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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.3.0

« Last post by phitsc on November 18, 2011, 04:54 PM »

Armando, would you mind giving FarrWindowsSearch another try? I've gotten rid of one possible cause of crashing. The problems you've experienced could well have some other cause, but I need to start somewhere ... I've also implemented natural language search, as an option. It's on by default.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0

« Last post by phitsc on November 17, 2011, 01:53 PM »

No problem Armando.

Natural language search basically allows you to search like this:

email from Carl or Ed received this week

instead of like this:

kind:email from:(Carl OR Ed) received:this week

According to MSDN it's supported starting from Windows XP with SP2.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0

« Last post by phitsc on November 15, 2011, 03:40 PM »

A good idea Armando. I was recently thinking about using natural language search (NQS) instead of the advanced query syntax (AQS) the plugin uses now, or at least offer it as an option. Would that be something you'd prefer to your suggestion, or not?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by phitsc on November 15, 2011, 03:28 PM »

My only gripe is that it still crashes farr too often in my specific case (using XP sp3). I know I'm not the majority (and for those without any stability problems, I wonder why they don't use it... It's SUPER FAST). If only I knew what did it (the problem), I'd use it much more. More than "Everything" as I don't have the accentuated chars problem with Windows Search...

-Armando (November 15, 2011, 11:51 AM)

Not good I'll try using it more often in the coming days, in order to try to reproduce a crash.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« Last post by phitsc on November 15, 2011, 04:35 AM »

I hope you meant Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right

-ewemoa (November 15, 2011, 03:02 AM)

I did indeed! Thanks for the heads up.

Corrected in above post.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Indexing Option - Feedback Requested

« Last post by phitsc on November 15, 2011, 02:07 AM »

I've made a FARR plugin to use Windows Search:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18016.0

I'm not using it very often I must admit. I mean, I'm not using Windows Search very often, but when I do, I'm using it with the FARR plugin.

That said, if you have suggestions on how to improve it let me know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« Last post by phitsc on November 15, 2011, 01:49 AM »

I'd also like to add my vote for Ctrl + Shift + Left / Right making a selection. I find the fact that FARR doesn't do that very confusing.

Please also note that the "word boundary algorithm" allows for some improvement. As it seems, non-English characters (like äöü) are considered to be word boundary characters.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.3

« Last post by phitsc on November 07, 2011, 02:41 PM »

Version 1.1.3 is now available. I've found and fixed the crash. It was related to tasks created by email. Thanks Koenie for pointing me in the right direction.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.6.0

« Last post by phitsc on November 07, 2011, 10:01 AM »

FarrWebMetaSearch should be able to handle anything that can be reasonably processed by a Regex. Now to be honest I'm not sure a Regex is the best thing to process JSON.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Herb Sutter's brief look at C++11

« Last post by phitsc on November 03, 2011, 12:02 PM »

I will use auto like crazy. I will actually use it wherever possible. I think using auto will actually raise productivity. Lambdas will come in handy as well. They will finally allow us to get rid of the boilerplate functor code which is currently necessary to make effective use of some standard algorithms. Both of these are also a clear testimony that C++ is adopting important aspects of yet another programming paradigm (which I think is a good thing), namely functional programming. Even with auto, C++ is still a strongly typed programming language. auto does also not replace typedef, as the type of a lambda expression for example is only known to the compiler (if you want to assign the lambda expression to a variable).

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Living Room / Re: Products designed to fail, a documentary

« Last post by phitsc on November 03, 2011, 05:21 AM »

I know that it's immoral, but I would actually prefer some of my stuff to break early in order to justify buying a newer, better version of it. I really think more companies should start to offer trade-in programs for their products. But they should also be forced to recycle stuff correctly, and be forced to build their products in such a way that as much of the used materials can be recycled.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.2

« Last post by phitsc on October 28, 2011, 10:28 AM »

So I found out how to configure the userid and password within the proxy dialog, no modification needed!
So far(r) the good news.

I have also the Access violations mentioned higher. I tested with a brand new account and then it works fine. I suppose it has something to do with tasks in my default user, but I have no idea how to find out which one is blocking...

Thanks for your help!

-Koenie (October 28, 2011, 09:37 AM)

Please excuse my laziness. I'm currently more in Playstation-mood than programming mood. Good that you found a way to configure the userid and password within the proxy dialog. Would you mind to share, so that I can add it to the help file?

Concerning the access violation: good that you have it! Well, not for you, I know. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to track down the problem last time it was reported because the user reporting it just removed a whole bunch of tasks and the problem went away for him. So maybe now, with your help, I might be able to find out what's going wrong.

If I remember correctly, the tasks he removed were actually ones which were already set to complete (hence he could remove them). The question is how do we find out which one is causing troubles?

Do you have many tasks? And many completed ones? I made a version of the plugin that traces out some info when the tasks are loaded, so you can see which one is causing the crash. It might actually still be on the ftp. I'll check later when I'm home.

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Living Room / Re: Google's ∩-Shaped Menu With More, More, and Even More

« Last post by phitsc on October 18, 2011, 02:41 AM »

and they have moved the one menu item which I use most often (Reader) into More

edit: changed "Groups" to "Reader" (don't know what I was thinking there)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.2

« Last post by phitsc on October 17, 2011, 02:59 AM »

I'll look into it.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.2

« Last post by phitsc on October 11, 2011, 09:44 AM »

Sorry for the late reply. I'm afraid Mouser is correct, FarrMilk can not be used offline.

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Living Room / Re: Android tablets to rival iPad

« Last post by phitsc on September 27, 2011, 02:02 AM »

Anything you guys would like to know?

-superboyac (September 26, 2011, 04:58 PM)

Yeah, how long until you got bored with the iPad?

I'm still without a tablet and was waiting for the Galaxy 10.1 (it's still not available in Switzerland, like I anticipated here. It's now scheduled for sometime in October). Actually, the iPad is now becoming an option for me again, as soon as iOS 5 is out, the reason being that it will then be possible to use it as a standalone device (don't want iTunes).

What's your opinion about the Samsung's performance (in terms of fluency of operation, starting apps, etc.) compared to the iPad?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Explorer with Ribbon

« Last post by phitsc on August 31, 2011, 02:03 AM »

I now find the ribbon to be an improvement over the menu / toolbar combination, at least in applications like MS Word. But only after reading this MS article about ribbons helped me understand its major design concepts.

I don't think ribbons are meant to substitute keyboard shortcuts. It's only that while I have no problem remembering the dozens of keyboard shortcuts in applications like Visual Studio which I basically use daily, it does get a bit more difficult when it comes to MS Word which I use maybe once a week, or MS Excel which I use once a month only.

Nevertheless, I still dread the day when MS decides to introduce ribbons in Visual Studio

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Posting from Mobile View

« Last post by phitsc on August 25, 2011, 08:57 AM »

Thanks 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Posting from Mobile View

« Last post by phitsc on August 25, 2011, 08:29 AM »

How do I get to the mobile view?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.2

« Last post by phitsc on August 16, 2011, 10:14 AM »

I figured out my issue - I wasn't completely following the directions. After typing 'rtm' in FARR for authorization, I would close FARR instead of leaving it open. I got it to work when i RTFM. 

-chrisj (August 16, 2011, 09:48 AM)

Hey, thanks very much for reporting!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: %MYRECENTDOCS% not working?

« Last post by phitsc on August 10, 2011, 09:59 AM »

Well you can check and change the various Environment Variables (that's what those %whatever% are) through "Control Panel" > "System" > "Advanced System Setting" > "Environment Variables". With that you can see what it's currently set to and change it accordingly.

To make the job easier I'd recommend Rapid Environment Editor. Personally I use it whenever I need to mess those variables.

-Eóin (August 09, 2011, 10:56 PM)

Seems like a useful tool to have. Thanks for mentioning it

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General Software Discussion / Re: Syncing Google / Outlook calendar

« Last post by phitsc on August 09, 2011, 03:22 AM »

Can't you just share/invite your wife to the events you want her to see?

-Deozaan (August 08, 2011, 06:30 AM)

I maybe could. I just want it to be as painless as possible, like assigning a category or something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Syncing Google / Outlook calendar

« Last post by phitsc on August 08, 2011, 05:51 AM »

Found gSyncit which seems to work fine. It allows filtering by category as well as keywords as it seems. I'm going the category route at the moment and it does just what I want.

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General Software Discussion / Syncing Google / Outlook calendar

« Last post by phitsc on August 08, 2011, 04:28 AM »

I'm looking for a tool that will sync my Outlook calendar with two Google calendars. Doesn't necessarily need to be free. I want the following feature though: the tool needs to be able to selectively sync Outlook events with two different Google calendars. I don't care about how it does this (category, keyword, some Outlook flag are all fine).

My situation is as follows: I use Outlook for work and Google for private events. I want to see all of my work and private events on my phone (using two different Google calendars). My wife can see my private calendar on her phone as well. Now I want her to see *some* of my work events too, so I want to selectively sync some of my work events to my private Google calendar instead of the work calendar.

I know and have been using Google's Sync Tool, which is good, but does not offer selective syncing. I've read bad things about OggSync, which would seem to offer the functionality described above but all reports claim that the tool does not work (and will actually f..k up your calendar).

Anyone know about or even using a tool that does this?

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Living Room / Re: Android tablets to rival iPad

« Last post by phitsc on August 01, 2011, 04:15 AM »

And here we go:
Samsung Galaxy Tab P7500 (that's the 10.1), the 16GB initially scheduled for end of July is now planned for end of August. The 32GB and 64GB initially scheduled for end of August are now beginning of September.

I'll get one for Christmas I guess