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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: w.Bloggar - Blogging Power

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 03:45 AM »

Hm strange - I posted a reply but it didn't appear ...

Great find - donwloading now! Maybe I will get around to doing something with the two blogspot sites I started!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 03:43 AM »

A Macro would do it quickly

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 02:51 AM »

May be a more major point in the days of Ebay - go out buy a CD on the cheapest store you can find, copy it at bit-perfect quality, sell it on Amazon or Ebay and probably make a profit; I'm sure it happens all the time these days - otherwise how do individiuals sell so many second hand CDs and DVDs ?

Aside

I can't believe some of the second hand prices people pay on Ebay and Amazon - I'm sure some people switch off their brains. I remember watching an auction I was interested in once for a DVD and I stopped bidding at £2 short of the cheapest price I could buy it for new, but the auction went on and someone paid twice as much as the new price !!!

One further thought about AllofMP3 - it is really useful for older CDs that are no longer available, and I don't have any reservations about copyright: if you can't buy a CD in the shop you aren't doing any harm to the artists whatever AllofMP3 do re. royalties. I have certain found a few deleted classics over there.

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 02:46 AM »

Yuk - I hate the American 'Deep Throat' tone ... sounds like a naff film commercial 

-Carol Haynes (April 10, 2006, 09:38 AM)

. . . and I hate the nasal bordering on anal French pronounciation.  Call me throaty American. It's ironic I live minutes south of French Canada and nearly everyone here speaks French as a first or strong second language.

-allen (April 10, 2006, 10:15 PM)

Is it just me or does the French version sound like someone trying to sound French?

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Jazper's Software / What is ShoutcastConcierge?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 11, 2006, 02:40 AM »

Spent some time looking yesterday but I couldn't get a clear idea of what this program does.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 07:58 PM »

Yes I am using the space trigger

-Carol Haynes (April 10, 2006, 03:36 AM)

Well.. Since i'll be updating this script, i guess i'll fix that problem too

-jgpaiva (April 10, 2006, 07:25 PM)

Keeps you out of mischief 

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Living Room / Re: Happy birthday Carol H.

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 06:07 PM »

I'll give 1,000,000 DC credits to anyone who can make me 10 years younger ...

what the hell make it 30 years younger and I'll buy you Belgium!

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Living Room / Re: Happy birthday Carol H.

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 06:00 PM »

Since it is now 1 minute to midnight (local time) I can say thanks a lot guys for all the good wishes ... and forget the dreaded day again until next year.

Now if only I could start reversing the process .

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Official Announcements / Re: Be Part of the First DonationCoder.com Team Podcast Radio Show Contest!

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 12:55 PM »

Ye Gods - are we going to hear a Mouser (mewww) - you ain't going to hear a Carol, that's for sure

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 12:52 PM »

I agree about the voice.  You thought THAT was American, though.  Try this:   http://m-w.com/cgi-b...oi01.wav=connoisseur

I'll look around for something more worthy of us.

Okay, here's the best I can do.
http://www.infopleas...pron/connoisseur.wav
and
http://library.sulli...udio/connoisseur.wav

The first is the best approximation of the way I have usually heard it pronounced.  The second, of course, is by a French speaker and illustrates that the actual French spelling is "connaisseur," not "connoisseur."  The spelling we are using was apparently borrowed by the English in the 1800s.  Go figure.

-momonan (April 10, 2006, 11:03 AM)

The first sounds more Canadian to me ears - the second is nearest to the way I would pronounce it.

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Living Room / Re: QuickTime VR of objects - anyone know how to do this cheaply?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 12:45 PM »

looks nice (though, a bit dark) - if you want me to be picky i'd say position the object so that it appears to be spinning around it's central tube that's at the top - that way i think it would look like a smooth spin.

-nudone (April 10, 2006, 12:07 PM)

Yes I agree about the lighting - the museum had a black corner 'open box' for shooting pictures but I think I need to line it with a light/contrasting background cloth but I didn't have anything available at the time.

For turning I am getting a turntable but it was really difficult to judge turning without one.

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Living Room / Re: QuickTime VR of objects - anyone know how to do this cheaply?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 11:59 AM »

I have been experimenting with Pano2QTVR and here is my first attempt ... there are some caveats though!

1) I shot 21 frames very quickly adjusting the position of the backcan by hand between shots (I didn't have a turntable)
2) I need a high contrast background (the black box was useless)
3) It was only meant as a rough and ready test!

Having said that it took me less than 5 minutes to resize all my images and build the movie.

It is a quicktime movie - just hold and drag your mouse left or right on the image.

Unfortunately I can't upload .mov files so I have zipped it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bits du Jour - One Software Title Each Day At A Big Discount

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 10:11 AM »

LOL - I don't suppose "one of our very favorite programs in the whole world" counts as a review - eh Mouser (being understated I see)?

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Living Room / Re: Happy birthday Carol H.

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 09:49 AM »

Swine ...


oh alright ... thanks

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 09:38 AM »

If it seems to be a problem, how about a link to the definition -- and a cute pronunciation guide.  See
 
http://www.bartleby....wavs/69/C0576900.wav

-momonan (April 10, 2006, 07:39 AM)

Yuk - I hate the American 'Deep Throat' tone ... sounds like a naff film commercial 

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General Software Discussion / RegEdit addin for Internet Explorer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 05:42 AM »

Found this in the current LangaList newsletter and it looks really neat ... http://www.petri.co....in_regedit_in_ie.htm

Works really well - just highlight a registry key displayed in an Internet Explorer Window (or related windows - it works in IE tabs in Firefox and in Maxthon, so presumably any IE based browser), right click and choose Open In Regedit and it jumps straight in to that value. Great when you are troubleshooting something and a reg key is quoted.

The whole website www.petri.co.il is worth checking out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want to learn how to make a webpage. Where can I start?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 05:14 AM »

Here is a fun little tool http://www.pinsoft.com.au/teachhtml.htm

and check out http://nvu.com/index.html for free web authoring software.

Alternatively you could just creat a blog page (which would just involve typing!) ... try www.blogger.com which would give you a free website called something like http://jgpaiva.blogspot.com

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 04:48 AM »

Yes I agree too - plus the coins are much more prominant than the name of the website which is rather in the background.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 04:45 AM »

I love Janis Ian's music (for those of you who are too young to remember she was prominent in the 60s and 70s with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Co.. and I am going to see her next week in concert (I've waited for a long time for her to leave the US and do a European tour) so that will be great.

Anyway the point of this is that she wrote an article some time ago about "The Internet Debacle" (it is available as a PDF here) which sheds some interesting light on internet downloading from the point of view of the artist. I can agree that as a result of downloading some her songs for free I have gone back to her website and bought a number of albums - and she gets the money. Seems like a really good model to me.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: a better PowerDimmer screensaver alternative?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 04:27 AM »

I find I get DimSaver using ~70% CPU cycles but only while it dims. Once it gets there it uses 0-1%. Not had problems exiting the screen saver though.

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Living Room / Re: 10 minute video of Japanese Rube Goldberg Machines

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 04:08 AM »

If you like that cool Honda commercial try to get your hands on "Der Lauf der Dinge/The Way Things Go" that I mentioned above! 30 instead of 2 minutes - AND they use chemical reactions too!
 

-brotherS (April 08, 2006, 10:02 AM)

If anyone wants to get a copy of this is is available at http://www.dvdpacifi...om/item.asp?ID=28385 but I'm not sure I want to pay for a one of curiosty on DVD. It is also available at http://www.dvdsoon.c...tails.xml?uid=101248 and http://www.amazon.ca...idos/ASIN/B00005UW7W (on DVD and VHS)

Ironically it doesn't seem to be available in Germany!

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Make a new Banner for Website

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 03:41 AM »

LOL - no one has to spell it but maybe DC could do it's bit to educate the world by having a range of banners with hard words in various languages ... any suggestions

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 03:36 AM »

Yes I am using the space trigger

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Confine Mouse to Specific Monitor in Multi-monitor setup

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 10, 2006, 03:35 AM »

- at least if you get to 1/4 of the way across the other screen it should snap straight back.

I wonder if it is possible in AHK to make a boundary box?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Confine Mouse to Specific Monitor in Multi-monitor setup

« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 09, 2006, 07:37 PM »

How about changing it to screenwidth-2 (when restricting to the primary screen) that way it should never reach the edge and so can't move to the other screen at all (+2 for the other monitor). A 2 pixel buffer shouldn't affect what you can do on the screen anyway.