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Raistlin 17-08-2005 16:47
Making Your Life Easier
 
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.

Gareth 17-08-2005 16:54
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Bash - nuff said.

Chris W 17-08-2005 17:28
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
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...

Electrolyte01 17-08-2005 17:51
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
A program that would allow Linux to play Windows games (all of them) without configuring anything and giving top performance.

Keytops 17-08-2005 17:56
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Electrolyte
A program that would allow Linux to play Windows games (all of them) without configuring anything and giving top performance.
Isn't that called 'Windows' :D

Raistlin 17-08-2005 17:56
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
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 :)

Electrolyte01 17-08-2005 18:01
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Keytops
Isn't that called 'Windows' :D
No, because I want to play my games on Linux as I prefer Linux to Windows.

eric@ 17-08-2005 18:08
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
A small unobtrusive icon on the desk top that when pressed produced a crisp new banknote.

Scrubbs 17-08-2005 18:27
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raistlin
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 :)
speech to text? might be worth havin a go?

marky 17-08-2005 18:29
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
a spell checker for cf :D

Richard M 17-08-2005 18:30
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raistlin
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 :)
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.

MetaWraith 17-08-2005 18:47
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by markymoan
a spell checker for cf :D
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/

Raistlin 17-08-2005 18:48
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
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.
Hmm.....

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

Thanks.

marky 17-08-2005 18:50
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MetaWraith
allways one isnt there :PP:

MetaWraith 17-08-2005 18:51
Re: Making Your Life Easier
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard M
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.
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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raistlin
Hmm.....

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

Thanks.
No need check out the above :)


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