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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to make ScreenshotCaptor PORTABLE?

« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 05:48 PM »

You shouldn't have to do a single thing if you downloaded the portable zip file, so something is going wrong.

Can anyone confirm they are experiencing the same behavior?

The portable version should be creating it's ini file in the folder you unpack it to -- just like you are saying you want it to.
You should not have to do anything other than unpack the zip file and run it, and all files should be saved in that directory.

The only thing that should change that would be if it can't save to that directory  for some reason (like it doesn't have permission to) or if you do something that would change/replace/relete the ConfigDir_Default.ini file or put a different ConfigDir.ini file in that directory.

Can you check that you have a Configdir_Default.ini file in that directory and no ConfigDir.ini file in that directory.

And give me some more information?

Did you unpack it into your my documents directory somewhere, or onto a usb drive? If you tried to manually install it into the Program Files or other similar directory, and you are using Windows Vista or later, it may be blocking the ability to save there.

What version of windows are you using?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot Grab Current Screen after Update

« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 05:21 PM »

It worked perfect before the update so I'm really frustrated.

That is really odd -- but it makes it all the more important that we confirm this is really the cause -- so please don't give up.
I can't think of any other change that would be responsible for it not working.

Can you tell us what security software you are using?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot Grab Current Screen after Update

« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2013, 10:32 AM »

BUT...there is nothing captured, the screen is white or blank.

If it is capturing all blank/white, instead of the screen, it's probably a security program blocking screen capturing.

You just need to have your security program allow Screenshot Captor to capture the screen.

More info:

• https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16024.0
• https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=20962.0
• https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=35475.0

ps.
It's a lot easier to trigger a screenshot by hitting the PrtScr key then to go through the menus.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Cody's Holiday Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 05:42 PM »

Ok first up:

This Book (plus CD) to help you learn how to play guitar:
"Guitar All-in-One For Dummies" - by Jon Chappell - 696 pages
http://www.amazon.co...ummies/dp/0470481331


I will pay shipping, but you have to live in the US.

(I bought 2 of these by mistake -- seems like a nice book for beginners).

You can only ask for this if you are really going to make an attempt to learn guitar this coming year.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Cody's Holiday Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 05:36 PM »

If you have something to give away to someone this holiday you can post it here.
If you want to claim one of these gifts, post the first reply claiming it.

The rules are as follows:

• 1. You cannot charge for it; if you want to ask recipient to pay for shipping that's ok, but it would be easier if you paid for that too in the spirit of the thing.
• 2. You can only claim one gift; after you claim a gift that's it, you're out of the game.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 12:44 PM »

For those of you into the Cthulhu mythos, there is a really good new board game set in that world, Eldritch Horror:

http://www.boardgame...6021/eldritch-horror

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Google Boomerang / Re: Any chance for a Translator Boomerang update?

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 12:31 PM »

(Also, I still don't know why Translator B. Working at all, given the Google API issue.  Perhaps Mouser can chime in.)

i don't use google API, i fetch a normal web page query and parse the results.

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Living Room / Re: PB&J with Potato Chips... One of Nature's Most Perfect Foods[

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 11:01 AM »

Unless they are salted pretzels, in which case...yuck!

umm.. yeah, of course they are salted pretzels, that's the whole point!

Best. Snack. Ever.

http://www.amazon.co...etzels/dp/B0045I92KM

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.11.01 - Dec 17, 2013

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 10:54 AM »

Minor update:

v1.11.01 - December 17, 2013

• [Feature] Scripts now create different temporary filenames in temp directory to make it much easier to debug where a search or manipulation script went wrong.
• [Documentation] Added help information for how to narrow a search to a specific site in google and how to add text to input.
• [BugFix] Excerpts in result grid that contained newlines were messing up the result grid (and potentially the results).
• [Feature] Option to check for updates at startup.

Although Web Link Captor has basically 0 users, I still maintain it is one of my coolest apps.  One of these days some blogger who has real use for it is going to discover it and be happy.

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Living Room / Re: Jazz Recommendation Thread

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 10:33 AM »

Thanks for the tip about Horace Silver 

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Living Room / Re: PB&J with Potato Chips... One of Nature's Most Perfect Foods[

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 10:30 AM »

I can be a fan of dark humor, but i must admit the humor escapes me...

Anyway, back to the original question..

I've never been much of a fan of peanut butter and the idea of peanut butter on potato chips sounds disgusting.

But in a related vein, chocolate covered pretzels are incredible.

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Living Room / Re: Post Your Year End Top 5/10 List Here

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 08:23 AM »

For some reason I played a lot of computer games this last year -- there were many good ones.

Mouser's Top 5 Favorite Computer Games Played in 2013

• Mafia II
• Dishonored
• Far Cry 3
• Saints Row IV
• Sniper Elite 2

ps. I use Web Link Captor to automatically find and add web links to a plain text list and format the output.

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Living Room / Post Your Year End Top 5/10 List Here

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2013, 08:18 AM »

Let's do something fun, let's all try to share some helpful year-end top-5 or top-10 lists.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Invoking SC shifts whole screen down a bit

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2013, 01:59 PM »

SC should work well with all manner of multiple monitors, but your setup is probably whats confusing it, for some reason..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Invoking SC shifts whole screen down a bit

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2013, 01:33 PM »

So I heavily suspect it has to do with Windows updates I "stupidly" allowed a few days ago for all kinds of .NET stuff.
Could that be it?

unlikely.  it sounds like perhaps some kind of bug with sc identifying the screen dimensions..

does it ONLY happen when trying to do a select-region capture?

what OS?

how many monitors do you have?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - Copy Image to Clipboard by default

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2013, 03:44 PM »

I think my screenshot may have been misleading since i had a different option chosen than the one you need.

You want the "Copy to clipboard:" option to say "Image Bitmap".

Does this help:




I've tested that option and it works well to let you paste into MS Word after a capture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - Copy Image to Clipboard by default

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2013, 11:35 AM »

glad you like it!

a setting that will copy my capture to the clipboard by default.

of course:



So if you set that to capture the image (or path, your choice) to the clipboard after each capture, you probably also want to set the program to stay minimized in the system tray after each capture, rather than presenting you with the post-capture dialog.  You'll find that option on the Interface Options tab or on the post-capture dialog itself (or in system tray menu).

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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 1.10 - Dec 15, 2013

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2013, 11:14 AM »

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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 1.10 - Dec 15, 2013

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2013, 09:26 AM »

Update:

v1.10.01 - Dec 15, 2013

• You can now create a "manual" position bar, and set its position at any time by clicking on the bar itself.
• New option (set by default) to not force the panel on top when docked or when a full screen app (like a screensaver) is running.

With the new manual bar item, you can make progress bars that you can freely adjust just by clicking on them.

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General Software Discussion / Google ranking change turns table on spammers

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2013, 09:25 PM »

People on this site know that i'm not a huge fan of google and the incentives they have created that favor spammers and advertisers.

But the web is buzzing with a few articles today about some recent changes that have spammers scrambling to remove spammy links that are now going to end up penalizing instead of helping them.

The search engine optimization community has spent the last two years in a panic. SEO people flood our Internet with spam links and fake Twitter bots and paid traffic, to help bad websites look more popular than they are, to deliver fake viewers to web ads.

They now spend their lives on the run, Google nipping at their heels. Their biggest project? Removing all the spam links on websites like this one—the spam links that they put there.

http://www.theawl.co...he-new-spammer-panic

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Living Room / Re: Funny Animal Videos

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2013, 09:20 PM »

Crows are quickly becoming one of my favorite animals.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: IsoBuster Pro - Mini-Review

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2013, 06:21 PM »

Thanks for the mini-review Iain 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture Delay!?

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2013, 09:16 AM »

First, check to make sure you don't actually have the delay option enabled.
You can find that in the tray menu under Capture Options -> Use Delay.

Assuming not, see if it's only the FIRST capture that is slow, after not having used SC in a long time, with subsequent captures being fast.  If so, you should try the option that cmpm mentioned about changing the "Inactive Memory Use".  In this case it could also be a hard disk that's sleeping, for which there is no easy fix.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on December 13, 2013, 12:05 AM »

Dog and cheetah play in show:

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge + Alpha: Weather Station Warlock

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2013, 11:09 PM »

Beautiful.