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General Software Discussion / Re: windows 98

« Last post by Veign on December 22, 2006, 10:12 PM »

Drop Win98 and go back to WinXP or Win2K    You are just asking for a world of hurt using an OS that MS does not support any longer.  The security holes you will have will be big enough to drive a bus through.

What was wrong with Win2K.  It was a great, solid OS.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Website Analyzing Website

« Last post by Veign on December 22, 2006, 06:06 PM »

Google rates a 91
Microsoft rates a 90
Their own site rates a 57

Need to play around a bit more to see if the results have any merit.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Very cool new SMF (simplemachines.org forum software) mod: Tags

« Last post by Veign on December 22, 2006, 02:42 PM »

Hey mouser,
I have that RSS Injector code working in one of my forums - from a post at the SMF forum but I need to make it better.

I will be adding a method to pull from a RSSFeed database table and a method that makes  sure that duplicate posts aren't made.

I will let you know when its done if you're interested in putting up a news forums that pulls from different tech news feeds.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Heads Up!!! Font Xplorer Now Freeware!!!

« Last post by Veign on December 22, 2006, 08:56 AM »

Also, check out my Cfont Pro (free).  I should be working on a new version in Jan.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 19, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 19, 2006, 10:56 PM »

It will now automatically detect the background color and remove it from calculations if requested.  Now I just need to speed things up as much as possible.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 19, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 19, 2006, 12:00 PM »

I removed the versioning information from this post since its an online application and I really don't want to keep versioning info.

Also, I added the Discard White Background option to give better results with images with large white backgrounds - since the white throws off the calculations. 

I'm thinking I could add a Remove Background from the calculations options by automatically throwing out the color in the 1,1 position of an image.  Might be an OK assumption that covers most images with a background.   WIll play around with this in the future.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color v1.1 - December 17, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 19, 2006, 09:53 AM »

Thanx. 

What's being worked on now:
- A feature that will let you discard white backgrounds in an image which can throw off the calculations.
- Some method for displaying a visual representation of the color make-up of an image.  Kinda like a histogram but different.

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« Last post by Veign on December 18, 2006, 11:01 AM »

Send a message to mouser and he will make the NANY forum available to you.  He may also see your post and open it up for you.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color v1.0 - December 17, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 17, 2006, 06:34 PM »

The complementary color is the background of the entire page.  That's why the page background color changes for each picture you upload.  The background displays whats considered the background best suited to display that image on.

Color Palette is a great idea and something I may play around with in future releases.  I was thinking of giving 3 or 4 colors thats work off the 'images average color'.

I have been wanting to play around with the pixels of an image and would love more ideas on things it can do.  What I'm doing with the algorithm is evaluating every pixel in the image so I have access to a lot of information.

(I just added support for Gif and Png so it now supports Jpg, Gif and Png)

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color v1.0 - December 16, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 16, 2006, 11:55 PM »

Right now the online application will only accept JPG files and I have fixed an issue where it would fail on PNG and GIF images without giving any feedback as to why.

I will add PNG and GIF support before the Jan 1st release.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 16, 2006, 04:16 PM »

Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

Online Application

• First public release

WHAT IT DOES:
Whats Its Color is a fun little online application for getting the primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.  Why is this useful?  Well, if you were creating a website around an image or using an image as the primary inspiration for any type is design it can be very helpful to know what its primary dominant color is or what are the unique colors that people can see when viewing the image.  The final results will display your image on a background that is best suited for that image.  This application is just fun to play around with.

KEY POINTS:

• Images are resized for display purposes only.  The original image file, and all its color information, is used in the processing
• Font colors used in the results page are adjusted based on the colors that are in the display
• Full support for JPG, GIF and PNG
• Option for discarding the background from being used in calculations.  This lets you process an image on a solid color background without the colored background affecting calculations
• Information on the amount of visually unique colors are displayed.  This includes the top ten
• Additional color information is gathered but currently not displayed.  Open for suggestion on what else to display

Check out the website to see it in action

If you find a problematic image then please contact me so I can look into it. 

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Phorp (Phone Home Robot Pro) - v1.00.01 - December 15th, 2006

« Last post by Veign on December 15, 2006, 10:07 PM »

Sounds very interesting...

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« Last post by Veign on December 14, 2006, 11:37 PM »

I still plan on releasing a fun little online application.

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Official Announcements / Re: THE N.A.N.Y. CHALLENGE - New Apps For the New Year

« Last post by Veign on December 13, 2006, 04:15 PM »

I may have an idea for a very simple, fun, online tool that I could put together in PHP.  I just bought the domain name and will work on something for the challange. 

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ProcessTamer / On Digg's Front Page

« Last post by Veign on December 13, 2006, 01:46 PM »

With 404 Diggs so far:
http://digg.com/soft...the_Day_Windows_Only

Congrats!

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Developer's Corner / Re: What non-programming tools do you use for programming?

« Last post by Veign on December 12, 2006, 05:37 PM »

Im peanuts all the way.  That didn't sound right

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Developer's Corner / Re: What non-programming tools do you use for programming?

« Last post by Veign on December 12, 2006, 04:09 PM »

M&M's.

-mouser (December 12, 2006, 03:58 PM)

Peanut or Plain?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What Programming Language have you USED THE MOST over the past 12 months?

« Last post by Veign on December 12, 2006, 02:48 PM »

Yeah, its not like anyone is developing in PHP or Perl 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What Programming Language have you USED THE MOST over the past 12 months?

« Last post by Veign on December 12, 2006, 10:35 AM »

No PHP?.  That's strange.

For me its PHP, VbScript (ASP), VB, VBA (office macros)

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Developer's Corner / Re: What non-programming tools do you use for programming?

« Last post by Veign on December 12, 2006, 10:33 AM »

My List:
Google - Cause I can always find what I need from Google.
emEditor - A nice interface makes coding that much easier.  Find myself doing tons of web dev out of emEditor.  When I'm not in there I'll be working out of PHPEdit.
Graph Paper - For some reason doodling on graph paper helps me think.
Note-It - Just a place I can float notes on top of what I'm doing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CPU Utilization Alerter ?

« Last post by Veign on December 11, 2006, 12:44 PM »

May be Usage Monitor http://www.veign.com...load_app.asp?app=110.

-dk70 (December 11, 2006, 12:30 PM)

It does exactly what he is asking for. 

Thanx for posting a link!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Upgrading the site to SMF 1.1 final soon, so expect minor downtime

« Last post by Veign on December 10, 2006, 04:59 PM »

Good luck!

I converted one forum over, with issues and still have two more to go.  I am putting the other two off until late at night over the holidays.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Online Password Generator by Veign

« Last post by Veign on December 10, 2006, 03:53 PM »

Creating masks for password I can see as something to implement but words would be difficult because I would have to have huge word lists to accomodate large password lists.

I just added an option for type-safe passwords which would exclude: i,I,l,o,O,0,1.  This will help create passwords which elminate the confusion with certain characters.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Online Password Generator by Veign

« Last post by Veign on December 10, 2006, 11:39 AM »

What specifically is my missing? 

If its the ability to create 50K passwords I was worried about server load but will increase the max qty passwords over time when things stabalize with users.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Online Password Generator by Veign

« Last post by Veign on December 10, 2006, 10:21 AM »

Thanx.  I may add some more hashs to the site if requested but for now I can't think of anything else to add to it - any suggestions?