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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Survival Tricks for When the Zombie Apocalypse Hits :: Lifehacker

« Last post by rgdot on August 07, 2011, 11:14 AM »

Wouldn't it be fun if this article was posted 'just when we needed it' 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by rgdot on August 05, 2011, 01:46 PM »

Not sure I can explain it now in 2011 but PageMaker was good (whatever that means) back in the day.

-rgdot (August 05, 2011, 01:13 PM)

That's because PageMaker was "it" back in the day! 

Or was until Quark Xpress showed up and piddled all over their pop tarts!

(To be fair, they've gotten almost all of it back with the advent of their CS release.  )

-40hz (August 05, 2011, 01:21 PM)

InDesign is the successor isn't it? Haven't ever used it myself.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by rgdot on August 05, 2011, 01:13 PM »

Not sure I can explain it now in 2011 but PageMaker was good (whatever that means) back in the day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strange Tomtom.com issue on my netbook

« Last post by rgdot on August 03, 2011, 12:44 PM »

http://www.google.co...ff689eff09&hl=en

Might be useful

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Living Room / Re: Block a FOSS release because being free interferes with commercial interests?

« Last post by rgdot on August 02, 2011, 11:45 PM »

Taxes are for the benefit society at large not a government agency or office or individual entity. What is being suggested by Eóin (not saying you support the idea) is catastrophic if it holds up.

Governments being seen as corporations (and therefore automatically in competition with other corporations) is a disastrous notion.

EDIT:
A perhaps exaggerated example:
Tobacco companies paying taxes but then complaining when it is used to fund quit smoking programs. I say exaggerated because you may dismiss this as being different (health care vs software) but all it takes is one lawyer

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on August 02, 2011, 11:31 PM »

My thoughts

1. Despite what everybody says I think twitter is too different to be a competitor. '140 characters quick glance' will always have its user base and appeal.
2. Why not circles? To me circles is the next step in evolution of groups. Actually it's probably the only feature of Google+ I would call innovative.
3. As far as I have seen Google+ defaults to the last used sharing method. Public, your circles, etc.
4. Sparks feels like a mashup. RSS feed/google reader/suggested sites. In my opinion if not improved it won't survive a chopping block.
 

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Living Room / Re: The social network icon flood is getting crowded

« Last post by rgdot on July 30, 2011, 11:08 PM »

There should only be an icon that goes (few lines down) to the same page's comment form 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Grid Layout software? Does it exist?

« Last post by rgdot on July 28, 2011, 07:47 PM »

That looks nice, might try it myself as well. Nice find.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Apps vs. MS Office 365: Your Choice

« Last post by rgdot on July 26, 2011, 11:15 PM »

saying they suspected Chinese hackers

-zridling (July 26, 2011, 10:33 PM)

  Sarcastic lol @ google. If it's happening they know. No suspicions or ifs

Long long ago they suspended my adsense one week before a payout was due and sent me a note accusing me of clicking to increase income. Ever since then I know they are scam artists, if gmail didn't have so many good features I wouldn't have gotten into google services to begin with.

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Living Room / Re: BoingBoing Update on Bitcoin Alternatives

« Last post by rgdot on July 25, 2011, 12:59 PM »

Am I the only person who gets the feeling that the entire world economy is one big confidence game sham?

-mouser (July 25, 2011, 11:27 AM)

No, it's not only you.

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Living Room / Re: anonplus: new, uncensored social network coming soon?

« Last post by rgdot on July 19, 2011, 10:59 PM »

You have to take into account one thing though, we live in an age where people can influence things, to a point any way...before you laugh at me...
From simple voting (US for example) to masses in the streets (Egypt) and to breaking down walls (Germany) people can produce change. The problem is how much people follow through and make sure the change is for the better AND remains for the better.

That's why I am not a critic of governments as much as I am a critic of those who allow it to be what it is...the voters. Even massive corporate influence can be succumbed if the voters see to it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Grid-based-layout Information Manager

« Last post by rgdot on July 18, 2011, 07:21 PM »

Mouser is probably too expensive (I have no idea what that means lol)

From my perspective the emphasis should be on note visibility without using a search form. Mimicking notes written by hand on a paper but in an organized fashion.
I realize this doesn't sound like a complete thought and that's why some of the above mentioned come close, it's a lot like "I won't be sure until I use it and see how it is"

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Grid-based-layout Information Manager

« Last post by rgdot on July 18, 2011, 12:27 PM »

I am all for something like this, sort of improved version of Pigeonhole, StickySorter and Text Block Writer

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Living Room / Re: Want to see impressive numbers?

« Last post by rgdot on July 18, 2011, 12:24 PM »

It will be 'fixed' on the back of those least responsible for producing these numbers </very short rant>

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on July 16, 2011, 12:58 PM »

meatspace

-app103 (July 16, 2011, 12:48 PM)

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on July 15, 2011, 11:52 PM »

This calls for a custom profile field 

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General Software Discussion / Re: InfoQube & TreeSheets: Information managers of the future

« Last post by rgdot on July 15, 2011, 08:41 AM »

@40hz You're welcome 

There aren't that many that are in very active development, part of the market has been taken away by online, sync with smart phone type services.

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General Software Discussion / Re: InfoQube & TreeSheets: Information managers of the future

« Last post by rgdot on July 14, 2011, 01:52 PM »

Same sort of obsession, I have used most you can name, pretty sure I have covered 100% of freeware ones ever made. InfoQube comes close and I love it. But got to say I am still looking for something that brings simplicity into accessing notes, snippets of text in one view. I posted about Pigeonhole here before and the likes of Notebox Disorganizer and Treesheets come close too.

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Living Room / Re: Dumb backup method - lost several years of notes

« Last post by rgdot on July 14, 2011, 09:52 AM »

I had been playing with a XAMPP install for some sites and had the (idiotic) idea of storing some notes in a local MySQL database. One day I emptied the databases because the so-called testing was finished and guess what I deleted with them?
Can never be too careful and too lucky!

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« Last post by rgdot on July 13, 2011, 02:58 PM »

Have not tried any myself

http://www.makeuseof...ogle-search-results/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Will facebook ever be the same?

« Last post by rgdot on July 13, 2011, 01:26 PM »

Profiles (name and gender at a minimum) are public.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Mozilla trying to do?

« Last post by rgdot on July 13, 2011, 11:16 AM »

The address bar now highlights the domain of the website you're visiting

-Curt (July 13, 2011, 10:53 AM)

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on July 12, 2011, 10:20 PM »

The uprooting thing has been achieved before, facebook itself took on MySpace and killed it and added generations of its own users. Others have existed too.
Friendster was big for a while and I would argue - and this is something nobody mentions - that 'per capita' internet users friendster wasn't much smaller than facebook is today (if that makes sense. May be Orkut too, etc.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on July 07, 2011, 01:56 PM »

I am 99.9% certain it means when the profile is invisible/zero people
Read last paragraph here for example
http://mashable.com/...lus-profiles-retire/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google+

« Last post by rgdot on July 07, 2011, 01:23 PM »

Private profiles will be removed, that's what was said I believe. In a way that's not really evil, why have a profile page when it's visible to zero people.