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General Software Discussion / Re: All in one place - free tools to cover all of your design needs.

« Last post by Deozaan on May 18, 2007, 03:20 PM »

Forgive my ignorance, but what is this? Just a collection of multimedia tools? Is this a build of Ubuntu that comes with those things installed by default? Can this run on Windows?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just needed to read the quote again before the words clicked. It's Ubuntu with those tools in it. Or something.

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Living Room / Re: 3D freeform rapid prototyping for CANDY! Suger-rush here I come!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 18, 2007, 03:10 PM »

I want to immortalize my WoW avatar in sugar and chocolate!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web Mail Recommendation?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 17, 2007, 11:28 PM »

I'm a little late to the party (Hey where'd everyone go?) but I just want to say that Gmail is indeed the best in my opinion. I used to despise webmail and feel sorry for everyone who had it. Once I started using Gmail, I stopped using my pop3 client.

 

Now I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't use Gmail.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for: ToDo List plus Calendar plus Countdown Timer

« Last post by Deozaan on May 12, 2007, 04:49 PM »

Thanks everyone for the responses.

I've decided to go with Outlook Calendar and the Vista Sidebar Gadget called Outlook Info. Seems the quickest and easiest way thus far. I've customized it so that it only shows calendar information and am in the process of building a countdown into it. It already is able to show the date/time when the calendar task is due, so implementing a countdown shouldn't be too difficult.

Although, if someone knows vbs and javascript I could certainly use the help. This thing doesn't make much sense to me, and I have to set default values for options in three or more places, it seems.

I've managed to get many of the settings to show up properly, all that's left is to actually build the countdown timer function into it, which will require a bit more of an investment of time and effort for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for: ToDo List plus Calendar plus Countdown Timer

« Last post by Deozaan on May 12, 2007, 03:39 AM »

I installed Outlook for the Calendar/Task options and I found a Vista sidebar gadget that lists Outlook e-mail, calendar items, and task items. I also found a countdown timer but it isn't nearly as customizable as I want and doesn't automatically get info from Outlook or anywhere else.

It's a start, but I'd really like an integrated countdown timer, too.

I wonder if it would be hard to alter the Outlook Sidebar Gadget. . .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for: ToDo List plus Calendar plus Countdown Timer

« Last post by Deozaan on May 12, 2007, 02:58 AM »

I have Office 2007 but I can't seem to find the Project 2007 they mention. Come to think of it, looks like I didn't install Outlook 2007 either. . .

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General Software Discussion / Looking for: ToDo List plus Calendar plus Countdown Timer

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2007, 02:47 PM »

I'm interested in some software that mixes elements from a calendar, a todo list, and a countdown timer. Here are the features I'm looking for:

• Calendar view.
• Option for recurring tasks.
• Show countdown timer on desktop for next "todo" item. This would be great if it had the options to display more than one todo item at a time and be always on top of other applications, with options to adjust font, size, color, transparency.
• Easy way to check the task as done.

Does anyone know of anything that does this?

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Living Room / Re: Onslaught: Flash Game of the Day

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2007, 02:21 PM »

For anyone who played this one within the first few days of this thread and haven't played since: Go back and play it. It is continually being updated!

Onslaught v2

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Living Room / Re: RPG Tower Defense flash game

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2007, 12:22 AM »

I agree with mouser. It's a good start.

I'm not sure how all the upgrades work and stuff, but there seemed to be a bug in which I would upgrade the range of all nearby towers, which, according to the tooltip should increase the range by 4, but they only increase by 2.

Also, it would be nice if there was some sort of way to know that when you clicked an upgrade button that it did anything. The tooltips don't update unless you click or move your mouse off and then back on.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cybernet Recommends 5 IE Addons

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2007, 03:25 PM »

These might be useful if I ever used IE. But since I don't, no use getting them. 

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Developer's Corner / Re: another good software blog site

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2007, 03:24 AM »

PS: Folks, did you know that the makers of PHP (actually they rewrote the PHP-FI parser of Rasmus Lerdorf) Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski are Israeli?

-2stepsback (May 03, 2007, 02:47 PM)

Not to sound like a jerk or anything (which I probably will anyway), but why is the fact that they're Israeli pertinent? I don't believe I've ever wondered where a programmer was from. Even when the documentation has broken english I don't try to determine where they are from.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: A directory box

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2007, 03:06 AM »

How about Microsoft Windows XP?

If you drag a folder from your desktop to one of the edges of the screen, it creates a dockable Explorer window. You can also detach it and have it floating freely.

Skrommel

-skrommel (April 26, 2007, 03:53 PM)

That's cool! I can just make a directory with a bunch of shortcuts and have a little launcher sidebar and it works on top too. Neato!

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Official Announcements / Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2007, 08:59 PM »

i passed the idea by cody but he says he's not giving up his coins unless we pry them from his cold dead beak.

-mouser (April 25, 2007, 02:18 AM)

I can make a Flash game in which that will be very possible. . . 

 

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What's the Best? / Re: Software to check for available domain addresses

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2007, 03:22 PM »

I just use http://www.xwhois.com/ whenever I need info on a domain.

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Living Room / Re: Gender bender

« Last post by Deozaan on April 30, 2007, 11:28 AM »

On some sites I've seen the option for those who don't want to tell was Neuter.

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Living Room / Re: How AMD plans to take over the market by adding DRM directly to CPU

« Last post by Deozaan on April 29, 2007, 10:48 PM »

... iTunes removing DRM from music.

-Carol Haynes (April 29, 2007, 06:28 PM)

They are? I'm almost impressed.

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Living Room / Re: Gender bender

« Last post by Deozaan on April 29, 2007, 10:46 PM »

The poll question isn't really a question.

Shouldn't it say, "Are you..."

Male,
Female,
Rather not say.

Instead it says "Let's find the ration in DCC." Male, Female, Rather not say.

Uh? 

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Living Room / Re: What's your pet's favorite toy?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 27, 2007, 09:29 PM »

BTW: My favorite? Fake mouse and a fishing pole!!

p.s. no hooks...

-Edvard (April 24, 2007, 11:47 AM)

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111   

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General Software Discussion / Re: BugMeNot

« Last post by Deozaan on April 27, 2007, 09:23 PM »

BugMeNot has a FireFox extension that lets you right-click login and select BugMeNot and it tries to put in the login information for you. Very useful.

http://www.bugmenot.com/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Adobe to Open Source Flex

« Last post by Deozaan on April 27, 2007, 03:15 PM »

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.

-justice (April 27, 2007, 10:19 AM)

Yay! Web 2 on my desktop!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Adobe to Open Source Flex

« Last post by Deozaan on April 27, 2007, 10:14 AM »

That sounds cool!

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Living Room / Re: Are Optical Computers as PCs on the horizon?

« Last post by Deozaan on April 26, 2007, 11:34 AM »

the speed of current computers is ... roughly half the speed of light in a vacuum.
...
New conducting materials developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center can act as computer logic gates that perform 1,000 times faster than today's fastest silicon chips, and are smaller.

-kyrathaba (April 25, 2007, 06:25 PM)

Are you saying that computers can be 500 times the speed of light in a vacuum with these new materials?

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Coding Snacks Challenge - Design a Coding Snack Game

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2007, 05:23 PM »

expanding on that idea, someone could make a website version of hangman, and then users could upload text files with their own personal words/phrases, and then the site would add it to the database,and then when a user goes to the site, they would get a word that a user came up with.

-nite_monkey (April 25, 2007, 02:07 PM)

My brother and I made a hangman game 8 about years ago in Borland Delphi 2 and it became my job to make the dictionary. I got out the dictionary and started in the As. After a bit, my brother decided to download a wordlist and use that. But it was all in a text file that could be edited by users. Shortly after that he made a web hangman game, but the word list was not editable. He also did a kind of battleship clone. The cool thing was that it was hosted on our home linux box (that served as a kind of network router for our internet connection) so anyone in my family could play and nobody else.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The OMGWTF Programming Contest - Design Purposefully Buggy Code and Win

« Last post by Deozaan on April 25, 2007, 09:27 AM »

Where's the BBQ?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by Deozaan on April 24, 2007, 09:43 PM »

How do you get rid of that annoying popup that blocks me from all site navigation after I click that download link? Filefront is teh suxx0rz.