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Developer's Corner / [wordpress] expanding urls

« Last post by justice on July 31, 2009, 04:30 AM »

I'm looking for a plugin to expand urls so that I can tweet a url to a mp3 to my blog, the link gets expanded, and another wordpress plugin would wrap a music player around the link. Because twitter sends most urls as shortened urls, no music players will recognise the file.

Any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: The Open Source Car

« Last post by justice on July 25, 2009, 09:43 AM »

From what I can read (and it's certainly interesting) they're not just aiming to create a car but a mobility concept including charge points and changing the way we use transport by 2050, with one million electric cars by 2020 as a milestone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using Cywin Programs like Rsynch with Windows Paths

« Last post by justice on July 24, 2009, 03:05 AM »

You can also try DeltaCopy it has more of a GUI and uses more integrated windows features but uses rsync cygwin under the hood. Not tried it myself yet but it looks good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Using Cywin Programs like Rsynch with Windows Paths

« Last post by justice on July 23, 2009, 09:55 AM »

Not sure if this works but did you try:

rsync.exe -aHti "/cygdrive/z/" "/cygdrive/c/"

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Finished Programs / Re: AHK Coding Snack Idea: Deluxe AHK Script Manager (AXEM)

« Last post by justice on July 22, 2009, 10:21 AM »

I'm not using this program myself anymore which means it's not likely to be updated regularly. However I'm happy to give people svn access if they want to contribute.
You can get the latest version (not released) via a few ways:

Web
code - http://code.assembla...ion/nodes/trunk/Axem
tickets - http://www.assembla....d-autohotkey/tickets

SVN (read only)
svn co http://svn2.assembla...tohotkey/trunk/Axem/

I'm happy to give people write access so they can help keep updating the program, just IM me and I will add you to the team. You will need a free assembla account.

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Finished Programs / Re: JustToDoIt - Fast ToDo lister

« Last post by justice on July 22, 2009, 10:15 AM »

I'm not using this program myself anymore which means it's not likely to be updated regularly. However I'm happy to give people svn access if they want to contribute.
You can get the latest version (not released) via a few ways:

Web
code - http://code.assembla...des/trunk/JustTodoIt
tickets - http://www.assembla....d-autohotkey/tickets

SVN (read only)
svn co http://svn2.assembla...ey/trunk/JustTodoIt/

I'm happy to give you write access so you can help keep updating the program, just IM me and I will add you to the team. You will need a free assembla account.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: No plugins with farr

« Last post by justice on July 21, 2009, 05:46 AM »

Ah I see, that did throw me off.
I reloaded the plugins and the one I installed wasn't showing.

Running FARR once as an administrator seems to have solved the problem it now sees the plugin even though I'm no longer running it as admin

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Find And Run Robot / No plugins with farr

« Last post by justice on July 21, 2009, 05:40 AM »

I just installed FARR on windows 7 and the list of plugins is empty even though they are all installed in C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins any ideas? I can't see what folder FARR is looking in - perhaps its the wrong folder, please add an "open plugin folder" link in the plugin manager dialogue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla gives add-on developers a tip jar

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2009, 06:26 AM »

Does Mozilla keep collects the payments and then pays quarterly to developers in order to avoid the hefty paypal fees?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by justice on July 17, 2009, 03:17 AM »

Yes having tried Windows 7 RC as my main daily OS fo ever since it became available I have no need to install Windows XP or Vista anymore - and it has the polish of a SP1 release imho. I'm just trying to say - if it was going to revolutionize how you work with a pc then you would have read about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google Chrome: Time for a Second Chance?

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2009, 04:20 AM »

It's great and I'd love to use it all the time but I really need Roboform

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2009, 04:13 AM »

It's very refined - great automatic troubleshooters - many productivity improvements in window management etc - overhaul of the notification area. However I think really Windows is now at the end of the line. There's only so much that can be improved about a 15 year old metaphor. Increasingly I think we will need a next generation of desktop OSes if people are to be convinced to upgrade. In the order of what Intel does with Moblin, a conceptual change. People don't like too much change though and it would be very risky for Microsoft.

I mean yes as a technical user I appreciate a lot that the video driver reloads when it crashes but in day to day use we still work almost exactly the same as in windows 95 with our local data (with the addition of search). We're not making the leap from notepad to Evernote in the OS world.

So from one viewpoint you could say that any windows version after XP are refinements of the same concept and never upgrade. On the other hand you can say within the concept this is the best windows yet.

my 2 cents.

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Living Room / Re: Google Voice!

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2009, 04:06 AM »

Very interesting I've been following this. More information about the service from Read/Write Web

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Finished Programs / Re: HotkeyRing - One hotkey to rule all others (with plugin system)! AKA JustEnter

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2009, 03:15 AM »

 

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Finished Programs / Re: HotkeyRing - One hotkey to rule all others (with plugin system)! AKA JustEnter

« Last post by justice on July 16, 2009, 02:02 AM »

Yes great idea thanks

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Living Room / Re: From the BBC science desk: Cats 'exploit' humans by purring

« Last post by justice on July 15, 2009, 09:17 AM »

Yes they're advising any windows cat owners to mute the sound until then.

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Living Room / Re: From the BBC science desk: Cats 'exploit' humans by purring

« Last post by justice on July 15, 2009, 07:59 AM »

Microsoft will release a patch on tuesday for this latest exploit affecting windows owners.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need suggestion for a SourceForge alternative

« Last post by justice on July 14, 2009, 05:43 AM »

For planning/communication I'd recommend either Zoho planner (not tried myself) or ProjectPier if a linux server is available somewhere. You won't need these if you go with Assembla or Google code because they come with the whole lot included.

You might have some luck finding new startups in this area looking at ReadWriteWeb who cover that kind of thing, making a few searches.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need suggestion for a SourceForge alternative

« Last post by justice on July 14, 2009, 05:40 AM »

If he's okay to have the source code available to the public then i can recommend Assembla.com - there's a free plan with generous limits (although games assets might be too large for the free plan) or you could try google code - afaik no limits but again source must be available.

Alternatively as its a educational project write to some of these people like assembla with circumstances and project deadline they might donate it.
Also if any of them has  a spare machine its really easy to setup your own svn using visualsvn server. No knowledge required.
Can't install Trac on that though in the latest version.

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips v1.3 - 14 Jan 08

« Last post by justice on July 13, 2009, 02:25 PM »

Thank you very much This and most of my programs allow you to change the hotkey via the tray icon, did you try setting it to alt-tab? I'm not sure if it works.. maybe Skrommel has written a coding snack for it..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Why does it take FARR so long to open?

« Last post by justice on July 13, 2009, 06:42 AM »

what folders have you added to Farr?  Farr should boot up near instant.

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Finished Programs / HotkeyRing AKA JustEnter Release 0.2 with hotkey fix!

« Last post by justice on July 13, 2009, 04:23 AM »

Release 0.2 - Date: 10:16:44, 13 July 2009
See opening post for download link. Because of the name change dcupdater won't recognize this update for previous versions.

• Renamed JustEnter to HotkeyRing
• The default collection (InputBarr) has index.ini to describe functionality for future use
• Changed hotkey to Capslock sorry everyone
• Updated support link

I'm working on adding support for multiple Hotkey Collections so that HKR can provide multiple features. Say you made a hotkey collection for accessing the help function in applications. You can share and others can just unpack it. Then HotKeyRing provides Help functionality using the single hotkey everywhere. Have to say the terminology is killing me though.

How do you call a file that describes an application should access a feature? I call it an hotkey definition
How do you call a collection of definitions? I call it a Hotkey Collection

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Finished Programs / Re: JustEnter - One key to input everywhere (with plugin system)!

« Last post by justice on July 13, 2009, 03:23 AM »

I think I'll call it HotkeyRing (a keyring of hotkeys) - in about 30 minutes a new version should be up.

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Finished Programs / Re: JustEnter - One key to input everywhere (with plugin system)!

« Last post by justice on July 12, 2009, 05:35 AM »

Yes mouser that is right and thanks to your donation I can now hire a pr person to clarify the description haha. You made me think though justenter can simulate any hotkey in any program. I just made it for the input boxes issue that I had. You can just bind your favourite hotkeys from any program to it for easy access.

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Finished Programs / Re: JustEnter - One key to input everywhere (with plugin system)!

« Last post by justice on July 10, 2009, 01:07 PM »

Hi, yes I was thinking of capslock first but there's some weird delay on my system with that key it might be the better hotkey. I'll have a new version early next week then that defaults to capslock (feel free to suggest better keys).

Lanux for this prototype its only possible to focus input fields that can normally be focused with hotkeys (AHK is substituting the hotkeys and cycling to them, binding them to a single key). But I'm sure more is possible and am happy to look into it.

Also I was thinking some processes might have windows which can benefit but other windows that can't within the same process so I'll look to have ini sections for each part of a windowtitle in a next version.