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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 2.00.00 - Jan 3, 2014

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 08:12 PM »

Well this is very confusing.. I was sure the problem had to do with locale settings (different ways dates and times are represented).
But trying this on a virtual machine with your date and time locale settings, i cannot reproduce this problem.
I'm sure it's happening because several of you are experiencing the problem -- so i don't know whats happening.

Perhaps I am not reproducing the steps well enough.

AbuFi seemed to give me very clear steps to reproduce, but maybe i'm missing something.  Can you guys try to give me an exact set of steps to perform to try to recreate this problem where the time is resetting to 00:00:00?

Also, can you tell me your country setting in windows so i can make sure i get that exactly right?

OOPS never mind i set it to french locale and i got the 00s!  Stay tuned i'm on it!

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Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 07:46 PM »

There are a few people on youtube doing really good in-depth reviews and comparisons of LED bulbs -- you'll find some reviews of those flat types.

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Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 01:40 PM »

Observations and Recommendations:

I did find one very expensive brand of LED bulb that is: 100W bright, suitable for installation in an enclosed fixture, and standard A19 size.
That's a very tricky combination, and you pay for it -- but i do have one kitchen fixture where those features are important.

[though for that price, perhaps the smarter thing to do is replace the light fixture]

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Living Room / Re: Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 01:34 PM »

Observations and Recommendations:

I installed some CREE 100w LED bulbs (A21 size, somewhat bigger than normal) in two ceiling fan lights (4 bulbs each).
I tried soft white (2700k) and bright white (5000k); the bright white was much too blue.
The soft white was an excellent replacement for incandescents -- very bright, look just like incandescents.

Size was not a problem with one set of my ceiling fan light shades but another set is too narrow and the bulbs don't fit.  Phillips makes a more tubular 100W LED that might.

Dimming was ok but cannot dim to very low light.  Shouldn't be a problem in most cases but if you like to be coy in the bedroom it could be an issue.

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Living Room / Our experiences with LED light bulb replacements

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 01:30 PM »

So I have begun experimenting with LED light bulbs to replace my incandescents, and I thought we could use a thread to share thoughts.

Motivations:

First, let me say something about my motivations.  A big appeal of LED light bulbs is their lifespan and low cost of usage.  Those are not primary motivations for me -- mostly because I think with technology changing, a 20+ lifespan in theory is unlikely to be a reality -- new models will be out in 5 years that will demand upgrading.

However, I am motivated by the decrease in heat output -- in the summer my incandescents can generate a large amount of heat and i'm very keen to reduce that.
Additionally, i would like the ability to run brighter bulbs in my existing light fixtures that are currently limited to 60w.

Concerns and Issues:

There are several concerns and issues with using LED bulbs in some light fixtures:

1. Large size of bulbs.  You can get common LED bulbs equivelent to 75w in standard A19 size; brighter than that they get bigger (A21) and may not fit in fixtures.
2. Weight of bulbs.  These LED bulbs can get heavy -- I have one light fixture where I will have to jerry rig some supports for it.
3. Spotlight effect.  The LED bulbs are more directional -- which can be especially troublesome for fixtures where the bulb is pointing up.
4. Color temperature.  There are two main temperatures you see (2700k soft yellow, 5000k daylight blue); The blue LEDS seem like they are closer to flourescent than any incandescent.
5. Candelabra sizes.  I have a couple of chandelier type light fixtures that use candelabra bulbs; there are some candelabra LEDS but it's unclear if they are bright enough.
6. Dimming ability, noise, flickering -- all have been mentioned in various places as potential problem areas for LEDs.

Observations and Recommendations:

I will be posting some initial observations soon -- I hope some of you other early adopters will too -- what have your experiences with LED bulbs been?

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Living Room / Re: Net Neutrality is REALLY dead

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 01:14 PM »

It may shock some to hear that I'm not opposed to the abstract *concept* of having super-heavy bandwidth services (like netflix) pay more.  But I completely agree that the likely end result of this is that small organizations get shafted and big corporations can once again buy their way to dominance.  And the ISPs get more and more powerful and rich and entrenched.

Detractors of the new proposal fear that ISPs will simply charge escalating fees for direct access and continue to stall upgrading their outdated communications infrastructure,  meaning slow lanes will end up even further behind the fast lanes

This is why I think that a compromise proposal should have been something like allowing ISPs to charge more for heavy high-speed bandwidth, but at the same time require that the SLOWEST speed for normal priced access was no slower than 50% of the high speed.  That way the high speed folks would be subsidizing the rest.

Having said that, and at the risk of injecting politics, my personal preference would be to wipe the for profit internet service provider corporations off the face of the earth (along with the for-profit health care and health insurance corporations, but thats a topic for the basement) and nationalize the internet.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Freeware] HoPiPo#Elance - Get Latest Freelance Jobs from Elance.com

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 09:54 AM »

Nice 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Issue after installing V1.142.01

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 08:39 AM »

If you re-download the official version now the error should be gone.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Issue after installing V1.142.01

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2014, 08:19 AM »

Grrrr too bad this wasn't picked up in the beta testing "phase" >:
It's part of the new code to throw an error if the file to launch was not found.
I can see now that I should have checked first if it's a real filename, and if not, skip the file existence check.  I will fix and release a new update this weekend.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2014, 11:52 AM »

The doubt is: did the cat attack the dog to defend its little owner or because the dog was simply an unwelcome intruder?

there are lots of videos of cats defending territory or in general antagonizing a dog that is in their area -- but such videos show very different behavior than what we see in the video above.

In such territorial cases the cat approaches with claws front, back up and attempts to scare off and intimidate the intruder, etc.

Wheras in the video above the cat launched her whole body at the dog so forcefully that she becomes disoriented afterwards.  I've never seen a video of a cat do that -- has anyone else here seen such behavior before?

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Living Room / The Tale of Ye Olde Inter-Nets

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2014, 10:33 AM »

A comic from Tom the Dancing Bug, "The Tale of Ye Olde Inter-Nets"

Parts 1+2 are available so far, here is part 1:



Part 2:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Resolution of Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2014, 10:26 AM »

I'm afraid it's pretty low down on my list of priorities.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2014, 10:05 AM »

One of the cool things about the interview video is it becomes clear how much of a gentle giant that cat really is.  She's very laid back and tolerant of the kid.  Makes it all the more amazing to see her run in and launch herself at the dog in the first video.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 07:28 PM »

The news people just cannot resist trying to feed the kid lines that will make for good news clips.

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Living Room / Re: Groundhog Day Loops

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 05:01 PM »

There are some very good indie time travel movies that have been mentioned on the forum that have a groundhog-day element (for example Timecrimes).

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 04:10 PM »

First interview with Tara the cat.. didn't have to wait long:
http://jezebel.com/h...s-her-fir-1576482599

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 03:19 PM »

I guarantee that cat is going to be interviewed on some morning shows and when he she is we'll get an update on him her

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Solved] SC freezes in 'Scanner Options'

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 03:15 PM »

Awesome detective work, L 

I'm going to add a note about this in the Screenshot Captor help document, and hopefully if someone else experiences it they will find this post.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 03:06 PM »

Cat saved boy from vicious dog:

That cat did a full flying kick into the dog!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request for Hotkey

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 09:01 AM »

-ccfile doesnt trigger a capture, it simply copies the last capture to clipboard.

if you really want a commandline capture (and copy to clipboard, etc.), use MiniCap.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Manual scrolling screen option

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 09:00 AM »

Glad to hear it -- hopefully the new manual scrolling option means that even in the craziest of circumstances you should be able to get some semblance of a scrolled capture stitched together.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.8.5 - May 14, 2014

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 09:00 AM »

Glad to hear it -- hopefully the new manual scrolling option means that even in the craziest of circumstances you should be able to get some semblance of a scrolled capture stitched together.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.142 - May 14, 2014

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 07:08 AM »

v1.142.01 - May 14, 2014

• [Improvement] The preferences (configuration tree) dialog was always scrolling the top Options node out of view, making it hard to find.  This top node is now scrolled into view where it is more obvious.
• [BugFix] Automatic fixing up of form position/size on resolution change was sometimes not being engaged.
• [Improvement] Clarified onscreen instructions for adding a node that opens a folder.
• [MinorFeature] The exit menu item on launchbars can be disabled.
• [Feature] You can now use Ctrl+Shift plus Up,Down,Left,Right when in the configuration tree to move nodes around the hierarchy easily.
• [Feature] Supports use of environmental variables and %APPDIR% like replacements in command launch arguments (needs testing!).
• [Feature] An error is now reported if user tries to launch a node pointing to a non-existent file (needs testing).
• [Feature] Added new maintenance menu item to check entire tree for any filepaths that may no longer be valid (user has option for trying to auto fix them).
• [Bugfix] LBC was not properly identifying full screen applications, causing it not to unhide when it should if current window was maximized (but not full screen); if you have turned off the option to Keep LaunchBars "On Top" and you use AutoHiding docks, you should try re-enabling this option.  Should make it possible to use full screen games without LBC waking up.
• [MinorFeature] You can now set custom size of separators.
• [MinorFeature] You can now set custom margins for docking bars.
• [MinorFeature] You can now set minimum width/height for items (for entire dock or overide for single items).
• [MinorFeature] If dock is set to show item hints, those hints will now also be shown on hover when dock is minimized to tray.
• [Bugfix] LBC was not properly identifying full screen applications, causing it not to unhide when it should if current window was maximized (but not full screen); if you have turned off the option to Keep LaunchBars "On Top" and you use AutoHiding docks, you should try re-enabling this option.  Should make it possible to use full screen games without LBC waking up.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.8.5 - May 14, 2014

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2014, 06:15 AM »

v4.8.5 - May 14, 2014

• [MajorImprovement] Completely revamped the "manual" method of performing a scrolling capture, to make it easier to do your own scrolling on stubborn windows.
• [MinorImprovement] Added some commandline options for use with an already running copy of Screenshot Captor.
• [MinorFeature] You can now toggle the object-capture behavior to not present the "What Now?" dialog where you can choose scrolling capture, etc., and instead do an immediate object/region capture.
• [Improvement] Minor improvements to Scrolling Capture workflow/instructions/warnings.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: New License Key

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2014, 10:27 PM »

We're here to help.  You can email me directly ([email protected]) if you like.

The most common cause for this problem if you have grabbed a free license key is not noticing that on the free license key page there are different links for different of our programs.

So maybe try again to visit the free license key page and make sure you click on the Screenshot Captor link.  Let me know if that helps!