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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Wrap Up

« Last post by justice on January 10, 2011, 04:17 AM »

Wow a youtube video, very nice. Thanks to all involved I'll be checking out all the apps soon alot look very useful!

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Living Room / Re: Can we stop with the diagonal screen length thing?

« Last post by justice on January 08, 2011, 08:31 AM »

Instead of having to compare L and W you now only compare D so that keeps things easier

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Announces Support of System on a Chip Architectures

« Last post by justice on January 06, 2011, 10:12 AM »

windows pretending to be a tablet time. Always handy to announce things plenty of time in advance that gives them time to change the direction nearer release and cancel the project, like the HP Slate. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on January 05, 2011, 10:45 AM »

Alright well...   small update:
* diigo is not high enough up the priority list to pay for the archiving bit. Same goes for pinboard.
* NetNotes just looks too cluttered and techy but I recommend to try it for yourself cos it works.
* Evernote's latest version seems to do a reasonable good job of saving full pages now, which I wasn't aware of. I also already was using evernote for jots and small notes.
* I already use Instapaper which I love - it also has a bookmarklet to create plain text versions of pages

Therefore I now capture pages with Evernote, complex pages go through instapaper first. Complete workflow:
Find interesting article > save to instapaper > read > repeatedly useful then save to evernote.

How do I find interesting info?
Feeds that go into Google Reader and then get read by Reeder for iPhone then saved to Instapaper usually (it also support Evernote i think - I should test this)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on January 01, 2011, 10:01 AM »

Netnotes seems to do the trick too, good desktop solution. Readitlater doesn't seem to archive the pages, just the link to the page? So if the original page dissappears you won't be able to read it again? Iterasu seems to make it very hard for home users to use their products and I was unable to sign up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on January 01, 2011, 07:15 AM »

yes i did it's great for pasting in information to keep but not for full featured webpages because the layout is lost and you'll end up manually removing cruft which you wouldn't have to do if it just archived the webpage as you see it. Although you could instapaper mobile it first, still thats one step more.

Another alternative would be saving pages to xps/pdf and using desktop search and saving a smart search to desktop.

Still happy with the potential and functionality of Diigo, still not happy paying for another webservice.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by justice on January 01, 2011, 07:06 AM »

Version 0.2 is the NANY entry as unfortunately I've not yet progressed it further

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on December 16, 2010, 05:19 AM »

Yes that was my original plan and next day Scrapbook had lost all pages, which has never happened to dropbox. Pointing scrapbook again to the dropbox folder did not retrieve the pages, problems with syncing is one of the reasons for using a centralized (thus online) system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)

« Last post by justice on December 15, 2010, 03:50 AM »

Wish I could see a waveform display of the track like on soundcloud.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on December 15, 2010, 03:32 AM »

Anyone has experience with http://www.diigo.com/ ? You can bookmark unlimited pages but cache only 5 a month for free - or unlimited for $20 a year which is not bad.

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General Software Discussion / Web alternative to Scrapbook extension?

« Last post by justice on December 15, 2010, 03:26 AM »

I'm looking for a web app service that allows me to save complete webpages for future use (things like tutorials etc) so that they can be accessed after the original site has gone. I was originally using Scrapbook and Zotero but I do not want to deal with the hassles of a desktop software product, plus I want to access it from 2 pcs (bonus for iphone access). Any ideas?

In case you don't know any of these programs, you 'bookmark' a page and the contents of the page + all assets get saved and can be viewed again at a later date. It's also important to find keywords through all saved pages with a single search. Usually there are groups or catagories to relate multiple captures together.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011: Cautomaton

« Last post by justice on November 15, 2010, 03:43 AM »

I'd like to see a few more real world examples because I think it might be an interesting program for many (and me) if they could see in what situations it would be useful. 

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Living Room / Re: coolest ipad app

« Last post by justice on November 12, 2010, 08:39 AM »

Flipboard makes me want one.

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Finished Programs / Re: InstaPlay - instant sound player

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2010, 05:51 PM »

When will I ever learn my naming lessons 

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Finished Programs / Re: InstaPlay - instant sound player

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2010, 05:08 PM »

should I remove all the bard related information from my posts?
edit: i have put all unrelated info into a spoiler.

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Finished Programs / Re: InstaPlay - instant sound player

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2010, 04:28 PM »

Hmm... looks interesting, justice. Instead of "Instaplay Asset Organizer" how about "Instaplay Media Organizer" or "Instaplay Music Organizer"?

-Darwin (October 23, 2010, 12:54 PM)

Darwin, the development into a sound organiser has resulted in a name change to Bard (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=24357.0)

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Finished Programs / Re: InstaPlay - instant sound player

« Last post by justice on November 11, 2010, 04:26 PM »

Billb,
Instaplay can be put in any folder, but you have to add the folder to the path. Although I can't remember why this is necessary. lol

Have a look at the following link to add a folder to the path:
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm

You have to associate wave/mp3 files to it, so that you can navigate to a folder full of them and then double click a file to play it, that's how the program is useful - it loads faster than alternatives.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by justice on November 07, 2010, 06:00 AM »

At the moment I'm developing ways to ensure people spent most time organising audio and not populating buttons. I'll also add in an update check and finally will create a pad file. If you want to influence the direction of the program just pm me to receive the latest version and give me feedback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slash your windows boot time

« Last post by justice on November 02, 2010, 08:44 AM »

Looks great in theory until you realise you shouldn't even have to worry about it, because the OS should already do it for you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by justice on November 01, 2010, 03:23 PM »

I wasn't but I will.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by justice on November 01, 2010, 11:56 AM »

I guess there are no music producer fans in this forum?

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Developer's Corner / Re: EtherCodes Collaborative Online Code Editing Pad

« Last post by justice on October 28, 2010, 03:00 AM »

Yes I think that may be on purpose, by keeping it open the onus is on the developers to make sure they don't host any controversial code, if it was closed then only the site could check.

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Developer's Corner / Re: EtherCodes Collaborative Online Code Editing Pad

« Last post by justice on October 27, 2010, 08:08 PM »

Wow amazing.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Reliable File Watcher Batcher Robot

« Last post by justice on October 27, 2010, 07:59 PM »

Wow this sounds great, looking forward to screenies!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by justice on October 27, 2010, 07:44 PM »

New version, fixes and features:
bard 0.2.0.0

summary:     Run AudioLibraryFolders option added to file menu
summary:     Added support for  .aiff samples
summary:     rewrote buttonmatching code - fixes bug where folders starting with spaces are no longer created
summary:     Better error checking on files that have been removed, deleted or renamed outwith the program.
summary:     Fixed hotkeys which got broken in previous update
summary:     Shift click a destination button to open the location in explorer!
summary:     Updated readme.txt and added tips.txt which are shown randomly in the statusbar
summary:     Right click option added to rename file(s)
summary:     Reload folder when files do not get processed (because they might have been changed outwith program)
summary:     Added Properties option to right click menu which opens the properties window for that file.

BTW mercurial is great.