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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto Frefresh New Info Notification
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 05:50 PM »
Have you looked at http://website watcher?
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 05:47 PM »
R.A.W.S or W.A.R.S

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 10:26 AM »
IF you have any other applications how are they called? Consistency is important too.

TextWolf
Warp5
InOutRobot
TextPacer
WarpSpeed
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Living Room / How do I find out what's new on the web?
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 09:07 AM »
What's New With NCSA Mosaic
    The unofficial newspaper of the World Wide Web is What's New With NCSA Mosaic (URL is http://www.ncsa.uiuc.../Docs/whats-new.html ), which carries announcements of new servers on the web and also of new web-related tools. This should be in your hot list if you're not using Mosaic (which can access it directly through the help menu).
Must be a new browser or something :P Also a good mention is the newgroups that carries the announcement of new WWW resources becoming available... that must be a high traffic newsgroup nowadays!  :-\



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from bored google search
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bug-free software that does -- nothing
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 08:11 AM »
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sidney J. Harris

This is software cynicism.
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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Programming Tool?
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 06:31 AM »
tea? :P
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General Software Discussion / Best password manager?
« Last post by justice on November 28, 2007, 03:51 AM »
door lock.jpgAm looking for 'the best password manager' software. I'm currently using Keepass, but I know of a few others and I'm wondering what your experiences are and what the essential features are for 'the best' one. What I like about keepass is the cost& the portability of the password file. However I'm not impressed with the lack of integration with the various programs and i still find it cubersome to add all my passwords in (so I don't use it for everything which defeats its purpose). I was recommended Steganos Password Manager but couldn't find any experiences here. If it's not easy to use then it's not getting used as far as I'm concerned.

What password manager do you use and what are your experiences?

Password managers I know about (
If I missed out your favourite then let us know and I'll add it to the list.

Related DC Forum topics i found
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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 03:37 PM »
Right so there's an Auto-Tag option for single tracks only (shame- quick way to fix tags in many songs would be appreciated). There's also a play similar song option using audio fingerprinting.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Very very simple suggestion
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 01:14 PM »
please add this, it sounds too good to be true. :)
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Living Room / Fun - will ferrell as bush
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 09:27 AM »
Can't stop laughing  :D


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from videosift.com
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Proof of Concept: using text files to expose information to FARR
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 09:03 AM »
Thanks people :) I'm trying to think of some useful ideas for this to help others along:
  • Todo listing using textfiles with multiple helper apps (reschedule, delete, add, reminder)
  • Expand the window titles idea with a maximizer, minimize, close helper apps
  • Directory listers
The list goes on really. :)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Proof of Concept: using text files to expose information to FARR
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 07:23 AM »
Sorry the screenshots were misordered.
Download the source here:

* SwitchToTask.rar (385.49 kB - downloaded 540 times.)
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Find And Run Robot / Proof of Concept: using files to expose information to FARR
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 07:18 AM »
I was going to post a new version of SwitchToTask here until Vitalyb's excellent FARRAltTab was released.  So instead this post is about 'how to expose information to FARR using plain text files and aliases'. I still think the process I used could be beneficial to others, especially Autohotkey coders wanting to use write for FARR. ;)

swexample.png

All source files are enclosed at the end of the post.

THE TECHNIQUE

As FARR can show a list of results for certain files in a folder, it was a logical experiment to see if I could write out information to text files. By using aliases I can then create a command only to query those text files. The result can be passed on to a helper program to process the information.

It turns out this works and I used the technique in a SwitchToTask implementation. Using an autohotkey script when indexing it writes all windowtitles to textfiles in its folder. We can then query the windowtitles using farr and send the result to another helper script that switches to the window chosen.


INDEXING WINDOW TITLES

We use a simple script to index window titles. First we setup the program and remove all previous window titles before indexing.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  2.  
  3. ; setting variables
  4. Storage = %A_ScriptDir%
  5. FileDelete , %Storage%\*.txt
  6. Titles =
Then we get a list of all process ids and for each id we get a window title. We remove empty titles and ids and then write the title as the filename part of the textfile:
Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. WinGet, id, list,,, Program Manager ; get list of all foreground ids
  2. Loop, %id%
  3. {
  4.         this_id := id%A_Index%
  5.         WinGet, this_process, ProcessName, ahk_id %this_id%
  6.         if NOT this_process ;exclude emptiness
  7.                 continue
  8.         WinGetTitle, this_title, ahk_id %this_id%
  9.         if NOT this_title ;exclude start menu and empty processes
  10.                         continue
  11.         Titles%i% := this_title
  12.         FileAppend , Text, %Storage%\%this_title%.txt
  13. }


QUERING THE TEXTFILES

To query the textfiles I created 3 aliases. We issue 'IndexWindows' whenever we want up to date information. We issue 'sw <part of windowtitle>' to query window titles. IndexWindows is created just for ease of use: it simple calls the indexing script we created:

indexingalias.png
[Select]
1000>>>IndexWindows>->d:\scripts\SwitchToTask\IndexWindows.exe

The 'sys-switch' alias is a system alias (the user never has to know about it) that runs a query as a parameter to the switching script we're creating later on:

sys-switch.png
[Select]
1000>>>sys-switch>->D:\scripts\SwitchToTask\Switch To.exe $$1

The third and last alias is a bit more complex. (Thanks to mouser for helping me with this) It does a new search with the sys-switch alias for any textfile in the Storage directory:

switchto.png
[Select]
1000>>>Switch to>->sw $$1 | dosearch +sys-switch D:\scripts\SwitchToTask\.txt $$1>+>^sw (.*)


PROCESSING RESULTS

That leaves us with the Switch To script. This script takes one parameter - the textfile launched by FARR. It then takes off the extension and switches to the window specified.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  2. SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  4. if 0 < 1  ; need 1 parameter
  5. {
  6.     MsgBox Enter part of a window title as a parameter.
  7.     ExitApp
  8. }
  9. Loop, %0%  ; For each parameter:
  10. {
  11.                 StringLen, length, %A_Index%
  12.                 length:=length-4 ; remove .txt extensions
  13.                 StringLeft, this_title, %A_Index%, %length%
  14.                 WinActivate, i)%this_title%
  15. }


SOURCE & FINAL THOUGHTS

I was still polishing these scripts when FARRAltTab was released so at the moment it has some problems with window titles with invalid filename characters in them such as ':'. Also I'd have created some kind of FARR alias writer helper app so the person wouldn't have to know the path of the helper apps. Etcetera. However I think it is a nice proof of concept for the creative thinkers that want to use Autohotkey or any other language to harness the power of FARR.

sw.png


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General Software Discussion / Re: RSS feed for updated software?
« Last post by justice on November 26, 2007, 04:12 AM »
I just started trialling http://FeedRinse. All membership plans are now free. You can set up a list of feeds, I've used the 6 from muntealb and added filehippo:

http://www.snapfiles.../feeds/snapfiles.xml
http://www.softpedia.com/backend.xml
http://www.versiontr...m/windows/recent.rss
http://www.majorgeeks.com/backend.php
http://www.sofotex.c...oad/xml/freeware.xml
http://fileforum.betanews.com/rss2
http://www.filehippo.com/rss

Then you can set up a new channel called software updates with the rules: Allow posts containing winamp. Hopefully this blocks all other posts.
Then subscribe to that rss feed. I'm not sure if it blocks all the others though, and it's tough to test as software releases don't happen every five minutes. The site is easy to use but very simple. I'll update with my experiences.

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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)
« Last post by justice on November 25, 2007, 06:24 PM »
how do you fix tags with winamp then? Is it automatic like musicip?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Going back to XP
« Last post by justice on November 25, 2007, 04:03 PM »
yep it just like any ordinary crash, it just 'keeps running' obviously restarting itself and then displaying a nice report error dialog.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Going back to XP
« Last post by justice on November 24, 2007, 10:55 AM »
Most problems related to vista are actually caused by driver problems. Especially with bluescreens.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARRAltTab
« Last post by justice on November 23, 2007, 03:18 PM »
well done. The helper program I was working on is now out of date before its released lol :) But it's better as a plugin.
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Living Room / Re: Best and Worst Consumer Electronics, 2007
« Last post by justice on November 23, 2007, 03:12 PM »
It just depends what way you look at it Renegade, from your .net viewpoint you might be right, but if we look at browsers for example the work Apple has done on webkit is way more open than Microsoft with IE. And Darwin, the base for OSX. What's the point comparing these things anyway. best look at the evidence of who screwed oses out of the market :P

Between 1998 and 2000, Be marketed its BeOS operating system to PC OEMs with some subtlety, but little success. The company had pitched BeOS as a complementary operating system to OEMs' Windows images, allowing users to reboot from the Windows desktop. But Hitachi, one of the few OEMs to bite, discovered that it wasn't permitted to do so by its Windows licensing agreement. When running Windows on dual-boot Hitachi PCs, the user had no indication that another operating system was even present.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linotype fontexplorer x download
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 10:46 AM »
Oh I've never tried that program but the feature list looks good :) Sorry I can't be of more help.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Maybe Vista doesn't suck?
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 10:41 AM »
Good point regarding HDCP.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Maybe Vista doesn't suck?
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 09:09 AM »
It can be useful to remember that HDCP drm restrictions are not Microsoft fault but the standard behind HDCP who require such measures if one wants to play the appropriate hi-def movie. For example there has been / is still a hot debate going in the Linux  community because it was suggested the kernel needed DRM measures for this very same functionality. Unless I've been mistaken.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Synergy: Sharing your keyboard and mouse
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 08:24 AM »
If you need to do a multi pc installation routine for example preparing a classroom full of computers maybe this would come in handy?
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Living Room / Re: Best and Worst Consumer Electronics, 2007
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 07:43 AM »
I'm getting'll get to use an iMac at work  :tellme:
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Living Room / Re: Best and Worst Consumer Electronics, 2007
« Last post by justice on November 22, 2007, 07:39 AM »
I hope they have the iPhone listed under worst, otherwise they have no credibility whatsoever.

EDIT: nope, they rate it the best smartphone. Apple whores.
-f0dder (November 22, 2007, 06:33 AM)
apple-basher  ;)
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