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Skrommel's Software / Re: Dim Everything Else - Program Idea

« Last post by anandcoral on October 19, 2011, 07:46 AM »

Hi @cmoschini,

You may try http://www.hellogram...ing.com/cinemadrape/
It is free (req. Net Framework 2.0)

Features of CinemaDrape:

    Change of background color – Change background to any color you want
    Customizable opacity – Set how opaque you want the shadow to be
    Dim desktop – dimming desktop except for the parameters that you choose
    Custom focus windows – create windows in sizes up to 1280×1024
    Focus window presets – Eight different presets for you to work with

See if it helps.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Gentlemen (and Ladies), Start Your Engines!!

« Last post by anandcoral on October 15, 2011, 04:56 AM »

I agree with @kyrathaba.

What he did is same as a host asking "Everyone sing along" in a full room. Though he/she knows very well that not everyone WILL sing and not everyone CAN sing. Still asking "5 of you all sing along" will cause a pin drop silence, as everyone will think that other one will sing.

This is encouragement and not forcing or counting.

I further feel that everybody has some bread and butter job and at times it becomes difficult to cut time for other jobs. Relax guys, we are all friends here and will not cry on less number of Apps at the end of the year.

Let us keep this event as enjoyable one, we all already have a boss breathing on our neck with sand-clock in hand.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.

« Last post by anandcoral on October 09, 2011, 03:35 AM »

In my view, Steve Jobs had vision. Where others saw rocks, he saw statue and built it. Like all humans, he too had positive and negative characteristics.

As a developer, I request to all to look at the positives he had and try to learn from it. There is a 'Steve' hidden in everyone, just need a chance to come out.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by anandcoral on October 03, 2011, 11:53 AM »

Well @Jibz, that's in back of my mind, but I want to complete the version 1.0 first with what I envisioned.

Have noted it both for Text2Html and Html2Text options, for next version.

I welcome you to use Paste Text Like and give some feedback.
 
Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by anandcoral on October 03, 2011, 06:16 AM »

Well, by grace of GOD and good wishes of friends, I am hectically busy with my project work. Though I need them but was unable to fulfill my heart desires, which is here 

We are celebrating Durga Puja here in Bengal, India now. So, got some time free and am happy to say that latest beta of Paste Text Like is uploaded. Still have the "Pasteboard" and "Show Color" option due, but this is more or less ready for normal user usage.

Hope to hear some comments and feedback.

Regards

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.

« Last post by anandcoral on September 15, 2011, 02:06 AM »

WOW @skwire !

I just checked your website, it has lots of jewels  , Congratulation.

I have bookmarked it and will check and use them, as I constantly keep looking for better Apps.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speech to Text Software?

« Last post by anandcoral on September 13, 2011, 06:20 AM »

Yeah, just read about "Dictation Pro" in http://freewarehome.com/ (new listings) and was wondering if any one could tell it's worthness.

Now since @joiwind mentioned it, I hope @Renegade will try and give some feedback 

brothersoft.com has some but all paidware, same for naturalreaders.com.

@Renegade, http://chronicle.com...text-solutions/23016 gives tips to use Google Voice to make voicemail left for you, transcribed and then sent to your Gmail inbox !

I haven't tried any, and will be happy if someone reverts with the results.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by anandcoral on September 12, 2011, 06:26 AM »

@tranglos, first congratulation on "Ethervane Echo" pledge.

Second I pledged "Paste Text Like", which works with clipboard too, so we are both in same boat now

Without making "Ethervane Echo" any lesser than "ArsClip", I will like to say that you can open the ArsClip menu at cursor position (set hotkey in Configure) and can increase the number of item (Configure / Show Options). It does has search feature (N - Search, in menu). Permanent clip with script, edit clipboard, exclude program, paste method, form mode etc. are few others which I use occasionally.

But "ArsClip" too has it's short coming, and I will suggest you take idea from it and enhance it and make it more easier.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by anandcoral on September 11, 2011, 11:20 AM »

yes @nudone, I initially added the formatted text, like say for upper, proper etc. cases, hex color value, etc., but I found that they are taking few milliseconds each time a user opens the PTL menu. He/she may be interested in pasting a 'Proper Case' text, though PTL took time in formatting other formats. So I decided to keep it as an option in 'Settings' (not complete yet) to 'Enable preview text Y/N'.

@rjbull you are right. PTL will offer the most commonly-needed text manipulations, directly. It will not be a clipboard manager. In fact it works only on the last copied text.

I request you to try copy 120,140,170 (the numbers with commas is a rgb color value) and press Win+v and select 'Show Color'. You can see what color the rgb values represent, in the menu itself. This will help a lot to developers like me.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Paste Text Like

« Last post by anandcoral on September 11, 2011, 03:16 AM »

Yes, I agree @rjbull. I have tried them earlier and in fact am a satisfied user of ArcClip now, and mentioned ArsClip as similar program on the website.

But similarity ends there. All others are clipboard manager, in the sense they give scripts, edit capability, plugins etc. Paste Text Like does the most sought after job directly. In fact ArsClip has many options which I took idea for Paste Text Like, but to accomplish them in ArsClip I have to go through further dialog options and settings. I designed Paste Text Like to work more intuitively and directly for normal users.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Pledge & Final Release: Paste Text Like

« Last post by anandcoral on September 10, 2011, 12:42 PM »

NANY 2012 Entry Information

Application Name	Paste Text Like
Version	1.5.0
Short Description	Paste Text Like gives options to paste a text from clipboard in various format
Supported OSes	MS Windows Xp or higher
Web Page	https://sites.google.../site/pastetextlike/
Author	Anand K Gupta

Description
Gives option to paste the text from clipboard, in different format, like Proper case, valid file name, hex color value, remove blanks etc. Also option for mimic typing, auto pasteboard and view the color, if possible.

Use hotkey Win+v instead of Ctrl+v for Paste Text Like options.

Right click on tray icon and select Settings`, to define the hotkey and other values.

Features
Say we make a expenses spreadsheet and put heading as "Expenses from 01/04/2011 to 15/04/2011". We will like to save the file as the header text, but when we copy and paste "Expenses from 01/04/2011 to 15/04/2011" in the save dialog, the OS throws error message. Ok, we know '/' is not supported as file name, but
can't the OS convert it itself. Paste Text Like gives option to paste it as "Expenses from 01_04_2011 to 15_04_2011".

When we copy large chunk of text from say a mail which has many blank lines and paste in a new mail, we may like to remove all double blank lines. Instead of doing it manually after paste, we can use Paste Text Like to remove the blank
lines and paste the text.

I can not tell how many times I have faced a situation where I got feedback of my App, where say after selecting a given prodcut name, the App is giving error. Now to check this I have to manually type the product name, no matter how complex it is (some medicine names) though it was given in the feedback mail. Simply coping and pasting on a list box do not work. Paste Text Like can mimic a typing of the clipboard text.

Planned Features
Pasteboard and Show color options

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Unzip all the files into a directory you want, then launch it.

Using the Application
Press hotkey Win+v instead of Ctrl+v for Paste Text Like options.

Uninstallation
Delete all files and emove the folder.

Known Issues
Beta version, not complete yet. Hope to get some feedback and suggestions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stupid question ... what is the difference between != and <>?

« Last post by anandcoral on August 22, 2011, 12:26 PM »

Hi barney

There _IS_ a difference between !$var==[somevalue] and $var<>[somevalue].

In '<>' the characters are compared up to the length of the right character string, e.g.

"A"  <> "Z"      // result: TRUE
"A"  <> "A "     // result: TRUE
"A " <> "A"      // result: FALSE (means they are equal)
""   <> "A"      // result: TRUE

'==' returns TRUE only when both character strings contain exactly the same characters, so a ! (NOT) before it will return TRUE when not exactly same e.g.

! "A"   == "A"                    // result: FALSE
! "A"   == "A "                   // result: TRUE
! "A "  == "A"                    // result: TRUE
! ""    == "A"                    // result: TRUE
! "AB"  == "ABC"                  // result: TRUE
! "ABC" == "ABC"                  // result: FALSE

In short use '<>' if you do not want exact comparison, but just left most ones, e.g.
MPT <> "P"   // where MPT has "P1" value, so this will return FALSE, and similarly,
! LEFT(MPT,1) == "P" // where MPT has "P1" value, so this will return FALSE

Hope I was able to help you a bit in fixing your old codes

Regards,

Anand

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for August 21st, 2011 - "What's New With You?!"

« Last post by anandcoral on August 22, 2011, 11:48 AM »

Thanks Stephen for the Newsletter.

I am sorry to say that I abandoned the "You Have Files" NANY 2012 pledge, as I found that many similar exist and no point in making the same.

But do not worry, I am testing a totally different App right now, and may be this will prove more useful that the above. Hope to make a beta in 1/2 weeks.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... a lost note app

« Last post by anandcoral on August 19, 2011, 01:56 AM »

I use 'Quicknote' for few most important features, which are indispensable for me.

1. Quickly jot down my thought, which may be totally different from what I am doing at the moment.
2. Quick copy paste from different apps.
3. Keep some complex google search text to use in searches.
4. Small code snippets to refer the logic for different apps.
5. And the most important to auto note down what I am typing in the password field.

I am sure, you will find more uses from it in your day to day use.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: You Have Files

« Last post by anandcoral on August 18, 2011, 01:33 AM »

Abandoned.

I figured similar apps exist and my requirement can be solved using 2/3 different apps combination. Making another same one does not justify the time.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Implement features that are known to be loved in other programs, on your own

« Last post by anandcoral on August 17, 2011, 08:32 AM »

Allow me to put my view and notes from experience here.

@urlwolf has made a simple query "Why a programmer can not put feature X in his app A, which exist in app B made by another programmer on another platform/os/hardware etc."

From the time of DOS I could not reply to this simple question to any of my users satisfaction without being called arrogant. But now I have taken help from GOD's creation and have the answer for it.

User will ask "Why can't Notepad show bold and italics in same line as seen in Word, though both are editor and made by same company ?" The answer is "It is created that way to solve intended purpose".

GOD created hand and legs differently for different purpose. Same way notepad and word are created differently for different purpose. Notepad can not show bold/italics but Word can not load faster. If my little finger is smaller than middle one; it is intendend to be like that. At least we can rest assure that GOD did not have the resource and time problem of us programmer. HE could very easily made all figure same length and also could have added wings to our back.

My earlier Boss (fifteen years or so ago) requested me to make the invoice entry look like the actual printed invoice, on screen; as he has seen at his friends publishing house. He was referring to Ventura Publisher (PageMaker was another one), only problem was that he was expecting me to make it in his 8 bit green colour CRT in dBaseII, on which the inventory app I have made.

All these does not mean that we ignore users request. They are our existence. The technology and money was there but Nokia did not make a touch screen phone till Apple did it. Now I am a happy user of Nokia 5230 which is 1/4 of the price of iPhone and does all "what I need".

We have to listen to users and solve keeping in mind the time and money factor.

In one of my implementation, I installed IE4 at a clients site as the website I made did not work correctly in Netscape, and the client paid me for it. He wanted it to work.

So to put it happily to the demanding user, "Yes it can be done, but will take X time and Y money", but you must forsee the solution, as some users do pay for what they want.

BTW, I did made the invoice to show in graphics mode using dBaseII and GWbasic, though only preview and not the input. If any one used WordPerfect will know, it had similar feature for editing the document in text mode and previewing it graphics mode, in DOS.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... a lost note app

« Last post by anandcoral on August 10, 2011, 05:19 AM »

Hi barney,

Do not worry. It is JC&MB Quicknote http://www.quicknote.de/
One of the first few apps which I load in a new/formatted machine 

BTW let kids be kids. They get less time to be themselves nowadays.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Canceled NANY 2012 Pledge: You Have Files

« Last post by anandcoral on July 28, 2011, 06:22 AM »

Dear All,

I am facing some problem and needed the machine to help me remember before I logoff/shutdown.

I do project work at office and home. Same project may be done both at office and home, so for continuity of the work I need to take related files from office to home and back. I use pendrive for it. I have good net connection at office and not-so-good one at home (for obvious reasons). I download files, apps etc. for project and so, and may need the same at home. Same situation from home to office.

Below are the cases I faced for last few days which made me think of making an app for it, "You Have Files".

Case 1:
I did work on project_1, in two separate folders. Hold meeting at separate office which lasted well past office hours. Came back exahusted, shutdown the machine and left for home. Damm it! I missed to copy the two folder files, which I need to continue work on project_1.

Case 2:
I downloaded files, though background download, in separate folder. Forgot about it. Shutdown machine and came back home. Cursing my memory.

Case 3:
Worked till late night at home in project_2. Too sleepy now, copied files in pendrive. Forgot about the auto created folder by my home system. Boss angry, as project_2 needs those files to run.

Case 4:
You got the point.

Since I use pendrive and my home net does not work many times, I would be very glad that the system tells me about the files I have at various folders, before I shutdown. I may not need to copy all files, but may just need to check and delete them.

I searched for the required app but did not find as needed, though many similar ones exist.

My need is as below,
1. Watch given folders, with option for subfolders, for each.
2. Option to check newly added files, may have older file-date but added today (downloaded).
3. Option to zip (may use external) or rename files in specific folders with date-time.
4. Option to move files from specific folder to another one.
5. Option to check specific folder which must always be empty.
6. Should inform with BIG message when I close the program, about files on above conditions/options.
7. Option to show tray message, for specific folder.
8. Option to show 'post-it' note type message, for specific folder.

"Watch Folder" comes close, but do not solve my problem.

Before I pledge to make an app as required, I need your help to point me to any existing app which does all I need and I will use that and will not re-invent the wheel.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why crack offered for freeware and tiny app uploaded on Megaupload ?

« Last post by anandcoral on July 20, 2011, 02:28 AM »

So a automated system is working somewhere.

Huh ! how we have progressed !
One makes a good thing, and it automatically gets copied into a bad thing !!

Sad but true. We have to live with it.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Why crack offered for freeware and tiny app uploaded on Megaupload ?

« Last post by anandcoral on July 19, 2011, 06:19 AM »

Generally I google for mine apps to check the reviews, from independent blogs and reviewers, to make the apps even better. While on the tour, I found that "Overlap Wallpaper" was available at crack website with "unlock key" offered !!

Why on earth will someone need a crack for a freeware ? beats me.

Further I found OW in Megaupload. Here the waiting time is too much than the actual download as it is a tiny zip file.

Is this the thumb rule that all apps eventually find place in this type of website, even if they do not warrant for it ?

Any suggestion fellas.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: when I download files.

« Last post by anandcoral on July 19, 2011, 04:29 AM »

Hi dbarton,

I wanted a small and simple app for this functionality. After trying many, I settled for Folder Guide and am using it for last few years. It is based on right click and works in all file dialog without any need to change the file dialog.

You may try it in different situation and decide which to keep.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Gentlemen (and Ladies), Start Your Engines!!

« Last post by anandcoral on July 13, 2011, 07:34 AM »

Thanks kyrathaba, for taking up the job 

I have been busy lately with family compulsions and not being able to reply to post though I try to keep myself informed about them. It is good that NANY 2012 started early this year and kyrathaba put condition for two apps only, which will give me more time to make useful app (hopefully).

I request if we can add a certificate with the gift, this year. We may discuss on it further.

Regards

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Overlap Wallpaper

« Last post by anandcoral on July 04, 2011, 04:51 AM »

Just updated Overlap Wallpaper to version 1.5.0

Main feature added is "Preview mode in settings", to instantly preview the size, transparency and position changes of the overlapped photo.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Overlap Wallpaper

« Last post by anandcoral on June 27, 2011, 02:57 AM »

After receiving feedback about user not being able to put the apps shortcut link in startup folder and Google not giving any simpler explanation, I made a webpage in this regard.

Simplest way to put shortcut of a program into the startup folder.

I wanted the steps to be very simple and common to even non-technical person. I will request all to give comments on it to make it even simpler, if possible.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Overlap Wallpaper

« Last post by anandcoral on June 22, 2011, 04:41 AM »

Thanks @kyrathaba 

Regards

Anand