Request a tiny custom app again

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

FAG posted:

Yeah, it didn't go up on tinyappz.com I don't think :/
edit: I found it! http://blog.contriving.net/2009/05/04/a-hotkey-to-switch-between-headphones-and-speakers-soundswitch/#comments

I'm glad you like it!

I haven't worked on it in awhile, but if you have any suggestions or whatever, just post a comment on the blog.

# ? Apr 30, 2010 22:28

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 02:00

My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

Nevvy Z posted:

I don't know enough about coding to know if this is 'tiny' but how about an app to replace words (other than the/of/etc) in a document with random synonyms from the thesaurus. I'm sitting in a persuasive writing class and it seems like it could be a very interesting/handy tool.

Okay! Finally got something together. This is kind of a bigger request than you realize, but I did find out how I could pull this together using Java. A good deal of the code I used came from an example using JWNL and WordNet libraries called SynReplace.java by Daniel Shiffman (http://www.shiffman.net/a2z).

There are some requirements for this to work, though.

You'll need WordNet 2.0, as the JWNL API currently works with that version. It contains all the libraries necessary for this. Just install it to the default directory.
http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/2.0/WordNet-2.0.exe

Now, all you'll need is the program! I believe all you'll have to do is double click on the jar to run it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L0NFD3S0

The rar with the source is here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DS8LW1S0

My Linux Rig fucked around with this message at 03:58 on May 4, 2010

# ? May 3, 2010 05:14

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Thermopyle posted:

I'm glad you like it!

I haven't worked on it in awhile, but if you have any suggestions or whatever, just post a comment on the blog.

Can I post a comment here? I would like a Gadget version?

# ? May 4, 2010 05:34

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

kri kri posted:

Can I post a comment here? I would like a Gadget version?

No you may not. :p

What do you mean by a gadget version?

# ? May 4, 2010 19:54

My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

Thermopyle posted:

No you may not. :p

What do you mean by a gadget version?

A version that's a windows gadget. Which can be done in C#, so shouldn't be too hard to do.

# ? May 4, 2010 20:10

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

Mufreesboro posted:

A version that's a windows gadget. Which can be done in C#, so shouldn't be too hard to do.

Oh.

What specific features of the app would someone be interested in having in a gadget?

# ? May 4, 2010 22:27

kri kri: Jul 18, 2007

Thermopyle posted:

Oh.

What specific features of the app would someone be interested in having in a gadget?

It would be really cool to have a one-click switching Gadget.

# ? May 5, 2010 20:08

eames: May 9, 2009

I�m looking for a small program that will reboot my Windows 7 box whenever it has bee idle for 5 minutes. Bonus points if it sits in the tray and can be clicked to toggle it on or off it.

I originally thought that this should be easily possible with the task scheduler, but it only checks for the idle state every 15 minutes and requires the knowledge of a rocket surgeon to set up..

There�s also something called winexit.scr but disabling and enabling it is a bit of a pain.

PS: Yes, I�m fully aware that this would normally cause a 5-minute reboot loop that completely trashes the bootdisk. In my case however, grub is booting into Linux by default. The whole point of this exercise is to make the machine run linux whenever I haven�t used it for 5 minutes or more.

# ? May 13, 2010 11:52

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

eames posted:

I�m looking for a small program that will reboot my Windows 7 box whenever it has bee idle for 5 minutes. Bonus points if it sits in the tray and can be clicked to toggle it on or off it.

I originally thought that this should be easily possible with the task scheduler, but it only checks for the idle state every 15 minutes and requires the knowledge of a rocket surgeon to set up..
There�s also something called winexit.scr but disabling and enabling it is a bit of a pain.

PS: Yes, I�m fully aware that this would normally cause a 5-minute reboot loop that completely trashes the bootdisk. In my case however, grub is booting into Linux by default. The whole point of this exercise is to make the machine run linux whenever I haven�t used it for 5 minutes or more.

Im trying to do something. To clarify: Idling like: I don't move the mouse or type. Or idling: There is nothing running doing something, eg. Bittorrent?

First one is easy, the second one is complicated as my app can not possible know what every app is up to. But probaby i could make a Setting: "If this program is running, don't reboot."

# ? May 13, 2010 19:48

MachinTrucChose: Jun 25, 2009

Whoa, I haven't seen this thread in a couple of years. Sad to see TinyAppz closed. It's always been on my to-do list to get a rip of the site for the abundance of cool source code (for the apps that provided it). I've been too busy with school and work unfortunately (for 2 years :rolleyes:

) . This is one of those moments where you end up biting your lip cursing your procrastination.

Neurozys, if no one ends up picking up the slack, please do what beuges said to strip the email addresses and post a dump of the entire thing.

Neurozys posted:

Here's an archive of every app that was hosted on tinyappz.com. The wiki text is not included, since parsing it out of the database dump would be a huge pain, and I'm not going to put the dump online since it contains the email addresses of people who registered on the site. It's 28 MB.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BykLs0u-FbuDOTg1NjViNjctZDhhZi00MTNiLWI2MzktOWRmNzI5YjZmODE3&hl=en

beuges posted:

Can't you do something like
code:
update users set email = '', password = ''
and then put the dump up afterwards?

genuineparts posted:

Well i run a server and would be glad to bring tinyappz back. Any chance to do this?

# ? May 13, 2010 21:17

eames: May 9, 2009

genuineparts posted:

Im trying to do something. To clarify: Idling like: I don't move the mouse or type. Or idling: There is nothing running doing something, eg. Bittorrent?

First one is easy, the second one is complicated as my app can not possible know what every app is up to. But probaby i could make a Setting: "If this program is running, don't reboot."

It�s the first one � idle as in no input via Mouse or Keyboard. Thanks for looking into this! :tipshat:

# ? May 13, 2010 21:20

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

eames posted:

It�s the first one � idle as in no input via Mouse or Keyboard. Thanks for looking into this!

Ok. Done. I hope this helps

Short Help

Download from:
http://www.bitsupply.at/RebootTimer.rar

Just install it and make an Startup Shortcut. The normal Shortcut is in Programs/bitsupply/reboottimer
I'm too stupid do make this shortcut with VS. :gonk:

You should see a little green Icon in the Taskbar.

Left click: Turns the software off -> Red icon. Click again to reactivate.

Right click: Settings and Exit.

Settings:

Check Idle Time - How often (in seconds) should the app poll your inputs. I thougt it might be useful.
Shut down after - How many minutes after the last input a reboot should trigger.

Please note that some reslient Apps can cause Windows to wait till the exit. If that is a problem please drop me a line and i'll check what i can do.

Edit: I'll provide the sourcecode if anyone wants it. It's my first C# attempt ever, so better expect dragons ^^

genuinebald fucked around with this message at 22:50 on May 13, 2010

# ? May 13, 2010 22:42

eames: May 9, 2009

Thanks a ton, that looks absolutely perfect. I�ll give it a try as soon as I get home.

By the way, is bitsupply.at your own domain? Goggle maps says you live exactly 20 kilometers from here (5020) if that is the case. :monocle:

I definitely owe you a beer or upgrade, your choice.

# ? May 14, 2010 07:27

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

eames posted:

Thanks a ton, that looks absolutely perfect. I�ll give it a try as soon as I get home.

By the way, is bitsupply.at your own domain? Goggle maps says you live exactly 20 kilometers from here (5020) if that is the case.
I definitely owe you a beer or upgrade, your choice.

Yes, it's mine. Small world. Since I already have platinum I'd go for the Beer. Drop me a PM or an email at genuineparts at bitsupply.at

# ? May 14, 2010 08:26

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

This doesn't quite seem like an app, but is it possible to suppress the left-side "toolbar" on IMDb pages or at least shift it to the right side? Basically, can the list of movies and such be left justified on the page with only a CSS? I'm totally ignorant as to whether this is possible or easy.

# ? May 14, 2010 09:20

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

Ape Agitator posted:

This doesn't quite seem like an app, but is it possible to suppress the left-side "toolbar" on IMDb pages or at least shift it to the right side? Basically, can the list of movies and such be left justified on the page with only a CSS? I'm totally ignorant as to whether this is possible or easy.

Download Greasemonkey for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/748/

Then click this:

http://bitsupply.at/imdb_killer.user.js

Hope that helps

# ? May 14, 2010 09:42

kaniff: Feb 27, 2004; oh word?

Ape Agitator posted:

This doesn't quite seem like an app, but is it possible to suppress the left-side "toolbar" on IMDb pages or at least shift it to the right side? Basically, can the list of movies and such be left justified on the page with only a CSS? I'm totally ignorant as to whether this is possible or easy.

I'm a CSS bozo, but this seems like a job for Stylish, which lets you inject CSS into pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108/

Or greasemonkey, which should be able to do similar via js.

edit for efb.

# ? May 14, 2010 09:54

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

genuineparts posted:

Download Greasemonkey for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/748/

Then click this:

http://bitsupply.at/imdb_killer.user.js

Hope that helps

Awesome, but...

Installed Greasemonkey (and checked for an update), this script, and checked for an FF update, and a few restarts to be sure. Doesn't seem to have changed anything. Verified that greasemonkey has the script installed, all javascript options are checked, and it's set to include http://www.imdb.com/ pages. Where am I astray?

# ? May 14, 2010 10:34

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

Ape Agitator posted:

Awesome, but...

Installed Greasemonkey (and checked for an update), this script, and checked for an FF update, and a few restarts to be sure. Doesn't seem to have changed anything. Verified that greasemonkey has the script installed, all javascript options are checked, and it's set to include http://www.imdb.com/ pages. Where am I astray?

Is the Monkey face in the statusbar happy aka. is Greasemonkey active? It's working fine for me. Strange...

# ? May 14, 2010 11:09

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

genuineparts posted:

Is the Monkey face in the statusbar happy aka. is Greasemonkey active? It's working fine for me. Strange...

Yep, happy. I even toggled it twice there to be sure.

http://i43.tinypic.com/154y8sx.jpg

# ? May 14, 2010 11:20

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

Ape Agitator posted:

Yep, happy. I even toggled it twice there to be sure.

http://i43.tinypic.com/154y8sx.jpg

Ah I see. Please include http://www.imdb.com/*

# ? May 14, 2010 12:31

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

Hm, tried replacing the default include http://www.imdb.com/ with that one and even tried both on the include. No dice, even restarting the browser between attempts. http://*.imdb.*/* didn't work either.

To verify that greasemonkey and java were working I nabbed some youtube-related js and it installed and appears to function just fine. As best I can tell, java is working and greasemonkey is working.

Is it possible the js has some dependency on some additional library or companion script? I have no problem adding something else to get this bad boy running.

# ? May 14, 2010 15:12

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

I just tried it on a fresh FF Install, installed greasemonkey and added the script, then i changed the include to http://www.imdb.com/* and it worked fine.

Screenshots for reference:

# ? May 14, 2010 16:06

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

Uninstalled FF (using the checkbox to delete all the custom stuff), reinstalled, added Greasemonkey and the script, added the imdb.com/*, still not working.

However, I am seeing something happening. It only appears to work on the front page but it seems to suppress almost all of the left side stuff except for the silly Daria ad. However, if I look at an imdb page for a person or a movie, the left toolbar is there in fullforce.

This is what my IMDb front page looks like on the new fresh FF install. I can't say whether this is new or happened before because I didn't check the front page but rather an individual movie page.
http://i42.tinypic.com/35aq7vm.jpg
So front page - something happens even though it doesn't entirely suppress the left side
Specific movie page - nothing happens
Specific person page - nothing happens

Bizarre.

Edit: To say the above results are with both the http://www.imdb.com/* and http://www.imdb.com/ Includes.

Ape Agitator fucked around with this message at 19:55 on May 14, 2010

# ? May 14, 2010 19:51

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

Seeing as your IMDB Site looks totally different to mine it appears that IMDb is using geolocation based on IP. And there will be differences in the Sourcecode of the page so that my script doesn't grasp which parts to change. I'm sorry :-( Maybe a US based goon can look into this?

# ? May 14, 2010 20:51

Mad Brahmin: Dec 29, 2004

First time messing with Greasemonkey so this may not work. Just overwrite the old code with this:

code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Imdb Killer
// @namespace      IMDB
// @description    Kills the left hand imdb Toolbar
// @include        [url]http://www.imdb.com/*[/url]
// ==/UserScript==

var sidebarMainPage = document.getElementById('lhs');
var sidebarMoviePage = document.getElementById('tn15lhs');
var mainContent = document.getElementById('tn15main');

if(sidebarMainPage)
{
	sidebarMainPage.parentNode.style.display = "none";
}

if(sidebarMoviePage)
{
	sidebarMoviePage.style.display = "none";
	if(mainContent)
	{
		mainContent.style.marginLeft = 0;
		mainContent.style.border = 0;
	}
}

# ? May 14, 2010 21:41

Ape Agitator: Feb 19, 2004; Soylent Green is Monkeys; College Slice

genuineparts posted:

Mad Brahmin posted:

You're both awesome! One day people will make movies about your crazy adventures, patiently helping the lower IQ folk with their browsing woes.

:dance:

# ? May 15, 2010 00:13

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

Mad Brahmin posted:

That's great! Much better than my attempts.

# ? May 15, 2010 08:12

Jared592: Jan 23, 2003; JARED NUMBERS: BACK IN ACTION

genuineparts posted:

Well i run a server and would be glad to bring tinyappz back. Any chance to do this?

Quoting in the hopes that Neurozys sees this.

# ? May 27, 2010 16:14

genuinebald: Jul 10, 2008; Use me! Only use ME!

I've dropped him a PM. Let's see what comes around.

Anyhow i'll bring something like this up. If there is no chance of relaunching Tinyappz I will launch a spiritual successor.

# ? Jun 1, 2010 12:10

Zeph: Apr 9, 2007; This bagga nasty from Dogbert is
FRESH

Hi SH/SC! Normally I like to create my own programs for stuff I need at work but I've found myself completely saturated with work and have very little time, so I was hoping one of you kind goons could help me out. I'm in need of a small program that will search recursively through a directory for a specific file name, and ftp it to our server preserving the hierarchy.
For example, let's say we have 5 folders, /1 /2 /3 /4 /5, and each folder has multiple files in it. I want to be able to search only for the file, say, goon.php in each directory, and upload it to the same directories on our server. So in total it would upload all 5 goon.php files in the 5 folders to their respective folders on the server.

Thanks in advance, it's much appreciated.

edit from the future: i made it myself a while back, request cancelled

Zeph fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Aug 14, 2010

# ? Jun 4, 2010 15:32

Dignity Van Houten: Jul 28, 2006; abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P

Here's my request. I run my computer on 24/7.

At night, I set the middle right option (Turn off the display/Plugged in) from two hours to 1 minute, then when I wake up I set it back. (The reason for this is because my monitor power button glowed, so I painted over it with latex paint, and as a result the button is a little hard to push.)

Is it feasible to have a program that would toggle states by running it or with the push of a button? Reason being, the option to manually switch is buried deep in the settings.

# ? Jun 4, 2010 17:26

Sharrow: Aug 20, 2007; So... mediocre.

If anyone is feeling particularly bored: a request for an app that runs in the background, periodically checking the running process list for particular names. It executes a command when a particular name is spotted, and another when it disappears.

Real-world usage: I run Synergy on my desktop, and certain games won't process input correctly if it's running. Unreal Engine games in particular. If Synergy is running, I can't even move around.

So, I was thinking of an application that would monitor the system, and when it spotted, say, "apgame.exe" or "conviction_game.exe" running, would run a command (taskkill.exe or whatever) that killed the Synergy daemon.

Then when I'd quit the game, it would notice that "apgame.exe" had disappeared and would run whatever command line I gave it to restart Synergy again.

Sharrow fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jun 4, 2010

# ? Jun 4, 2010 17:53

WarriorPriest: Sep 2, 2004

935 posted:

Here's my request. I run my computer on 24/7.

At night, I set the middle right option (Turn off the display/Plugged in) from two hours to 1 minute, then when I wake up I set it back. (The reason for this is because my monitor power button glowed, so I painted over it with latex paint, and as a result the button is a little hard to push.)

Is it feasible to have a program that would toggle states by running it or with the push of a button? Reason being, the option to manually switch is buried deep in the settings.

You could probably do this via a batch file if you didn't need anything fancy. Check out powercfg.exe http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748940%28WS.10%29.aspx

so something like :
powercfg -x -monitor-timeout-ac 1
powercfg -x -monitor-timeout-ac 120

# ? Jun 4, 2010 18:07

Dignity Van Houten: Jul 28, 2006; abcdefghijk
ELLAMENNO-P

WarriorPriest posted:

powercfg.exe

I never knew this existed, thanks for steering me in the right direction.

edit/ Not just steering me in the right direction, you spelled it out. Those two commands do exactly what I was looking for.

# ? Jun 4, 2010 18:19

Chunjee: Oct 27, 2004

Sharrow posted:

I run Synergy on my desktop, and certain games won't process input correctly if it's running. Unreal Engine games in particular. If Synergy is running, I can't even move around.

Oh I've been having this issue too recently. I'm not sure if Autohotkey scripts are considered an app but I just wrote this and it should handle the issue and let you add games without having something recompiled. change synergys to synergyc if you need to close a client instead of the server.

code:

GroupAdd, Games , Calculator
GroupAdd, Games , UnrealTournement Window Name

Loop
{
WinWait ahk_group Games ;Wait for a window whose title is in the group
Process close, synergys.exe ;End the synergys process
}

# ? Jun 4, 2010 18:56

Rukus: Mar 13, 2007; Hmph.

I'm trying to make a sidebar gadget that will show the local bus times. I think is pretty simple, I just don't know where to begin.

Basically it shows the west and eastbound bus times, and the green bar goes down the list at %currenttime% to show when the next available bus is leaving. Eventually once the green bar hits the bottom of the larger text (12th line or so, enough to fit the whole morning) then it loads up the afternoon runs. The three at the bottom that are smaller are there so I can quickly see the next few times once the bar reaches the bottom.
The schedule tends to change so being able to change the times when necessary would be preferable.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

# ? Aug 14, 2010 00:01

Modern Pragmatist: Aug 20, 2008

Ruklo Burosee posted:

I'm trying to make a sidebar gadget that will show the local bus times. I think is pretty simple, I just don't know where to begin.

Basically it shows the west and eastbound bus times, and the green bar goes down the list at %currenttime% to show when the next available bus is leaving. Eventually once the green bar hits the bottom of the larger text (12th line or so, enough to fit the whole morning) then it loads up the afternoon runs. The three at the bottom that are smaller are there so I can quickly see the next few times once the bar reaches the bottom.
The schedule tends to change so being able to change the times when necessary would be preferable.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Are these available on a website that could be polled? Also what platform are you on?

# ? Aug 16, 2010 22:37

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

Modern Pragmatist posted:

Also what platform are you on?

"Sidebar gadget" implies Vista or 7.

# ? Aug 16, 2010 22:39

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 02:00

Rukus: Mar 13, 2007; Hmph.

Modern Pragmatist posted:

Are these available on a website that could be polled? Also what platform are you on?

I'm running Windows 7, and the info is available online but the transit website is an absolute mess so I'd rather just have a text/excel file that the gadget would read it from.

# ? Aug 17, 2010 00:36

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