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Living Room / Re: Google demonstrates new communication platform "WAVE": mail, chat , wiki, ..

« on: August 04, 2010, 06:09 PM »

RIP Wave!  Lots of lessons to be learned in the 'mashup' concept of things in my opinion

http://googleblog.bl...-on-google-wave.html

We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects

-rgdot (August 04, 2010, 04:32 PM)

Feels right to me. I suspected from the beginning that Google Wave was intended more to develop ideas for other products than a real usable product in itself. Although I don't think I posted that anywhere, so I can't prove it.

it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing,...

I guess this is innovative for being in a web browser but there were programs during the Netscape 2.0 era that let you watch people type (which isn't very useful, and in fact I find it detrimental to communication).

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

« on: August 04, 2010, 08:32 AM »

This is one of the reasons why I'm so hesitant to release any of my stuff as open source. It all becomes so complicated.

-phitsc (August 04, 2010, 02:44 AM)

http://sheehantu.wor...enses-in-a-nutshell/ <- That's pretty much it. Software licenses are great bathroom reading material, tho

-scancode (August 04, 2010, 07:04 AM)

That's a nice link. From your comment, I expected something else, although you did say READING material, not WIPING material lol. I should read more carefully.

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

« on: August 04, 2010, 07:15 AM »

I've been trying to figure this out, too. A lot of these seem to put a lot of effort into mirroring IMDB, which I don't think is really necessary for my needs. I don't really even need box shots, although they are nice to have. Which are best at letting you add your own custom fields and tags to both movies and actors and getting rid of fields you don't care about, and letting you make custom movie lists?  I've been experimenting with creating a custom database with SQLite Administrator and have been tempted to start a movie database design thread here. But I can't believe no one has designed a movie database in SQLite before that I could use as a starting point, but I couldn't Google one up.

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

« on: August 04, 2010, 06:50 AM »

Why not just make the window a little wider?

-Perry Mowbray (August 03, 2010, 10:28 PM)

Yeah, I'm thinking something like that..but I'm thinking I must have screwed something up when I made some mods, because I am seeing the wrapping problem myself.

EDIT 8/6: Somehow in the combination of removing Segoe UI hard coding and redesigning the GUI slightly so that the /f /p combination has Skip and Cancel All buttons, I screwed up some of the numbers. It's ok now, I think. I'll hold off on the next release until Skip and Cancel All are actually implemented.

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

« on: August 03, 2010, 10:09 PM »

Found the duplicate GUI display call, and noticed for the first time that one of the GUIs exhibited a wrapping problem and one didn't. Hmmm. Anyway it is not compiling at the moment because something else I changed I have to figure out.

So I'm curious if this also fixes the wrapping issue also. (EDIT: It doesn't...yet) Because the GUI Ctrl resizing thing really makes my head hurt, I'd like to avoid it if I can. That's the kind of thing that makes me want to rewrite it in C++ where I can use sizers or something. Which means it might not ever get done.

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

« on: July 31, 2010, 10:11 PM »

This looks like what I need (these control properties appear in the Koda Form Designer as well):
http://www.autoitscr...ICtrlSetResizing.htm

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 01:09 PM »

Your example screenshot doesn't make it easy to locate your tabs of interest visually

-f0dder (July 30, 2010, 12:35 PM)

Speed Dial has its own tab grouping, but it represents tabs set up within Speed Dial itself vs. currently running tabs. Personally, I don't have a lot of need for tabs in standby mode. I would rather either open them all at once if needed or close them when done! But everyone is different, so I am glad there are choices.

I'm not saying Speed Dial does everyone I want either, there's a couple of features I'd like to see but haven't found yet:

- Sync with bookmarks
- 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)
- Remember last tab group (and not doing this natively is probably a byproduct of Speed Dial tabs not using real Firefox tabs and therefore unable to take advantage of Firefox session restore, which I prefer to turn off anyway )

This all definitely gets me thinking though, the video shows the Tab Candy developer is not short on ideas for improvementl, that's a great sign.

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 01:00 PM »

i didn't realise IE used different shades for read and unread.

-nudone (July 30, 2010, 12:34 PM)

It doesn't, I was saying it used different shade for the current and non-current. I just tried it in IE8 though, it is actually the same shade with a slightly more aggressive gradient.

I am trying to get the  best of both worlds.

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 12:22 PM »

nor did it work well alongside TMP - which i have colouring my tabs by current, read, unread (which i now think is actually better than the IE colouring method).

-nudone (July 30, 2010, 10:39 AM)

If this is (ever) done right, the current tab and unread tabs are still obvious (I think IE8 uses a lighter shade of the group color). And unread tabs have red italics going for them (in TMP by default, maybe even in Firefox default or at least an about:config setting).

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 12:10 PM »

edit:
think i might have just been thinking of this instead, so not exactly like IE colours to be honest: https://addons.mozil.../firefox/addon/8004/

-nudone (July 30, 2010, 10:39 AM)

Yeah, I think I tried all the well-known tab coloring extensions, and none of them had automatic groups the way IE8 does it that I could tell, the closest thing I found (before finding Vista-Aero) was something that groups tabs by domain, which isn't what I wanted. And Vista-Aero does exactly what I want, but since it is a theme instead of an add-on, it is a bit limiting if you don't really want Firefox to look like IE.

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 12:04 PM »

Does AutoIt have a resizable window? I know that I started using such a library with AHK which fixed those font issues: when the window and controls have fixed dimensions I think what's happening is that different system fonts are bigger/smaller and not fitting correctly (and wrapping).

-Perry Mowbray (July 30, 2010, 09:30 AM)

Is it like AWT in Java / sizers in wxWidgets? I haven't found anything like that so far, but worse case I can probably calculate widths / heights.

I'm sure the window itself can be made resizable.

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 09:11 AM »

It looked like the same code was run twice to produce the same window twice...

-Perry Mowbray (July 30, 2010, 09:06 AM)

I'm sure I've got a double function call in there somewhere and I'm seeing the two windows as well. Never noticed it because one window is directly on top of the other, and if I ever saw two windows, I probably thought it was because I was running the program so many times to test it.

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

« on: July 30, 2010, 04:49 AM »

Hey I just tried this (as we use Outlook at work)... why are there two windows? If I move the window, there's another one (identical) behind; both close when complete.  

Also: the width of the window is wrapping the body text under the input box so I can't see the word "help"

But it works!!!  

-Perry Mowbray (July 30, 2010, 01:48 AM)

Thanks for the bug reports.

Could you post a screen shot?
When you see the two windows, do both seem to be responsive or is one more like a ghost image?
What version of Outlook?
What version of Windows?


I actually didn't test with an Exchange Server configuration, I wonder if that is causing the two windows somehow.

EDIT: Ha! I have the two windows too, I never noticed before. It should be something simple to fix. I still would like a screenshot so I can see the wrapping problem.

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

« on: July 27, 2010, 03:15 PM »

It solves problems I personally have my own workarounds for:

If a tab is "distracting," I close it unless I'm going to read it this session (conveniently these have red italics - I think I have Tab Mix Plus doing this but I don't think it's required for this function)
If I want to read a tab sometime after this session, I use Read it Later.
If I want to open multiple tabs at one time, put multple bookmarks in a folder and middle click the folder.
If I want to  open tabs by clicking on a thumbnail, I use Speed Dial.

Furthermore, it re-creates the problem I had before discovering "Single Window Mode" in Tab Mix Plus, that of having to look at multiple windows to figure out which window contained a specific tab.

EDIT: Also in the shopping example they give in the video, a good solution for that is the way IE8 gives the tabs opened from the same source their own color automatically. This can be emulated in Firefox using the Vista-Aero theme, but I wish they would extract that functionality into a separate add-on so I could use it without making Firefox look like IE.

I may change my mind when I get around to testing it, I'm just not that motivated to install yet another build of Firefox to give this a try. The "tab dashboard" idea might get some use if I don't have to recreate it from session to session.

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

« on: July 25, 2010, 12:56 PM »

My kneejerk reaction is that this is kind of crap people resort to in Google Chrome since there's no Tab Mix Plus add-on. But I will wait a little bit for it to be a finished and polished product and give it a try -- the download I saw was a whole separate build of Firefox, and not part of Minefield either.

Reminds me of the Speed Dial addon, too, which I use, but I wonder if it is comparable.

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

« on: July 23, 2010, 03:12 PM »

No news is probably good news, I can't imagine anyone having a problem with it, it's still a very generous license.

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Living Room / Re: I need a site like Last.fm,but for movie stats instead

« on: July 23, 2010, 01:24 PM »

Take a look at hellomovies.com and see if it looks like something you would use.
jinni.com is another

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General Software Discussion / Karaoke software recommendations?

« on: July 23, 2010, 12:20 PM »

Can anyone recommend any karaoke software? It doesn't have to be freeware necessarily, but fairly inexpensive. It would be good if it allows me to make recordings of my kids singing along the songs.

CD-G as a format is pretty funny, who would have thought burning text to a CD would require a special burner? So I have no use for it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Simple Public License (SimPL)

« on: July 22, 2010, 06:46 AM »

The GPL is too restrictive.  

-Tuxman (July 21, 2010, 03:33 PM)

I'm not a big fan of the the GPL either, but Stallman's "flowery" crap writing style  and manifesto rant to realize what the license is actually saying, so I am all for rewriting it for clarity's sake. Stallman himself should have done so long ago.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Simple Public License (SimPL)

« on: July 21, 2010, 03:32 PM »

Seems like it's GPL 2.0 without the B.S., in fact I noticed he said in the license it is intended to be equivalent to GPL 2.0.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Aloha, free HTML5 Editor

« on: July 21, 2010, 09:45 AM »

Their tagline "It's like having our own supersonic guinea pig." reminds me on this quote on Bruce Eckel's page:

If somebody comes up to you and says something like, "How do I make this pony fly to the moon?", the question you need to ask is, "What problem are you trying to solve?" You'll find out that they really need to collect gray rocks. Why they thought they had to fly to the moon, and use a pony to do it, only they know. People do get confused like this.
                                    -- Max Kanat-Alexander

EDIT: Actually it looks like a user testimonial rather than a tagline. But the design makes it look like a tagline.

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

« on: July 21, 2010, 09:01 AM »

@Paul. Good point, thank you. It's about choices.

I couldn't actually find a download link for TaskBlaze, even though it says "Link: Download TaskBlaze.zip (127.0K)". There was another program I ran across where the author had blogged about it but had put it in a Microsoft repository which has now been discontinued (the repository that is).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1

« on: July 21, 2010, 08:01 AM »

Thanks, 4wd and Curt!

Just want to report that Beta 1 seems to have some problem with gmail as well, it gets stuck on the preview screen and I have to click on the HTML mode link.

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Living Room / Re: Software Industry Conference - Dallas, Texas -- Pics

« on: July 19, 2010, 04:47 PM »

fun.. wish we could have had a donationcoder tshirt on display..

-mouser (July 17, 2010, 05:20 PM)

Or join the ASP to start. A lot of ASP members come out.

-Renegade (July 17, 2010, 05:29 PM)

These guys? Back in the day, they believed that actually asking for donations for software (vs. requiring them) would upset the entire shareware ecosystem. In fact, that was a membership requirement, to make it clear that paying for the software was a legal requirement vs. a donation. So they would sort of be the anti-donationcoder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: weather.com

« on: July 19, 2010, 11:29 AM »

@40hz:
+1 for wraith808's suggestion.
Maybe check proxy settings as well (no idea how to do this on an iphone)
Also try going to whatismyip.com and use the WHOIS lookup and see if you see anything interesting.
Are you using any third party DNS like OpenDNS?