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Living Room / Re: Honestly, who here actually owns an iPad? be honest!

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 06, 2010, 07:49 AM »

My youngest son has an iPhone, but I'm not keen on anything apple (esp iPad).

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: NetLauncher

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 06, 2010, 06:57 AM »

Welcome! This looks like a nifty idea  

-- which reminds me... I must get a netbook... 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: ContactFX

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 04, 2010, 10:28 AM »

I just added a few more details of what I'm hoping to achieve with this project.

I might be able to add a quiz, but it's not top of my list 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: TaskDaddy (Now with teaser helpfile and screenshots!)

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 02, 2010, 09:30 PM »

 

Always a good idea to add a post to describe what's changed 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: TaskDaddy (until I can think of a better name)

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 01, 2010, 11:33 PM »

I think it would be best for you to update your original post with the updated bits (help file, etc) so that the first post always gives all the information.

Once you get to something you think is a TEASER you can rename your post to that (so people know what's in the Thread).

When you're ready you can use the NANY Template for the standard text bits.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: BlitzType 0.95 finishing the project from NANY

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 01, 2010, 07:08 PM »

A short-cut to disappear the tip window would be handy too. Sometimes it gets in the way and you're not typing a word.  

But you don't want to click or press ESC etc. for example in FARR and dialog boxes...

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: BlitzType 0.95 finishing the project from NANY

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 01, 2010, 01:55 AM »

you probably should have completed the phrase before the tip window starts to block your typing.

-kakarukeys (June 01, 2010, 01:20 AM)

  Exactly correct... just thought that if the tip window moved (I thought it did, but it doesn't seem to once it's open) it'd be neat...

Thanks for the clarification... I think what'd be neat is if you could set the lists from the notification icon.

Can you have a function to dump the learned phrases to a document?

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: BlitzType 0.95 finishing the project from NANY

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on June 01, 2010, 12:51 AM »

Yes, this is nice!

Question about the phraselist...

With learning, it's obviously better to have only one phraselist active? Where are the learned phrases put if multiple are active?

For that reason, I wonder if it would be helpful to be able to have a "Learning Enabled" setting for each phraselist?

Where does the "Frequent Patterns" get saved? In that sense, it might be a good idea to have a phraselist just for frequent patterns? In which case, it would be nicer to have not "phraselist" but "frequent list" and "common words" and "plant species" as that's better to remember what each list is for...

I really love it    The only thing that is a little annoying is the position:


sometimes gets hidden. The "on" has been covered by the tip window...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Just uninstalled FARR!

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 31, 2010, 10:21 PM »

Yes, thanks for the shock-gasp-laugh...  

New jobs can be fun: I hope the fun lasts a long time!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: BlitzType 0.95 finishing the project from NANY

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 31, 2010, 10:15 PM »

 

This is really good fun, thanks!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PowerWorship song lyrics review

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 26, 2010, 11:53 PM »

Thanks! 

It's good to see that we have a song group there: I always wondered what happened in the social get-togethers 

I'd be interested to see how the slides turn out?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 23, 2010, 11:13 PM »

There's only 43 posts to go till you get a straight  

Come to think of it... there's only 85 for me to get half your straight 

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Living Room / Re: GPS Unit Recommendations?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 06:59 PM »

How do these models compare to the gps software on cell phones??

-techidave (May 20, 2010, 06:14 PM)

I think that would depend if the phone uses sat for its GPS or mobile tower (not sure what that's called).

Sat has a better accuracy than triangulation between mobile towers (not that I have a phone with GPS on it).

Is it still called GPS on a phone?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: I changed my website layout: opinions?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 05:48 PM »

I like the flexible width of your site, Perry.  I may have to try to do that later, also.

-superboyac (May 20, 2010, 10:07 AM)

I started with a strong dislike of fixed narrow width    In the end I found The Jello Mold site with lots of css templates that both helped me learn layout in css and get exactly what I wanted.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 05:41 PM »

"Tell me something you don't know = thoughtful scribbles"
-could be another 

-Curt (May 20, 2010, 10:53 AM)

  Yes I was taken by that too: very serendipitous the whole exchange...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 10:06 AM »

I was just replying to Renegade's post and discovered:


 

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Living Room / Re: GPS Unit Recommendations?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 09:57 AM »

I have two:

• An older Magellan unit that the kids bought me, and
• A new Garmin

The Garmin is great, though more of a bush walking tool, although I did get the streets loaded as well so can use in car (but in-car is secondary for me); and I think the unit has been kept as small as possible so that it's not a drama when you're out and about.

But I'm guessing that you're wanting an in-car GPS?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: I changed my website layout: opinions?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 09:51 AM »

Yes, I like the simple too!

When I was setting mine up I definitely wanted resizable columns so that the wide screens could take advantage of their width.

Narrow makes it easy because it displays the same anywhere; but I don't like the wasted space (for me or my guests).

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General Software Discussion / Re: On-Line Dictionaries

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 20, 2010, 01:55 AM »

I've actually just started using http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ which seems very nice 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Entry Ideas

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 19, 2010, 10:02 PM »

Have you looked at SyncML?

I set up a trial account at Funambol and tested some of these with Open Contacts and managed to make a huge mess with my aggregated Google Contacts, ThunderBird Contacts and my Open Contact Contacts. 

http://www.clipclip....nambol-scheduleworld is an interesting read too.

Funnily enough, I've dropped Open Contacts (it just didn't click with me), and I'm hoping that Cfx (that I'm doing for this years event) will satisfy my contacts needs.

But sync'ing it all together is the holy grail... 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: A NANY 2011 Coders Requesting Funding Idea: Feedback Wanted

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 15, 2010, 07:07 AM »

Or could the coders that are seeking donations simply put that in their Pledge / Teaser / etc Thread??

In some ways it's not too much different to asking for any other volunteer help for the project 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: LaserTask (until I can think of a better name)

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 13, 2010, 06:37 PM »

but I am completely rewriting the command line argument parsing part of it and I may have to change the syntax. If I do, it's better until I wait for that part of it to be done before posting it.

-daddydave (May 13, 2010, 09:53 AM)

Certainly... this is also a great place to post a Teaser (which is like a beta version for comments / suggestions) so that other members can have a play and make suggestions, etc (if that's what you're after)

Thanks 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Something cross-platform

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 13, 2010, 05:24 AM »

I've been wondering app if that means for every programme that you re-write it equals 3 entries (one for each OS)? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: CFX

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 13, 2010, 05:22 AM »

Yes, we'll see. At the moment there are more questions than answers 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: Mouser App

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on May 13, 2010, 01:55 AM »

Maybe we could help you decide??