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

« Last post by Veign on December 09, 2006, 10:38 PM »

Make Password is another tool I threw togther quickly for a personal need and figured I would release in case others had a need. What this online tools does is create lists of random passwords and hash values. Its kinda of useful for individuals looking for inspiration on creating passwords and extremely useful for developers who often need to setup default passwords in a database.

You control the password length, character sets, hash values, quantity to create, and even the method to display the results.

As always, comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged.

Link:
http://www.maord.com/

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on December 08, 2006, 04:03 PM »

What is clear is you now have the prize that all of us put in a bid for, regardless.

-cjkawd (December 08, 2006, 03:47 PM)

Quick reply: Although the teaser was put it never stated how it would be given away and it was never my intention to use the entrants I had.  This was what was discussed with Mouser, what to do with 2nd copy.  I had expressed concern to him using the existing entrants as that giveaway had concluded when a winner was selected.

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on December 08, 2006, 03:29 PM »

Given what mouser has said, there really is no need for my response as its just saying what has already been said.

One point about my choosing the winner.  I had never known it was Tinjaw who I had selected until mouser pointed it out to me.  I was focusing on the entrants and addressing them by email only.  So, the fact that a DC member was selected was just a coincidence.  Should add this too.  In my top 5 were people who had only wrote a line or two of text.  So it wasn't the length that mattered but what it conveyed.

I also want to say one thing.  I have spent my programming life putting the 'community' before my needs.  I have dedicated countless hours to newsgroups, developing software, asssisting other developers, and just trying to make other people better without worrying about what I get in return.  This was just another way to give back without worrying about lining my own pockets.

I hope people understand that mouser and myself did this with good intentions.

(mouser / DC and me / Veign are not working together in anyway.  I only know of him through these forums)

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on December 08, 2006, 03:00 PM »

Calvin,
Chill out.  My response was composed prior your reply.  In fact, when I was writing it your post was not on the page I was looking at.

I have no issues responding to your post but it is a bit lengthy and will take some time.

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on December 08, 2006, 02:38 PM »

To re-iterate what mouser said. 

We discussed what to do with the second giveaway extensively and kept trying to work out a way that we could give it to a person who was most deserving.  What happened was we kept running into contraints with time. See, the giveawy has to be used with in a couple weeks or it just dies.

I had offered the first giveaway to mouser a long time ago but he turned it down.  When I decided to use the second giveaway through DC I knew in the back of my mind that I really wanted DC to have it since I felt the amount of good this site does and the amount of good this site could do with the proper tools far outwayed anything else I could come up with. 

I hope everyone understands and will realize that although mouser received the giveaway, I truly feel that the members of this site will be the ones who benefit.

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Official Announcements / Re: What changes would you like to see on DonationCoder.com in 2007?

« Last post by Veign on December 06, 2006, 06:24 PM »

To remedy the situation with non-coding / software topics maybe a new domain could be opened for Hardware.  This way DonationCoder stays pure to its intent and purpose.  Staying pure may give more credibility to DonationCoder and therefore attract more authors / developers who are willing to donate which in turn brings in more users.

Just a thought, what ever thats worth...

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General Software Discussion / Re: GotApi - THE Reference

« Last post by Veign on December 05, 2006, 09:46 AM »

Nice find!

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General Software Discussion / Re: KnowledgebasePublisher v2.0 - Nice CMS Software for Hierarchical Articles

« Last post by Veign on December 05, 2006, 09:43 AM »

I searched for a long time to find an easy to use, PHP driven, open source Knowledge Base application.  This is a great open source application that makes creating a knowledge base a trivial thing.

The knowledge base in action:
http://www.horse911.com/kb/

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Living Room / Re: Congrats Veign: Quick Thumbnail Mentioned on Lifehacker

« Last post by Veign on December 03, 2006, 09:06 PM »

It was mentioned on a TWiT podcast too:
http://www.twit.tv/natn4

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Living Room / Re: [Request] Review my new site

« Last post by Veign on November 30, 2006, 12:40 PM »

Better to be safe than sorry especially if your site starts generating some real traffic and income from the ads.

Also, I think your idea has a lot of merit and could be developed into a community, lead by you, that assists users with installs of PHP scripts and open source projects.

Maybe create a system where someone can sign up (members), assign scripts they are profecient in installing and people viewing the site can do searches for individuals that could, say, install SMF forum.  Also, allow user to rate members this way the bad will be quickly weeded out.  You can even provide a first level of approval based on something submitted to verify a person.

You would only need a small group of individuals looking for increased exposure to make a very functional site.

Who knows, maybe DonationCoder would stand behind you (its all about networking and setting up relationships).

Anyway, enough rambling for me.

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Living Room / Re: [Request] Review my new site

« Last post by Veign on November 30, 2006, 11:47 AM »

The only comments I have are about your Google Ads:
1) Asking people to click the links to support you in is violation of the TOS and may get you banned from Adsense (#5  Prohibited Uses)
2) The top row of ads looks like a menu and may be in violation of their TOS.  I have heard of users banned for this.

TOS:
https://www.google.c...ense/localized-terms

Just pointing this out if you want to rely on the income.

Good luck with everything!

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a Freeware Utility to ... 300+ common problems solved.

« Last post by Veign on November 28, 2006, 11:26 AM »

Don't get me wrong.  I do like the format of the list, I just don't like how many options there are for some of the questions.

If the list was one application per question type then I think it would be much, much more useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want a Freeware Utility to ... 300+ common problems solved.

« Last post by Veign on November 28, 2006, 11:05 AM »

I may be the only person around that doesn't like his list.  The reason is he offers way too many options for each 'I want a' and you are basically down to a search engine and doing all the reasearch on your own.  You would be better off visiting somewhere like Snapfiles Freeware or Fileforum and reading many users reviews.

I always thought it would be much better, and thus useful, if he offered one option for each that is a highly recommend, well reviewed and solid application that answers the 'I want a' question.  This way the person is learning to trust his reviews and not just seeing a regurgitated freeware list in a different format.

That's my .02

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Official Announcements / Re: --> Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on November 28, 2006, 10:10 AM »

First off, Congrats to Chaim Krause on this awesome giveaway.  I would love to hear from you in the future in how you put this to use and look forward to some great apps from you posted on DonationCoder 

Second, I just want to say thanx to all who have submitted an entry and did not win and ensure you that I will be reviewing all entries again for the next giveaway.

And lastly, thanx to Mouse / DonationCoder for all the work he did in putting this giveaway on.

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Living Room / Re: Congrats Veign: Quick Thumbnail Mentioned on Lifehacker

« Last post by Veign on November 27, 2006, 10:28 AM »

Thanx Tinjaw!

It also made it to Download Squad.  I was surprised and pleased to have been mentioned.

Also, I appreciate all the advice on IRC that day that helped me with the first release.  The second release will have some very useful, yet subtle enhancements.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another alt.comp.freeware post on donationcoder.com, for your consideration

« Last post by Veign on November 26, 2006, 07:10 PM »

Well, i understand what you are saying, but i still think it always pays to make an attempt to explain your position in a clear and calm way, for those people with an open mind.

And for the record, as I've stated before, I really *do* respect their interest in defending the idea of freeware, and can see why they would be very sensitive to the slippery slope of the term freeware being applied to things that they don't feel are free in a pure sense.

-mouser (November 26, 2006, 05:02 PM)

I agree but sometimes feel the line of purity is too strict and needs more of a fuzzy logic applied.  That's why I like this idea of this website.  Things aren't set in stone but more like written on a chalk board and open to change for the better.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another alt.comp.freeware post on donationcoder.com, for your consideration

« Last post by Veign on November 26, 2006, 04:41 PM »

I'm with Carol. 

I have watched threads and it seems that the die-hards want their cake and eat it too.  They have ripped apart applications because there were too many ads on a site (no popups and no nags in the software).  They basically want only applications where it is free and high quality.  The actually didn't like an application of mine that was in a wizard style and the first step was 'if you like it donate'.  No other limitations or nags and once donated you got a code that skipped that step.

You would be far more productive arguing with a brick wall.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Pligg.com - An Open Source CMS for Creating Digg-like Sites

« Last post by Veign on November 26, 2006, 12:19 PM »

Great find!  I have been looking for something like this for a long time.

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Living Room / Re: Gold Miner Joe: Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by Veign on November 25, 2006, 08:59 PM »

Cool game.  Scored 25250...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?

« Last post by Veign on November 07, 2006, 05:41 PM »

SyGate is the one I use and setup on all my systems.  The free one works great.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 07, 2006, 04:32 PM »

Better:
- Support for BMP files
- Create an Active Cropper tool
- Support for watermarking
- Bulk upload support

Just not sure if I want to create a cropper tool for it.  Not sure if that is starting to going against its purpose; fast and clean resized images.

I will let the tool get some exposure for a month or so before I start coding support for BMP files and will see at that time whats lacking.

Thanx for the positive feedback.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 07, 2006, 10:57 AM »

I added a new sizing option called Standard Sizes.  This lets you resize the image to fit a standard size from a predetermined list (see below).  So now there are three sizing options; Percentage, Fixed Size (fits the image into a box maitaining aspect ratio), and standard sizes (image is forced into the new size so distortion may occur).

Standard Sizes:
100x75 (avatar)
150x112 (thumbnail)
468x60 (web banner)
320x240 (for websites and email)
640x480 (for forums)
800x600 (15-inch monitor)
1024x768 (17-inch monitor)
1280x1024 (19-inch monitor)
1600x1200 (21-inch monitor)

I also added the security tag to the bottom of the homepage to let user know that I delete the images from the server and the image filenames are encoded so someone guessing an image file name just couldn't happen.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 07, 2006, 09:15 AM »

Good point.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 07, 2006, 09:05 AM »

Thanx for the ImageShack link.  I will consider the bump up to 1.5MB. 

As far as BMP files.   The GD object doesn't natively support BMP but I have some code to assist in making it support it.  I probably won't be able to have the image stay as BMP and will be forced to convert it to JPG.  This is something I will be looking at adding once I find sometime.

The other thing I like about imageShack is the drop down sizes.  This might be something I add too.  Would be very simple to do.  Just need to make sure I have the space in the interface for it.

Thanx again.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Quick Thumbnail (an online approach)

« Last post by Veign on November 06, 2006, 07:36 PM »

Thanx for the info.

What I may do is run the site for a month and monitor bandwidth.  See if the ads bring in any revenue and whether I'm pushing my servers bandwidth limit.  I have no problem buying more bandwidth and pumping up the filesize limit as long as its not costing me out-of-pocket (just not in a place for that).