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Okay, prompted by a couple of recent threads.

If you could have one small program on your PC, somthing that would automate a task that you do regularly, something that would help you out in some way, what would it be.

I'm thinking along the lines of the applications for printing directory listings that are in THIS thread.

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Bash - nuff said.

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I thought Apple's Automator that comes with Tiger would be useful, but so far the only thing i have automated is running the various cleanup utilities...

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A program that would allow Linux to play Windows games (all of them) without configuring anything and giving top performance.

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Isn't that called 'Windows' :D

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Ok, this may be yet another post that I need to clarify (perhaps I need an application that will automatically check all of my posts for clarity :p: ):

I'm looking for a programming project, can't decide what to have a go at, was hoping to get some ideas for simple applications that I could have a go at putting together :)

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No, because I want to play my games on Linux as I prefer Linux to Windows.

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A small unobtrusive icon on the desk top that when pressed produced a crisp new banknote.

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speech to text? might be worth havin a go?

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a spell checker for cf :D

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A desktop background manager.
Something which runs in the taskbar using little RAM that gives you several options on right click such as "Random picture", "Next picture" etc.
You configure the program with a choice of 10-20 backgrounds and it can then display a different image each day, either sequentially or randomly.

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Hmm.....

That's a nice idea, I'll have a tinker with that :)

Thanks.

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allways one isnt there :PP:

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http://www.ivory.org/index.html
it's called Panorama 32,
and dont worry that it doesnt appear to have been updated in years and doesnt say it runs on XP, it does. :)
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No need check out the above :)

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Looks like I may as well put my "VB6 For Dummies" book away then :)

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Yep :angel:
Any more nice little freebie utilities you want,
I have hundreds collected over the years.

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If you're up for some Pocket PC development I'd like an application that will take a list of websites and cahce them all at scheduled times.

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a program to poll the ntl proxy servers & report their speeds, would be handy :)

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Not difficult to implement either... would be goo dpractice, Raist, if that's what you're after.

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A program where when someone emails me with more spam I can press this button and detonate the other persons computer.

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Something for the visually impaired? Or maybe automate regular PC maintenance?

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I thought AvantGo did this...?

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What would you use to do that at the moment?

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MRTG

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I'd like a little program which activates when you use IE which will automatically open several different (specified) web pages when you click on the IE icon. The program could sit in a toolbar, and would allow you to specify which websites you want to automatically open up when you use IE. But you would have the option to disable it.

I often check the same few sites on a regular basis like Celebdaq, BBC new, cableforum, hotmail and sometimes forget to check one of them.

I am aware that one of the other browsers aleady has this feature, but a Windows/IE one would be nice.

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The Google toolbar now has a built in spellchecker http://toolbar.google.com/

Wroks fune whon I trilled ut lards.

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Stick a post-it on your screen. Problem solved... :p: :)

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An application that would tell all the naggy little warning messages to p*ss off and then write an email to Bill Gates to ask why his software is like my mother... :)

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Microsoft Magnifier (its in your start menu>accessibility)
Task Scheduler
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I have one i want, I like to listen to toones on the comp at night in dark before sleep, you can really get into the music this way, its just all ruined when I have to lever myself to the comp and turn it off....auto shutdown after playlist finished would be great, without having to resort to using foobar or some other far off program.

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Ok, for those of us that wouldn't have asked the question of we wanted to spend half an hour Googling for it.....would you care to elaborate on what MRTG is?

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MyIE2 / Maxthon (a shell around IE) already has this. It's called groups.
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Does this help ? http://mrtg.hdl.com/mrtg.html

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how about a app which via infa red could activate a robot woman ( who looks perfectly like jessica alba ) and would then save me the bother of finding the remote control.

I could even use this app to control the bot on COD when Zingle is shooting my arse off.

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You will soon learn (the hard way) that there is NO defense against the Zingle ;)

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I will adapt.

They said that on halo... now they bow before my every move............

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My post was a quick knee jerk answer to a basic question of what someone could use to poll a remote machine. Sounds from the above that my quick reply upset you, sorry, but I certainly didnâ₠¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢t intend to. If I did, I apologise.

Despite my age, Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m very †œnewâà ƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ� to forums and perhaps donââ‚Âà ‚¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢t understand all the rules, unwritten or otherwise. Can I use my †œnewnessà¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬Ã‚ ÂÂ� or old age as a grovelling excuse?

Anyway, to answer your question, MTRG was originally designed ( I think) to monitor traffic loads on networks, however, with a bit of playing around with the configuration file it will monitor just about anything. And indeed people do.

I am an †œold gitââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ� and have seen it used in just about every comms company I have ever visited all over the world. It is a remarkably versatile tool and I have found it very useful.

See http://www.tenet.ac.za/ping-graphs/l...net_co_za.html to see a real time example of someone monitoring simple ping times.

The output graphs can be easily changed to show your results averaged over minutes, hours, days, months or years. Whatever suits your needs?

Being open source, ready made scripts are freely available to enable a user to monitor just about anything. It runs quietly in the background and you can access the results using any old web browser. Use it to monitor your own CPU temp, memory or bandwidth usageââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚¦.whatever you can think of, you can monitor. And of course itââ‚ ¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s totally free.

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And my response was an equally quick, and equally jerky kneed, one.

I wasn't upset, so no need for apologies - if my response came across sounding as though I was then I apologise :)

Nope, there are no excuses :LOL:

Seriously, don't worry about it :)

Thanks for that, great answer :)

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Any excuse works here Eric https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2006/06/3.gif to the forum :D

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I'll just rename the thread to the "Sorry" thread ....

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What about a small VB app that sits a corner that tells you info from CF
i.e. New Pm's New Reps, New Posts, Buddy's online, etc etc.

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Wouldn't that need me to either:

a) connect (from the VB app) to CF's server directly and poll the information, or

b) have the app work through an open broswer to retrieve the information?

If the latter than surely having the browser open would mean that people could see that information for themselves anyway?

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a) really .. do a http login to CF via the app and pick up the information, display it in the app with hyperlinks. It's like a mini browser, with a specific target and audience.

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Ok, forgive my ignorance :) But I've never done anything with web browsers before (other than search for pr0n that is :D ).

Woul you actualy be able to retrieve the information from the page the browser returns? I would have thought that I would need to make the program connect to the database to get that sort of information? :confused:

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Yes you can "steal" it from the returning page ... lemony does this but is too lazy (read "focused on other things on the outside of his pillow case") to do this one for me :D

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In the making :tu:

Screenshot:

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• Option to minimize to tray
• Option to stay topmost (using that API ;))
• Grabs new posts, reputation, PMs and who's online
• Ability to change parts of user CP
• Ability to login to CF (uses raw winsock control ;))
• Interface that adapts to your current system theme (say you are using windows default, you'll have that style of controls)

It's gonna be cool.

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:D

Looks like another project I don't need to worry about then :rolleyes: :p:

I think I might go into project management, seems like I don't need to do any of the work myself :D

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Linux support? :p:

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Sure - When I learn how to convert my applications to work on linux :P

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Noooooo,....become a Consultant.....Lots less work....Much more cash :D




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Cable Forum....? web services....? Lemony and Raist to develop open source CF integration tool....? Could be on to a winner here.

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Will it be out by the 1st September? Thats when i get back from my hols, or rather the day before. :)

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Then I move it when I play Command & Conquer, Savage or Dungeon Siege, forget to put it back and forget to check the other websites.

Besides, I am a man! I don't want a simple manual way of doing it - I want a fancy, electronic high tech way of doing it! :p: