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1026
Living Room / Re: Wolfram Alpha - Impressions On Launch
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 18, 2009, 10:01 AM »
I asked few questions and i got weird answers and sometimes no results returned.  :D

-What is the speed of light?
-Where is gallactus?
-What is the purpose of life?
-How to cook Mexican pizza?
-What is the distance between moon and earth?

Wolfram alpha needs to complete graduation before thinking about killing Google.  :D
1027
General Software Discussion / Re: What makes an application "useful"?
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 17, 2009, 07:01 PM »
Basically the same things I look for in a woman:  it does what it says it will do, or more, but never less.  It doesn't thrash my machine.  It isn't priced beyond the value of its functionality to me.  And in descending order of importance: it's fast, simple, and looks pretty.

Have to agree  :D

1) Takes minimum resources.
2) Simple
3) Less Bugs :/
1028
Best Virtual Machine Tool / Re: VirtualBox - Top of the Lot
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 14, 2009, 05:59 PM »
VirtualBox, Nice Option.  :up:

I found PortableUbuntu alternative to Wubi : http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/ , i think even this app takes help of virtualization features as it reads partition on windows disk.
1029
General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 14, 2009, 12:52 PM »
Developing software is hard  and selling it harder.

Yes. Not every developer is good at marketing. and freeware applications supported with ad-banners on web-page hardly earns bucks because of sites like download.com, tucows.com stealing their traffic. So yes, for some developement part is easy but selling it is very hard.

Ad supported services never get better they  just get more and more obscene and obnoxious. I am sure you all have seen this happening around. Do you think that google would advertise less and less by the time goes?

Agree.
1030
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - Visualizing time left vs. time needed
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 14, 2009, 12:42 PM »
Maybe this will help : http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
1031
General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 14, 2009, 12:33 PM »
I appreciate that Dr Apps/Andrew took time to make a detailed and friendly case for OpenCandy. You come across as a likeable person that believe that this is something good and take user worries seriously!

Exactly! +1

I've question for kartal that if he thinks ad-supported service model is wrong then how developers are supposed to stand financially? (for this, i'm not referring to the model of opencandy).<maybe-off-topic>but would like to know your view on supporting devlopers financially.

I agree with kartal's view about opencandy being adware. If opencandy is not adware then what digsby IM is doing isn't adware at all. Besides i don't understand the toolbar and software recommendation thing. I will wait for the Youtube video link.
1032
Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 12, 2009, 01:02 PM »
Maybe a Mod for Simplemachines that calculates users as per country and sort it out.

So for example :

United states : 18,000
Canada : 2000
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and list goes on

This will be interesting feature on forum. Idea for SMF Mod.  ;)
1033
Developer's Corner / Re: New open source competitor to Adobe AIR for GUIS
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 12, 2009, 12:59 PM »
Funny. I've been avoiding Mono because I believe it's only a matter of time before Microsoft 'turns the tables' and goes after it for infringing on .NET

I doubt that.  :D

If they can back Project Moonlight then i don't think there is any harm to Mono.
1034
Developer's Corner / Re: New open source competitor to Adobe AIR for GUIS
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 10, 2009, 05:12 AM »
Nice Find.  :up:

Out of curiosity, has anyone written anything in AIR?
Yes. Feed Reader.
1035
Developer's Corner / Re: Anyone tried Google Code Search?
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 03, 2009, 07:38 PM »
Snipplr, Koders are much better options than Google Code Search.
1036
Living Room / Re: how to improve DC's usability: the stackOverflow model
« Last post by mahesh2k on May 01, 2009, 04:49 PM »
I don't like the model of SOF for DC. As you can see some members write excellent posts on DC(superboyac,app,40hz, and many others) . OK, Sometimes we even sidetracked from topic and can find good advice in that diversion as well. SOF model is perfect for programming related communities. But DC covering many others topics as well that will not justify SOF model at all.
1037
General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 27, 2009, 06:06 PM »
Yeah, sure i'll post about it.
1038
General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 27, 2009, 05:49 PM »
Where is Notepad ++ ?
1039
General Software Discussion / Re: What are the options for restricting access to applications?
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 26, 2009, 07:21 PM »
I've problem on my hard disk, that one folder is not being deleted. there is some ads_data file inside the folder because of which it is not getting deleted :( . is there any way i can delete that folder? folder contains nothing other than that file. can i override the attribute and delete that folder?
1040
N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Post your NANY 2009 Mug/Shirt Pics here..
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 23, 2009, 11:11 AM »
Sorry for posting this late.  :-[   But i was out of city for few months. Here is the pic.
1041
General Software Discussion / Re: Sysinternals PageDefrag: Good, Bad?
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 22, 2009, 07:47 PM »
How's Defraggler?
1042
Developer's Corner / Forum suggestion
« Last post by mahesh2k on April 20, 2009, 09:52 AM »
My friend wants to setup forum on his college website and he asked me for which forum software to choose from. Some of the options discussed by department are: Simplemachines, PhpBB, MyBB, and AEF. First question from my side to him was why isn’t dept going for invision board? But that’s their internal issue, so returned to the question and tried to compare these options on forummatrix site but unable to give him good suggestion on which one to choose among these.

Some of his requirements are:

- RSS/Atom so that individual threads of each department could show up in page of that department.

- Code highlighting Mod, it is needed especially for boards related to electronics and computers department.

- Abusive language filter

- SPAM control.

There are some other requirements as well, but i guess those are common in most of the forums like maintenance, upgrade and etc.

So what do you think which one is good forum out of these: Simplemachines, PhpBB, MyBB, AEF?
1043
Developer's Corner / Re: PushButton: Powerful open source Flash game engine
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 30, 2009, 05:56 PM »
Interesting. Nice Find  :up:
1044
Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 30, 2009, 05:48 PM »
13 k :)
1045
General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone had experience buying from www.buy.com ? Is it reliable ?
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 14, 2009, 04:11 PM »
Any Alternate to Buy.com?
1046
Site/Forum Features / Re: Amazon Web Payment Service Added to payment page
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 14, 2009, 04:01 PM »
I often get requests from people outside the US who can't use paypal.. there are 3 shareware payment services we support that i think should cover these people, but id be more interested in adding new payment services which specialize in international donors.
Kagi and shareit services are not available here, but let's see that Plimus.
1047
General Software Discussion / Re: Any software that could generate screenshot like this [pic]
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 14, 2009, 11:38 AM »
What about Webshots, SnagIT?
1048
Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 14, 2009, 11:36 AM »
Who made the drawings for the banner? i think they are pretty cute, specially the dancing cody with the hat.

All Cody animations are from Nudone.
1049
Site/Forum Features / Re: Amazon Web Payment Service Added to payment page
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 13, 2009, 06:23 PM »
One more service you can add up is :

https://www.alertpay.com/index.aspx
1050
General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 13, 2009, 04:15 PM »
What ? Superboyac- got pwned from "The-Bat forums"?  :o
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