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General Software Discussion / Re: Free 3D Box Shot Maker
« Last post by f0dder on March 27, 2007, 05:23 PM »
Crush: simplicity, I bet. And the fact that quality will be just fine, without the need for (relatively) heavy software like blender.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lightweight alternatives to FeedDemon
« Last post by f0dder on March 27, 2007, 05:22 PM »
Darwin: which column # on your screenshot is the Private Bytes statistic? That's the most important one to monitor, then working set size.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I found a jewel of a program: XMplay
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:55 PM »
Well, per-track gain destroys the dynamics if the album was actually mastered, but album gain can be justifiable with albums that were masted way too low (a couple of metallica albums for example, iirc). Per-track gain can be justifiable, though, if the mastering people really screwed up...

I'm going to do the gain-scanning either before or while I convert my wavs to FLAC, so I won't have to decompress-and-scan later on. But I'll still have to do a bit of research on how it all works, especially since I use the somewhat untradtional one wave/flac + cuesheet per album, instead of one file per track.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Coding Horror: Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:39 PM »
codinghorror :-*
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Living Room / Re: Sphere: Flash Game of the Day
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:36 PM »
Heh, now that Tower Defense games have been all the rage, yesteryears all the rage, namely "escape the room" games, are coming back? Cool :)
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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 07:55 AM »
Gothic and i chatted in irc channel as normal even though we were in same room :)
-mouser (March 26, 2007, 07:48 AM)
Hehe :)

I sometimes chat with my girlfriend on msn even though we live together... but that's mostly if she's in the living-room and there's loud music playing, easier than yelling ;)
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General Software Discussion / Re: I found a jewel of a program: XMplay
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:59 AM »
such a simple solution should have been discovered before and mainstream by now.
-urlwolf
1) real-time analysis probably isn't all that simple :)
2) it destroys the intended (or very-bad-mastered, in some cases) dynamics of the track.

I'm personally not that big a fan of the various "audio enhancers", since it makes the music not sound like it intended when it was made.
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General Software Discussion / Re: A programmers notepad w/ syntax highlighting
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:29 AM »
Notepad++, of course with our own Jibz' Dina font.
notepadplus.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: how tidy and complete is your music library?
« Last post by f0dder on March 26, 2007, 05:24 AM »
Do you use replaygain tags?
-urlwolf (March 25, 2007, 05:59 PM)
Nope, not yet - haven't looked into how it works (the technical aspect is easy enough, but I mean how it works with different apps, players, where the gain is stored, etc). I certainly want to use "album gain" rather than "track gain", to preserve the dynamic of an album, instead of just getting tracks maximized... and I want the gain value to be stored in meta info, not to be applied to the wave data.
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General Software Discussion / Re: how tidy and complete is your music library?
« Last post by f0dder on March 25, 2007, 05:53 PM »
I rip my stuff myself, grab the cd info from freedb but look through and correct it in case of errors. I rip to one big wav + a cuesheet (with FLAC compression later on), and when I have a batch of CDs ripped, I use Album Cover Art Downloader to find album covers... going to have to scan a few myself, though, since not everything can be found in a decent quality (512x512 JPEG).

I'm using a naming scheme like Dimmu Borgir [1997] - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant for the folders, so I don't really have to do any special indexing of the folders. Other indexing is done better by the meta-info in the cue-sheets anyway.
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Living Room / Re: Calling UK people
« Last post by f0dder on March 24, 2007, 08:39 AM »
>_<

I think we can all agree on "christian values", and teaching religion on a more broad scale to help people understand the world we live in is a good idea too, imho. But preaching christinanity, or any other religion? Ick.
 
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General Software Discussion / Re: Can anyone recommend a good DVD to AVI program?
« Last post by f0dder on March 24, 2007, 08:35 AM »
For the raw ripping, I would recommend the free version of DVDFab Decrypter... fast, handles ARccOS, etc.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 06:38 PM »
Hope it's solid enough to carry the weight of all them books :)
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Living Room / Re: Freeware for time recording?
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 10:56 AM »
ToDoList has at least limited support for this...
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General Software Discussion / Re: best tool for downloading cover art and lyrics for your mp3 collection : mp3
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 10:17 AM »
I use Album Cover Art Downloader for album art downloading, it's the one that has worked best for me yet.

EDIT: fixed URL, doesn't want quotes :)
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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina for Linux/X11 - solved !
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 04:36 AM »
You can use 'edit post' instead of posting another one :)

Just to be pesky, perhaps you can outline which header entries you needed to fix? Sorry for bugging, but this could end up being a good little cookbook recipe, perhaps something to add as a MINI-HOWTO.
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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 04:27 AM »
Heh, people still use ProcDump? Ah, the goold old days :). Interesting that it's not on http://programmerstools.org/
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: SlickRun
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 01:58 AM »
It did cause a bit of a slowdown on my computer, but that was not really the software as much as the graphical transparency effects which seem to totally baffle my poor radeon 9800 (the same as the floating windows of bitdefender or taskbar bubbles. All slow my machine and make any game pretty much unplayable while they appear)
-iphigenie
A R9800 is a pretty darn capable card, and something like simple transparency shouldn't trouble it at all :huh:
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Jibz's Tools / Re: Dina for Linux/X11 - solved !
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 01:55 AM »
Great for the linux users! :)

You might want to tell the world how you managed to do it?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Windows wallpaper trick
« Last post by f0dder on March 23, 2007, 01:53 AM »
Hm, it might have something to do with graphics driver capabilities. It does work fine here even in vmware though, so it would take some very minimal caps in order not to work, if it was about caps :-s
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General Software Discussion / Re: I found a jewel of a program: XMplay
« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2007, 05:53 PM »
Yeah, I'm also not a fan of skinning. I can't think of a single application where I've liked it (well,  I did have a sevaral-year period where I liked winamp skins, but then I moved to foobar...).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Windows wallpaper trick
« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2007, 11:13 AM »
Who can make the best 10x10 stretch of cody or the codycoin? :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Windows wallpaper trick
« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2007, 10:27 AM »
No, it doesn't use a temp file - it might do the interpolation to a temporary in-memory bitmap, but I don't think it does this either.
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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLDD: DonationCoder.com Impromptu Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 3/24 Illinois
« Last post by f0dder on March 22, 2007, 09:39 AM »
Let's see...

plane ticket from Denmark? expensive, I guess. Bank account? Empty for 8 more days. Bummer! :)
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: A Vista change to the clipboard
« Last post by f0dder on March 21, 2007, 05:50 PM »
Although its a shame that something like this didn't simply get added into XP, what sort of operating system requires applications to maintain a pointer chain... sheesh
-gottadoit (March 21, 2007, 12:53 PM)

An operating system that, unfortunately, carried some design (though not much code) from the 16bit days.
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