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Living Room / Re: Opera wand. Does it work well? Enough to abandon lastpass?

« on: August 12, 2011, 06:09 AM »

I'm amazed how Opera like some of the other browsers are becoming, it must be bittersweet to Opera.

I used the wand for years and it is simple and works well, and now it can be sync'd. Because it couldnt be sync'd and I sometimes have to use other browsers, I started using lastpass. This allows me to use more random/secure passwords without losing my mind. The wand works on more sites than lastpass for smooth auto-fill (but not for capture or generation, and it deals with password change better). I dont mind doing an "open lastpass to check the password" then letting the wand take over on my own PCs.

-iphigenie (August 12, 2011, 01:28 AM)

This is exactly the point, since now it can be sync'ed (or even if it couldn't, wuala and dropbox to the rescue)... it's a real alternative to lastpass. If it worked well. But I don't know about this, and don't have the time to test it.

I filled two bugs with lastpass, let's see if the fix them. If they do, I'd stay with them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« on: August 10, 2011, 02:15 PM »

Looks promising. I wonder if there'd be enough interest for a discount?

-urlwolf (August 08, 2011, 04:16 PM)

I certainly wouldn't buy it at full price, but the other thing that bothers me is the assumption that you're going to run almost your whole life by this single piece of software.  I'm not sure anything is quite convincing enough for that, the more so if it isn't portable.  Most of us can cover the same areas with things we have already and which we're too used to to be keen to change.

-rjbull (August 09, 2011, 03:52 PM)

Actually, it is portable. At least moving the settings from appdata to the program folder works.
I think you can safely ignore all the 'values' stuff, and still get what I think is the best todo/organizer that I've tried.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... opinions/reviews of IDEs & Editors for Web code

« on: August 09, 2011, 12:45 PM »

One product I want to try out is Xara's Web Designer 7. It's one of those visual template driven page creators. I wouldn't want to use it for everything. But there are some projects I've worked on where I could see it being very useful. (At least if it works half as well as Xara claims it does. )

Has anyone tested this?
Looks like it'd produce pretty horrible html and css. But so does dreamweaver, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: FlatPress blogging platform: flat text file stored, open source, freeware

« on: August 08, 2011, 04:20 PM »

I still don't understand. Tuxman, you say performance would be worse. But I keep seeing flat-files blogging engines such as jekyll, hyde, et al. They all say performance is what defines them. They advertise these will survive a slashdot/digg  effect better than a DB-based system. What's the catch? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« on: August 08, 2011, 04:16 PM »

Try watership planner.

-urlwolf (August 08, 2011, 08:55 AM)

Expensive.  Is this the "new Ecco?"

-rjbull (August 08, 2011, 04:13 PM)

I'm testing it right now. I couldn't find any reviews online. Looks promising. I wonder if there'd be enough interest for a discount?

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Living Room / Opera wand. Does it work well? Enough to abandon lastpass?

« on: August 08, 2011, 11:20 AM »

Recently I moved to Opera.
The lastpass addon sucks, fails on 50% of the sites I use.
Noone at lastpass cares, no easy way to report bugs, etc.
So my options are quitting opera yet again, or use Opera wand.
Does it work well? Well enough to abandon lastpass?
This is only a contender since opera link syncs passwords across computers. But, tbh, opera link kind of sucks. Fantastically slow, hard to use.

Anyone sharing these experiences?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« on: August 08, 2011, 08:55 AM »

I too have been looking for the perfect outliner for years. Grandview was definitely the best of the bunch, and still works in a cmd window (though not on 64bit Win7). After experimenting with many, I settled on Notemap from LexisNexis. It lacks the column features of Grandview (which I used for bug-tracking) but for text outlining is excellent, even if the output formatting is a little limited when transferring to Word etc. Doesn't appear to be being maintained/developed any more now, but is still available.

I keep experimenting with various todolist type programs (including Outlook Tasks) for bug and project activity tracking, but nothing is perfect - TodoList hereabouts comes closest, but it's activity timing is not really flexible enough - I need records of time spent each day readily available (that can be done) but I also need the timer to stop after a certain period of keyboard/mouse inactivity. Using the screen saver to stop the time is pointless when so many windows apps (Outlook for one) will stop the screensaver kicking in if they think you should pay attention to them...

One day, perhaps after I die, I will have enough spare time to roll my own. No, wait...

-mfwiniberg (March 31, 2011, 11:20 AM)

Try watership planner. It does exactly what you describe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlining software recommendations?

« on: August 06, 2011, 03:47 PM »

Actually, noteliner makes a nice free alternative to MLO.
On top of being a very capable outliner.
I'd say it competes with cintanotes in the search dept. too. If only bullets points were such a turn off for me...

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Finished Programs / Re: add a global shortcut to cherrytomato (C#), best pomodoro app around

« on: August 02, 2011, 01:19 PM »

Thanks wraith, indeed I don't need it anymore.

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Finished Programs / Re: add a global shortcut to cherrytomato (C#), best pomodoro app around

« on: July 31, 2011, 02:49 PM »

Thanks app.
Actually, I started doing this in ahk, when I got a strange feeling of 'deja vu',...

Then I remembered the interruptron. Damn, I did this 2-3 years ago. There was no pomodoro back then, but this tool is perfect, just setting the work time to 25 min and rest to 5. It's damn effective at letting you know when you are not working, basically it grows in size till it covers the entire screen

This happened to an advisor of mine (professor): "Somebody should do this such and such experiment; it'd be great!" Only to be answered: "Yes [Name], somebody should. In fact, you did" . Attached was the paper with the experiment and his name on it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Babylon discount

« on: July 31, 2011, 05:11 AM »

I wonder what people think of lingoes. It does the job. I'm also stuck with babylon 5, which I don't use because they wanted money even to retrieve my lost license. The greedy bastards. Lingoes it is for me...

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Finished Programs / Re: add a global shortcut to cherrytomato (C#), best pomodoro app around

« on: July 31, 2011, 04:35 AM »

Dammit. Another option would be to hack something in ahk that sends right click to icon > start. Or re-implement in ahk, it should not be difficult. It'd definitely beat all the adobe air crap.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: add a global shortcut to cherrytomato (C#), best pomodoro app around

« on: July 30, 2011, 05:10 PM »

The pomodoro technique is something worth testing.
Unfortunately, most apps are ... lacking. Many adobe air apps ('nuff said!), many abandoned ones... It's such a simple thing to implement, that many have tried their hand, bust most have failed Sort of like todo list apps

The best tool I know is cherrytomato, but it's lacking two important things:
1- a global shortcut to start/stop
2- a floating window with the time left (so we don't have to use the tray).

The dev. switched to OSX so won't update it much.
The code is on google code.

For a C# coder, this should be an easy task.
Any takers? I'll chip in some DC credits.
 

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« on: July 18, 2011, 04:29 PM »

It is heavy as hell, yes.
The brand name is linak. I bought it used in Berlin.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone here using a standing desk?

« on: July 18, 2011, 01:20 PM »

I've used a standing hydraulic table for ~7 months now. I do 70% standing, switching back and forth to sitting when I feel like it. I would not change my setup for anything in the world.

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Living Room / When to add features, and when an apps feel bloated.

« on: July 18, 2011, 01:03 PM »

I found some thoughts from the cintanotes developer very inspiring:

features should be organic, effective, discoverable and convenient".

"Organic" means that the feature shouldn’t stick out of the program like an alien body. A non-organic feature IMO is the one that while coming in handy sometimes, still isn’t really connected with the product’s main goal and functionality. (Example of non-organic features: HTML authoring in MS Word, wave editing in Nero Burning ROM)

"Effective" means – should be lightweight and not hurt performance and memory footprint, or be optional to use.

"Discoverable" means – a new user should be able to discover that this feature exists without reading help.

"Convenient" means that a feature is easy to use correctly and hard to misuse, and that a significant number of users will use this feature on a regular basis.

So if the suggested implementation of a third frame will seem to satisfy all these criteria, off we go.

Wrote a bit more Here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: alternative to filehamster?

« on: July 17, 2011, 03:06 PM »

Hmm, since I started the thread I should report too.
Actually, since I started using wuala, I never felt the need for things such as filehamster. Wuala does this type of backup on all the folder I sync there. Nice side effect

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 16, 2011, 12:05 PM »

Mouser, I don't think you use opera, but just in case:
https://addons.opera...rect/1.0/?display=en

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to share To-Do lists?

« on: July 15, 2011, 09:27 AM »

taskwarrior > todotxt
By a margin...

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General Software Discussion / a calendar program that can sync to gcal and shortcut-friendly?

« on: July 15, 2011, 07:20 AM »

Anyone knows a calendar program that can sync to gcal and where mostly everything can be done with shortcuts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to share To-Do lists?

« on: July 15, 2011, 03:30 AM »

Anybody here using cintanotes for todo lists? It works quite well, and it separates collection (with a global shortcut) from planning/organizing (looking at the list). I like it.

On linux I use task warrior, and I love it, but the win cmd sucks so much that it makes me consirer switching. It depends on cygwin, which I hate.

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 14, 2011, 06:45 AM »

I'm using duckduckgo too, pretty happy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 11.5 Released

« on: July 03, 2011, 04:37 AM »

Moved to opera. Vimperopera plus shift arrows to access links with the keyboard (try it) sold it for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 11.5 Released

« on: July 01, 2011, 05:39 AM »

keyboard shortcut for diigo. The FF extension fully integrates with your bookmarks. I hate having to click a tiny icon to bookmark something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 11.5 Released

« on: July 01, 2011, 03:25 AM »

My issues to move back to opera (using vimperopera);

1- Scroll is damn abrupt. Is there any way to change the scroll step when pressing arrow down?
Anything like yet another smooth scroll out there, but for opera?

2- gmail shortcuts don't work

3- google search box steals focus, and the userjs in the vimperopera page did not work for me

4- would like to have a kb shortcut to bookmark things on diigo...