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Living Room / Re: Evernote Icon - what the heck is it? Anyone actually like version 3 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 27, 2009, 01:32 PM »

I also have OneNote 2007 installed... but don't use it... ever! Should take a look. Also to note, UltraRecall will be 62% off (applies to both editions) at BitsduJour on Wednesday, 28 January. Will look at that as well.

Given that I have three "seats" for OneNote, I should really be looking there first, though...

-Darwin (January 27, 2009, 08:00 AM)

Not the same kind of animal at all, Sir Darwin. Different feature sets - really different! Give Ultra Recall a try to see what I mean. OneNote 2007 is a collection of notes. Ultra Recall Pro is a pretty powerful database application.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Evernote Icon - what the heck is it? Anyone actually like version 3 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 26, 2009, 11:26 PM »

Well, Evernote was very cash-strapped and having difficulty getting serious investors. After the move the the "cloud" with Evernote 3 they picked up several tens of millions in fresh cash inflow from investors.

I am thinking that they are probably happy with their move.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Evernote Icon - what the heck is it? Anyone actually like version 3 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 26, 2009, 10:52 PM »

Thanks, Jim   That's disappointing as the formatting in Evernote 2.2 works very well, as far as I can tell. I actually came to Evernote because development of NetSnippets ceased, for reasons I've never understood. I keep thinking about InfoQube as well... Like you, I've never immersed myself in it and am not comfortable with it, yet. I'm on Firefox 3 as my default browser now, so should really look at... the name is gone! It's a free plug-in that doubles as a bibliographic tool. I *think* it will clip web pages as well. My main interest in web clippings is to archive receipts and other transactions until confirmation e-mails are sent. Zotero - I remembered! Right, off to take a look now...

-Darwin (January 26, 2009, 10:45 PM)

I mentioned Zotero in my post above. It is nice, but I'm now using Surfulater for the same function. I just prefer to have the database more in my control.

Evernote 3 is free unless you want their so-called advanced features or want to use a lot of bandwidth. Give it a try - who knows, it may be right for you. Just don’t import your only copy of your Evernotes 2.2 database into EN3. I suggest that you make a copy and keep a copy safe.   

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Evernote Icon - what the heck is it? Anyone actually like version 3 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 26, 2009, 10:47 PM »

Well speaking only on my personal opinion, if you haven't tried Evernote 3 yet, then I'd suggest giving up on any kind of import options. They're just two vastly different apps that I have a growing suspicion the developers only used the Evernote name so they could get part of the fanbase' of the brand as well as explain away why they are giving up on the previous model. (cause really they have no good reason other than purely abandoning it)

EverNote 3 is just so far from EverNote 2 that the team is quicker at adding options at getting people using Google Notebooks to use EN 3 than trying to grab the old market of EN 2.

http://blog.evernote...e-notebook-import-2/

-Paul Keith (January 26, 2009, 10:39 PM)

Paul,

It's the same CEO, and this is definitely his plan. He is purposely going after those new customers and not the old Evernote users. It's the money, of course. There was really no more money to be made from the relatively few of us who were avid EN 2 users.Even if he got all of us to pay for a new version there are not enough users to make a difference in revenue.

Compared to the old version the new one is purely Web 2.0 glitz. But he is pulling in thousands of new users and if they purchase subscriptions it is a constantly renewing revenue source. Phil has no interest in creating an advanced application; he simply wants one that will attract a lot of new users. Paying users. Mobile users. Renewing-every-year users.

No idealism there IMO. Just plain old economics.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Evernote Icon - what the heck is it? Anyone actually like version 3 ?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 26, 2009, 10:37 PM »

So, any updates to peoples' impressions five months on? Allen - are you still a fan? Carol, Jim and others have you given up or soldiered on, perhaps falling in love with Evernote 3 afterall...?

Inquiring minds want to know... I want to know!

-Darwin (January 26, 2009, 09:52 PM)

Ehh - it's OK for quick little clips of text or the occasional image. But... it is not enough to use for anything serious IMO.

E.g., I am using Ultra Recall Pro to store all documents on my PC that I consider important. That way I can search my important docs in a lot of different ways with UR's advanced search, logically link documents that are related, etc. And by backing up my UR databases I am by default backing up a copy of all my critical docs. Just another redundant backup!

And for web research - all kinds, from topics that I need for various projects to just general interest stuff - I use Surfulater. Ultra Recall Pro also can clip from the web pretty well but I like the way Surfulater does it better. I was using Zotero for this type of information collecting but I feel a bit more secure with Surfulater.

I will also probably use SQLNotes/InfoQube for some info once I feel a little more confident in using it. Thus far I have not gotten to the point where I feel confident enough with SQLNotes to use it regularly. I was using it fairly steady for a couple months but for me it is not yet there.

Evernote, IMO, is OK for quickly jotted notes and smaller clips. If you do a lot of handwritten notes and want recognition of them for searching, Evernote is good there. But its organization is not very good and the rich text engine in Evernote is, well, horrible. Text formatting will drive you nuts if you are using Windows. The Mac version has a phenomenal rich text editor but the Windows version of the client on your computer is really bad. Clip a few paragraphs from the web and when you go to read it there are no line feeds, no paragraph breaks. I have edited some and put all that back and open it again and it is all gone again! Maddening. The mod at their forum claims they are working on a new rich text engine for the Windows version but it will take several man-months. I say "Bull". The fact that you can access your notes databases from any computer is nice if you trust their "cloud". But with Ultra Recall, Surfulater, and SQLNotes I am using Dropbox to keep my databases synced among all computers, and it is working great.

Hope that helped.

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by J-Mac on January 26, 2009, 02:12 AM »

launch count still does not import into Linkman in version 7.71.

Also, it seems as though I'm the only one having the problem with the Esc key not clearing the display list?  I just installed linkman on my brand new computer and it's doing the same thing.  Maybe I'm not explaining it correctly.  Let me try again.

Open the search window
Type something in the query...the display list should shorten as each letter is typed
Now, press Esc
the query box is cleared.  Yes, that is true.  But the display list still shows the shortened list from whatever query you had before pressing Esc.

The display list should immediately show the full list as soon as Esc is pressed.  So when Esc is pressed, the query box should be cleared (this works) AND the display should be expanded to full (this doesn't work).  I'm having this behavior on every computer I've tried.

-superboyac (January 26, 2009, 01:51 AM)

Well that is not how you described your problem before. List-shortening and full list showing/not showing?

When I search using the "Search in Linkman" context menu item in Firefox 3, typing the search term brings a list of results (or not, if none exist). Then pressing Exc once clears the query box - ddoesn’tdo anything to the results list. Pressing Esc a second time makes the search dialog disappear.  That's it.

Why should the "...display list should immediately show the full list as soon as Esc is pressed"? Is this a feature listed somewhere? Or is this how your other bookmark application worked?

It doesn’t seem like you will be even a little bit happy with Linkman unless it becomes an exact clone of what you were previously using. True?

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 24, 2009, 12:43 AM »

Great info xtabber! Thanks for that.

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by J-Mac on January 22, 2009, 01:46 PM »

Hey - Wait a minute!  I'm Jim but I'm not Outertech Support!

Also, I haven't seen any warnings like that, though I'm not running Online Armor either.

Hopefully the real Outertech Support guy will reply.   

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 10:39 PM »

True - computers were basically designed to... compute! Which could be looked at as "a brain".

My single biggest issue with all information collection systems that I have any experience in using: the ability to quickly locate specific and general information that I have stored away. The information I have is not all wrapped up in one application, since I have not found one app that does it all for me. Oh sure - I have several different tree-based apps, I use categories where available, tags where available. But using several systems/software packages makes it virtually impossible to index it all adequately AND assign some sort of importance factor to the information. I spent some time (actually a lot of time) looking for a systemwide tagging system but there simply is not one that can do what I need.

So I continue to stumble along managing what I have as well as I can.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 04:55 PM »

It was interesting IMO because the author described how we normally think as opposed to how we often try to organize our collected information. Though he didn't claim to know the psychology nor neurology behind how we usually tend to organize and recall different types of data, he did indeed raise those very concepts. How we want to view our collected information in two ways simultaneously: to see it all at once overall, and to also see the detail well enough to pick out that which we are immediately seeking.

Any discussion on how we visualize and its relation to how we think is interesting to me. 

Jim

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:34 PM »

I noticed that you revised/updated the online Help file. Thank you for that! The only issue I have with FARR is trying to do more beyond just launching applications and finding out that the documentation/instructions are kind of spread out all over the place! The online help was usually a few versions behind, the plugin instructions - which I just found BTW - are on a completely separate page by themselves, and other than that there are tips and other info all through the forum threads.

Being a little on the basic side (that pretty much means "slow on the uptake" I guess), if documentation isn't organized like in a standard user manual, I get lost pretty quickly. 

But I am getting there slowly, surely, intrepidly.    And I promise to do my best to pull all the documentation together and create a PDF user manual by the time I "get" it all. 

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Carbonite Online Backup

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:25 PM »

I thought Mozy was all that - until they updated my client software automatically and I couldn’t connect anymore. Plus, in testing how to get it connected again they lost my 55 GB of backups. Refund!!

BTW, I'm now using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 - very good IMO.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:21 PM »

Thanks for the OP who referred to this link. That said, I'm just wondering what's so special about the stuff written there?

I just skimmed the topics and while they have some ideas people might not have read before, I think overall the ideas were flawed in that they skim over the benefits of a well organized feature and use a poor example of it as a straw man to look down upon the features they criticize.

I'm not sure anyone wants to read a long detailed critic of the article and I'm far from a productive organized notetaker so I just want to know what impressed you guys about the article.

-Paul Keith (January 21, 2009, 12:12 PM)

I liked the article, Paul.  Are you trying to denigrate anyone who happened to like the article just because you happen to dislike it? Really? Do I really have to justify to you what I liked??  Hmm... I do think there is a term for that.... 

OK, OK. Settle down - I was just messing with you a little! 

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:19 PM »

Looks cool.

-J-Mac (January 21, 2009, 12:57 AM)

Do you mean Chandler Jim?
- I'm still wading through the article and related articles, havent gotten to the software yet!
Some interesting stuff, some I just dont understand where it's going but will wade onwards when I have time later

-tomos (January 21, 2009, 02:42 AM)

Yes - I waded through the articles there and they are referring to a search method commonly called "grokking" which was the basis for a search engine that was introduced as a beta a few years ago - actually it might have been about five years ago. When you enter a search term the reults come back as a map with a series of circles containing - what else? More circles! All the circles contain groupings of search results grouped by different layers/definitions/categories of the search term(s).

Take a look at Grokker and perform a sample search from the home page. When you look at the results click on the "Map" tab and you'll see what I mean. Unfortunately now Grokker is a business application and I believe it is priced way out of my universe.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Digital Photo Effects - Zooming Part of a Photo?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 03:11 AM »

PhotoMesa 3 does that.

-PhilB66 (January 21, 2009, 01:54 AM)

Thanks - I'll take a look Phil.

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Digital Photo Effects - Zooming Part of a Photo?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 03:10 AM »

do you mean the ken burns effect?

-tsaint (January 21, 2009, 01:59 AM)

That type of panning, yes. But seemingly within an image rather than the entire image.

Damn, this is not easy to explain verbally! I'm going to try and find a video clip of the effect if I can and I'll post it here.

Thanks!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Digital Photo Effects - Zooming Part of a Photo?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:18 AM »

Probably no easy way, but I am curious about a photo effect that I see more and more of lately. I see this often on television - shows like Dateline - where the subject of the show is shown in a group photo - maybe a family photo - and for effect they starting slowly panning/zooming just that person while the rest of the people in the photo stay static. The panning effect looks like the slow panning that you often see in a standard slideshow - the kind that does not use overdone or wild transition effects. The difference is that only that one person pans and nothing else.

The only way in my limited knowledge I can think of to do this would be to free select the portion of a photo that you want to pan, create a separate layer of that portion only, and then overlay that over theoriginal photo. Even then, however, I don’t know of an application that will allow panning of individual layers.

As I see this effect more and more I can't help but to think that there might be a program that has this feature built-in. But of course trying to search for such a feature on Google is next to impossible. I can't come up with search terms for this that don’t bring back some really way out results!

Does anyone here have any earthly idea what I am talking about?!?

Thanks!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Awesome article re: organization and notetaking

« Last post by J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 12:57 AM »

Looks cool. Similar to the old Grokker. I used Grokker for searching back when it was released as a beta but I had to drop it when they decided to go commercial with only a business version - at great cost. Pretty neat concept though.

Thanks!

Jim

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by J-Mac on January 18, 2009, 10:20 PM »

In Firefox 3.0.5 when I open the Query dialog from the right-click menu, after a query - (hey, can I say "Search" instead? I don’t like "Query") - pressing Esc clears the search box; pressing Esc again dismisses the dialog.

Expected behavior for me. Perhaps a setting or extension affecting it, SB?

Jim

Edit:  Oops! Forgot to state that after dismissing the search dialog, if I open it again via the right-click menu the search field is empty.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Dial Warning for FF

« Last post by J-Mac on January 18, 2009, 01:43 PM »

I see. So the whole issue is more of a slip on part of the reviewing team than simply a glaring hole in the system, which makes everything more forgivable. Anyone makes a mistake every now and then, so probably the guy who approved the update will be questioned and punished accordingly, and the reviewing guidelines revised. But nothing really serious, which still does not mean some client-side measures should be in place, like Martin proposes.

-Lashiec (January 18, 2009, 01:28 PM)

Right, and I'm not saying that they should be. but I thought I would mention that Mozilla does indeed claim to review all extensions listed on their Add-ons site. I don’t think it is widely known.   

Thanks!

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Dial Warning for FF

« Last post by J-Mac on January 18, 2009, 01:18 PM »

Supposed to - see the reviewing guidelines I linked to in my last post, Section 2.4.6. But I don't know if they're adequately staffed to do a very good job at it.

Jim 

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Living Room / Re: Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?

« Last post by J-Mac on January 17, 2009, 02:03 PM »

I have two 7200.10's and one actually DID fail after only 8 months of use - replace free of charge by the builder of my box (Falcon Northwest). But I often see other disk errors in the Event log. I always run Hitachi's, WD's, and Seagate's disk diagnostics to see if it is truly the disk or a conflict within Windows causing the error event ID's. Believe it or not the WD and the Hitachi teasts are the most helpful. THe Seagate diagnostic program rarely runs - it has only completed any testing once. All other times the program freezes up and the process must be ended.

Jim

Edit: BTW, both are 500 GB SATA drives.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast Dial Warning for FF

« Last post by J-Mac on January 16, 2009, 11:04 PM »

What I find foolish is the folks blaming Mozilla. How are they supposed to check every little update that comes along? I think some of the responsibility lies with the users. I mean, even when developers act in good faith, sometimes they make changes you aren't happy with. If you just blindly allow everything to be updated automatically, you're taking some risk you'll be unhappy with the result. In this case, the developer was also at fault, no question. But users need to pay attention to what is happening on their systems (unless they want to be one of those guys who just accepts whatever comes up on their screen - and then I think they'll be getting some nasty surprises pretty quickly).

-raybeere (January 16, 2009, 05:02 PM)

Well, you are correct to a very fine point, but while I generally don’t throw blame at anyone for any bad stuff I end up foolishly downloading there is a bit of responsibility that lies with Mozilla. After all they push their browser based on its extensibility as well as its other advantages. They also shut down the Add-ons web site for a while so they could redesign it and setup a system that allows them to review all proposed extensions and requires the authors to submit their work to them for review prior to its being added to that site.

Now that still doesn’t absolve the user of any responsibility in being careful with their Firefox-related downloads. But it probably gave a lot of users a false sense of security - a feeling that if the Mozilla Add-ons group was monitoring all extensions and themes carefully that any posted at the Add-ons site would be safe. Here's the reviewing guidelines that the AMO editors use. Again, I am not suggesting that users are not ultimately responsible for their own browsing safety, but obviously none of the editors at AMO took a look at this extension's updates at all or they would never have allowed it to be posted at AMO.

Jim

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Living Room / Re: Jan 13, 2009 - Important Windows Update Patch - Apply ASAP

« Last post by J-Mac on January 15, 2009, 12:25 AM »

Thanks mouser.

And now if I could just get a little excited about the Malicious Software Removal Tool that finds its way onto my computer each month via MS Update....  

It scans for but a small fraction of malware that dedicated Anti-Spyware applications do and it doesn't tell you a darn thing about what it is finding - or not.

Does anyone know who or what actually develops this tool?

Jim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Another 'Lifetime' license bites the dust

« Last post by J-Mac on January 14, 2009, 03:24 AM »

It's called marketing. As I pointed out in another thread, and was attacked for, slysoft loves to give discount after discount (in the past) and act like the 20% was something special. It was a NORM for them to have a discount. Now, I have a feeling, that they are going to draw this out for a while before finally switching to the subscription model and then offering a 20% discount all the time.

-Josh (January 14, 2009, 02:12 AM)

Attacked you? Do you mean me?

If I did I must have been sleepwalking! Really though, I didn't notice. After all opinions are valid, expected, and welcome, right? If someone got "snippy" with you they must have just been having a bad hair day or something. 

Jim