131–140 of 241 posts
The article is from 2008 so maybe a (2008) should be added. Like many of you who commented I used the nirsoft tools without knowing they were created by one man. Kind of impressive there was a time when you only found niersoft tools when searching for password recovery tools
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Super awesome yes, zero-effort no—just try to make it into part of an CI/CD asset build pipeline ;) But really, why isn't ImageOptim itself available in command-line form?
IIRC, ImageOptim is a front end for a bunch of CLI image compression tools. So, in theory, you could roll your own for a CI system if you figured out all the arguments that ImageOptim was passing to those tools.
> Automates ImageOptim, ImageAlpha, and JPEGmini for Mac to make batch optimisation of images part of your automated build process.
Kind of retro site with a @yahoo.com email. Very weird for an advanced IT guy. "searchmyfiles" is awesome, by the way.
I tried searchmyfiles, and it's alright, but the best search tool I've found for windows is "Everything" by voidtools ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ ) I occasionally use it on a multi TB windows fileserver at work and after it does the initial index (which is really pretty fast because it uses the NTFS journals) searches are pretty much instantaneous. (I also use it at home, it's just less impressive…
> While many software companies create a bloated installation package with size of 1 - 3 MB, the size of single utility in NirSoft is usually less than 100KB. The early 2000s were a different time. While as modern day electron apps are regularly 100+ MB.
Fun fact: the icon for my Objective-C Mac app is larger than the executable binary (517 vs 394 KB).
We should have a sub-thread of these comments devoted just to the silly things people use NirSoft stuff to do. I'll start. ----- I have a HTPC hooked up to a projector that I use to play movies, and the projector has native support for 24 FPS, so I use this: http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setdisplay.html to quickly set framerate. Make batch files for 24 Hz, 60 Hz, etc. bind them to keys, and then you don't have to bother…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's strange to me that people still remember this. It's been 14 years, but I guess it's nice to be known for something :)
Hey, it still works: https://MikeRoweSoft.com
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still hard to understand that they haven't touched Notepad in such a long time. The effort to get a good editor must be tiny compared to a lot of other stuff they are doing. I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.
I'm sorry for going off topic, but I keep seeing this kind of comment and I want to get an answer - how is Notepad not a good editor? It can take any ASCII/ANSI/UTF file and output it in plaintext. It has line-wrap as an option. It loads fast and can handle files of decent size without lag. Users can set display and print fonts, etc. I'm really lost as to why anyone says Notepad is not a good text editor for basic te…
* Multi-window editing * Restoring workspace on load * Background, font, and default spacing options * Source formatting by source type
These were just some basic things I used in the few times I used Notepad++ after hearing people talk highly of it; there are probably a ton more along with plug-ins but my usage was basic. It definitely made serious-ish development on Windows easier for me to do.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's essentially what happens. And it's a huge waste if you have 20 Electron apps running. Each ships with its own copy of Chromium which is as large as an operating system. I created a proof-of-concept called Electrino that uses the platform native libraries to cut down on app size: https://medium.com/dailyjs/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-w... Unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on Electrino due to…
Why wouldn’t google just ship a “libchrome” shared library so that they could share it?
> While many software companies create a bloated installation package with size of 1 - 3 MB, the size of single utility in NirSoft is usually less than 100KB. The early 2000s were a different time. While as modern day electron apps are regularly 100+ MB.
im really fed up with this argument. most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place. most modern apple native apps are the ones that crash the most while electron are stable as fuck.
That's the point. Why download another framework when you have one on your computer already that's tailored to your platform?