azdruid

azdruid

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Reply to Tired Of Ms Paint Anyone? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'd recommend Paint Shop Pro. I have version 8, and version 5 is probably worth looking at. GIMP is insanely difficult to use, but it does have some neat filter effects. If you're interested in downloading GIMP, http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

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Reply to IconPackager encryption in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I preview IP files by opening them in WinRAR, because the IP format is basically a ZIP file without the Z. With the encryption, it just makes life slightly less convenient. If werewolf thinks it's worth it, I'll update anyway. Just curious though...Is this a result of the StyleXP lawsuit? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" ALT="Powered by Ski

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Reply to SD CENTRAL in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This is a direct link to the SDcentral download: http://storage.stardock.com/files/stardockcentral111a.exe Try it. It may work, you never know.

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Reply to Regulars in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Speaking of friendliness, it makes you wonder about people who start complaining threads like that one locked recently. Appalling. Whatever happened to kindness and respect?

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Reply to SD CENTRAL in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I see...Spell-check man kills big robots. Interesting. Whoops, that was off topic. What an odd thread. The Author creates "HELP ME" posts in General and Help, and doesn't reply to any of them.

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Reply to SD CENTRAL in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

My bad. Sorry. DoctorNick, wireless network security is still in its infancy. A firewall does not do everything. WEP was an early standard for security, but was not widely used because of its slowness. WPA is a new technology that is implemented in most new hardware. I don't know if you have an 802.11b or g network. You can get a firmware upgrade for most b routers, and I think most g routers have the protection built in. Hijacking a wireless Internet connection may not a grea concern because of

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Reply to Regulars in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

DoctorNick, it's a good idea, but the site isn't ready for such a switch. We're stil running on a smaller amount of servers than normal. Redoing the whole message board system would take an incredible amount of time and far too much resources. The current system is fine, and I see no reason why it should be changed. Yes, the avatar feature is neat, but it would still be more code in the forums and would thus slow everything down. A small decrease of speed is not noticable, but log a couple thous

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Reply to Regulars in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Travis is right. Usually I do not abide by the "Dont fix it" rule, but it applies here. A while back T-man experimented with changing around the forums, and we decided we liked the older version better. This is a proven system of messaging, if slightly awkward. It works for me.

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Reply to Regulars in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

That's a standard layout that many forums have. It's a good idea, and I particularly like the space for your own little user picture, but if you load a page with 20 posts, that is far too much data for dialup. Forums are the most effective when easy to use and most of all, fast and slick.

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Reply to SD CENTRAL in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Could it be a firewall? I have ZoneAlarm up and I've never had a problem. Although I had to bypass Proxomitron. Is it that you can't download SDcentral, or just not download IN SDcentral?

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