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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Unite: a server within the browser. Opera innovating as it used to

« Last post by justice on June 16, 2009, 05:36 AM »

I see a FAQ on why is my service rejected so it seems they are looking into going that appstore route, which is great - so I'm wondering why they haven't got enough services in there yet to advertise them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera Unite: a server within the browser. Opera innovating as it used to

« Last post by justice on June 16, 2009, 05:34 AM »

From what I can read on the official site and walkthrough:

Very confusing name - it took me a few minutes to understand what it was. also the server connotation doesn't really help - I would describe it as p2p for personal data. Then again when doing something now it's hardto accurately position it.
Great idea - just enabling functionality to cut out the middle man. No worrying about how much data you can use. Great that you can write applications on it.

How are they going to market? It's promoted very techy for something that tries to take away the techy side of things. They should look at dropbox and apple. Reinvents the web doesn't do anything for me. But a p2p for personal data and applikcation platform sounds very cool.

Now of course I'm looking for the Opera Unite app store, is there any - I don't see anything obvious - maybe after installing it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot tool with built-in OCR?

« Last post by justice on June 11, 2009, 06:33 AM »

Microsoft Onenote or Evernote should do the job? they both come with their own screenshot tool

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Developer's Corner / Re: PHP Speedy - great way to speed up your website (also wordpress plug-in)

« Last post by justice on June 08, 2009, 05:45 AM »

Importantly the page has a Donate button that we should support as donation coders, I think.

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Developer's Corner / PHP Speedy - great way to speed up your website (also wordpress plug-in)

« Last post by justice on June 08, 2009, 05:35 AM »

Okay this is an amazing bit of code - If you have a website that's php based then you'll definately benefit from this. What it does is combining CSS files into 1 file, combining all javascript into 1 file, setting expiry headers, caching options and gzip options on the site so that there's less overhead, smaller filesizes and improved loading times. There are options for all these things.

PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. PHP Speedy automatically joins together all the appropriate files and compressed them, greatly reducing the load time of the page.

http://aciddrop.com/php-speedy

from some blog I forgot to note last week (screenshot made of Yslow firefox plugin on one of my sites)

More importantly, they have also made it available as a wordpress plugin!! Make sure you download version 0.52 though because the homepage doesn't link to the latest version in a clear manner and version 0.47 doesn't work well on the latest wordpress. I'm informing the author.

Also in the options it offers to include prototype js libraries amongst others but this is unnessecary if you aren't using them at the moment and will increase your js size - so only tick them if you know you'll benefit.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Code Snippet Storage/Library/Catalog/Organizer/GinzuSwissArmyKnife

« Last post by justice on June 08, 2009, 05:26 AM »

Just an update - I have a shared include now per language that I link in (serverside languages) in any project. That way when the shared code is updated all projects are being updated as well. see https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=14088.0 I would now recommend not to use snippets. If you plan on reusing code wrap it in a function so you can properly maintain it - write once.

Obviously this doesn't work with something like javascript because it would increase the filesize too much. Codinghorror was suggesting using hashtags for snippets but i think really they're unsustainable - if a year down the line you find a bug in your snippet then you manually will have to replace it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Level - Copy files from various sources into one flat folder

« Last post by justice on June 08, 2009, 05:20 AM »

Thanks xcopy much appreciated I still read it haha Maybe it's interesting to show how I use it:
At work I use a slightly different version (with progressbar and visual display of the last copied image) to copy a bunch of staff/student images from many different folders into the one folder so that they can be easily referenced from webpages. Ah it seems I said that in the babble.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you ever test in High contrast mode?

« Last post by justice on June 04, 2009, 04:59 AM »

I don't think webpages have a way to detect high contrast mode - it will be up to the browser to detect it and override styles I assume?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a Gmail backup that will save labeling?

« Last post by justice on June 04, 2009, 04:57 AM »

gmail offline mode?

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Finished Programs / Re: Folder-RSS: Monitor folder changes via rss

« Last post by justice on June 03, 2009, 03:56 AM »

A late reaction, as you can see David has been doing some excellent work on Folder-RSS. Sad truth is that I don't use the program regularly enough to put in the time to keep it updated. So I'm discussing with David what the best way forward is.

Once that's clearer then I'll update information where neccessary, with regards to dcupdate etc to help people move over

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 evaluation

« Last post by justice on May 29, 2009, 07:50 AM »

Doing things like managing and switching between applications is a lot faster in windows 7. Also working with frequent files. less distraction, easy side by side and window management. Keeping the pc running smooth is also a lot better - for example transparency is not showing: type that in search and windows will troubleshoot automatically the whole graphics side of the OS and fix any issues without interaction.

I don't want to sound  like a marketing guy but for new systems now I would only consider w7 (between that and xp/vista).

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Best Virtual Machine Tool / Re: VirtualBox - Top of the Lot

« Last post by justice on May 14, 2009, 08:03 AM »

i'm thinking of using virtualbox inside window 7 to emulate the "winxp mode". how hard would that be?

-lanux128 (May 14, 2009, 07:18 AM)

not possible AFAIK if you want it to the extend of having apps appear in your windows 7 start menu.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are my options for editing a PSD file

« Last post by justice on May 14, 2009, 03:49 AM »

Ok I'm uploading a zip with versions in TIFF format, Photoshop PDF format, and maximized compatibility PSD (all layered) in variations with and without the logo text you are wanting to replace. More info in PM

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are my options for editing a PSD file

« Last post by justice on May 13, 2009, 10:19 AM »

IrfanView surely can save it in adifferent format keeping the layers intact? Seeing as it can display the file?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are my options for editing a PSD file

« Last post by justice on May 13, 2009, 10:18 AM »

If you PM me the file it will be a few minutes work for me to return it for you into a layered tiff file that you can open in most editors.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm Steaming About Steam

« Last post by justice on April 10, 2009, 06:36 AM »

the only problem i have with the steam is the price but that's the publisher's fault i believe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sysinternals PageDefrag: Good, Bad?

« Last post by justice on April 10, 2009, 03:31 AM »

It's an excellent program that IMHO is not relevant for 95% of the people that use it or want to use it. I doubt you will see any practical benefit from using it as a home user. I'm of the opinion that defragmentation is something you shouldn't have to worry about or spend any time solving it. Just install JkDefrag in screensaver mode or Perfect Disk in StealthPatrol and your pc will be kept in excellent condition.

You're free to use the minutes and hours gained not fiddling with it by reading and rewarding independent content on this site and others.

I think the only need for PageDefrag is if you've got a very special need on a mision critical server or something. Most defragmentation utilities allow you to defrag on boot so that no files are in use and then you don't need this.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : sort files within folder/subfolder for later burning on DVD

« Last post by justice on April 09, 2009, 04:18 AM »

Burn To The Brim

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Living Room / Re: Moar lightsabers plz

« Last post by justice on April 07, 2009, 03:41 AM »

haha sabercats combination of lightsaber and lolcats

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Living Room / Re: Most Wiki'd Item? HTTP 404

« Last post by justice on April 06, 2009, 03:43 AM »

maybe some botnet or virus or spider that guesses wikipedia pages and it actually means 404 pages were returned?

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General Software Discussion / Re: quiet down the prompting

« Last post by justice on March 27, 2009, 08:04 AM »

PTFB works ok on my vista machine, I set it up and the icon goes red to indicate that it's counting down to the point when its closing the dialogue box. But dialog move i guess I could use as well in addition, so thanks for that tip.

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General Software Discussion / Re: quiet down the prompting

« Last post by justice on March 27, 2009, 06:35 AM »

Nice one having a go with that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: quiet down the prompting

« Last post by justice on March 27, 2009, 05:59 AM »

i realise computers are made so fragile that it requiress an increasingly silly amount of prompting to stop people from breaking it.

Maybe people should consider hiding such options under an administrator menu that can only be access using the user account password.
Come'on you shouldn't get asked are you sure you want to format c:, you should not be given the option in the firstplace surely?

/rant

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General Software Discussion / quiet down the prompting

« Last post by justice on March 27, 2009, 05:31 AM »

I think almost a third of all the things I click on are unnessecary windows prompts, such as 'do you want to run this file' (yes i clicked on it), 'this file was downloaded off the net are you really sure', 'you logged in a website do you want firefox to save the password' (why is there no yes always), 4 prompts before any installation actually starts with useless text, licence agreements, language choices (can't they detect the language of my os).

I'm fed up with it. They get in the way of my work and distract me. In 5 years I won't be able to hold a single thought for longer than a few seconds. Any clever people about that can help with solutions?

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Living Room / Re: Anti-Necrospamming

« Last post by justice on March 27, 2009, 05:07 AM »

other,
after submitting to an old thread, redirect to a confirmation page where you have to press button (or choose one from random 3). that way spammers can't update old threads but regular users can.