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General Software Discussion / Re: Another Website Charging for Free Software

« Last post by Veign on October 08, 2007, 10:14 AM »

I am working on another company right now.  Seems that ThinkAll is back under a different company name and new website starting all over again.  A blog post, an email to the FTC, and a post here is coming.

I bet you the website you posted is this company:
http://www.veign.com...one-this-before.html

This is them too:
http://www.dvdshrink...1502734936f743d321d5

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General Software Discussion / Re: program to block internet access of a certain file/program

« Last post by Veign on October 08, 2007, 09:06 AM »

With Comodo it will step in if an application is launched by a process.  So if you click a link in an email which causes Outlook to start Firefox, Comodo will step in even though you have given access to Firefox.

To fix this:
- Go to Security (from toolbar)
- Click Application Monitor in the sidebar
- Right click on an application and select Edit
- Select the Skip Parent Check option

See if that helps you. 

Also, 20K is really nothing.

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Living Room / Re: DC Unofficial Meeting #5 Took Place - Veign and Mouser meet

« Last post by Veign on October 07, 2007, 05:15 PM »

Anyway, good to see how Veign looks too.

-Lashiec (October 07, 2007, 04:43 PM)

Who you really need to see is the person that took the picture. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: program to block internet access of a certain file/program

« Last post by Veign on October 07, 2007, 05:13 PM »

What do you have against a firewall? 

What you are asking for is what a firewall is for, from what I can tell.  With a firewall you will get a clear picture of what is trying to connect (and what it trying to come in) and gives you full control over how and when it connects.

This is a free firewall that I use and like:
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

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Living Room / Re: DC Unofficial Meeting #5 Took Place - Veign and Mouser meet

« Last post by Veign on October 06, 2007, 02:43 PM »

i just grew mine to impress chris - i plan on shaving it off today now that he is gone 

-mouser (October 05, 2007, 10:16 AM)

I only grow my out of a laziness to shave.  I try to acheive a balance between the least amount of shave-able area and the smallest area of facial hair that I can deal with.

It was a great visit with Mouser and I'm looking forward to a future visit.

ps.  How about that bookcase?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Software Copy Protection Questions

« Last post by Veign on October 02, 2007, 09:36 AM »

Here's a pretty good article on protecting software:

HOW TO PROTECT BETTER:
http://www.searchlor...rg/protec/protec.htm

--plus--

Defending Shareware Against Cracks
http://www.crypto-ce...Against%20Cracks.htm

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Living Room / Re: Flowchart and Diagramming Review

« Last post by Veign on September 19, 2007, 03:09 PM »

I just purchased EDraw Flowchart and works great at a very reasonable price:
http://www.veign.com...edraw-flowchart.html

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on September 12, 2007, 08:55 PM »

Yeah it would be too much since I have been shifting away from desktop development, and therefore DLL's, for the past year.  All of my focus is now on web development.

Feel free to post suggestions to the website though   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on September 12, 2007, 10:03 AM »

Quick Thumbnail has been update with:

• Filters: Greyscale, Sepia, Negative, Emboss, Blur, Sketch, Edge
• Ability to resize and image from a URL

Suggestions are always welcomed.

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Official Announcements / Re: FreeThesaurus.net - new official DC web service, is now up and running!

« Last post by Veign on September 07, 2007, 03:16 PM »

Wordzilla,
What component do you use for the Suggestion drop-down?  I have a need for something like this to use in a website of mine.

-Veign (September 07, 2007, 09:18 AM)

Well I coded it from scratch (inspired by an ajax script published in the book Ajax for Dummies)

-Wordzilla (September 07, 2007, 12:53 PM)

Good stuff.  Would I be able to use what you have done on my website (another free service)? - I will find a place to give you credit of course...

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Official Announcements / Re: FreeThesaurus.net - new official DC web service, is now up and running!

« Last post by Veign on September 07, 2007, 09:41 AM »

Hmm.  I use Firefox and all works as expected.

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Official Announcements / Re: FreeThesaurus.net - new official DC web service, is now up and running!

« Last post by Veign on September 07, 2007, 09:18 AM »

Wordzilla,
What component do you use for the Suggestion drop-down?  I have a need for something like this to use in a website of mine.

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Living Room / Re: ShopCV.com -- A Scam or Legitimate?

« Last post by Veign on September 06, 2007, 04:20 PM »

Additional reports:
http://www.ripoffrep...07/RipOff0107017.htm
http://www.ripoffrep...17/RipOff0017882.htm

IMO, Stay away.  Far away...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer?

« Last post by Veign on September 03, 2007, 04:14 PM »

Also, if you're just looking to see the Exif information inside of a Jpeg image you can use the online service at:
http://camerasummary.com/

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 02, 2007, 03:29 PM »

The goal is the 'super search, as you put it, should return those websites in its result set.  The whole point is the result set should *always* be the best, or an ongoing effort to be the best.

The goal should always be a result set where the top 5 return website *all* should be viewed for your topic as they all provide something important and relevant.

Keep in mind that this was nothing more than an idea of mine that I never really fully fleshed out.  So, there would be a lot of things to work out.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 02, 2007, 10:54 AM »

Also, I have so many ideas in my head that I decided to release them through my blog in an idea tag.  So, hopefully overtime I will continue to make posts that outline my thoughts for websites (typically) that I think need to be developed that I just don't have the time to do myself.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 02, 2007, 10:51 AM »

I think the idea could make some a lot of money.  I see the idea as attracting 100K's of users.

I have sat on the idea for a couple months and came to the realization that I just don't have the time and probably will not for 6+ months.

I just felt like I would rather release the idea into the wild and let someone else develop it.

I am also not above donations if someone develops it and makes millions :-)

Wonder if I should protect the idea in someway and try to keep some rights to it.  Ehh.  At least I, and we at DC know, who had the idea first since its now well documented through my blog and through here.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 01, 2007, 10:27 PM »

Exactly correct.  Dead on.

I think its a great idea and as more and more pages are indexed a bookmarked query (and thus result) makes more sense then a bookmarked page.

Imagine how many pages will be indexed in 5 or 10 years and as pages indexed increase it would make sense that bookmarked pages would increase also.  By bookmarking a query you greatly reduce your bookmarks since a single query, on a topic, can replace large groups of page bookmarks.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 01, 2007, 02:47 PM »

Not sure what you mean?

The bookmarks, instead of a website would be a search query that when 'clicked' would either call up a google (or other search engine) results page, or display the page directly within the website.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on September 01, 2007, 11:53 AM »

The main reason for a website, like my idea, is as teh web grows and more and more websites come online there will be more need for fined tuned search queries to find even more relevant websites.  I just see bookmarking single webpages as a method that attempts to let you find the 'best' (for a lack of a better word) website out there with blinders on.   The question that could be answered by the idea is 'What better website came online since I set a bookmark?'  With normal bookmarking methods that can never be answered.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on August 31, 2007, 05:06 PM »

The funny thing is that to this day I am still bookmarking things that I know I will never go to and use since Google will provide me the results better and give me more options (additional information besides the site I was originally looking for).

I see the site changing the way we bookmark and store useful websites.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on August 31, 2007, 05:04 PM »

I see the system helping you create optimized search queries either from internal to the website or by other members.  There are so many ideas in my head about why this would work that goes so far beyond what you can currently do with Google and Browser bookmarks.

Like most user don't know of, or don't use, advanced search parameters and methods.    This is the part that needs to be fleshed out better as to how queries go from basic and useful to optimized and perfected.

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Living Room / Re: For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on August 31, 2007, 04:11 PM »

You aren't bookmarking a single website you are bookmarking a search engine query.

So, instead of bookmarking a website on starting a small business like:
bookmark: http://SmallBusinessWebsite.com

You would bookmark a search engine query like:
bookmark: start "small business" how-to

or if you're looking for articles on Horses you could bookmark something like:
bookmark: ~horse articles

Obviously the stored queries would evolve over time and get better results when others use your stored queries.

The main reason I thought this would be useful is as time passes I use my bookmarks less and less and often rely on Google Search to locate websites again.  In fact I have a ton of PHP websites bookmarked that I never use because its easier to go and search Google (and I can get better results as search engines identify better results for queries)

Does that better explain.

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Living Room / For Discussion: Search engine query repository and bookmarking service

« Last post by Veign on August 31, 2007, 03:43 PM »

Create a bookmarking system where the user no longer bookmarks a single website but instead is bookmarking a highly perfected (over time in the system) search engine query. What this does is prevent the annoying 'page not found' you get when you recall a bookmark. Instead you are always presented with the best possible websites for your topic.

Read the full idea here:
http://www.veign.com...-repository-and.html

Mouser wanted me to post this to get others thoughts on my idea.  I was going to keep this idea a secret and develop the website but I have come to the realization that I just don't have the time and wanted to put it out there.

I would love to hear your thoughts and feel free to ask questions if I failed to explain anything well enough.

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done

« Last post by Veign on August 20, 2007, 10:37 AM »

Try making to level 225 (thats my high). 

TD games, by their nature, are easy in the early levels.