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Living Room / Re: When Growing Online Pressures Backfire

« Last post by nudone on April 15, 2011, 03:48 AM »

"I'll buy that for a dollar", well, 1 pence plus postage to be precise. Just ordered from amazon.

Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: When Growing Online Pressures Backfire

« Last post by nudone on April 15, 2011, 03:04 AM »

That deserves to be on one of those office demotivational posters.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Move dialog boxes to the center of the (correct) monitor

« Last post by nudone on April 15, 2011, 02:57 AM »

I know. I agree with you. 

I just wanted to make it clear to people reading this thread that dialogmove isn't just a multi monitor tool; as that might put people off from trying it.

First time readers could have got the wrong end of the stick.

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Living Room / Re: When Growing Online Pressures Backfire

« Last post by nudone on April 15, 2011, 02:26 AM »

Erm, yes. It was a revelation to my young idealistic naive unemployed self that the real world works on the principle of "just good enough". And quite right too; otherwise nothing would ever be "completed".

I wish I'd accepted this fundamental truth at an earlier age.

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Living Room / Re: The Universe Within - very cool flash image zooms from galaxy to atoms

« Last post by nudone on April 14, 2011, 01:20 PM »

That may be the best use of Flash I've ever seen. Mind boggling. Now, whoever makes the next version, make it capable of fullscreen and with nicer graphics and I think I will fall of my chair in amazement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deduplication, encryption, security and... Dropbox

« Last post by nudone on April 14, 2011, 01:02 PM »

How is Dropbox detecting duplicate files - not by name, surely? By some hash? It must be unique - how does it know it's safe to duplicate otherwise.

Which, to me, means I don't quite get the security concerns. If you've got a file that you don't want duplicating because of sensitive content, isn't that going to be a file you've created yourself, therefore with a unique hash. So, it won't be duplicated.

The only things duplicated are common files. Ones that won't have been edited from their original source.

(I use Dropbox so I may just be kidding myself and not seeing the bigger picture.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Move dialog boxes to the center of the (correct) monitor

« Last post by nudone on April 14, 2011, 02:18 AM »

Yeah, but how can I insert "Blank" or "nil" into DialogMove's preferences then?

-David.P (April 14, 2011, 01:17 AM)

I haven't looked at Dialog Move code since I don't have multiple monitors. If I can't try it out myself it's kind of a dead end.

-MilesAhead (April 14, 2011, 01:42 AM)

Just a note: dialogmove works on any monitor, single or multi setup. The original purpose was to work on a single large monitor; it was then tweaked for multi screens.

I even find it useful on a tiny netbook screen.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2011, 02:37 AM »

heheh, i see him.

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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.

« Last post by nudone on April 10, 2011, 02:34 AM »

Voted for Quinn - and rightly so, he had the most accomplished picture. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Apple “Lost” the PC Wars

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2011, 01:03 PM »

Ah ,yes, save to paper. So simple when you understand.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Apple “Lost” the PC Wars

« Last post by nudone on April 08, 2011, 11:44 AM »

"Apple won the war of ideas, which was what really matters."

Marvellous. Yet again, Apple is all about mind control. That quote sounds like a piece of propoganda from 1984.

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Living Room / Re: Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2011, 07:09 PM »

Ah, yes, I remember reading your review now. And thanks for everyone else's comments.

I don't think the kindle is for me. I've not read a novel in years; I just need web reading and PDF access. The kindle web browser isn't going to be enough.

Instead, a may finally get a smartphone. I discovered today that they've become sensibly affordable at long last.

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Living Room / Re: Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2011, 05:36 AM »

Right, thanks, y0himba. That sounds very promising.

Anyone thing it's a rubbish device?

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Living Room / Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2011, 03:58 AM »

I've mentioned elsewhere on the forum about my recent unavoidable purchase of an iPad. Wraith has then demonstrated that the iPad is not total rubbish with his pioneering work deep into the dark depths of the Apple core.

My firm conclusion is that the iPad makes a nice ebook reader or quick web browser. But there's another device I've been ignoring - the Kindle, or more precisely the Kindle 3G.

Has anyone tried one, got one, stamped their heel into one? I'm very curious about the free 3G aspect, i.e. free web browsing on their "experimental" web-kit based browser.

Even in monochrome, free web sounds like a very good deal to me. FREE. 3G. WEB. Give it meeeeeeeeeee.

Okay, Amazon may decide it won't be free forever - but, I'd expect them not to charge much for the service.

Any thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 07, 2011, 03:41 AM »

I've been trying a variety of browsers and a few other apps for the iPad. Things definitely start to make sense when you've got some decent software installed. It's still not perfect, and it's still Apple, so I may just jump ship to another device quite soon.

It strikes me that the iPad is best used as a Reader - I suppose that is all it's meant to be (without extra peripheral keyboards). So, I thought I better have a look at the Kindle - I didn't know it had free 3G browsing. I think that is enough for me to try one - I'll post a new topic elsewhere on the forum about it...

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 01:24 PM »

heheh, ooh, that old slate board and chalk would be an even better case to have than the Etch A Sketch one.

I must say, I'm really liking the speed of flicking through content (that's cached). I can see how this would be a pretty good "productive" tool when you're demonstrating things to people at close hand.

Hmm. I think I can feel the presence of the Lord of the I's (as in "I"pod/player/phone/tunes) slowly corrupting my soul.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 01:03 PM »

I've just installed the app for ReadItLater. I've been using ReatItLater across my main pc and netbook for quite a while now, so I've managed to colled a few hundred links to "read later", i.e. never.

I must say the iPad version seems very polished - makes the whole exercise of trawling through all these old links quite pleasurable. I think the penny is starting to drop with how nice a tablet can be - when you find the right thing to do on it. Using this "app" on the tablet does seem to be a lot better than doing it a desktop or netbook. It even automatically downloads all the page content to read offline.

Here's a linke if anyone is interested: http://readitlaterli...d-it-later-for-ipad/

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 11:33 AM »

heheheh, perfect.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 10:15 AM »

Good tips, thanks. I know there will be ways to make it work - just would have been nice for Apple to have done something better with Safari, at the very least.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 09:41 AM »

heheheheh, all very amusing comments. And a perfect way to sum it up; it really is Satan's SkyPad. If only there could be a holy war against Apple, I would march towards Armageddon with a smile on my face.

But!..

I will be keeping the iPad - for the moment. Wraith is right that it has it's uses. Horses for courses and all that. I don't really need to keep it for testing websites as I've now worked out and resolved the issues I was having with a client's website. (For anyone interested, mobile Safari displays text at one zoom level in, but not on all text. I don't see any good reasons for this but you can prevent it with "-webkit-text-size-adjust: none;" and other stuff to avoid targetting Chrome. Mobile Safari also appears to be tempremental about background images - which is a case of just trying other background sizes, etc.)

I *think* my parents do find using the iPad easier than a netbook. They still accidentally hit the wrong things on screen but the use of gestures seems more intuitive for them than using a mouse/pad. I just need to get one of the better iPad browsers that do really work how you'd expect on an tablet - mobile Safari is pretty rubbish, i.e. where's the gesture for "back/forward"; pathetic.

Personally, I don't have a good use for a tablet device. I will use it, because the instant-on/off is cool. The portability is cool. Erm, that's about it. I could test mobile Safari websites on an iPod Touch 1st gen (I think), so I could sell the iPad and get an iPod for a fraction of the price. If the experiment with my parents using the iPad fails then I'll get rid of it - but may well replace it with a tablet that works how I expect a tablet to work (if there is such a thing, maybe in a few months there will be).

I've still a lot to try out with it. Maybe jailbreaking is the way to go. Or just find the right Apps that make it work like a proper tablet and not just an inflated iPhone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make all Dialog Boxes and Browser Popups come up where the Cursor is

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 04:02 AM »

I have to agree. That would be a new util completely.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 06, 2011, 02:54 AM »

I'm sorry to say, that I am completely underwhelmed by the iPad experience so far.

The only really satisfying thing about it is that it makes me feel absolutely justified in despising all things Apple.

I was originally going to say "let's be honest, it's a bit rubbish, isn't it", as I thought it had a few good points. Now I'm just sick of all the flaws and the iTunes and iPhone nonsense - I say "iPhone" as that is all it is, but in a bigger box.

Navigation is crap, Safari is crap, iTunes is crap, the "intelligent" keyboard is crap, it's all crap. I know it's all crap because a team of designers, developers and engineers at Apple spent a long time on this device, but eventually made a machine that has so many flaws it resembles a first time project that a 16 year old design student would create - something their Lecturer would quickly browse over and then highlight all the fundamental flaws on its first use. Honestly, how can such a machine come to market that contradicts all the expectations of what a tablet should do.

Is "Apple" a religion or cult? Definitely. There is no other way people would be so determined to excuse all of Apple's terrible design and user experience if it weren't all down to "faith". Reason and first hand experience are overruled in the desire to believe in the Apple Gospels; for the belief in the divine truth of Steve Jobs, is the route to digital everlasting smugness.

(I won't bother listing all the things wrong with the iPad, you'll either know them already from first hand experience, or there'll be hundreds of blogs that say it all already.)

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 05, 2011, 05:49 AM »

right. iPad has arrived, it works. that's good.

the problems outlined by my client that said her page didn't display correctly on her iPad are not actually true. that's good and bad.

i've just pulled the muscles in my back by reaching to plug the iPad into the mains power. that's very bad and another reason for me to justifiably hate Apple.

at the moment, i'm not sure what to make of the device. i like the screen.

might look for a clamcase again - if there's one at a good price.

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Living Room / Re: Please kill me now - just bought an iPad off of eBay

« Last post by nudone on April 04, 2011, 02:56 PM »

Is that 60 dollars? I had a look on eBay and they were over £120 - which makes me assume they aren't that easy to get in the UK.

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Living Room / iPhone 2G any good for testing the mobile web?

« Last post by nudone on April 04, 2011, 12:44 PM »

Now that I've succumbed to the horrendous and overpowering bully that is Apple (with my iPad 1 purchase), I'm thinking of getting another corrupting Apple device to test things on.

I wonder, is something like an iPhone 2G good enough to test websites/apps on, simply by using its wi-fi connection - I don't need it for real life mobile use.

I'm assuming it will be fine - but for all I know, Safari might work in a completely different way on more modern iPhones.

Anyone know for sure?

Thanks.