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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 11:59 PM »
With Screenshot Captor, the dialog tomos showed is for splicing (with effects added).
But it might be more straighforward to FIRST do a normal crop, and then from the SpecialFx2 menu, choose "Border" and then last submenu item is "border effect splice style (ragged effects)"
which will give you this dialog:
Screenshot - 11_15_2013 , 11_57_36 PM.png

Which is mostly the same but lets you choose what edges to apply the effect to.


ps.Fade out is ok, but i personally prefer the ragged edge effects when i want to indicate a crop:
Screenshot - 11_16_2013 , 12_00_54 AM.png
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General Software Discussion / Re: Heeee's Baaaaack!!! Stephen Wolfram is going to revolutionize everything again.
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 05:29 PM »
I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or ask for some of whatever it is he's drinking or smoking this week...

ditto.

well it will be INTERESTING, that's for sure.  but if it's a new language in the same way that his book was a new kind of science, it basically means we are going to get a reinvention of Perl with new terms for everything.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: control panel app searches
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 03:58 PM »
if those "sub" areas can be triggered/accessed directly in the same way the main ones can, it might be possible to add them to the cpanel alias.

so i guess the question is, can you make aliases for those "sub" category items?  or is there no good way to open the control panel directly to those sub-areas?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug - New Screenshot: Button & Field Label Text Cut Off
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 03:56 PM »
Ah on the post-capture pop-up dialog.  Ok i'll check into that -- i should be scaling those down.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug - New Screenshot: Button & Field Label Text Cut Off
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 03:44 PM »
Which buttons are we talking about?
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Find And Run Robot / Re: control panel app searches
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 03:43 PM »
Hi Mark.

The FARR aliases for things like cpanel and mmc should let you filter/refine the results just by typing stuff after "cpanel" or "mmc"

Try that and let me know if it does what you want.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenCraptor object capture can grab controls only in first group box
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 03:41 PM »
That's odd - if you move the cursor inside it I would think you would be able to capture them.

One advanced thing you can try is the 4th option shown in the dialog after you use red box to capture an object/window, which is labeled "Capture Multiple Images, One for teach Child Control".

Use redbox to select the entire window and then choose that..

Either you will be wonderfully surprised that it captures every single control automatically, or you can let me know if it fails.
8608
Screenshot Captor / Re: How to Capture Screenshot Capture Itself?
« Last post by mouser on November 15, 2013, 02:19 PM »
There is actually a menu item under the "Capture" menu to capture an image of Screenshot Captor window itself.
It's not in the tray menu, only the normal application window menu.
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Living Room / Re: How long do hard drives actually live for?
« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2013, 02:11 PM »
most electronic failures occur very early or very late in life. Electronics hardly ever fail during their midlife.

yes but wouldn't that support the idea of preemtively decommissing a hard drive after 5 or 6 years, whether its displaying any signs of trouble or not?

needless to say, all of this talk about preemptive decomissioning is predicated on the idea that having a hard drive suddenly die on you is a very bad thing to have happen -- something which is true in most cases.
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Living Room / Re: Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?
« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2013, 09:21 AM »
Related discussions on this thread.
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Living Room / Re: How long do hard drives actually live for?
« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2013, 09:19 AM »
Let me summarize some conclusions from this and other threads:

  • The chance of a catastrophic hard drive failure in any given year is always non-trivial -- people who think there is a one-in-a-thousand chance of hard drive failure are fooling themselves.  Hard drives still fail pretty frequently.
  • Sometimes you get some warning -- which is why it's useful to have a SMART drive monitor tool, and to be aware of sounds, etc.  At the first sign of trouble, clone and replace the hard drive and put the old one on the shelf.
  • One key question that is a little closer to being answers is one I raised in my post "Should we preemptively retire old hard drives".  This latest article would seem to suggest that after a few years, the rate of failure seems to start increasing, and it really might be a good idea to preemptively replace drives that are 4-5 years old, rather than to assume that a long-lasting drive is something special that will run forever.
  • Because it seems clear that for almost all pc components, very high temperatures are bad, and because this is one area where we actually have a little control over -- it's the one area i have started paying more attention to in last years.  So I run tray-resident temperature monitoring software that shows temperatures of all hard drives as well as the cpu, and alerts when they get too high.
  • We do not have good data about whether some drives will just run forever.  And we have no good data about which brands and types live longer.

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Living Room / Security Questions (humor)
« Last post by mouser on November 13, 2013, 05:00 PM »
Security Questions skit.  Brilliant.



from http://www.cynical-c.com/
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: System functions not being correctly copied
« Last post by mouser on November 13, 2013, 10:11 AM »
I must admit, it is VERY confusing that they are shown in a big box at the bottom.
I should fix that and put them in a format that one would expect.
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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 09:18 PM »
Google is all about shoving it's stuff down our throats and doing whatever they have to do to lock everyone into their products.  They use sneakier tactics than others, but the intent seems clear -- buy and get your tentacles into enough stuff and slowly make it impossible to use the internet without being dependent on google technology.

NSWF (language):



Note:

I don't have particular complaints about any one specific google product or decision.  I just think when you put it all together what you see is a smarmy, greedy company whose goal is to get their grubby hands into everything and push out all competitors, and then worry about how to take advantage of us (or inundate us with advertisements) once we're locked in and the competition is killed.

I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record -- but it wouldn't be so upsetting if a company came in and said: "ok here is our service, and here is how we're going to pay for it"  but instead what we see, over and over again is a big company like google comes in, kills all the competition and establishes a monopoly by offering a free service with no advertisements.

Then after they capture the marketplace and spend a few years happily losing money and killing off the competitors who don't have as deep bank accounts, then they turn on the ads and start changing the terms of service, and using one service as a platform to push their other services.

And the worst thing about all this is that these companies make it virtually impossible for any small companies to compete with them -- it's a winner take all world and without the bankrole to bleed millions a year for a decade, you have no chance.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest portable insists on centering search window
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 09:14 PM »
You'll find the option to center the window (or not) in the "Display Options" tab.
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Living Room / Re: How long do hard drives actually live for?
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 05:56 PM »
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying -- are you saying that you think consumer drives might be expected to die faster than the backblaze drives, or?
8617
Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 04:02 PM »
A man and his bird collect coins:

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Living Room / How long do hard drives actually live for?
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 03:47 PM »
Extremetech has an article today on an issue we've discussed before -- the longevity of hard drives.

This data covers only the first 4 years, but i have to admit it's a bit scary to me:

If you buy a hard drive today, there’s a 90% chance that it will survive for three years. If your drive makes it to the three-year point, you would be wise to back up your data, as there’s a 12% chance per year that your drive will die.

If you don't have a good backup plan in place, start one this week.  I recommend a combination of monthly full drive imaging combined with a constant online backup service for your documents and/or file mirroring.



from slashdot.org
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2013, 03:34 PM »
A man and his fox:

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: System functions not being correctly copied
« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2013, 12:19 PM »
Can you try something for me -- if you make a copy of the shortcut and replace the %windir% with the actual windows directory, does LBC copy the shortcut properties in that case?
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: System functions not being correctly copied
« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2013, 01:22 AM »
Can you give me an example screenshot of the right-click properties dialog of pne of the desktop shortcut showing the commandline parameters?
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: System functions not being correctly copied
« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2013, 12:45 AM »
That sounds like a bug expat -- can you tell me what option you choose when you drop it?
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General Software Discussion / Re: new Site for my Software
« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2013, 06:44 PM »
shouldnt there be a little "friend of cody" type image somewhere on the page?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace
« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2013, 05:17 PM »
SC doesnt have a plugin system -- it just launches executables.

Regarding wanting to stay resident, might I suggest a commandline option to launch the tool and stay resident, and a commandline option that says to not open a second instance but open the file in currently running instance?

I use such a procedure in some of my apps so that if a second instance is launched, it will just pass execution to the already running copy.  The benefit is that the caller doesn't have to do anything special.
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Life after Cliptrakker
« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2013, 03:09 AM »
So the tabs would be pretty close to the group list on the left -- I don't see any compelling benefit of tabs.

But the grid view does look like it could be a nice alternative way to view images..
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