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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to keep webpages inside of farr?

« Last post by mouser on May 17, 2013, 05:16 AM »

Hi putnum.

I think I remember this coming up in the past -- but I can't remember what the outcome of the discussion was.. Clearly it is a desirable thing to want to be able to do in some cases..

Let me look at the code and try to see if there isn't a way to do this already -- if not i'll add it.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: MultiPhotoQuotes - Font is too large to display quote even after lowering size

« Last post by mouser on May 17, 2013, 12:01 AM »

Hopefully fixed in newly uploaded version.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Open a URL - Browsers and Tabs

« Last post by mouser on May 17, 2013, 12:00 AM »

Select which browser opens a URL

Yes -- you'll find this in the "External Tools and Plugins" tab.

Open that URL in the current tab or a new tab?

this is up to the browser -- though if you know a commandline argument to tell the browser about this you can specify it in the previous setting.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 11:50 PM »

Prior to acting, Jonathan Frakes worked as a mover and sustained a serious back injury moving furniture. This is reason behind his weird way of sitting and also his habit of leaning on things, and propping one leg up on stuff.

this was one of the things we used to laugh at hysterically -- how he would walk up to someone sitting down and shove his crotch in their face.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi Photo Quotes Release v2.02.01 - May 16, 2013

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 10:39 PM »

See here for screenshots of the new automatic movie file frame feature.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi Photo Quotes Release v2.02.01 - May 16, 2013

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 10:13 PM »

Minor update:
v2.02.01 - May 16, 2013

• [Minor Feature] Current program version now shown on About tab.
• [BugFix] Program would sometimes show quotes using large white font, regardless of custom font settings.
• [Documentation] Added instructions in portable zip for using as a true windows screensaver.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation for mosaic/tiled live screensaver that reads folders of pictures?

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 10:01 PM »

Cough Cough.. Check out Multi Photo Quotes..

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Counter request +1/-1

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 08:51 PM »

Sounds like a fun idea for a snack to me.

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Living Room / Re: "Half of our users block ads. Now what?"

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 03:18 PM »

May I plug my recent long post on Project Wonderful and other ad services that aren't based on clicks and so aren't susceptible to this kind of click-fraud.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: DonationCoder special user names

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 02:38 PM »

IMHO,  if you've written as many as 100 posts, you've undoubtedly made a "donation" in terms of your mental effort, just as good as a monetary donation -- and likely more "valuable" to the site.

A financial donation is always nice -- but if you really want to contribute to the site -- pull up a chair and join in the conversations, contribute your wisdom and time, and make others feel welcome.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: DonationCoder special user names

« Last post by mouser on May 16, 2013, 11:14 AM »

They get assigned based on whim and have no effect -- they are just for fun and amusement.

But let's say that anyone who has over 500 posts can message me and ask for a custom title..

You should suggest some that you would like, but much like a nickname, you can't guarantee that we won't pick something not on your list and you'll be stuck with it

Perhaps the community can suggest/nominate people for special names..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launch Maximized with Alias

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2013, 01:19 PM »

Thanks very much for the report, glad it's working. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: The spelling bee stings again :)

« Last post by mouser on May 15, 2013, 10:51 AM »

Thanks Tim! Will be fixed in next release.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer unresponsive to clicking on the menu items

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 08:11 PM »

How strange..

I wonder if it could be the way it was started up?  If you exit the program and restart if from Start Menu does it then work?
Maybe after you exit, check the ctrl+alt+del task manager and make sure it isn't still running, before you restart it.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: igo + searchterm

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 05:23 PM »

The reason it doesnt work is that "igo" is the name of another alias.
If you look at the igo alias itself (in the Core-Internet alias file), you'll see it uses the special command "htmlviewurl".

So, change your alias from "igo http://ninjawords.com/?q=$$1 /stayopen"
to something like "Search Ninjawords for $$1 | htmlviewurl http://ninjawords.com/?q=$$1 /stayopen"

That assumes you want the web page to open up inside of the FARR window.  If you wanted it to open your external web browser you could just leave off the "htmlviewurl" part.

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 04:15 PM »

I guess a more accurate statement would be: "All other things being equal, faster spindle speeds nearly always mean better the performance."

And then adding something about what other factors have the greatest impact on real-world performance.

If you were trying to give someone some quick rules of thumb for choosing fast drives, i still say it makes sense to tell them to look for fast drives and to not be too distracted by cache sizes, and "max" throughput rates achievable by the card.  Would you agree with that? Can you formulate a simple way to tell people what to prefer in terms of density/plattercount?

Or maybe you think the best thing to do is to tell people to ignore all such stats and find a site that will compare drive performance explicitly for the drive you are considering purchasing.

ps.
As someone who has become paranoid about drive temperatures (in terms of fearing a hardware failure due to overheating) -- i tend to focus FIRST not on speed but on reported drive temperatures.. If I find a HD with great performance but which the reviews say runs hot, i run away.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some thoughts on the Project Wonderful Ad Network and web advertising in general

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 04:02 PM »

mahesh2k,

I checked out PassionFruit ads and they sound quite nice.  Very similar to the use case I described in my post about how we here might want to allow ads to be purchased on our site.  In short they seem like a great solution for someone who just wants an easier way to let someone buy an ad on your site.  It's much less automatic than Project Wonderful -- its more like a lightweight middleman payment processor that would let someone buy an ad, relieving you of much of the headache of it.  Definitely looks worth checking out and matches well with phitsc's suggestion of finding month-long sponsors.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some thoughts on the Project Wonderful Ad Network and web advertising in general

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 03:54 PM »

One question to mouser: As large percentage of the DC readers or surfers are likely to be ABP(ad block plus) users, have you noticed the difference in ad views vs traffic numbers? Or you see less number of ABP users?

to be honest -- in the old days i used to track the statistics of pageviews on the website quite a bit, as i was so curious about it.  now i don't even bother looking at them. i can see the ad views on the google page but i don't really know how they are affected by ad blockers..  I'm not sure it really matters.. If someone is running an ad blocker then they are not the type to click on an ad, so i can't think of any good reason to want to show them one and annoy them for no reason

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some thoughts on the Project Wonderful Ad Network and web advertising in general

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 03:52 PM »

phitsc, your ideas are well worth considering and make a lot of sense.  having an approved sponsor for a given month might be preferable to random ads, and might be doable in a less intrusive fashion.  the only real downside to that is the work/time required to line up such sponsors -- and of course the downside of having ads/sponsors on the website in the first place.

after this may/june ad experiment we can remove the ads again and go back to normal no-advertising, and think about whether we want to experiment with such sponsorship things the next time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch - Aaawwweeesssooommmeee

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 02:54 PM »

Since this thread got resurrected it does pay to mention that long time DC member Renegade has a neat app for slowing down music for helping musicians learn:
http://renegademinds...abid/94/Default.aspx

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SSC 4.30 List view on the left side is broken

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 02:32 PM »

Definitely not a feature.. it should be automatically sizing the name column i think to show full name.  I'm assuming you are using the latest version (4.03)? I know the list view is something that was fixed in version 4.01.

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 12:47 PM »

f0dder can you elaborate -- that sounds like a reasonable statement to me -- though i am an admitted newbie when it comes to hardware.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Google ad test

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 10:44 AM »

Another update: I've been convinced to change up the ad formats once again.  Now using smaller horizontal ad and having it not appear in a "post-like' box, but having it appear set apart in the middle of a thread.  Removed the large block of text surrounding the ads.  I guess this now looks more like the "standard" way ads are typically integrated into websites.  I would like to keep running this through june.  Again, it's only shown to people not logged into the forum so shouldn't bother any regulars [see instructions above if you want to force the ads on for you even when you are logged in for some unholy reason].

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Living Room / Re: Now you can "Log-In with PayPal"

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 10:37 AM »

As others have said, I don't see people using this.  However secure it may be, who is going to want to risk connecting to their financial institution login more than they have to.

On the other hand -- for years paypal has provided a super-easy-to-use, free security key hardware device which provides a serious and real extra layer of security to logging into their site.  They are way ahead of the banks in this regard and it's a genuinely excellent security enhancement.  I don't know why we haven't more use of such devices.  A single-login system that supported such hardware keys would be quite useful.

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Living Room / Re: What does your avatar say about you?

« Last post by mouser on May 14, 2013, 10:30 AM »

I think I've had this same avatar since the site started in 2005.. I think that accurately suggests that I am somewhat averse to change.  Also that I like cartoon cats.