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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Made with Screenshot Captor" object

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 08, 2005, 12:44 PM »

And how about this (not specifically SC)

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Living Room / Re: Made me chuckle ... how's the upgrade Mouser ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 08, 2005, 12:09 PM »

Another chuckle ...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Keyboard shortcuts? (photoshop/paintshoppro users especially)

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 08, 2005, 11:03 AM »

There are loads of PS shortcuts. I have attached the section that are probably most useful, if you want to se all of them I can attach them (ask).

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Living Room / Re: Benefits of web hosting with DonationCoder from my perspective

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 08, 2005, 05:27 AM »

Can I just endorse everything vegas just posted - not only is the system fast and flexible but Mouser is really helpful when you get in a mess (like I have a few times ...). Thanks this is going to be a truly great service, and I would suggest anyone wanting to get on board should do it sooner rather than later as there must be a limit to the number of people that can ultimately be hosted in this way (it is after all a single server, and Mouser is alledgedly only human ) Don't miss out on this great offer ... now back to my tussle playing with PHP and MySQL ...

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Official DonationCoder.com Reviews / Re: Best Anti-virus

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:27 PM »

The only problem I have noticed with NOD32 is the manual scanning of archives seems to cause a pause in my system. Otherwise it runs extremely light - it is one of its real pluses (and good protection of course). NOD32 is the choice of gamers (not that I am one) because it is so low impact.

I'm just hoping they aren't going to join on the bandwaggon with all the other software houses and produce a bloatware-version to compete!

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 12:21 PM »

Hmmm ... I never thought of laser printers being esp. cheap to run ???

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted ... Photo to DVD archiving tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:42 AM »

36Mb is nothing (compared to >12Gb)

Thanks that's useful - I'll definitely give it a look

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted - .mov (quicktime) to swf converter ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:40 AM »

Quite useful being the 'She' in question ... we have our uses you know 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:39 AM »

How about this:

[Select]

convert -background lightblue  -fill blue  -font Calligraphic-Regular -pointsize 40 -size 800x640  -gravity Center  caption:"Dying is easy.\nComedy is Difficult.\nActor Edmond Gween\non his deathbead." caption_centered.gif

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:18 AM »

Mouser ...

I've been emailing with an ImageMagick guru ....

Regarding finding text sizes etc check out his webpage tutorials. When you go to the pages there are so many graphics etc. they take a while to load and the # operator isn't brilliant. Best thing is to wait for the page load to finish then click on the URL bar to go to the page again - it will redraw in the correct location.

Here is a quote form an email:

Yes, get a size my using label: with the same setting.

Or draw it on a canvas with a -box color, and trim it down to that
box color..

Both methods are detailed in
  Text to Image Handling -- Auto Sizing of Font Images
    http://www.cit.gu.ed.../imagick6/text/#size

However the box method will if you look up the 'trim' offset and actual
image size results (before doing a +repage) will also let you figure
out
the baseline setting for that font at that size.

For example of reading 'trim' results see..
  Cutting and Bordering -- Trimming 'Noisy' Images
    http://www.cit.gu.ed...ick6/crop/#trim_blur

You draw the text at a specific point (known base line position)
with a -box setting.  You then trim and see where the box
was positioned relative to that baseline starting point.

Thanks go to Anthony Thyssen for his help. His main tutorials/examples are here

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Living Room / Re: Buying a new printer

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 06:02 AM »

Canon/Pixma consumables are pretty good value compared to other inkjet manufacturers and the output is excellent.

If you want to see what they produce Canon provide a service on their website where you send them a document to print, they print it on the printer(s) you are considering and send you the printout so you can see what to expect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted ... Photo to DVD archiving tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 05:57 AM »

OK - right I'll check it out then. Did you just copy your photos to CDs/DVDs manually and then delete them from the hard disc or was it possible to do it in a more 'managed' way? Sorry but I find the unindexed 520 page manual really hard to use!

Out of curiosity how much HD disc space is taken up by the thumbnails?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted - .mov (quicktime) to swf converter ...

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 05:36 AM »

QuickTime Pro will export files in AVI format (I think the Pro license costs $29.95) You may be able to find a cheaper or free converter to AVI.

Then CamStudio can convert AVI to SWF ... see https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=427.0

A good conversion program is WinAVI - it converts most video formats and is quite customisable. Unfortunatley SWF isn't one of the formats supported for export (it is for import) but there is a huge range (inc. AVI) also at $29.95.

By the way - if you go for WinAVI let me know - there are some additional plugins required for some formats, and whilst the developer was helpful tracking them down they weren't obvious to find. (use the forum PM service)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted ... Photo to DVD archiving tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 07, 2005, 05:21 AM »

Thanks - IMatch looks like a really nice tool, but reading the website the one function it doesn't seem to do is archive images. All the file/media management functions appear to be aimed at importing images and viewing CD snapshots off 'offline'. You can produce CDROM based webpage-style galleries, but I can't see anything in the manual for this being automated for large collections that sprawl over multiple DVDs. In fact it suggests backing up your files separately.

What I want to do is to be able to offload all my images to DVDROM to clear space on om HardDisc (currently there is about 12Gb of data taken up with photos). But I still want those photos to be instantly accessible. Archive Creator does that - you can insert any disc in the set and see thumbnails of the entire photocollection, and will tell you which disc in the set to insert to get the original files. It just seems a little expensiive for that one function (IMatch is the same price but does a lot more).

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Living Room / Re: Anyone know how to "escape" bb codes?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 04:56 PM »

[   =  %5B

]   =  %5D

[Edit: I removed the actual codes - mouser]

Yeee haaaa it works

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: colored the window titel to recognizes the user

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 10:37 AM »

Why not just change the Windows Colour Scheme for admin users ? Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Advanced

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Some magazine subs for $2 per subscription

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 10:28 AM »

Nice offer - guess what - US only ...

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - How to Submit Bug Reports and Feature Requests

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 08:20 AM »

Great I look forward to the integration - but do you think it should be done sooner rather than later to avoid confusion with people registering three times with different details etc. I wonder if the SMF user database could simply have the relevant info (user ID  and password would be sufficient) copied to the wiki/bug tracker DBs so that all three have the same credentials registered. If that was scripted it could be automatically updated daily using cron to allow people to at least use the same details until the proper integration is working. Just a thought.

No I wasn't thinking put all the forum buttons on top, just Track Bugs and Wiki which are unrelated to the forum and have a potential site wide  interest. If someone downloads a program and finds a bug they are more likely to post in the forum than in the Bug Tracker if they have to come to the forum in order to find the bug tracker ... if it was at the top of every page it would be linked directly from the download page which they may well have bookmarked.

IRC Chat could also go up there too (but that is probably more forum specific anyway).

It might well be worth having a 'Site Map' page on the top bar too with details of what is expected to be found/posted where to avoid duplication and scattering of material.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Suggestion for Skrommel

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:47 AM »

true - but surely you could write an AHK script that would do it for you

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:39 AM »

Mouser - are you working on integrating logging in between all these new features so that we only register once - and stay logged in from page to page?

Don't know whether this is possible or too time consuming to track down but you may be able to set up a new page of your own for signing up/logging in/out from the site, and then hide the routines in DMF/WIKI/Tracking a use a script from the login page to register new users and adiminister signing in and out by calling the relevant functions in all modules.

One other thought - shouldn't the new buttons be on the top bar of each page so that they are common throughout the site - rather than embedded in the forum?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: text as windows wallpaper

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:15 AM »

included but you can do things  - I extruded, changed colours, lighting etc.

Have to say I need to find out how to use the web pallette as that isn't exactly how I produced it.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:10 AM »

I clicked "Track Bugs" "Report Issue" sleceted Process Tamer in the list, Select Project ... and this time it works !!! Go figure ...

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Living Room / Re: I'm not for censorship,but you'd figure google would have a filter.

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:06 AM »

Eh ???? What's offensive?

I presume it is a typical political quote ...

Maybe you should turn on the naughty word blocker on this formum ...

An ISP I used to use used USENET to provide support, and they had a naughty word filter which rejected all posts that matched a naughty word. It was great 'cos you couldn't report abuse!!! It is surprising how inventive people can get with their spellings though

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker - UPDATED READIN PLEASE

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 06, 2005, 06:03 AM »

Can I report a bug in the bug tracker

When I try to post I get:

APPLICATION ERROR #12

This account is protected. You are not allowed to access this until the account protection is lifted.

Please use the "Back" button in your web browser to return to the previous page. There you can correct whatever problems were identified in this error or select another action. You can also click an option from the menu bar to go directly to a new section.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Suggestion for Skrommel

« Last post by Carol Haynes on November 05, 2005, 08:52 PM »

How about using a large HTML table? Easy to add items then.

You could use icons/text like on the desktop to get them all neat and consistent ...

Must say I like the idea of quick links from icons at the top of the page.