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Comment on Okapi – Animal of the Week by Ali

Ali — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:51:38 +0000

I love the okapi, too! They are deffinately one of the coolest animals ever, maybe even the coolest! I have to write a research paper on them and I wanted to thank you for your facts! OKAPIS RULE!

Comment on Taskbar Overlord by zebo

zebo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:42:05 +0000

in XP and Vista, there was a checkmark to enable or disable the taskbar always on top option (useful if you choose to autohide your taskbar when not in use) but it looks like Windows 7 has the “always on top” as default and there’s no option to disable it.
If someone knows a way to disable the always on top, I will really appreciate it.

Comment on Mentos + Diet Coke = Fun by SGIRL

SGIRL — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:13:38 +0000

this experiment is an awesome idea for a fourth grade volcano experiment (only if someone doesn’t already have the same idea)!!!!

Comment on Etymology of the Word Avocado by Jay

Jay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:01:42 +0000

Scott, great comment! These are the little details that make history such a fun subject to dabble in.

Comment on Etymology of the Word Avocado by Scott

Scott — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:41:36 +0000

The story is actually somewhat more humorous than you know.

The Aztec word sounded to the Spanish (who introduced the fruit to Europe) like their word for “advocate” or “abogado. ” Avocado pear was how it was introduced to Europe. An abogado is not just an advocate, it is the word for lawyer.

So an Aztec testicle becomes a Spanish lawyer.

Comment on Taskbar Overlord by Robert Walker

Robert Walker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:16:17 +0000

Here’s the extra bit of script if anyone else finds the Windows 7 right click menus a bit useless (in the taskbar area) – just changes them to a shift-right click:

;Handle right clicks on Windows 7 Taskbar to popup Windows XP style context menus
;********************************************************************************

RButton::
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
MouseGetPos, x, y, WinUnderMouseID
;WinActivate, ahk_id %WinUnderMouseID%

;Get y position relative to the bottom of the screen.
yBottom := A_ScreenHeight – y

; Select context menu for taskbar program on right click, if click on a taskbar icon
if yBottom <= 40
{
Send, +{Click %x% %y% right} ;shift right click
; else send normal right click
} else {
;If right button is physically down
If GetKeyState("RButton") { ;The Right button is physically down
MouseClick, Right,,,0,D ;Right button down
KeyWait, RButton ;to allow dragging
MouseClick, Right,,,,0,U ;release Right button up
} Else {
MouseClick, Right,,
}
}

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Comment on Taskbar Overlord by Jay

Jay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:34:37 +0000

Sorry. I like the right click just fine. You’re free to modify the script yourself though. It’s really not terribly hard if you read the Autohotkey documentation.

Comment on Taskbar Overlord by Robert Walker

Robert Walker — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:50:47 +0000

Great utility!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE… can you write a utility to replace the Windows 7 RIGHT MOUSE CLICK (on task bar running program icons) with SHIFT+RIGHT MOUSE CLICK (which gives the older and far more useful Windows XP style context menu popup). The new Windows 7 popup is really useless and (as others have commented) it is also in the wrong position – i.e. some distance above where you actually clicked!!

Thanks a million!!
Robert

Comment on eBird Express Version 1.0.3 by heidi

heidi — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:58:23 +0000

Jay, you could just incite the wrath of birders by doing the Mac thing – instead of panther, leopard, newt and oryx (heh), you could name releases after weird stuff that shows up. I recall the last update was quite a while ago (Fan-tailed Warbler edition, maybe?) so this one could be the Amazon Kingfisher release. It would remind us all of our chasing inadequacies

Kudos for your work on the project!

Comment on Taskbar Overlord by Cubano

Cubano — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:44:21 +0000

to delbydev:

enlarge the size of the task bar (unlock it and double its size). You will see everything without needing to scroll.
I know its quite not the bes solution, but you will see all the running programs once…

One thing that bugs me its, because of my display resolution, my taskbar is very small, and I dont want to double it, i just want to make it bigger (but still single lined), icons largers and stuff, but well, without changing the size of everything in windows through resosultion options, there is no way to do this

No customization sux…