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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: PrinterList 0.0.0.4 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #1

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 04:05 PM »

I know this is a bit nit-picky, but can you rename this to PrinterList? When I see "List Printer" I get confused and think it is going to PRINT some kind of list.

-Josh (July 04, 2007, 09:56 AM)

Ok done! v0.0.0.4 is uploaded.

For those who installed "List Printer", you would need to delete the old "ListPrinter" folder since the new one is called "PrinterList"

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: PrinterList 0.0.0.4 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #1

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 04:01 PM »

I simply placed another copy of the plugin in another folder renamed to ShowPrinter. Then in the alias override box I gave them unique aliases.
[ Invalid Attachment ]

Mouser, How in the heck do you attach images? I'm semi-intelligent but I can't figure it out!
I used the "attach" button above and browsed to my image using the browse dialog. But, how do you actually attach it???? I have "Link Inline Image.." selected in the top drop down box, although I tried all the combinations. Previewing each of them showed nothing.

edit: never mind. I guess it works after all. The preview didn't show the image though.

-edbro (July 04, 2007, 03:49 PM)

Great idea!!!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Network Connections 0.0.0.2 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #2

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 03:30 PM »

Great catch ham.

Those help text returned by the context menu items might sometimes contain accelerators.  I guess I could strip the "&" chars.

Thanks.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 12:16 PM »

Just to cast another vote for the "kill active processes" plugin, it'd be the one i want the most.

-jgpaiva (July 04, 2007, 11:26 AM)

Yeah, I wanted to implement this as well.   Mouser said he's probably the best guy to implement this though, since he already has a lot of process management code from ProcessTamer 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: List Printer 0.0.0.3 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #1

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 10:58 AM »

I know this is a bit nit-picky, but can you rename this to PrinterList? When I see "List Printer" I get confused and think it is going to PRINT some kind of list.

-Josh (July 04, 2007, 09:56 AM)

Hmmm, yea sounds good.  I am not very good at naming things.  I originally thought of naming it "Default Printer Plugin", but if mouser later on adds the "multi-launch action" feature to the plugin SDK, then it won't be just setting the default printer but may have other actions as well.

What's a good alias for this?  What about "plist"?  It may sound like "process list" or something though.  "prnlst"?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Service Control 0.0.0.3 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #3

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 05:05 AM »

Service Control 0.0.0.3

This plugin displays a list of win32 services and allows user to toggle its running state.  Th idea came from OGroeger and Mouser (See this thead: HERE)

A few things of note are:
0)  Only works on NT/2K/XP for now
1)  Only works if user is a member of the Administrator group - EDIT: also works on Vista now
2)  If a service is currently disabled, it enables it before starting.
3)  If a service has dependency services, it shows you the list of services that will also get stopped.
 
Depending on interest, I have some TODOs:
* add progress bar when start/stop services - DONE
* Vista compatibility (thinking of using ShellExecuteEx with "runas" verb to launch a separate script, or separate the code into a separate COM control so it could be elevated Just-In-Time) - DONE
* ability to run as standard user with admin impersonation

Installation:
Extract the zip file to the farr2 plugins directory then reload the plugins from the plugins listing screen.

Screenshot:











Version History

v0.0.0.1 (July 3rd, 2007)
Initial Release

v0.0.0.2 (July 5th, 2007)
[NEW] Added Progress Bar
[FIX] Changed default options to show progress bar and not display msgbox
      on success
[FIX] Set max wait time to 20 secs to avoid misbehaving services taking forever
      to start/shutdown

v0.0.0.3 (July 5th, 2007)
[NEW] Added Vista Support

Comments and constructive criticisms are welcome!

Thanks to hamradio for the beautiful icons!!!! 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Network Connections 0.0.0.3 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #2

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 04:42 AM »

This plugin is very simple and does not do much actually.  It searches your network connections and invoke its default verb upon triggering.  It took me about 2-3 hours to write it.  With this "proof of concept" plugin under my belt, hopefully I can move up to something more challenging.  I have to deal with VPN and PPPoA connections a lot at work, so this might actually useful for my personal use.

Technical Note:
Initially I had problems with the "Status" verb which I traced it down to a windows shell bug where the "Status" verb cannot be invoked by any process other than "explorer.exe" (see HERE) .  So for those PIDLs which have default verbs as "Status", I switched them to invoke "Properties" instead.  Normal RAS entries (VPN and dialup) and "New connection wizards" work fine though. 

Installation
Extract and put under the FARR plugin directory.

Type "nwconn $$$1" to search.



Version History

v0.0.0.1 (April 8th, 2007)   
Initial Release

v0.0.0.2 (July 3rd, 2007)   
[FIX] Built with static MSVC library

v0.0.0.3 (July 3rd, 2007)   
[NEW] Added Location field on results
[FIX] Stripped & on status bar text
[FIX] Fixed some COM pointer leaks

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: List Printer 0.0.0.2 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #1

« Last post by taichimaster on July 04, 2007, 04:37 AM »

Uploaded 0.0.0.3.  Please see post #1.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / PrinterList 0.0.0.4 - My FARR2 Plugin Contest Submission #1

« Last post by taichimaster on July 02, 2007, 08:39 PM »

PrinterList 0.0.0.4

This plugin allows you to set your default printer based on your selection. There's currently only 1 adv.config option which allows you "Leave FARR window open after launching".

Mouser mentioned a trick where you could add multiple instances of the same printer but with different settings.  So you could have a list of profiles and easily switch among them.  I haven't tried this myself though, maybe mouser can elaborate 

HP 2350 - HiRes
HP 2350 - LoRes
HP 2350 - Color
HP 2350 - GreyScale

Installation:
Extract the zip file to the farr2 plugins directory then reload the plugins from the plugins listing screen.

Screenshot:





Version History

v0.0.0.1 (July 2nd, 2007)   
Initial Release

v0.0.0.2 (July 2nd, 2007)   
[FIX] Restart search and refresh Display regardless of user options

v0.0.0.3 (July 3rd, 2007)   
[NEW] Added Option to change launch action to "Display Printing Queue"

v0.0.0.4 (July 4th, 2007)
[NEW] Changed name to "PrinterList" and alias to "plist"
[FIX] Fixed a bug where the search is always restarted without any argument

Comments and constructive criticisms are welcome!

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General Software Discussion / VMWare Workstation 6 released today!!

« Last post by taichimaster on May 09, 2007, 01:16 PM »

VMWS has finally gone out of beta and is released today.  With this version, VMware's support for Windows Vista moves from "experimental" to mainstream.

Personally I am most looking forward to these new features:

• Debug applications in the guest OS, attach to a running process, and revert to a snapshot after the debug session has ended with Visual Studio and Eclipse integration
   (this one is a KILLER feature!!)
• Invoke any virtual machine command from scripts to automate repetitive tasks with VIX Automation API (QA loves this)
• Enable remote users to connect to virtual machines from VNC clients with built-in VNC support
   (Nice to have)

See: http://www.vmware.co...products/ws/new.html
See: http://www.vmware.co...and_Benchmarking.pdf

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synergy

« Last post by taichimaster on April 22, 2007, 12:13 AM »

Yeah, it kicks ass!!! I use it at work every day to control 2 desktops and the laptop with just one keyboard and mouse.  My coworkers think I am operating like a spaceship or something.  It's one of the MUST HAVE apps....really.

See: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2447.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9

« Last post by taichimaster on April 11, 2007, 10:29 PM »

I've found that xplorer2 users really, really like their file manager and it's difficult to get them to switch.

-zridling (April 11, 2007, 10:12 PM)

+1.  I have installed DO and XYplorer on my VMs before, but have never gotten deep into trying them out.  xplorer2 does everything I throw at it so well, it's really hard to find any motivation to try others really.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by taichimaster on April 08, 2007, 08:28 PM »

wow slight thread hi-jack, how did you make that cool effect on that screenie?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Plugin SDK 1.0 Released - Make a FARR plugin DLL - if you dare

« Last post by taichimaster on April 08, 2007, 04:57 AM »

Proud to be the First FARR Plugin Developer!!!!  This plugin is very simple and does not do much actually.  It searches your network connections and invoke its default verb upon triggering.  It took me about 2-3 hours to write it.  With this "proof of concept" plugin under my belt, hopefully I can move up to something more challenging.  I have to deal with VPN and PPPoA connections a lot at work, so this might actually useful for my personal use 

Technical Note:
Initially I had problems with the "Status" verb which I traced it down to a windows shell bug where the "Status" verb cannot be invoked by any process other than "explorer.exe" (see HERE) .  So for those PIDLs which have default verbs as "Status", I switched them to invoke "Properties" instead.  Normal RAS entries (VPN and dialup) and "New connection wizards" work fine though. 

Extract and put under the FARR plugin directory.

Type "nwconn $$$1" to search.



Mouser, you did a great job on the Plugin SDK, thanks.  Can't wait to see the custom context menu and grid output support (with custom columns and stuff).  Docs could really use some improvement too.  Oh btw, you can now give me those beautiful badges and mug

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin API and Samples for Find+Run Robot Coming Soon.. Requests?

« Last post by taichimaster on March 31, 2007, 01:38 AM »

Sweet mouser, can't wait to implement a plugin or two!!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can anyone recommend a good DVD to AVI program?

« Last post by taichimaster on March 24, 2007, 12:10 AM »

Fairuse Wizard http://www.fairusewizard.com/

avi.NET http://www.dvduk.pwp...er.co.uk/avinet.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite eBay/auction helping software?

« Last post by taichimaster on March 23, 2007, 07:53 PM »

Well long time ago, I have used some sort of sniping tool before   Bid with just a few seconds left to maximize chance of winning *grins*

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Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2007 SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS POSTED

« Last post by taichimaster on March 20, 2007, 01:32 AM »

Enough said 

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General Software Discussion / Re: evaluating WSW: how do you get forums (like this one) to work?

« Last post by taichimaster on March 19, 2007, 10:40 PM »

What I do is to configure the bookmark to "Use Internal Cookie System" under the Advanced Properties.  That way you can configure it save the username/password.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine

« Last post by taichimaster on March 10, 2007, 12:21 PM »

Thanks KenR and Zaine for pointing out this nice program.  It does look flexible though a bit pricey.  Discount on this would definitely be nice.  Go Zaine!!

I have been using Dillobits InSync for my mirroring needs.  I found it much faster and accurate than synctoy or syncback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My favorite software! What's yours?

« Last post by taichimaster on September 21, 2006, 01:59 AM »

My only "absolutely can't live without app" is xplorer2

Other favorites include:
- Find and Run Robot
- Synergy
- Website Watcher
- EmEditor
- AI-Roboform
- VMWare Workstation

Edit: Just downloaded StrokeIt, thanks for hooking me up!

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by taichimaster on September 19, 2006, 01:55 AM »

My desktop:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [a Chinese article of SSC] 抛弃Hypersnap/Snagit　投入Screenshot Captor的怀抱

« Last post by taichimaster on August 02, 2006, 01:26 AM »

Great job xbeta!  Good to see that I am still able to read some chinese 

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINRAR free this sunday 30th July 2006

« Last post by taichimaster on July 29, 2006, 01:19 AM »

Wow super nice find!!!! Thanks!!!

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Official Announcements / Re: JULY SOFTWARE DRAWING RESULTS - POSTED!

« Last post by taichimaster on July 27, 2006, 11:34 AM »

Thank you mouser and Ampa!!