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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?

« on: June 22, 2015, 10:01 AM »

Ahh, just found this:


http://www.nurgo-sof...om/products/aquasnap

Any comments, experiences or alternatives?

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General Software Discussion / desktop divider / magnetic window border snapper tool - with draggable dividers?

« on: June 22, 2015, 09:55 AM »

Hi forum,

is there a good Windows desktop divider tool where you can live drag the divider (or, respectively, live drag adjoining window borders while keeping them snapped) in order to quickly adjust the window split ratio using the mouse?

Thanks for any tips
Cheers David.P

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Urgent -- new keyboard, hotkey not working: how do I activate FARR?

« on: May 18, 2015, 05:07 AM »

  Great, thanks. Worked instantly.

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Find And Run Robot / Urgent -- new keyboard, hotkey not working: how do I activate FARR?

« on: May 18, 2015, 03:41 AM »

Hi forum,

is there a hidden/permanent hotkey that activates FARR when all else fails? Obviously I also have checked the "don't show tray icon" setting in FARR.

So how can I make the FARR window show up?

Thanks
David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a free HTML editor with real time preview in adjacent pane?

« on: May 08, 2015, 06:10 AM »

OK.

I'm also still learning, and I must say that Firebug is an amazing tool. Only problem is that you can only play around and not save your changes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a free HTML editor with real time preview in adjacent pane?

« on: May 08, 2015, 06:03 AM »

Thanks, this is indeed interesting!
http://webdevstudios...ackets-io-love-thee/

Without having tested the Brackets editor: is it's usage somewhat similar to Firebug?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The problem with text compare tools - similar, in database compare tools

« on: April 21, 2015, 02:01 PM »

Your last screenshot shows one deletion and one insertion -- which is indeed what all "stupid" compare tools do when it actually is not a deletion/insertion but a moved block. The CompareIt screenshot shows movement, but as I said it fails as soon as you change like one character in the moved text.

When you have lots of moved sentences or paragraphs in a long text, and additionally small changes within those moved parts, you have no chance to see what is where with this kind of difference recognition and display.

Code Compare allegedly can detect moved blocks, but only for some programming languages -- not for general text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The problem with text compare tools - similar, in database compare tools

« on: April 21, 2015, 11:35 AM »

Does anybody have an update on the ability of CompareIt! to detect moved words, lines, or blocks?

-Scott_Y (April 21, 2015, 11:07 AM)

It seems that CompareIt sort of detects entire moved paragraphs, but only if they are verbatim the same. As soon as you move a paragraph and make whatever little change to it, it is not detected as a move anymore. Also, CompareIt does not seem to detect smaller moved sections of text, only entire paragraphs.

Every diff tool that I know of can sense [moved text blocks].

-wraith808 (April 21, 2015, 11:20 AM)

Of course, every diff tool will highlight moved text in some way as having been changed (like deleted/added). However, almost none of the known tools actually is able to show that moved text actually has been moved (and from where to where it has been moved). Instead, most tools show moved text as having been deleted at the original spot, and added at the target spot, without showing that this deletion/addition pair actually belongs together.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The problem with text compare tools - similar, in database compare tools

« on: April 21, 2015, 09:37 AM »

Thanks guys. While I'm not sure what the rant over there exactly is about   I found that Beyond Compare obviously still does not support detection of moved text blocks.

With ExamDiff Pro, there is the problem that if you enable word wrapping (which I absolutely need to be active), you can't edit the file within ExamDiff Pro  

Two tools from the list over in that other thread, SemanticMerge and PerforceMerge, so far look very promising. However, I'm not sure whether their method of "semantically" detecting moved text blocks will work for "normal" text (e.g. like letters, books, essays etc.).

While not offering a side by side view, the wikEd diff tool that seems to be powering the Wikipedia versioning engine, looks extremely powerful and promising. It does not seem to have any difficulties to recognize text that has been moved and at the same time has been changed.

However, with long texts, I find it very hard to read and find my way around the output.

Additionally, I'm not sure what the below options do:

-    "Reject blocks if too short and common"
-    "Words: reject blocks if shorter"
-    "Maximum rejection cycles"
-    "Repeated diff"
-    "Recursive diff"

...all the more since I can't reproduce any differences in the output when any of these options are checked, or are not checked.

For example, I can't seem to prevent the wikEd diff tool to mark single words as moved when playing around with these options.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The problem with text compare tools - similar, in database compare tools

« on: April 21, 2015, 05:18 AM »

Any news on this? There still doesn't seem to be any viable tool that supports text block movement recognition -- apart from wcopyfind (which hovewer has a rather terrible output view).

ExamDiff supposedly can recognize moved text, but I find it's output confusing and what's more, it doesn't seem to allow simple text editing inside the comparison window which is a must for me.

Other tools that I tried and that don't recognize move text are Meld (otherwise beautiful), Diffuse, Araxis Merge and Code Compare.

WinMerge supposedly also should recognize moved blocks, however I can't get it to work.

If anyone is aware of another comparison/merge tool that can do moved block recognition, please add it to this thread!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you know a free HTML editor with real time preview in adjacent pane?

« on: April 14, 2015, 12:39 PM »

Wow firace, that is a cool find

Amazing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a project time tracker/nag tool that keeps me writing billable notes

« on: October 28, 2014, 07:45 AM »

In my view, useless for anybody who does not have the resources to hire additional people who look over the actual worker's shoulder and click on "Start Tracking Project" and "Stop Tracking Project" buttons all day long according to what the actual workers are currently doing.

Sorry about that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a project time tracker/nag tool that keeps me writing billable notes

« on: October 28, 2014, 05:47 AM »

Sorry, but unless this solution reads application window titles and automatically tracks hours based on activity in the respective windows (which I suppose it doesn't) -- it is only one of the many (sorry again) USELESS "solutions" for time tracking and billing which instead only puts another layer of complexity on top of one's projects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a EXTREMELY basic Multi Clipboard software

« on: October 06, 2014, 03:06 PM »

> ArsClip bloated?  When its .exe is under 4 MB?

While this probably is good programming, it has tons of features and settings that I don't need, and OTOH it is not able to simply show a no frills popup next to its own tray icon, but instead puts its window all over the place on my triple monitors 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a EXTREMELY basic Multi Clipboard software

« on: October 06, 2014, 11:33 AM »

Scott, the OuterTech Clipboard History tool looks very promising with just the right feature set!

And it shows a standard system menu when clicking the tray icon, no fancy runtime-powered slowish round-cornered skinnable full-blown GUI with blinkenlights and tiny custom fonts like so many applications nowadays.

Thank your for this cool find!

Cheers David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a EXTREMELY basic Multi Clipboard software

« on: October 06, 2014, 08:39 AM »

Thanks guys, I'll have a look at these.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a EXTREMELY basic Multi Clipboard software

« on: October 06, 2014, 06:36 AM »

I might change it if you're not ears but mouth for a light weight clipboard software.

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General Software Discussion / Looking for a EXTREMELY basic Multi Clipboard software

« on: October 06, 2014, 03:22 AM »

Hi forum,

since ArsClip has evolved into a piece of bloatware of unimaginable proportions, and Ditto inexplicably seems to be unable to select list entries on a single click   -- are there any other Multi Clipboard tools that simply can do the following:

- provide a history of clipboard entries after clicking on the tray icon
- put the respective entry on the clipboard on SINGLE click
- provides a custom hotkey for "Paste as Unformatted Text"
- is compatible with mulitple monitors (i.e. don't pop up on the first monitor when the tray is on the second)

Thanks heaps already

Cheers David.P

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a project time tracker/nag tool that keeps me writing billable notes

« on: September 01, 2014, 02:04 PM »

Thanks Target, for the information about your tool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a project time tracker/nag tool that keeps me writing billable notes

« on: August 26, 2014, 03:14 PM »

True. I might end up and code such a tool myself in AHK at some stage...

On the other hand, at the moment I am quite happy with my combination of ProjectTimers and Anuran.

Anuran actually is like "magically useful" for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r nag tool that makes me take billable notes

« on: August 10, 2014, 06:27 AM »

All true, however honestly, I trust you guys around here more than an (all purpose-) programmer hired on a platform -- all the more since this tool possibly could be coded by someone who actually uses the tool himself afterwards, which probably will make it three times as good as if someone who is not so much involved in that time tracking stuff would code it.

What's more, this should be doable in AHK, and while I am not so proficient to build this from scratch (without taking weeks for it), I think I should be able to maintain, and gradually improve the code around the edges, over time afterwards.

For example, I once hired a programmer to write a small app for me.

First, it took weeks to find one who seemed to be able to code what I needed, although I made a proper invitation of tenders on a professional platform. Second, although the tool in the end worked out ok with regard to the "right half of a three digit range" that I spent there, very soon I discovered that I needed different bits and pieces to be changed, features added and so on.

In the end I stopped using that (static) made-to-order tool, and wrote my own in AHK which I have been using for many years now. Still, almost every day however I fix and improve bits and pieces in the code. This way and evolutionary, that tool has become like 20 times as useful as the original one, in the meantime.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r nag tool that makes me take billable notes

« on: August 10, 2014, 03:56 AM »

I see, thank you. This tool by Anand seems to be for taking notes that can be fixed to document and program windows. However, it doesn't seem to have the ability to nag, and to take time stamps.

This is btw the titlebar time tracker that I have been using for many years now, Rayflectar Project Timers



The program's output is very basic and looks like this.

[Select]

Timer Name = 123456, My Project
Total time = 022:01:06 <hhh:mm:ss>
Keywords used = 123456, Google Books, Archive.org
Timer Creation Date = 2014.05.27 09:05 AM
Last Updated = 2014.08.10 09:50 AM

Timer History (max depth = 100 active days)
Format (comma separated): Date, Running Total <hhh:mm:ss>, Day Total <hh:mm:ss>
2014.05.27, 000:00:04, 00:00:04
2014.05.30, 000:25:26, 00:25:22
2014.06.10, 001:04:48, 00:39:22
2014.08.09, 022:00:28, 03:32:04
2014.08.10, 022:01:06, 00:00:38

As a result from the discussion, the perfect time tracking program in my view would be a tool like Project Timers that additionally can be set to  bring up a text box at certain intervals where you can write down what you have done in the last half hour or so -- the latter of course exactly as Anuran does:

Of course, both parts of the information, the time tracked with regard to the current project (based on window titles) as well as the notes you have taken, should be presented and saved together in an easy to handle format, in order to be able to track, view and export what you have done at what time in which project, and how long everything has taken.

For a working tool like described above, and with prospects for further development, I would easily donate in the three digits range, because this would enable me to bill so much more and better that it would probably pay for itself in like a week's time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r nag tool that makes me take billable notes

« on: August 10, 2014, 02:02 AM »

Could you supply a link, Tao?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ nag tool that makes me write billable text

« on: August 09, 2014, 03:20 PM »

or is anyone aware of a tool that combines the features of Anuran ("nag me for descriptive text regularly") and a Titlebar tracker ("record the time spent in your projects' files") into ONE application?

-David.P (August 09, 2014, 01:33 PM)

this would be very nice - wonder would Skwire be interested...

-tomos (August 09, 2014, 01:41 PM)

I've been thinking about doing that... if he's not interested, and is willing to let me build on top of what he's done...

-wraith808 (August 09, 2014, 02:49 PM)

Yess please

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶c̶k̶e̶r̶ nag tool that makes me write billable text

« on: August 09, 2014, 01:33 PM »

Ouch tomos, you're correct! I don't understand why I have overlooked that you have already mentioned my present solution (combine Anuran with a title tracker) very early in this thread!

Probably it was due to the fact that initially, I was too focussed on my original idea of having that "intelligent" time tracker which only asks you what you did if it detects that something "special" is going on between the windows you use.

So I suppose this is the solution for the time being -- or is anyone aware of a tool that combines the features of Anuran ("nag me for descriptive text regularly") and a Titlebar tracker ("record the time spent in your projects' files") into ONE application?

Since a tool like THAT would be the most amazing and useful time tracker and billing helper on the market by far!