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Living Room / Re: Dr.Frog - Nice blog entry about DonationCoder.com and Coding Snacks

« Last post by rgdot on November 06, 2009, 01:47 PM »

Nice article and nice site. Interesting comment on launchy 

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Living Room / Re: What's the time? Ask WorldClock

« Last post by rgdot on November 06, 2009, 09:48 AM »

-0500 (EST)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Idea: A 'polite' reminder/diary system

« Last post by rgdot on November 06, 2009, 09:44 AM »

Hmmm...the application has to continue running in order to keep popping up the window at the specified times.  Or, am I misunderstanding you again?   

-skwire (November 06, 2009, 04:23 AM)

No, you didn't misunderstand. In my first post above I did say that I understand that this needs to pop up at the specified times.
I was only thinking out loud, trying to find a way to not have this open all the time.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Idea: A 'polite' reminder/diary system

« Last post by rgdot on November 06, 2009, 02:58 AM »

Are you asking for a File, Exit menu bar on the popup?

-skwire (November 06, 2009, 02:49 AM)

No, I meant the following:
When pressing enter not only does the window go away but the program closes too (doesn't remain in tray)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Idea: A 'polite' reminder/diary system

« Last post by rgdot on November 05, 2009, 02:05 PM »

This is great and nice idea too, thanx. May be just a small tweak, the popup position be configurable, not important obviously.

EDIT: Any chance, much like the Icon Menu Launcher for example, ExitApp can be incorporated into it? Even though this needs to start at intervals of course

(I am already thinking of using the log or data collected over time and importing them into a richer format for future browsing)

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Living Room / Re: The Soda Pop Stop - Giant store that only sells soda.. what a sweet video

« Last post by rgdot on November 04, 2009, 02:49 PM »

Thanx mouser.
I would love to visit the store and try so many of those, I would pass on any coffee varieties though. He makes so many good points; glass vs plastic, diet sodas, and even competition

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General Software Discussion / Re: ThoughtX - Interesting Early Beta MindMapping Software

« Last post by rgdot on November 03, 2009, 01:15 PM »

Interesting find Paul, from just the screenshots alone it looks like it has potential

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by rgdot on October 31, 2009, 01:44 PM »

Welcome miva2

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Living Room / Re: Reocities: the GeoCities one-man rescue project

« Last post by rgdot on October 30, 2009, 03:47 PM »

Looking at the page tomos linked one also remembers why there were so many articles and tools  on choosing color schemes.

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Living Room / Re: Reocities: the GeoCities one-man rescue project

« Last post by rgdot on October 29, 2009, 10:38 PM »

Great story

Also who could ever forget the annoying midi files that ran in the background of so many of those sites

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Living Room / Re: For those about to Wave...

« Last post by rgdot on October 28, 2009, 10:00 PM »

Want to use this thread to thank you Shades, got it and using it, as much as one can at this point.

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Living Room / Re: For the person who has everything - an € 800 Mouse

« Last post by rgdot on October 27, 2009, 08:38 PM »

I would put the € 800 towards a new Alienware or similar laptop 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by rgdot on October 27, 2009, 10:53 AM »

Like you guys have said. Even based on what the author of the article himself says the 1 point difference in compatibility is wrong. Never mind what the reality is.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 27, 2009, 10:47 AM »

@Dormouse, Thank you, makes sense. Just made me laugh when I got a service pack that was ~194MB
Onenote and Compendium look nice, in different ways, may be I will look into Onenote 2010 somehow. Going to play with them more. Keeping my eyes open for others as well, including Notezilla and Evernote.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any fast way to improve pr of a webpage?

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 10:59 PM »

Submission to technorati, valid RSS feed that is also submitted

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Free Software for Flash Movies to Quicktime ?

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 10:57 PM »

Format Factory http://www.formatoz.com/
SUPER http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Check to make sure the formats you need are supported, I believe they are

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 07:47 PM »

Thanx for the recommendation and link Paul, I will try it, looks interesting

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 07:14 PM »

Side note:
So I go to MS's Onenote page (http://trial.trymicr...te&culture=en-CA) and download the Onenote 60 day trial. Now I am getting Windows update prompts for '2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service pack 1', Who says I have 2007 Office installed?   And 2007 office is not listed as a requirement for Onenote 2007 but maybe it is? then again Onenote seems to be working, at least the few minutes that I have tried it.
I have a fully patched version of Office 2003, may be I should have downloaded Onenote 2003?

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 06:16 PM »

I remember the days of learning Turbo Pascal and FORTRAN, memories...
Speaking of that, the wikipedia entry for Fortran says: "Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1])" I completely missed the part of them losing the caps 

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 03:58 PM »

Yay, language wars!   

-tranglos (October 26, 2009, 12:56 PM)

French is the best 

However it is described, I would say PHP, and I am 'exploring' it with smarty and liking it even more

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 12:18 PM »

If my Wave invite makes it (lol) I will attempt to use it for notes (and collaboration) too, even though I am more inclined to use something offline right now.

Downloading Onenote now.

Thank you Dormouse, I will download the Notezilla trial as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 11:06 AM »

True, that is partially the reason why I want to keep looking.
I will try Onenote.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 10:11 AM »

I need to re-visit Evernote, though I don't want or don't need to use any web features. But that does remind me of the thumbnail view of notes it had (?) which is also a good possibility. Onenote I am one of the few I know that has never used. Might be time to try.

I looked at Notezilla and it says "Stay Neat: Organize sticky notes inside folders to avoid clutter on your Windows Desktop." Does that mean I can view stickies within the program window instead of on the desktop? It would be nicer not to use desktop but if I have to then sticky programs in general may be an option, if nothing else.

I used the word aggregation in this sense. If a program supports tasks, reminders, appointments, etc. I want everything to displayed in this view that I am imagining.  I guess, probably wrongly, I associate stickies with short reminders when I am hoping to have maximum amount of details in front of me.

One that I have comes across is Pigeonhole (I have no affiliation to them at all) that is probably the most promising yet but I want to keep looking.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 26, 2009, 12:33 AM »

Sticky notes are close to what I am thinking too but I prefer to have the view as an aggregation of things and not actually create sticky notes, if that makes sense. Although Stickysorter (mentioned here https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16910.0 where app also mentioned her postit program), which I tried a while ago, can import csv data to create a collection of sticky notes. So that's a possibility.

As far as integration with gmail, probably not, very much prefer something local.

I just want to have things in front of me all at once, including as much detail as possible. As for the number of notes, the more the better, it's not going to be less 50.  I will read the thread you linked, thanx.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by rgdot on October 25, 2009, 11:10 PM »

I have read this thread and all or most others on organizing and I wanted to get some feedback.

What has been on my mind is finding a note repository or PIM that is capable of presenting a view of all my saved notes or appointments or tasks and to me this is important, not just their respective titles or headers but a more detailed view. There are examples that come close like Do-Organizer and others which have 'reports' but I believe these are more tailored for printing purposes. May be what I am looking for is to have my notes arranged on the screen like a mind mapper but again may be.

Any thoughts? Point me to one discussed in this or other threads that may come close?