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jamcomm temporary ban, now permanent

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on September 29, 2009 - 2:42pm

As some folks may have guessed (or hoped), jamcomm is now sitting out with a one week ban. After receiving a final warning two days ago, he'd continued with the attitude and had begun posting comments in all bold just to be annoying (since he had specifically been warned not to abuse the formatting in the forums). The ban will apply until October 6th and be lifted, giving him one last chance.

I know several moderators and developers are hoping for a permanent ban. I'm not a fan of such actions, but will take it if necessary.

Kind Regards,
John

Portable ColorPicker Suggestions

Darkbee's picture
Submitted by Darkbee on September 28, 2009 - 3:38pm

Anyone know of a portable Color picker application that has the ability to:

  1. Create/save/load color palettes
  2. Pick an average color using a predetermined area/sampling of pixels (rather than picking the exact color of 1 pixel)
  3. Generate CSS for things like hyperlinks using a selected set of colors (this is not so important)

It must have all the typical features you'd expect from a color picker such as:

  • View a magnified area of the area you are picking a color from
  • Copy color codes such as HTML to the clipboard

BlueMSX works Portably

Solid.Snake's picture
Submitted by Solid.Snake on September 25, 2009 - 8:37pm

Just thought I'd inform you all that BlueMSX, an MSX emulator that can run the original two Metal Gears (1987, 1990) and other MSX games, can run off of any USB. Simply copy paste it's program files into a file in your flash drive and you can run it anywhere!

Explorer++ up for grabs!

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Submitted by alpha1 on September 23, 2009 - 7:46pm

A while back i planned on developing explorer++, well I'm a slacker and never got around to it, and have lost any mind I had on making portableapps

Well here it is, since portableapps is starting to take freeware, and I have permission from the Author, David, to portablize it, I'll put it up for grabs for anyone who wants it.

If you need/want his email to me with permissions and that fun stuff, nab on on gtalk or however else you might be able to get me or PM me on the IRC (i'm almost always on, if not in the room) my nick is alpha1beta

How well do our Apps handle Standby / Hibernate?

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Submitted by Simeon on September 23, 2009 - 5:20am

The subject says it all: How well do our Apps handle Standby / Hibernate?

I just responded to someone in the german forum. He woke up his PC from hibernate with Thunderbird Portable still running and it downloaded all his messages again (~1000) He killed Thunderbird, got several windows errors in the process and now his SD card is unreadable.

This made ma aware of the problem that I don't know what happens in hibernate with our Apps. What if the app is woken up before the launcher starts? Has anyone ever considered this problem when coding a launcher?

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