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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 16, 2010, 11:31 PM »

Tried Dina, didn't like it for some reason.
I remember the capital 'M' being really out-of place looking because the middle appears to go lower than the baseline.

For standard user interface stuff (desktop icons, menus, etc.), I've gotten real cozy with Eurostile. The square-ish look is easy to read while retaining the monospace techy vibe.
For everything else, there's DejaVu and ArtWiz
 

-Edvard (May 16, 2010, 06:09 AM)

Eurostile does look nice for plain text. Even the smaller sizes are very legible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need recommended site for online data storage with ftp capability

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 10:35 PM »

I understand how it works. It would have a lot more functionality if the stuff was backed up.  For a free service I can see it.  But I know even though I back up my web site contents, I wouldn't hire out a web server company that didn't even back up their servers.  Seems like a half assed way to do things to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 12:34 PM »

Supposedly this "run once" utility will strip the unique ID out of your Chrome install.  The link to it is on on Chrome forums extensions:

http://www.abelssoft.net/unchrome.php

I just ran it and nothing exploded is all I can say so far.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need recommended site for online data storage with ftp capability

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 12:15 PM »

Seems of rather limited utility since you can't depend on it to be there.  Safety deposit box in an unlocked vault.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 11:35 AM »

every time when i close the last tab in Iron, the whole program closes. i understand that this behaviour is carried over from Chrome but there should be a fix for this by now.

-lanux128 (May 15, 2010, 05:23 AM)

Yeah, that is annoying.

Right now I'm running 6.0.401.1 dev version of Chrome.  Don't really see any difference and I'm not sure what the new features are supposed to be unless it's plugins.  Seems a tad snappier, but it seems like any time you install a new browser version stuff snaps open the first couple of days.  So far it seems stable.  Guess I have to see what the plugin deal is about.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 01:16 AM »

I think Adblock.ini is an Iron only thing.. if that's what you mean. At least every search hit I got on the web how to use it said Iron.  So far Adblock Lite seems to work and it's a no brainer to configure.  The place in the page where the ad would be is just blank rather than a box with a red x... doesn't seem to distort the page.  So far so good.

I really like ClickCutter AutoCopy in Firefox, at least as to how it functioned.  But the nag tool tip really got on my nerves. I had to put the original AutoCopy back on.  Every time I started Firefox I got the popup asking me to buy ClickCutter.  Sheesh!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need recommended site for online data storage with ftp capability

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 15, 2010, 01:12 AM »

A backup site with the proviso that it doesn't back up your files?  Sounds like an attorney that doesn't give legal advice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 14, 2010, 03:00 PM »

btw Adblock.ini doesn't work for chrome but Adblock Lite seems pretty cool. Install the hit the "update default filters" button and you're good to go.  The other thing I notice is AutoCopy extension seems a lot more accurate.  In Iron I had to keep guessing where the start dragging the mouse cursor to select text for copy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 14, 2010, 02:56 PM »

I tried the Dina ttf.  Seemed very hard to read.  For now I went back to default courier new. Just for chuckles I tried the Book font.  Really weird to look at code with a handwriting style font.

Semi-off topic but since you mention Scite, one thing that drives me nuts is editors that make it difficult to find navigation keys in the help.  So many now it's trial and error how to delete a line other than selecting and deleting.  Seems like if the programmer comes from Delphi it's Control-Y but if he's grounded in MS languages it's Control-L.  Just seems like the last thing documented, if at all, is the actual hotkeys to use the thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need recommended site for online data storage with ftp capability

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 14, 2010, 01:18 PM »

I don't think they have FTP only service, but I've been on JaguarPC web hosting for several years.  They run apache server and are very reliable:
http://www.jaguarpc.com/

The web hosting account claims to boost your disk quota as much as you need. As you park more storage supposedly it's automatically increased. I haven't tested it out since my web content is less than 100 MB. My experience with them has been that they are very responsive to problems.  Also there are user forums hosted by them where you can get tips from other users etc..

You can contact them but I believe to get FTP you'd have to get a web hosting account and a domain name.  The longer the contract the cheaper per month but no commitment monthly is about $10 or $11 a month.  I just upload and download using FileZilla.  If you google .htaccess you can see how to keep outsiders from downloading particular types of files and limit access to the public web stuff(or you could just have one dummy index.html page I suppose,, but the .htaccess keeps people from getting indexes of folders.)

There are also raw storage accounts for less money with other providers but I have no idea how reliable they are.  Jaguar has been around for awhile.  Any outages I've noticed have only lasted a few hours and are unusual/infrequent.

edit: if you have to purchase a domain name you should be able to find one that allows anyone to host it for about $10 a year.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Bookmarklets

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:46 PM »

Speaking of passwords, this one works with Firefox Secure Login AddOn(and likely others too)

after you fill in the login info, click to remove the stuff that blocks saving it

Remember Password

[Select]

javascript:(function(){var%20ca,cea,cs,df,dfe,i,j,x,y;function%20n(i,what){return%20i+%22%20%22+what+((i==1)?%22%22:%22s%22)}ca=cea=cs=0;df=document.forms;for(i=0;i<df.length;++i){x=df[i];dfe=x.elements;if(x.onsubmit){x.onsubmit=%22%22;++cs;}if(x.attributes[%22autocomplete%22]){x.attributes[%22autocomplete%22].value=%22on%22;++ca;}for(j=0;j<dfe.length;++j){y=dfe[j];if(y.attributes[%22autocomplete%22]){y.attributes[%22autocomplete%22].value=%22on%22;++cea;}}}alert(%22Removed%20autocomplete=off%20from%20%22+n(ca,%22form%22)+%22%20and%20from%20%22+n(cea,%22form%20element%22)+%22,%20and%20removed%20onsubmit%20from%20%22+n(cs,%22form%22)+%22.%20After%20you%20type%20your%20password%20and%20submit%20the%20form,%20the%20browser%20will%20offer%20to%20remember%20your%20password.%22)})();

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Bookmarklets

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:39 PM »

Zap Colors is excellent!! Fixes those unreadable pages right up!! I tried a bunch of style sheets and this works much better!!

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Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:27 PM »

hmmmmmmm, instead of bumper sticker, how about a blue sharpie with the URL down the side?

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Living Room / Re: Would anyone want a free DonationCoder.com bumper sticker?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:22 PM »

This might just happen in my country, but i'm guessing that if you use a magnetic bumper sticker, it'd get stolen VERY fast.

I think the best option would be the ones for the inside of the window.

-jgpaiva (February 14, 2008, 08:25 AM)

+1

Especially if it had a funny graphic magnetic probably wouldn't last a day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:14 PM »

afa the 'c' and 'e' if you look closely you can see the hint of a crossbar.  But yeah your mind would probably go from context to figure what what it should be.  I'd feel better if it was fixed.  But I think it's worth fixing.. unlike a lot of stuff in my fonts folder.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 13, 2010, 02:13 PM »

it's user-selectable if you like it or not. For some reason Miles does.

select if you like it...:
 (see attachment in previous post)
I don't. How can you possibly LIKE this, Miles???!  

-Curt (May 13, 2010, 06:24 AM)

I think it's very smooth.
Just look through the list of fonts Windows puts on your machine by default, click them in an editor, and add up how many you can't even read.  I bet it's at least half.


edit: one thing I do like about it, for readme files and that type of stuff, you can read it clearly without making it so large the editor window has to take up 80% of the screen.  It's less likely to kick in word wrap if it's enabled in an editor.

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General Software Discussion / Favorite Bookmarklets

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 12, 2010, 08:23 PM »

I have 2 favorite bookmarklets.

The first is Double Back
It backs up 2 pages unless there's insufficient history, then it backs up 1 if possible:

javascript:N=history.length;if(N==2){history.go(-1)}else{history.go(-2)}

I wrote Double Back to fill in the gap between right clicking the back button to
get a list of pages, and hitting the back button twice.  Either way you're in the
position of hitting the back button 2 or more times to go back only 2 pages.
For some reason every backup button in the world overlooks the "backup
2 pages case." If there aren't 2 pages in the history then it tries to back up
one page so you don't feel like you clicked it for nothing!


The second is Mod which attempts to display the last modification date
of the current page:

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

some sites won't allow this function, producing a blank dialog.
Sometimes the results are obviously flawed(January 1, 1970)

but it works on some sites and works in Google Chrome 5 Beta
(unlike SRWare Iron which showed blank on every page I tried.)

Can come in handy when reading a review that doesn't have a date
on the page, or some such similar scenario.   Better 'n nuthin'

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Living Room / Re: "GoogleSharing" FF plugin for anonymity

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 12, 2010, 04:50 PM »

Has anyone heard anything about AltaVista tracking?  Seems like they've been flying under the radar forever.  I have it set as my default search.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 12, 2010, 03:56 PM »

Aaarrrggghhh!!! Ok, stone me.  Put me in the stocks and throw tomatoes.. but I couldn't take it anymore!! Installed Google Chrome Beta so I could use LastPass.  Running Firefox just to sync passwords is crazy!!

It took me a few minutes fooling around to get multiple accounts on the same site to work, but at least it does. Not as smooth as Secure Login Firefox AddOn but at least it works.

edit: the other thing I notice is Chrome 5 Beta seems to load the pages a bit smoother.  Not as bad a ripple effect when loading a long page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: sike 1.0 - send file(s) to recycle bin via command line

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 12, 2010, 01:17 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2010, 10:54 PM »

I like Tahoma for subtitles. It's funny though, I downloaded 16 True Type Fonts that looked interesting enough to try. Out of those probably only 3 are readable enough for every day use in text editors.  Maybe 4.

@Eóin I did notice that the lower case 'e' didn't seem to have the crossbar.  It's such a nice font though. I have to chalk it up to Persian rug making philosophy. It has to be a thing of only God can make something perfect.  I figure the (is there a specific name for font creator people?) author of the font had to do it deliberately for that reason. In English how could you not notice what an 'e' looked like? It's the most common letter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2010, 06:10 PM »

It's user selectable.  I like it.  Others may not.

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General Software Discussion / sike 1.0 - send file(s) to recycle bin via command line

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2010, 05:27 PM »

sike is a command line .exe that sends files/folders to the recycle bin.

Download:  http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

Just copy sike.exe to a folder in your path.
sike creates no files, registry or .ini settings.

sike with no params brings up a usage dialog.

Usage: sike [-f] filename1 filename2 ... [may use wildcards]

If -f is not the first param, a confirmation dialog will display,
otherwise sike will loop through the rest of the params sending
files/folders to the recycle bin.

It should work on any Windows flavor that the latest AutoIt3 works on.

It is free for you to use at your own risk.

(There may be a bunch of these around already but I didn't find one that
worked on Vista64 out of the box.  So I knocked this off in AutoIt3.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2010, 04:06 PM »

Old thread but last couple of days I've been looking through the free True Type Fonts on Softpedia.
So far I like Angleterre Book the best for plain text. I think, unlike some fonts, it actually looks better
in real-life usage than in the "quick brown fox" screen caps they include.  Here's Angleterre Book 12
regular in TreePad:

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 4.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 11, 2010, 12:12 PM »

btw the latest(v. 4.3) is on Softpedia now. I just got the update notice.

http://www.softpedia...agement/ReOpen.shtml