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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: simple app to make a window always stay on top

« Last post by brotherS on March 01, 2007, 10:09 AM »

I often want to make a window stay always on top, for instance when I'm copying un-OCR'd text from a scanned PDF document to a word processing document by hand.

-yacht_boy (March 01, 2007, 08:52 AM)

Hi!

This has been answered here previously, I don't have time to search for the URL, but I'll paste the AHK code below. Win+a is the keyboard combination to enable/disable it. Very simple and helpful when needed.

Also check out https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1167.0 if you didn't yet.

[Select]

; Always on Top toggle for active window - originally by wr975 / DonationCoder.com
; --------------------------------------
#a::
WinGet, ExStyle, ExStyle, A
if (ExStyle & 0x8)
{
WinSet,AlwaysOnTop,off,A
        TrayTip, AlwaysOnTop, Disabled
}
else
{
WinSet,AlwaysOnTop,on,A
        TrayTip, AlwaysOnTop, Enabled
}
sleep 2000
TrayTip
return

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Living Room / Six Free Online Storage Services

« Last post by brotherS on February 28, 2007, 10:50 AM »

Nice review: http://www.extremete...,1697,2099014,00.asp

I wonder if anyone here already uses such a service.

[edited to attach screenshot]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« Last post by brotherS on February 27, 2007, 06:10 AM »

I wrote up some info on how to examine the features of a new scanner and make the right choice:

http://www.scanguru.com/page.php?15

-sboals (February 26, 2007, 09:47 PM)

Nice! What about linking that page to this thread?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: --> PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU POST <--

« Last post by brotherS on February 25, 2007, 02:31 AM »

I wrote the whole review and pressed Refresh in browser without Posting it, but after reviewing it about 10 times. And poof! all gone!
So, never mind if you have written pure junk or even dirty filthy rubbish, first save it, you can always edit it. Nothing is gonna be the problem if you save and then it "becomes public". You can easily change it.

After you've entered anything that took up time or effort, first post, then edit.

See, I wrote "or even dirty filthy rubbish" and saved it. Now I click on the modify link at th eright top of the post, strike out that text and save it.

-2stepsback (February 25, 2007, 02:08 AM)

I don't agree, I think incomplete posts are a disservice to those who read it - but you can press Alt+a and Alt+c to copy it to the clipboard whenever you type longer post. After losing a few long posts (thanks to browser or network problems) over the years I now often do that.
 

If I'm writing very long posts, I also copy a version to a .txt file.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why piracy is the better choice

« Last post by brotherS on February 24, 2007, 03:28 PM »

Fresh article: http://yro.slashdot....1730250&from=rss

Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an 'economic epidemic' under certain conditions. Any one of the following: 1) The products they want... are hard to find, and thus valuable. 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them. 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with. Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises. And... Guess what? It's precisely those three conditions that DRM creates in the first place. So far from being an impediment to so-called 'online piracy,' it's DRM itself that keeps fueling it and driving it forward."

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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32; searching E-Mails?

« Last post by brotherS on February 19, 2007, 05:50 AM »

Email searches won't probably be possible in Locate - that's a better task for desktop search tools. Can't really recommend one, I just know Google's tool supports several email clients.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by brotherS on February 16, 2007, 01:45 PM »

I must say i really like the live search feature in Opera mail - i have not seen many mail clients to that.

-iphigenie (February 16, 2007, 01:21 PM)

When you really like "I have not seen many mail clients do that" features, you MUST check out Google Mail! True, you can't install it locally, but its features and the look and feel of it is just *awesome* IMHO. They also don't have a 'live search' (yet?), but I don't miss that with regard to email.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by brotherS on February 16, 2007, 01:24 PM »

Nice post! Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) features find-as-you-type too, very helpful indeed.

I did not know that, and I used to use Azureus a long time ago.  I'll check it out, maybe it's a new feature.  Oh, I see, it just pops up as you start typing.  That's really good actually.  I would say that it gets a 10, just off of an initial glance.  It's done very well.

-superboyac (February 16, 2007, 11:59 AM)

Yes, I too think it's a 10, and you can now guess who helped them with continued feedback to bring it to this level.

Thanks to another guy with good ideas it now even has filter-as-you-type in the config too! I didn't saw that in any other program, and while I personally rarely need it, IMHO it's great!

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General Software Discussion / Re: SuperboyAC's DC blog #2 (Live Search feature in software)

« Last post by brotherS on February 16, 2007, 04:24 AM »

Nice post! Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) features find-as-you-type too, very helpful indeed. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: needed: tool to sync two HDs/folders

« Last post by brotherS on February 13, 2007, 09:10 AM »

Thanks! In this case I might even spend some money for a tool with a nice GUI (to show progress, to most easily specify folders), so if you know something like that please feel free to mention it!
 

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General Software Discussion / needed: tool to sync two HDs/folders

« Last post by brotherS on February 13, 2007, 06:59 AM »

Hi,

I need a (free if possible) tool to sync my HD - or really just several folders, including subfolders (from C: and D:) - to my backup HD that I just connect every now and then.

Is there a smart tool that has no problem with some of the source folders being written to while running? (i.e. it should just copy what it finds in that moment and not care over more changes after that moment)

Over the years I saw a few of these programs, but since I never needed one before... your help is appreciated!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by brotherS on February 12, 2007, 12:57 PM »

Actually I did read them all so I take a bit of offense at your jibe. But, I do appreciate your answer. I saw no mention of AHK being able to do toolbars. Nor did I see a reference to forums, only IRC.

-edbro (February 12, 2007, 11:22 AM)

Rest assured that it was just a jibe of the friendly kind

You might have a specific definition of "custom toolbars" in mind, but you should quickly find out more. I suggest you post in the AHK forum, giving them lots of details and asking for feedback if what you plan to do is possible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by brotherS on February 12, 2007, 11:16 AM »

I am intrigued by AHK but I am a long time Powerpro user. I saw that a couple of you are familiar with both programs. Does AHK offer any advantage over Powerpro? I currently have PP controlling just about everything on my computer and it uses very little resources. The program is still being updated but I have to admit, it is starting to show its age as it still has a lot of remnants from the past in it.

Can AHK create custom toolbars that are active only when certain programs are running?
Can AHK control the clipboard?

I'd love to give AHK a whirl but I have so much effort invested in PP right now I'm reluctant to switch. I might try running both for awhile and see if I can do everything in AHK that I currently do in PP.

One thing I do like is that PP has a very active usergroup in Yahoo Groups. Is there any such thing for AHK besides IRC?

-edbro (February 12, 2007, 11:13 AM)

You didn't read many threads here, eh? ;-) Yes, AHK could do that, and much more. To inspire you, check out what Skrommel did with it: https://www.donation...m/Software/Skrommel/

AHK has a very active forum on http://www.autohotkey.com/ - much better than a Yahoo! Group IMHO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by brotherS on February 12, 2007, 10:09 AM »

You mean sort of an "AHK special interest group" within DC, using DC as the "transport medium" to transfer the cash?  That sounds OK, as long as Mouser (and any other DC administrators) are willing to to the donkeywork.

-rjbull (February 12, 2007, 09:36 AM)

I'd guess that's not too much work - mouser could probably recycle the AHK fund 'user' used last time, and when 100% (of whatever amount) is reached use PayPal to transfer the money.

Maybe mouser could share some details

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by brotherS on February 12, 2007, 07:49 AM »

I want to suggest another DC AHK group donation fund. $100?

-brotherS (February 11, 2007, 09:30 AM)

No.  All DC members would be contributing, but I doubt all of them use it.  Those who do, can make personal donations to AHK's author and/or to the AHK-using authors on DC.

-rjbull (February 12, 2007, 04:02 AM)

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I suggested a DC group donation, not a DC donation. DC would just set up the empty fund, everyone interested would donate into that fund.

Then DC/mouser would transfer the complete amount. Benefits: less PayPal fees, more of the money reaches AHK, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Will Wikipedia Run Out of Money and Disappear

« Last post by brotherS on February 11, 2007, 01:19 PM »

this is what makes me hate capitalism..
we could fund wikipedia into the next century if we cut in half a few sports stars salaries or advertisement contracts.
or cut in half the salaries of a few oil company executives.
god forbid the government fund something like this instead of building some fancy new jet fighters.

-mouser (February 11, 2007, 03:07 AM)

Well, capitalism isn't perfect, but I don't see a better alternative.
You don't kill your cat because she pukes on your carpet every now and then, right?

I bet wikipedia won't disappear, should they really run into *serious* problems some cool billionaire or corporation will help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?

« Last post by brotherS on February 11, 2007, 09:30 AM »

I want to suggest another DC AHK group donation fund. $100?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by brotherS on February 07, 2007, 04:34 AM »

As f0dder said, Miranda is about "lean and mean" If you want video chats, go for the huge alternatives

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paperless Home: Need document management software

« Last post by brotherS on February 07, 2007, 04:22 AM »

Paperport/Omnipage are great, but try out eCopy desktop.  Much simpler to use, and cheaper!!!

http://www.scanguru....page/links.php?cat.2

-sboals (February 06, 2007, 11:53 PM)

I couldn't find a price there, how much is it?

Since when do you use it and how often do you use it?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by brotherS on February 06, 2007, 06:53 AM »

I just moved from miranda to trillian. While it might not support the thousands of options that miranda does, it is far more stable, has fewer bugs (like being able to handle HTML Special characters properly), and feels generally more robust. Check it out at www.ceruleanstudios.com

-Josh (February 06, 2007, 06:42 AM)

I truely feel sorry for your loss 

I freely admit that Miranda isn't free of bugs, but Miranda's *WEALTH* of options (huge plus for me) lets me happily live with that fact. Since I use Miranda to talk with others I don't need HTML features.

If you setup Miranda right, it's very stable. I'm mostly using the alpha versions, and even those crash almost never.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by brotherS on February 06, 2007, 06:39 AM »

To use several IRC servers, I just copied IRC.dll to IRC2.dll etc. - should work with other protocols too.

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Living Room / Re: backup question - how much of a risk is fire?

« Last post by brotherS on February 01, 2007, 04:00 AM »

how about keeping the 3rd copy in the car (or other vehicle if you own one). then if there is a disaster you can speed off into the sunset.

probably a good idea to encrypt the data first like f0dder says - just in case someone takes your car.

-nudone (February 01, 2007, 03:39 AM)

I wouldn't do that, the risk of someone breaking in is too big IMHO. Also, the constant vibrations might be good for your HD long-term, even if the head is parked. Not 100% sure, just a wild guess...

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Living Room / Re: backup question - how much of a risk is fire?

« Last post by brotherS on February 01, 2007, 03:58 AM »

But I have a much cheaper Idea  :

Buy a big rain-collector-bin, dig a hole in your garden, ...

-Crush (January 31, 2007, 12:56 PM)

Crush, i kind of like your idea. i'm just wondering if freezing temperatures would have any detrimental effect on the things inside the bin. i'm sure one or two frosty cold mornings wouldn't be too bad but would it be okay to leave things down there for a winter?

i have no idea what ground temperatures are like below the surface and whether cd/dvds and hard drives would care if they were out in the cold.

-nudone (January 31, 2007, 04:44 PM)

You could just dig a few meters deep and put some isolation on top, the earth won't freeze down there. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: DimSaver *improvement* needed!

« Last post by brotherS on January 31, 2007, 12:25 PM »

And could you please add a "key combination that quits DimSaver" option? That would be very helpful!

-brotherS (January 30, 2007, 06:48 AM)

Maybe make this a "hit ______ button twice in less than one second to quit DimSaver" option?

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General Software Discussion / Re: QuickSoundSwitch

« Last post by brotherS on January 31, 2007, 02:20 AM »

Ah, looks good! I'm uxing the kX project driver for my SoundBlaster Live! soundcard and use AutoHotkey to switch between different kX settings. QuickSoundSwitch would be a good alternative if it doesn't use too many resources.