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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 14, 2009, 12:47 AM »

If someone can give me some suggestions regarding increasing Archivarius hits in text like files that would be great. I just do not have alot of time at the moment.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 11:34 PM »

mouser,

Well OC relies on the fact that there is an installer with the application. If there is no installer they cannot run the recommendation service unless they start showing banners during startups of the softwares which can be another annoying issue for people. What I was trying to say that, lets say I developed a popular alarm software and I am distributing it as a single zip file. OC approaches me and tells me great things about it and I decide to use it. Well from that point I would give up the zip distro because OC mainly relies on installers, as far as I understand.

I am glad that your installers can be uncompressed. In general before installing something I generally try to uncompress it first, if I can`t then I run a spyware on it after that I install it. So in that respect I totally appreciate your sensitivity towards users who dislike installers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 11:26 PM »

In my experience with regular (normal, novice, whatever we should call them) users, they prefer installers because they aren't sure what to do with zip files. I'm a techie, but personally I don't have a preference of installer vs. zip file. As long as an application with an installer includes a 'Custom' install option where I can choose where to install the app and select/deselect shortcuts and stuff like that, I'm happy.

Plus (if necessary for some apps, like Spiceworks for example) installers help ensure prerequisites like .Net, VC++ redistributables, Ruby, PHP, Python, certain necessary patches, etc are installed. Nothing worse than trying to run an app and find out you need to download and install something to make it actually run.

Dr. Apps
Software Community Guru
OpenCandy

http://twitter.com/drapps

-drapps (May 13, 2009, 08:16 PM)

I am sorry but that is not an answer to my worry. I mentioned that because of your venture will force  more developers to use installers when they do not need to. You are making it as if like  installers are needed and necessary. They are not necessary in half of the cases. Without installers your whole idea of OC fails unless you force them to integrate into their application which will be a worse case. 

If O'Reilly is investing in exploitation of spam technologies, I would stop buying their products as well. No big deal.

I also do not think that those Divx guys learned their lessons. They might ask for a second chance but I am not seeing them being any further than they were back then. It seems like they are just adapting themselves and have not moved an inch forward and no salvation there.

I just do not see OC being any good or bringing anything good. This is no different than getting a spam call in the middle of a dinner, you know that is when they call you.


I might be entitled to my opinions but I can educate-convince quite a lot of people. I know that is what you are addressing  here, but you have a very hard case to sell to be honest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 08:12 PM »

I have a simple question. Do you collect data in anyway (including my refusal to install OC or OC recommendations ) If I refuse to install OC and its affiliates offers? In other words would you know if I refuse to install your recommandation or OC toolbar whatever you are offering? DO you set the cookie before or after the OC offer?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 07:57 PM »

Also this approach will force developers to start using installers more and more. There are many apps that are just simple files. I would hate to see them going away.

I personally hate installers and when you add something like OC on top of it, you have very distasteful menu for the dinner. I am sure you realize that I have a very good point here.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a text editor that can colorize text

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 07:41 PM »

Hey that is cool, i did not know that honestly.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 06:37 PM »

I thing Tranglos will get back to Keynote eventually, it will haunt him

-kartal (May 12, 2009, 12:02 PM)

It does haunt me, but honestly, not in a good way. Long ago my wife and me decided we we never going to live on credit, so thankfully we have no loans to repay in the real world, but the feeling I have about KeyNote is like a huge unpaid debt. Or unfulfilled promises, which is really the same in a way. I guess that's why I registereed a new domain to publish any new stuff I do - but trying to forget an unapid debt is rather futile!

-tranglos (May 13, 2009, 07:44 AM)

I agree about debt stuff, and I am debt free as well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 05:27 PM »

drapps,

I did read your post. I can see where your ambitions about OC come from. But as a user and also promoter of good applications written by good people I have no interest in supporting OC in any way, I would even go further and try to inform people about. They take it or not but it would be my duty to inform people.

The thing is that most of the attempts like OC success relies on people`s ignorance or illiteracy about how this kind of stuff operates. Uneducated people are very good targets for this kinds of ventures. For example I totally understand what mouser`s position is, he is a developer and he understands many aspects of it. But many people out there have no idea about this kind of stuff. By giving a name like OpenCandy you think you can win hearts of minds of people. The only reason many people would not say anything about stuff like this because they have no idea about what you are up to.

Your personal assurances has really no meaning to me. I am glad you fulfill your ambitions and you are passionate about them but that is the end of the story for me
pretty much. I am not trying to be rude at all, I just do not think the future you are representing is good for everyone  and I find  that the facts in your post are just fictional for now.  As long as all the statistics and numbers are not disclosed I personally would not change my mind. If you want to be "open" let it be.



When I decide to use an application for longer term, I check out developer`s responses, developer`s attitude in the forums, number of releases and the path he/she takes when it comes to privacy. One of the reason I am so passionate about FARR (mouser`s app)  because he is a good guy and he is trying to do right thing with his application developements. He could have taken the divx guys path but then I personally would not use Farr anymore because a good software without good developer is a dead software to me.



Btw I was going to Libre graphics  meeting as well but I had a project cameup that was conflicting with Libre Graphics dates. I had friends attended though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 13, 2009, 12:36 AM »

Lets be careful about the choice of words for the naming "Open"+"Candy".  They are making it like this stuff is all open and sweet.  app103 is right on the track. These guys are very sneaky.

The reason I brought it up is that I was testing Miro and they seemed to integrate OC into Miro. So I went to bug list and pretty much complained about it. And the developers responses varied but I think they will remove it at some point. From my understanding is that not all developers understand the side effects of these stuff on the users.

In the past I got hit by toolbars and spywares, no not because I clicked on" please god please install ask.com" button. They install it anyways either you click on the option  or not, your choice is irrelevant.

One the of the case for me was Pdfcreator which was stunning surprise to me. Since then I am deadly careful.

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General Software Discussion / What the hell is OpenCandy?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 10:22 PM »

I just have started seeing this stuff in installers. I know what they are up to personally. If you read their site they claim not to be adware spyware but snooping on people`s choices is a form of attack on privacy in my book.

What do you think?

Since Google is not your friend here is the link to OpenCandy

http://www.opencandy.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 10:04 PM »

I did exactly what you said and it is not indexing *.py files at all. I am not sure if it is a limitation with trial version  or not

-kartal (May 12, 2009, 03:27 PM)

Okay, that's strange. It's a well-known extension and should be included in the presets anyway. My suggestion would be to ask the author - the contact page is at http://www.likasoft.com/contacts.shtml
(Meanwhile, I'll check for *.py on my own system.)

-tranglos (May 12, 2009, 03:38 PM)

Hi, thanks for testing it. Your test encouraged me to try one more time. I think that in custom template section I was choosing the wrong one(search except thing). Ok it is looking good however its hits were less than my Eclipse internal search. Eclipse hit the 81 for the same word, Archivarius hit only 21. What do you think about its searching features. I am hoping to find a tool that I can use like the way you are using, mainly an aid to my programming stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: KeyNote NF (New Features) - a "successor" to Tranglos Keynote

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 07:13 PM »

From my other forum post

"Hey great job with updates. I just gave it a go it is looking nice however there is one major feature went missing. What happened to drag and drop support? In previous versions I could drag and drop text files from explorer. It does not work now."

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 03:27 PM »

tranglos

I did exactly what you said and it is not indexing *.py files at all. I am not sure if it is a limitation with trial version  or not

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 02:30 PM »

Custom formats, definitely - anything that's text, regardless of file extension.

-tranglos (May 12, 2009, 02:14 PM)

Hmm., I was playing with it and I actually do not see a way to add custom formats

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 01:50 PM »

Btw does Archivarius  support
-thunderbird and outlook express contacts?
-custom file formats like .py or other codes?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 12:30 PM »

Well when coding it is always helpful to invoke Farr and search through farr rather than open another interface. I am hoping that I can find one app that supports command line

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 12:02 PM »

Hello tranglos
It seems that you are Marek Jedlinski, the author of the program KeyNote. I tried to contact with you through your mail but it was impossible.
I only wanted to give you thanks for your KeyNote program and tell you that as I am a very active user of that program, someday I decided to download your source and added some funcionality I missed. I did share that new version (fork) in SourceForge and finally in Google Code as "KeyNote NF"
http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/

Although my first intention was only to add a few things, I keep maintaining that new version, at least in the short free time I encounter.

You will be welcome there
Regards
Daniel Prado

PD: Sorry for this intromission in the thread. 

-dpradov (May 12, 2009, 01:07 AM)

Hey great job with updates. I just gave it a go it is looking nice however there is one major feature went missing. What happened to drag and drop support? In previous versions I could drag and drop text files from explorer. It does not work now.

I thing Tranglos will get back to Keynote eventually, it will haunt him

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by kartal on May 12, 2009, 02:56 AM »

What is the lightest (respecting cpucycles and resources) and best desktop document search out there? I am also looking for one with command line switches.

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Developer's Corner / Re: SkyIDE - Latest Release Information

« Last post by kartal on May 10, 2009, 03:22 PM »

Any word on updates?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a text editor that can colorize text

« Last post by kartal on May 10, 2009, 12:07 AM »

Hey I am trying Boxer editor at the moment. It has been a nice surprise. It has alot of options including preliminary highlighting, also does word pattern based highlight(you can add new words ) any time as well.

I will test it for a while.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: NovaPDF Professional Desktop on Bitsdujour today

« Last post by kartal on May 09, 2009, 07:50 PM »

I say "pdfforgery"

There are alot of ways to make money if you choose the dishonest way. Probably writing s..loads of code to make couple thousand dollars a year is not a very smart way of making money in my view. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a text editor that can colorize text

« Last post by kartal on May 09, 2009, 06:20 PM »

Broderick, can it color selected text? As I said the color data does not need to stay in the file it can be temporary.

Btw I have found a Vim plugin that seems to put Vim on steroids

http://www.vim.org/s...t.php?script_id=2208

Long live Vim

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for LetmeType alike

« Last post by kartal on May 09, 2009, 01:12 PM »

Ok I just went ahead and tried it. I am not happy with TA at the moment. I am definetely going to compare against LMT.

So I typed hello multiple times. It seemed to show up in its autolearn window however it is not offered next time I typed"hel". I typed another word couple times then I checked autolearn window and the word "hello" was gone and this new word has replaced "hello" it seems like there can be only one word at a time in the autolearn window which sounds utterly silly, there needs to be a way.

Also its english suggestion list is plain horrible to me based on my initial simple test.

And after couple of mins I got a crash out of  blue.

As I said I just do not have alot of time to try the stuff because I am in the middle of a task, I know it is not fair to test it in couple mins but this stuff is supposed to work deadsimple and should produce good results within simple examples like word "hello"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for LetmeType alike

« Last post by kartal on May 09, 2009, 12:58 PM »

fenixproductions,

I like PE only because you can create menus and submenus which is nice. Other than that I have found it to be buggy in certain occasions and certain characters are overlooked in the setup. For example you cannot assign certain types for executor etc. The other thing is that if you setup a menu and call words from the menu you need to use the executor character again, I could not use enter or use numbers to call from the list(like LMT) which I thought was limiting/


I do not have alot of time to try these stuff at this minute, I hope you do not mind answering couple extra stuff.

-I am especially looking for learning features. DO you think Typing assistant auto learning is supreme?
-Can you limit to certain apps?
-Can you import text files to create or expand word a library? I am hoping that the text analyzing feature( if there is ) is smart=, meaning that it can recognize words that are within "", (), [] etc
-Does it offer menu creation?

The reason I am looking for a good learner one is that I want to use for coding, I use some apps for scriptiung and their scripting sytax are not well documented and hard to find syntax libraries, so learning skill is crucial to me. Otherwise IO can just use AHK to build up my hotstring library which is dead simple.

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« Last post by kartal on May 08, 2009, 11:00 PM »

Are you implying that my mail man reads my mails that are in klingon?