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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Partial Download

« Last post by anandcoral on December 30, 2010, 11:12 AM »

Updated to 1.2.0

- Changed: Now shows progress '#' after multiple of 10KB download.
- New: Now shows total bytes downloaded, after completion.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« Last post by anandcoral on December 29, 2010, 10:21 AM »

Thanks Ath for the feedback and suggestion   .

I will look into them and implement as soon as possible, depending on code constraint if any. Like the dual monitor, I do not have such facility neither any of my colleague, so may have to go by the books and may need someone's help here in testing it.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: N A N Y 2011 Pledge - Partial Download

« Last post by anandcoral on December 29, 2010, 02:02 AM »

Thanks timns. I have released the final exe. Please check the "Release" thread/message.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Partial Download

« Last post by anandcoral on December 29, 2010, 01:59 AM »

There are still goods movies left to download 

Please use latest version 1.1.1 from the web site, as earlier version had bug in not downloading the file at all. My apologies if anyone tried to use the earlier version. Now it displays full information and shows download progress too, so that user can know, it is working.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 Release: Partial Download

« Last post by anandcoral on December 28, 2010, 12:33 PM »

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	Partial Download
Version	1.0.2
Short Description	Downloads first few bytes of a given url.
Supported OSes	Windows with Command Prompt support
Web Page	https://sites.google...ite/partialdownload/
Download Link	Click on "Download" on main web page
System Requirements	WinXp or higher with Command Prompt support
Version History	1.0.2, Console mode for background download
Author	Anand K Gupta

Description
You see I needed an application to "partial download" a file, specially large movie file, from a given url.

Reason: This is a season of wishing each other and sending some thing to smile big or small. My mail group and individual friends send me sometimes movie file, which contains, say a funny situation of a couple on gift purchase. I do smile after watching it. So far so good. Now the problem is, another of my friend sends me the same movie but in different name and he writes only "Enjoy!". This file happens to be 84MB!! Just imagine my face after downloading on paid connection, I find the same movie, albeit in better and bigger resolution, but same.

So I need to download the first few bytes, say 1MB, of the same and check it in GOM Player. If I have watched it earlier or if it is not of my liking, I will not download it.

I searched and could not find any file down-loader which I can tell to download just 1MB or so of the file. If I cancel a download in middle, the file gets deleted. Forget about using it as background job.

Solution: I made "Partial Download" console application. This is a console application and so requires CMD (Command Prompt) support to run.

Features
Downloads first few bytes of given url. Best for partially downloading a huge movie file and checking it for it worthiness to download full.

Planned Features
Depends on feedback

Usage
Installation
Unzip zip file in a folder of your choice and run the exe in a console window (command prompt).

Using the Application
Syntax:
"partial download" url [bytes_to_download]
where bytes_to_download defaults to 1.5 MB

Example:
"partial download" http://filehost.com/abcd.flv
"partial download" http://filehost.com/abcd.flv 1500000


Uninstallation
Delete the folder you unzipped the exe in.

Known Issues
Do not have any window/GUI interface

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« Last post by anandcoral on December 28, 2010, 12:24 PM »

Yes, tomos, the template form is shortening the long download link. Please use the main link and click on "Download" on the web site.

Thanks for pointing it.

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« Last post by anandcoral on December 28, 2010, 05:23 AM »

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	Park Cursor Aside
Version	2.0.1
Short Description	Whenever you type on keyboard, the mouse cursor is automatically parked (moved) aside to a defined screen position. This way your view of the cocument is not blocked by the mouse cursor.
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	https://sites.google...ite/parkcursoraside/
Download Link	https://sites.google...aside/home/download/
System Requirements	WinXp or higher 512 or more RAM 1 MB or more free disk space
Version History	Version 2.0.1 New: Park relative to screen or active window. Useful in using with X-mouse behaviour. (requested by yksyks from USA and Mouser from USA) New: Park at middle of screen or active window. Useful in big monitor screen with four tiled windows. (requested by Peter Baum from Germany) New: Park after 9 keystrokes. Useful in delaying parking for some short text. (requested by Ath from NL) Version 1.1.0 New: "Disable" option in tray menu. You can select "Disable" to temporarily disable the mouse cursor parking. New: Auto changes tray icon color to green when mouse cursor is parked and to white when parking is disabled. This will help you in visually knowing the state of the application activity.
Author	Anand K Gupta

Description
1. I work mostly in text editor, coding application, and the mouse cursor shows as a bar some where on the codes, which makes it difficult to read the code behind it.
2. When I do searching on the browser, the mouse cursor creates same problem in troubling me reading the text and also some times enabling some mouse over activity on the web site, like auto menu drop down or auto image enlargement.
3. When I fill some text, number etc. in some form in a application or website, the same mouse covers the input field.

In all these above cases my vision to the text on which I am working, is obstructed by the mouse cursor. I have to lift my hand from the keyboard and physically move the mouse each and every time I am working on some text.

Features
Whenever you type on keyboard, the mouse cursor is automatically parked (moved) aside to a defined screen position. This way your view of the input field, document, where you are typing, is not blocked by the mouse cursor.

Planned Features
Depends on feedback

Usage
Installation
Unzip all the files into a folder you want, then launch the exe.

Using the Application
Run it at system start up. Work normally with your mouse and keyboard. When you start heavy use of the keyboard only, that is typing lots of text, you will notice that the mouse arrow cursor is at the edge of the screen, giving you clear view of your document.

Uninstallation
Delete the folder where you unzipped the files.

Known Issues
In some machine, the mouse cursor flickers if "Slide mouse..." is set higher than 4.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 28, 2010, 04:59 AM »

Agreed.

I will request you to use PCA in your day to day activity and see in which application you want the mouse cursor to stay put where it is, while you are typing on the keyboard. Please note that when you use a editor, there are two cursors; one which stays at place of key entering (PCA do not touch it) and another which changes to 'bar' sign or arrow sign, depending on where it is (PCA moves this cursor). I may not have encountered any such application where I will want the 'bar' cursor to stay along with the 'key' cursor, but will like to check and definitely will make option to counter it.

If you use both mouse and keyboard, for say, clicking on object and pressing space to select, then obviously you will not want PCA to move the mouse cursor. Set "Park after <x> keystrokes" to say, 4 and you will notice that the mouse stays where it is required.

Only when you start typing a document, filling a form etc. you will need the mouse cursor to move aside, and PCA will handle it automatically.

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 28, 2010, 12:48 AM »

Hmm. understood, "Exclude programs" list option is the suggestion.

I will need some time to implement the same, but let me tell you why I made PCA.

1. I work mostly in text editor, coding application, and the mouse cursor shows as a bar some where on the codes, which makes it difficult to read the code behind it.
2. When I do searching on the browser, the mouse cursor creates same problem in troubling me reading the text and also some times enabling some mouse over activity on the web site, like auto menu drop down or auto image enlargement.
3. When I fill some text, number etc. in some form in a application or website, the same mouse covers the input field.

In all these above cases the program in use is not important, but my vision to the text on which I am working is important and the mouse cursor is creating hindrance to it. I want the mouse cursor to behave like my slave rather than I have to lift my hand from the keyboard and physically move the mouse each and every time I am working on some text.

So unless and until you face problem with the mouse cursor, PCA is useless. People do face the problem so much that there is a shareware application "Cursor Hider" available for some 20$. PCA was born because I expected this simple feature to be freeware.

Hope I have be able to clarify the purpose of the application.

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 27, 2010, 12:18 PM »

Dear @Ath, "Park Cursor Aside" works with all applications.

Windows built in mouse hider do not work with all applications. Hence I made "Park Cursor Aside".

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 27, 2010, 12:04 PM »

Dear All,

The final version of Park Cursor Aside is released today.

https://sites.google.com/site/parkcursoraside/

Version 1.1.0

- New: "Disable" option in tray menu. You can select "Disable" to temporarily disable the mouse cursor parking.
- New: Auto changes tray icon color to green when mouse cursor is parked and to white when parking is disabled. This will help you in visually knowing the state of the application activity.
- Changed: Internal logic changed to speed up key trapping.

Please keep sending suggestion, to make it even better.

Anand

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	Park Cursor Aside
Version	1.1.0
Short Description	Whenever you type on keyboard, the mouse cursor is automatically parked (moved) aside to a defined screen position. This way your view of the input field is not blocked by the mouse cursor.
Supported OSes	WinXp and higher
Web Page	https://sites.google...ite/parkcursoraside/
Download Link	https://sites.google...raside/home/download
System Requirements	WinXp or higher 512 or more RAM 1 MB or more free hard disk space
Author	Anand K Gupta

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / N A N Y 2011 Pledge - Partial Download

« Last post by anandcoral on December 24, 2010, 12:21 PM »

Christmas Surprise!

You see I needed an application to "partial download" a file, specially large movie file, from a given url.

Reason: This is a season of wishing each other and sending some thing to smile big or small. My mail group and individual friends send me sometimes movie file, which contains, say a funny situation of a couple on gift purchase. I do smile after watching it. So far so good. Now the problem is, another of my friend sends me the same movie but in different name and he writes only "Enjoy!". This file happens to be 84MB!! Just imagine my face after downloading on paid connection, I find the same movie, albeit in better and bigger resolution, but same.

So I need to download the first few bytes, say 1MB, of the same and check it in GOM Player. If I have watched it earlier or if it is not of my liking, I will not download it.

I searched and could not find any file down-loader which I can tell to download just 1MB or so of the file. If I cancel a download in middle, the file gets deleted. Forget about using it as background job.

Solution: I made one, yesterday.

This application is both and money and time saver for me now, but may not be useful for others, so please advise me if I should pledge it here?

Merry Christmas.

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 22, 2010, 11:52 AM »

Thank you all for the feedback.

Thanks for the suggestion, Skwire. We will try to implement the enable/disable option. Yes we are polling the mouse cursor and keyboard but no such visible flicker shows here. Anyway will try to add some delay in polling.

Worstje, before making this application, we tried built in Windows setting, in fact it is enabled still now, but it only work well in MS programs. Other programs like Chrome, auto re-enable the mouse cursor or ignores this setting.

Hope to see more feedback. Thanks again. 

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 21, 2010, 04:14 AM »

Thanks Perry.

Dear All, I have made a web site and uploaded the application for some feedback, if any. The application is more or less complete, but as we all developer know, the software always works correctly on developer's machine. So I request you all to help me on this regard.

I have tried to get idea from many big and small web site and tried to make mine as simple and as complete as possible. May be here too someone will give me some valued advise.

Below are the details of the application. Check the web site for more.

Park Cursor Aside
Version 1.0.6
Dated 20 Dec 2010
Freeware
(c) 2010 Anand K Gupta
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/parkcursoraside/

Description (of the application) :

Whenever you type on keyboard, the mouse cursor is automatically parked (moved)
aside to a defined screen position. This way your view of the input field is not
blocked by the mouse cursor.

Right click on tray icon and select Settings, to define the parking position and
other values.


Benefits (of using it) :

After you click on a input field and start typing, you will notice that the
mouse cursor is blocking your view to the input field. You have to move the
mouse to see the input field properly. Sometimes this creates irritation.

Further if you are reading a webpage and using up/down keys to scroll the page.
Now if the mouse cursor is somewhere on the middle of the page and a link
happens to come near the it due to up/down movement of the page, some poup may
open due to mouse over javascript, which you did not intended and distract you.
This again forces you to move the mouse cursor aside.

Park Cursor Aside does this all for you automatically.


Installation (on computer) :

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

Hope you will find it useful.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 18, 2010, 02:25 AM »

Thanks Mouser for the encouragement 

I have nearly complete the application and also made a web site for download and feedback. I am using the application daily to iron out any problems detected.

Now what ? When do I send the link of the website and the details of the application ? Do I have to send it on the night of 31 December 2010 ? Also adding a message in this thread will do or I need to post somewhere else ? Please guide.

TIA

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 Pledge: cursor mover (hider)

« Last post by anandcoral on December 06, 2010, 10:29 AM »

I like to pledge to make a freeware in the line of Cursor Hider (which is shareware). I found this utility useful for me, but expected it to be a freeware, as the logic seems obvious (as a programmer). After Google did not help in such freeware utility and also here at Donation-coder I could not find such, so I made a crude one which does similar job for me.  
I pledge to make it a proper utility so that user (non-programmers) can use it easily.

Since this is my first pledge in Donation-coder, please guide me if I am pledging wrong.

Another utility I found as pledge (teaser) which I am trying to make i.e. User-Editable Help Menu. I actually was planning in the line of a separate utility in tray, which will monitor all open programs and show some indication if any notes for the program is available, also allow to add/edit/view the notes for it. This I do not think, I will be able to make by Dec 2011 end. Hope some one else may make it.

Anand