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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: tab completion in any text field

« on: September 01, 2006, 06:18 AM »

What are the outstanding bugs? Any show stopper? It's kind of pricey...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: tab completion in any text field

« on: August 31, 2006, 11:15 AM »

Ups! sorry jgpaiva.
Great script
Somehow, anytime I think ahk, SKrommel comes to mind... the 1-hr title is catchy.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: tab completion in any text field

« on: August 31, 2006, 07:01 AM »

Hilitext got me thinking. I had no idea something like that could be implemented at all.
I love vim's auto-completion. I wish all applications had the same feature (why they don't is beyond me). The idea is to do something similar to the hotstringScript script by skrommel but expanding it to the entire vocabulary, maybe weighting words by recency or by the fact that they appear in the chunk of text being edited.

There is also As-U-Type that corrects typos in any application. Then, the tab completion thing can't be horribly difficult to implement, right?

The company that publishes these programs is this one:
http://www.fanix.com

What do you think?

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Websites Talking about GTD to get you into the spirit

« on: August 31, 2006, 04:45 AM »

http://www.43folders.com itself is a good resource.
A bit mac-centric though.

By the way, an example of what can be done by a (extreme) GTD use is this:
http://www.stevepavl...ticles/do-it-now.htm
Steve pavlina graduated in 3 semesters with both math and computer science. Maybe all these systems work...

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Living Room / google music (not released yet)

« on: August 30, 2006, 06:10 PM »

Try it out using:
http://www.google.com/musicsearch?qq=[artist name here]
Pretty cool.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / consistency: interesting program for soft deadlines, repetitive task

« on: August 29, 2006, 05:00 PM »

http://www.sciral.com/consistency/

Now, would I pay $20 for it? it looks like you can code it in a weekend...
What do you think?

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General Software Discussion / calcoo, local google calendar

« on: August 29, 2006, 08:21 AM »

This is what I really needed:

http://www.calgoo.com/

Unfortunately it is coded in java and it takes several minutes to boot -> completely useless for a quick check.
Also, the fonts are tiny (it ignores the system settings).
It is a frist draft so it may improve.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / When to automatize?how looking to optimize your system will make you inefficient

« on: August 29, 2006, 04:45 AM »

If you are like me, you have many global shortcuts. All application are heavily customized, and you have a config file the length of your arm for your most used tools.

You spend ~1hr a day looking for the best tool to do the job. If it doesn't exist, you code one yourself.

This is all trying to optimize your time.

What I ask is… is it working?

Today a 'no frills' person showed me that she was willing to cut and paste something 73 times in excel (task that I would have automated!) and be done with the task faster than I could code an equivalent solution. Not to mention that I had to spend many hours to learn the language I was going to use for the task!

At the end of the day, trying to optimize everything in your computer, as much as we do, could be counterproductive in productivity terms.

I guess it also applies to the whole GTD view of the world. Learning the system costs you time, implementing costs you time, keeping the system updated costs you time… Not to mention the whole time wasted testing programs for the 'killer' application that will work for you best.

I had this idea when thinking about writing code vs. doing tasks by brute force (small tasks, of course). But it may apply more generally...

Your thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: I have lost hibernation completely

« on: August 28, 2006, 03:24 PM »

will do, thanks.

However, here is some new info.
I have selected 'never hybernate'. But when I close the lid and open it again,  it doesn't even acknowledge the USB ports. Whatever you plug, it doesn't find.
   
Plus, it burns through batteries like never before. With suplementary batteries, it gets ~3hrs, before 6hrs.

Sometimes, when I have no USB alive, I close all programs, preparing to reboot, and then mysteriously, after I close some program (last time, it was opera) it will go straight into hybernation mode!
   
So my hypothesis is that there is a program that is doing something strange, that interferes with the command for going to hybernation. It could well be opera.

I have noticed that opera had one of these Download pages where it is expecting you to say 'save'... maybe that was it. Will report any new progress

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Backup Guide / Re: Don't forget Syncback !!!!

« on: August 28, 2006, 12:35 PM »

No, you don't lose them.
Ideally, what it'd do is the following.
You point SB to a folder of a long list of daily incremental backups dated say yesterday. It should be smart enough to recover ALL files since day 1 and overwrite the new ones in cronological order. End result: you have the most current version of everything. Right now, it doesn't do that: it recovers whatever is in that folder (say: yesterday files) and that's it.

This is so shocking that I thought it was impossible that the program didn't offer that feature. I asked in the forums, and it doesn't! (but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

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Backup Guide / Re: Don't forget Syncback !!!!

« on: August 28, 2006, 04:48 AM »

Well, if you want to have the latest version of every file, you have to either know where it is (unlikely) or copy "by hand" every folder cronologically on top of each other so it does get that latest version of everything.
Crazy, don't you think? That's my only gripe. Unfortunately, some users don't care about this feature, and the developer said that it will be months before he implements proper incremental recovery, so I'm still in the market for a backup utility.

Otherwise, it is a very nice application.

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Living Room / Re: I have lost hibernation completely

« on: August 27, 2006, 12:50 PM »

hard to say. System contains loads of information and error messages, none of them containing anything related to hibernation that I can see.

I get no BSOD, just that when the resuming bar gets filled completely, the computer never comes back to life and it has to be restarted. So probably, no log?

Thanks a lot

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General Software Discussion / Re: Suggest an Icon Editor

« on: August 27, 2006, 11:01 AM »

some more, free:
iconLab
http://fileforum.bet...IconLab/1118615094/1

iconPhile:
http://fileforum.bet...onPhile/1015873075/1

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Living Room / Re: I have lost hibernation completely

« on: August 27, 2006, 08:22 AM »

Update.
Before it would just not go into hibernation.
After all the voodoo (full reinstall etc), it doesn't come back after hibernation.

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Living Room / Re: I have lost hibernation completely

« on: August 27, 2006, 07:46 AM »

I forgot to say I tried that as well, no dice.
It was working before, but not anymore.
It must be something I installed...

Argh! I tried uninstalling so many things already.
This is very frustrating... because I use hibernation everyday and without it the lappy doesn't even warn me when it's running out of batteries...

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General Software Discussion / Re: ideas for perfect backup/sync software

« on: August 27, 2006, 07:37 AM »

can sbSE do that for SFTP (SSH?). Really?

-urlwolf (August 06, 2006, 07:08 PM)

You're not being sarcastic on me, now, are you? 

-Second Shadow (August 06, 2006, 10:55 PM)

Sorry, It was not sarcasm. I was unsure if SFTP was supported, I didn't know.

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Living Room / Re: inline search highlighting in word?

« on: August 27, 2006, 07:34 AM »

Thanks a lot that solves the problem

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Living Room / I have lost hibernation completely

« on: August 26, 2006, 07:50 PM »

I have tried everything.
Going back using system restore.
Reinstalling XP in repair mode.
(and reinstalling all the drivers)

Nothing.

I have lost hibernation completely.

Any ideas, hints?
Thanks a lot

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« on: August 25, 2006, 05:51 AM »

There is a 180-day trial for oneNote at M$ for students and academics. That should take you up to the point where they will release 2007 I guess.

I'm loving it At the moment, it does the voice recording thingy for when you think the note is not worth writing...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Ad Muncher: keeps the brain intact while surfing the Net - beats AdBlock!

« on: August 24, 2006, 06:35 PM »

any chances of getting a discount again for admuncher?
Thanks a lot

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Backup Guide / Re: Don't forget Syncback !!!!

« on: August 24, 2006, 06:05 PM »

I use syncBack too.
However, I found a show-stopper: No way to recover the incremental backups. It has no provision for getting only the latest copy of each file. A big omission if you ask me.

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Living Room / Re: inline search highlighting in word?

« on: August 22, 2006, 11:02 AM »

2003 SP 2

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: passing the buck (part 1)

« on: August 22, 2006, 05:26 AM »

Nudone,

I don't have the stats but I think most of us produce more ideas than we can actually, realistically implement. Having unfinished stuff is normal. Not every idea we weed out is a concious decision, sometime we 'procrastinate it out'

I think your feeling of unsatisfaction has less to do with the bucket you use than with the actual fact that we cannot follow up every idea that comes up. I'm struggling with this at the moment as well.

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Living Room / HD noise distracting

« on: August 22, 2006, 03:38 AM »

Hi,

Am I the only one who fids HD noise distracting?

listening to umpredictable clicks every second or so it's not good for concentration (closer to torture).

I'm using a laptop in a vertical position that makes the hd really close to my ear level, but in general with laptops solutions like getting a better case or moving the box to another location are discarded.

Do you have any idea how to tackle this?

Thanks a lot

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Living Room / Re: inline search highlighting in word?

« on: August 22, 2006, 03:32 AM »

Thanks Perry.
Unfortunately, I cannot find "find all" anywhere in my copy? if I hit ctrl+F I get a "find next" button, but not find all. The help doesn't bring anything relevant.

About the second one, Tab completion works as follows: you type only the first few letters of a word in the document, hit tab, and the program completes the word or gives you suggestions. example, I could type 'sugg' and tab and get suggestions.

If word autocomplete can do that, I haven't been able to check the right box

Thanks a lot