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Living Room / Re: Lots of new members
« Last post by timns on January 14, 2011, 12:15 AM »
Check out most of the topics similar to the one you linked to, they all have a similar pattern.

One's enough for me. Can't abide bad manners.

(to be read in an extremely polite voice)
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Living Room / Re: Lots of new members
« Last post by timns on January 14, 2011, 12:14 AM »
Check out most of the topics similar to the one you linked to, they all have a similar pattern.

One's enough for me. Can't abide bad manners.
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Living Room / Re: Lots of new members
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 09:23 PM »
Why is it that when a new member joins only to berate the sign-up method/license key method, we have people who decide to pick on him? While I can understand the frustration, and I understand the opposing view, do we really need to have the same comments appear time after time, regardless of how the original poster comes across? Wouldn't it be better to just let mouser handle this and move on? Just a thought

Why, does this happen a lot? I've never seen it before.
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Living Room / Re: Lots of new members
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 06:50 PM »
a.stave.a has a marvellous way of introducing himself  ;D

https://www.donation....msg231795#msg231795
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: A piece of Sh**
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 06:48 PM »

Please remove my name and email address from your records. I believe you don't give 'free' keys. You just want to hassle us. NO PROGRAM is worth that!

Steve
a.steve.a

No need to reply. Please don't. I will remove your program from my computer.

I wonder which program?
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Living Room / Lots of new members
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 01:14 PM »
Maybe it's just me, but it feels like there have been a lot of new folks joining DC just recently.

Anyone else think the same? Are there any stats to prove it, or am I just being subjective?

And, if there are more new joiners, does the panel think it's due to NANY, or just a generally higher profile of DC nowadays?

Discuss.  :)
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 11:49 AM »
Ooh! A very generous article.

... despite the mention of "bugs"  :-[
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Mozilla Labs GameOn Competition
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 09:54 AM »
Are any of the games any good?

Not knowing your taste...I couldnt answer that...I could say they are amazing, and you dont like a single one lol.

Ok it was a bit of a loaded question. :-[

I just did a quick scroll through and saw things like "snake" and "minesweeper" so that left me feeling a bit unmoved.
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Mozilla Labs GameOn Competition
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 09:42 AM »
Are any of the games any good?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 08:31 AM »
I shall wear mine to the next trade show we attend  :Thmbsup:
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 08:22 AM »
Always room for another pretender  :-[

Oh, Auspex isn't something that needs to be thrown…   :o
-cranioscopical (January 13, 2011, 07:59 AM)

usurpenly do come up with marvellous puns, Mr Cranio  :tellme:
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 13, 2011, 08:20 AM »
Ok that is a most impressive piece of error reporting! I'll certainly take a look at all of these issues, and I also like your suggestion of being able to make bulk changes to items.

Thank you! I'll turn your report into a series of redmine issues to they can be tracked.

I'm working on a new release of Auspex this weekend so I shall see if I can get some of these extras fixed too.

Oh yes, and welcome to DC  :Thmbsup:
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Does MSE have good on-demand scanning?  Like, can I right-click a folder/file and scan it real quick?

On a related note, what are some recommended on-demand scanning for antivirus, malware, etc.?

Yes it does have on-demand...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another reason to drop Kaspersky?
« Last post by timns on January 12, 2011, 10:58 AM »
Thus:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another reason to drop Kaspersky?
« Last post by timns on January 12, 2011, 10:46 AM »
Maybe I'll go try F-Secure.
MSE, man... MSE.
I tried MSE.  They have that part where they say they will send your results back to microsoft.  And you can't disable it at all.  I'd even pay for it if I could get rid of it.  But I can't.

I'd rather pay for F-Secure, than to have my data being sent around.

Maybe they changed that recently. There's an opt-out in the settings.

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 04:53 PM »
That's some darned good research! Glad I didn't see this before I kicked off my project. ;)

Then again, there's certainly a lot more than one of any type of software by now. Always room for another pretender  :-[
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 03:19 PM »
Since we are just chatting, here's another thing...I just was in Excel and tried to copy/paste one cell to another.  I received popup dialog saying "Cannot open clipboard: access is denied."  It had Auspex...in the title bar of the window.

Messing around, I was able to do it.  Just tried again; got the popup again.  Does Auspex inhibit other program's use of the clipboard?

It should not have any effect on other programs, but a couple of people have noticed issues. I use a standard clipboard component so it should play nice. But I'm just about to make the clipboard feature switchable anyway - so unless you really like the clipboard extensions that auspex offers (and there are much better ones around, I do agree) you will be able to switch 'er off.
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 02:57 PM »
OK, the refresh button made the changes "take" immediately-- it is the "Save" button.  I just didn't know what that was/did.  New to this really neat utility, ya know!

No problem - I enjoy the banter. At some point soon we'll have a little user guide too.
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 02:57 PM »
timns, what didn't you like about other programs of this kind that you made your own?

I'd actually only seen one thing similar before, and it was terribly basic. Something on lifehacker I think it was - I've junked it now so cannot recall.

If I'd have known about things like AHK I may not have started this little project, but I do like to think this is friendlier, and it should be easier for folks to get to grips with. It's also unicode and should be able to handle any keyboard, which I believe makes it a bit more special.

I was not even aware that there'd been a NANY in '09 with similar features. I have a bit of a bad habit of not looking around enough to see what else is out there when I get excited about doing a bit of coding of my own  :)

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 01:57 PM »
Ah on erase trigger--makes sense and could be handy, as you show.

I notice that I have to exit and restart after entering a new mnemonic.  That is no problem, and I guess it make sense, but, as a very low priority enhancement, you might want to add a SAVE button to avoid having to do that.

You should not have to do that. It should appear right after you created it...

Can you try the tiny refresh button on the top right next to the search box and see if that makes the item appear for you please? (little green button just above the list on the right)


I did add a f r m replacment; now, to see if I can remember to type it that way.

Oh, is there any way to transfer the Word autocorrect list into Auspex?

Well, yes and no: there's an import feature. (Go to File->Import Word List) which imports words that will be suggested as you start to type them. If you want to bulk create a load of replacements for spelling corrections, that's not in place yet, but a good idea.

I'll add that to me list.  :Thmbsup:
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 01:31 PM »
OK, I got the T E H thing to work (can't type t e h anymore as it gets replaced!) :).  Don't know what was happening, but it would not take any typing in the replacement box.  I did a paste into it instead, and that worked.  Later, I observed it WAS taking direct typing into the box.  I don't know exactly what the sequence of things was, but definitely, it did not take direct typing when first tried--and there was a beep on some of the keystrokes.

What does the check-box Erase Trigger on/off do?

It deletes (or does not delete!) the space/enter/tab that you typed to show Auspex that you'd come to the end of your word.

It's handy to have that character deleted if, for example, you are using auspex to replace short acronyms with something that you then add something ELSE onto.

For example, I have one called mld which exapands to http://downloads.ourwebsitesaddres.com/

so I can type mld<tab>readme.txt and auspex creates:
http://downloads.our...ddres.com/readme.txt (having removed the tab char for me)
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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 12:24 PM »
I just came across this, and think it sounds absolutely wonderful.  I am having a bit of difficulty seeing how to "make it start working."

For example, if I want it to ALWAYS replace "teh<space>" with "the<space>", exactly how do I do that?

Click the "New" button, and set up a Replacement as per this screenshot:

Image1.png

And how would I handle this:  I want it to replace "form<space>" with "from<space>", but also allow me to change it back to "form<space>" in those cases where that IS the intended word.  I type 'from' many times more than 'form' and often misspell it.

Tricky! You could have something that changed "form" to "from" but it may drive you nuts after a while. One option would be to have a Replacement with something like 'frm' instead, that you deliberately used instead of "from", just to avoid the whole thing.

Those typos that are in fact another valid word are problematic... let's throw it out there: anyone got any good ideas for this?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Entry Ideas & Requests
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 09:35 AM »
NANY...great site...thanks for the information!
Now a question, for those who use software like NANY, or ?:
Years ago, probably on Windows 98, I used a utility which showed the number of files inside a directory.
When you used Windows Explorer, and your 'left column' showed the main entries, you clicked on one to open, and the right pane shows those file members, right? No problem.
But on the bottom line of display, again on the left pane above what is now the 'START' button, it showed the NUMBER of file entries in the displayed right pane.
It was handy when viewing large files, such as MP3 libraries and PICTURES, etc.
Sorry...it's hard for me to explain, but there used to be a utility that did this?
Anyone remember this one, or know of one?
I suspect it's one that would be in a 'file management' classification, but I've yet to find it...?
Help?

 :(
-guyincourtenay (January 11, 2011, 09:21 AM)

Welcome aboard. Which Courtenay?

I bet any of the good File Managers can do that stuff. For intance Directory Opus can definitely do it, and I bet even the freeware ones can... is it XYManager someone?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on January 11, 2011, 08:28 AM »
Lovely little app, I used it for half an hour and was looking forward to adding it to my "always on" utilities. However...I do a lot of my coding in VB6 (yeah, I know, but its what the punters want!) and, like all of the other clipboard managers, the VB IDE screws up when it's loading if Auspex is running. This is because VB and/or some VB add-ins seem to set up the icons on their toolbar buttons by copying them to and from the clipboard, and if there is a clipboard manager running, an error is generated and toolbars can go missing.

Is there any chance of making the clipboard function optional?

A few other things I noticed:
- I couldn't get the splash screen not to display (the setting doesn't have any effect)
- I couldn't get it to start with Windows, again irrespective of the relevant setting
- The auto-complete popup box always displayed as black text on a yellow background, again regardless of the settings

I really would like to use this utility, but the VB problem means I can't.

Thanks

Roger


Roger, thank you!

I shall make the clipboard handler optional, so in your case you can switch it off.

As for the other items - oh yes, those and several other features are still "in progress" but rest assured will be addressed shortly.
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Living Room / Re: Spokeo - new stalking social networking site?
« Last post by timns on January 10, 2011, 12:56 PM »
Let's hope so - although it probably has tendrils everywhere
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