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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« on: September 03, 2010, 01:33 PM »

I have no opinion, I just want to add a little fuel to the fire:

Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab

Why they chose a name that brings to mind old Fords and old diet soft drinks is anyone's guess.

EDIT: (Yeah, I did change the link from cnet to engadget)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: TaskDaddy

« on: August 31, 2010, 04:20 PM »

Glad you like it, DeVamp! There are a couple of interface bugs I need to fix (updated the known issues above just now).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Highlighting rectangle

« on: August 31, 2010, 03:47 PM »

Aha! This was on my round tuit list of things to ask about as well, although I wouldn't have been nearly as articulate in asking about it. The highlighter built into the Snipping Tool built into Vista/Win7 does this, and I wonder if there is a way to make Screenshot Captor do this already, just not by default.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 27, 2010, 06:29 PM »

It looks like the most recent official announcement from the developer is here:

That’s why in Panorama we are careful to never mess with your organization and layout — it is always the same even after you restart the browser.

That's the magic word we were waiting for: persistence.

-daddydave (August 26, 2010, 03:41 PM)

I haven't had much luck getting the persistence to work unless I choose the  "Show my windows and tabs from last time" option in Firefox. Which sort of makes sense, but it ices the idea that I can use this as a replacement for Speed Dial (EDIT: By that I mean I was hoping to figure a way to use this as kind of a start page, independent of what tabs are actually open, although that may have been wishful thinking) ; maybe instead I should encourage the Speed Dial developers to hook into this functionality.

By the way, what would be wrong with making the Ctrl-Space screen appear on new tabs? I'd like that option. Maybe I'll suggest it. Along with hotkeys for tab groups.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 27, 2010, 01:03 PM »

On the other hand, maybe it's just me, but i'd rather stick knives into my ears than listen to Aza Raskin explain one of his ideas as if he has discovered the secrets of the universe.  I get that apple vibe from people like this.. i'll pass.

-mouser (July 24, 2010, 12:49 AM)

Yeah... I shut it off when he said that he spends more time in his browser than in his OS. Idiot.

-Darwin (August 26, 2010, 08:47 PM)

yeah, i raised the same point in the chat-room. it's like one saying that they use their car more than the road..

-lanux128 (August 26, 2010, 10:54 PM)

lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 26, 2010, 03:41 PM »

It looks like the most recent official announcement from the developer is here:

That’s why in Panorama we are careful to never mess with your organization and layout — it is always the same even after you restart the browser.

That's the magic word we were waiting for: persistence.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 17, 2010, 12:35 PM »

I tried this, if they can make the tab groups persist (which is on the roadmap if I read right), it could replace Speed Dial. I am using Speed Dial pretty inefficiently.. New Tab, click on a Group, click on an app. This would save me some keystrokes / mouse clicks.

Unrelated I think - Right now I have an addon conflict that is preventing any version of Firefox from starting up, so I am using Chrome in the meantime.

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Living Room / Re: Invalid Cast: Cool Member Blog

« on: August 12, 2010, 09:10 AM »

as nervous as a small nun at a penguin shooting

HAHA!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Crazy URL Thing (aka SAMSA)

« on: August 10, 2010, 07:50 PM »

Nice! Like the name, too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 10, 2010, 02:39 PM »

Dunno if Tab Candy necessarily keeps tabs *open* when not using them, but it wouldn't need to do that in order to do some of it's nice features... having the overview and grouping is imho super useful.

-f0dder (August 10, 2010, 01:26 PM)

Yeah but you already have overview and grouping. I thought the whole point of Tab Candy was to manage open tabs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Tab Candy will change the way I use a browser for good

« on: August 10, 2010, 01:24 PM »

Open multiple dials at once. (and the first improvement would actually enable the second one through middle click as mentioned earlier, but it would be good to be able to do it from the Speed Dial group page as well)

-daddydave (July 30, 2010, 01:09 PM)

I was wrong. Speed Dial does in fact do this. If you right click on a speed dial group tab, one of the choices is "Open All In New Tabs"

Still don't understand the necessity (implied by Tab Candy) of keeping a bunch of tabs open if you are not actively using them. Trying to figure out who App Tabs is for, too. I did actually download the Tab Candy build but haven't gotten around to watching the video and was looking for a document on it but then kind of lost interest.

Oh wait, I did watch the video. I guess I need to rewatch it. And there's a walkthrough on that page I didn't see before.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« on: August 08, 2010, 06:26 PM »

Well, so much for this little experiment. Maybe the software hasn't been updated since 2005 either!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« on: August 08, 2010, 02:56 PM »

Everyone of course has their own needs, but PVD seems the must customizable and flexible for my needs. Glad to finally find one that allows an actor list as well as a movie list. Not sure if I looked at Collectorz, though, I will check it out.

PVD has lost its charm for me since the author cursorily got rid of the 'grid view' feature.

-nosh (August 08, 2010, 02:13 PM)

Then I'm fortunate not to have ever seen it. I can't miss it if I never had it!

That and the fact that it's a one man show with few (if any) people there to update essential plugins like 'IMDB import' if the author abandons the program someday.

It seems to me most of them are one man shows. It seems to be less of a one man show than EMDB for example, and the scripts forum for PVD looks pretty active to me.

And, if I understand correctly, any program that gets too popular in this category is eventually going to have to pay up or contend with IMDB's legal team.

I have this concern as well. But it seems unavoidable unless a developer pays the IMDB $15,000 or more licensing fee, with the likelihood of never making it back. I looked at one of the text files allowed for non-commercial uses of IMDB data and I found it to be woefully incomplete and not updated since 2005.

EDIT: Just to make sure, I am downloading files from Germany this time, not Sweden, and also the Alternative Movie Database interface linked from that IMDB page and try getting movie information that way.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« on: August 08, 2010, 02:42 PM »

One thing that kept throwing me as I go for periods without using it, is I'd keep forgetting the easiest way to use it with IMDB.

-MilesAhead (August 08, 2010, 02:10 PM)

You mean as far as entering movies into the database?

I settled on doing this Ctrl-N, Type in the movie title with no other data, Ctrl Enter

Repeat for each movie

Then I select a bunch of movies from the left sidebar, and press Ctrl-Alt-I to update them all from the default web site (which for me is IMDB).

It's a little different because normally you see an Update button on the data form itself, but this way seems more flexible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« on: August 08, 2010, 01:38 PM »

Wow! I didn't even need to repurpose the tags. Personal Video Database allows adding custom fields to movies (not people though)

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« on: August 08, 2010, 09:52 AM »

Flying Saucer Launcher

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the Best Movie Collection Organizer Program

« on: August 08, 2010, 07:48 AM »

Did anyone see this slightly old thread where the same subject was discussed?     

Personal Movie Organizers - A quick rundown

I have been playing around with Personal Video Database and I have to agree with nosh's first post that it is the best of the ones I've tried. However the link didn't work, I found it here.

One of the features it has, that I was looking for, is the ability to have a list of people (actors, directors, etc.) in addition to movies. You can also deselect any fields you don't want to be downloaded for either movies or actors (which I am doing for tags, which I will use for my own purposes.) nosh has a summary of its features in the post I linked to.

The only quirks I've found are:
You have to run it as Administrator in Vista/Windows 7.
It minimizes to the system tray, which caused confusion for me when I thought it had crashed, thus I reopened it, either losing the data or saving to the wrong database file, etc.

One thing all the ones I've tried could do better for my purposes, instead of Seen and Wish checkboxes, I'd like to track WHO in the family has seen it and WHO wishes to see it. But repurposing the tags reserved for IMDB will be an easy workaround.

Another feature I have been looking for is the ability to make movie lists for different purposes. But I can use tags for that as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Firefox addon to do multiple searches in same search engine?

« on: August 07, 2010, 10:11 PM »

I think I probably have a workaround for what I want to do specifically...but that would be a great NANY project and could probably think of other uses for it.

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« on: August 06, 2010, 09:55 PM »

Eye Docktor

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« on: August 06, 2010, 07:48 PM »

Rotisserie Dock

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Circle Dock / Re: Suggesting names for new derivitative of CircleDock

« on: August 06, 2010, 07:09 PM »

Roundabout

Rotary Launcher

App Spinner

Grand Circular Station

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Firefox addon to do multiple searches in same search engine?

« on: August 06, 2010, 02:53 PM »

Google will block me if I perform several searches in rapid succession, e.g., spelling variants, modifiers, and the like.  It claims that I appear be using an automated search system and then it will block any searches from my IP address for 30-60 minutes.  Seems I've run into similar blockages at other search engines in the past, as well.

That does not bode well for your search  .

-barney (August 06, 2010, 11:10 AM)

Excellent point. Maybe I could work around it by spacing the searches out time-wise.

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« on: August 06, 2010, 10:54 AM »

Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

The way I would answer that question would be heavily weighted toward which one has the applications I want to run, and the best development environment to lure developers from all corners.

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General Software Discussion / Any Firefox addon to do multiple searches in same search engine?

« on: August 06, 2010, 05:29 AM »

I'm trying to find a Firefox addon to do multiple searches in a single search engine (I have Chrome installed too, so that would probably be fine). I'm not sure what the UI would be but one way to do it would be to offer a text area to paste a list of your things you want to do a search on,  hit submit and you see several tabs open up, each representing search results for a line item.

So for example, you paste in or type in a list of actors, and you get an IMDB search for each actor.

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Circle Dock / Re: Change of Licensing from Version 2 (Cancelled)

« on: August 05, 2010, 10:04 AM »

If I take a dead GPL'd project, and use that source and project as an inspiration to build the same project, but with my own source, is my project now GPL'd?  I don't think so...

-wraith808 (August 05, 2010, 08:59 AM)

You know, I thought I had read that the source had been completely rewritten, but I couldn't find it, so wondered if I had imagined it. If so, surely that makes a difference, does it not? But then again, I must have imagined it, otherwise it surely would have been mentioned in this thread before now.

Otherwise I have embargoed myself from talking about GPL because after all these years I am still confused about it.