Request a tiny custom app again

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Liface: Jun 17, 2001; by T. Finn

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Applications

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# ? Jun 3, 2009 19:16

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:21

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

Thermopyle posted:

Sure. I've had a couple of requests for other features. I'll add this to the list. Maybe I'll get around to implementing them this weekend.

That's why you get paid the big bucks!

# ? Jun 3, 2009 21:14

Dicky B: Mar 23, 2004

MREBoy posted:

There's also http://www.dumeter.com/

NetMeter is a nice free alternative.

# ? Jun 3, 2009 21:40

thedaian: Dec 11, 2005; Blistering idiots.

I'm not sure if this is the best place for this, but it might be useful to someone.

I've been looking for a really simple, easy to use timer program for a while, which allows you to either have a basic timer showing how long it's been running, or something where you can set an alarm and it would pop up an alert when the time ran out. I couldn't find that, so I made one of my own.

Screenshot:

Download: http://thedaian.dreamhosters.com/sa/Timing.rar Includes exe, and C# source, requires .Net, probably 3.5

It minimizes to the tray with a crappy clock icon I made, and most of the commands can be accessed through a right click menu, both when it's minimized to the tray, and when the window is open. Simply put, if the Active Alarm box is checked, it'll pop up an alert when the timer hits the specified length. Otherwise, it'll just keep on counting.

It looks like a few people wanted something like this, though maybe slightly different features. Well, feel free to modify the code if you want.

# ? Jun 4, 2009 23:50

KaLogain: Dec 29, 2004; I got her number. How do you like them apples?; Cybernetic Crumb

I'd like a bookmarklet that would pop up a windows with a text box with an OK button and cancel. when you put in a number in the text box, either from the clipboard or typing it in manually and press enter or the OK button, I'd like it to add that number to the end of a string making a URL address, and open that address in a new window for IE6, and a new tab for IE7 and IE8.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1244171810

# ? Jun 5, 2009 04:19

KaLogain: Dec 29, 2004; I got her number. How do you like them apples?; Cybernetic Crumb

KaLogain posted:

I'd like a bookmarklet that would pop up a windows with a text box with an OK button and cancel. when you put in a number in the text box, either from the clipboard or typing it in manually and press enter or the OK button, I'd like it to add that number to the end of a string making a URL address, and open that address in a new window for IE6, and a new tab for IE7 and IE8.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1244171810

So I got this code snippit to work

code:

javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection();%20if(!q){void(q=prompt('Item%20to%20look%20up:',''))};%20if(q)location.href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/'+escape(q)})()

and if you type in:

B000QDBOCY

It goes to the right page

How do I make it open in a new window or tab?

This isn't really for amazon, but for an internal work site, but the idea is exactly the same.

# ? Jun 5, 2009 05:11

Fart Shark: Jun 17, 2001; AArgh!
AAAAhh!

I'd like a simple app for Windows that would sit on top of all the open windows that would have a text field for taking in a string that once filled out would copy that same string to the clipboard in lower or upper case depending on a toggle button.

Having it take the string and moving to the clipboard after a button is pressed would also be good enough but less ideal.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1244218400

Thanks!

Edit to clarify: I would like to select some text with random case in any app -> Ctrl-C -> alt-tab to tiny app -> Ctrl-V -> alt-tab back to original app -> Ctrl-V text in all lower or upper case.

Fart Shark fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jun 5, 2009

# ? Jun 5, 2009 17:14

kaniff: Feb 27, 2004; oh word?

Fart Shark posted:

I'd like a simple app for Windows that would sit on top of all the open windows that would have a text field for taking in a string that once filled out would copy that same string to the clipboard in lower or upper case depending on a toggle button.

Having it take the string and moving to the clipboard after a button is pressed would also be good enough but less ideal.

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1244218400

Thanks!

Edit to clarify: I would like to select some text with random case in any app -> Ctrl-C -> alt-tab to tiny app -> Ctrl-V -> alt-tab back to original app -> Ctrl-V text in all lower or upper case.

Try this out: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Image:Paster.zip

It should grab the clipboard when the app is active and it will post the formatted (to upper or lower) text to the clipboard when it is deactivated.

Let me know if it works out for you.

# ? Jun 5, 2009 17:52

Fart Shark: Jun 17, 2001; AArgh!
AAAAhh!

kaniff posted:

Try this out: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Image:Paster.zip

It should grab the clipboard when the app is active and it will post the formatted (to upper or lower) text to the clipboard when it is deactivated.

Let me know if it works out for you.

This works great! Thanks!

# ? Jun 5, 2009 18:19

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

I'm a teacher and would sometimes like random groups. I would like an application where I...
1. Select a class name from a list.
2. Select how many students I would like per group.
3. Press go.
4. Application tells me the group information, something like...

Group 1
James
Alex
Wendy

Group 2
Bob
Sam
Julie

I should be able to add classes by pressing some kind of 'add class' button which after pressing lets me type in a class name and the students names.

If the class has 15 students and I would like groups of 4 it should spit out 4/4/4/3.

# ? Jun 8, 2009 06:04

bos: Sep 1, 2004; .

KaLogain posted:

How do I make it open in a new window or tab?

here's an ugly hack

code:

javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection();%20if(!q){void(q=prompt('Item%20to%20look%20up:',''))};%20if(q)window.open('http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/'+escape(q), 'new window title')})()

# ? Jun 8, 2009 07:14

KaLogain: Dec 29, 2004; I got her number. How do you like them apples?; Cybernetic Crumb

bos posted:

here's an ugly hack

code:

javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection();%20if(!q){void(q=prompt('Item%20to%20look%20up:',''))};%20if(q)window.open('http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/'+escape(q), 'new window title')})()

Thanks, I think that will work.

Unfortunately these aren't playing nice in IE, any idea how to get them work in IE? Its saying javascript is not a recognizable protocol. The error says "the protocol javascript does not have a registered program" I've googled this error and most pages say the bookmarkle would still work but this one isn't. At least in IE.

KaLogain fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Jun 8, 2009

# ? Jun 8, 2009 07:27

bos: Sep 1, 2004; .

it looks to me like IE doesn't like random javascript accessing what you've got selected on the webpage.

can you implement this on the webpage itself because that should bypass the issue

also you'll need to turn off the popup blocker or add the site (assuming intranet) to your whitelist

this is a really stupid hack and i'm sure someone's already working on a better solution

# ? Jun 8, 2009 07:53

IkeTurner: Apr 19, 2002

Sad Panda posted:

I'm a teacher and would sometimes like random groups. I would like an application where I...

Is a web-based app OK, or does it need to be an EXE?

This is how it would handle as a web app: http://www.modillion.net/projects/groupy.php

IkeTurner fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jun 8, 2009

# ? Jun 8, 2009 16:14

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

tinabeatr posted:

Is a web-based app OK, or does it need to be an EXE?

This is how it would handle as a web app: http://www.modillion.net/projects/groupy.php

I'd prefer an exe if that's possible for 2 reasons...
1. Sometimes the internet doesn't work at my schools,
2. It wouldn't be possible to save classes using the internet based one right?

# ? Jun 9, 2009 10:44

Sweeper: Nov 29, 2007; The Joe Buck of Posting; Dinosaur Gum

Sad Panda posted:

I'd prefer an exe if that's possible for 2 reasons...
1. Sometimes the internet doesn't work at my schools,
2. It wouldn't be possible to save classes using the internet based one right?

I can write this for you, I just want to know how do you want to input the data? Would text files with everyone's names be okay or do you have something with their names in it already?

# ? Jun 9, 2009 15:44

Manky: Mar 20, 2007; Fun Shoe

Would it be possible to get a script (whatever language you like, just need to be able to run it easily on a Mac or PC) to automatically make search queries on swagbucks.com? I'm thinking it could be as simple as randomly picking a word and then appending it to http://swagbucks.com/?t=w&p=1&q=(word goes here), then just instructing that link to be opened in a browser. Bonus points if it does something like scrape Google News for top headlines and searches for those, to make the search requests seem more legit.

Quick edit: Maybe with a random search interval between 5 and 15 minutes?

Edit two: Tinyappz request: http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Request:1244595712

Manky fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jun 10, 2009

# ? Jun 9, 2009 20:44

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

Sweeper posted:

I can write this for you, I just want to know how do you want to input the data? Would text files with everyone's names be okay or do you have something with their names in it already?

A text file would work just fine. Something like...

Class name
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student

Class name 2
Student
Student
Student
Student

Then the programme shows the list of class names for me to select from.

# ? Jun 10, 2009 02:36

Polluxx Troy: Mar 12, 2005; ...authorities here are on alert...

Would it be possible to create a tiny program that takes the Album Date and Album name from the first music file (mp3, wma, flac, etc), and renames the parent folder in this format?

YYYY - [Album Name]

# ? Jun 11, 2009 01:21

Thermopyle: Jul 1, 2003; ...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. �Bertrand Russell

Polluxx Troy posted:

Would it be possible to create a tiny program that takes the Album Date and Album name from the first music file (mp3, wma, flac, etc), and renames the parent folder in this format?

YYYY - [Album Name]

I'm not going to do this for you, but I'll ask the question someone who does do it will want to ask you....What do you mean by "first music file"? First in what way?

# ? Jun 11, 2009 01:36

Polluxx Troy: Mar 12, 2005; ...authorities here are on alert...

Thermopyle posted:

I'm not going to do this for you, but I'll ask the question someone who does do it will want to ask you....What do you mean by "first music file"? First in what way?

Maybe that wasn't the best way to explain. If you couldn't hard code to look for the details in track 1, the album name in any file would do.

# ? Jun 11, 2009 02:09

Sweeper: Nov 29, 2007; The Joe Buck of Posting; Dinosaur Gum

Sad Panda posted:

A text file would work just fine. Something like...

Class name
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student

Class name 2
Student
Student
Student
Student

Then the programme shows the list of class names for me to select from.

I'll see what I can do tomorrow I have finals thursday and friday :{

# ? Jun 11, 2009 02:53

Sad Panda: Sep 22, 2004; I'm a Sad Panda.

Sweeper posted:

I'll see what I can do tomorrow I have finals thursday and friday :{

Thanks! Study for your finals and do it after, there's no rush.

# ? Jun 11, 2009 03:43

grilldos: Mar 27, 2004; BUST A LOAF
IN THIS
YEAST CONFECTION; Grimey Drawer

Polluxx Troy posted:

Would it be possible to create a tiny program that takes the Album Date and Album name from the first music file (mp3, wma, flac, etc), and renames the parent folder in this format?

YYYY - [Album Name]

Not to beat a dead horse, but Tag&Rename and mp3tag can both do this very easily, with even more customization. I have a pretty detailed folder/naming scheme for my mp3s and mp3tag handled it within minutes. (artist/year - album name/track number - track title.mp3).

# ? Jun 11, 2009 14:09

kaniff: Feb 27, 2004; oh word?

Grilldos posted:

Not to beat a dead horse, but Tag&Rename and mp3tag can both do this very easily, with even more customization. I have a pretty detailed folder/naming scheme for my mp3s and mp3tag handled it within minutes. (artist/year - album name/track number - track title.mp3).

You can try CDTag, too

# ? Jun 11, 2009 17:16

Polluxx Troy: Mar 12, 2005; ...authorities here are on alert...

Grilldos posted:

Not to beat a dead horse, but Tag&Rename and mp3tag can both do this very easily, with even more customization. I have a pretty detailed folder/naming scheme for my mp3s and mp3tag handled it within minutes. (artist/year - album name/track number - track title.mp3).

You're right, i have that app and can do exactly that. However, I was looking for something that could batch rename everything in C: for example, with the following folder structure:

C:
Artist 1
- Album 1
- Album 2
Artist 2
- Album 1
- Album 2
- Album 3

etc. T&R works only at the artist level, so it's still one parent folder at a time (unless there's some scheme I don't know of).

This is for like 100GB of music across hundreds of folders.

# ? Jun 12, 2009 00:44

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Polluxx Troy posted:

You're right, i have that app and can do exactly that. However, I was looking for something that could batch rename everything in C: for example, with the following folder structure:

C:
Artist 1
- Album 1
- Album 2
Artist 2
- Album 1
- Album 2
- Album 3

etc. T&R works only at the artist level, so it's still one parent folder at a time (unless there's some scheme I don't know of).

This is for like 100GB of music across hundreds of folders.

Have you checked out Media Monkey? I believe that it supports the function you desire.

# ? Jun 12, 2009 07:47

Polluxx Troy: Mar 12, 2005; ...authorities here are on alert...

Ceros_X posted:

Have you checked out Media Monkey? I believe that it supports the function you desire.

Ok, how?

# ? Jun 12, 2009 12:35

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Polluxx Troy posted:

Ok, how?

That work?

# ? Jun 12, 2009 14:54

ceebee: Feb 12, 2004

Would anybody be able to make me an application that autosaves at certain intervals? It would be awesome if it even did iterative saves. I'm using Photoshop CS4, and I keep forgetting to save often and just lost 3 hours of work due to a crash. Would definitely appreciate any help!

Here's an application that does basically what I'm looking for. Unfortunately can't afford the $20 at the moment :[

http://www.atopsoft.com/products/autosave/

# ? Jun 13, 2009 00:51

Rat Supremacy: Jul 15, 2007; The custom title is an image and/or line of text that appears below your name in the forums

Can someone write a frontend to rsync for Windows so it can act a little like SyncToy's echo and synchronize features? Such a thing would be very useful. Perhaps it could output batch scripts or something?

# ? Jun 13, 2009 03:32

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like to see an app that can (configurably) invert mouse inputs on either axis, with the inversion switched on and off by up to three keys/buttons, each of which can be set to either toggle the invert on/off each time it is pressed, or turn on the invert while held and off when released. It might be a good idea to have the axis inversion configuration attached to the button configuration so each could invert a separate axis.

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

# ? Jun 14, 2009 22:12

kaniff: Feb 27, 2004; oh word?

ceebee posted:

Would anybody be able to make me an application that autosaves at certain intervals? It would be awesome if it even did iterative saves. I'm using Photoshop CS4, and I keep forgetting to save often and just lost 3 hours of work due to a crash. Would definitely appreciate any help!

Here's an application that does basically what I'm looking for. Unfortunately can't afford the $20 at the moment :[

http://www.atopsoft.com/products/autosave/

This could probably be done easily using AutoIt to just hit the save keystroke every X mins.

# ? Jun 14, 2009 22:35

Sweeper: Nov 29, 2007; The Joe Buck of Posting; Dinosaur Gum

Sad Panda posted:

Thanks! Study for your finals and do it after, there's no rush.

Here http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Random_Class

I will update it in a while, basic functionality atm.

# ? Jun 15, 2009 18:04

Pweller: Jan 25, 2006; Whatever whateva.

Sweeper posted:

Here http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/Random_Class

I will update it in a while, basic functionality atm.

I hope you don't mind, I made one too.
I need the practice :3:

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/StudentGroups

# ? Jun 15, 2009 21:15

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

m2pt5 posted:

I'd like to see an app that can (configurably) invert mouse inputs on either axis...
The purpose for this is for games that do not offer an "invert mouse" option.

You could try SakasaMouse, but it doesn't have a keyboard shortcut of its own.
Maybe someone could make an AutoHotKey or Autoit script to change it by keyboard.
Or just keep it on the default settings and make a Windows shortcut to the program and call it when you need it, or an AutoHotkey script to run it when [WindowName] is active and close it when it's inactive.

gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 16, 2009

# ? Jun 16, 2009 02:43

Sweeper: Nov 29, 2007; The Joe Buck of Posting; Dinosaur Gum

Pweller posted:

I hope you don't mind, I made one too.
I need the practice

http://www.tinyappz.com/wiki/StudentGroups

Of course I don't mind

# ? Jun 16, 2009 05:09

putin is a cunt: Apr 5, 2007; BOY DO I SURE ENJOY TRASH. THERE'S NOTHING MORE I LOVE THAN TO SIT DOWN IN FRONT OF THE BIG SCREEN AND EAT A BIIIIG STEAMY BOWL OF SHIT. WARNER BROS CAN COME OVER TO MY HOUSE AND ASSFUCK MY MOM WHILE I WATCH AND I WOULD CERTIFY IT FRESH, NO QUESTION

This thread is great. Just wanted to thank Feral Integral for his DirTree app, as I didn't even request it but it's what I came here looking for and someone had already made it! Thanks man.

# ? Jun 16, 2009 06:58

PopeOnARope: Jul 23, 2007; Hey! Quit touching my junk!

Yim posted:

I loved the last thread, such a good idea. I don't think I still use any of the apps, but it reminded me I should get back into VB.net when I finish my placement job and get back to uni.

I have a (hopefully) small request.

If anyone is able to create a little program that can rename a group of files. I'm hoping to use this for tv episodes that I've downloaded. eg. Renaming them from any naming format into something easier to follow.

For example, I'd start up the program, and fill in the TV shows name and the season number. Then I could either select the folder with all the .avi files inside it, or drag and drop all the files into the window.

I guess when all the files are loaded into the program, it would try to sort them in episode order, 01-22 or whatever automatically (probably hard to do since there would be two sets of numbers in the file names usually, season# and episode#), but it'd still need the ability to move files up and down the list. (So ordered from first episode of the season to last)

And then once they are in order, a click of a button to rename them to whatever Name and Season I'd entered at the start. The naming scheme would be something like: 'Lost - 01x01 - EpName.avi', 'Lost - 01x02 - EpName.avi', etc. Then, because each episode has a different name, hopefully it would be possible to rename them easily, or even somehow pull episode names from a TV.com url or something, but that's probably going too far, i'm sure I can copy text over fine once the rest of the process is a bit more automated...

Yikes, that's alot of text, I guess it mightn't be as simple as I'd thought, but it might be something a few people would be interested in.

Thanks to anyone who takes up the challange.

I know this is LATE as all hell, but I actually use InfranView's batch rename for this.

Recently, I needed to replace a few episodes of Voyager that I'd ripped. However, with AC3 and the like being a pain in the rear end, I decided to get lazy.

So let's say, this is your file 1x0102.caretaker.xvid.ac3.dvdrip.pest.avi

First pass, I told Infranview to replace .xvid.ac3.dvdrip.pest with nothing, as well as telling it to replace . with - , and finally, to change 1x to 1. After that first pass, the entire folder is somewhat stripped, and all the season 1 files look like this:

10102 - Caretaker.avi

Now obviously, this doesn't address the later seasons. So then I just re-open it, and tell it to replace 2x with 2 and so on. Renaming done in five minutes.

# ? Jun 16, 2009 09:48

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 06:21

deedee megadoodoo: Sep 28, 2000; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one to Flavortown, and that has made all the difference.

KaLogain posted:

So I got this code snippit to work
code:
javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection();%20if(!q){void(q=prompt('Item%20to%20look%20up:',''))};%20if(q)location.href='http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/'+escape(q)})()
and if you type in:

B000QDBOCY

It goes to the right page

How do I make it open in a new window or tab?

This isn't really for amazon, but for an internal work site, but the idea is exactly the same.

Does the site you want to look at already have a search/input form for this? If so you could look into building a custom search engine in firefox. It's really simple. I did it for out internal ticketing system. Take a look at this page: http://oreilly.com/pub/h/3033

# ? Jun 16, 2009 12:18

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