OneButton

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OneButton is a small no-nonsense toolbar (launch pad) with 16
customizable buttons and 12 buttons with fixed functions. When collapsed
it only takes up 36 x 36 pixels of your screen.

A popup menu appears when you right-click the main button, giving you
access to 15 different system folders (desktop, sendto, startup,
windows, system, nethood, temp etc.) that are opened in Explorer when
you click the menu item.

You can drop programs or document files on the buttons or customize them
manually by right-clicking them.

OneButton is made for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000. You can make it run
on Windows95 or Windows98 by using the command line option /ok. Two of
the buttons (Disk DeFragmenter and Upd. Em. Disk) will be disabled
though.

The 4 small buttons below the caption bar are for Options/About/Visit my
homepage/help file.

OneButton uses a local ini file and doesn't touch the Registry.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/fec/software/onebutton/index.html
 
sabato 17/lug/2004 _Tramp_ in
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[snip]

this post is the exact duplicate of this other your's
<[email protected]>
on Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:14:54 EDT

It's becoming difficult to catch up with this NG.
Wouldn't be better to have less flood, but comments, reviews, announcement
on freeware, as we used to?
Tramp, I don't know why you're making all this job, and I imagine it
requires time and effort. Don't you think, though, that the same information
is retrieved easy with a Google search if one needs any software?
The value of this NG was, IMHO, the great information we could have from
other _users_ of a certain freeware. To have a big list of titles and a
cut/paste from a web page doesn't help.
I know it's been answered already to others that's easy to killfile your
posts, but I'd like to not killfile anyone, I'd like to read from *you*, not
from a cut and paste. This way you seem a robot!

I did my best to express myself, English is not my first language, therefore
I apologize if my words don't seem friendly as I wish they were.
 
OneButton is a small no-nonsense toolbar (launch pad) with
16 customizable buttons and 12 buttons with fixed
functions. When collapsed it only takes up 36 x 36 pixels
of your screen.
Click to expand...
OneButton uses a local ini file and doesn't touch the
Registry.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/fec/software/onebutton/index.html
Click to expand...

Indeed not a bad little proggy, it is only 240 kb and pretty
green.



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MLC said:
Tramp, I don't know why you're making all this job, and I imagine it
requires time and effort. Don't you think, though, that the same information
is retrieved easy with a Google search if one needs any software?
The value of this NG was, IMHO, the great information we could have from
other _users_ of a certain freeware. To have a big list of titles and a
cut/paste from a web page doesn't help.
I know it's been answered already to others that's easy to killfile your
posts, but I'd like to not killfile anyone, I'd like to read from *you*, not
from a cut and paste.
Click to expand...

Well said. I too would prefer if people like Tramp tried out a few
programs, instead of announcing loads of unknown software, and told us
about the really useful and good programs they find.

If I want to try out totally unknown freeware I can search for them
myself.

I am a bit more ambivalent about Gordon Darling, who seems to be able to
keep a very high standard in his announcements even if he has not tried
out the programs himself, but generally I think it would be good if the
announcer has tried it and use it himself.

Remember that even if a program is actually available, and is actually
freeware, and does actually work well, it is still a useless
announcement if there is a better freeware program which does the same
job and does it better.
 
|this post is the exact duplicate of this other your's

It happens.

|It's becoming difficult to catch up with this NG.
|Wouldn't be better to have less flood, but comments, reviews,

By all means comment and review the software.

|announcement
|on freeware,

I'm not exactly sure you mean by this.


|as we used to?

Guess we just see the group differently. There has always be post of
freeware that people find. Even ones that they have tried themselves.

|Tramp, I don't know why you're making all this job,

I like freeware.

|and I imagine it
|requires time and effort.

Nah not much actually.

|Don't you think, though, that the same information
|is retrieved easy with a Google search if one needs any software?

A lot of the freeware I post can be found with Google yes. You can only
use a search engine if you know what you are looking for.

|The value of this NG was, IMHO, the great information we could have from
|other _users_ of a certain freeware.

IMO it's that but also the fact that there is other freeware(sometimes
better programs) than what is popular in the group. A program you might
love I might not.

|To have a big list of titles and a
|cut/paste from a web page doesn't help.

When I post a program I post a description of the program. What better
place to get that description then from the authors own website?

|I know it's been answered already to others that's easy to killfile your
|posts, but I'd like to not killfile anyone,

Well it's good to hear that you don't want to. However you might find
the newsgroup more to your liking if you do.

|I'd like to read from *you*, not
|from a cut and paste.

Well, I don't do reviews.


|This way you seem a robot!

Hey, now there is an idea for this coming Halloween. :-)

|I did my best to express myself, English is not my first language, therefore
|I apologize if my words don't seem friendly as I wish they were.

Well, I must says that you did a splendid job. I'm sure your English is
far better than my own. Your words did not sound unfriendly at all. :-)
 
|Well said. I too would prefer if people like Tramp tried out a few
|programs, instead of announcing loads of unknown software, and told us
|about the really useful and good programs they find.

<snip>
|Remember that even if a program is actually available, and is actually
|freeware, and does actually work well, it is still a useless
|announcement if there is a better freeware program which does the same
|job and does it better.

One persons crap program is other persons can't live without program.
The features that you find appealing or necessary in a specific freeware
program might be useless or uneccassary for my needs.

This newsgroups is about freeware in all it's forms. Bad, new, good,
big, great, amusing, small, useless, entertaining, necessary, old etc
etc. That is what I post, freeware. I make no claims as to the
usefulness or effectiveness of the programs I post. I just say "Hey here
is a program that you MIGHT not know about, that does this. If people
are interested enough they will download the program and try it. If
people don't want to see my posts they can always killfile me. I know I
won't lose any sleep over it. :-)
 
sabato 17/lug/2004 _Tramp_ in
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[a kind answer snipped]

I'm happy to see I didn't offend you :)
Well, I hope that there will be some feedback/comment on the freeware
posted, to make easier to discern.

Thanks anyway for your kind answer.
 
Roger Johansson said:
Well said. I too would prefer if people like Tramp tried out a few
programs, instead of announcing loads of unknown software, and told us
about the really useful and good programs they find.

If I want to try out totally unknown freeware I can search for them
myself.
Click to expand...

"Tramp" won't change the way s/he posts, so that's a dead line of
reasoning. It might be better for most to ignore the posts by the
flooders because they don't know what they are getting.
I am a bit more ambivalent about Gordon Darling, who seems to be able
to keep a very high standard in his announcements even if he has not
tried out the programs himself, but generally I think it would be
good if the announcer has tried it and use it himself.
Click to expand...

ISTM, that Gordon's posts are better because he seems to apply some
discrimination to what he decides *might* qualify as good freeware.
Remember that even if a program is actually available, and is actually
freeware, and does actually work well, it is still a useless
announcement if there is a better freeware program which does the same
job and does it better.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, this comment will be lost on the flooders because they
don't care about the specifics of any program; they only care that the
programmer(s) say it is freeware.
 
Ben said:
Unfortunately, this comment will be lost on the flooders because they
don't care about the specifics of any program; they only care that the
programmer(s) say it is freeware.
Click to expand...

Yes, it looks like Tramp has found something to do. Some people solve
crossword puzzles, others watch tv, and he likes to search for programs
with the word "freeware" in the context.

And of course, even a blind hen can find a seed, so he may get some
positive feedback now and then, but a lot of people get irritated also.

I guess I will have to filter him out, I am tired of marking his
messages as read one by one manually.
 
Wouldn't be better to have less flood, but comments, reviews, announcement
on freeware, as we used to?
Click to expand...

I'd say there is plenty of commentary. The fact that there are more
individual posts about the software is not really a problem to me.
Don't you think, though, that the same information
is retrieved easy with a Google search if one needs any software?
Click to expand...

One could say the same about the entire concept of the newsgroup.
While I find the comments from other users helpful as to whether a
particular piece of software is valuable, the primary reason I use
this newsgroup is to be made aware of new (to me) freeware. I don't
have time to Google for freeware in general. This puts it all in one
place. If I were to rely on Google (or any of the freeware/shareware
sites) for new software announcements and then come here to see if
anyone had used it, it would not be as efficient as getting the info
all right here.
The value of this NG was, IMHO, the great information we could have from
other _users_ of a certain freeware. To have a big list of titles and a
cut/paste from a web page doesn't help.
Click to expand...

It helps me.

It might be useful for Tramp to start putting a bunch of items into
one larger post as some of the other freeware reporters do. Then we
can just download and browse one or two posts a day. But this is just
a suggestion to make it a bit more efficient use of bandwidth.
 
Keep posting, Tramp. This is exactly what I want this newsgroup to do
- keep me posted on new freeware.

I'LL decide whether it's worth using - although I have no objections
to other people expressing their opinion about a particular piece.
But no one does complete reviews here, so the idea that this group is
only for reviews is ridiculous.

The only thing I might suggest is that it might be more efficient if
you were to combine a number of items into one larger post like some
of the other freeware reporters do. Then we'd only have to download
and scan a couple posts a day.

Of course, one could also argue that having multiple small posts
allows easier selection. As long as you put some indication as to
what the software does on the subject line, it would be possible for
people to be selective about what they download based on what they
might be interested in. But a larger post with many items could also
be efficient.

I leave it to you to decide. Either way, I find your posts useful.
 
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