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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Deozaan on August 02, 2008, 07:44 AM »

Are all of the characters that are printed on a standard USA keyboard included?

Call me ethnocentric if you will, but those are the only ones I care about.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Whole Disk Encryption Just Wishful Thinking?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 02, 2008, 07:41 AM »

Game over (for now).

Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border
No Suspicion Required Under DHS Policies

-40hz (August 02, 2008, 12:00 AM)

Not just laptops! But even the trash from your pocket!

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' "

-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops.html

So basically anything.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by Deozaan on August 02, 2008, 07:33 AM »

thanks, that will go some way to remove this long-standing problem i mentioned here.

-lanux128 (August 01, 2008, 10:36 PM)

The only time I've had trouble with DcUpdater not showing anything but itself and a specific application was when I opened a .dcupdate file all by itself. I've also heard that if you open DcUpdater from FARR then it doesn't check the right directories for .dcupdate files, so some applications don't show up properly. I think this is/was because DcUpdater uses the local path of whatever application launched it, so it couldn't find the settings or forwarders or something to recognize the applications that were really installed.

My first suggestion above should fix the problems caused by opening a .dcupdate file separately.

I don't use FARR, so I'm not sure launching DcUpdater from FARR still causes problems. But if it does, and especially if this is what is causing everyone else these problems, rectifying this should also be one of the suggestions for improvement for the next version.

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Living Room / Re: FCC finds Comcast in violation of net neutrality rules for BitTorrent blocking

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 09:01 PM »

Cool. I didn't know that Net Neutrality was backed up by law in the USA.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 08:40 PM »

You're probably right, f0dder.

Hmm... I wonder what would happen if I put Dina in the Scanahand Template

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 08:38 PM »

Very nice! It's much improved and works like a charm!

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 08:37 PM »

dc updater will always check for installed versions of any program references in a .dcupdate file as "not installed", so basically if a program is installed then the .dcupdate file saying "not installed" will be ignored.

-mouser (July 31, 2008, 11:12 AM)

That's good to know! Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 07:48 PM »

Thanks for this thread, Curt. It's been really neat so far to see the handy dandy little utilities people use!

Forgot to include Returnil Virtual System 2008 Personal Edition v2.0

-40hz (August 01, 2008, 02:55 PM)

The thing I don't like about Returnil is always having to reboot to restore old settings.

dirHTML - generates custom index.html files for directories on your hard drive.

-app103 (August 01, 2008, 03:32 PM)

Cool! I've been wishing for something like this for years!

Run and Hide - this is used to minimize the wave generator to my tray.

-app103 (August 01, 2008, 03:32 PM)

I was just looking for something like this today!

... have been more impressed than I expected by Adobe Air; some cool apps have been made for it.

-allen (August 01, 2008, 03:43 PM)

Will you give some examples of the cool apps for Adobe Air that you like?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 06:41 PM »

So why not import the font into a program like Flash or Illustrator and convert the characters to vectors then build a TTF for Dina?

Sounds simple enough for the ignorant!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 04:33 PM »

Jeff Atwood says Consolas doesn't even look good without ClearType enabled at standard programming font sizes.

The main reason I would like Dina in TTF is because some programs don't recognize the .fon filetype. I admit my own ignorance in the difference between TTF and FON, but as an uneducated end-user ( ) the only difference I know is that some programs won't let me use Dina.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: [FIXED TOPIC] TrackMania Nations Forever - Free, fun, and totally awesome!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 03:02 PM »

Trackmania for the Nintendo DS is coming along nicely!

In fact, I daresay it looks almost as good as it does on the PC, if you take into consideration the small screen!

See a video of the gamplay here: Trackmania DS on Joystiq.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dina in TTF format?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 02:53 AM »

I would really like to have Dina in TTF format as well.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sauerbraten Server Updates and DonationCoder map - Sauerbraten FPS fun

« Last post by Deozaan on August 01, 2008, 12:45 AM »

You should let me help you in coopedit.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: send a stickey note to another Windows account/desktop

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 10:32 PM »

Use an IM program that will pop up messages you received while you were offline.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best software communities?

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 05:41 PM »

ScreenShot Captor. 

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Living Room / Re: A heartwarming video with a big kitty!

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 04:45 PM »

I just found a link to an uncut ending of the documentary from the Born Free Foundation. I've updated the original post to include links to more info about Christian the Lion.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: YourFonts - Generate a font based on your handwriting

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 04:31 PM »

I think having a second template for special characters and accented letters would be the best option.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sauerbraten Server Updates and DonationCoder map - Sauerbraten FPS fun

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 04:22 PM »

Looks interesting! I'm still waiting to try it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Large Text File Viewer

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 04:34 AM »

I love EditPad! It's been my primary text editor and web development application for about 10 years now. 

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Living Room / A heartwarming video with a big kitty!

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 01:38 AM »

This is so cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U

Read more about this true story at Wikipedia, Snopes, and from the Born Free Foundation (who helped Christian learn to live in the wild). Also, the Born Free website has the uncut ending of the documentary.

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by Deozaan on July 31, 2008, 12:47 AM »

I've got some weird behavior with dcuhelper that we talked about in IRC. But I thought I'd post about it here in case you needed more information on what was happening.

I've been getting dcuhelper to work with my Universe project. Following along with the methods mentioned in this thread, I've placed dcuhelper in it's own directory inside the application directory, and I call dcuhelper.exe with a batch file in the Universe directory. Directory structure is like so:

Universe\dcuhelper\dcuhelper.exe
Universe\universe.dcupdate
Universe\update.bat

The batch file contains the following:

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dcuhelper\dcuhelper.exe -ri "Universe" "%CD%" "Attention"

Running this batch file on a PC that doesn't have DcUpdater installed brings up a dialog box that says something to the effect that "DcUpdater isn't installed but is required to check for updates. The Universe website and the DcUpdater website will now be opened in your browser."

Then it opens up the Universe website (as defined in the .dcupdate file) and an error 404 for the DcUpdater. The URL it opens to is https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/Updater&app=Universe. I'm not sure why it includes the information about the application, but all it needs to do is change the & to an ? and it works properly, redirecting to https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/Updater/?app=Universe

The interesting thing about this is that if I supply the wrong path or no path to the .dcupdate file, it only opens the site to download the DcUpdater, with the following (working) URL: https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/Updater. It doesn't open the Universe site because it obviously can't find the site if it doesn't have a .dcupdate file to read.

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DcUpdater / DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by Deozaan on July 30, 2008, 11:46 PM »

Hi mouser,

I really like DcUpdater. I think it is really useful and a great way to stay updated with DC software. Here are a couple of things I think would help improve the program:

1) Fix file association with .dcupdate so that the following happens when they are opened separately from the program:

• Either a forwarder file is created (like what happens when you register one with dcuhelper) or the path to the dcupdate file is added to the Extra Update Files list.
• DcUpdater is run normally.

This way when you open a .dcupdate file, you still see all of the other updates you can check/get and the application is automatically registered in DcUpdater from then on.

2) A commandline method (usable with dcuhelper) to show a dialog box saying no new updates were found. This dialog should require the user to click OK before closing out of the updater completely/automatically.

3) Change the name in the task bar from DcUppdater to something better. I'm a grammar nazi and I can't stand it being spelled like that! I still like DCAppdater (DC Application Updater) that was suggested a year ago when you found out about the Vista problems.

4) Room for a real, detailed description of the application. Maybe when it is clicked it expands a bit, kind of like Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Along with this, information about the changes in the latest version.

5) A way to filter/sort applications by website, author, or something along those lines. It would be neat to be able to expand or collapse sections for Mouser's Software, Skrommel's 1-Hour Software, etc. This should also be available in the "Available for Installation" tab.

Speaking of which, I also have a question about adding programs to the "Available for Installation" list. I found out I could do that by making a .dcupdate file with the Local version # of "not installed" but how does it know for sure if the application isn't really installed?

For example, if I have 5 applications that all use DcUpdater, and with a download of any software I include .dcupdate files to add the other 4 apps to the Available for Installation list to make it easy for users of my software to find my other great products, is there a way to check to see if DcUpdater already has update files for those apps so it doesn't make DcUpdater think that only 1 of my apps are installed even if the user has 4 of the 5?

How does it currently work with the ones you've got in that list now?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Truspace 7.6 Available for free download

« Last post by Deozaan on July 30, 2008, 04:55 PM »

I downloaded all three files and they went at about 40-50 KBps the entire time. That's a lot faster than dial-up, but fairly slow for broadband.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Truspace 7.6 Available for free download

« Last post by Deozaan on July 30, 2008, 02:10 PM »

Don't forget to mention that you can also download the PDF manual and training videos. Somebody somewhere mentioned that this is a ~$700 value.

Might as well get it while you can! 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Intermediate 3D Modeller, Beginning photoshop artist available for work

« Last post by Deozaan on July 30, 2008, 12:59 PM »

I'm about to start work on a new game model set, containing a few people, crates, barrels, etc.  A lot of the stuff will come in two different versions, damaged and undamaged.  I'm wondering if there would be much interest in all this?  It would be under a poly count of 1000 per item. Appreciate it.  Walt aka Loki

-Loki15 (July 30, 2008, 02:57 AM)

If you're going to be creating content packs, you may want to consider checking out game or 3D development websites and announcing your availability to work there (if the site rules allow you to do so).

GarageGames is a place that a lot of Indie game developers go to and they even have a content pack store. You could take a look at what sort of content packs are available there and see about getting some of your own listed for sale.

There are also places like 3D Game Developer Assistant that could give you an idea of what to include in a content pack and about how much money to charge for it.