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1051
Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by justice on April 05, 2008, 04:44 AM »
While we're at it I can recommend The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Llama. It's a good read even though if you want to follow everything through then it requires a lot of dedication, but even just for reading and thinking about what makes you happy it's an excellent book.
1052
Living Room / Re: Your happiness right now
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 09:50 AM »
Wonder if you're more likely to fill this in when you are extra happy / unhappy, polarising the results..   :-\
1053
General Software Discussion / Re: View download traffic grouped by site...
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 09:48 AM »
you can use opendns.com and create a free account and it will show you the top dns requests over time etc. but it doesn't do data volume just your connections (and a lot more)
1054
Living Room / Re: Microsoft extends XP--for budget laptops only.
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 07:55 AM »
BTW photoshop is excellent on vista, it loads so much faster as do other large applications as applications that were once slow get superfetched into memory without noticable performance penalty which means photshop starts from cold in around 7 seconds (CS3) on this pc. (would probably be quicker if i used it more often) Don't run anything older than CS3 on vista though because there's severe issues with that. But photoshop will still come in a 32bit version. Seems that the bigger the app the better vista becomes compared to XP. (Except for games - this might change)
1055
General Software Discussion / Re: Recommendation please: web wireframe "sketcher"
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 06:17 AM »
I've used Adobe Fireworks to create digital mockups in the past (very time consuming but you can save symbols in a reusable library), and also Visio (but it's too general a tool so don't get the results quick enough).
Mockup screens look really promising but it crashed on me already within 15 minutes of use. (vista) Also I could imagine a more polished program although I could live with that.

Are there any other programs like it? I know Denim which is java used but the interface of that was even quirkier (when i used it 4 years back). We'd definately have budget for the best tool, so I'd like to hear your recommendations.
1056
Developer's Corner / Re: Latest Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) Column: UI-First Software Development
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 06:12 AM »
I've used Adobe Fireworks to create digital mockups in the past (very time consuming), and also Visio (but it's too general a tool so don't get the results quick enough).
Mockup screens look really promising but it crashed on me already within 15 minutes of use. (vista) Also I could imagine a more polished program although I could live with that.

Are there any other programs like it? I know Denim which is java used but the interface of that was even quirkier. We'd definately have budget for the best tool, so I'd like to hear your recommendations.
Ah there's already a thread, i'll look in there (https://www.donation....msg108506;topicseen)
1057
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerDesk Pro v6 very very cheap.
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 03:33 AM »
I'll see what I can do Lanux
edit: haha ok :) maybe donationcoder should start a commercial branch for general software support ;)
1058
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by justice on April 04, 2008, 03:28 AM »
echo your text here >> temp.txt
type todo.wiki >> temp.txt
move temp.txt todo.wiki /-y

or create a batch file add.bat:
@echo off
echo %2 >> temp.txt
type %1 >> temp.txt
move temp.txt %1 /-y
and then call it like: add.bat todo.wiki "your text here"

edit: oops it's /-y to confirm overwriting if the destination file exists.
1059
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by justice on April 03, 2008, 01:08 PM »
echo Your text here >> todo.wiki
1060
General Software Discussion / Re: Version control on dual-boot system? (XP/Linux)
« Last post by justice on April 02, 2008, 10:30 AM »
I've started using http://assembla.com casually for the last few days it offers unlimited repositories with 500mb free of charge, read their faq (http://www.assembla....how/breakoutdocs/FAQ) but it might be a great solution, it is for me.
1061
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by justice on April 02, 2008, 09:58 AM »
That was easier than i thought. Find enclosed WikidJotter
Press the hotkey (win-j) and it will ask for your idea, then copy it to clipboard and run wikidpad
Source included if you want to change hotkey, adjust path to wikidpad or run something else or whatever.
Comes under the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/)

v2 activates wikidpad if it's open it instead of launching a new copy

source
Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. ; WikidJot
  3. #NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  4. SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  5. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  7.  
  8. #j::  ; Win+j hotkey
  9. Gui, Add, Text,, Enter note:
  10. Gui, Add, Edit, r9 w400 vClip
  11. Gui, Add, Button,gButtonOK, &Copy to Clipboard  ; The label ButtonOK (if it exists) will be run when the button is pressed.
  12. Gui, Show,, ClipJotter
  13. return  ; End of auto-execute section. The script is idle until the user does something.
  14. return
  15.  
  16. ButtonOK:
  17. Gui, Submit  ; Save the input from the user to each control's associated variable.
  18. clipboard = %Clip%  ; Append some text to the clipboard.
  19.  
  20. ; run wikidpad or switch to it
  21. IfWinNotExist, - WikidPad
  22. {
  23.         Run, %A_ProgramFiles%\Wikidpad\Wikidpad.exe   ; comment this line if you dont want wikidpadto run
  24.         WinWait, - WikidPad, , 5
  25. }
  26. WinActivate, - WikidPad

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by justice on April 02, 2008, 09:28 AM »
Use farr to launch wikidpad if you can this launches fastest.
Add your current start page as a new tab.
Change the first tab to scratchpad
Close down wikidpad

Now whenever you open it theoretically it should open on the scratch pad tab. Unfortunately it's not possible AFAIK to "pin/lock" a tab to stop it from changing page.

Maybe with a small autohotkey script an input box could pop up where you can write something in and copy it directly to clipboard, then you can start wikidpad afterwards and paste it in. see below
1063
General Software Discussion / Re: How to kill Vista's search indexer and save your HD
« Last post by justice on April 02, 2008, 05:09 AM »
Why doesn't it just index Program files without such arbitrary distinctions. Where do I manage this?
-nontroppo (April 02, 2008, 04:16 AM)
It probably assumes you don't want the 99% extra junk that's in your program files. But just search for indexing options (its also part of the control panel) > modify > show all locations. I'd consider finding all the .exe's in your utils folder with a filesearch tool, then right click and create shortcuts for all of them at once and add them to a utils start menu folder?
1064
Coding Snacks / Re: Window Tags
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 07:20 PM »
whoever takes this up should have a good look at recent RTS video games such as sins of a solar empire and implement more interface productivity features :)
1065
Living Room / Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 07:16 PM »
yeah its prerendered it's a bunch of swf files, one must read out the time and the others are the animations probably in flash video showing the digits.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WikidPad - an IDE for your thoughts
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 12:45 PM »
Have to say this was a great tip, I'm still using WikidPad to access shared information between work and home via Jungledisk (amazon s3) and it never fails to deliver.
1067
Living Room / Re: Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 10:22 AM »
we just need one with comic sans and some piranhas in the water  :Thmbsup:
1068
Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel in PC Magazine 91 Utils
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 07:50 AM »
I like it how they mention donation preferred which sounds like a good concise description.
1069
Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerDesk Pro v6 very very cheap.
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 07:32 AM »
Also if you add more than one copy (accident) they're all free as the discount gets applied to all copies individually.
1070
General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 03:59 AM »
Please note that WDS 4 is just a PREVIEW, not a final.
1071
Living Room / Dropclock - 137MB screensaver
« Last post by justice on April 01, 2008, 03:36 AM »
I think this is a case of love / hate. What to do with 137MB? install 5 copies of windows 95? or a signle screensaver (it IS very nice) and pay $15 to register it:

Dropclock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.
-http://scr.sc/products/dropclock/



Capture.PNG


from Daringfireball
1072
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Tolipo - todo list for programmers
« Last post by justice on March 28, 2008, 06:29 AM »
I've started using it again as a breakdown tool / personal todo list alongside the bugtracking tool we use.
1073
General Software Discussion / Re: console: a great CMD.exe replacement application
« Last post by justice on March 28, 2008, 06:16 AM »
yes it works in vanilla cmd.exe but not in console2 but I'l have another look because regularly i'm opening more than one cmd prompt.
hmm it works now, must have been user error  :huh:

Small tip: go into the preferences and change New Tab 1 to use Ctrl-T instead of CTRL-F1 to open tabs consistent with any other tab based program i know.
1074
General Software Discussion / Re: console: a great CMD.exe replacement application
« Last post by justice on March 28, 2008, 04:39 AM »
I couldn't get tab completion to work anyone else had more luck? This is essential for me being a keybaord junkie
1075
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARRAltTab
« Last post by justice on March 25, 2008, 04:34 PM »
I'd like to make a feature suggestion:
when using tab and the query that is put-in gives no results (i.e. no open window called 'notepad' to switch to) it would be great if FARRAltTab would then do a "I'm feeling lucky" and run the query back to farr to launch. (hopefully open notepad)

The reasoning behind this is i tend to use FARRAltTab when many windows are open, so i'm looking for my programming editor for example in a stack of 20 windows as I don't want to open multiple instances. However if the editor is not running i'd like to start it (or i wouldn't be looking for the window). Currently I have to backspace (maybe ESC would work but i think that minmizes farr instead) and type a query again - not exactly ease of use. What do you think?
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