site

-justice (May 23, 2008, 03:29 AM)

Good point, so maybe a new name for FARR could be Sexylaunch, Toplauncher or Bestrunner? 

-TucknDar (May 23, 2008, 06:55 AM)

Why not go for the jackpot? BestTopSexLauncher. 

-Dormouse (May 23, 2008, 07:21 AM)

That's better, but how about BestTopSexLaunch Robot

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Find And Run Robot / Re: LifeHacker vote, stage 2, final voting

« Last post by TucknDar on May 23, 2008, 06:55 AM »

using the words best, top or sex in any title gets more views see, which is what it is all about for sites trying to become the top best sexy software site

-justice (May 23, 2008, 03:29 AM)

Good point, so maybe a new name for FARR could be Sexylaunch, Toplauncher or Bestrunner?