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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« on: October 03, 2011, 03:00 PM »

Thanks wraith, that looks really good but a little bit expensive ...

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General Software Discussion / Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« on: October 03, 2011, 12:18 PM »

So I'm looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets - I have Cintanotes and EtherVane Echo and other odd and ends but they are not exactly what I'm looking for, though of course they are excellent in what they do.

It has to be something where I can just click on a snippet and it's copied to the system clipboard and where the snippets can be moved around between folders and so on ...

Any suggestions please ?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« on: September 16, 2011, 05:47 AM »

tomos : take a look at TagKeys. I use it all the time to store and enter logins, unimportant passwords, snippets etc. There are lots of built-in macros and it might just do the job.

It also slides out 

On the downside it doesn't seem to be under development any more.

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Living Room / Re: Would you trust this ... ?

« on: September 15, 2011, 08:04 AM »

It just seems weird to stick your password into some strange input box.

-Renegade (September 15, 2011, 07:56 AM)

Yes, that's what I thought - well, nearly ... 

But on the other hand ... if this service is trustworthy then it's really useful.

More opinions ?

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« on: September 15, 2011, 07:40 AM »

My all-time graffiti favourite is :

- Bill Stickers is innocent -

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Living Room / Would you trust this ... ?

« on: September 15, 2011, 05:36 AM »

Has anyone tried (I have and it works) using mail2web ... ? It looks really useful BUT would you give your email password to someone you don't know ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speech to Text Software?

« on: September 13, 2011, 05:26 AM »

Waking up an old thread with a new find for Renegade : Dictation Pro (free..?) - it only works with Vista and Win 7 ...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« on: September 12, 2011, 05:50 AM »

Thanks for your detailed reply tranglos - things are clearer now ... ! And I do understand the way you wish to go.

About clickable urls : how about urls in the URLs View being clickable - just another idea ?

And the name : reminds me of EthervaneRadio ...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« on: September 08, 2011, 12:38 PM »

Still enjoying testing Ethervane Echo - two ideas, remarks or requests, but which may go beyond the scope of the app :

• have you thought about drag-and-drop or Move to ... ? The possibility of moving a clip from one Quick view to another (and in particular to a custom view, e.g. Archives) either by drag-and-drop or an option in the context menu to Move to ... As things are the Quick views can only contain filtered clips.

• and what about clickable urls ?

BTW the way, unless I missed it somewhere, could you comment on the name : is it Ethervane like weathervane ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Realtime backups

« on: September 05, 2011, 06:55 AM »

I use one called Yadis Backup. Simple backup program, not too many configuration options, but works for me.

-InstantFundas (September 04, 2011, 11:31 AM)

I much prefer Bvckup 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Realtime backups

« on: September 04, 2011, 11:02 AM »

oblivion : about the junctions, I found this thread on the Bvckup forum, I don't know if it will be of any help to you.

BTW, if you're still trying Bvckup, how are you getting on with the filters ? I'm having problems including some files from a folder and excluding all others ...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« on: September 03, 2011, 05:20 PM »

Testing now - looking very good indeed - thanks tranglos 

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General Software Discussion / Re: a light notetaker/word processor that autohides to the side of the screen

« on: August 30, 2011, 04:29 PM »

It's not this one either (no rtf) but it's neat and rapid.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speech to Text Software?

« on: August 30, 2011, 12:53 PM »

Renegade, another one you might like to look at here (look for PROBLEM ORIENTED RECORDS installer), there's a full description at Softpedia here.
I know it talks about medical records and so on but it contains a speech recognition word processor.

You never know ... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: backup software - file-by-file sets

« on: August 28, 2011, 11:42 AM »

Uranium Backup

-joiwind (August 28, 2011, 03:43 AM)

The payware versions are moderately to seriously pricey.  Do you use one of them, or the free one?

-rjbull (August 28, 2011, 11:25 AM)

The free one ... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: backup software - file-by-file sets

« on: August 28, 2011, 03:43 AM »

And a little-known but excellent prog (which I have recommended before) is : Uranium Backup - many features and versions.

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Living Room / Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight.

« on: August 27, 2011, 01:37 PM »

http://space.about.c...upernova-in-2012.htm
http://news.discover...explode-in-2012.html

Doesn't look likely ! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: a light notetaker/word processor that autohides to the side of the screen

« on: August 27, 2011, 11:22 AM »

Was it this : mfNotePad

(Note: the author's site has disappeared.)

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Living Room / Re: Exploding star to be visible from Earth within a fortnight.

« on: August 26, 2011, 04:37 PM »

Thanks for this.

Some details : as stated in the article the supernova can be found in the Pinwheel galaxy near Ursa major (Great Bear, Big Dipper, the Plough etc), the Pinwheel galaxy is NGC 5457 or M 101.

To find the galaxy look at the first two stars (Alkaid and Mizar) (on the "left") of the "handle" of the "plough" and then look "upwards" from them to a central point forming the apex of a near-equilateral triangle with those two stars forming the other two corners and the baseline. The Pinwheel galaxy is at that point.

Happy hunting !

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a [i]single[/i] pane file manager

« on: August 25, 2011, 08:02 AM »

You could also checkout MultiCommander which is very configurable including custom scripts and much more. It is a two-pane explorer with tabs but you can switch to one pane and back. I've been testing MC and playing around with it for a few months now and I'm getting to like it.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

« on: August 22, 2011, 05:49 AM »

As april says, it wouldn't be that surprising if we used Drupal.  I definitely have a love/hate relationship with Drupal, but i have used it now in several projects and i have quite a bit of experience with it.

I find it completely unintuitive and unpleasant, but there are still good reasons to use it as a CMS, and it would be at the top of the list of contenders for DC.

-mouser (August 06, 2011, 06:07 AM)

mouser : putting aside Drupal for a moment (I have the same sort of relationship with it as you do though I am running a site with it since 5 years) maybe you could check this : dbqwiksite, I can't say if it is really what you're looking for but maybe it is ... ? 

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Living Room / Re: how does your <insert device here> stack up?

« on: August 19, 2011, 12:49 PM »

He's stonewalling if you ask me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speech to Text Software?

« on: August 14, 2011, 12:25 PM »

No luck. The Cool C ReadWrite wouldn't run without a license, and the company is out of business it looks like. (Web site gone.)

@joiwind - The first link was a 404. Which did you mean there?

-Renegade (August 11, 2011, 05:13 PM)

Sorry Ren, try this and look for AARON and AIB. But I'm not at all sure that you can use WAVs, just a micro.

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Living Room / Re: UK Riots: Have you been affected?

« on: August 12, 2011, 04:41 PM »

...the thin veneer of civilisation is still just that - a thin veneer. Tear it off, and it's not a very pretty sight.

-IainB (August 12, 2011, 04:30 PM)

Can't remember where I heard or saw this (maybe on DC ?) but one day someone asked Ghandi what he thought of western civilization and he replied : "I think it would be a good idea".

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Living Room / Re: UK Riots: Have you been affected?

« on: August 12, 2011, 12:18 PM »

Two "radical" (if not new) views : back to Keynesian economics and the gold standard ...   

A quote from Keynes : "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the situation is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.
    The introduction of a substantial government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available, with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation over enterprise in the United States."

After all, it's all down to money - isn't it ...?