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General Software Discussion / Is there a desire to open a Pocket PC/Windows Mobile forum here on DC?

« Last post by tinjaw on August 09, 2008, 01:54 PM »

I have recently purchased a PDA that runs Windows Mobile 6 and I would love to have the kind of information available about software to run on it that I have here with DonationCoder and my desktop computer.

Are you folks interested in getting a dedicated Pocket PC/Windows Mobile forum going here?

Or maybe you know of an existing forum elsewhere that is already established and that I should join.

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Living Room / Re: flash-card programs to learn a new (human) language. What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on August 09, 2008, 01:51 PM »

I recently purchased a Windows Mobile 6 PDA and would like to have a Leitner flashcard system that works, and is synchronized, between my PDA and my desktop. Anybody know of any such system?

I'm going to revisit all my desktop flashcard app bookmarks and see if any of them mention a pocket pc / windows mobile version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BeyondCompare 3 Released

« Last post by tinjaw on August 06, 2008, 05:10 PM »

A HUGE Thank You to Scooter who gave me a super extra special Codyrific deal to upgrade my upgrade from Standard to Professional.  I look forward to trying out BC3 Pro's 3-way merge capabilities.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BeyondCompare 3 Released

« Last post by tinjaw on August 05, 2008, 10:23 PM »

I recently upgraded from BC2 to BC3 standard. I have sent them an email asking if I can use the DC discount and I will then upgrade from standard to professional.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 3 Technical vidoes worth watching

« Last post by tinjaw on August 05, 2008, 05:33 AM »

And if you don't know already...

Open up IE and for the URL enter \\live.sysinternals.com

That will act as a UNC name and mount all the Sysinternals programs for you to run. This is very handy on a "no install" machine that is connected to the internet (like in a business setting).

Although you can't mount the site live in Firefox, http://live.sysinternals.com is a convenient way to get straight to the utilities you need.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Catalog - What Are You Using & How Do You Like It?

« Last post by tinjaw on August 01, 2008, 11:53 AM »

Can't evaluate, though - did that last year so I don't believe it would install a trial again; I could locate & delete the registry key preventing that but I'm certain that is a licensing violation.)

-J-Mac (August 01, 2008, 11:04 AM)

I don't use it anymore (though I did buy a licence - anyone surprised?)

-darwin

J-Mac,

Buy Darwin's license from him.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BeyondCompare 3 Released

« Last post by tinjaw on July 31, 2008, 02:25 PM »

You'de think they would at least send out an email to registered users of version 2. Maybe they are just too embarassed to ask us to pay for our "free" upgrade. 

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Living Room / Re: [Ted] Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

« Last post by tinjaw on July 30, 2008, 10:08 PM »

That was very interesting. Thank you for bringing that to my/our attention.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Catalog - What Are You Using & How Do You Like It?

« Last post by tinjaw on July 30, 2008, 09:41 PM »

If you simply want to see what you have on you computer, I suggest Application Inventory from FunDuc. It just finds all you exe's and grabs the relevant info about them.

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Living Room / WARNING: Bigger Time Sink Than Tower Defense Games !!!!!

« Last post by tinjaw on July 29, 2008, 07:45 AM »

Most of you have probably found Indexed funny. I have wasted many units of the 4th dimension there. Now I have succumbed to the hilarity of GraphJam.

Indexed


GraphJam

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Developer's Corner / Re: Article: Performance Comparison: C++, Java, Python, Ruby, Jython, JRuby, Groovy

« Last post by tinjaw on July 29, 2008, 05:34 AM »

I haven't seen that article, but based solely on the comments you folks have made and the fact that 99.9% of the articles of this type are crap, I feel I can make an equally factual statement here without hesitation.

I wrote a program in Python. It was fast. Python rocks. You should use Python for everything.

Again, I haven't read the article, but it sounds like another one of those... "Although nobody would every use a screw driver or a pair of pliers to hammer in a nail, I wanted to use the tools in a similar manner so I could compare them. So I pounded a bunch of nails into sand using a Craftsman #2 Philips Screwdriver, a pair of Channel Locks from Husky, and an old hammer my grandpa gave me. All three tools worked well but it is obvious that the hammer still out performs the screwdriver and channel locks despite their more recent heritage and the use of higher grade materials."

Look folks, programming languages are tools. Always use the right tool for the job; keeping in mind familiarity with fewer tools will generally mean greater proficiency with those tools and hence one's speed at building with those tools and often minimizing the development, and maintenance, time is a major requirement of a software project. YMMV.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Statistics for Excel

« Last post by tinjaw on July 28, 2008, 08:21 AM »

Thanks for the tip Curt. I grabbed it.

Although not for statistics, this might be a good time to remind the folks interested in Excel add-ons about the excellent free ASAP Utilities for Excel.



[modified to add CRLF for better fashion sense.]

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Jungle Disk Mini-Review: offsite data storage

« Last post by tinjaw on July 25, 2008, 06:10 PM »

I too purchased Jungle Disk after reading the mini-review.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anybody Used PHProxy?

« Last post by tinjaw on July 24, 2008, 02:58 PM »

also Google App Engine Proxy

-electronixtar (July 24, 2008, 05:20 AM)

Thanks electronixtar.  That looks pretty cool. I'll give that a try.

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General Software Discussion / Anybody Used PHProxy?

« Last post by tinjaw on July 23, 2008, 08:36 PM »

I just learned about PHProxy, but see that it is no longer under development. Has anybody used PHProxy? What has replaced it?

[update] It looks like I am looking for CGIProxy.

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Living Room / Re: Advice: Never use your ISP provided email address

« Last post by tinjaw on July 23, 2008, 07:35 PM »

In general, I believe that everybody should have their own domain name. It is so cheap as to be *more* costly *not* to have your own domain when you consider the hassles involved in *not* having one. For example, if you register a domain name with GoDaddy you get everything you need to insure that www.yourdomain.tld will always point to your website no matter where it is and that [email protected] will always be your email address. You will never again have to worry about giving people yet another "change of address" for your website or email address.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's a good memorization software?

« Last post by tinjaw on July 13, 2008, 10:39 AM »

I'm liking the looks of Mnemosyne.

History

The pioneer of flash card software based on spaced repetition is Piotr Wozniak, who released the first version of his SuperMemo program in 1987. A few years later, this program became commercial.

In 2003, SuperMemo inspired David Calinski to write MemAid, since SuperMemo was commercial and did only run under Windows. Peter Bienstman later joined the MemAid team and contributed a SuperKaramba client and a client based on PyQt.

A few years later, David turned MemAid into a commerical product called FullRecall. Peter then used his PyQt client as the basis of a new open source program: the Mnemosyne Project was born.

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Living Room / Re: flash-card programs to learn a new (human) language. What's the best?

« Last post by tinjaw on July 13, 2008, 10:26 AM »

I have a recently renewed interest in this thread as I have begun to (re)learn the Czech language.

More info for those interested.

As some of you know, I was a linguist with the US Army over 15 years ago. I was taught Czech and Slovak at DLI. I have recently begun dating a beautiful woman who currently lives in Alaska as a US citizen, but was born, and grew up, in Bohemia. We intend to spend the Christmas - New Year holiday visiting her family and friend back home in the Czech Republic.

I have discovered a free language flashcard system that is very good. I highly recommend it to anybody who is looking to use flashcards to (re)learn a language.

Before You Know It


The Lite version is free and all you need if you just want traditional flashcard functionality.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Links to Infos about Regular Expressions

« Last post by tinjaw on July 13, 2008, 09:49 AM »

is there freeware tool or online tool to help learning or testing regex? something like regexbuddy but free

-blackcat (July 04, 2008, 09:05 AM)

online
http://www.quanetic.com/regex.php
http://www.fileforma....info/tool/regex.htm
http://www.regextester.com/

free offline
http://tools.osherov...bid/185/Default.aspx

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General Software Discussion / Wanted: Seamless forum <==> mailing list integration

« Last post by tinjaw on June 30, 2008, 10:38 AM »

I had planned on using Google Groups, but just discovered that if you wish to use the web-based frontend to a Google Group, you need a gmail email account. This is not acceptable for the usage I have in mind.

FUDForum seems to have been abandoned about a year ago. Too bad as that was my second choice to Google Groups.

The best candidate I can find so far is mail2forum with phpBB.

My challenge: I have to provide an online discussion capability that allows for people that can only use a mailing list to collaborate with people who choose to use a web-based forum. They need to be able to use their existing email accounts (i.e. not forced to use a gmail or yahoo account). It needs to be 100% restricted to only those user hand-picked to be allowed to join.

The most common thing I find on the internet about this topic is several variations on, "I can't believe this hasn't been created yet!". And those comments go back to about 2001.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Ultimate Music File Organizer

« Last post by tinjaw on June 29, 2008, 05:09 PM »

I am going to see if mp3tag is good enough or if I need to use one of the commercial ones like Tag&Renamer. I also came across two which appear to be new.

FixTunes

TagTuner

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Ultimate Music File Organizer

« Last post by tinjaw on June 29, 2008, 04:22 PM »

I have been surfing the net looking at programs to do this. There are some programs that you can use to fix up your tags, but they require human intervention. However, as App says, from all the commentary I have read you really need to do this with human supervision any way.

I guess the part that I don't see out there is some glue to use several of these together to get better results with less human intervention.

There might be enough FOSS stuff out there to build a suite of tools and automate them to some degree.

Now I am also wondering what web-based frontend to put on my collection after I get this sorted out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Ultimate Music File Organizer

« Last post by tinjaw on June 29, 2008, 03:33 PM »

  Obviously something fishy is going on here. Does anybody recognize the program? Is it an open source program some jerk is trying to sell for $40?

http://www.idealsort...lMp3MusicSorter.html
http://www.automatic...music_organizer.html
http://www.x-organiz...music_organizer.html
http://www.powersort...out_PowerSorter.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Let's Bundle Our Orders For Software995 Toolset

« Last post by tinjaw on June 29, 2008, 03:20 PM »

@dcm Don't worry about it. It's no big deal.

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General Software Discussion / The Ultimate Music File Organizer

« Last post by tinjaw on June 29, 2008, 01:51 PM »

I started a few months ago to organize my music files. I made much progress but didn't complete the project. I want to get that project finished.

I am wondering if there is currently a way to automate much of this process. Ultimately I would just like to move all of my music files to a directory and have a program that takes the files (irregardless of the directory structure or naming convention) and processes them by a combination of technologies like MusicBrainz and MusicIP to identify songs, and other utilities to grab cover art, lyrics, etc. as well as fill out mp3 tags.

Has somebody glued all this together yet?