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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 15, 2016, 02:06 PM »
I just noticed the two of you have the same quote in your signatures:
*jibz dutifully removes his forumqoute*
Haha  ;D

I've tested beta 4 a bit both on the Tab2 and the Nexus 5, and though speed is better on the Tab2 with static background and sfx off, the game seems to slow down when the game-level goes up. Bottom-line is that the device is just too slow for this generation of game-engine.
On the Nexus 5 it is quite playable, but I'm not competitive enough to reach good scores  :-[ It is a fun game though  :up:
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According to this forumpost (tom's hardware) these cordless mice can only be paired to 1 receiver at any time. Usually the non-unifying receivers have a teensie weensie small pairing button available, that should start the pairing-process with a free-floating mouse (afaik, all these mice also have a pairing button, sometimes hidden in the battery compartment).
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 15, 2016, 01:01 AM »
After my previous message I've also installed Cubiq (0.1607.3) on my Nexus 5, and it is indeed much better playable :Thmbsup:
But then the smallish screen compared to the Tab2 10.1" (4.95", 1920x1080) comes into play, as my eyes have 'quite some experience' (50+) :o

I'll check out the new options of your latest release (thanks!) tonight :up:
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 14, 2016, 02:57 PM »
I'm finding it very difficult to play the Nature Walk level on my tablet, the cubes flip very hard as I swipe 'm, they turn slow, and the whole game-experience is just much slower than the other levels. Even the level where I have to line-up 13 cubes is beter playable. Are the resources so much heavier there or just a delay setting of the wrong magnitude?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2016, 01:31 AM »
  • Fixed game getting stuck when getting many combos after filling last meter.
I think I encountered that one, at least once, last night.
After the first update it felt quite unstable to me, and the speed didn't improve on my slowish tablet.

I'll update asap (different timezone, CEST, :huh:), and report my findings here.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3
« Last post by Ath on July 13, 2016, 01:26 AM »
For 32 bit software, as FARR is, you'll probably have to install the 32 bit version of the runtime. Eventually, on 64 bit systems, you'll probably end up installing both the 32 and 64 bit version of those runtimes. With current harddrive sizes that shouldn't be a problem. And they'll happily live, independently, next to each other. :)
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 11, 2016, 03:26 PM »
The tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1" GT-P5110, and as I live in NL, and bought it in a local store, it's a European model. No mention of espresso anywhere...
Turning off animation from the settings would probably help.
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Living Room / Re: better battery life out of a laptop
« Last post by Ath on July 10, 2016, 05:06 AM »
Sound like the cpu and mainboard are the next biggest power consumers, after the screen and hdd, so changing only 1 factor is pobably not going to gain very much.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Cubiq - Beta Testers Wanted
« Last post by Ath on July 10, 2016, 05:02 AM »
I've been playing it for half an hour, but I can only conclude that my Samsung Tab2 is too slow for this game. I can't flip the cubes fast enough to finish the levels within the assigned time. I'll try it on my phone (nexus 5) to see if that works better.

I do like this style of game though, lots of interesting cubes, but it won't keep me too busy, I guess/hope  :-[
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Living Room / Re: better battery life out of a laptop
« Last post by Ath on July 10, 2016, 03:31 AM »
+1 on all that mouser said  :Thmbsup:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor has OCR?
« Last post by Ath on July 07, 2016, 02:02 AM »
http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/ is a pretty cool freeware tool.
That is an awesome tool indeed! :Thmbsup:
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by Ath on July 06, 2016, 01:28 AM »
The condition tray icon still refuses to 'stick' after logout/login.
You could try the SysTrayIconsManage tool I created for NANY2016.
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Edit: If you are on Windows 10 the control name may be ToolBarWindow322.
Confirmed: ToolBarWindow322 when on Win10. :up:
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Legally you can't use your Win7 installation in parallel with your Win10 installation. Technically though, you can.
You are allowed to revert your Win10 installation to Win7 (or Win8.1 if your upgraded from there), within the first 30 days after the upgrade. And you can again upgrade to Win10 later if you so desire, even after the free upgrade period has passed, as the license has already been registered at MS to be eligible for upgrade.
I haven't tried to do a fresh install with a Win7 license that was already upgraded to Win10, (and I don't intend to, ATM) but you can ask google what would/could happen then... I suspect the same legal issue as mentioned above.
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the far left icons
the far right icons, right...?
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on July 05, 2016, 05:57 AM »
Today, Curt hit the 7000 mark:

Screenshot - 05-07-2016 , 12_57_43.png

Congrats! :Thmbsup:
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JC&MB Quicknote http://www.quicknote.de/quicknoteen.php and enable "Focusless input".
I tried this one, but it seems to (sometimes) inhibit the copy/paste feature in Office/Outlook, while I was using the 'Focusless input' feature :o Disabled the tool for now.
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What is needed is a way to activate a small on-screen text-box that would display characters as they are typed by capturing the keystrokes from the keyboard.  It would have no record keeping ability, just a line-typed display that would appear on the screen preferably near the password box but anywhere visible would do.

This feature already was built into the CP/M based Zilog Z80 CPU home-built computer I owned (not built though) about 30 years ago (I still have it, not sure if the floppies still are readable to make it boot). And I found it to be a very useful feature!
It was showing in a status-line (line 25) of the 80x24 lines graphical character display, on the top-right of the screen, just like the system status stuff of many Linux GUI's :tellme:
In the pre-internet days I kinda started something like it, but I never stayed interested inspired long enough to finish it, but I'd be interested to have smt like that now :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Mechanical Keyboards
« Last post by Ath on June 26, 2016, 03:09 AM »
Looks like a solid piece of work, but where did the numeric keys go :o
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sharpen image feature in SSC
« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2016, 01:24 AM »
Screenshots should be made using the png fileformat (loss-less), not jpg (lossy). You won't have to sharpen those png files, as they are as sharp as they can be.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hi, first post in the developers section
« Last post by Ath on June 02, 2016, 05:01 AM »
I tried learning it once and just didn't do very good.
Especially the GUI-part, when not building a web application, can be hard. I try to avoid Java-based-GUI applications where possible :tellme:

I've heard of Log4 before. Is it free?
Like a lot of Java libraries, it's free and open source, Log4J just like the .NET port Log4Net.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Hi, first post in the developers section
« Last post by Ath on June 01, 2016, 01:05 AM »
Hm, being a mostly Java developer, with just some occasional .NET (C#) work, I didn't take a very close look, as I'm used to Log4J as a logging framework, so I intend to use Log4Net in my .NET projects. Though I've written similar loggers in older projects :tellme:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: SnapDB: Really nice software
« Last post by Ath on May 29, 2016, 07:00 AM »
Well, AFAIK, SnapDB is an application for storing collections of data in a flat-file 'format', not using a real dbms or database.

For your purpose I'd search google for an embedded database for vs2015, or resort to storing stuff in .xml file(s), as the .net framework has very good support for xml. Most other solutions use sql for managing their data, from SQLite (small, embedded) to SQL-server (small to enterprise size clustered databases), and open source solutions like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Oh, and when working on professional software projects, SQL is (in) your future... :tellme:
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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father
« Last post by Ath on May 24, 2016, 03:00 AM »
 :( Please accept my condolences as well. My thoughts are with you.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture Window does not capture open menu
« Last post by Ath on May 20, 2016, 10:44 AM »
Use a delayed capture, so you have time to open the desired menu.
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