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Living Room / Re: Search DonationCoder from Firefox!

« on: May 08, 2006, 06:46 PM »

 

Ironic isn't it, maybe I should have searched first 

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Living Room / Re: Madness is contagious!

« on: May 08, 2006, 06:32 PM »

Try listening to Sway or Dizzie Rascal, that will p**s you off 

(UK Garage, for those unaware  )

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General Software Discussion / Re: We need here a better Syntax Highlighter

« on: May 08, 2006, 06:31 PM »

I would say this is a good idea. Nice thinking 

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Living Room / Search DonationCoder from Firefox!

« on: May 08, 2006, 06:29 PM »

Just found this, had heard of Rollyo before, but didn't know you can make custom Firefox search engines with it 

http://www.rollyo.com/firefox_search.html

Go to that page and type a name, and then in the second box put:

https://www.donationcoder.com/

And voila, it prompts to install the new search engine, and now you can search DC from firefox  I think Find + Run Robot also has a DC Forum search function, but this can search the main site too  Also, you can add multiple websites, or have as many custom engines as you want!

Enjoy 

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Developer's Corner / Re: IDE for Ruby on Rails

« on: May 07, 2006, 09:54 PM »

Yep, thanks mouser  I found RadRails while looking into ruby, thanks for posting - it may spur me to try it out again (ruby, I mean) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: May 05, 2006, 04:53 PM »

Copernic Desktop Search 2.0 beta is now available.
The interface was completely redesigned 

http://www.copernic....h/beta/download.html

-masu (May 05, 2006, 04:48 PM)

Looking good! Thanks for posting 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Flock Features Series : #3 - Web Snippets/Blogging

« on: May 05, 2006, 04:46 PM »

Please see the other posts in this series if you are interested in reading more:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3490.0 - RSS Reading
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3491.0 - Flickr Integration

The Basics

Blogging has exploded on the net, with technorati indexing more than 37 million blogs. It seems everyone is jumping on the wagon, and Flock has some tools to make posting to yours a breeze! If you haven't yet got a blog, you can get a free one from either Wordpress.com or Blogger.com. If you have a website already, and wish to add a blog - you can get an open-source blog software from Wordpress.org.

Web Snippets is a feature within Flock where you can drag-and-drop information you find on the net, for future reference (like to post it to a blog). You can drag text, images, urls etc..

I find it extremely handy, here's a piccy :



Simply dragging text, images or urls down to the bottom of the browser opens this bar, in which you drop the data. It's then stored there for later use - simple but effective!

Now to the main use for this Web Snippets malarkey. The Blog Editor within Flock has undergone some changes for the Cardinal release, i.e. they have switched engines. The new engine is smoother and quicker than before.

Here is an overview screenshot of the editor:



As you can see - the web snippets bar appears there - with your saved items! All you have to do now is drag and drop them into the editing space and they become part of your blog post. Extremely quick and simple - the entire idea for Flock, in my opinion.

You have your basic formatting tools there too, and I believe you can edit the HTML directly - although I haven't tried this yet. After completing your post, click publish. You then select, in the next window, which blog you wish to post to (you can have numerous blogs configured for use). You can then add tags for services such as Technorati - and place your post in a catagory. One more button-click and you're done - the blog post is made.

These features of Flock make it really easy to research on the net, and then report about your research on a blog. What would be nice to see is enclosure support (as with the RSS Reader), but I am pretty hopeful that it will be included in a future release.

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Developer's Corner / Re: FBSL - Vista & RAD

« on: May 05, 2006, 02:25 PM »

Nice 

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Living Room / Re: Do you Suffer from Computer Anger Management - How do you handle it?

« on: May 05, 2006, 02:24 PM »

In my chatroom we had a sort of joke going on related to programming frustration...It's kind of an ad for a ficticious product we all wished existed...and if I could manufacture it I would be a very wealthy woman:

Programming project misbehaving?
Unexplainable errors?
Hit it with a Syntax Stick™!
That's right...for only $19.95 you can own a Syntax Stick™ and beat that program into submission and show it who is boss. Act now and we'll throw in a Spelling Stick™ for half price. Very handy for beating the typos out of your keyboard.

-app103 (May 05, 2006, 02:02 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?

« on: May 05, 2006, 11:14 AM »

Oh - and the bloke's name - is Kevin Rose 

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?

« on: May 05, 2006, 02:15 AM »

I forget his name now, but the Digg guy was on TWiT and talked about this a bit. He said it was just a misunderstanding. He's got a lot of spammers to deal with, and a few things got through, but they're working on eliminating spammers more and more.

-Renegade (May 05, 2006, 01:52 AM)

Yeah, I heard that episode too  I have to say that, now, I believe him.

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Screenshot Captor / Comments on ScreenshotCaptor - Beta Version - 2.12.01 to 2.24.01

« on: May 05, 2006, 12:02 AM »

Don't mean to litter the thread (  ) but I would just like to say I love this app, thanks very much for the hard work 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Flock Features Series : #2 - Flickr

« on: May 04, 2006, 11:52 PM »

As I continue the series regarding the Flock Browser - I felt the next item I should cover is the flickr integration. So here goes...

The Basics

Flickr, owned by Yahoo!, is a place to upload digital photos and images into your own online gallery. People can comment, mark as a favourite, and can even see the EXIF information about the image (which includes all the camera settings used to take the image, and of course the camera make/model itself).

Flock allows you to browse your own photos, your allocated friends' photos, and even upload new photos to flickr using the built-in uploader tool. Pictured below, these tools are placed in a "Topbar", which is an extension of the navigation/bookmarks bar - meaning you can browse the web and see the photos at the same time.

This tool has so many cool features it will be hard to cover them all! You have the option to view the images (in the topbar) as either big or small pictures, you can scroll *smoothly* through the images and clicking on one will open it's page in the browser, and you can search the photos (not sure of the scope - i.e. entire flickr site or just yours/your friends') with tags.

You can drag the photos into a blog editor (which will be covered in another post) and include them in a blog entry.

The entire process of using this tool is smooth and easy!.



If you've never used flickr before, I encourage you to sign up for a (free!) account. I have a paid (pro) account, as I take my imaging seriously!

This feature of Flock is one of my favourites, and it really makes the entire flickr process much more intuitive and fun!

Stay tuned, the next one in this series will be the Web Snippets tool, and then the Blog Editor, and then the Favourites Sharing Tool!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Flock Features Series : #1 - RSS

« on: May 04, 2006, 11:33 PM »

This post will be the first in a series, reviewing the upcoming release of the Flock browser, built on Mozilla Firefox. This section looks at one of the heavily enhanced features in the "Cardinal" beta release which is scheduled for release later this month (May).

The Basics

Flock is loved by some, hated by others. But I would like to take the middle ground in these reviews, and give honest opinions on this so called "social browser".

RSS is, as most of you know, a way to syndicate information across the internet. This portion will focus on the RSS reading capabilities of Flock, and bring to light the work that has gone into them.

The all important first screenshot



On the left you have a tree-like area where you have your feed titles, which you can catagorise into folders. Clicking on Front Page shows you an overview of the RSS items ready to view in all the folders you have created.

Clicking a specific feed will show you what is shown on the right hand side - the main reading pane. This opens in a new tab, and to me seems very well laid out, easy on the eye - and all in all - presentable.

As expected, you can mark all as read, or individual postings as read. You can also filter the post shown under different criteria.

You can collapse certain days to clean up the interface slightly - which is nice. The thing I can't find is searching of the posts! (But this may be available in the full Cardinal release, I am not sure).

One of the cool features of the RSS reader in Flock, is that when there are new posts on your feeds, the icon in the main navigation bar lights up orange - alerting you to this. I find this very handy while browsing, and so you do not have to keep manually updating the feeds.

Well, with all things considered - it is quite basic. But with this kind of thing, I think basic is good. An RSS reader in a browser shouldn't have everything thrown in, in my opinion.

Another thing missing is enclosure support - at least I think.

Stay tuned for more mini-reviews on Flock, which is currently my main browser on the Windows laptop I own

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Living Room / Re: Fast Beetle

« on: May 04, 2006, 11:12 PM »

"My other car is a porsche (slow ass vehicle)." 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bruce Eckel releases some mp3 interviews with luminaries in coding

« on: May 04, 2006, 03:20 AM »

Heard about this on the python411 podcast - forgot to check it out! Many thanks, mouser 

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Living Room / Re: Do you Suffer from Computer Anger Management - How do you handle it?

« on: May 03, 2006, 08:01 PM »

I think the answer may be to have some kind of action-plan in place for when you come across something frustrating 

In life, I get very frustrated, and angry at myself for some reasons (probably not best to go into here...) which actually have a severe effect on my mental state..

The way I deal with it, is by having a plan-of-action (written, if you want!) where if I feel the anger building, I immediately - STOP - and look after myself. Meditation is the normal for me, oriental music with incense and just relaxing - it's perfect for me! Some may call me whacky, and I'm sure the docs would agree 

Most of all, remember a program seems insignificant when you consider there are more things that are significantly more worthy of stress 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Corporate Identity and Website Design/Marketing

« on: May 02, 2006, 06:29 PM »

Hi all,

Some of you may know, that I run a Corporate Identity Design, Web design, and Marketing company here in the UK. Just thought I'd post and let you all know of what we do, how we do it, and a little spicey extra for donationware/open-source developers, or those involved with open-source software.

I shall focus on the web design here, but you can find out more about the services we offer over at the website : http://www.emotivemedia.co.uk.

If you are an individual, company, or huge corporation - we can offer you web design with the following idea behind it:

All companies sell one thing on the human level : emotions!

With that idea in mind, we can tailor your site to reflect the emotion you want your customers to feel. We can work with you to build a custom website, be it interactive with a database or just pure xhtml/css, that will connect with your potential customers and existing customers on a deeper level.

If you are a developer of, or are connected to open-source/donationware in some way, we are now offering heavily discounted prices to you. We aren't saying something like "40%" because each price is tailored to individual cases, but there is no harm in asking for a personal, free quote, is there? 

For more information, please visit the website, or you can call, email or fax us. Details on the site!

Thanks all.

http://www.emotivemedia.co.uk
Contact Page - http://www.emotivemedia.co.uk/contact.html
Our Blog - http://www.emotivemedia.co.uk/blog

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Living Room / Re: Do you follow the directions?

« on: May 01, 2006, 01:04 AM »

Nice post. As I'm moving into software dev, that's a great list of things to consider.

Thanks for posting 

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Living Room / Air Force One Vandalised

« on: April 24, 2006, 06:50 PM »

http://www.stillfree.com


ONLY after viewing read what's below!































































Yep, fake. He hired a 747 just to do that....

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Developer's Corner / Re: joel (love to hate him) spolsky writes another must read column

« on: April 21, 2006, 11:54 PM »

latest article is quite good:

-mouser (April 21, 2006, 07:33 PM)

By Joel Spolsky
Thursday, April 06, 2000

 

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Living Room / Re: digg rigging?

« on: April 20, 2006, 06:58 PM »

I just blogged about this and came to post it here 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: eyeOS - Online "Operating System"

« on: April 20, 2006, 11:52 AM »

Fixed, changed to thumbnails 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: eyeOS - Online "Operating System"

« on: April 20, 2006, 11:49 AM »

Sorry for the huge pictures, they didn't look as big on my system 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / eyeOS - Online "Operating System"

« on: April 20, 2006, 11:48 AM »

Introduction

Ever thought of using an open-source operating system, through your browser? Even if you haven't, it's quite an interesting concept, at least to me.

Online storage for use with your online word documents written in an online word processor, and online calendar, online contact manager – all in one place. Interested?

Enter eyeOS. Available at http://www.eyeos.info, signup is extremely quick and obviously free being open-source.


The online word processor is kind of cool, it allows you to do quite a bit and you can save to your “home folder” / online storage area:



The online contacts manager is semi-basic, but is usable:




eyeNav is the integrated browser. To me, it seems slightly strange to use a browser – in a browser. But, again they've done it well, and it has some nice default links:



There is also a forum in the application too. And you can manage your “applications” on your “operating system” through the manager:







I'd give it a try – it only takes a second to signup, and there's no fees involved