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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4: Resizable Textareas Out-Of-The-Box
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 10:41 PM »
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/resize
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#resize
1927
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 06:41 PM »
Nice!  Thanks for pointing that out :)
1928
General Software Discussion / Re: Java code help
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 06:30 PM »
I think the single 0 may be normal behavior for the values in question.  If you want two 0s, may be using something like DecimalFormat will work.

I pasted the following into beanshell (w/ Capture System in/out/err chosen via the File menu):

import java.text.*;

double arg2 = 50000.00;
String pattern = "###.00";
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat(pattern);
System.out.println(arg2 + " " + pattern + " " + df.format(arg2));

The result was:

50000.0 ###.00 50000.00

How does that seem?

References:
  http://www.beanshell.org/
  http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~george/PH2150/html/node29.html
  http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/decimalFormat.html

1929
General Software Discussion / Re: BM-productions: useful & free
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 12:33 PM »
Darn, should never have woken up to read this thread in the middle of the night...BLUEberries...mmm!
1930
LaunchBar Commander / Re: Dropping Multiple "Documents" On To A Single Dock Item
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 12:31 PM »
there is no current way to do it, but it could be added pretty easily.
-mouser (April 17, 2011, 10:07 AM)
Thanks.  Sounds promising :)

a question is -- how do these apps want multiple files to be specified? as additional commandline arguments?
I believe so -- for the applications listed in the OP, I think it's just:

[Select]
exename filename1 filename2 ... filenamen

It would also be nice to be able to work with things like HashMyFiles, where what's necessary is:

[Select]
exename /files filename1 filename2 ... filenamen
1931
General Software Discussion / Re: BM-productions: useful & free
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 09:31 AM »
Mmm...nicer looking page too  :Thmbsup:
1932
General Software Discussion / Re: BM-productions: useful & free
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 09:22 AM »
In the spirit of indirection...check out the 8th item on the list:

http://www.acronymfinder.com/BM.html
1933
Living Room / Re: Paragon Go Virtual P2V
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 05:02 AM »
Anyone have any comments regarding how this compares with Disk2vhd and VMWare Converter? 
1934
LaunchBar Commander / Dropping Multiple "Documents" On To A Single Dock Item
« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2011, 12:32 AM »
I use some applications which are able to open multiple "documents" that are simultaneously dropped on to their corresponding executables [1].  I haven't succeeded in getting LBC dock items to work this way though - although dropping a single document does seem to work as expected.  Is it already possible?


[1] Some example applications: ReNamer, VirusTotalUpload2, Audacity, WinMerge, GIMP, Notepad++
1935
Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)
« Last post by ewemoa on April 15, 2011, 05:42 AM »
If it happens again, perhaps folks who can reproduce the problem can capture some of the sessions using something like Wireshark...
1936
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool
« Last post by ewemoa on April 15, 2011, 03:54 AM »
Seems like it came out fine :)

FWIW, wrapping in a code tag seems to provide some degree of protection:

some-mangling-protection-via-code-tag.png
1937
Living Room / Re: The Universe Within - very cool flash image zooms from galaxy to atoms
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 05:46 PM »
FWIW, the following sort of thing gave a kind of full-screen experience here:

  • View the content in a browser that is supported by VideoCacheView (or use DownloadHelper for FF, etc.)
  • Save the flash content appropriately - I ended up with a .swf file
  • If not already running, start a browser with full-screen capability (e.g. via F11 in IE, FF)
  • Drag the .swf file into said browser instance
  • Invoke the full-screen capability

No ideas regarding the improved graphics -- if wearing glasses or contacts, try removing them?
1938
Living Room / Re: The Universe Within - very cool flash image zooms from galaxy to atoms
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 05:26 PM »
Out of curiosity would ecaradec's swiffout work for this?
1939
General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 05:19 PM »
Perhaps the "replace with" portion of Renegade's post got mangled by the forums...
1940
Living Room / Re: The Evil Side of Nature
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 06:29 AM »
Cool!

Memories of "Power of Ten" :)

Related thread, online version, and trivia at Wikipedia.
1941
Living Room / Re: Thoughts on switching to IPv6
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 05:54 AM »
I found the speaker of "Who Cares About IPv6" entertaining (the preface to the main talk was fun too).

(Found via Ehtyar's link to "IPv6: No Longer Optional".)
1942
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Single hotkey to call an AddressBook
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 05:44 AM »
Hope it turns out to be helpful :)

BTW, I didn't know how to set the keyboard focus to the search field (not sure of terminology here):

thunderbird-address-book-search-field.png

Quite by accident I found the Tab key seems to do it...still haven't found relevant docs for that.  Any one seen that documented any where?
1943
General Software Discussion / Firefox 4: Resizable Textareas Out-Of-The-Box
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 04:58 AM »
Just noticed today that Firefox 4 has built-in resizable textareas  :Thmbsup:
1944
General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 04:54 AM »
I think I'd remember what to do with Audacity, but I imagine it would take a fair bit longer to finish because of the exporting to mp3...
-ewemoa (April 13, 2011, 06:20 AM)
For comparison, I tried Audacity's procedure.

It definitely feels like it takes longer (importing and exporting anyway), and I'm not convinced now that I'd remember how to carry the steps out in the future  :-[

...and now for some suckiness:

  • If no audio is selected, cannot choose Analyze -> Silence Finder...seems like with no selection, the application should default to assuming the whole track is intended as a target
  • The number of "silences" detected does not appear to be reported, neither a total, nor during detection...
  • Try cancelling "Export Multiple"...you'll have to indicate this a number times equal to the number of tracks :(
  • Audacity steals focus during "Export Multiple"...guess how many times...this is repeatedly annoying especially because if you happen to be typing elsewhere not only are you interrupted, you may accidentally cancel one of the exports...
  • Previous values for the "Export Multiple" dialog do not appear to be saved
  • It wasn't obvious to me how to move a cursor in the audio track to match the currently selected label (Alt+Left Click)
  • It wasn't obvious how to navigate among the labels (Tab, Shift+Tab)
  • Procedure for removing a label was unintuitive for me - create a selection covering the target label in the label track and choose Edit -> Silence.

This was with Audacity 1.2.6...

In 1.3.13 there appear to be some improvements:

  • With no audio selection, "Silence Finder..." can be chosen and it applies to the whole audio track.
  • "Elapsed Time" appears mentioned in various dialogs...but if I don't happen to be looking at the screen shortly before the dialog disppears, I'm not sure whether I can learn how long the last operation took...
  • "Export Multiple" can be stopped without repeated button presses (I believe via the Cancel button, not the new Stop button).
  • Most values for the "Export Multiple" dialog appear to be saved -- could be wrong but it looked like one checkbox value wasn't
  • The cursor for the audio track follows the currently selected label.

Removing a label seems to have changed.  From the "Removing labels" section of "Label Tracks":

To remove labels without affecting other labels: Single-click in the text of an individual label, then press the <Delete> or <Backspace> key (as appropriate) on your keyboard until the text is removed. Once the label is empty of text, press <Delete> or <Backspace> once more to delete the label. You can also remove one or more labels without affecting other labels by selecting any region extending over (or at least touching) the label edges(s), then choose Edit > Split Cut.

(Actually, learned via a YouTube video: Audacity 1.3.12 Beta - Adding and REMOVING labels.)
1945
Living Room / Re: Thoughts on switching to IPv6
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 12:56 AM »
Then again, who enjoyed, for example, the transition from the imperial to the metric measuring system? Nothing weighed any more or less in the end, yet no one who's made the adjustment will claim that imperial was better (and your kids certainly appreciate it).
-Ehtyar (April 14, 2011, 12:43 AM)
lol

In the various places I've lived, it's been one of:

1. We still use non-metric
2. We use metric and something else together
1946
Living Room / Re: Thoughts on switching to IPv6
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 12:13 AM »
@ Ehtyar:

Thanks for the links :)

IPv6 transition...reminds me of:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
1947
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Single hotkey to call an AddressBook
« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2011, 12:11 AM »
I either want to put in part of a name and see the number(s) I need to call them (Home, Work, Mobile) or part of a number and see the person associated with that number, or part of an address, etc.
-davcom (April 13, 2011, 11:50 PM)
I wonder if what's mentioned at the following could be tweaked to be of any help:

http://ifacethoughts.net/2010/08/09/configuring-thunderbirds-addressbook-search/
1948
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Single hotkey to call an AddressBook
« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 10:08 PM »
I don't know if I'm missing the point here, but FWIW, Thunderbird looks like it supports a command line option "-addressbook":

  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Run_Address_Book_from_Command_Line
  http://support.mozillamessaging.com/bg/kb/Standalone+address+book

I wonder if an AutoHotkey or AutoIt script wrapped around that could be of any use...
1949
General Software Discussion / Re: Mp3 split program that allows for multiple cut-points before execution?
« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 06:15 PM »
Visualization (manually looking for pauses) and pause detection are starting to feel essential here -- both mp3DirectCut and Audacity have these.

I mistakenly tried MP3Cutter and then examined the brief online description of MP3 Cutter Plus -- I didn't find the aforementioned features in either of these.

@ f0dder:

Thanks for the comments.  I have found working with larger files in Audacity to be unpleasant, but haven't found the UI to be too much of a turn-off.  What I have been hoping for is decent scriptability, but I don't get the sense that has been going anywhere productive.

@ Curt:

Thanks for the warning!
1950
Living Room / Re: Cat & Dolphin Make Friends
« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2011, 05:47 PM »
 :)
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