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General Software Discussion / Any way to embed a search box on the desktop?

« on: January 09, 2012, 04:44 PM »

I'm looking for a way to place a small search box on my desktop(I want it so it's there but not taking up a lot of the screen) and I want it so what ever I search  in that box is limited to one directory. 

Basically I want to be able to type in say an artist name or song name in the search box and either that song opens up in a  window or automatically plays in my default player.

I'm running Winxp, is there a small app that can help me achieve this ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Help figuring out what personal wiki software fits my needs

« on: June 09, 2011, 10:34 PM »

I have a small question about NetNotes.  I have several articles in a drop zone folder and Now I'm wanting to send them to different folders I have created. Is there a way to send multiple articles to a folder at once instead of dragging an article one at a time ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Help figuring out what personal wiki software fits my needs

« on: June 06, 2011, 09:55 PM »

Spent the day using NetNotes and it's growing on me. It's not as fast as CintaNotes but it has more features. I like that  it has the option to style text. I've noticed a little delay when choosing fonts and switching from another program to NetNotes.

Barring any big problems this will replace CintaNotes for me on my desktop. Will keep CintaNotes on my external hard drive for when I need to use it on other computers.

@Steeladept That would be a big help if he is willing. I really would like to learn how to use TiddlyWiki because how portable it is just one file lol.

Thanks again.

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General Software Discussion / Need Help figuring out what personal wiki software fits my needs

« on: June 04, 2011, 06:03 PM »

I'm wanting to start a personal wiki so all the notes I take and gather online using CintaNotes can have a final resting place.

My proposed workflow would be like this:
capture notes using CintaNotes then at the end of the week export those notes to a text file. Then from the text file I will copy and paste the notes in a personal wiki.

For the wiki I would like to have the main page consist of links(or categories) for example on of the categories would be GrammarGirl. When I click on that  GrammarGirl would be a new page where then the notes would be broken down by the date I captured them with CintaNotes.

Now I have tried:
Wikidpad: From the start I was overwhelmed and confused and even after reading the help files I was still confused put Wikidpad to the side.

Tiddlywiki: At first I thought Tiddlywiki would be perfect for me because its so simple but while trying to add/edit and format things I realized  things started to get deeper and more advanced and again i was soon lost.

then I found Zulupad: I like it. has features I need especially if I upgrade to pro with the addition to add images and etc. but in the free version I'm having trouble setting up like I mentioned above.

I need the help of you guys. Will Zulupad do what I need it to do or should I try something else ?
Thanks in advance

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 26, 2011, 08:22 PM »

what kind of AHK scripts do you use ?  What kind og style guides are you talking about? Those macros look interesting for sure and never thought a mind mapper could help me that much  but I'm open to anything so I think I'll try it out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 26, 2011, 02:34 PM »

I got around to trying evernote. It's ok. I like some of the features but it just feels clunky to me. I wish there was a note-taking app that was simple like cintanotes but with the  enhanced text editing and the ability to add images.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« on: May 18, 2011, 01:09 AM »

Source
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
 1   2   3    4    5    6-7   8   9   10

and here is the  output I get from WordCreator

He jests at s|cars |that ne|ver felt a wound

and another example from same page linked in the first example

Now is the winter of our discontent
 1   2  3   4-5   6   7    8-9-10

and WordCreator's Output

Now is |the win|ter of our dis|con|tent

so far from my testing it's hit or miss but it's also the best option I have tried. Maybe I have some settings wrong within the program making the output off.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 15, 2011, 03:44 PM »

Liquid Story Binder XE looks really complex but I'm intrigued is there ample documentation included with the program to help figure it out because  without that I can see myself getting lost quickly.

Chapter to Chapter would be very useful but I'm really opposed to using Word. Might test it out and maybe it will grow on me.

I was told about a program called SuperNotecard. has anyone tried it? care to share your opinion on it ?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« on: May 15, 2011, 03:43 PM »

Been quite busy as soon as I get a chance I'll test it out and post my opinions. thanks again for the link.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« on: May 11, 2011, 11:55 PM »

Thank you! think this will do nicely gonna test it out a bit but from the looks of it might work lol

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« on: May 11, 2011, 05:44 AM »

Thank you. I understand now. I figured it would be hard but didn't  know it would  so much. lol.  Appreciate the link bookmarking it now. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 10, 2011, 02:44 PM »

i thought evernote was just a web service ? I'll have to look into it. Backup isn't a problem for me I have a 465gb portable  hard drive for storing backups. Don't really trust cloud services but  I'll keep Dropbox in mind. thanks

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Script or software that scans lines of text and reports no. of syllables

« on: May 10, 2011, 02:34 PM »

I've tried several services online that will determine the number of syllables within each line of text but most are not very accurate and I have to be online to use them.

What I'm thinking  is have the program load a .txt file of your choice(or copy and paste the text) then the program would determine  syllables in each line. In each line the syllables within each word will be shown  using  "|" and at the end of each line the number of syllables will be like this (5)

In a perfect world if it could mark stressed and unstressed syllables  by underlining or bolding the stressed syllable putting the unstressed one in italics. but I don't think that's possible. Heck maybe the whole thing  is a bigger feat that I'm thinking.

I've been wanting something like this for a while so that after i write my poetry  it quickly  denotes the syllables so next time I look at it I won't have to scan the poem myself.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 10, 2011, 01:12 PM »

Write Monkey is growing on me it really helps to keep me focused. and CintaNotes is amazing been looking for a note taking app like this for a while. Wish it had the ability to add styles to text like bold and italic. other than that it's great.  Thanks again

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 08, 2011, 12:40 AM »

good suggestions so far . not sure which I'll choose between WriteMonkey or q10 or ImmersEd all three look good . will have to download them and test them out.

I like to write fiction: short stories, flash fiction, and poetry ( sometimes I write reviews)

I'm sort of bipolar when it comes to writing. I like to be organized but I tend to write  more when I  do "stream of consciousness"  when I try to organize I tend to get  too involved and spend more time organizing instead of writing. Also when I organize  it seems like when i do start writing, writers block soon sets in after a few paragraphs.

One piece of software I would love to find is  a meter and syllable counter for help me with keeping my poetry in check.

keep the suggestions coming. thanks guys!

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General Software Discussion / Software recommendations for writers

« on: May 06, 2011, 01:19 PM »

I'm trying to focus more on my writing as of late and I find I get distracted  when I'm on  a pc that is capable of getting online. So I'm switching to a laptop for a while that has no way of accessing the internet. Any software(Preferably open source but I'm not opposed to paying for good software.) all the software must be able to run without an active internet connection though.

some software that could come in handy would be  an offline dictionary, and a rhyming dictionary if possible(I haven't had much luck finding an offline version.)

I currently have Storybook for planning stories and such. Mobysaurus Thesaurus(it works but on my main machine its  sluggish so I'm not sure if the laptop will be able to handle it)

and I have Abiword and Notepad++

Any more must have applications that I need to add ? any and all recommendations are welcome and appreciated.

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Living Room / Re: Photos of the Surprise gifts I won from the April Giveaway

« on: April 14, 2011, 09:07 PM »

oh crap thought I had the index cards and  the card holder in one of the pics. sorry for that. Never used index cards for getting organized but I do tend to use them when  coming up with short story ideas and characters.

check out your system and seems like something I could implement . again thanks

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Living Room / Photos of the Surprise gifts I won from the April Giveaway

« on: April 14, 2011, 04:21 PM »

Photos of the Surprise Gifts I won in the April Giveaway

I was going to post a video but I have been under the weather. Awesome prizes  really excited to see the manual and strategy guides for the warcraft games and expansions.

thanks again to everyone that made this giveaway possible.

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« on: April 03, 2011, 12:51 PM »

this is awesome can't believe I won1 thanks so much to everyone that made this giveaway possible

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Skwire Empire / Re: Trout 1.0.5 Build 85 2 weird glitches

« on: March 31, 2011, 05:19 AM »

that did the trick thanks for the help now when I click a song it opens normally even when i have songs in the playlist

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Skwire Empire / Re: Trout feature Request: Automatically play file

« on: March 31, 2011, 02:49 AM »

ok when I add that LBC crashes. I restored a backup and LBC is running fine now but when ever i try to add that parameter it crashes

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Skwire Empire / Re: Trout 1.0.5 Build 85 2 weird glitches

« on: March 31, 2011, 02:46 AM »

the tags are updated and display after editing them but once I close Trout and reopen it the tags are gone.

maybe its something with my system lol just tried to replicate  using different songs and it still happens when I click the song it loads  in Trout but  it loads  each word of the path and filename as a new song with each track being 59 minutes.  that only happens if I click the songs if I drag them I have no probems

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Skwire Empire / Trout 1.0.5 Build 85 2 weird glitches

« on: March 30, 2011, 07:20 PM »

This first glitch has happened 3 times today. I have trout open and some songs are in the playlist. I decide I want to  add another so I click on a song in my mp3 folder.  the song is added to the playlist but as the screenshot shows it lists the last song as if it was several songs. When this happens it affects some of the other songs as well and make it so they can't play and the  first song in the playlist just repeats.

If I drag songs from my song directory into the playlist the problem  doesn't seem to happen.


2nd glitch is that when I update the tags of a song within Trout and then I exit trout next time I play that song the tags aren't saved.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Trout feature Request: Automatically play file

« on: March 30, 2011, 07:08 PM »

haven't been using LBC that long would I put /play  in the arguments section in the options of the trout entry ?

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Skwire Empire / Trout feature Request: Automatically play file

« on: March 29, 2011, 01:23 AM »

I have Trout set as my main mp3 player and would like it so when I click on a song it loads in Trout then automatically starts playing. as it is now it will load  up but  I have to hit play. It's a small thing i know but  when I have my design apps open I like to have the ability to use launchbar commander to quickly open a song or a few songs and be done with it lol

is it possible to have this feature added ?