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« Last post by superboyac on May 04, 2010, 09:42 AM »40hz dropping some knowledge knuggets!
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Wow !!! Thanks superboyac for such a nice testimonial.Glad to hear. I've been working with Armando the last couple of weeks, and I was continually blown away by what he was able to do with the program.
As far as my level of commitment to this project, no need to worry. I'll bring it to v1.0 and beyond !-PPLandry (May 03, 2010, 10:28 AM)
This has just about reached the breaking point for me. The bottom line is that I longer believe that google can be trusted to return results that are most likely to be what i am searching for, but rather the results and rank of information displayed are being leveraged to further their market share.i agree completely. I also ranted about this just recently around here. I was talking about how you can't really find the right thing in Google anymore, unless you know exactly what you want. But if you know exactly what you want, what's the big benefit of google. I find I use google more along the lines of a spell checker than a true engine. For example, if I don't know if it's espn.com or espn.net, i'll just search for espn on google and go the the right site from there. but in that case, what did google really help with? I knew it was espn, so i was already 99% of the way there. But if you were to search for "sports news" and it gave you espn on top, then google helped. That was a poor example because sports news does go to espn, but that's obvious. but if you searched for normal things, google is not that helpful. you'll get a ton of nonsense sites that are purely seo optimized websites with vomit-worthy content.-mouser (May 01, 2010, 06:27 PM)
@tsaint- You have my sympathies.Reminds of a quote in one of Stephen Fry's America documentaries. He's talking with a Harvard prof, and the prof explains how it's a very American thing to want all answers in black and white. Very simple, short, definitive answers. What's the best? Is this right or wrong? When, in fact, the world operates mostly in shades of gray.
I've felt in the same boat at times.
There's a big difference between an FYI and a personal recommendation. Why do people tend to believe that whatever gets offered for consideration is automatically being recommended?
Such is life I suppose...-40hz (April 29, 2010, 09:12 AM)
Just a a warning. It's okay to manually color items manually in your normal DB. But for the meeting one, it's trickier because of the script I set up where colors are automatically controlled based on text in the item field, and other checked fields. I'll try to see what I can do to change that -- it's a weakness in my code.No worries. This is for another database.-Armando (April 28, 2010, 01:39 PM)
But it doesn't really matter how you think about it -- just be clear that a link is a link, and an item seen in different places is... An item seen in different places.Indeed! I remember my first talk on the phone with Pierre. He had to explain this to me for like 30 minutes. Poor guy!-Armando (April 27, 2010, 05:51 PM)
What do you mean by "linked content" ?The linked content is all the stuff that I put under the agendas, action items, etc. meaning, if I enter something in one grid, it will show up in the other grids. So if I put an action item in the main project grid, it will also appear in the action item grid. That's what I am calling the linked content.-Armando (April 27, 2010, 04:42 PM)
The only solution I can think of is that Linkman could patch Firefox to always get the desired functionality without messing up browser.link.open_newwindow. We have to do some internal testing first.Sounds good.-Outertech Support (April 27, 2010, 08:56 AM)
I don't know. If you have suggestions, please let me know. I just am looking for some way to make it work!Yes I have. I changed it to 1. now everything opens up in the existing tab. i don't like that very much because even when I click on links in a forum, it opens up in the same tab, which is not my preference. but I use Linkman so much now, that I can live with that.-superboyac (April 24, 2010, 09:11 PM)
This is really not a good solution and I wonder why it works on all our systems without changing browser.link.open_newwindow, as long as browser.link.open_external is set to 1.-Outertech Support (April 27, 2010, 06:57 AM)
Probably. But you never know what's happening behind the scenes. I'm involved in a eerily similar situation here at my job, and as much as I know about this stuff, and as clear of an idea as I have about what SHOULD be done, I have to bow to the other influences in place. And I am glad to do so because I'm paid to do it, and I've learned by now that I am not the dictator of the world, not everyone is like me (very few, actually), and more important people than me are asking for certain things. So Apple does all those things for their own reasons, most likely for profitability.What I want to point out though is that I think the advantages of iPhone as a platform and as a device could largely or even entirely be achieved *without* Apple being total a-holes
amen.-mouser (April 26, 2010, 04:46 PM)
Yes I have. I changed it to 1. now everything opens up in the existing tab. i don't like that very much because even when I click on links in a forum, it opens up in the same tab, which is not my preference. but I use Linkman so much now, that I can live with that.Bingo! TucknDar for the win!That user would be me! Yes, I still haven't fixed this on my home computer. It was working fine until I had to do a clean reinstall of Firefox. Now I can't get it to work. Maybe I'll try rebooting also, since I haven't rebooted in a month or so.You might want to look at browser.link.open_newwindow in about:config-superboyac (April 23, 2010, 01:08 PM)-TucknDar (April 23, 2010, 01:37 PM)
Outertech, this solved the problem for me. If this helps you guys with your settings, please keep it in mind.-superboyac (April 23, 2010, 07:30 PM)
How have you changed this value?-Outertech Support (April 24, 2010, 08:55 PM)
Photodex is great for producing slideshows and video output (inc. DVD) but can you use it interactively or non-linearly?No, I don't think you can. If you buy the more expensive version (Presenter) you can pause it in the middle of the slideshow. But you can't skip around like in powerpoint.-Carol Haynes (April 24, 2010, 05:38 AM)
