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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Organize the Taskbar, organize the System Tray

« Last post by app103 on April 27, 2006, 01:48 PM »

I just tried Taskbar++ and I think it's awsome...just what I wanted.

Having to hold down the alt key means that you won't be moving taskbar buttons by mistake...and having to wait a sec or 2 means that if you didn't intend to activate it, you have time to do whatever you did hold the alt key down for....such as to create a special character with an alt code...and you just happen to have the cursor over the taskbar by mistake.

Patience dude...moving them is better than not moving them at all, in my opinion.

I haven't had a prob with the redraw, but then again, this pc is pretty fast so I don't even notice it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: Organize the Taskbar, organize the System Tray

« Last post by app103 on April 27, 2006, 01:07 PM »

You know, I was just about to suggest something similar. I would love something that will allow me to drag & drop a taskbar button from a running app to a new position....on the taskbar itself.

I won't remember to open some window from my tray to do it, so it has to act like a taskbar feature. This Taskbar++ looks just like what I wanted.

I keep my taskbar on the side too...but the right side and on autohide (it's HUGE!). It's more mentally ergonomic to have your start button on the same side as you keep your mouse.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Command-line tool to move dir contents to existing subdirs

« Last post by app103 on April 25, 2006, 11:16 PM »

As someone that recently manually sorted 30G of songs by artist, and then by album, while merging the contents of 2 pc's to a 3rd pc, I really could have used a tool like this myself...and I know plenty more would have a use for it too.

Maybe I will wait and see how this goes before attempting to merge the 2 graphics collections.

Great idea, Cavalcader!

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Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?

« Last post by app103 on April 24, 2006, 02:49 PM »

Жуть какая, нихрена не понимаю, но оч хочу золотой ключик от каморки папы Карло....  . Целую, Ваша на веки . Птичка, которая на проводе.

-IVOLGA (April 24, 2006, 01:08 PM)

which translates to...

"Horror what, нихрена I do not understand, but оч I want gold ключик from a closet of daddy Karlo..... The whole, yours on веки. A birdy, which on a wire. "

I used the same translator

I think that means they are in love with Cody? A marriage proposal, maybe?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: w.Bloggar - Blogging Power

« Last post by app103 on April 24, 2006, 09:42 AM »

I use this application myself...and love it!

I am trying to get my daughter to try it. It would make posting to her many LiveJournal accounts much easier on her.

I discovered a plugin for it that will add the song you are currently listening to, to a post automatically. This is a per blog setting, so if you want it on one of your blogs but not another, this is easy to do.

There are a few versions available...

Windows Media Player & iTunes
WinAmp 2 & 5
WinAmp 3

http://www.billzelle...05/10/wmpamplog.html

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DClock 2

« Last post by app103 on April 24, 2006, 09:12 AM »

Could you perhaps add a screenshot of the options? And how much RAM does it need? CPU load should be low, right?

-brotherS

The options are all on a popup menu that can be accessed by either right clicking the clock itself or the tray icon.

This was developed initially on a 233mhz P1 with only 64mb ram running WinME...for use on that pc. So it wouldn't have been much use to me if it was a resource hog. All applications I develop must be able to run on that pc or it isn't acceptable according to my standards. Although your mileage may vary.

Added some new features recently:

I got rid of the color list and added a color picker. You can select any color you want now...no limits. 

Also updated the StopWatch in it...added a global hotkey to start/pause/resume.
Just hit Ctrl-Shift-F9.

If you run more than 1 instance of the StopWatch, only the first one will be able to use the global hotkey.

http://www.appsapps.info/dclock2.php

Enjoy!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Winver Banner

« Last post by app103 on April 24, 2006, 08:45 AM »

I don't know why anybody would want to do that either, but there are people that do.

Take this for example:

http://users.pandora.../calmira/calxp40.htm

The few remaining Win3.1 users can make it look XP-ish.
But Calmira does add extra things that are useful too.

If I was going to attempt to change that banner I'd want something totally custom and uniquely my own. Maybe a FisherPrice XP banner that looked like something from the toy company 

The reason why it is reverting back to the original every time you update is probably because the version info changes slightly with each update, and the update is replacing it on you.

Now I don't know where to replace that graphic without doing a bit of research, but if you wanted it to stay replaced, the application that does it for you would probably have to load at startup, replace the graphic, and then exit...each time you reboot.

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C / C++ / Re: C++ Programming Resources

« Last post by app103 on April 19, 2006, 01:22 PM »

These are titles from my programming ebooks page that aren't covered in the above post's list...and not on OOP Web either.


C++: A Dialog - http://www.stevehell....com/cppad/cppad.htm

Optimizing C++ - http://www.steveheller.com/opt/

An Introduction to C++ Programming - http://www.computer-books.us/cpp_1.php

Programming in C++ - Rules and Recommendations - http://www.computer-books.us/cpp_6.php

A Beginners C++ Book - http://www.uow.edu.au/~nabg/ABC/ABC.html

C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 - http://www.phptr.com...omotion/1484?redir=1

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Learning C++ Builder

« Last post by app103 on April 19, 2006, 07:21 AM »

Here is a real list of differences between Delphi & C...and it may explain why I am shakey at win32api stuff.

http://delphi.about....lapi/l/aa101303a.htm

Any similarities I may have implied between Delphi & C/C++ was in mentioning that the IDEs of Delphi & BCB were similar...not the languages.

Delphi 6:

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: everyone who enters will get something

« Last post by app103 on April 19, 2006, 02:48 AM »

Nice shirt design!

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Learning C++ Builder

« Last post by app103 on April 19, 2006, 02:45 AM »

Now why couldn't this be a Delphi contest?
Or for any language that Borland supports? 

I hate C/C++...I tried it...too cryptic for me.

Never got past printf() and scanf() in C.

Sure, BCB looks just like my Delphi 6, and probably acts a lot like it too...but to me it's like trying to program in Chinese.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by app103 on April 16, 2006, 04:56 AM »

How about donating to Sourceforge?  It's the spirit of free software, programming, etc.

Most of the organizations that give out computers/software to places/people that need them and can't afford them give out donated pc's and software. So unless you are going to buy a pc with the funds and donate that, it's not exactly going to be practical to do.

Big companies like Adobe donate CD's of their software in bulk...and Apple has been donating computers, almost since the beginning of the company's existance, to schools. I went to a high school that recieved one of their first donated computers. Microsoft donates copies of Office, Visual Studio, and Windows in bulk, too.

Many of these charities accept your old pc and they fix them up and pass them out...a form of recycling. They take parts form a bunch and build a Frankenstein's monster from them. Then they usually end up shipped off to Hong Kong to welfare recipients...or to Africa.

There are small poor islands that can't even afford enough internet access for schools, hospitals & libraries. That is what the whole .tk project was all about...selling domain names with the island's .tk in order to help fund internet access for the island.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Keeping track of tasks, things to do on a programming project

« Last post by app103 on April 16, 2006, 02:44 AM »

I have been using my ToDoList program for it.


http://appsapps.info/todolist.php

It keeps an alphabetical list of ToDo tasks on the left, stored in one text file...and an alphabetical Done list on the right, stored in another text file.

Load the ToDo list file and it loads both. I keep the files in the same folder with the program source.

I also use this for creating my grocery shopping list. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

« Last post by app103 on April 16, 2006, 02:25 AM »

That page is the first link on my programming ebooks page...listed under 'General Programming'.

http://programmingebooks.tk

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Developer's Corner / Re: correleation between beard growth and unix hacker level

« Last post by app103 on April 16, 2006, 02:20 AM »

I got 9/10 correct, not knowing a damn thing.

Female intuition, maybe?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Do you use a good office chair when programming?

« Last post by app103 on April 16, 2006, 02:11 AM »

One does not need to spend a fortune on a chair for it to be the most comfortable thing they have ever sat on.

I live in this chair. Not just when programming, but when watching tv, reading, doing my nails, etc.

People in my house fight over this chair...it's the most comfy one we have.

I used to have a long history of bad back problems before I got this chair. I think this chair fixed them.

My father came to my house one day back in 1998, to do a little work on my pc. He made the comment, when seeing my chair, that I should buy a new one...then he sat in it and changed his mind, kind of. Offered to trade me his brand new expensive leather chair for mine.

NO WAY! I already have a chair like that and hate it....gave it to my daughter for the desk in her room since it matches her leather sofa quite well.

This chair is now quite old, and was kind of old but in almost new condition when I acquired it. A neighbor of mine threw it away along with a desk. (My wasteful neighbors always seem to throw away great stuff.)

It's wide enough to sit with your feet up on the seat...which is probably why it's all lopsided now.

I plan on re-upholstering it, eventually...probably in stone washed blue demin and flannel, to match the decor of the room better and add extra padding to the seat too.

Since my cat seems to love the chair, too, the re-upholstering will have to wait till I can break him of his clawing habit. So for now I'll just keep buying rolls of duct tape to hold it together.

I wouldn't trade this chair for anything.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite computer game from when you were young?

« Last post by app103 on April 15, 2006, 05:44 AM »

I remember when there wasn't any video games.

The Atari 2600 didn't come along till I was a teen.

I still have mine, it still works, and I still play it.

Super Breakout in progressive mode is still one of my favs (game #7)
I am also prone to serious addictions to Ms Pacman.

My all-time fav to play with a group of people is Activision's Decathalon.
It might have something to do with the particular joystick I own.
It's a deluxe one that is meant to be very loose and it's much faster to move in the game if you hold it in one hand and just shake it as fast as you can rather than moving it back & forth like a normal joystick. This kind of looks 'suggestive' when you see someone else do it. A lot of laughs watching people shake that stick. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Always on top, hotkey activated StopWatch

« Last post by app103 on April 15, 2006, 05:14 AM »

DONE!  You can download the latest version of DClock on my homepage here:

http://www.appsapps.info/dclock2.php

screenshot:


The StopWatch can be accessed from DClock's menu or you can run StopWatch.exe.

The hot-key is Ctrl-Shift-F9.  It will either start it or pause/resume it. You will have to stop and reset from the buttons on the StopWatch window. I can only assign one global hotkey to a window so I felt it was best to pause instead of stop.

You reset by clicking the stop and then the start button again.

Direct download here:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Always on top, hotkey activated StopWatch

« Last post by app103 on April 15, 2006, 02:46 AM »

I could probably add this to my DClock's stopwatch.

It already sits on top and can min to tray.

I'll get working on it 

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Living Room / Re: Unprotected Wireless Lans?

« Last post by app103 on March 29, 2006, 08:02 AM »

If it weren't for unprotected wireless lans, half the people I know wouldn't have an internet connection. And most of those are leeching files off of various P2P networks.

One was even able to access the router and forward ports to be able to host a room on one.

Not for nothing, but with the recent FBI bust of a kiddy porn ring with a room hosted on a P2P, I would be securing my network if I had one, because if I didn't I could be blamed for the sick illegal activities of whoever was abusing my bandwidth.

And at the very least, if I wasn't worried about being blamed for it or even charged as an accessory, I sure wouldn't want to be helping them hurt children and spread their garbage to other sick & depraved friends of theirs.

You never know what someone else is doing when you don't take your security seriously.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggest an Icon Editor

« Last post by app103 on March 22, 2006, 09:27 PM »

Definately include Microangelo. I have been a user & fan of that software since the old version 2x. It's not just for icon creation....does animated cursors as well. (And a whole bunch of other neat tricks that would be fun even for people that have no use for an icon creator)

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Living Room / Re: Should I increase avatar size? Poll.

« Last post by app103 on February 20, 2006, 01:32 AM »

100x100 is a decent size. There are many sites that allow avatars, besides forums, and that is a pretty standard size.

It would also allow most people to re-use their msn display pics here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: wanted: nice and small screensaver

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2006, 09:40 PM »

I have a few on my art site.
They start fast on my pc but I am not sure if they start fast on others, though.

http://russografix.tk

I have also done some custom ones I can't share with the world. If you have something special in mind, let me know.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Translators Wanted

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2006, 06:30 AM »

It might be possible that I could get an Italian techie friend of mine to do a bit if you need it. He has translated some very technical stuff from English to Italian for me in the past.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: DClock 2

« Last post by app103 on February 07, 2006, 01:30 AM »

Thanks! Things are slow going with this project, as I am technically a newbie programmer and still have much to learn. I add things to it as I learn how.

I don't think I want to put it on betanews.com....not this project. It's more of a personal thing I made out of necessity that I chose to share with the world.