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Living Room / Re: Stupid Question: File Type Change: Icons

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2009, 01:20 PM »

from my experiences, rebooting always makes a difference for file association icons.

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Living Room / Re: Stupid Question: File Type Change: Icons

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2009, 12:57 PM »

There is a program called Types:
http://types.sourceforge.net/

It's a file association manager, and it's pretty cool.  Of all the ones I've come across, this one is my favorite, and it's free.  I don't know if it changes icons, but try it...it may.
[edit]  it can definitely change the icon, i see it on the screenshots on the website.
Most every other file association tool I've tried is more hairy or quirky than I cared for.  At one point recently, I really did an intense search for programs like these, and this is the one I settled for.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Someone MUST make a new PowerMarks program.

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2009, 10:36 AM »

Steven, I myself prefer using my bookmark manager only for exactly that purpose...going to bookmarked sites.  I can see how it functions naturally as a PIM also.  My problem is once you start getting into PIM stuff (which is a very complex thing in itself), it starts getting in the way of the simple functions.  So, I keep my PIM completely separate.

On the other hand, since the bookmarks themselves are PIM material and contain a lot of information, maybe a program like InfoQube can sync up with it and keep track of it in it's database.  For example, one of the "Grids" in Infoqube can be the bookmark grid and it can regularly sync with the Linkman bookmark file and get automatically updated using the Linkman fields.  I'm sure this can be implemented, IQ is very flexible like that.  That way, you will have your bookmark manager, but then when you need to do some more heavy duty PIM things, you can use your normal PIM program.

Kind of reminds me of Suruflator also, which is like a bookmark and PIM program combined.  But when it comes to PIM, IQ does so very much more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a way to have user-level control on sorting Outlook 2007 GAL?

« Last post by superboyac on April 02, 2009, 10:11 AM »

Well, I do manage with the workarounds, but it's just ridiculous.

Why the fuck does sorting for hundreds of employees need to be controlled by an administrator?  What's the point of having separate fields for first, middle, last names?  Why can't the end user just click a button to sort however they please?

Imagine if Outlook/Exchange only allowed the administrator to sort the mail message views.  That would be insane.

I'm telling you, not having the autocomplete addresses working right is driving me absolutely nuts.  It literally takes you back to how email was 15 years ago.


Let me ask you guys this:
Would it be possible for the administrators to create two GAL's, with only the sorting different, and allow the users to choose which one to load with their Outlook?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a way to have user-level control on sorting Outlook 2007 GAL?

« Last post by superboyac on April 01, 2009, 01:59 PM »

(Warning:  Explicit Language)

Outlook's addressbook sorting and management is the biggest pile of fucking shit I have ever come across.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook: How to Friend Someone Without Showing Your Status Updates

« Last post by superboyac on April 01, 2009, 11:22 AM »

And to make it easy, I set up a list of friends that I call "Closed".  And I greatly limited what they can see. Whenever someone wants to "friend me", and I don't care for them to see much about me, I just add them to the list, and it's done.

-AJay (April 01, 2009, 10:49 AM)

I do the same thing...except I call it "Family".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Someone MUST make a new PowerMarks program.

« Last post by superboyac on March 31, 2009, 12:25 PM »

Steven, I love your posts.  Always informative.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor

« Last post by superboyac on March 26, 2009, 05:01 PM »

2superboyac
This is something I've been planning to add after spell check.

-fenixproductions (March 26, 2009, 01:46 PM)

Cool!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor

« Last post by superboyac on March 26, 2009, 01:41 PM »

I've been dying to have something like this.  The main feature request that I have is to allow custom tags and associated custom buttons for those tags.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Xobni beta - Outlook Mail indexer and organizer

« Last post by superboyac on March 26, 2009, 01:22 PM »

I used it and took it off shortly.  My computer at work is already slow, and Xobni dragged it way down.  And I didn't really use it at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Collectorz.com... again!

« Last post by superboyac on March 24, 2009, 04:32 PM »

I hope another application comes along that can do what MP3 Collectorz does.  Librarian Pro may be okay for now, but from first glance, it still isn't quite as hard-core of an application as mp3 collector was/is.  maybe I should look at it a little bit more.

it's a shame that the two best applications for mp3 organization are dying (I made a thread on this earlier).  MP3Rat is gone, and Mp3 collector is slowly PO'ing everyone.  All the other apps are not nearly as good from what I've seen.  It's because everyone is using whatever default cataloging system comes with their preferred jukebox software...itunes, winamp, etc.  I'm not bashing them, they work fine and are obviously satisfying their users.  But there's something so beautiful about a dedicated program for mp3 cataloging...like, it's specifically built for doing that exactly and it does it really, exceptionally well.  But only a handful of us appreciate it, i suppose.  Darn.

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Living Room / Re: What would it take to create and then sell a very successful website?

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2009, 07:21 PM »

Unless you have a couple million dollars to spend on advertising, I would worry very much about how to get the word out.

-mouser (March 23, 2009, 02:57 PM)

I thought about this also, but I didn't know exactly how much money/time/effort is involved.  i suspect that less of one would involve much more of the other.  I've read before that for blogs, for instance, to make it really popular (enough to make a decent amount on advertising) you need to spend a lot of time advertising it on forums and so forth.  it turns out to be a full time job and only works occasionally, if you're very lucky.  I think i read this on Problogger.

But if gary1095 can put in the necessary legwork and that amount of legwork turns out to be enough, then yes, it's a good idea. 

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Living Room / Re: What would it take to create and then sell a very successful website?

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2009, 01:47 PM »

Of course there's also that tiny little detail about how to prevent others from just taking your idea and running with it if it proves viable. Especially if they have deep pockets.

I do think the era of Internet Cinderella stories is pretty much over. You have too many well-funded and technically adroit companies actively monitoring just about everything that's going on for there to be much opportunity to slip below their radar.

YouTube, Yahoo, and all the other success stories made their mark before the 'big boys' caught on. The Big Boys won't make that mistake again. Look at online movie delivery. All it would take to sink Hulu is for the movie studios and TV networks to decide they would only allow streaming from their own sites and Hulu and the rest of them are doomed.

I think you'd need to come up with something totally unique and unintuitive before you stood a chance of creating a new multimillion dollar web niche.

-40hz (March 23, 2009, 01:10 PM)

I lean towards this view as well.  But like i said, I'm just pessimistic like that.  But, I've been proven right too many times to believe differently.

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Living Room / Re: What would it take to create and then sell a very successful website?

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2009, 12:39 PM »

Ask your friend to detail what the site's revenue stream will be. In other words, how exactly will it make someone money? In most instances, it's much cheaper for a company with capital just to rip off his idea and launch their own version of the site, assuming they get in on it (e.g., compare YouTube's content to Hulu.com's various network deals). As you've noted, just about every essential avenue on the web is covered, unless he can give them what they can't get elsewhere, such as uncensored content.

For example, anontalk.com allows you to write anything on its forum as long as you can use decent grammar and spell. We all know most places pre-censor content and ban the hell out of your IP address if you happen to write something they don't like.

Finally, do a google search of the history of failed website ideas and review it with him. Just because a guy has a law degree and passed the bar exam doesn't mean he can make a living by hanging a sign on the sidewalk and expecting clients to walk in the door. Lots of people became internet billionaires in the late 90s tech bubble because the idiots on Wall Street thought they could make money online. Turned out that Amazon could, but that was about it.

-zridling (March 23, 2009, 12:35 PM)

Very interesting, z.  So, are you saying that the time may have passed for making a fortune from social networking websites?  Obviously, we can't tell for sure, but is it significantly worse than it was before?  It's my hunch to say yes.

(by the way, you're new avatar is so cute, it's almost sickening!)

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Living Room / Re: What would it take to create and then sell a very successful website?

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2009, 12:25 PM »

Don't forget costs. Hosting a popular website is very expensive.

-Eóin (March 23, 2009, 11:55 AM)

Well, apparently the idea is to get some venture capitalists to buy into it after spending a little to get it going.

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Living Room / What would it take to create and then sell a very successful website?

« Last post by superboyac on March 23, 2009, 11:38 AM »

A friend of mine recently came up with an idea for a website that he intends to sell down the line for hopefully millions.  As usual, I'm the downer in the group and am hesitant to offer encouragement.  Only because I've been through my fair share of ideas and I know that the details of it is always hairy and the probability of success is ridiculously low.  At the same time, I also know that I know barely anything about this stuff, so I turn to you guys for advice.  So, I have a few fundamental questions about all this, some more philosophical, some practical, some naive.

--Firstly, has the time passed where you can sell websites for millions, a la youtube, facebook, myspace?  The reason i ask is because of issues like these.  I suspect that it is much harder to do this relative to 5-10 years ago.  Especially considering the economy for the next 2 years.

--Next, my assumption is that you can't make millions unless you create a website that is going to make someone addictive and visit it multiple times daily.  As in, a regular person (not a geek) will want to go to that website like an addiction.  For example, youtube...I probably watch youtube more than regular TV (I really don't watch TV at all, but you get the point).  So, if everyone is going to youtube multiple times a day, that's just insane.  Same with facebook, everyone's on it all the time.  Even if you have a really great idea for a website, unless it becomes addictive like that, it won't sell for millions.  many of the ideas I hear are really good, but only temporarily...like, they'll help you for something you're trying to do, but after you do it, you're done with it, and don't have to return to it for a long time, if ever.  Think of it like a thread on this forum:  you ask a question, you get a lot of activity for a while, and then the question is resolved, and the thread will get visited once or twice a year from then on.  That's not going to make a lot of money.

--Also, in my opinion, another reasaon why youtube was so popular was because of the illegal content and the way they handled it.  youtube was not the first website to offer putting up videos.  yahoo, google, and others tried doing it before, but weren't nearly as viral as youtube.  Why?  because they were so very concerned about copyrights from the get go.  but youtube let anyone put up anything (easily) right from the start, and dealt with the copyrights later, which turned out to be well after everyone was already addicted to it.  you see the subtle difference?  I mean, honestly, probably 90% of what I watch on youtube is copyrighted material, but it's all there.  That's brilliant.  instead of protecting themselves and restricting the material from even getting there, youtube put it all up, and took it down later as the complaints rolled in.  They're not officially advocating putting up copyrighted material, but they allow it because they allow everything (except porn).  it's the users who are uploading the copyrighted stuff, not them.  Anyway, it's a very strange and fascinating ethical scenario.  if youtube quickly and efficiently removed all copyrighted material, it would destroy the website.  My point here is, from a business standpoint, if my friend could accomplish something like that, it would be amazing.  That is, create a website that would permit illegal content to proliferate without deliberately creating the website for that specific purpose.  Sly.  (not that I promote it, I'm just theorizing).

Those are my initial thoughts.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by superboyac on March 20, 2009, 05:38 PM »

Sorting has been changed in 7.8.0.10.

http://www.outertech...files/linkmanpro.exe
http://www.outertech...iles/linkmanlite.exe

-Outertech Support (March 18, 2009, 03:12 PM)

Fantastic response time, outertech.  The sorting works perfectly.  I really appreciate the effort.

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General Software Discussion / Re: On developer's block, and calling it quits. Being a programmer is hard

« Last post by superboyac on March 20, 2009, 05:37 PM »

I have an enormous amount of admiration for programmers, and I still feel like I take it for granted.  You guys make my life so much easier, it's no joke.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by superboyac on March 18, 2009, 12:49 PM »

As far as launch count goes, an empty cell should be equal to zero.  That makes sense to me.  it definitely shouldn't be equal to infinity.  There's a reason why it has no launch count and that's probably because it's not used much (at all, in fact).  Or simply add a way where I can replace all the blanks with zero quickly.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool

« Last post by superboyac on March 18, 2009, 10:41 AM »

There still seems to be some kind of bug with the sorting.  I have it set up to sort by launch count first, and then by rating:

So the bug from last time was fixed (about only going by the first digit of the launch count), but now why are the bookmarks with nothing in the launch count column being sorted before those that have numbers?  And how to I change all the nothing launch counts to be zero?  See screenshot below:


Also, big thanks for adding the buttons for firefox.  Would it be possible to make the buttons such that the users can place them individually wherever they want on the normal firefox toolbar.  Powermarks used to be able to do this, and I really liked putting the button right next to the address bar because that's where the dropdown arrow is for firefox's own address histories...so everything is in one place.  Anyway, I'm sure users would appreciate being able to stick it wherever they want, if that could be possible.

Thanks for all the updates!

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Living Room / Re: Facebook: How to Friend Someone Without Showing Your Status Updates

« Last post by superboyac on March 17, 2009, 12:18 PM »

Facebook has its pros and cons.  I use it on a very limited basis.  Very limited.  it's a good way to keep in touch with friends on a really light level.  You see a couple of pictures and what they're up to and everything.  And it's a convenient way to find a long lost friend if you need to.  There's a decent amount of privacy which is comforting relative to all the other websites.

On the other hand, personally speaking, a lot of the "applications" are a nuisance.  What's worse is how much time people spend on it.  I heard it's classified as an addiction now.  I'm 30 years old now, I don't want to "chat" or "poke" people.  I see people at work on it all the time, which is not good.  So, much of the way people use facebook is very childish and a waste of time.  But, fortunately, there are some very useful and cool features which is why i even participate.  Overall, it's a pretty nice idea and I like it, and if people want to waste a lot of time on it, so be it.  but, as with everything else, I'll use it as a tool and nothing more.  Everyone accuses me of sucking the fun out of things anyway.

So...who wants to add me as a friend?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend a good freeware spam filter for Outlook 2007?

« Last post by superboyac on March 17, 2009, 09:56 AM »

I went with SpamBayes for the time being because it was simpler.  Also, on the website, its says that popfile doesn't work with Exchange.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend a good freeware spam filter for Outlook 2007?

« Last post by superboyac on March 16, 2009, 05:51 PM »

That's funny, Darwin.  I was JUST trying out SpamBayes right now.  Hopefully, that will do the trick.  Excellent.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend a good freeware spam filter for Outlook 2007?

« Last post by superboyac on March 16, 2009, 05:44 PM »

Great!  Thanks 40hz!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Check&Get or Power Favorites or Linkman

« Last post by superboyac on March 16, 2009, 04:51 PM »

I've tried Power Favorites and Linkman and I like them both.  For simplicity, Power Favorites is good.  Currently, I am using Linkman Pro and with each update it is getting better.  I haven't used their support at all, but through the threads on these forums they have been pretty responsive.  Also, they have incorporated features requested here in the last several updates.  I am pleased with their work.