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2001

General Software Discussion / Re: Adding text 'silently'?

« on: May 24, 2009, 10:02 PM »

Thank you rjbull if nothing else that's another option for me

2002

General Software Discussion / Re: Adding text 'silently'?

« on: May 23, 2009, 02:21 AM »

Thanx mouser, I didn't know about that one, will be one of my options at least

2003

General Software Discussion / Adding text 'silently'?

« on: May 23, 2009, 02:00 AM »

Is there a tool that makes it possible to add something like a task or any text to an app without actually opening it?

I want to add notes to a PIM lets say, I type something via the command line and it gets added silently. For example I know Lifehacker's Gina Trapani has a todo.sh tool that at least creates/appends to a text file but I don't want to get into cygwin stuff on this machine, also there are autohotkey scripts that create/append text files and of course those that send keys but they open the destination app. I know this must be dependent on the destination app as well but anyone know of any tools like that? or perhaps a PIM that natively supports adding of notes (or tasks or calendar entries) without opening it?

2004

Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Sex Sells Spider

« on: May 21, 2009, 03:44 PM »

lol @ such a site even existing

2005

General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« on: May 21, 2009, 02:05 PM »

The issue with those policies and what you are saying is that at least 4, 3 and 2 are easily "broken" by browsing. Even the best filters which don't allow watching videos at work for example or block sites can't prevent the most common source of serious computer problem these days...being connected to the net.

2006

General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« on: May 20, 2009, 03:07 PM »

mouser, patent the DcUpdater

2007

General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« on: May 20, 2009, 02:26 PM »

Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler

2008

General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

« on: May 20, 2009, 02:04 PM »

This idea is not entirely new and perhaps needs "enhancement" to be workable but...how about turning tabs into continuous pages? One (long) page that eases moving through what would otherwise be tabs with different sites. For researching a topic for example, not moving between tabs but browsing down one page.

2009

General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« on: May 20, 2009, 12:55 PM »

And there are places where Firefox is not even allowed, companies lol

2010

General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

« on: May 20, 2009, 02:59 AM »

Why is there a comparison to Chrome? That's not fair really. Chrome can be compared to Firefox only after it is of the same age. Is anybody really thinking that Chrome is not going to become heavier, to use your word(s), as time goes by? And when similar extensions become available for Chrome of course a majority will want to use them anyway and I am betting a good number will ask the features to be included in the download itself.

2011

General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

« on: May 19, 2009, 10:19 AM »

Not sure if I can come up with an original idea but look at their FAQ
"Do you've got some examples how a video of my mockup should look like?"

"Do you've got"???

And I thought my English is worthless 

2012

General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 16, 2009, 11:51 PM »

@mouser, in that sense you are right, I mean Yahoo messenger installed the toolbar for me even though I clearly unchecked it. So yes there are sneaky ways to get the stuff in or make uninstall difficult but when you are given the choice at install to accept or unaccept and your choices are followed then the difference is not much, the way I see it.

2013

General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 16, 2009, 11:12 PM »

I agree with the overall assertion like mouser posted and I alluded to in this thread. The result for the end user is very little different than tool bars and the likes that come with multitude of downloads. OpenCandy is offering a secondary mechanism behind the scenes that manifests itself a bit differently for the user. Of course as suggested it is better if the end user can refuse the OpenCandy registry/folder stuff but really the difference between existing software 'bundles' is not all that much.

2014

Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:32 AM »

Thank you Darwin

2015

General Software Discussion / Re: Cool text tools

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:31 AM »

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2016

Living Room / Re: Wolfram Alpha - Impressions On Launch

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:09 AM »

Atomic weight of Chlorine...worked
Biggest town in Germany...failed

Just two random tries that, on google, either work directly (answer on top of search results) or provide a good link with the answer.

2017

Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: May 16, 2009, 01:01 AM »

Hit 100 a bit earlier, all 100 very on topic and insightful too   

2018

Living Room / Re: Flight simulator site avsim.com loses 13 years of community data to hacker

« on: May 15, 2009, 02:37 PM »

A few weeks ago webhostingtalk was affected where, as far as I know, all backups were deleted as well. There aren't that many bigger collection of web pros than webhostingtalk. So if they can be victims then who knows who is safe. Offline backups must be part of the strategy for any data that is remotely important.

2019

General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« on: May 14, 2009, 01:55 PM »

The concept presented in the demo video is hardly new, just the content of the optional installs is different, rather than being a toolbar and such. Just because a 'back end' recommendation is behind it doesn't make it any different for the end user.

2020

General Software Discussion / Re: EC wants software makers held liable for code

« on: May 13, 2009, 09:53 PM »

It won't work as there is no way to enforce it even if it's a good thing. The problem here is that, even in 2009, lawmakers have not come to grips with the international nature of the internet. Even if this is an attempt to regulate software written in their jurisdiction there is still no way to standardize different languages, code, etc.

However, I am going to play devil's advocate and say that Ehtyar's assertion that open source and free software must be held to a different standard is something that can't last forever, just putting a text file saying this software is "as is" is not just ok. Don't expect that kind of a thing to be workable/acceptable in 10 or 20 years time.

2021

General Software Discussion / Re: how can I get a music file from a webpage

« on: May 12, 2009, 09:44 PM »

Another last resort option is using Audacity to record it and export to mp3

2022

Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« on: May 12, 2009, 01:47 PM »

Canada

2023

General Software Discussion / Re: My great doomed CMS search continues...

« on: May 11, 2009, 09:40 PM »

I would say CMSMS, I mentioned in the Joomla thread, could be worth a look. No tagging but pages can be assigned to a hierarchy like www.example.com/category1/hello.php. It uses Smarty so you should be able to get most things you have listed.

2024

Living Room / Re: Tell me what your software DOESN'T do... (a rant)

« on: May 11, 2009, 09:31 PM »

Does Joomla use FCK? I have seen people having to resort to css word-wrap in other CMSes (/me not a Joomla user) whenever I have used a CMS I have switched off and done plain text.

-rgdot (May 11, 2009, 06:05 PM)

There is an FCK plugin, but out of the box Joomla uses TinyMCE. No matter, WYSIWYG is quite the dog. I've tried building a test site for just two small apps, with neat little pages like Features, Screenshots, Download, History, FAQ... After posting just two articles I knew I could never maintain a consistent layout of the pages using a WYSIWYG editor, arranging headers and paragraphs manually, nudging the lines... It was a prime instance of OMG LOL situation.

How did you know it was about the editor though? The editor is one of the problems. Another is that there is no usable plain text mode - the content is a single line of html code. If I'm going to cut and paste to an HTML editor, I can do a static site faster that way. Another thing is how there is no way to easily link to internal articles. You have to use http://www.example.c...;id=26&Itemid=40 in the editor. Even with clean URLs it's awful, because if you reassign an article to another category, the links will go stale; I was hoping for something more wikified, I don't know. Again, it's easier to do a static site and link to "my-article.html" than use URLs like that.

And there's more, but I'm in the midst of writing a more coherent post, so I'll put this one on hold.

-tranglos (May 11, 2009, 06:26 PM)

In my instance, the one I have most recent experience with, is CMS Made Simple. You are correct, it's TinyMCE and also FCK additionally. I may be wrong but from your description it seems CMSMS has something that Joomla doesn't.
Without going too off topic...the thing is I would use a CMS for it's power in achieving other things, like one example having multiple users (permissions system). I don't use it to "ease" coding, so I set up a template and then go about generating pages (inside CMSMS) using plain text areas without an editor (I turn off the editor in CMSMS). I hope that makes sense.

2025

Living Room / Re: Tell me what your software DOESN'T do... (a rant)

« on: May 11, 2009, 06:05 PM »

Does Joomla use FCK? I have seen people having to resort to css word-wrap in other CMSes (/me not a Joomla user) whenever I have used a CMS I have switched off and done plain text.