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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it finally time to abandon IE?

« Last post by justice on December 17, 2008, 10:19 AM »

Yeah this latest one has infected Abit's website and 20.000 websites are infected daily.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is it finally time to abandon IE?

« Last post by justice on December 17, 2008, 07:37 AM »

Just dont run IE as an administrator and then this flaw is already a lot less severe. most other flaws are not applicable when run as a limited user.

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Living Room / Re: Can you throw a shoe at Bush?

« Last post by justice on December 17, 2008, 07:35 AM »

http://kroma.no/2008/bushgame

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: JustCloseSomeTasks v1.11

« Last post by justice on December 17, 2008, 05:22 AM »

Version 1.10
* No longer just shows tasks activated after starting - all tasks are shown (thx Perry Mowbray)
* NEW: Exclude Process this session - excludes until JCST quits - process never gets checked
* NEW: Exclude Process permanently - see above but saved across sessions (thx PhilB66)
* NEW: Show/Hide excluded processes from the list
* NEW: Added bring to front / back (thx PhilB66)
* NEW: Run at startup preference (disabled by default - current user)
* wider main window

Version 1.11
* NEW: Exclude by Title (session and permanent): this allows you to exclude for example "Floating Toolbar" the roboform addin that uses the firefox.exe process.

Would be cool if it could detect when you've closed programs the normal way (outside JCST - using the taskbar or via the program itself), and use those stats, but I'm afraid this will probably be the final NANY release - however I'll be developing this program on a slightly slower pace after the contest. Thanks everyone for testing and supporting and big thanks to DC.

By the way, a nice tip: if no tasks are selected (for example after you closed several), clicking the Close Tasks button will hide JCST itself.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Teaser: JustRecently

« Last post by justice on December 17, 2008, 05:00 AM »

Sorry this project is pulling out for NANY.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Best Gaming Moments of 2008

« Last post by justice on December 16, 2008, 06:23 AM »

it's like bejeweled + magic the gathering + light quest / rpg story

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Living Room / Re: Creative, awesome uses for Google

« Last post by justice on December 16, 2008, 03:24 AM »

try 'movies in <city>' to get a link to showtimes for all cinemas.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Best Gaming Moments of 2008

« Last post by justice on December 16, 2008, 03:16 AM »

I had a good blast with GTA4 but that's finished now and I don't think the multiplayer has enough grown up people playing it

Also Fallout3 and at the moment Puzzle Quest which I discovered earlier this week (and world of warcraft bejeweled addon)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: JustCloseSomeTasks

« Last post by justice on December 16, 2008, 03:13 AM »

Thanks mouser!
It's one that people ask for but does anyone ever use it? I never used multiple profiles in anything to be honest so I need to be convinced I think

. If you'd like to see profiles could you point me to a program that has a good implementation? As maybe there's an easier way to achieve the same way (implement close all for example).

I'll still have to add in the whitelist idea that definately gets in.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: JustCloseSomeTasks 1.05

« Last post by justice on December 15, 2008, 05:30 AM »

Version 1.05
* beta woo
* statistics (under file menu)
* training mode after first 10 items where checks are set against average time for inactive closed apps
* reset training data option added to preferences
* interface now correctly shows expiry time
* exe is now portable by itself, on first run it will extract all required files

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Embed mouse-over hot spots in/on .jpg image

« Last post by justice on December 12, 2008, 04:18 AM »

You best use flickr they already allow you to do this from their website.

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Developer's Corner / Re: autohotkey arrays

« Last post by justice on December 12, 2008, 03:44 AM »

Thanks so much for your post rulfzid! AHKArray looks promising and I learned a lot from your example. I always used Instring to check if a value was in a string but the if statement you used is more readable, and the string replace is clever.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Sticky Keys Ahk request

« Last post by justice on December 11, 2008, 04:25 AM »

the Else Exitapp lines from the script, means the script will stop checking (exit) if you press NO, presumably to stop you getting the same prompt again the next second.

try this instead:

[Select]

#SingleInstance Force
#Persistent
#NoEnv

SetTimer, Timer, 2000

Timer:
OldValue := OutputVar
RegRead, OutputVar, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys, Flags
IfNotEqual, OldValue, %OutputVar%
If OutputVar <> 511
{
MsgBox, 68, Sticky Keys, The Sticky Keys are turned off. Would you like to turn them on?
IfMsgBox Yes
RegWrite, REG_SZ, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Control Panel\Accessibility\StickyKeys, Flags, 511
}
Return

This way when stickykeys goes off but you dont want to turn it on the script won't ask again until stickykeys has been turned on manually and goes off again. Also made the script less cpuhungry by only checking every 2 seconds and the script no longer runs at maximum speed.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by justice on December 11, 2008, 03:20 AM »

Could you change the autodiscovery rss feed button to subscribe to what you're looking at mouser?
for example for this topic:
https://www.donation...=10;tl=496;type=rss2 to subscribe to just this topic.

If you're looking at the category listing on the forum homepage you can subscribe to the whole forum. Also on the boards listing change the link to subscribe to the board. that would make the feedicon after the url in firefox more useful.

At the moment when I want to subscribe to a topic I have to hack together an URL if I understand it correctly, so that's not ideal.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / NANY 2009: JustCloseSomeTasks 1.04 released

« Last post by justice on December 10, 2008, 10:30 AM »

Version 1.04
Date: 16:29:13, 10 December 2008
Message:
* Exclude start menu, program manager from the list
* Context menu to Switch to, Minimize, and Exit tasks
* FIX: No longer forgetting to close some tasks when several tasks are checked
* Icon added

Help -> Check for Updates to update

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 TEASER: SQLite Scrub

« Last post by justice on December 10, 2008, 09:11 AM »

Good idea but a GUI and some kind of rulemanagement would add to it imho.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: JustCloseSomeTasks

« Last post by justice on December 10, 2008, 07:17 AM »

Thanks again Perry you really help me with your comments! Not sure if how I would compute the time, I think i have to just try different strategies and see what happens. Whitelist will be added, as well as a forget training button.

I'd also use a minimize window as well (I tend to have my screens a little cluttered).
-Perry Mowbray (December 10, 2008, 06:48 AM)

What do you mean with this though?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: JustCloseSomeTasks

« Last post by justice on December 10, 2008, 06:13 AM »

I'm wondering what I can add further to this app, so if you have ideas and suggestions please post them!

I've been thinking about finding answers to central questions that affect the effectiveness of this app:
1. When does a task become inactive?
2. When is your taskbar organised?
3. Are these two problems or are we talking about the same problem?
4. how much control do people want over this?

At the moment I define inactive that a task isn't used for a certain time period. So when JCST is activated, all tasks that have not been active for X seconds get marked. With testing i'm changing the value of this setting a lot and have come to realize the optimal setting might be different for everyone depending on how you use your pc.

If however the goal is to have your taskbar organised, why not specify a maximum number of tasks you want running (the human brain finds it harder to distinguish between 8 or more items) and when activated JustCloseSomeTasks would mark all windows that have been inactive longer than task number 7 + when less then this number, any tasks that have been inactive for an long period of time (say 2x the average time for all tasks that were closed in the past). That way hopefully a better selection of tasks would be checked.

Perhaps I could bring this 'training' factor to the regular setting by having no tasks marked by default and letting the program learn from the user's action. That way no configuration is required. It could know how many tasks you have running normally and when activated either mark the surplus tasks or mark tasks as described in the previous paragraph.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Teaser: JustRecently

« Last post by justice on December 09, 2008, 10:33 AM »

Unfortunately I'll have to withdraw JustRecently as a NANY app, I'll still work on it in the new year as I think it has potential but due to some of the challenges ahead and interest in my other NANY App:, JustCloseSomeTasks I won't have the time to finish two utilities before the deadline. Watch the space for the new year though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / NANY 2009: JustCloseSomeTasks v1.03 released

« Last post by justice on December 09, 2008, 10:19 AM »

Version 1.03
Date: 16:11:39, 09 December 2008
Message:
* Loop now shoes newest first, oldest at bottom
* Finally sorted out most loop bugs
* Checking for updates now runs without visible commandbox.

Ok this is the first version that can be tested for realworld use; I think I got the listing issues sorted mostly now.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: JustCloseSomeTasks

« Last post by justice on December 09, 2008, 08:41 AM »

I keep thinking it is easy to keep a list of windows, by time of last activity, but I find it a really hard problem! Mostly this is because autohotkey makes it so hard to keep an multi-field listing, so I'm considering to use sqllite just so i can use the sql syntax, which is ridiculous.

Anyway I uploaded v1.02 which improves the listing of windows, stops the list from emptying, but the active window doesn't get updated again when you revisit it so it's still useless except for helping me.

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