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Find And Run Robot / Re: What happened to the "Improve icon" on the ToDo list?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 27, 2006, 02:41 PM »

I agree with jdmarch.
Although Ruunba makes sense (i've checked the Roomba, and it seems a nice thing to keep around ), it is too similar to creative's "rhomba", and farr has nothing to do with an mp3 player

What i mean is that it needs a better name (or maybe a better achronym, since it has that problem with being farr,f&rr,fr, etc,etc..), but i just think it should be something catchy, and not similar to something existant, as it could generate confusion...
I know this isn't a very constructive critic, but i couldn't find a better name. Maybe thinking of a better achronym would be the way to go.

ps: jdmarch made a good point. There already are some good critics on farr, it wouldn't be good to lose them by changing the name too much.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Similar apps for collecting ideas thread

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 27, 2006, 02:23 PM »

This is a great thread, stefan! It should be used in all dc's software
Can PowerPro be counted in this list?
(i think it has some similar functions, not sure. PowerPro users, please enlight me )

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General Software Discussion / Mouse Gestures

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 27, 2006, 07:16 AM »

This app was being mentioned in the irc channel, and i thought i should divulge it.
Check StrokeIt, a program for creating mouse gestures for every app you have
Check FileForum for ratings and reviews.
I just love this program, and so do other forum users, as they have it mentioned in the "what app do you keep running all day?" thread!

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Living Room / Re: Coding Horror blog has become must reading for programmers

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 27, 2006, 04:57 AM »

thedailywtf is really nice, some good laughs there
Check http://www.ariel.com...of_a_Programmer.html I liked it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which app stays open on your desktop all day?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 05:48 PM »

hum..i see, if you use cmd more directed at .bat files,t&r can't help you with that (i think), and the directory-sensitive part sure is a limiter, since you need to have cmd open
I've just checked uberbox, (i also run bblean), and i found it quite useful, but not as much as t&r (imo). Disregarding that it looks ugly  , it's nice that it has the option to send bbroams, which can be usefull, and that is has a low footprint (if it has any..lol). But t&r allows you to do a bit more, you can create aliases with arguments, and the autocomplete function is far more advanced, as it really completes, not only with history paths but also with the ones that exist in your drive. The only problem about t&r is it's high footprint, about 7mb in ram
Anyways, please check it (it has no installation, just decompress and run ) and post your opinion!
You still don't use farr? I think it's very handy, for all those things that normal people (i.e. non-bb users) have in start menu. I used to open explorer to manually open the apps i didn't have in right-click (or middle-click,or x1click,or x2click for that matter), since i got tired of making and updating lots of menus really fast

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which app stays open on your desktop all day?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 05:08 PM »

@ mouser:
type and run is an extremelly interesting app. I found it before i found farr, and when i found farr, i thought "well,there goes typeandrun, farr can do everything t&r does, and even more". But surprisingly, they just coexist, to be honest, i love farr, but it simply isn't as practical as t&r, that's why it's the one i use most among those two, because it's more versatile. Maybe it's my computer, but farr isn't nearly as fast finding stuff, because it has to search for it, and creating new aliases is too time consuming (and it also has strange focus problem, sometimes when i load it, it doesn't have the focus, maybe it's because of blackbox )

@fooder:
cmd.exe? nice..that's leet 
check typeandrun i mentioned on my last post. i bet you will find it a bit handier that cmd.exe (at least, i do )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which app stays open on your desktop all day?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 03:33 PM »

Reviving this thread 

I have:
Opera (it takes too much time to load, i just keep it open all day)
Find And Run Robot ( my start button )
Type And Run ( my run box )
Winamp ( the best music player there is.. yes, i don't like foobar )
All Snap (great small app, when you use it once, you can't live without it)
Various ahk scripts (i mean.. they do everything, and even more )
Msn Messenger (still, i prefer the original msnmessenger to any third party app)
Miranda (the best way to got to DC's chat)
Process Tammer (keeping an eye for those strange-acting apps)
Mobile Meter (just to keep my computer's frequency and temperature controlled)
Kaspersky Antivirus (unfortunatelly, necessary )
PSPad (usually editing some ahk script )
Directory Opus (like Opera, it's best to leave it running)

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General Software Discussion / Re: PowerPro

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 12:43 PM »

LOL Edvard.. That's a wicked analogy!
Honestly, i still haven't tried PowerPro, at the moment, I'm too busy (exams! ) to get lost with yet another great application.
But i believe your word when it comes to using powerpro.
I guess I'm sort of the old folk (the one that loses so much time automating everything and in the end, although everything works, he won't ever use it enough times to compensate the lost time ).
Witch one are you?

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General Software Discussion / PowerPro

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 10:21 AM »

I've seen a few topics mentioning powerpro in the forum, but i haven't seen any explaining what it is exactly.
So, i went to PowerPro's site, and saw the tuturial. But it wasn't really any help, because powerpro is very featured and the tuturial is far too incomplete. So, i googled it and found this site witch has some nice flash tuturials demonstrating a few basic functions of powerpro. It got me convinced, and i will use this program in the near future, so i thought i should share it with you guys
If someone has some more information on this good piece of software, or uses it, please post below!

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Living Room / Re: What's your "Autism Quotient"?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 26, 2006, 04:28 AM »

Omg, i got 24, maybe I'm in the way to become a autist? *scary*!
(mouser: you already are autist, aren't you?  )

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Living Room / Re: caffeine free week - who wants to join me?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 20, 2006, 06:50 AM »

These last 5 posts made me think twice...
I also *didn't* consume anything addictive in a daily basis...
It seems those days are gone

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General Software Discussion / Re: very nice and FREE graph calc

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 03:54 PM »

Oh... That would have been so sweet if i had it one year ago.... It seems perfect for maths, especially that part about the 3d graphics, which sometimes can get hard to imagine 

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 01:58 PM »

not in my pc...
alt + z = farr
alt + x = typeandrun
( and a whole lot of others that ain't worth mentioning here, i would need too much lines )

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 01:52 PM »

ok.. I was already wondering where could that damn option be..
Actually, i use alt + space when i am using the computer with keyboard only. When i am using the mouse, i find it much easier to right-click the title bar than the small box on the corner

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 11:08 AM »

Now I'm feeling ignorant...  That's one of the main reasons that make me use bb...
How can you activate it?
(I mean right-clicking the title bar makes the window close immediately, not choosing it from the unuseful context menu)

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Living Room / Re: Best Video Player there is

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 08:43 AM »

I'm another BSplayer fan

-Hirudin (January 19, 2006, 03:55 AM)

Glad to know that, Hirudin!
I was starting to think that no one knew bsplayer!

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 07:36 AM »

@ edvard: Ooh, hey, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia....rg/wiki/Kernel_panic eheh.. even the bsod look better in mac

@ Carol:
Yes, i was referring to more concrete examples of standardization, that ctrl+c example is simply great. Then, i change my opinion, i do agree with standards (i can't bare that emacs has such a strange way of doing copy-paste actions ). But still, i remain a bit reserved about applying it to everything, since in the other example you gave, i don't like having the close button at the right, since i right-click in the title bars of my apps to close them (another option inheriant to blackbox ) and so, i don't even have the close button. But if we expand that standard to all apps needing to have a title bar, then i do agree with you, all of them should follow that rule

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 05:11 AM »

IMO, standard's can be good. For instance, it would be good if windows and unix had the same filesystem organization, so as i could use linux as well as i use windows.
By now,  the linux supporters reading this, must have already came to the same conclusion i came by reading the post before this one:
standards CAN be good. But the problem is how to define the standards! In my example, i guess unix's filesystem is supposed to be far superior, and so, it should be the right choice.
But imagine the browsers situation. Many of you use firefox, i use opera, and my mother or my sister, use ie. But the question is that some days ago, i tried firefox, and hated it (as happens with all opera users, IMO), and firefox users can't use anything else, and my mother, doesn't even know that there are other browsers, and once i tried to persuade my sister to use opera, and she couldn't use it.
What i mean is that enforcing standards for everyone might not be the right way.
I think exactly the opposite that mouser thinks about standards in windows' explorer. I use another shell because i don't think explorer is flexible enough for me, and what happens is that i do everything about 2 to 3 times faster using bblean than i did when i used explorer for the sole reason that it works exactly as i configured it to work, and so, it's configured to work the way that is perfect for me, but might not be perfect for anyone else.
That is my perspective as user.
As a programmer, i can understand the absolute need for standards, the more people use the standards, the more people can use the product, is as simple as that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Holding code ransom?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 19, 2006, 04:35 AM »

I guess that's a nice concept, but it just generates one bad possibility:
It's the only market system where the consumer (ie, the donator) gives the money before seeing the end product...
For me, it would be easier the system used in donationcoder, it works exactly the opposite way, if the software is good, you donate, if you don't like it, you go elsewhere...
But from the developer's point of view, the "code ransom" system, just might be a better system, like that, the developer is sure to get the money before he put's himself to work.
IMO, the dc's system is the one that gives more trust to the donator (that, in the end, is the one that pays ), possibly it's the best system.
(or maybe a sort of hybrid system? don't know..)

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 05:58 PM »

Thanks mouser, that's a great article, for long time, i've wondered about that apple's one-button-mouse thing. And through that article, i even came to the conclusion that their atitude actually makes some sense!
I sure am not in the assistance, but i've helped my sister and my cousins through the telefone or im and have had similar problems with transmiting my idea to them.
But although it makes sense in the desktop, there's one thing that doesn't add up in that line of thinking:
How about the notebooks? You can't change it's touchpad unless you have an external mice, so, even if you're an experienced user, you still can't have access to the other options (at least, not with the ease you have in windows or linux)

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 05:29 PM »

@ edvard: It's allways nice when you find one of those in the middle of your 5000 lines of code, and can't trace it's origin
But my question was what was displayed on OSX when it finds a kernel exception. (unbelievable, i could find hundreds of pictures of blue screen of death, but only one on the bomb dialog... If i was a mac supporter, i would say that proves that mac os is more stable. Actually, my real opinion is that win95/98 were bad examples of software )

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Living Room / Re: caffeine free week - who wants to join me?

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 05:13 PM »

I guess i'm with you too, since i don't like coffe/tea

ps: i agree with the thing about the date...How come do people use that type of date? It just doesn't make sense.. 

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 05:10 PM »

@ f0dder: Isn't BSD a form of unix? (now i'm confused  )

@ Edvard: definitely, that quote is great, the aerodynamic part is just a perfect description

But i do agree with you, if i come to analyse all the times that win xp collapsed on me, they were almost all derived from an error i made, or a badly designed program.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there is something similar to BSOD on OSX?

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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 04:31 PM »

Great post Carol!
Now i have a few more arguments to "counter-attack" when some mac-lover friend of mine says that windows/intel sucks
The thing is, i think that when mac osx (or maybe the next one) comes for intel-based computers, it even might be a nice thing, because as much as i know, altough apple's hardware is bad and extremely monopolized (i didn't know about that printer thing.. *gee* that's bad!), the OS is the good thing about their systems, not only because it's stable, but also because it has everything you need and is user friendly (again, as i said before, i never tried it, I'm just talking based on what i read and was told).
I already knew osx was based on unix, but is it only a linux "facelift"? Does it have that unix's structure and way of work?
I thought it was much more user-friendly..

About their mice... I think that the one-button mice doesn't work that way, i think that there is the possibility of using the both buttons on OSX, but you use the right button less (or am i missinformed?)
Some time ago, i was needing a mouse, and almost got convinced in buying a mightymouse (they're so cute... ) but the first review i saw about them, i think it even was on apple store, the owner said that because the buttons were pressure-sensitive, it happened a lot clicking in places not wanted..Needless to say, i gave up on apple's mice. It's not the first time this has happened to me, some time ago, i wanted to buy a portable audio player, and the first thought was an ipod. So, i checked ipod mini, and it seemed nice. Then i found out about creative zen micro. It had more capacity,  better sound, better compatibility, fm radio, and was cheaper! This made me wonder: why does apple still sell ipods? Is their unique intend to cheat the costumer?
Then, one friend of mine (one mac-lover) saw me listening to my zen and asked me to see it and commented "what a rip-off!" i asked him why did he say that, but he didn't answer me... I guess that those people think that ipod is a better audio player only because it's "ipod"! I guess that, at least apparently, there aren't any better reasons..

So, my point is: is there any reason why you would like to buy a piece of hardware that:
1) is more expensive then the non-mac equivalent (usually, MUCH MORE!)
2) is less featured then the non-mac equivalent (usually, MUCH MORE!)
3) is less compatible then the non-mac equivalent (bla bla)
4) is less upgradeable then the non-mac equivalent (@mouser: good point about the ipods not having the capability to change the battery)
5) possibly (arguably, as beauty is subjective) is more "good looking" then the non-mac equivalent

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Blackbox for windows - shell replacement

« Last post by jgpaiva on January 18, 2006, 02:32 PM »

eheh.. I'm a bb user too!
Good to know there are more bblean users in this forum
This is my current desktop:

the bar on the left is the volume control for my pc, and the buttons on the right and left lower corners change the virtual desktop.
the two command boxes (farr on the top and typeandrun on the bottom) are what allows me to launch 99% of my programs
(although if I'm in the mood for using the mouse, i also right-click the desktop and have access to all of them in the context menu )