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Living Room / Re: PZIZZ power napping software

« on: June 14, 2006, 04:11 AM »

wow!
I'm glad I bought it, people like that should be supported!

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Living Room / Re: Another article on google adsense worries

« on: June 11, 2006, 06:58 AM »

But my question is...
Where does this money come from?

I mean, what % of the population is clicking google ads and buying the typical products that the spammers use? Can we have such a huge numbers of non-internet-saavy people? How come? It takes <1second to see that a site is created with scraps of others. Although I have to admit that I have fallen for more 'sophisticated' versions of the same idea.

How many 'marketing' sites we need to see with yellow highlightings, pop ups, and long copy that is formatted at say 60 cols, before going crazy?

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Living Room / Re: Another article on google adsense worries

« on: June 11, 2006, 05:07 AM »

very good article, I totally agree.

1704

Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)

« on: June 10, 2006, 04:11 PM »

there are several ways of placing markers thoughout the text to enable instant jumps to wherever you need to work.  Then, when your text is finally in, import the file into WinWORD or your favourite wordproc for final WYSIWYG processing, indexing, printing, and all the rest.

This 2-stage process can save you many hours when writing.

Colin
 

-SAE140 (June 10, 2006, 06:14 AM)

I do this too (two stage process, using markers, simple text first, etc), but using vim. It has built-in file browser, text completion (superhandy), very fast search (inline), an outliner, etc... and it opens as fast as notepad.

You only have to get over the modal style of writing (e.g., escape to do edit operations, 'i' to start inserting text).

To finish stuff in word, I export my outines to rtf or html, and open them with word.

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Living Room / Re: PZIZZ power napping software

« on: June 09, 2006, 06:57 PM »

tony,
got the code working.
Can be bought from the uk with paypal
Thanks a lot

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Living Room / Re: PZIZZ power napping software

« on: June 09, 2006, 06:30 AM »

No idea, but the email they sent to Download the demo came with no links whatsoever...

Pretty suspicious...

So if I cannot try it, and they cannot send a simple email with a link, I will not buy.

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Living Room / Re: Access all your bookmarklets at once

« on: June 08, 2006, 07:14 AM »

allen,

Using opera 9 beta 2, I drag the link to the personal bar, but when I click on it a new javascript empty page arises... with nothing on it.
Any idea why?
Javascript is enabled...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Excel File Compare Tool

« on: June 06, 2006, 04:37 AM »

hmm, that post would be better placed in the file comparion thread, since it doesn't deal with excel. Oh well...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Excel File Compare Tool

« on: June 06, 2006, 04:36 AM »

The same company has AFC, for $10, and it looks pretty good.
It has syntax highlighting
it shows the directory and file comparison windows at the same time
has in place editing.


I have not tested it, because vim does all that and more for free (vimdiff!), but of course I'd not recommend people to start messing with vim (although this one thing is ultra easy) if they need file comparison. Plus vim it doesn't do directory comparison (that I can think of!).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?

« on: June 05, 2006, 07:57 AM »

GTD with google cal:
http://www.isaacbowm...googles-new-calendar

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?

« on: June 05, 2006, 07:35 AM »

Wow, so many people don't use anything...
I missed a hugely important talk last week so I'm trying to be consistent... I'm using MLO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: hiring freelance tech support: techguylive.com?

« on: June 04, 2006, 06:12 PM »

Carol,

Seems like user hive is fine (I'm using the application you recommended).
Somehow, the hibernation problem is solved.

The VPN is actually very important for me because endNote uses IE to connect and retrieve references from web of science (WoS). Doing it by hand is a PITA.

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General Software Discussion / Re: microsoft (office?) double click select and smart select crap

« on: June 04, 2006, 10:11 AM »

Mouser, what are you doing using frontpage ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: hiring freelance tech support: techguylive.com?

« on: June 04, 2006, 05:21 AM »

dell 600m.

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General Software Discussion / Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?

« on: June 04, 2006, 05:20 AM »

Hmm,

Also, a good question would be, do you really stick to it? And if so, what proportion of your time goes to just mocking around with the system that you have in place?

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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha

« on: June 04, 2006, 05:17 AM »

btw...great article...I'll feel less guilty for not doing housework now. 

-app103 (June 02, 2006, 07:39 AM)

I think that was the whole point of the article

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General Software Discussion / Re: [Help] I want to remove some entries from the context menu

« on: June 04, 2006, 03:46 AM »

Thanks a lot abteriX,
shellMenuView reduced my rightclick context menu times from 2-3 seconds to a few ms.! a jewel.

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General Software Discussion / hiring freelance tech support: techguylive.com?

« on: June 04, 2006, 03:27 AM »

I'm considering hiring freelance tech support.
I work for an University, but the tech support is sparse.

I found techguylive.com. $15 per month is not too bad, however I'd like to ask around here if anyone know them and if they are a good resource.

The problems that I have right now:
- Mouse drivers forgets settings after reboot.
- IE doesn't work under a VPN (all other browsers do -hint, hint-)
- Lappy doesn't come back after hybernation

As you see, nothing major, but if $15 a month ca save me a few hours of asking in forums and troubleshooting, I'd gladly pay them...

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What's the Best? / Re: Anti-Virus Package

« on: June 03, 2006, 09:06 AM »

I'm using F-secure and pretty happy with it.

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Living Room / Re: So....How many processes do you have running on startup and during normal usage

« on: June 02, 2006, 02:02 PM »

hmm,
I have 102 in the B section, don't know how many at startup.
Time to prune...

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Living Room / Re: Extremely cool visualization of global statistics over time.

« on: June 02, 2006, 11:27 AM »

Carol,
I think all that roboForm does, opera does by default (at least opera 9 beta)

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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha

« on: June 02, 2006, 06:28 AM »

Super-cool article by Paul Graham on the topic:
http://paulgraham.co...procrastination.html

Note: posting to donation coder counts as BAD procrastination

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: get all images, tables from a pdf and save them as pdfName-fig-number.png

« on: June 02, 2006, 03:55 AM »

I think the problem is that some of the graph-tables are not bitmaps.
For example, is the author drew a chart in word, it would be a vector graph in the final pdf and will be ignored by these tools. Same with tables.

I guess opening two copies is not a bad idea, although it loses a lot of screen real space (and I'm on a laptop to start with).

Thanks a lot

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: get all images, tables from a pdf and save them as pdfName-fig-number.png

« on: June 01, 2006, 11:37 AM »

When I read APA formatted articles, I have to go back and forth to see the figures and tables (they are at the end) between the place where the fig. is mentioned and the figure itself.

Acrobat has a function to do what I want:
advanced > export images.

However, it fails in many occasions. It says that only images that contain raster or bitmap data can be exported. Most papers don't.

What I do "by hand" is to use screencaptor to take them (crop them) and save them. I then use the Dopus picture viewer to see them when they are mentioned.

A program that could do this automatically would be a godsend for academics around the word.

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Developer's Corner / Re: AutoHotKey SUCKS! --- Or at least I can't make it work

« on: June 01, 2006, 05:34 AM »

I'd say AWK has been superseeded by perl. ActiveState has a distribution for win that may have a perl2exe component, can't remember.

I agree that debugging AHK is difficult. It really feels like a hack that should have been created by the people that created the OS, not reverse-engineered by a group of brave programmers. Considering how we get info (e.g., windows spy), and how inconsistent windows applications are (e.g., naming windows, responding to actions, etc), it is almost a miracle that AHK exists. And it is difficult to debug, of course.

But for your task, I'd take perl. You are basically doing system calls to other processes and pasting their output together by reading particular parts of files. That's what perl was created for.