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Reply to Heuristic Virus in Icon Packager? in IconPackager Stardock Forums

Heuristics are a way to try to detect viruses by looking at behavior. It is prone to false positives, because it's not a real signature match - it's just a guess. It is designed as a defense against viruses that change their own code, which is a way viruses try to avoid detection by signature matches. Since Stardock software does things in non-standard ways, which is how they make things like desktop skins possible, it is understandable their software could get accidentally marked.</p

Reply to Spacemonger does not activate in SpaceMonger Stardock Forums

Ticket ID #ZAM-308-35091

Reply to Spacemonger does not activate in SpaceMonger Stardock Forums

. . . and now I'm not activating. Also noticed that it's no longer under EdgeRunner, but under Stardock itself? How can I activate it now? It wants me to activate it via the EdgeRunner website.

Reply to Lots of Unscanned space in Google Drive? in SpaceMonger Stardock Forums

It might be a shared folder - shared by somebody else with me.

Lots of Unscanned space in Google Drive? in SpaceMonger Stardock Forums

So - tried scanning my Google Drive with SpaceMonger, got lots of unscanned space that just sits there. According to Google it is largely Drive stuff, but with it remaining unscanned, I can't really see what's there. Any idea what's up with that?

Reply to Say a final goodbye to the Java plugin. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="gevansmd" reply="13" id="3617359"] I have developed an application at work that uses javascript extensively to create graphs from data tables. I don't see how doing the chart calculations can be a secuirty thtreat or how I woild produce the graphs without a script./ [/quote] Theoretically, you could do the processing server side and send the result to the client. If your graph has labels and somebody gains access to the data tables, they could i

Reply to Say a final goodbye to the Java plugin. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="GFireflyE" reply="9" id="3617316"] HTML5 is garbage. We need a better alternative. [/quote] Well, there are things like XAML. But they tend to be platform specific. Getting browser support for something new would be a big barrier.

Reply to Say a final goodbye to the Java plugin. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]and then: " JavaScript and Flash should truly go the way of the dinosaurs..." how should HTML5 replace Flash without Javascript? without Javascript HTML5 content can not be interactive or animated.[/quote] Indeed - JavaScript is one of the cornerstones of new web technologies. Without it, HTML 5 is basically the same as HTML 4 - nothing but a static page.

Reply to Say a final goodbye to the Java plugin. in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Interesting find. Truth be known - nobody uses it anymore. The most popular non-browser-native technology is Flash, not Java (and do remember that Java is not JavaScript!). And Flash itself is dying with the advent of HTML 5 and related technologies. Minecraft is a desktop app, so it won't be affected. Same with development tools like Eclipse and NetBeans. They're desktop applications, not in-browser apps. The only popular thing I can think of t

Reply to Stardock’s visitor stats tell interesting picture in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote]Honestly, Microsoft should be ashamed of the lack of forthought put into it and how little it gave users.[/quote] It gave users quite a bit. Increased security far above XP's security. Both under the hood, invisible changes (better stack protection, ASLR), as well as the very visible (to the point of annoying) UAC. Graphics and sound libraries were rewritten. Vista uses hardware acceleration on the desktop, which should improve the performance of ap

Reply to So SDC is coming back? in Stardock Central Support Stardock Forums

[quote who="Snowman" reply="1" id="3142833"] quoting post The only question now is - can SDC make it another mile? SDC v2 has been going quite well, for over 6 months now.... Welcome back, yourself.... [/quote] Well, I just received an email about it. Haven't really been keeping up with Stardock much these days.

So SDC is coming back? in Stardock Central Support Stardock Forums

Forward a mile, back two steps, and forward one step. Perhaps I should explain: Stardock Central has been around before. Back then, I firmly believe it was way, way ahead of its time. The ability to buy and download software is IMO the way of the future, and how we will be buying most of our software going forward. Impulse pushed things even further and went along the route I believe was going to be the logical conclusion of this type of product: A full online store for

Reply to Should I remove existing registrations? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

"I'm not looking forward to an app store on windows, to much control to big brother..." Well, the internet way is prone to hackers and malware authors, and is a bit inconvenient to find anything. Can't say I'm thrilled about it.

Reply to Forget about WoW! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

LOL. I played Silkroad, but it essentially became Botroad. I quit the game because no matter how much they tried, they just couldn't control the bots. I'm currently a WoW player. "As long as we're bashing WOW... ... would you like some GAME with that UI?" LOL, that's terrible. Go to WoW Insider and

Should I remove existing registrations? in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Seriously, what should we do now that Impulse is no longer working with Object Desktop? Should I remove my OD registrations from Impulse? I have a Tiles update, and it refuses to update thanks to this . . . and it's really annoying. . . . and it's kinda sad that Impulse is going games-only, rather than apps and games. In all seriousness, I've always felt that Windows has needed an apps store, rather than the current method of scouring the internet for applications. Sigh, p

Reply to Why So Excited About Steam? in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

"I have used Steam for some games and personally don't like it." You may not personally like it, however that doesn't mean that it is objectively a bad thing. "It seems way to intrusive on my computer and I don't like the idea that it keeps track of how many hours I have played each game, friends list pop-ups,Internet connection requirements, etc." A lot of people are fine with it. You can set

Reply to Tiles Beta Feedback Thread in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Mouse buttons 4 & 5 were intentionally limited to when the mouse is over the tiles bar because webbrowsers use them for back and forwards and we did not want to cause problems with those.[/quote] This of course is going to depend on the mouse drivers and any customizations the user may have made. Problem with buttons above button 3 is that they are entirely arbitrary and not really standardized to anything. In addition, buttons 4 and 5 aren't particularly well designed on t

Reply to Tiles Beta Feedback Thread in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

When it's on the same side as the taskbar, they overlap instead of being next to each other. Fences doesn't resize.

Reply to Getting Started with Stardock Tiles in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Another bug: Fences doesn't resize. WANTED: Filter by menu title. Some processes (ie, javaw.exe) are generic containers and can host more than one appication type, and I'd also like to filter out the "games" window in Explorer to go into my "games" tile.

Reply to Getting Started with Stardock Tiles in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Yay, still have my object desktop subscription, can try it out. Thoughts: Great concept, especially great for tablets and other touch screen devices, I imagine. Would like to have more Windows 7 like features, like pinning and the little controls on the previews. I have never been fond of the Start menu. Never, to be honest. IMO this is a start to perhaps replacing the thing. I don't like the way it snaps when I drag the mouse - it

Reply to Internet Explorer 9 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="dustbeta" reply="49" id="2709837"]I think the largest issue with people migrating to IE9 is business. Unfortunatley my company (22,000 employees) has so many legacy applications and web tools that we are stuck on IE6 forever. No one in IT has the spine to to tell various business groups to get rid of their legacy stuff or else. But I am looking forward to IE9 for my own personal use for sure.[/quote] I hate to say this - but we may see businesses in reall

Reply to Internet Explorer 9 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

And this is why competition is so important - look what happens at Microsoft when there's serious competition to IE =). From what I've read so far, it looks like Microsoft is pushing hard on performance and standards compliance on this one. Although I think Firefox is working on hardware acceleration and HTML 5 as well, it's nice to see that Microsoft is finally trying to push forward and actually try to make progress in areas people care about. What I think has flown under th

Reply to Office 2010 Launches Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I'm was a huge OneNote fan. But since I moved to the dark side, I use Basket. http://basket.kde.org/ [/quote] Looks a bit more messy and unfocused than OneNote. OneNote is very much focused on the idea of being a notebook style application. It has the organization structure of Notebooks, sections, and pages, which works very well for an application designed for taking notes. OneNote also has drawing tools, handwriting recognition, and in 2010, ink to

Reply to Office 2010 Launches Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Biggest reason for upgrading to 2010 myself is that I'm a student, and OneNote 2010 adds equation support, which is great for math classes. That, plus students get a good discount as well :). OneNote is probably the one application that doesn't have a good equivalent in other office suites.

Reply to Office 2010 Launches Today in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]save for the cool stuff google has done with gmail[/quote] Which is . . . cool. But missing some functionality. Like using groups in a filter, or removing tags based on filters. And still, to this day, I can't get a straight, sensible answer out of anybody what the big, huge problem with the hierarchy was that sooo needed fixing. Although I can definitely see the point of merging the hierarchy with the tags concepts. Like Live Photo Gallery did. That was cool. Jus