Open Requests

I'm stare at 3 22's at work, and I'd really love the ability to dim them all when I feel like turning the lights off and letting my eyes cool off a bit. And then, kick the brightness backup pretty quickly when I want the lights on.

Hell, I'll donate on Friday if someone creates it.

Note: For anyone that is interested in implementing this, there is this link here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/csharpscreenbrightness.aspx?display=Print

that demonstrates changing video gamma settings in Windows with C#.

It is a linux host with the normal php/cron/sql etc programs loaded on it.

I follow a couple of custom tool/knife/gadget makers who post on their RSS feeds when new items are for sale, unfortunately they are small batches and go quickly. I've tried google reader, yahoo alerts and applications for my black berry but can never get an alert less than about 1.5 hours out.

If anyone has knowledge of something else out there instead of creating one that would be awesome also.

Here is link to the SA forum. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=45#post369087752

example: changewall -m tile -w 2560 -h 1024 -d c:\wallpapers\

Ideally, it would randomly pick a wallpaper, and if it's not as wide as the setting, pick a second one to go beside it, then set it as the desktop in tile mode. This way, I can put single-screen wallpapers in, and have dual-screen wallpapers as well:

random1.jpg (1280x1024) random2.jpg (1280x1024) dualscreen1.jpg (2560x1024)

if it's commandline, I can use task scheduler to automate it.

App to Stop the automatic update service, delete the \windows\softwaredistribution folder and the \windows\system32\softwaredistributionfolder

Then check http:\\update.microsoft.com for updates (With the ability to exclude certain updates) and download \ install said updates.

Please email Jcook@unitrin.com if this is doable.

I'd love to have an app for OSX called "Smokey Time." It'd run in the taskbar (or whatever it is OSX calls it) and constantly checks to see if other people on the LAN have it running (Bonjour, maybe?). There'd be a drop down that's an option, "Smoke Break?" It'd then pop up a box and talk to all the other people currently running it and poll them to see if they want to go on a smoke break as well. The results would hopefully be updated in real-time for each person running the application.

Hope this isn't too hard or too vague.

API information: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html#Create_Group_Example

Thanks

Whenever I run the program, it randomly selects two items from the list and asks me which of the two I prefer. I pick my favorite and then it presents me with another two. And so on and so on.

When I first create the "master list," the program creates another list--I guess we'll call it the "ordered list." And as I answer the questions, one by one, the program is meanwhile sorting the ordered list from most favorite to least favorite.

So I guess it'd be just those three components--the master list, the ordered list, and the box that asks me which of two items, taken randomly from the master list, I prefer.

As lame as it sounds, I often try to create lists like this in Notepad--favorite albums, favorite songs, etc.--but I always end up getting stuck in quandaries and leaving them unfinished. So maybe the program could also alert the user of any discrepancies: "Hey, you said you liked X more than Y, and Y more than Z, but when I asked you about X and Z, you picked Z!"

Oh, and also, it'd be nice to be able to have various lists that you can open and close and save. (I'd make lists for favorite bands, favorite albums, favorite songs, etc).

I understand that this is incredibly lame, but it'd be a real handy program to have. :)

I would be using this application to route my Xbox 360's audio to a pair of USB headphones via the Line-In input on my PC, which is the only way to listen to said console through said headphones. I realize Virtual Audio Cable can do this, but that application is designed for making complex aggregate devices, and induces quite a bit of latency.

Mologogo's web requests look like this: "GET /r.php?id=i335&lat=40.57424266666667&lon=-86.01019733333333&accuracy=6105&direction=-1&speed=0&speedUncertainty=0&altitude=179&altitudeUncertainty=9828&pointType=GPS&timestamp=1249018782341&celltowerLat=40.49763466666667&celltowerLon=-86.11023466666667 HTTP/1.1"

Specify a key, a delay, and an interval. When that key is pressed, after the delay, it automatically repeats at the specified interval.

http://www.imeem.com/api/json/mediaGetByUser?&userId=AKSBhFQaD&mediaTypes=music&userMediaFilter=tracker&version=1.0&apiKey=02cf87d2-8df5-40e4-8bc4-28bcbdcc58a2&sig=1665fd0c355811812079c81e135c6131

[I know it's long, if it doesn't show up right then it probably won't work, let me know, it looks clickable on this side]

Basically, when I enter that URL, my browser prompts me to download it. So, fine, I save it to my computer, and I can view it in notepad or whatever. It has entries that look like this:

I'd like to have an app where I would point to to this "mediaGetByUser" file, and it parses all that info into something easily readable and copiable, hopefully something like this:

To be honest, I wouldn't even need the Album field, since I don't plan on using it and in both examples above it'd be pretty worthless.

But yeah, if it could just spit something like that out, it'd be great! Thanks in advance for even considering my retarded request.

Oh, and if you're wondering WHY I'd want such a thing...I'm a huge Aspie nerd, I guess. I love keeping track of my music plays on Last.fm, but I don't really like their App for the iPhone, so I use Imeem.com's services instead.

I'd like to be able to record my imeem plays on Last.fm. I've searched around, there isn't a way to automatically do it, however I am such an OCD freak I found a way to manually submit tracks played, just enter artist, track, and submit it. So, all I need is a decent list of my tracks played on Imeem, which unfortunately isn't easily accessible on the website itself. I dug around in the API stuff and found this, but I just don't know how to get it into a really simple form that's readable and copy/pastable. If I'm gonna 'sperg out, I'd like to do it in the easiest way possible.

Thanks again :)

edit: here's my post in the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=43#post363004436

A sample file can be made available upon request.

1 - Choose a folder full of images 2 - specify amount of time between changes 3 - tiny, runs in the background with a systray icon that links to the settings

The purpose for this is for games that do not offer an "invert mouse" option.

SA link: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=41&perpage=40#post361828762

I'm teaching and would like a piece of software to use the template

[img]http://img.waffleimages.com/ace7f363be331bf5b8fb013547d69505602e4036/t/bellwork template.png[/img][url=http://img.waffleimages.com/ace7f363be331bf5b8fb013547d69505602e4036/bellwork template.png] 3rd/4th bellwork template[/url]

Use a macro or a piece of software to read words from a text file or database and have it come out like

[img]http://img.waffleimages.com/33fc262db3871ceaff57827ec52b986e10401df1/t/bellwork example.png[/img][url=http://img.waffleimages.com/33fc262db3871ceaff57827ec52b986e10401df1/bellwork example.png] 3rd/4th bellwork example[/url]

I also have a 2nd style which looks like this. Instead of the translated words on the right there is a conversation. [img]http://img.waffleimages.com/9283094852aa68b088c406e29a1e48a4fc23bb39/t/bellwork2 example.png[/img][url=http://img.waffleimages.com/9283094852aa68b088c406e29a1e48a4fc23bb39/bellwork2 example.png] 5th/6th grade bellwork example[/url]

When I put the files on my PC I usually browse through the raws and delete what I don't like. It's not uncommon for this to be several hundred images per day. It would be nice to have a program that could look at the files in the directory and see that if IMG_847.CR2 does not exist that IMG_847.JPG should be deleted.

For future proofing the ability to configure the extensions would be nice. Also displaying a list of files to be deleted with a confirmation box would be handy too if it's not too much trouble.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=40#post361319080

This will then save the image in memory / clipboard while also saving the image (PNG, else JPG) on the desktop as screen001.ext.

The program actually exists (almost) but it contains a trojan : Print Screen Replacement.

Seems to me like it's pretty simple for the first two tasks (as windows already does it, minus the region cropping) but I'm probably wrong.

There are other solutions on the net I've tried but they are all way to bloated / feature-full with options, tabs and taskbars. I don't want a GUI, and if there was one it'd just be to set shortcuts or to set the destination folder (but I think desktop is fine).

Specifically, the .txt file has paragraph breaks used as line breaks, thousands and thousands of them. Now if I wanted to indiscriminately nuke paragraph breaks, that's easily possible using Microsoft Word find and replace (replace ^p with space). However the formatting suffers as there is thus no paragraphs remaining.

So I need a selective find and replace app that operates like this:

If it comes to a paragraph break which is immediately preceeded by a quotation mark or full stop - do nothing. (respectively they are " and .) Otherwise, replace paragraph break with a space.

Note, inverted comma isn't a quotation mark. Quotes signal the end of someone speaking in this particular text while inverted commas signals someone continuing to speak.

It's not perfect, sometimes I may be putting the last sentence of a paragraph into the following paragraph, but it's a quick and dirty way of correcting the terrible formatting while retaining paragraphs and not chopping sentences up.

Example input - example.txt

This is my example sentence, it is broken up in the middle by a wayward paragraph break. However, this is an actual paragraph, you can see this as the following line ends in a full stop while the other don't. 'I'm gasping in shock', he gasped, 'How am I going to fix all these annoying Paragraph Breaks?" 'I dunno,' she replied. 'Maybe you can ask the tiny app thread?"

Example output - example fixed.txt

This is my example sentence, it is broken up in the middle by a wayward paragraph break. However, this is an actual paragraph, you can see this as the following line ends in a full stop while the other don't. 'I'm gasping in shock', he gasped, 'How am I going to fix all these annoying Paragraph Breaks?" 'I dunno,' she replied. 'Maybe you can ask the tiny app thread?"

I would like a small app that would display a random F My Life quote and have a button for copying it. It should display everything as it shown on the website for the quote. I.E. quote:

   Today, I was visiting a national park and went for a swim. Afterwards, I needed to change clothes but the bathrooms were closed. I went off into the woods to change. As soon as I was naked, I heard hooves and sixteen people on horseback rode by. I'd stripped by a horse trail. FML
   #1973395 (46) - 05/16/2009 at 8:11am by FishStampede - misc - I agree, your life is f***ed (11534) - you deserved that one (5827)

as well as a link to it in this format:

FML Quote

I'd love an app that could sit in the systray and bring up this page whenever I clicked its icon, then minimize back to the tray when no longer needed. How doable would something like that be?

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This would be for Windows XP.

20/02/09 12:00 Name: John Smith Address1: 12 test street

Where the date/time is the date/time retrieved. It's also need to check for and exclude duplicates from the last MDB file so there's not duplicate entries in the text file. I'd also like it to be configurable through a plain text CFG file where I simply specify a list of the URLs of the MDBs, tables and fields. Time interval between checks also.

Optional: Systray icon that changes when a new record is found would be nice too, but not essential.

Problem this would help solve: I work at an independent used book store, and we list books online. We list with four listing services (ABE, Alibris, Amazon, and Antiqbook, for the curious). We have about 14,000 books listed at any time. The listings are available to purchasers 24/7, due the magic of teh interwebs, but we are only open 12 hours a day, and we only have our internet sales department staffed 8 hours a day.

When a book is ordered on one listing website at 11 PM, there is currently nothing to prevent another customer from ordering the same book through another listing site at 1 AM. Obviously, we have to then cancel one of these two orders (or, in a few notable cases, three orders out of four for the same book), which makes neither the customer nor us happy.

There is currently no software solution on the market that can monitor and update listings placed on multiple services. However, we do immediately receive an email indicating that a book has sold, and all four services include our store's SKU# for the book in the email subject heading. I have already written a program to remove the listing for a SKU from all four websites, but I've become stuck on the step of getting the SKU out of Thunderbird.

A solution to this does not need to parse the SKU out of the subject heading, as my code will already do this. In fact, it should not parse the SKU, as we also receive product inquiries and status updates that contains SKUs as well. Skipping Thunderbird entirely and grabbing the info straight from POP3 would be just fine as well.

Bonus points for solutions that work for other major email programs as well, or for IMAP as well as POP3, as I would love to be able to give this to all the other online booksellers dealing with a similar problem (currently, it's just assumed by booksellers that lower customer satisfaction scores are a required trade-off for the wider exposure that comes from listing on multiple sites). For the same reason, additional bonus points for configurability and user-friendliness.

Problem: I have various online pictures folders that are regulary updated with new files. The pictures are all loose within the folders, no index.html file. When I want to get a picture link to share it, I browse the "Index of /Folder" list and get the names I need. Worked fine at first, but now there are too many files and I can't always remember which are which by the name alone. Creating/editing a gallery each time I add/remove a file would be time-consuming.

Solution: So the "app" I need would be placed inside the pics directories and create a thumbnail gallery with whatever files are in the current folder. Clicking on a thumbnail links to the original. Not a must, but it would be nice to have the corresponding filename under the thumbnail too. Child folders support isn't needed.

Thumbnails size: reduce to about 150 pixels wide. If original is smaller than that, keep original size. If the gallery can detect the browser screen width and fill it, fine. Else, don't make it wider than 1024 pixels. Neutral gray background.

Thanks!

However, when you open the program it brings up a window that looks just like the computer that Doogie Howser M.D. used at the end of each episode, also when you start the program it begins playing the theme song from the show.

Something like this from the command line: c:\sendapp.exe "balls<enter>" or c:\sendapp.exe aids.txt (which contains balls<enter>)

Is that possible/plausible?

Basically if I give a positive input to Controller Axis 3, then I would like it to be interpreted as negative instead. Same for 4.

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I'd like a feedback loop for productivity. Just something lightweight that tracks which window is in focus, and gives a pie chart of how much time has been spent on each window.

I've taken a couple of intro programming classes, but I have no idea how to program for Windows (.Net?). If somebody could point me to a kind of "get started" guide, I might try it myself, but if not, here's some pseudocode to make it more clear:

{ dt=10 %refresh period, in seconds While(1) {

   if(afk==0)
   {
       focus=getfocus();
       times(focus)+=dt;
       total_time+=dt;
       graph(times)
   }
   afk=check_afk(); %check "AFK?" checkbox
   wait(dt); %wait before re-checking

} }

You could get fancy with different graphing options (adjustable time periods, line graphs, etc), "tagging" windows as work/play related and keeping track of productivity that way, and the ability to lock certain windows until a certain percentage of productivity is achieved.

Thanks!

Request on the SA thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=36#post353632220

TV -ShowName1 --Season#1 ---Epfolder1

---Epfolder2

I would like to copy all the files in Epfolder1, 2, 3, 4 etc into Season#1 (The parent directory)

It would be awesome if I could add this to the right click menu, so i can click on a folder an click 'Sort files' and itd be done.

Thanks!

VSTi plugins are used inside of free music software like VST host (http://www.hermannseib.com/english/vsthost.htm) or commercial software like Cubase or Ableton Live. The host application routes MIDI data to the plugin, and routes audio from the plugin into an audio channel in the host application for playback.

Open source NES emulators: http://www.zophar.net/nes/fakenesfakenes-wip.html http://www.zophar.net/nes/nintendulator.html http://www.zophar.net/nes/nes9x.html

VST SDK: http://ygrabit.steinberg.de/~ygrabit/public_html/index.html

Goal: To allow non-technical road warrior type users to use port-knocking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking) via a browser applet, so they can access the creamy tasty tootsie roll center of my network without having to deal with the hard candy shell (multiple firewalls and VPNs).

1) User requests page off my server. 2) Page has the applet in it, which loads in the users browser. 3) Applet requests xml (or text, or whatever is easiest for you) file from server. 4) Applet reads file to determine what port(s) to send a packet to. 5) Applet sends packets (defined in XML file). 5.a) Applet does not need to establish a connection, only initiate one (a single SYN is enough). 5.b) Applet shouldn't care if the server responds, and shouldn't wait around for it to respond. 6) Applet tests connection by attempting to connect to port N (defined in XML/whatever file), and: 6.a) Either says it succeeded if it could connect to port N, or 6.b) Says it failed and "click here to try again". 7) Redirects browser to PAGE (defined in XML file).

Honestly I don't even know if flash could do this; I'm guessing it can but I could be wrong. If it's not a small job let me know.

I'm attempting to maintain a list of videos on a wiki, and while my method for listing works, updating the list or creating a new one is incredibly tedious.

Basic function would be:

-Give it a directory to Scan -Specify what to append on the end of the line for each file -Use the Folder name in the output (if possible) -Generates a text file with everything.

For example, an xvid video that is 720p would be:

Come and get it [[Image:xvid.gif]] [[Image:720p.gif]]

Bonus points for being able to run it in linux.

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• line width selections for eraser and pencil are independent of each other.
• right clicking (by which I mean control clicking obviously) when you're using the pencil draws with the background color, and when you're using the eraser, erases only the foreground color, replacing it with the background color. If this is confusing try doing it in MSpaint and you'll see what I mean.
• background color can optionally be made transparent when selecting and moving stuff around.
• keyboard shortcuts: N for pencil, E for eraser, M for marquee (scissor tool), X to switch between foreground and background color.

Thank you! Original post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=35&perpage=40#post350480999

If such a method exists already, it would be unknown to me, and would certainly trying using such a program before anyone puts any effort into this.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=34#post350245053

This would save me tons of time, and I haven't really found an application that JUST does this..

Thanks! Link to post:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&userid=140699

-If possible I would like it to just run in the background. -I run Vista (blech) -I would rather safe searches, and not child porn If you could do this, I would love you forever!

(http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=33)

This way, I can get apps to send out messages at certain stages of their running, and have the usage recorded at these times.

If someone could write this using Delphi, I'd be grateful, but that's a slight preference.

At my work I need to write a phrase and the date after processing each piece of work, but I cant copy/paste, so I have to type it each time. One common one is -

"Received 4/8/08"

What I need is a program that will enter a bit of text whenever I push a hotkey. Like Ctrl B for example. I'd like to be able to alter the text to whatever I want (so I can change the date each day). If it could run standalone from a USB drive that would be great, as I cant install anything on my work machine.

Now that I think about it, Ctrl B is not a good choice. Maybe if the Hotkey could be customizable as well, I cant for the life of me think what a comfortable combo would be right now.

Program should be command-line and compilable in *nix. (preferably written in platform-independent language, python, java, perl, etc)

Basically if I look at the profile for employee01 I want to see that he is associated with client01, client02, & client03.

If I look at the profile for client01 I want to see that they are associated with employee01, employee02, employee03, etc.

I, of course, would need a way to edit/remove/add those connections.

I would like the profiles to show basic contact information like first name, middle name, last name, job title, company, street address, zip code, state, country, phone number, email, and a section for notes.

I do not need anything much more complicated than that.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2415898&pagenumber=31#lastpost

It lets you set alarms very easily and reminds you in time. It's pretty much the best calendar app I've ever used, simply because it's so easy and quick to punch in a new item.

Now if there were something that didn't need Firefox to run but instead sat in the tray, that would be great. A tea timer would be a nice addition. And the whole thing would be absolutely perfect if it was connected to Google calendar (so the calendar is always backed up and accessible from different computers).

Basically I would like a TINY TINY version of Sunbird with the Google plugin that just sits in the tray and reminds me of stuff. (And is as easy to use as ReminderFox!)

This may sound stupid but honestly, who has Sunbird or Thunderbird+Lightning running all the time?

a) more coffee than I have. b) a good site/book introduction to Windows Scripting.

But I have:

a) drunk too much coffee already and have headache. b) apparently made Google hate me, and constantly finding me keyloggers instead.

(this is purely to clear an annoying box that pops up and stops a load of macro code running overnight)

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Basically, I would like to be able to map the application to a hotkey so I can create a folder from the keyboard easily.

Thanks.

Basically I am looking to be able to send telnet commands from my cellphone via my home computer.

Always on top and minimizes to system tray would be a plus also. Thanks!

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An app to assist with this would stay in the tray, waiting for a resolution change. When the specific resolution is activated, the program moves the start bar to one of the four positions.

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Small Program for OSX 10.5 that I can point to a directory and click a button.

When you click the button:

1. Any file without a 5 number code on the front of the file name will have a 5 digit number code randomly generated for it and added to the file name. Duplicates number codes are fine.

2. Files with existing 5 digit number codes will have their code scrabbled so that it has a new 5 digit code on the front of it.

3. File names are left otherwise intact.

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You can find an example here: http://www.airguns.net/calculators.php (the pinkish one). I believe the formula to be Energy = Weight * Velocity Squared / 450395 (fixed constant).

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I would like it to do this: 1.open large plaintext files without crashing (~2mb) 2.copy the first 1% of words into the clipboard 3.Invoke an executable (which is just the festival text to speech engine, to read the text in clipboard.) 4. Display the current percentage position in the book Repat 2,3 and 4 until the book is over.

5. Ability to jump to a certain percantage

I want this so I can listen to books on my axim while I drive.

1. 2/4/5 need not be a percentage, but I would like some meaningfull indication of how far into the book I am, and the ability to resume from that point.

If nobody picks this up, I would enjoy any advice on how to do it myself. (I can do some basic c and c++ command line stuff.)

For example: Most USB headsets disable your speakers when plugged in. Sure you can unplug the headset, but damn it, I'm lazy and so are you.

Need a program that can go through a vast amount of pictures and pull out the file names of the photos that have a certain color in them.

For example: I put in a RGB value or a range of values and a directory/url where i have all my photos stored and itll will go through all the photos and give me the url of the phots that have that certain color in them.

The app should be full screen and require only mouse interaction.

I'd like it do be as customizable as possible. Like, i'd like to use pictures for the buttons, and be able to customize the messages it gives. I would also like to choose where files go.

This could be PC or Linux, actual app or even SWF if it can be done.

I want to build a customized photobooth for my wedding.

This does not need printing support, but would be awesome if that was an option.

Similar to this... http://photoboof.com/ without all of the bells and whistles.

I'd really appreciate any help you guys can give me with this, we tried just having them sign in but getting these folks to do anything themselves is like pulling teeth.

- Can you add a config file option, so that I can put my forums username/password in there? This is simply because I don't normally use firefox. For the same reason, allowing it to be configurable whether or not it opens the <threadid>.html file (at all, or in which browser) would be nice.

- Can you make it download all the images, CSS stylesheets, etc instead of linking to them over the web? This would make it a lot easier to [i]archive[/i] a thread, something I've been trying to figure out how to do for a while now. Right now what I do is use Firefox to open the .html file singltPT created, and then Save As... "Webpage, complete".

Actually, if someone were feeling the urge to go above and beyond the call of duty, it might make sense to: - download emots to a common folder - no sense in having as many copies of them as threads downloaded. - download photobucket images to a common folder - for the same reason, and since photobucket stores images using hash as filename, images would never have a naming collision. - download every other kind of image, stylesheet, etc to a folder specific to the threadid - to avoid naming collisions.

Looking for an app that will go through a forum thread and combine the content of the posts into 1 .txt document or such.

Basically to be used on a massive "Three-word story" type thread. (Where each user posts 3 words only to continue and on-going, ever-changing story...)

I have found it possible to telnet into the router but I do not know commands to do that in telnet.

What I am looking for is

1. Connect to router 2. Authenticate 3. disconnect 4. wait 2 seconds 5. connect

a config file to be able to change variables (Router IP, Username, Password, wait time, etc) would be nice.

I understand that if someone does take this on they will probably need to talk to me about my router and telnet commands if required etc. so can someone PM me about this if it is required.

Thanks

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There is also a windows version easily found with google. The program sends out a traceroute to the destination, then uses DNS to resolve each IP along the way. Third it will ping each IP one at a time until you stop it. The results are neat and clean and it has always been such a great program for network troubleshooting.

Copy+pasted from the thread

Here's an interesting one. I don't know much about programming but I imagine this would be a bit of a challenge.

An application which, when run, brings up a dialog box with a list of all my currently running applications. I select an application and it creates a big rectangle that fills the entire screen like a maximized window would. It should appear in the taskbar like an ordinary window, except it doesn't have a title bar at the top with the - □ x buttons. It's just a big block of color. For an example of what I mean see this sticky note program: http://www.stickiesforwindows.com/

Now for the tricky part. The rectangle should stay directly beneath the application that I selected from the dialog box, and any windows beneath the application I selected will be hidden by the block. So if I have solitaire open and minesweeper above that, when I select minesweeper from the list of running applications the block of color will fill the entire screen, blocking solitaire from view so I can just see minesweeper.

MS Paint representation:

http://img.waffleimages.com/31c98520771c430c6fa768300832f960c4fcaa38/asgagergear.PNG

So basically the big yellow rectangle stays glued to the back of the minesweeper window. When I minimize and maximize minesweeper the block should do the same.

Have fun!

Excel spreadsheet 1 is a list of names from a member list in 2006. Excel spreadsheet 2 is a list of names from all of the years before 2006. I put Spreadsheet 1 in the first field, Spreadsheet 2 in the second field, and the app finds any row in #2 that doesn't exist in #1.

Is this huge and/or impossible?

Thanks so so so much! This has been driving me absolutely nuts.

1) On run, look through a folder and select a random subset of files/folders up to X size, all preconfigured somewhere else. 2) Check another predefined folder and empty it if it's got anything in it. 3) Copy the files/folders from the first example into that folder.

Basically my goal is to use my laptop akin to a small iPod in that whenever I connect it to my network it will download this folder filled with mp3s so I have a constantly rotating set of music that doesn't take up more than X amount of my precious laptop space.

Right now my music is split between being organized into folders of artists I have a lot of (further divided into folders for albums) and loose single songs. It would be ideal to be able to go in and grab individual album folders (nothing would be more than 2 deep from the root so it should be easy to hard code this) and individual songs from the root folder.

I'm gonna use a local app for network sync so I just need something to do this. The ideal way is to have it with settings in a seperate ini file or something and just be command line. It would also work to have a plain run bring up config screen and a command line switch to do a silent run or vice versa. Either way I would prefer for headless operation so I could just schedule it and have it run for me.

Preferably this works in Mac OS X somehow. Thanks!

Basically something thats like the lag test in Guitar Hero 2.

The idea comes from people testing the processing time of LCDs by taking a picture of a ms accurate clock cloned on a CRT and comparing the values. I'd like to be able to roughly test the delay of a whole system, and not need a camera, or a CRT.

Fairly simple, but needs accurate timing, and some sort of visual. Even flashing lights each half second or something should be adequate to reduce the human reaction part in the loop, and with an average of the values with large deviations taken out should be quite adequate. In essence - show cue, time input, repeat, show average.

Some additional features could be sound cues to compare to visuals, and the ability to take input from either keyboard or mouse.

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Extract all the quotations from a news article posted on the web. Eg. if a news article says:

"To be or not to be." said Hamlet. extract

Hamlet : To be or not to be.

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind", said Hamlet, "to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous time."

extract -

Hamlet : Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous time.

and other common formats for quotations. Some websites use curly quotes, so be cautious about the characters used for searching...

A small icon on taskbar by the clock that when tapped allows me to drag things without double clicking, or drag a page when on a scrollable page. when the taskbar icon is untapped this functionally disables.

Startup with windows Send an "enable" command to a com port Then loops indefinatly sending "ping" command every X secs Has a button on the application or command console to send a "disable" command. Has a button / console command to send an "rstXX" command (where XX = numbers) Has a button / console command to send an "rstpng" command (where XX = numbers) Has a button / console command to send an "configg" command Has the ablity to read the output from the device as every command sent will prompt a 1 line response from the unit approx 40 characters.

I'm willing to pay for this app. I imagine it would be done in VB

Can a program be created where: - You specify the beginning of where the block of data begins, and where it ends in hex. - It saves the block of data to a new file (001.lev for example) - It searches for the next block of data and saves it to 002.lev or whatever

Might as well make it as general as possible since it could be useful for other things, such as bitmap extraction and sound extraction.

At the moment I'm doing it this way - Open the file in a hex editor - Search for a hex that signifies the beginning of the block of data to extract (04 0A 71 F1 for example) - Saving its location in the file - Search for a hex that signifies the end of the block of data to extract - Copy the block of data - Open a new hex editor window and paste the data - Save the data as a new file (001.lev)

It would be nice to have it done automatically.

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It has been so long since I have messed around with php/mysql so yeah. There's my request.

Thank you in advanced.

I need to extract some specific text from every single outgoing email and export it to a text file on a network share. Here is an example:

[Letterhead]

Ref: Initial Code Matter Code

Dear Blah blah,

This is a test email.

Cheers,

xyz

The Initial Code and Matter Code are user input fields (so when the document is opened Word asks the user what the put there, as in they are actual "fields" in Word). I need the code to scan the email for that exact text and export it to a text file. I'm told this is a simple coding job but obviously I'm no coder.

If you need a copy of the word document let me know.

I'm even willing to pay a fee for this to be done!

For bonus credit, if all the files in the torrent are in a specific folder, rename the parent folder to what it should be.

=D

I will be running this on a windows host, but this should be fully portable except for the file rename anyway.

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According to http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification the MD5Sum info for each file is only optional. So this tool would only work on a few torrents.

The prog would read a list of URLs from a file from which to fetch rss feeds from. Then based on predefined filters it would save links/links-to-files in a text file from all the feeds.

If someone makes this in form of a small utility and have a feature to upload said text file(the result of parsing) via FTP it would be rad.

If someone makes a bash script however for the main part, this would be equally awesome.

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I do transcription of tv shows at work, the use a proprietary transcription interface based on internet explorer/media player, and some javascript for hotkeys and such.

What i do, is use winamp with global hotkeys instead. This approach has many clear advantages, but i typically have to hit 'view source', pull out the .wmv or .mpg file, and then paste it into an .htm file with a href in it so i can pull it up and download it with ie, to then play under winamp.

This would be a LOT easier if i could just run a program in the system tray that when i hit, say f12, would pull up the html source of a specific ie window (match on <title'> contents), and download the .mpg or .wmv file listed within.

It seems to me like it would be a pretty simple app, so i think it applies to this thread pretty well. If anybody can help me out with this I'd really appreciate it.

Also.. the url is often mms://, so matching on http probably wouldn't work, but if you could set up a wildcard in the prefs, so that it would download *servername*.mpg* or something, that would do it I think. Preferences would have options for matching on <title'>, and downloading the filename for a string that matches whatever wildcards.

Thanks!

Thank you!

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I need it programmable as all alarm clocks are, but with the feature to set multiple alarms. I want to be able to set the alarm with any mp3/wav file. Also, and this is what is gonna make this a great alarm clock, is a window that will pop up on alarm that will feature an animated .gif and/or .jpeg that will stay until alarm is cancelled or snooze is hit.

I want snooze to be the space bar, and I would also like the snooze timer to be customizable.

I also want it to open firefox is possible, but in the background, so I can see my .gif. This is for Windows XP.

Cool to have frames to choose from! Cool to add dimensionality (size, angle, tilt)! Cool to be drag and drop!

Preferably in python, if not then C++, if not then in anything. This would allow you to build a directory of all the comics.

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This is an application that takes input from a soundcard's input or microphone jack and compares it to a set of known frequencies, telling you if a tone is flat or sharp compared to its nearest neighbor in the set list.

Tones it would be able to discriminate (in order of importance)

1)A-440hz 2)D,B,G,E on multiple octaves- standard guitar tuning 3)C,F,G,Eb,Bb on multiple octaves- used for alternate tunings 4)Other half steps

This program would be used to quickly tune a guitar while recording music, and as such would have to visually indicate which note was being tuned to, and if the note played is flat or sharp compared to the nearest neighbor note.

Hopefully someone here likes their Fourier transformations. These programs do exist elsewhere, but in a pay only format with a *lot* of extra bulk and nonsense that isn't needed for such a simple program.

Our target audience is old people with dialup and having them download our content with this simple download manager will increase purchases and decrease customer support. Having them go to an FTP directory or load an FTP client is impossible, these users are computer illiterate.

The application would just point to our local file and download it. If they get disconnected they could resume it when they reconnect. If you need more information from me, I can get it.

Thanks

-Winamp playing a song -A soundboard program -Skype

I would want to output those as winamp.wav, soundboard.wav and Skype.wav respectively. As well as my system input line as mic.wav

If this is not easy I understand, I have yet to find a program that does this. It would really be usefull to me.

All other clients out there either store info unencrypted or are bulky registry-based programs.

";!@Install@!UTF-8! Title="Software 5.00" BeginPrompt="Do you want to install the Software 5.00?" RunProgram="7zr.exe"

!@InstallEnd@!"

with the name of the unzipped EXE file in place of the RunProgram variable. (Title and Description aren't important, but if those properties can be pulled from the decompressed executable, then that'd be great). Then re-packs the temporary uncompressed files into a 7zip SFX file (available here: [url]http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sevenzip/7z451_extra.tar.bz2[/url]), and does a Block-copy operation of the 7za.sfx + config.cfg + archivename.7z files into a new exe file (see the documentation in the file linked above, in the "Installer" sub-directory).

I realize that the majority of this can probably be scripted, but I haven't the faintest idea of where to start. I suppose that it's probably more complex than I initially figured... I do need some sort of solution like this, which does not need human interaction, as I'm busy bashing my head into my keyboard.

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A windows application that does the following: 1. Starts at system startup (startup folder is just fine here) 2. Finds any shortcuts to applications that will start at startup 3. Moves them into a folder and creates an entry in the INI file, possibly throwing up a window to ask you for the length of that time for the shortcut 4. Maintains an INI of shortcuts, which you can use a miniature interface to set a time in seconds. This might best be done in an external program so it doesn't quit with the rest of the program. 5. It runs a countup timer, when it reaches a shortcut's particular time, it will launch that shortcut 6. After it finishes the last task, it exits itself.

I don't know how 'tiny' this program would be because I have no idea how difficult it would be to make. But the task it needs to do is pretty simple.

In a nutshell: A program that automatically visits particular webpages and downloads particular files from them to a particular directory.

Why: I want to be able to download a large number of .torrent files simultaneously while exerting as little effort as possible (currently, I have to click each one in turn, on a huge list, which is horribly tedious)

I would like the program to do the following.

1. The program opens a text file (which is in the same directory) called "urls.txt", which contains a list of URLs.

2. It visits the first URL, and searches the webpage code for URLs of this format:

http://www.bt-chat.com/download.php?info_hash=XXXX

Where XXXX is any alphanumeric 40-character string.

3. It then visits each and every one of those URLs, each one initating a download of a torrent file. However, the program should never visit the same URL twice, so it needs to remember the XXXX's it has already visited (by saving them to a file, so it remembers them every time the program is run)

4. It puts all these torrent files in a particular directory (perhaps this directory is the first list item in urls.txt? that would make it easy to customise)

7. The program then moves onto the next list item and repeats, and then closes after the last list item.

Ideally it would also automatically open all the files it downloads, in the default program, but that's not an essential aspect. In fact, it doesn't really have to save the torrent files. If it can just initiate the downloads, then I can just click repeatedly in Firefox to accept them all.

Premise: a system tray shoutcast audio player.

Possible features (besides playing a stream):

1. Popups with current song/artist info 2. "Global Hotkeys"-like feature (Just for Play/Stop) 3. Ability to play/stop by clicking the task icon. 4. Any settings (stream URL, buffer, popups on/off) on a right click menu

Probably a bit more work than you all are interested in, but I'm really just looking for a simple no-frills replacement for Winamp on shoutcast stream playing.

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An application (or add-on for WinAmp or iTunes) that, given a selection of mp3s and a time, will give a random playlist of songs with approximately that play time.

For instance, I'm goofing off on the internet before a class that begins in 1 hour and 15 minutes. I set the application to my music folder and 1 hour, so I know that once the music stops I should get going.

Shell - bash

I want to sort out my media folders. What I'd like is a command-line app that first asks you for the directories that you want to sort the files into, and then asks for an alias for each directory, e.g. "Enter a directory to move files to. Enter 'done' when finished adding directories or "quit" to cancel.(/home/whatever/stupidvideos/) What will you put in this directory? (stupid videos)" Once the user is done defining directories and aliases, the app starts with the first file in the directory the app is run in, detects the type, and opens it in the appropriate program (mplayer and ImageMagick should cover it.) Once the program closes, the app should ask the user if he wants to move the file to an aliased directory, enter a new directory/alias, list directories/aliases, delete the file, or leave it where it is. Non-media files should be handled with "Non-media file $filename." followed by the same options. On completion of the directory or on quitting, there should be an option to save the directories/aliases.

I know little about coding (have honestly screwed up "Hello World" in more than one language) so I don't know how tiny this will be.

It should be a Windows application.

The concept here is that I could send a text message from my phone to an email, and then my computer would execute a command.

I have lots of music and video from iTunes in DRM format and I'm backing them up on DVD so they don't take up 25GB of space on my small laptop hard drive. But before backing them up I'm using QTFairUse to de-DRM them as best I can.

The problem is QTFU can't de-DRM all the files (not the movies of course) and not all the music files either. I tried to use the log feature of QTFU to get a log of what files it missed so I could go back and try them again, but the log file it created was freaking 45MB (!!) and isn't worth a damn.

I need some little tool (preferably a command line tool but whatever) that will go through a directory recursively and look for *.m4p files.

When it finds a *.m4p file, it should look for a same named *.m4a de-DRMed file and give the option of deleting the DRMed *.m4p file. It should ask me interactively (with an option for always-yes or always-no of course) every time it wants to delete a file. It should probably move the files to trash rather than blasting them completely into dust.

When it finds a *.m4p file WITHOUT a corresponding *.m4a file, it should log a simple warning like "blah.m4p was not properly de-DRMed." so that I know what files I need to try QTFU on again.

Also, it should look for *.m4v files and log a similar message such as, "blah.m4v was not properly de-DRMed."

It should be a little future proof so that if a de-DRM scheme ever comes to fruition for *.m4v files, I can tell it what the corresponding de-DRMed file's extension will be. Seems like a simple text config file would be the easiest thing to do this.

So like:

de-DRM-checker.ini:

# a comment

# DRMed de-DRMed
m4p m4a
m4v	# Note that no de-DRMed extension given, but that m4v _is_ marked as DRM.

# Theoretecally unlimited pairs could be added to this list...

Since QTFU is only available on windows I guess a windows only app is fine. But it'd be even more awesome if it was portable because in the future there might be de-DRM software for Mac or Linux and I'd love to be able to bring this app over to those systems very easily if that ever happens (one can hope).

important: Some files I've downloaded are Japanese, French, Spanish, or Chinese and their filenames will reflect that fact. You can't rely on the filename being simple ASCII or the tool will not be able to process a significant portion of my music library. Since all I know is C++, I'd recommend boost::filesystem for great portability, but I'm sure there are other languages that are equally capable of doing this task.

I think this should be a pretty simple little app (even if it's got a few important details and gotchas) but if not, well, I guess in that case I'll just take a stab at it myself when I have more free time.

I imagine right-clicking on a video-link and seeing "Copy Link Location" and below that, if it is a video link, "Generate and Copy Embed Code". The only issue would be that each site has it's own embed format (Google Video, Youtube, Daily Motion, FileFront and any major ones I might be forgetting).

It would be used for this site: http://aphasian.info/letsfail .

I was wondering if it was possible to get an application that would save all a users settings for their MS office suite applications (location of toolbars, macros, ect.) into a folder.

I'm pretty sure that their settings are all saved to a file, but then again, i'm not too sure. This could possibly be a few lines of a batch file.

In any event, if something like this could be coded up in Visual Basic or C, so I'd have an outside chance of being able to make minor changes in it, I'd gladly donate a reasonable fee ... say, $20-40, depending on robustness or whatnot.

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ie for when reading an FAQ or Long document (on webpages specificly) you could mark specific points you would need to skip back and forth to. Ideally for firefox, or a stand alone application

thanks :)

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I want someone to write something that forces power out through a USB hole to charge my Razr V3. I'm on Vista. The battery seems to be 3.6V.

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Thanks!

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I'd like a way of being able to right-click in an explorer window, and in the context menu, have an option to "select random item" or "select random file." (Not open it, just select it.)

Thanks!

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Ideally something along the lines of the name "Save to Remote Server"...and have a progress bar at the bottom of Firefox...

It could also go the other way, translating an audio pattern into a picture. It would of course have to be simplistic sound to make a discernible picture. Say the audio is a sequence of 100 notes, the resulting picture could be a 10x10 image, or 5x20, or whatever. Parameters would again dictate the note duration:pixel ratio.

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1. if I right click anywhere on the current page, send the current page url you are viewing to a specific Google Talk contact (It would only be one specific contact that this would need to be set up for, not the entire buddy list.)

2. if I right click on a link, send it to a specific Google Talk contact (It would only be one specific contact that this would need to be set up for, not the entire buddy list.)

We have 2 computers set up on a network here and currently are having to copy and paste to send links back and forth, so the above program would be great. It would need to work for both IE and Firefox. We just want an easy way to send links back and forth. Thus, using Google Talk is not necessary. If something else would work well and has a small memory footprint, then we are not opposed to using another method to send links back and forth. However, whatever program would need to have drag and drop images that show up in the message window, rather than using as a file transfer, as well as drag and drop links to the message window.

Thank you!

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1. Get email with url in it. 2. Save page in url as web archive. (IE its .mht) 3. Reply to first email and attach .mht 4. (Optional) Delete sent email and .mht.

I have some friends in some remote areas of the world and only have email access. I thought this would be pretty cool for them.

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Pretty much I made a mame cabinet, but only have two buttons. I have all the games, but it would take a really long time to sort through them one by one to check and see if it's on the list or not.

thank you

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• Waits for 10 seconds.
• Disables the IEEE1394 controller.
• Waits for 5 seconds.
• Enables the IEEE1394 controller.
• Prompts if the device is enabled.
• Gets user input (yes or no).
• If yes, quits. If no, returns to step 2.

• dials CC phone number
• preferences lets you choose which is first in the list, the phone number to dial or the CC pin
• dials each one seperately when a button is pressed.