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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by Target on October 03, 2011, 11:47 PM »

Because nothing says dignity like being turned into a knick-knack...

-Stoic Joker (October 03, 2011, 10:27 PM)

or fired out of a gun...

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by Target on October 03, 2011, 10:00 PM »

I'm all for people having a blast at my funeral

-mwb1100 (October 03, 2011, 08:48 PM)

Should be a barrel of laughs!

-cranioscopical (October 03, 2011, 09:40 PM)

boom boom...

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by Target on October 03, 2011, 07:25 PM »

I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with a purpose for this service that isn't just a teency bit disturbing.

-Stoic Joker (October 03, 2011, 06:46 PM)

indeed, seems pretty bizarre to me (right up there with freeze drying deceased pets)

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by Target on October 03, 2011, 06:14 PM »

necrothread warning (sorry, I couldn't not do that)

I mate sent me the below link this morning - I'm not sure whether he's trying to tell me something or not, but I thought it may amuse some here

having attended to your virtual afterlife per the above, what to do with your mortal remains?

Holy smoke is a service that will 'load' your cremated ashes into the small arms ordnance of your choice.

If you've ever wanted a 21 gun salute at your funeral this could be the way to go...

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General Software Discussion / Re: list of urls to mht

« Last post by Target on October 02, 2011, 06:25 PM »

not sure if this fits with your 'requirements', but if you have access to office, then Word saves to MHT...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Grid Layout software? Does it exist?

« Last post by Target on September 28, 2011, 06:57 PM »

Guys!  Check this out!
http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups

It's pretty amazing.  You can essentially create a mock application quite easily.  This might be very important for me.  I always have software ideas, but not being a programmer, it's difficult for me to accurately explain my vision.  This would be awesome for that.  I'm probably going to use it for coding snack ideas...

-superboyac (July 28, 2011, 05:49 PM)

saw this today and thought it may be of interest - Wireframe Sketcher

probably not that different to Balsamiq's offering, but they offer a standalone version which may be preferable

and if you're wanting to do mockups you could also try Smart Gui Creator (comes with AHK) or even the form build in VBA (if you're an MS Office user).  Both of these are WYSIWYG

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Living Room / Re: Clipart collections, and/or image converters

« Last post by Target on September 27, 2011, 10:33 PM »

on the offchance that it's useful to someone, the answer appears to be inkscape

SVG is native to inkscape, and it can output to EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) which is native to Office...

no batch functionality, but it can be processed from the command line

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 22, 2011, 07:44 PM »

fwiw, here's the source code

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 21, 2011, 05:40 PM »

needed a restart after adding new text file (logical - just noting)

use WIN+R to reload

That's an interesting implementation:
it recreates the menu, but just showing the shortcuts you have in the list.

is that not what you were asking for?

all it does is create a 'menu' based on your text file(s) (in the example I used the 'full' list you supplied)

I did fiddle with a couple of GUI implementations but they just seemed to intrusive

The thing is, with XYplorer, the shortcuts are already shown in the menu(s) so the temptation is to just use the XY menu's...
But one could also construct one's own menus e.g.

more options are better than less, and it's not costing you anything

theoretically you could put anything you like in it, so long as you maintain the string format

those extra spaces under File etc were in the text file - I had left blank spaces where I had cut lines from the list. It jumps these spaces when using the arrow keys

interesting - that was the first thing I noticed in your screenshot (thanks for the explanation!!)

and after all that, does it answer your original requirements?

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Living Room / Re: Samsung hard drives - don't buy them unless you like subliminal mental torture

« Last post by Target on September 20, 2011, 09:28 PM »

I'm sure I deserve it (in your sick and twisted mind).

-nudone (September 20, 2011, 02:41 AM)

Mmmm.

-cranioscopical (September 20, 2011, 09:19 PM)

that's just cruel

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 20, 2011, 07:28 PM »

where are all the solutions you guys have been working on?

Boarding Hows shows a (separate) context menu for each application - hotkey Win+F1 to show

Each application must have a corresponding helper file, and it must be in the same format as Tomos' original examples (ie XXX / ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ) as the script parses each line and uses the first field to build the submenu's 

Helper files must be named for the relevant application (eg Outlook.txt, Excel.txt, etc), and the names should be case sensitive - if you want to have a game simply rename the sample text files according to your particular requirements

only downside I can see is dealing with multiple apps with similar/common titles (eg Notepad, Notepad2, Natepad++, etc)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mother****ing placeholder text mother****er (Warning: Image contains bad words)

« Last post by Target on September 20, 2011, 05:58 PM »

 

needs an option to cap the MF though...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 19, 2011, 05:41 PM »

do you have a copy of the text you want to use?

-Target (September 15, 2011, 08:02 PM)

I need to work on that. Below are XYPlorer shortcuts. The full list, and a very quickly edited list.
The edited list is still a long list... I would probably want to cut it down to half that size or smaller.

EDIT/ anyone know where I can get a list of DOpus shortcuts

-tomos (September 16, 2011, 03:39 AM)

what other apps are you hoping to use this for (apart from DOpus)?

I have an idea that might deal with multiple apps - it would require a separate source file for each (per your example) but they would all have to be formatted the same way

How did you generate the sample shortcut lists?  If this is a copy and paste from a help file it's fine, but if you have to manually produce them it may become a little onerous...

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Living Room / Re: Google Translate: For Animals

« Last post by Target on September 18, 2011, 06:16 PM »

.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 15, 2011, 08:02 PM »

do you have a copy of the text you want to use?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Target on September 15, 2011, 06:46 PM »

what about a popup or slide out window?

something like Stick might do what you want

alternatively you could use AHK to show context sensitive 'tips' to display a list (though that may be onerous depending on how much text you want to display)

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Living Room / Re: rogue hotkey assignment - looking for the culprit

« Last post by Target on September 06, 2011, 12:20 AM »

hehe.. same here, i'd forget about Katmouse after installing it. that is why i made the linked post in case i have the same problem in the future.

btw, thanks for the credits..

-lanux128 (September 05, 2011, 11:52 PM)

good thing you did

and you're most welcome, it was the least I could do

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Living Room / Re: rogue hotkey assignment - looking for the culprit

« Last post by Target on September 05, 2011, 11:46 PM »

do you use KatMouse? i have had this problem before.

-lanux128 (September 05, 2011, 11:16 PM)

outstanding!!

I'd forgotten all about this little beasty - it doesn't show up in my start menu or tray so it never even occurred to me (I only use it to get scrolling in one particularly recalcitrant application)

many many thanks, this has been driving me nuts...

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Living Room / rogue hotkey assignment - looking for the culprit

« Last post by Target on September 05, 2011, 11:12 PM »

I realise this is something of a 'how long is a piece of string' type question, but I'm hoping somebody here might be able to supply a clue as to the offending app

recently my middle button action in a browser (generally open link in new page/tab) has been hijacked, and for the life of me I can't work out who did it

'new' action on middle click is to send that application to the bottom of the stack, which is very annoying to say the least

I've checked all my settings and I've not installed anything that I can think of that might have had this effect, so I'm hoping that this might seem familiar to someone here

working with XP SP3 and a variety of browsers

any ideas?

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Living Room / Clipart collections, and/or image converters

« Last post by Target on August 30, 2011, 09:38 PM »

the support monster has visited again, and I have been asked to source some clipart for my mother-in-law

I figured that there would be plenty available online, and there is, but I have no interest in sourcing them one a time...

I did find a few bundles (notably the Open Clipart collection), however significant parts of what I found are in SVG format.  While this may not be an issue for a computer literate user, it will present significant issues for the lady in question.

so, 2 questions

does anyone know of a source of good (free?) clipart bundles
does anyone know of a utility that can process batch conversions from SVG to something else (PNG?).  I guess that the 'ultimate' (?) solution would be able to convert to wmf (or another format native to office), even if it needs to be done in a couple of steps

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Living Room / Re: Good Free Windows Grammar Checker?

« Last post by Target on August 26, 2011, 12:58 AM »

maybe a little extreme, but have you considered a participle accelerator?

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General Software Discussion / looking for a [i]single[/i] pane file manager

« Last post by Target on August 23, 2011, 09:14 PM »

I normally use TotalCommander, but my (W7) netbook doesn't really have the available screenspace to use it comfortably, so I'm looking for a single pane FM to use instead

I have been using Explorer++ which I rather like, but I've found it to be pretty unstable (It routinely crashes if I try to move too quickly, or if I try and customise the toolbars, or or or).  I haven't had the opportunity to take this up with the developer, but a new version has recently been released that may resolve some of this.

Pending the outcome of either of those activities I'm looking for suggestions on possible alternatives (worth noting I have a longstanding dislike of windows explorer ). 

I do have some specific requirements, ie it must be tabbed, and it must have a customisable toolbar so that I can add common apps/tools (I tend to use my FM as something of a dashboard)

I'm guessing this is possibly a fairly narrow field as it's the opposite of the consensus with respect to 'modern' file managers, but I'd be interested to see whats out there and what your experiences/opinions (if any) are

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Allow commenting of files in directory listing

« Last post by Target on August 22, 2011, 11:44 PM »

I was hoping to avoid using another file manager, innocently hoped that someone would be able to figure out a registry solution.

-aurelius (August 22, 2011, 10:58 PM)

This type of functionality is MUCH more than a simple registry change.  You may have some success with TaggedFrog.  It appears to work on Windows 7 x64 and integrates, somewhat, with Windows Explorer.

-skwire (August 22, 2011, 11:15 PM)

or possibly Elyse?

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Target on August 21, 2011, 06:54 PM »

Kyle Reese!

-f0dder (August 21, 2011, 06:31 PM)

that one's gone over my head

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« Last post by Target on August 21, 2011, 06:28 PM »

I think Target is just whipping up an excuse...

-Shades (August 20, 2011, 05:41 AM)

In lieu of nagging?

-cranioscopical (August 20, 2011, 02:44 PM)

not furlong