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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2015, 03:49 PM »

Ok a quick car-related gadget today, some unusual jack stands for those who do maintenance under their cars.

These are expensive, at $63 (compares to standard jack stands which might be half that cost), but the consensus seems to be that they feel much more secure.
I can't compare but I can say that I was very impressed with their stability, size, secureness, and weight:

Torin T43004 3 Ton Aluminum Jack Stands

http://www.amazon.co...tands/dp/B0007XTGCI/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable FARR - File Altered? Problem with Cert?

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2015, 02:29 PM »

oy that sucks, it's bound to confuse people and cause problems.
Thanks for the links Ath, looks like i have to change the hashing algorithm and/or generate new code signing certificates. I'll try to do so this week.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: you have a newer version...

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2015, 07:23 AM »

Oops, will fix.
Most often that will happen if you install a beta, but I can see that I didn't change it to reflect even that last official update.

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2015, 09:19 AM »

How cool is this -- a jaguar playing and swimming under water. I love when he just floats under water:

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Judy's TenKey (10Key) award-winning calculator

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 08:55 PM »

For super quick calc with tape, I use my own fcalc plugin with FARR:
Screenshot - 5_11_2015 , 8_54_05 PM.png

FARR: https://www.donation...r/findrun/index.html
FCALC plugin: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8769.0

Not nearly as powerful or fancy as the others, but has the benefit of being always available if you already use FARR.

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 03:58 PM »

Somewhere along the line we also seem to have lost touch with beloved member 40hz, last seen in february

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a Sci-Fi short story about time travel

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 12:37 PM »

Nice list

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Portable Installation - Updating Existing to New Version

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 11:59 AM »

Exit Screenshot Captor if running and then just unzip new portable .zip file into your old directory, overwriting files. You should be all set.
The portable zip does not contain a settings file so it won't overwrite your existing settings.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request: SC to freeze the on-screen display prior to clipping an image.

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 10:51 AM »

Nothing to be embarrassed about. Another possibility is that if you haven't used SC in a long time, but you've been doing other things, windows may unload it from memory even if it's running in the system tray. So in some cases this could mean that there is a slight delay between hitting the PrtScr button and having SC actually trigger the capture. Maybe that's what happened before.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request: SC to freeze the on-screen display prior to clipping an image.

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 06:41 AM »

Can you see if the shift key alone causes the popup message to disappear instantly, or what about prtscr key alone?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request: SC to freeze the on-screen display prior to clipping an image.

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2015, 05:44 AM »

The only constraint in using SC in this case seems to be in taking any screenshot of an area of the screen which contains a system pop-out window - and there were 2 such instances in this case. SC couldn't take such a clip without closing the pop-out window first, every time I tried it.

How are you triggering the capture? Are you using Shift+PrtScr to do a selected-region capture, or just plain PrtScr to capture entire screen? If Shift+PrtScr, are you using the normal way to select a region which shows crosshairs that go from top to bottom and left to right of screen? Or are you using RedBox mode?

The motivation for these questions: Unless you have changed the region-capture mode to RedBox mode, SC should freeze the screen before engaging region capture mode. One possibility for what you are seeing is that the keystrokes to engage the capture are closing the pop-up message before SC engages.

Can you do a few more experiments and see if you can figure out a few more clues?

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2015, 06:14 PM »

One of my new favorite dishes.. Tastes so fresh and not overly oily:

ASIAN NOODLE BOWL WITH GINGER PEANUT DRESSING

http://minimalistbak...ger-peanut-dressing/

Screenshot - 5_10_2015 , 6_13_50 PM_thumb001.png

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2015, 03:09 PM »

A post-action report:

I had my car up on 4 jack stands this weekend and:

1. Replaced front rotors and brake pads; bedded in brakes.
2. Replaced brake fluid and bled all brakes.
3. Cycled out the power steering fluid.
4. Drained and refilled the Rear Differential gear oil and front transfer case gear oil.
5. Already changed oil previously.
6. Did first pass of draining and refilling transmission fluid (needs a few more times since only half comes out each time).
7. Replaced lug nuts.
8. Installed hitch.
9. Flushed and replaced coolant.

Tip: I was never in any danger but I did literally almost destroy my car, by draining the engine oil when i thought i had drained the transmission. I was getting complacent and over-confident and just wasn't double checking things the way I should have been. I sure was proud of myself for everything i had done until that put the fear of god into me.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Issue with date prefix

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2015, 08:13 PM »

Great

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 09, 2015, 03:06 AM »

Orangutan and Tiger Cubs:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Delete or cut and paste selected region

« Last post by mouser on May 08, 2015, 04:25 AM »

Another trick is to select the region you want to delete and choose Edit -> Select -> Invert Selection. Then hit the "Crop" button. This will fill the selected region with Canvas background color (default is white set in "More Interface Options" tab).

Perhaps I should add an option to "delete" the selected region and make it background canvas color or transparent (or let user select the color to fill with?)

What I could do is change the "Patch" command to show a dialog giving the user choice of filling with "transparent", a solid color, or the "smart" patch that it does now -- this would have the advantage of supporting more options for smart patching in the future..

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