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Living Room / Re: New Computer

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2015, 07:15 AM »

Looks awesome to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Label making software

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2015, 05:35 AM »

if you are just doing one-off labels (as opposed to whole sheets of them at a time), i'm a huge fan of these dedicated Dymo label printers:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6851.0

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

« Last post by mouser on August 17, 2015, 06:35 AM »

It can be played with 4 players using 2 sets, but no one really plays it with other than 2 players as far as i can tell.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: The update changes how speechmarks in aliases are handled?

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:42 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: multiple Docks at left screen (reserve space) - only one keeps position/size

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:42 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Popup menu location

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:42 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Variables

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:41 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: GDI & USER Handle leaks in v4.12.0 on WinXP 32 bit

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:41 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Minor wishes/suggestions + observations

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 05:41 AM »

Pleas excuse my delay in replying -- I'm out of town until the 26th and have been working furiously on a major update to the DonationCoder forum/website so I've fallen a bit behind in replying to posts about my software.  I will try to remedy that when I get back in town.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 12:16 AM »

Ok another mini board game review for you.

One of my recent favorite two-player head-to-head games is Summoner Wars:


People have called Summoner Wars a "miniatures" game played with cards -- essentially players square off against each other moving around an army of units that are represented by cards.  It's a little like chess except with a very heavy fantasy theme, and a huge variety of unique cards and assymetric abilities (each player has a different army with different abilities).

It's one of those games that hits a sweet spot for people who are addicted to variety because the sets come with tons of different factions you can choose from to represent your army, all of which play *very* differently.

It shares some of the same feel as Magic the Gathering, but on a spatial map.  You can buy tons of additional sets of armies, and if you get really into the game you can construct your own custom decks (not for me) but this isn't a "collectible" game like Magic so there is no issue of rare and expensive cards.

I'm not a fan of overly complex and fiddly rules, and this game is definitely manageable, unlike similar games i've looked at, and it's very fast to setup and tear down.

Very fun stuff, highly recommended.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 16, 2015, 12:08 AM »

Just wondering, based on your reviews of Settlers of Catan and Heroscape, if the two could be blended; combine the fast-action gameplay of Heroscape with the simpler map and social aspects of Settlers?

it's a great idea.. the "small battlefield" idea is often called a "skirmish" game mechanic.

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Official Announcements / Apologies for my sparse presence lately -- have been working on dc upgrades

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2015, 11:35 PM »

Hi all,

Just wanted to apologize for being so hard to find on the forum of late and so slow with updates to my software -- i've spent the last 4-6 weeks working on upgrades for the DC website (see here); mostly forum upgrade which is finished and just waiting to go live, and then lately on the main site CMS upgrade which is just getting started.

I'm off to a family vacation for the next week, but i should have internet access so i'll still be around.  I'll be back in full force at the end of the month -- and i'm looking forward to making these upgrades public.

-jesse (mouser)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA/REQUEST]Copy files from multiple folders and can paste to single Folder

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2015, 05:33 AM »

Hi paarkhi! Great to see you.

I agree this is a useful utility idea -- there needs to be a good free tool for this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for whiteboard photo cleanup software

« Last post by mouser on August 15, 2015, 04:32 AM »

thanks i was wondering where that post went!!! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing Scrolling Pages

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2015, 11:37 PM »

I also noted above that the red lines that appeared in the window where you stitch the scrolled slides together (which were actually the lines from the sandbox) were really useful in that window because they showed you precisely were the edges of each slide was.  That makes it easier to properly space them.  So I suggested that maybe putting some semitransparent red lines around the slides in the stitching window might be a nice enhancement!

you know that is an interesting idea.. like a button to toggle semi-transparent red lines showing the stitching locations in the preview, so you could very quickly identify the overlap areas for inspection.  neat idea! putting it on my todo list.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2015, 08:35 AM »

There was a 5,000 post mug but i don't think very many were sent out.

It might be nice to have a mug celebrating the new forum too, like "I survived the DonationCoder.com upgrade of 2015"

But we need someone to create the images!

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

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2015, 08:19 AM »

Nice one, Ath.
And please don't spook 40hz! we just got him back on the forum !

ps. shouldn't we have a 10,000 post mug?

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what pdf reader app is your fav?

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2015, 07:33 AM »

I've been using FoxIt free.. I guess i should try sumatra.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing Scrolling Pages

« Last post by mouser on August 14, 2015, 03:45 AM »

ahhhhhh i see

always nice to hear when a problem is not my fault.  doesn't happen often

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing Scrolling Pages

« Last post by mouser on August 13, 2015, 11:09 PM »

It sounds like you've found a bug with the red-lines being used to outline the area for capture -- I'll try to fix.

Question -- did those red outlines only happen when the window you were capturing was full screen?

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on August 13, 2015, 03:48 PM »

Deer and bunny playing:

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by mouser on August 13, 2015, 02:42 AM »

Security shouldn't be an issue for us -- we are really using just the very basic features of joomla, without a bunch of 3rd party modules -- but more importantly -- users will not be able to register and have accounts on the cms, other than a handful of admins editing the pages.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Brainstorm Pro Thesaurus Software With Multi Language & Research Tools

« Last post by mouser on August 13, 2015, 12:08 AM »

Welcome jesse gilbert; thanks for taking time to read the rules of the site and post in the right area.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for whiteboard photo cleanup software

« Last post by mouser on August 12, 2015, 02:33 PM »

The thing is, whatever cms we use -- we will just barely be using the cms features -- just a handful of users, no ability for normal people to create accounts, little or no extensions, mostly static pages.  The likelyhood of security vulnerabilities in such a scenario is close to zero.

sorry posted in wrong topic somehow!

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by mouser on August 12, 2015, 09:25 AM »

So far I'm still feeling good about joomla