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Screenshot Captor - The last word in screen grabbingWith the ability to capture any kind of window in any application, Screenshot Capture is the last word in screen grabbing. It possesses all the features found in commercial screen grab application such as SnagIt, and it's totally free--though the host asks for a suggested donation of any amount,
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Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart (Boot Snooze)Great step-by-step tutorial on setting up a pc to auto fill in password for use with BootSnooze at Windows Guides: http://mintywhite.co...pc-smart-30-startup/ |
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Elegant Full Screen Weather Map Web PageFrom lifehacker comes news of this very elegant full screen, clutterless display of weather in your area from the weather underground website. Would be nice to use this in a screensaver that auto-refreshed it (anyone know of such a screensaver?) http://fullscreenweather.com/ posted by mouser
 discovered on http://lifehacker.co...o+frills-weather-map (permalink) (read 6 comments) |
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The Blog of Michael Mindes: Ramblings of a Board Game PublisherI have a real fascination with board game design (i remember distinctly visiting my father's university office as a little kid and seeing the board games his students had created as part of some project). In the last few years my interest has been rekindled a bit for a variety of reasons, including the effort of a close friend to have his game (Crumble) published. So i keep my eye open for good resources about inventing and publishing games. Here's a nice blog with tons of nice commentary from an indie publisher. It has been a little over a month since I have really gotten into using Google Reader. Since that time, I have shared a number of different posts that I have read that I felt were interesting, important, and/or funny. I thought I would like to share with you the various links and provide some commentary on each. http://michaelmindes.com/ |
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Feb 9, 2010: Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens?Via Slashdot comes this report that people are experiencing blue screen crashes after applying Windows XP updates on tuesday: "Tuesday's security updates from Microsoft have crippled Windows XP PCs with the notorious Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), users have reported on the company's support forum. Complaints began early yesterday, and gained momentum throughout the day." http://www.computerw...e_screen_users_claim posted by mouser
discovered on http://tech.slashdot...rs-With-Blue-Screens (permalink) (read 31 comments) |
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Flattr: New Micropayment System - Gets the Model RightFlattr is a new micropayment system that is still in early beta stage. I have no idea if it will survive -- i think that will be determined by many factors that have nothing to do with the quality of the idea or implementation, and more to do with marketing and business. But this is the first implementation of an idea i wrote about a couple of years ago on DC as an idea for paying for unlimited music downloads (and i'm sure others have as well). The idea is that users pay some flat fee into their central account, and then whenever they want to support a site or some content producer on the web, they simply click a button on that web page (or download a song, etc.). Then at the end of the month, your flat monthly fee is divided up among all of the places you chose to support that month. So if you pay $10 a month into your account, and clicked to support 10 people that month, each would get $1. If you only supported 2 people, they would each get $5. To me this is EXACTLY the right model for a donation-based voluntary support system. It lets people decide how much they can afford to give, and makes it super easy (even fun) for them to divide up their gifts. http://flattr.com
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Simple Machines Forum Organization in ChaosSince the start of DonationCoder in 2005, we have always used and been happy with the free "Simple Machines" (SMF) forum software. Like all software it has its pros and cons, but it's always worked well for us. Recently it seems that the SimpleMachines organization has been thrown into some chaos and infighting among founders,owners, developers, users, etc... I don't really have a good grasp of what's going on, only that everyone seems pretty broken up and distressed about it. Some links:
I don't think there is any real impact on DC at this point, and I don't have a position on these issues since I don't know all of the facts (yet). |
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