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Living Room / Re: Are my EBook Reader dreams going to be answered in 2010? A full size reader?

« Last post by Nod5 on December 29, 2009, 11:46 AM »

I've longed for an A4 sized ebook reader for some time too. It is weird that so little of the ereader buzz is focused on large size screen readers. Maybe my first ebook reader will not be a standalone device but instead an ultrathin netbook/laptop with swivel and a screen with ebook mode. PixelQi screens are said to reach markets early 2010. Check this link for some amazing looking preview photos of their screens. http://pixelqi.com/b...ice-lighting-part-2/

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: automated mp3 rip from video clip

« Last post by Nod5 on December 28, 2009, 10:47 AM »

Skwire's coding snack seems like a great solution. If the videos are on youtube then there are also several good webapps. Dirpy (http://www.dirpy.com/ ) is the best one I've found. Very quick and no-nonsense site. Enter the youtube video URL, tweak some settings if you want to (choose a subsection of the video, change id3 information, set bitrate...) and download the mp3.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Mini NANY Submissions

« Last post by Nod5 on December 28, 2009, 08:37 AM »

Hi all   As you can see I'm entering NANY at the last minute (almost). The NANY event is great and I'm thrilled to soon try out some of the other apps. Great job Mouser and Phil and everyone else.  BigTimer is a pretty small autohotkey app so the Mini NANY category seems fitting. It is finished and I'll post it very soon.

First one issue though: All the autohotkey code is done by me. I was first inspired by Skrommel's timer script (https://www.donation....msg140627#msg140627 ) but then deviated so much that no code from that is left. I have however until now used/adapted this icon and audio file:
icon + image: CC_by_sa_2.5 Derivative from image by Júlio Reis
http://commons.wikim...Simple_icon_time.svg
audio: CC_sampling+_1 Derivative from sound by Corsica_S
http://www.freesound...wSingle.php?id=18632
I want to make BigTimer FOSS. But please advice me on license specifics. Do I need to use some special license to include the (adapted) files above with BigTimer? I have made an icon from the image file and that icon is compiled into the BigTimer exe. I also include some separate files in the zip: an .icl file with two adapted icons (one for each mode) and a .png of the image and a .wav of the audio. Those are used by BigTimer.exe .

edit: thanks for the feedback scancode. In the end, I chose to bypass the problem by not compiling the icon into the exe.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Mini NANY 2010: BigTimer

« Last post by Nod5 on December 28, 2009, 08:11 AM »

NANY 2010 Entry Information

Application Name	BigTimer
Version	v091227
Short Description	A small timer app with big top left corner digits
Supported OSes	Windows XP and later
Web Page	http://www.dcmembers...5/download/bigtimer/
System Requirements	Win XP or later
Version History	v091227 first version
Author	Nod5

Description
I wanted a small, simple timer and alarm app that was very quick to set up yet had big digits. There are many timer/eggclock/alarm apps out there but I didn't find one that did exactly what I wanted. So I made it myself.
Features
- TIMER and ALARM modes
- big digits in the top left screen corner
- timer digit display phases: above 5 minutes = only minutes are shown, 5-2 minutes = M:SS, 2-0 minutes = seconds.
- when time is up an alarm sounds and a clock image pops up
Planned Features
A countup mode i.e. BigTimer counts upwards to let you keep track of for how long you've been doing something.

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Unzip, then run BigTimer.exe. Help is shown on first run.

Using the Application
input 0000-2359 --> ALARM set in HH:MM format
input 0-999    --> TIMER set in minutes
See webpage/helpfile for command line and FARR use
Uninstallation
none, just delete the files
Known Issues
no

edit 180223: updated download page URL

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« Last post by Nod5 on December 06, 2009, 07:07 AM »

  BTW, are you on Vista or W7? I have only testdriven it on XP so it would be good to know if it works fine on the rest too.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Nod5 on December 05, 2009, 05:41 AM »

ok, I just had the problem I described again. The title test translates to "Windows - no harddrive" (see attachment in previous post)

-Nod5 (September 25, 2009, 08:40 AM)

I sometimes get that when booting up without the usual USB Drive plugged in. I wasn't actually sure it was FARR that was causing the problem, but I wondered if there was some history somewhere??

-Perry Mowbray (October 08, 2009, 07:36 AM)

I think I've pinpointed my problem now (note: the problem now seems unrelated to the one siouxdax et al have, see my posts above): the error messages come only when I have an Android phone connected to the PC via USB and do not have its SD card mounted (i.e. so I can read/write files and folders on it) and then bring up the FARR window through the hotkey and do some search. Does that make sense mouser? Can you think of some FARR internal cause for that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« Last post by Nod5 on December 05, 2009, 05:26 AM »

v091205:
- added ini option to place filenotes in a user defined subfolder relative to the file operated on
http://nod5.dcmembers.com/filenoter.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« Last post by Nod5 on November 28, 2009, 09:15 AM »

hi kartal, sorry for the late reply. I've had a very short supply of time lately.

I don't understand what you mean by relative .info folder. Say that you use filenoter on "C:\folder\file.mp3".
What should then be generated? "C:\folder\.info\file.mp3.txt"?

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Finished Programs / Re: tv_out: a shortcut for quickly turning extended desktop on/off

« Last post by Nod5 on October 13, 2009, 12:36 PM »

Did you doublecheck that the desktop icon pointed to the new tv_out.ahk that you edited (and not to the old default version)?  If that wasn't it then I don't know what to do. Because when I change the code to DISPLAY1 as described above then I get the desired result on my Win XP machine. I'm sorry to say that I don't have time to look for other solutions for this at the moment either, but let me know if you find a solution on your own and then I'll add it.

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Finished Programs / Re: tv_out: a shortcut for quickly turning extended desktop on/off

« Last post by Nod5 on October 11, 2009, 12:05 PM »

Hi lxb and welcome to DC! I don't have win 7 so I can't run tests on that OS.

Try if this works (it presupposes that you have autohotkey installed): open tv_out.ahk in a texteditor, on line 14 & 20 change from "DISPLAY2" to "DISPLAY1". Then save and run tv_out.ahk to generate a desktop icon, test if doubleclick on desktop icon toggles the projector on/off. Let me know if that works or not.

I don't know any way to toggle clone mode on/off from AHK, sorry.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: CZB pack

« Last post by Nod5 on October 03, 2009, 03:33 AM »

Thanks czb! To get immediate lookups (only) on new text with an end space I tweaked the if-statement and added a var below it, like so:

[Select]

if(idletime === 0 && match && match[1] && match[1].search(/ $/) != -1 && matchold != match[1]){
 var matchold = match[1];

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: idea: FARR plugin school / tutorial / wiki

« Last post by Nod5 on October 01, 2009, 03:29 AM »

I'll sign up and add some stuff next week - sorry, no time at all ATM   Great that the wiki is up and ready to set in motion.

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Living Room / Re: Thinking about setting up a dedicated "secure PC" in my house.. Thoughts?

« Last post by Nod5 on September 29, 2009, 11:47 AM »

This is a very good idea mouser. You mentioned two alternatives: a separate computer or one computer with virtualization software. A third to consider is one computer with a physical SATA switch, like this one http://www.thesataswitch.com/ , to switch between two separate (sets of) harddrives. I have a switch like that but for PATA. Pic above website:

drawbacks:
- you can't flip between host/virtual OS, you must shut down and reboot
- requires tinkering/soldering

advantages:
+ less costly and space consuming than buying an extra computer
+ more complete separation between the two systems compared to virtualization software (First, the software might have bugs that allow things to break out of the guest OS into the host. Second, if malware makes it onto the host then it might be able to keylog, do screenshots etc in the guest OS window too. The risk for that is low I think, but why not remove it if it comes easy.)
+ requires tinkering/soldering

Netbooks are becoming so inexpensive now that getting an extra one might be the overall best option though. You get better portability. With a separate computer you can also use some KVM switch to use the same keyboard, mouse and screen for regular and secure PC.

It sounds like your intended use is mostly online transactions and server stuff, not things that need very specific applications. Then consider using some minimal Linux variety like Xubuntu or an even lighter one. That will cut down boottime compared to XP. The vanilla Ubuntu alternative installer CD has full disk encryption options so chances are the xubuntu one does too.

One more thing to consider: putting both the secure PC and another PC on the same LAN makes the secure PC more vulnerable to possible malware on the regular PC. Is there some easy way to separate them?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Nod5 on September 25, 2009, 08:40 AM »

ok, I just had the problem I described again. The title test translates to "Windows - no harddrive"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Nod5 on September 24, 2009, 02:00 PM »

Though my problem above might be a different one than the others have reported, my hunch at the moment is that the errors began after updating to fscript.dll v 1.19. I'll try to backtrack to a previous version. But the problem only happens seldomly and therefore hard to troubleshoot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help in installing RSSOwl

« Last post by Nod5 on September 24, 2009, 01:56 PM »

Thanks, very helpful. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Nod5 on September 23, 2009, 04:47 PM »

I've been having a somewhat similar problem with FARR lately: after not using the computer for a while I go to it and almost immediately hit the PauseBreak button to bring up FARR and then a single letter (one I've tied aliases to). Then I fairly often (once every two days or so) get a FARR memory error. Clicking "cancel" is enough to get FARR to respond like usual again. But every time after that when I bring up FARR and type that same letter I get the same error. If I shut down the FARR process and restart it again then the problem disappears, for the moment. Does anyone recognize such a problem? In some such cases FARR keeps giving error messages until it crashes, but in most cases there's only one error popup. My hunch is that some harddrive has gone into sleep mode and that FARR can't handle that properly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help in installing RSSOwl

« Last post by Nod5 on September 23, 2009, 04:42 PM »

sri, can you post your impressions after using the latest RSSOwl. I haven't tried it in a while. I'm still using GreatNews but I'm moving as soon as I find something responsive and minimal GUI wise AND more powerful in other respects.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "found 3 results in 2 seconds", but shows only 2 results

« Last post by Nod5 on September 10, 2009, 11:10 AM »

I think it is related to some other statusbar issues previously discussed:

The FARR statusbar displays text on startup even when the GUI was just opened and no text has been entered: (see attachment in previous post)Maybe add some way to disable the "Found _ results in _ seconds." message (or replace it with " ")? Or more radically, to disable all statusbar text.

-Nod5 (June 23, 2009, 01:33 PM)

v2.70.01 had a related fix
https://www.donation....msg171035#msg171035
but didn't fix it completely I think

If you want to disable the statusbar text completely (it is no longer possible to disable the statusbar altogether) then check out the autohotkey script here:
https://www.donation....msg172845#msg172845

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.0

« Last post by Nod5 on September 09, 2009, 05:54 PM »

Ok, I got the plugin running now, after some initial trouble. I'll write down the details here for own memory and if someone else runs into the same problem.

First I got "External exception E06D7363" during the authentication process, at the step when I've logged onto RTM website and clicked the button and then returned to FARR to execute the RTM entry - then FARR it crasches. I read in this thread that old Fscript versions could cause that. So I replaced all instances of fscript.dll in plugin subdirectories with the one from czb_pack. That didn't solve the problem - now I got crashes saying "Visual C++ Runtime error". So I against replaced all fscript.dll with ecaradec's latest, v 1.19 (found here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=12232.0 ). Now FarrMilk seems to work fine. And I have no problems when I tested some czb-plugins (google translate and ninjawords) using v 1.19.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.0

« Last post by Nod5 on September 08, 2009, 06:10 PM »

I've tried RTM a few times but never stuck with it. But I just read up on RTM's just updated input syntax and I like it a lot. Will you make that syntax work with the FARR plugin?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: More speed through keyword abbreviation and auto completion?

« Last post by Nod5 on September 04, 2009, 12:12 PM »

pgdn in result view will show all, and then subsequent presses will page through the multiple-pages of results?

-mouser (September 04, 2009, 08:33 AM)

pgdn already has a function in result view: it jumps to the last item. How about keeping that and show all only on pgdn/down while at the last item?

Also, Pgdn presently lacks a use in the inputbox. Why not then let pgdn in the inputbox trigger show all? That's one step, compared to two (down + pgdn) or three (down + pgdn + pgdn).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: More speed through keyword abbreviation and auto completion?

« Last post by Nod5 on September 04, 2009, 05:59 AM »

Ampa: I for one have no need for that. I just use short keywords/aliases instead. m for music, b for books and so on.

In Justice's thread Mouser considers adding one more result that when clicked expands to show all. If made, I hope it becomes optional. It wastes screen space since the number of matches is enough indication. If the list looks "full" then there's probably more results to be had through "+sall", if the lists is short then there isn't.

I have no problem with expanding when pressing "down" at the bottom of the list but the hotkey alternative is still much quicker, isn't it?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: More speed through keyword abbreviation and auto completion?

« Last post by Nod5 on September 03, 2009, 09:22 AM »

Ampa: this autohotkey script lets you use ctrl+pagedown / ctrl+pageup to add/remove "+sall"
https://www.donation...24.msg69271#msg69271
middle mouse button version by lanux128 here:
https://www.donation....msg108631#msg108631

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by Nod5 on September 01, 2009, 04:08 PM »

30 Days! You did it! Hooray for Mouser for finishing the screencast marathon You got the formula just right. Very informative videos.

I found this nice image to celebrate and metaphorically illustrate the achievement: