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General Software Discussion / Re: FavesSoft programs page on Softpedia
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 08, 2009, 04:43 PM »
lanux, I've been using PadGen. It has a few quirks but does the job pretty well.  I think the most frustrating part though is submitting to sites. They all seem to organize the software differently.  Sometimes it seems like I spend 5 minutes looking through one giant drop-down list trying to find the most appropriate category. Then when I check back 2 months later, there's been 3 downloads.  Like, a waste of time.

At least on SoftPedia they stick a notice for new releases on the front page of the Windows stuff right under Windows News.  Otherwise if you're in an oddball category it could be buried.  They are pretty good about updates too. The traffic seems pretty good.  I don't redirect my downloads from my page there to bump up the count, but even so, my better utilities seem to get good numbers.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 08, 2009, 02:38 PM »
Opera is my standard browser, and I don't really miss extensions.

-iphigenie (September 08, 2009, 10:39 AM)

Do you happen to know if it still keeps Form Fill personal info in clear text? I'm just curious if they at least encrypt it now or if they just shuffled it into another file.

edit: I just updated to 10 and they just shuffle the [Personal Info] section of opera6.ini to operaprefs.ini.  The info is there in clear text.  Looks like I have to update my obfuscator to ask if the Opera is v. 10 or later. :)
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2009, 10:06 PM »
Very nice.  Thanks again for this utility.  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: FavesSoft programs page on Softpedia
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2009, 05:17 PM »
Thanks mouser.   :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Choice of application installer?
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2009, 05:14 PM »
I agree that the standalone unzip and run approach is best, unfortunately, when working with VB you are pretty much out of luck for standalone apps unless there is some trick I am missing.  If I had my way I'd make all of my apps standalone.

Thanks for the feedback everyone  :D
-sunlitlaz (September 07, 2009, 03:39 PM)

VB has some baggage, but also some things easier.  Like I spent a lot of time developing a dependable "single instance" component, whereas in VB you check an option.  For ActiveX installs Inno Setup is pretty easy.  You just have to add a 'regserver' attribute to the .ocx or .dll file line and it handles registration on install and unregister on uninstall for you. Plus it has been around awhile and has its own nntp newsgroup for user-provided help.

edit: btw look around the web if you decide to try Inno Setup because I'm pretty sure I've seen tools for it that are designed for VB support.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were VB specific script generators or guis for it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Choice of application installer?
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2009, 01:25 PM »
For small installs I'm with mouser.  You can also download ISSkin, which is a free skin library for Inno Setups. Plus, esp. if you know Pascal, the built-in scripting language lets you do lots of stuff to customize things.  For example, you can check the uninstall string for your application to know if it's already installed, offer to keep or delete registry settings when uninstalling etc..

One trick I used to like to include in my Tray applications was a small app killer that would check if the app is running, and if so, kill the app and then move the mouse over the Tray icons to get rid of the Tray Icon that hangs when an app is killed.  So many times people have a Tray app that starts with Windows, they forget it's running, and when they uninstall it gets an error.  This way I pass the name of the app to the app killer as part of the uninstall.  The Tray app is killed before deletion is attempted.

Anyway, seemed pretty cool when I was doing it but more and more people just want to unzip as lanux128 said.  I wouldn't get into any of the elaborate database driven installers unless you have a large app with lots of components or can afford a tool that does all the grunt work for you.  The more moving parts the more stuff there is to break.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 07, 2009, 01:16 PM »
Status bar is fine.  If it's not too much, could you have either an option or hardwire it to output as KB, MB, GB depending on the size range like a lot of file managers do? That just avoids doing the math if some size in decimal will fit on a CD or DVD(you know, dividing by 1024 instead of 1000 is a bit of a brain cramp sometimes.)

Thanks skwire. :)
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General Software Discussion / FavesSoft programs page on Softpedia
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2009, 05:47 PM »
SoftPedia.com decided to add all my Hotkey utilities in addition to the ones I submitted via PAD files.  If you prefer to download from a site that virus scans and then tries the programs, you might want to download my stuff from them the first time around.  Here's the link for FavesSoft programs on SoftPedia:

http://www.softpedia...esSoft-LLC-8612.html

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2009, 04:55 PM »
skwire, would it be possible to add total file size info?  If stuff is in the same folder you can get total file sizes easily in explorer, but if files are located on various drives it would be very convenient to use "Add to Playtime" shell extension to get the total size of the files.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Merge .txt files but with the copy/paste method
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2009, 03:56 PM »
I might be out in left field here, but metapad has some very useful search and replace features. It's also FOSS  :Thmbsup:


-Darwin (September 06, 2009, 03:52 PM)

Plus there are some editors like the one used in Win32 edition of Python that will automatically convert tabs to the calculated number of spaces.. I'm not familiar with MetaPad but for bulk a stream editor like sed or tr might be simpler.. or even awk.  The tab=>spaces is likely a one-liner you can find online on a forum somewhere.

edit: a casual google found a few but most were for reformatting/indenting source code and make some assumptions(like that the file has some C or scripting language text.)  There must be some for plain text if you look hard enough.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Merge .txt files but with the copy/paste method
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2009, 03:53 PM »
btw for unix utility ports you can try these.  They worked for me on XP SP2

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Merge .txt files but with the copy/paste method
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 06, 2009, 12:10 PM »
There are 32 bit ports of Linux programs like sed and awk that are stand-alone exe. Or if you are into regular expressions you can use either Perl or Ruby. There has to be programs for Windows that remove the tabs and fill with the calculated number of spaces.  Try Softpedia.com and the other big freeware/shareware download sites.  Also try Sourceforge.net for the same.  Include "win32" in the search on Sourceforge.  That should narrow the results to mostly Windows programs.
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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 3.3
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 05, 2009, 01:03 PM »
ReOpen 3.3 Same fix as above but without the "doink" Window alert I was getting in Vista64.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.6
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 05, 2009, 01:02 PM »
Selector 1.6 Same fix as above but without the "doink" Window alert I was getting in Vista64.
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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 3.8
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 05, 2009, 01:01 PM »
FolderCache 3.8 Same fix as above but without the "doink" Window alert I was getting in Vista64.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 More Days of DonationCoder Screencasts
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 05, 2009, 12:59 PM »
or is that a redundancy
-MilesAhead (September 04, 2009, 07:39 PM)
It may be thought illogical...
-cranioscopical (September 04, 2009, 09:22 PM)

I hope you're not raising your right eyebrow ala Star Trek TOS.  ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 More Days of DonationCoder Screencasts
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 07:39 PM »
Hmmmmm, my typos are usually way sneakier than that!!  They usually end up being a word in the dictionary.  The spelling checker doesn't flag 'em.
-MilesAhead (September 04, 2009, 04:53 PM)
At least you check your spelling, rather than examining magical incantations.  :)
-cranioscopical (September 04, 2009, 07:30 PM)

The way I figure it, if an incantation ain't magical, then what the spell good is it?  :D

edit: (couldn't resist lame pun - or is that a redundancy?)  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 More Days of DonationCoder Screencasts
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 04:53 PM »
doover some of these videos.
-mouser (September 04, 2009, 08:38 AM)
Re-creation in a vacuum?  :Thmbsup:
-cranioscopical (September 04, 2009, 09:15 AM)

Hmmmmm, my typos are usually way sneakier than that!!  They usually end up being a word in the dictionary.  The spelling checker doesn't flag 'em.  After I post I read it over and find "I never had a problem with that." is all of a sudden "I never had a problem width that."  Worse than the magic sock in the dryer!! ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 03:44 PM »
I think it's one of those things like the vi editor.  If you delve into it, you can do a lot with it.  But it's off-putting to the newbie.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Hard Drive Repair
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 03:07 PM »
NTFS is a journaling file system.  Esp. if you have battery backup on you system, when you have a lockup or power out, you tend to get some corrupted files, but not a corrupted file system.

As example on another OS.  I used to run Linux with ext2 file system.  If I had a lockup or power glitch, I had to run fsck on the next boot to fix the file system. ext3 is a journaling file system, so if the same thing happens, it checks the journal on the next boot and any operations that weren't successfully completed are rolled back.  So, like NTFS, you may have a few corrupted files, but the file system is ok.

I just periodically right click in Explorer and use the Disk Tools to check the disk with the "fix file system errors" unchecked.  If it's healthy it comes back and says there was not a problem.

If you check the option to check all the disk sectors, plan to let the machine churn by itself for hours and hours.  Unless you are getting corrupted data, or suspect the drive is on its way out, I wouldn't bother.
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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 02:51 PM »
About the display, not only is it slow... I also don't feel it gives a lot of clues as to what's going on. There's no legend for the various colors (which aren't distinct enough), and a mode with a traditional block grid would be nice.
-f0dder (September 04, 2009, 12:36 PM)

It would be better if it just had a text box with the text updates.  That's what I watch.  The Zone 3  yadda yadda with the percentage.  Even the old MS Dos defrag from PC Tools had a better display using Text Mode and colored squares in the video character cells.

Even though MyDefrag does a more thorough defrag, Auslogics looks like it's doing a good job due to the graphics display.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Pasty 1.5
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 12:21 PM »
Pasty 1.5 Hotkey disabled while About Dlg showing to avoid possible hang.
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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 12:19 PM »
Unfortunately the one thing that hasn't changed is the On Screen Display.  Man is that a zero!!  A snappier display would inspire more confidence I think. The program seems to work quite well.  But it's tough to convince people that something that churns awhile, then spits out the number 42 is the greatest innovation since the abacus.  People want to see some snazz.  Esp. nowadays almost everyone has some kind of hardware accelerated graphics.  Even the colors used are so drab!
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Numpad key requires hitting Enter to launch numbered result
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 04, 2009, 02:42 AM »
That must be it then.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Numpad key requires hitting Enter to launch numbered result
« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 08:29 PM »
Hmmmmm, is it supposed to go that found programs launch with number press but found folders require Enter?  Maybe it's working as designed?  Maybe that's why it seems to change.. I dunno'.  :huh:
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