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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by nosh on March 07, 2011, 02:28 AM »

Poll tiem!

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by nosh on March 06, 2011, 11:26 PM »

I'm not all that certain that I'd enjoy converse with someone attracted only by appearance

I would. 

I suggest we have a large Scarlett Johansson background for the front page and everyone goes home happy. Truth be told, I prefer Leelee Sobieski, but she's not as famous.

Anyone? Anyone?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: O&O Migration Kit for Windows 7

« Last post by nosh on March 04, 2011, 06:48 AM »

What review is there to wait for? Go get the offer!

I've got it alright, got two keys inadvertently cuz Gmail marked the copy that was sent there as spam. But like Carol, I don't know when I'll use it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / O&O Migration Kit for Windows 7

« Last post by nosh on March 04, 2011, 01:48 AM »

http://www.instantfu...-upgrade-with-o.html

If someone tries this, please post your results.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by nosh on March 01, 2011, 11:12 PM »

lol @zaine!

Great to see the drive gather momentum!!

Look who else is excited!
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=vR_VhfxAnXU

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by nosh on March 01, 2011, 07:26 AM »

 

I bet you were up all night!  

WHERE'S THE THERMOMETER?!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Most Pirated Software?

« Last post by nosh on February 26, 2011, 08:41 PM »

This place would be a lot more pleasant if there was less moral policing. We all have our personal opinions and flaws. I think it would be wise to think twice before we publicly call out individuals about what's being accomplished other than possibly humiliating and alienating them.

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Living Room / Re: A point of grammar

« Last post by nosh on February 26, 2011, 08:21 PM »

 

BTW, big Courage fan here!

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Living Room / Re: A point of grammar

« Last post by nosh on February 25, 2011, 10:21 PM »

OMG!!    SIT!

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Living Room / Re: Recommendation for removing eye flash

« Last post by nosh on February 24, 2011, 10:09 PM »

I'm sorry to hear about your cat. IMO, app's second upload looks the best of the lot.

OT:
I try and avoid flash usage altogether whenever I can help it, most automatic cameras are guilty of excessive flash usage and it's the best way to mess up a perfectly good shot. My stupid Nokia refuses to remember the last setting and needs me to switch it off manually each time. 

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« Last post by nosh on February 24, 2011, 11:18 AM »

PhilB66, thanks!

Nosh, how do you write on your screen?

-AndyM (February 24, 2011, 09:59 AM)

iPad *ducks*

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« Last post by nosh on February 24, 2011, 05:01 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Should I be concerned that my wife opened a Facebook account?

« Last post by nosh on February 23, 2011, 10:45 PM »

There has been more than one occasion when a FB vulnerability has made private information easily accessible to anyone who cares. If you think the employer is not beyond pasting a little Javascript in the address bar, it's best to read the "private" setting as "private (until the next kid pwns us)".

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by nosh on February 23, 2011, 10:27 PM »

How come people aren't more excited about my new card game? 

-mouser (February 23, 2011, 11:19 AM)

That depends. Does the winner get to eat Cody?

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Living Room / Re: Power Ranger Punches Kid for Accusing Him of Stealing Gloves

« Last post by nosh on February 23, 2011, 10:21 PM »

This is turning into an MMA thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is Software for Hardware Always Sucky?

« Last post by nosh on February 22, 2011, 11:10 PM »

+1 on the general issue. Don't even get me started on Nokia software! And I've had a mobo vendor offer to install the Yahoo Toolbar once the driver installation was complete. For f***s sake, it's a new PC!! Give me a couple of weeks at the very least before offering to do it in!

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by nosh on February 22, 2011, 10:44 PM »

I'm with 40hz so far as finding anything gimmicky related to donating annoying. I would also respond unfavorably if I felt I was being pressured or coerced into donating even if the coercion was very subtle. The most effective way to get someone with my mindset to donate would be for the site to just present its case in plain terms as to why donations are required and leave the rest to me. I have seen a few sites that have a permanent thermometer displaying the state of their finances. This may not be optimal for DC, but it seems like a pretty good idea in general.
I don't claim any kind of wisdom when it comes to raising funds so the above is just my personal opinion.

Having said that, my contribution to DC is long overdue and I can't wait for the 1st of March. 

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Living Room / Re: Strange subtleties of the Placebo Effect

« Last post by nosh on February 22, 2011, 03:19 AM »

Paul, I realize that wasn't an example of a placebo, I didn't say it was. It was an instance of one's preconception of what was going to occur having a physical effect on the body.

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Living Room / Re: Strange subtleties of the Placebo Effect

« Last post by nosh on February 20, 2011, 10:40 PM »

I'm a firm believer in the placebo effect and the power of thought. I attended a boarding school situated in a mountainous region. It took seven hours to get to the city by road, three of them through winding mountain roads. The first time I took the trip I was badly carsick. At that age the journey seemed torturous and never ending. I've gotten over the motion sickness but that trip still rates as one of the most agonizing experiences of my life. On subsequent trips, I would start feeling ill the night before the journey. By morning I would be pretty f*****, and that's before the buses had even entered the school premises!

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by nosh on February 17, 2011, 11:48 PM »

 

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by nosh on February 17, 2011, 11:32 PM »

Hereafter referred to as the cranioscopical prize optimizer randomizer, for simplicity.

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Ideas for Special Events?

« Last post by nosh on February 13, 2011, 04:39 AM »

mahesh, check this out.
http://www.axisbank....easy-credit-card.asp

I believe there are a couple of other banks that also issue similar (FD based) credit cards. Your credit is limited to 80% of your FD amount. As you probably know, Paypal won't let you deposit funds into your a/c, but making an overseas payment shouldn't be a problem.

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Living Room / Re: Death Threats in an Odd Turnabout

« Last post by nosh on February 07, 2011, 11:49 PM »

I hate to see all this hate being focused on perfectly reasonable people. I sure hope no harm comes to them.

Perfectly reasonable

"We are happy that the country's President, Pratibha Patil, has given her consent to the Maharashtra Government to enact a law wherein both the seller and the buyer of a pirated CD/DVD would straightaway be sentenced to three months of prison without bail if caught red-handed. A fine would not be as rigid a punishment as a three-month sentence," reasons Dalal.
http://www.indiantel.../aac/y2k9/aac198.php

I'd also like to take this opportunity to dispel false rumors about Indians starving. As you can see all it takes to feed yourself for three whole months here is to buy a pirated CD or DVD. All thanks to the MPA's well thought out initiatives.

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General Software Discussion / Re: save the text of all visited webpages

« Last post by nosh on February 04, 2011, 01:17 AM »

I've finally found a tool for this.
hooeey webprint. [Website] [DC Thread]

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General Software Discussion / hooeey webprint - browser history tool

« Last post by nosh on February 03, 2011, 11:52 PM »

I've finally come across a really interesting app made specifically to maintain a (plain text) searchable database of your browsing history. I think it deserves an indepth review, so if someone can find the time to write one after using it for a while that'd be great.  



Here's a quick rundown of the main points. I am not affiliated in any way with this product.

• hooeey webprint (still in beta)
• Adobe Air app (which, for me, equates to a somewhat annoying UI)
• Works with IE and Firefox
• Records plaintext (html) and screenshots (just the visible part of the page, screenshot recording can be disabled)
• Realtime recording worked well for all the pages I opened within the browser, when I opened ~20 pages using a bookmark manager (Linkman Lite) however, the opened pages didn't show up in the catalog immediately... they did show up one by one as I activated those tabs in the browser.
• Auto-tags pages and also lets you tag saved pages manually - creates two separate tag clouds for auto & custom tags.
• Provides stats using charts (websites by time spent, websites by visits)
• Data is stored locally. The privacy policy seems acceptable to my untrained eye.
• Data can be exported locally (plaintext (.csv) export only, no thumbs, no stats), to their paid ($5/month) cloud service, or to 3rd party cloud services - Zoho, Google Docs, Amazon S3 - (no thumbs, "no browsed pages" <- I'm not clear about what they mean by this.)
• Password protection available for the local database - the thumbs for browsed webpages show up as a faded background when you're prompted for the password *serious eyerolling*, I assume a glaring flaw like this will be brought to their notice and fixed in a future version.
• Allows for blocklists to disable recording specific sites, wildcards and keyword filters, currently not implemented, would be welcome here.
• Performance: Doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on system or browsing performance. Currently using a little under 100 MB memory on my system with a similar no. of pages (with screenshots) stored.