DC member Nudone asks:

"i'd like to be able to wrap the mouse cursor around the edges of the screens i'm using, so:

that's 3 screens in a row. cursor hits edge of far right screen then... wraps arounnd (or jumps) to edge of far left screen (and in the opposite direction of travel.)

or, can anyone recommend a mouse util that will do this that will work with multi-monitor setups."

Hello All,

If anyone has time, would they please quickly have a look at my new Twitter client, Twittle Twiddle Tweeter for Twitter. (This is RC1 pending any reviews.)

It's designed to be unobtrusive and simple to use, so don't expect it to do everything. It's meant to be an easy way to tweet without any fuss. It is not meant to be a comprehensive, do it all, Twitter client. 

Also, I have one specific question about a "just for fun" feature I thought about adding in... Tweet to a specific page for Twittle Twiddle Tweeter for all tweets from all users. Bad idea? Opt in/out? Stick it in the options context menu? I think it would be fun, but it does have privacy implications... Not too sure about it...

Thanks in advance for any comments or feedback,
Ryan

All of Skrommel's One Hour Software executables are now back online thanks to Skrommel himself updating them!

Three cheers for skrommel!!

• https://www.donation...om/Software/Skrommel

MakeUseOf.Com has a neat article up today on making a first person shooter without any programming skills, using a software tool for windows called "FPS Creator".

FPS Creator actually comes in a free and low-priced version ($50); this isn't a tool for creating a commercial quality FPS, and open source tools do exist for doing that, but FPS Creator is one of many low-priced tools that offer a very gentle way to experiment with creating your own game even if you have no programming skills.

Few things are as enjoyable and rewarding as creating a game with and for friends.  If you make one please share it with us

Direct link to FPS Creator: http://www.thegamecr...view_product&id=2001
Link to "Make Use Of" Article: http://www.makeuseof...-creator/#more-43171

I've been thinking recently about the psychology of "sales" -- the way we shoppers respond to the idea of getting a bargain -- and what it means for software authors and companies who want to just price their products reasonably from the start, or offer them up as donationware.

Here's an article by Jonah Lehrer, whose "Frontal Cortex" blog is one of the more consistently readable and insightful science blogs on the internet:

• http://scienceblogs....logy_of_the_sale.php

In it he talks about the competing signals sent when things are on sale -- the very strong initial incentive a sale creates in the minds of buyers, even when they don't need a product -- followed by a slower and more complex alteration of brand opinion.

Advertising is an old business, but i think one of the newer aspects that is of some concern and note in the internet age is that on the web it seems that attention is king, and the difference between a company going bankrupt and having record sales (or going broke and having lots of donations) can come down simply to whether other popular sites write about your products and present them as valuable.

And my fear is that this more central role of attention and press in the internet age results in a real disadvantage to software authors in terms of offering their software at low prices or asking for donations -- i worry that an open source game that asks for donations won't get anyone writing about how it's a good idea to support the product, wheras a game that started out priced at $50 but then dropped to $10 will create a huge amount of press and attention and thus a large number of customers.

So.. are we getting to the point where companies have to do these kabuki dances on the internet where they have one normal price that they set quite high, specifically so they can offer "sales" and "discounts" to get attention?  And does this spell doom for donationware authors don't have the ability to have "sales" ("for one week only -- donate half what you normally would!")?

In fairness, free software has its own special appeal on the internet, and gets a fair amount of attention over commercial products by nature of being free -- so that does offset this problem somewhat.  However.. we still have the pernicious problem where most people would crawl over glass to pay half price for an expensive piece of software than make a tiny donation to an equally good free alternative.

this is probably nothing new to you guys here, but many (most?) probably support more than their fair share of technically challenged users

saw this yesterday at how to geek - Zen and the art of file and folder organisation

The article basically describes a set of guidelines for managing data that may be useful for showing people the 'right' way to do things (hands up all of you who know someone that just dumps everything to my documents or the desktop, or even worse, c:\)