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General Software Discussion / TreeMaker 5 - Origami Tool for paper folding masters

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2006, 12:03 AM »

A good friend emailed me to let me know that it's a "glorious day in the history of origami", because version 5 of an origami program called TreeMaker has been released (Mac, Windows, Linux, and its open source).

TreeMaker is a program for the design of origami bases. You draw a stick figure of the base on the screen; each stick in the stick figure (the "tree") will be represented by a flap on the base. You can also place various constraints on the flaps, forcing them to be corner, edge, or middle flaps, and/or setting up various symmetry relationships (forcing pairs of flaps to be symmetric about a line of symmetry of the paper, for example). Once you have defined the tree, TreeMaker computes the full crease pattern for a base which, when folded, will have a projection (roughly speaking, its "shadow") equivalent to that specified by the defining tree. The crease pattern can be printed out, or copied and pasted into another graphics program for further processing. Crease assignment (mountain or valley) are not computed, but with a few simple rules and some exploration by hand, the proper crease assignment can usually easily be found.

http://www.langoriga...aker/treemaker5.php4

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Living Room / Google: 25 Things to Hate and 25 Things to Love, nice blog post

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 11:59 PM »

nice blog posts:

25 Things to Hate: http://blog.searchen...m/blog/060313-161500
25 Things to Love: http://blog.searchen...m/blog/060313-161501


from blog.searchenginewatch.com

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Living Room / open source cms for public broadcasting websites

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 10:54 PM »

Public Media Manager (PMM) is an online news content management system (CMS) oriented toward public broadcasting websites. The intended users of Public Media Manager are the reporters, producers, and editors of broadcast news, along with associated online staff, if any, of public broadcasting organizations. (Hosting Specs) PMM is offered free of charge to any not-for-profit broadcaster, and is offered with installation and technical support to any CPB-qualified public broadcaster.

http://www.pubforge.org/

[link from osnews.com]

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Living Room / cool left handed wireless mouse from logitech

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 10:47 PM »

cool left handed wireless mouse..

At last—laser precision for lefties only. The MX™610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse lets left-handed users enjoy the comfort and control of an advanced laser mouse— without compromising their natural work style.

http://www.logitech....2135,CONTENTID=11532

[link from lifehacker]

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Living Room / PaPeRo - cute home robot from NEC for kids and stuff

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 10:31 PM »

PaPeRo was named after an acronym of "Partner-type Personal Robot." It is a prototype "Personal robot" that communicates with human beings as one of the family members at home. Since 1997, NEC Multimedia Research Laboratories have been conducting research on "Personal Robots" and developed the first prototype "R100" in July 1997 and its descendant "PaPeRo" in January 2001.
In the course of in-depth evaluations with PaPeRo, we focused on the human-robot interactions in the real environment encountered at home. Based on the data and insights in the evaluations, the new PaPeRo with more sophisticated human-robot interaction capabilities has been developed.

http://www.incx.nec....h/robotcenter_e.html

from wired blogs

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Living Room / 10 most annoying clocks

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 10:12 PM »

http://www.uberrevie...ng-alarm-clocks.htm/

i like this one:

The interactive alarm clock with a unique personality goes by the name, Nooby. To see what time the alarm is set you simply ask him and he reads the current alarm setting and assures you it’ll go off. When your favorite time of the morning comes around, he’ll beep and say, “Rise and shine, it’s time to get up!”. When you go back to sleep and don’t turn the alarm off right away, he’ll beep again, but this time he gets nasty, “Take your fingers out of your ears!”. To put an end to this harassing wake up call, you simply ring the clock’s blue neck. If he senses that you are angry, he’ll get grumpy and ignore you.Price:$29.95

[link from digg.com]

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

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 09:51 PM »

zoot looks quite nice. (http://www.zootsoftware.com/)

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Living Room / Re: clever samarost-style game

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 09:43 PM »

well done deozaan!
this game is damn harsh though, my brain doesn't work fast enough for it.

I've been dying to create a Flash game for a while, but I can't come up with a simple, fun little idea I think I could do.

that sounds like a challenge - surely we can come up with a fun idea.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WebBuilder - Even I Could Use It!

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 01:00 PM »

cool - i'll pass this on to the person preparing the webpage editing tool review.

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Living Room / Re: nutrasweet and diet soda a neurotoxin - new study and article

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 11:55 AM »

another study showing soda might be dangerous for your health

http://www.alternet.org/story/33380/

Soda has already been linked with weight gain and cavities; now the FDA admits that some popular soft drinks could contain a carcinogen. Will the fizz finally go flat?

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Living Room / 10 coolest alarm clocks

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 11:31 AM »

http://www.hiptechbl...coolest-alarm-clocks

[link from cynical-c.com]

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Living Room / Re: clever samarost-style game

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 11:13 AM »

how the hell do you get past level 3 (the one with the explosion tool powerup) ????

ps two more games by this guy will frazzle your nerves
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/avoision/
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/avoision2/

ps. shouldnt there be some donationcoder.com people making some little flash games?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System - nice big tutorial

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 10:10 AM »

i would tend to agree with you - with the exception that making a cms seems like a really really fun programming project (which may explain why there are so many).

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Living Room / clever samarost-style game

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 08:02 AM »

not as involving or real as samarost but still interestings:

http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/efri/
also from same authors:
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland/
http://www.foon.co.uk/farcade/hapland2/


From Jay Is Games: http://jayisgames.com/

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Developer's Corner / Creating a PHP-Based Content Management System - nice big tutorial

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 07:16 AM »

http://www.intranetjournal.com/php-cms/

For six months in 2004, Intranet Journal's Peter Zeidman published a tutorial on using the PHP programming language to build a content management system (CMS).
Writing your own CMS can lead to a solution that is better suited to your requirements, better addresses the needs of your users, and is better understood by your development team. If you have the time and expertise to write your own in-house system, it may well prove the better option.
Part 1 of the series begins with a look at the overall plan for the CMS, and a look at PHP and the concept of object-oriented programming.
Part 2 takes a look at the basic PHP code that will power the CMS.
Part 3 examines the creation of the database and the database connector.
Part 4 explores validation, and the creation of a validator class and the creation of sections for the content that needs to be managed.
Part 5 introduces security to the content management system, and shows how to create a system that is accessible only to those with authorization to access it. It also takes a look at creating a log-in for users.
Part 6 discusses layouts for the content, templating systems, and talks about possible add-ons and features that can enhance your PHP-based content management system.

[link from del.icio.us]

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Developer's Corner / Re: Farr's ADDNOTE

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 05:55 AM »

it'll be clearer when i make the demo movie, but basically,
it lets you keep a text file of quick notes, and add a note by bringing up farr and typing like:
addnote remember to buy red wine

that would add a timestamped entry in a plain text file with that text.

you could add aliases for different files, etc. like you could add
idea paint the room green
to have it add a (timestamped) note to a specific todo.txt file

and of course you could add other aliases to open the files, etc.

so basically its just a really quick and dirty way to use farr to help you keep note files.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: The new forum is up!!

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 04:42 AM »

a big bookmarking system is in the works

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Site/Forum Features / Re: The new forum is up!!

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 04:20 AM »

any other features you guys would like to see?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Open path expression + slight typo?

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 03:50 AM »

quite right - that instruction is confusing; ill make a note to change it.

nice alias by the way, ill add it to the default selection if you dont mind.

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Living Room / Re: Who has made the best house for their pet?

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2006, 01:19 AM »

who's going to build a house for this guy?



from http://www.nypost.co.../worldnews/59688.htm

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: fSekrit in Clif Notes

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2006, 11:05 PM »

wonderful -
and i'm glad you mentioned the find+undo stuff missing from fsekrit, as i had forgotten about those,
and now this should spur on f0dder to add those plus the other minor missing things he needs to add (including unicode) to make fsekrit the very best.  maybe wait a few days to give f0dder a chance to add them before publishing?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Farr's ADDNOTE

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2006, 11:02 PM »

working great so far (no pun intended).

in fact this is something that i think is so useful that im going to make a video demo movie of the latest farr and show it being used along with calc.

i have 3 requests though if possible:
1) make it parse all commandline arguments (ie until no more args starting with -); that way we can do addnote -top -clip blah blah
2) the first argument should be filename (or make it work like -file "filenamegoeshere"); this is very important, since people need to be able to specify custom files and where they should go.
3) the use of _ for newlines is not good; can we use the standard \n please?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Farr's ADDNOTE

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2006, 10:52 PM »

let me try it and report.. i think this will make a kickass addon for FARR.

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Living Room / Re: flow - extremely cool flash game that has touches of "spore" in it

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2006, 10:43 PM »

yeah i got down to all black - there are some big orange creatures down there that will eat you and pop you up a level..
(ps. for those that haven't read the help for the game, you eat the (+) things to go deeper and (-) to go up, so me and deozaan are eating (+) to go as deep down in the "pond" as possible):

i haven't tried going "up" as far as possible.. i'll bet there are different creatures up there.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: The new forum is up!!

« Last post by mouser on March 12, 2006, 10:35 PM »

deozaan, i'll look into this a bit - i can't see why it should be using anything other that info stored in your forum profile (ie cookies shouldn't matter), but i know that keeping track of unread posts is a bit iffy.