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General Software Discussion / how do you download a 'for a previous version of FF' firefox addon?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 15, 2009, 03:43 PM »

We all know that most addons work on newer versions of FF.
One just have to unpack, change the max. FF version number, repack, and install.

Problem is, the FF addons website (trying to be smart ) gets your FF version and plain won't let you get the damn file!

So, how do you download a 'for a previous version of FF' firefox addon?
Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on September 14, 2009, 04:01 AM »

Forgot to say that it's interesting to keep both the formatting and the url.
If Linux, by design, doesn't keep the formatting (I'm surprised; I've seen apps doing this, I think TuxNotes does), then we are in big trouble.

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General Software Discussion / Godin: the end of dumb software

« Last post by urlwolf on September 13, 2009, 09:20 AM »

Godin writes on the end of dumb software. I could not agree more.
I think the examples he uses are easily solvable with the tech we have now (sounds like semantic desktop to me).

He blames desktop software authors (as if web-based software was automatically smarter). It's true that it tends to be more 'connected', but smarter? I don't know of any web-based tool for contacts that does all he wants.

What do you think?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« Last post by urlwolf on September 12, 2009, 02:52 PM »

From my own experience I would advise you to start thinking about, right from the start, ways in which you can provide a plugin api interface, and moving as much funcitonality into the plugin system and out of the core of the application as you can.

-mouser (September 12, 2009, 11:46 AM)

Totally agree here. One thing oneNote has over others is plugins (called powertoys). They are cropping all the time.

Very good point! Get this plugin functionality right, and you are on your way to an addictive application

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General Software Discussion / Google getting into micropayments

« Last post by urlwolf on September 12, 2009, 01:30 PM »

Google getting into micropayments, If they make it work it could be good news for people who fill the internet with good content and don't believe ads are the solution.

What do you think?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on September 09, 2009, 06:02 AM »

does this mean you tried to implement this in Linux and Mac versions, and it's impossible?

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General Software Discussion / alternative to filehamster?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 07, 2009, 12:09 PM »

What's a good alternative to filehamster?
it crashed on my windows server 2008 64 machine, and it was a tad too pushy to get the pro version anyway...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« Last post by urlwolf on September 07, 2009, 08:41 AM »

I do think there's a big void to be filled.
re: possible tools to make it:

Adobe air could be a possibility. Very easy to do crossplatform apps, not sure how well it integrates with clipboard (you'd need that to keep the url of things pasted from web).

Another option is Qt. Seems to be crossplatform now. it's C++, but there are bindings to other languages such as python. I think the new OSX doesn't support carbon anymore, so qt would not work there. TuxNotes is OS and Qt, could be worth a look.

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General Software Discussion / doing a web app is easier than a desktop app. Days are counted for Desktop apps?

« Last post by urlwolf on September 07, 2009, 01:00 AM »

Doing a web app is easier than a desktop app.
This thread has lots of details and stats:

http://www.kalzumeus...aps-versus-web-apps/

If the stats are true, sooner or later all devs will come to the same conclusion.
Days are counted for Desktop apps -excluding some niches like photo editing etc-?
Thoughts?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note software

« Last post by urlwolf on September 06, 2009, 02:58 PM »

Welcome Carrotnote! And thanks for taking the challenge!
I've written a list of the features I like/don't like in the linux fork thread that fenix posted (page 1).
I'd also recommend installing onenote (comes with office 2007, there's a very generous trial too) and paying careful attention to features there. MS got this one right. It's already more used than powerpoint, and it even has fan sites. IMNSHO, a dev for a notetaking app is hamstringing himself if he ignores an app that seems to benefit from several years of MS research, and has a raving community. Most of the features are not difficult to implement at all (all but the OCR, I'd say).

I hope you fill the great void on multiplatform notetaking, and benefit from this huge opportunity.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10

« Last post by urlwolf on September 03, 2009, 01:29 PM »

I became disillusioned with Opera (user since v. 5) when I requested a feature (keep formatting when pasting) for several years and it never got implemented. Mind you, not that it was hard: every other browser on earth but maybe text based ones have it

Honestly, they are even worse than apple in their arrogance and lack of attention to user requests.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 28, 2009, 10:35 AM »

I cannot write much on a kb for a few weeks, so please take the lead. I'll follow the thread anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Dealing with HUGE text files?

« Last post by urlwolf on August 27, 2009, 03:43 PM »

there's an editor that trumps all others for large files: emeditor. No contest

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 24, 2009, 05:10 AM »

Hi, I am the author of Notecase (Pro) program.
Nice thread, I got few interesting ideas here (the one to preserve URL of pasted content is new to me).

-adriatic (August 24, 2009, 04:46 AM)

No offense, but if you are in the notetaking market and this feature is new to you now, I cannot help but thinking that you are not applying due diligence and checking what others in the market do. This feature has been in onenote for at least 6 years, and everyone loves it.

To give you my 2 cents of advice:
quite a lot of program authors would live to get good high quality feedback and ideas on how to improve his program.

When/if you decide on a program you want to support, it would be good to invest some time to make detailed analysis (as a group) to help the author to see your vision of the progress for the program.
Perhaps it is the best to to this before your contribution because some features you want to push might get rejected :-)

-adriatic (August 24, 2009, 04:46 AM)

Well, my advice here is, install onenote, use it seriously for a couple of months, and then you would find many things you may want to implement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 23, 2009, 12:53 PM »

Yet another option is to lobby microsoft (humor me ) to make onenote write to some friendly format that another app can use. Word, excel etc now use xml. Onenote doesn't. If it did, vendor lock-in is gone and also other devs could offer some kind of interoperability, and (gasp!) a tool on linux that understands and writes it!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 23, 2009, 12:50 PM »

Hi coolrat.
In my view rightNote = treDBnotes, but much more polished.
Unfortunately, I sent quite a lot of feedback to the dev, which he systematically ignored , and he doesn't really care for linux at all it seems.

I'm really surprised at how big the opportunity here is. There 's a huge hole in the market for something like oneNote for linux (or portable and not tied to a vendor in the files it produces!). For example:

OneNote is fantastic. It's the only MS product I like, but it's great. It beats paper and pencil because 1) it can be searched, 2) it can be backed up, 3) you can insert in something you've already written, 4) sensitive entries can be encrypted, 5) one can easily make cross-reference links, etc, etc. I use it on a tablet, and it's great, for example, for deriving equations, as you can write the equation with the pen, and then type a paragraph of descriptive text, and insert a link from the web. I wish it was available for Linux, as it's the only reason I use Windows.

from: http://stackoverflow...notes-as-a-developer

I'm in the same boat as that commenter at StackOverflow. Maybe devs are scared of competing with M$?

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General Software Discussion / Re: A new model for donations: tip now, pay later (tipjoy.com startup)

« Last post by urlwolf on August 21, 2009, 08:47 AM »

yep. I wonder how that leaves DC... "the only place in the world where microdonations work!"

Note that tipjoy was a Y combinator startup and followed the standards to the T: got angel funding, then VC funding (close to $1M), two founders (married, actually), tried to go for exponential growth (twitter app, etc), and still it failed, whereas DC is still here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Steven's handy desktop Linux guide

« Last post by urlwolf on August 20, 2009, 06:25 AM »

I followed up the MEPIS recommendation, but the reviews I found were lukewarm...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 19, 2009, 12:30 PM »

ok, I posted this plea to ubuntuforums too, but nobody answered.
Looks like we are on our own.
Still, a donation of say 30$ (typical license price) x 3 is a litle bit of money for an OSS author. It would a smile in her face, even if small.

Should we agree on a project and go ahead?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 17, 2009, 12:38 PM »

my guess is that a linux FF plugin would not know how to talk to he wine-emulated app.

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General Software Discussion / source code library coming on BdJ too (!)

« Last post by urlwolf on August 17, 2009, 09:47 AM »

source code library but it's coming on BdJ (!).

I know tinjaw loves this app. Pricey, good discount (70% off).

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General Software Discussion / for those tagging files: tabbles on bit du jour 18/08/2009

« Last post by urlwolf on August 17, 2009, 09:46 AM »

tabbles is a visual tagger.
Not sure how well it works, never used it, but it's coming on BdJ

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 16, 2009, 03:43 PM »

One possibility would also be to support a specific notetaker's Wine compatibility. Not only would it help Wine's development (maybe...), but it would would also make an already good notetaker multiplatform, so to speak.

-Armando (August 16, 2009, 12:01 PM)

The problem with wine is that copy-pasting from a linux browser to a wine app will lose all formatting (and the url of course according to Iphi's findings).

This is a show stopper for me.

We are now 3 guys/gals. If we could up our numbers to say 10 people, we could ask a dev to implement some features (and donate a good chunk, or buy 10 licenses).

I'd be more inclined to go for a simple, solid code-base that can grow fast and accommodate our features. A linux tool in say qt is easy to port to windows. Basket is way too big, and some design decisions are really mouse-oriented. I'd say tuxnotes (if the codebase is strong) has good potential. It's a no-frills app, but it keeps web snippet formatting really well. Not sure how active/available the developer is.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free Windows 7 - For IT Proffesionals or Developers( US only )

« Last post by urlwolf on August 16, 2009, 08:49 AM »

Do you get a license once you actually attend, or immediately after registration?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Let's Fork The Thread! Linux Notetaking Thread!

« Last post by urlwolf on August 16, 2009, 06:52 AM »

paste html is a good question: when you copy html on linux, does any URL information get put in the clip memory. I know it does on windows, but I dont think it does on linux. You will need a tool that has a "right click to..." function for that. But there is always a way to chain it, i.e. have a tool that does that, even if it does not have all your features, and have the organiser/searcher tool take the data afterwards (auto import)

Ah! that's really good information. If no url is kept, then no wonder tools don't do this.
using beagle is a solution, yes. A bit convoluted (one could use ack on the command line too, but it would break the flow of writing).

For a thinking tool like a notetaker, breaking the flow into small specialist pieces (the unix way) is not a good solution (for me!). I'm easily distracted already

Keep the good ideas coming!