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General Software Discussion / Re: Real Player 11 is actually quite good!

« Last post by urlwolf on September 14, 2007, 03:21 PM »

Actually, you may laugh, but Jriver Media center does.
Every file it 'touches' gets an 'edited with Jriver Media center' comment. I think Jriver is pretty evil in itself, almost as much as M$ and Real... even tags that have standards are ignored. Instead of <TAG> you get a <MEDIACENTER:TAG>. Talk about subtlety

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General Software Discussion / Re: Real Player 11 is actually quite good!

« Last post by urlwolf on September 14, 2007, 03:17 PM »

[dilemma]
Should I let this touch my immaculate music collection?
Would it mangle my tags, and place ads in the comment tags?
[\dilemma]

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by urlwolf on September 13, 2007, 04:18 PM »

Has anybody used *any* file manager, then gone back to explorer?
I mean, I'm having trouble seeing DC users that actually like explorer

Actually, can you post your evolution if you switched? I like those. I went explorer -> dopus (with DC discount -> TC (horrified by dopus upgrade fees, I found nirvana in TC)

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by urlwolf on September 11, 2007, 08:18 PM »

It's apparently quite hard for an explorer replacement to really be a complete explorer replacement- i.e. to ensure explorer NEVER appears when you don't expect it.

This has more to do with how other programs call explorer.exe. There is a standard way. If they call it in a different way, then it will pop up and not be intercepted by your default file manager.

Re: wiki on filemanagers... good idea. I thought "but there's one!", but I was remembering this:
http://www.softpanor....org/OFM/index.shtml

There's a BOOK on filemanagers!

That site is pretty exhaustive.
They seem to like TC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Instant Boss featured on Lifehacker

« Last post by urlwolf on September 11, 2007, 04:56 PM »

congrats App!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need a mass email program

« Last post by urlwolf on September 10, 2007, 12:18 PM »

Mouser and I had a similar conversation over mail recently. He recommended phplist. I was looking at companies like aweber that provide their own servers to send mails.

phplist looks great. The problem with installing software like this on your server is that the server may be blacklisted, and then most of your messages will never reach your audience (without you knowing!).
Since I'm hosted in a off-the-mill dreamhost account, chances of having a neighbor spamming the hell out of people in my same server are high. Worse, it might be that if anyone at dreamhost has spammed ever, dreamhost is blacklisted.
 
I think that's the point the companies who sell services make. Of course, I don't have stats on how many messages would be lost (not sure if they do!).
 
In your case, ig you 'own' your own server, and can be pretty sure it's not blacklisted, they you can just install a program like these. If you are on a shared server, then all bets are off!

My 2c.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by urlwolf on September 09, 2007, 06:59 PM »

Well, I'm using one of those TC 'distros'. It's called ultima prime, and it comes with all kind of plugins and programs to handle basically any file association. it's almost an entire OS in itself. And no, I didn't have to spend any time configuring it; everything worked out of the box.


http://tcup.pl/index.php?l=en

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by urlwolf on September 08, 2007, 08:05 AM »

1.8.1 beta fixes the problem with replaygain.

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General Software Discussion / perl 6 looking good: will have types, named parameters. Serious alternative!

« Last post by urlwolf on September 08, 2007, 07:31 AM »

Perl 6 is about to be released. If you skipped Python and ruby, and you need the huge CPAN archive, perl 6 might be just the tiket, and with types and named parameters, it may be a serious alternative for large projects!:

Perl 6 calling conventions are extremely well designed. Not only do they allow compile-time parameter checking, they also allow named parameters with or without complex defaults, even including curried default functions. This is going to be very powerful.

http://www.perl.com/...-passing.html?page=2

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Developer's Corner / Re: Sun Releases Darkstar Under GPL v2

« Last post by urlwolf on September 07, 2007, 08:17 AM »

cool! How hackable would that be? Has anyone looked at the code?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera - new alpha version brings untold pleasures...or something like that.

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2007, 03:54 PM »

Yes, silverlight is supported - the problem is many silverlight demos use browser sniffing so it looks like it doesn't work...

jgpaiva: the inline find is a known bug that is targetted for fixing, so it will once again work out of the box.

For an alpha it is very solid - make sure you don't install over an old profile (it won't by default) and you are good to go.

For those interested in performance, I made a summary, mostly aimed at comparison with 9.x focussed on Web 2ish peformance but threw other browsers into the mix:

http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_test/

There is a lot to digest in the changelogs. For developers, there is a TON of cool new technology to play with, and some stuff like using SVG just as any other image format that is long overdue.

-nontroppo (September 06, 2007, 02:35 PM)

I think one more reason to support opera is that they are definitely head and shoulders the rest in one thing: innovation. I want more innovation, so I support them. This is just my philosophy, but overall I think the speed/integration of Opera wins over the flexibility of FF.

In fact FF tends to copy Opera most of the time. Plugin authors do get very creative, but managing all plugins is a bit of a hell.

Definitely, Opera + a plugin system would be crazy good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: great resource to get 600x600 album art

« Last post by urlwolf on September 05, 2007, 10:49 AM »

Not iTunes alone, you need this tool to extract the images from the fangs of itunes and save it as normal folder.jpg files:
http://www.hydrogena...indpost&p=513652

But, the tool is buggy as hell. Not sure if it's worth it...

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General Software Discussion / ati/nvidia and portrait monitor setup:nvidia does not let you assign shortcuts

« Last post by urlwolf on September 05, 2007, 10:27 AM »

This is a simple problem, but it's driving me crazy.
I like to set up my monitor in a vertical way on ocassions (portrait).
I used to have an ati card, and there was a way to assign a shortcut for that.

Now I have an nvidia and it does not let you assign shortcuts (!). Going to the control panel involves 5/6 clicks total. Somebody should get fired in the design team (or am I being too picky?).

I have no idea how to solve this. Normally, you could use ahk to fix lack of kb shortcuts, but not in this case.

Any lateral thinking? Anything to manipulate tools that are as obscure and obnoxious as to not letting you manipulate them with ahk?

Thanks

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General Software Discussion / great resource to get 600x600 album art

« Last post by urlwolf on September 04, 2007, 03:54 PM »

If you want to have the best quality album art, and don't want to be tied to iTunes, here is the solution to your troubles:
http://www.hydrogena...412&#entry514412

I'm downloading covers now, and it works great.
PS: iTunes is quite a memory hog!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera - new alpha version brings untold pleasures...or something like that.

« Last post by urlwolf on September 04, 2007, 11:02 AM »

I dig Opera,it seems as a company they listen to their users.Ironicly,for a browser i wouldn't pay for back in the day i would pay for now.

-tinyvillager (September 04, 2007, 06:30 AM)

You must be being sarcastic...
There are continuous requests that have been systematically ignored for ages. The main one is, as Josh says, a plugin system. Not gonna happen.
My pet peeve is that the clipboard keeps only text (this is a biggie, since I copy-paste a lot to onenote and FF gives me html plus a link to where the snippet came from!).

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General Software Discussion / Re: [IDEA] recode intellicomplete, make it publicly available

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2007, 01:30 PM »

it's ok, not as good as intellicomplete in suggestion accuracy.
Not very ergonomic. I wouldn't use it.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Minireview of MusicIP (kind of)

« Last post by urlwolf on September 02, 2007, 12:28 PM »

I have written a long post on MusicIP here.

We had a thread going on here, and the need for a minireview was obvious. I kind of ran out of steam at the end. I have been using MusicIP for a while now, and have found lots of nifty tricks.
For example, I got BPM tags working.

If you were tempted to install it, now you have an excuse.
Let's share what we find here...

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Getting Organized in 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on September 01, 2007, 11:08 AM »

I think we DC people all have the 'damaged attention span' App is talking about. I think it's a problem with people who spend a long time on a computer with internet an are naturally curious

@Mouser: the 'tweak virus' is another bad habit. In my view, the system should be so simple that you don't even pay attention to it, and you should train yourself to make it a habit. If you have to think on how to improve (read: tweak) it, that's bad news.

Sorry to be so negative.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Getting Organized in 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on September 01, 2007, 07:13 AM »

Ok, not to be the 'complaining' smurf here, but...
Wasn't last year edition aborted half-way through?
I thought most people who participated never even bothered asking for new tasks, because they were too busy doing other things...
I took it like it is: sticking to one time management system is incredibly difficult. You have to have iron willpower.

Even though DC got to interview the two superpowers back then (Allen and Forster) and we reviewed plenty of time-management systems and applications, I'm not sure we got much out of it. I, for one, have abandoned the system I was using in 2006.

Thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: portable onenote?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 31, 2007, 02:02 PM »

 
I was half expecting that.
It sucks, because I have a large onenote set of notebooks.
And evernote is plain html, no outlining features. E.g., I like that in onenote, you can outline really quick (keeps indentation etc).

I think the only solution for me would be for someone to create a portable version of onenote. There's a portable office in the torrent search engines, but it doesn't have onenote.

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General Software Discussion / portable onenote?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 31, 2007, 12:48 PM »

I'm a bit worried because I trust a lot of my work to onenote.
For a start, I cannot take it with me with an usb stick, which worries me.

Is there anyone in the same situation here? Did you find a solution? Is there any portable app. that can read onenote files? Any ideas?

Thanks

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: xplorer², a powerful windows file manager and explorer replacement / alternative

« Last post by urlwolf on August 30, 2007, 02:40 PM »

Congrats JohnFredC, you are making me discover more of TC greatness!
I moved from Dopus to TC, and I'm thrilled!

Please keep posting those challenges! (maybe start a new thread on challenges?). I still remember how I had to dig into the docs, post to forum, wrestle with options etc in Dopus to do things that are obvious in TC. I'm not bothered by TC's looks, BTW.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on August 29, 2007, 12:33 PM »

John,
you can hit F11 and have a simple full screen of white text to work on.
Brahman, Can you ellaborate on infoselect? going through their site doesn't look like their product is that revolutionary. What's better than onenote?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anger Management: living with Windows XP + lot of software

« Last post by urlwolf on August 29, 2007, 12:19 PM »

Another option;
run weekly backups with FirstDefense-ISR on your OS partition.
Faster, easier than acronis.
Run an incremental backup (superflexible is my fave) on your data partition.

That's what I do. I think it's pretty secure. I have a clean install of XP as a base image in FD-ISR. If things go really bad, I boot to that one. There's a long thread about how to use FD-ISR in security forums.

My strategy:
A base snapshot (windows, + drivers + barebones utils)
A working snapshot (the one I boot to everyday). You can afford to screw things up here)
An archive of the working snapshot (that's a 'last known good config'). It'll have all the programs you installed in recent history.

If you install something that craps your computer, I boot to the base snapshot, recover the last archive to the working snapshot, and then boot back to working snapshot. I hope it makes sense.

All in all, I feel pretty protected. I disconnected windows' own history, as this is a lot safer.

You could have as much as 10 archives if you wanted to, but I'm ok with one.

HTH

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Living Room / Re: Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhere

« Last post by urlwolf on August 29, 2007, 12:07 PM »

I tried uploading my music. Even installed itunes for that reason. It takes forever. With my connection, it'd be years before I get any significant amount of music uploaded.

I tried uploading it to my dreamhost account (!) and it's much faster. I'll just use that. No streaming, but my music will be available anywhere!