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Post New Requests Here / In-Line 'Print Version' Browser Plug-In

« on: January 02, 2006, 02:08 PM »

Lot's of web pages have a 'Print Version' of the page you're reading that typically will have a cleaner lay out, offer less or no advertising, and will concatenate multiple page articles into one page.

These  'Print Versions' of a web page are often much nicer to read or browse then the actual web page, but the link can be buried in the page, and you may have to manually suppress a pop-up print dialog.

I propose a plug-in offered as a tool bar button that would attempt to parse a web page for the print version of the page, open in the same window and suppress any print output or configuration dialogs.  Perhaps the plug-in/button could be toggleable so it would be the attempted default browse mode when the button was left depressed or locked.

Here is an multi-page (with advertising) example of an Annand Tech review, and the single page print version of the same review....

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Mode Instant Messenger Client (Source Available)

« on: January 02, 2006, 01:54 PM »

I guess you have to use and love console mode applications to appreciate them...  Even the lightest weight GUI application will be of a porker compared to a dedicated console mode application.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Mode Instant Messenger Client (Source Available)

« on: December 10, 2005, 11:05 PM »

Perhaps it is more of a 'Coding Lunch' then a 'Snack', but all that really needs to be done is a Console mode interface added to the Miranda Source.  Microsoft Visual C++ is even supposed to have goo-gaws for making exactly this sort of thing easy for the Programmer...

Anyhowdy, hope someone gets excited about the idear that can pick it up and work with it, as it's way over my head and ability at the moment...

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Unfinished Requests / IDEA: Text Mode Instant Messenger Client (Source Available)

« on: December 03, 2005, 03:25 AM »

'Instant Messenger' applications are by design text applications but most are large, GUI heavy (and ugly),  feature bloated, insecure, unstable resource hogs (for what they actually do)....

The text mode nature and use of the application suggests by design that a console mode 'IM' client would be one of the most obvious ways to streamline the application, reduce features to most commonly used essentials, and offer something that's a real resource sipper you can leave running on your system 24/7 without giving it a second thought.

Linux has many text mode 'IM' clients, one mature example called mICQ also has rough, buggy, and poorly documented Windows ports available, but at least shows what's possible in the way of a clean, easy and functional text interface.

Miranda is a very popular, open source, multiple protocol, 'IM' client that's very light weight, and offers a plug-in architecture so only user chosen features and functions need be installed.   As the Miranda Source is mature, open, and free; it would I imagine (I'm not a programmer) offer a reasonable starting point for quickly building a simple text mode 'IM' client.

A 'Console Mode' Miranda compatable client would offer several compelling advantages in addition to those already mentioned including:

· all the core features are already coded
· a console mode Miranda compatible client could use many Miranda plug-ins
· code is already very mature and very 'light weight'
· program is compatable with all popular 'IM' protocols
· plenty of attention & enthusiasm for the Programmer from the Miranda community

There are many open source, multi-protocol 'IM' client projects; I've just suggested Miranda because it's popular, mature, well documented, and because it's one of the smallest 'IM' clients available.

Resources:

· Miranda Instant Messenger Home Page
· Miranda Source Code Download
· Miranda @ SourceForge
· Miranda CVS Browser
· Miranda Developers Journal

· mICQ Home Page
· mICQ Linux Source
· mICQ CVS Archives
· mICQ @ SourceForge

I love Windows CMD Console text mode applications for their clean, lean form that follows function interface and utility; I  wish Windows had a fraction of the offering of console mode applications that Linux/UNIX systems offer and appreciate any new links anyone can offer to useful Windows text mode applications...

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