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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever screenshot - automatical selection

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2013, 02:20 PM »

I'm not understanding what you are trying to do.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on November 02, 2013, 03:44 PM »

Most of this thread is perfectly fine and fun -- no need to do anything dramatic with it.

I think the real solution lies in trying to improve the rest of the site and working harder to increase the quantity and quality of the more genuinely useful and informative threads on the other areas of forum.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: how to enter text into a text box

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2013, 07:02 PM »

Thanks for answering this Tomos.   

somehow got confused between the highlighting rectangle and the text object.

That's just what I was about to suggest might have happened.  It's a bit too easy to confuse the two.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2013, 06:44 PM »

Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails

Nice find -- I love little essays like this.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2013, 06:23 PM »

If you find that funny ... ?

Personally I found that holocaust "joke" pretty offensive.

On a thread marked NSFW, I'm hesitant to remove it.

Still, when i see such posts, like the political posts, i just think ah, maybe that's one of the reasons we seem to have less and less new people joining our family here..

Maybe I'm being overly sensitive -- I'm just more and more feeling like we have to do something to improve this place, and seeing posts like this doesn't make me feel good.  Perhaps if I felt like we were a thriving community it would just be a tiny drop in the water.  But I feel like we are treading water and things like this start to feel like we loading up our own pockets with stones.

I should say that ArizonaHot has posted tons of interesting inoffensive posts, so I know know offense was meant by this one, and I don't mean to single any one out.  Like I said, in the whole scheme of things, this isn't a big deal -- it's just coming at a time when i'm spending a lot of time worrying about how to make this site a more welcoming site for new people..

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General Software Discussion / Re: v4.7.0 Screenshot Captor - Cannot change visible in OnShow or OnHide

« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2013, 12:32 PM »

Strange.. I'm going to send you a personal message through the forum and try to help track down the issue.

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Living Room / Re: Can someone do a quick Photoshop gag for me?

« Last post by mouser on October 29, 2013, 12:51 AM »

The resemblance is definitely there!

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Living Room / Re: Musician Lou Reed has died

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2013, 04:47 PM »

My favorite velvet underground album, Live at Max's Kansas City:
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=neKvqtr3M1k - Side A
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=bxFjPe6B_1A - Side B

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Living Room / Musician Lou Reed has died

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2013, 12:42 PM »

Lou Reed, one of the greatest rock and roll songwriters and performers of all time, has died.

He was one of the true greats.  His early music with the Velvet Underground is amazing.  His solo work is amazing.

http://www.rollingst...-dead-at-71-20131027

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Living Room / Re: Animated Map of Girl's Names Throughout the Years

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2013, 12:24 AM »

I love those kinds of maps.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: SoloCrop

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2013, 03:32 PM »

Nice idea!

Maybe add a "skip" button since it's autoloading from same folder?

Another idea: instead of autoloading next, how about supporting the dropping of multiple files at once, and so it automatically advances through the drop lost.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Pre-Purchase Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 4-Pack

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2013, 07:41 AM »

I loved the main game (and Sniper Elite v1), but did *not* like the zombie army DLC.  Just wasn't enjoyable.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Question about custom dates

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2013, 03:35 PM »

Hmm that's an interesting idea.

There is a %numinc% and %num% field you can use in filenames that may do what you want or close enough to it.

See here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32293.0
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=34146.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista/Win7 Aero Glass

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2013, 12:03 PM »

Let me think about it a little bit.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista/Win7 Aero Glass

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2013, 11:50 AM »

Btw, is it possible to capture multiple (overlapping, or adjacent) windows, for example by shift-clicking on several windows that are currently visible?

Can you elaborate how you would want to use this?

The easiest way now would be to just make sure they are on a plain background and then capture the entire screen.
Once you've captured the entire screen you can use SC to remove the background area (as long as it's a relatively solid color).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista/Win7 Aero Glass

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2013, 11:35 AM »

Is the window you are trying to capture a child window, sitting in front of the main application?

If so, try moving it off of the parent background window (may require resizing main background window).

Because of the way the transparency capture works, SC has to do some unusual coloring behind the active window, which seems to fail if the window is a child window in front of a parent window from the same application.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Great

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2013, 11:17 AM »

Thanks for saying so 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is the day of the paid OS over?

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2013, 09:34 PM »

This gets us back to our discussions of how the entire internet is becoming an advertising delivery platform.

Apple can give away the OS because they make a fortune on the hardware and they can kill off any competition that is charging for the operating system.

Google can give away its services and kill off all competition, as long as they are making huge profits off of forcing ads down our throats.

These corporations are always happy to make half their product free as long when doing so kills their competition and doesn't interfere with the way they are getting rich.

The real question I think we are going to be asking ourselves in a decade is, how can we get back to a world where we just PAY reasonable amounts for the things that we value.  Instead of playing this game where everything *SEEMS* free but in reality it's just a bait and switch or a delay until they become a monopoly.

I'm really starting to long for products and services that charge enough for each item/service to make a reasonable profit on that item/service.  What a crazy idea.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MacX DVD Ripper Pro free download before Nov. 4, 2013

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2013, 12:41 AM »

Nice detective work, App -- another confirmed spammer.

Any company so committed to spam trickery is one to stay away from.

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Living Room / Re: Was the iOS 7 "look" created using Microsoft Word?

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2013, 12:48 PM »

wow. that guy has skills.

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Living Room / Re: Razors and Intellectual Property (Patents)

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2013, 11:00 AM »

I have been on the receiving end of a patent troll who tried to (unsuccessfully) extort/intimidate me away from a software program on an absolutely silly basis.  Despite the fact that the patent troll failed, I came out of the experience firmly convinced that the patent system is completely broken, and is yet another industry which has built a fiefdom out of extracting maximum legal costs, and benefit those corporations with the largest bank reserves.

Having said that -- I have to disagree with those who say that the very idea of intellectual property protection is unimportant.  I think that without some system to ensure that inventors are properly compensated for their discoveries, the result would be large corporate marketing giants what come in like vampires and simply do a better job of mass producing/marketing/monopolizing/bullying/etc than the original inventors.

So I believe there has to be some middle ground.  I don't have the answers but we could start by removing the middlemen between the inventors and the producers.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I give up: how to find my forum postings?

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2013, 09:44 AM »

It's nice to have some questions I can answer -- better than the ones where I have to reply "I have no idea why that would happen" 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Sometimes copied matters donot arrive in Clipboard Help and Spell

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2013, 09:40 AM »

Could it be that after a big clipboard, which is rejected because it was too big, any other clipboards thereafter are also "rejected"?

No, that would indicate a different problem.

Assuming you have CHS set to make a sound when it copies a clip -- if you hear that it's not copying the clipboard when it should be, what you can try is right-click on CHS icon and select "Re-establish Clipboard Chain".  This will fix a problem caused by another program messing up the clipboard chain in windows and preventing CHS from getting notifications about new clipboard contents.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I give up: how to find my forum postings?

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2013, 09:37 AM »

Two ways:

First, you can do so from your Profile -- if you click the "My Profile" link at top, then near top left you will see a link "Show Posts".

Second, from any thread, you will see user names and avatars (you still need to set an avatar for yourself by the way), and under that you will see a link "Posts: ###"  -- click that to view any users posts.


Tip: At the very top of the forum page where it says "Greetings [USERNAME] are also some quick links, and one of them will take you to "Show new replies to your posts", which can also be useful.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Sometimes copied matters donot arrive in Clipboard Help and Spell

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2013, 09:21 AM »

I have another clipboard manager also running, my old one

this could also be to blame -- sometimes clipboard tools misbehave and prevent others from capturing.