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JayIsGames.com - Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6 Entries are Now Playable

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You can now play all of the entries to the JayIsGames Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6!

http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/




Coding Snack: Warning that I'm on Battery power

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A DC member asks:


I was doing a presentation on Sat, and I guess my power cord wasn't plugged in all the way, so I was on battery power. Died halfway thru the presentation in front of 1000 people, and went in hiberation. Bad!!

I use the laptop for audio so they don't see the screen.

I want a small flashing box on my screen every time I'm on battery power so this never happens again.
Anyone seen such a tiny program?

Click here to read more and download the coding snack written by a dc member..


Tech News Weekly: Edition 42-09

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The latest edition of Tech News Weekly is out:

  • 1. Google Shares Malware Samples With Hacked Site Admins
  • 2. EFF Challenges Texas Instruments Over Calculator Mods
  • 3. Wi-Fi Direct Protocol to Ease Peer-to-peer WiFi Connections
  • 4. Secret ACTA Treaty Can't Be Shown to Public, Just 42 Lawyers
  • 5. Microsoft's Danger SideKick and Cloud Computing
  • 6. Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales
  • 7. Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers
  • 8. Judge: Ringtones Aren't Performances, So No Royalties
  • 9. Checking Twitter/Facebook: the New Post-coital Cigarette?
  • 10. WarGames: Alternate Ending

Click here to read the full edition now..


Coding Snack: My text file manipulation needs

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A DC member asks:

Hallo!
I am a writer and not a programmer, but am in search of easy to use tools to tackle simple tasks.
They are almost always associated with text files & a tagged CSV English - German dictionary.
For the tasks I have I would like to try and use AutoHotKey. I seem to have no luck with programming languages.
The task I am trying to perform is:
1. Open a simple text file of sentences.
2. Open a CSV dictionary file
3. Read words in turn from the text file, find them each in the dictionary and
4. Copy the Parts-of-Speech for each from dictionary
5. Write the tags in brackets following each word in the text file.
Is it possible to do this uising AutoHotKey?
Has anyne tried it or done it?
Can he or she help me?
Or has one of the donation-coders a better way?
I'd be very grateful.
Thanks and regards, forkinpm.

Click here to read more and download the utility written by dc member Skwire..


CodingSnack: Left-mouse-click triggers a PrtScr press in the background

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A DC member requests:

Basically, I am currently using Screenshot Captor and I defined the PrtScr button to capture the active window each time I press it.  What I hope to do is to eliminate the need to press the PrtScr button by leveraging the left-button click on mouse to trigger it.  The left-mouse button click must still function as normal but now with an added function of simulating a press of the PrtScr button.  Is there such a program available that can help me do this?  Or can someone create a script to do this?  Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Click here to read more and download the utility created..


NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month 2009 - Starts November 1st!

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Every year the NaNoWriMo event is celebrates the art of novel writing, by encouraging people to write an entire novel, starting on November 1st and finishing at the end of the month.

I think it's a fantastic idea, though I've never participated, and I keep hoping some DonationCoder members will give it a try and update us on their progress.   How about it?

http://www.nanowrimo.org/


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