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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.2]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 29, 2010, 08:53 AM »

For some reason all cities show the current time from my own timezone... Happens with both 1.2.2 and 1.3 using latest FARR on XP sp3

-TucknDar (January 29, 2010, 03:53 AM)

Is this new?

Can you attach you log file for me (from \FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FARRTimeZone\Data\log.txt)? It's going to be a language thing  

If you hurry... I'm about to release an updated settings programme that will handle any number of Favourites.

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 08:29 AM »

iPad = iYawn.

-nudone (January 28, 2010, 07:56 AM)

iYawn -- uYawn -- wiiYawn

 

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 08:23 AM »

iPad = Newton for the 21st century

-wraith808 (January 28, 2010, 08:01 AM)

Was the Newton a success?? I heard about it, never saw one, or even any reviews really (ok: I've obviously never looked either...)

I love the graphic btw:

(see attachment in previous post)

-zridling (January 28, 2010, 06:52 AM)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.2]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 08:17 AM »

@Perry Mowbray: Thanks. I did promise to report back. TZ seems to be working correctly on the main timezones I am interested in (see screenshot below).

-IainB (January 28, 2010, 07:02 AM)

Thanks: appreciate it... funny: never thought they'd be serving up different formats, though it was obvious after a careful reading 

As you can see from the The Personal World Clock page (timeanddate.com), I am interested in checking up to 11 time zones, so a max of 5 in TZ is OK but not ideal (for my needs).

-IainB (January 28, 2010, 07:02 AM)

Do you want to give this a go: TimeZone_1.3.0.zip (344.08 kB - downloaded 759 times.)? Up to 11 Favourites can be set.

Thanks for a great plugin, and thanks for fixing it so swiftly.

-IainB (January 28, 2010, 07:02 AM)

All good (and good fun). Let me know if that works for you, What I think I'll do (when I get a bit more time) is make the number for favourites flexible so you can have any number (within reason).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 06:57 AM »

  Elegant sufficiency I hope

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 06:37 AM »

I don't know if this is recommendable as it is being promoted by Avanquest; but I am a little impressed that it actually offers to edit the text and images in PDF files:

-Curt (January 27, 2010, 10:43 AM)

Are you going to give it a go Curt? I'd be interested in how it goes converting back to Word, RTF or whatever...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.2]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 28, 2010, 06:15 AM »

Just updated TimeZone to 1.2.2. For those users who use dcUpdater TimeZone should update automatically. If you need to install fresh the zip file is in the first post.

This update fixes the downloader that wasn't configured to work with all the time formats that TimeAndDate.com were dishing up. Each time they dished up the times for me it was in AM/PM format, but thanks to IainB it finally dawned that my perspective wasn't the only one!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 27, 2010, 07:36 AM »

@Perry Mowbray: Thanks Perry.
That works just fine - problem fixed!                 

Will play around with it a bit and let you know the result.

-IainB (January 27, 2010, 07:30 AM)

Must apologize...  it's all a matter of perspective    when writing this I didn't get the results back in any other time format, so just assumed that that's all they dished up. So it was a bit of a surprise to see the few problems cropping up.

Anyway, it's all good now: the new version should be able to handle anything they throw at it 

Thanks for the testing and feedback, I'll release that fix shortly...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-release: FenixContacts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 27, 2010, 06:48 AM »

thanks tomos... missed that...

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 26, 2010, 03:55 AM »

Hmmm, how to call people who actually like to program in Fortran.....Fortransvestites?   

[/bad joke]

-Shades (January 25, 2010, 11:27 PM)

That's interesting... don't bad jokes require opening tags? Or is that why they're so shocking because they surprise us? 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 25, 2010, 07:12 AM »

OK. Thanks. Got it now. Must have missed it before.
C:\...\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FARRTimeZone\Data\log.txt

-IainB (January 25, 2010, 06:59 AM)

All good. Can I get you to try this version for me: timezone.zip (673.68 kB - downloaded 802 times.)

I've included all the possible time formats that TimeAndDate.com use... but this is the odd thing: timeanddate only give me the 12 hr am/pm, but you have 12 hr a.m/p.m. The only thing I can figure out is that it's based on language defaults 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 25, 2010, 04:43 AM »

Should be in FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\TimeZone\Data\log.txt

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 24, 2010, 12:03 AM »

Hey IainB, sorry I didn't read this earlier.

If you're interested in following this up, can you turn logging on, download and attach the log file.

Thanks

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 22, 2010, 11:29 PM »

I've started to implement the possibility to show basic info about searches. Pressing Shift + Enter on a search without search terms will show info about the respective search in FARR's internal HTML view mode.

-phitsc (January 18, 2010, 04:24 PM)

Is this working? I can't seem to get it to trigger on my machine??

Here's a new onelook: onelook.zip (0.89 kB - downloaded 591 times.)

This adds the expand functionality where onelook will return phrases that spell out the search term. Onelook suggests "nasa":

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 22, 2010, 11:11 PM »

Here's a search for Jamendo:


jamendo.zip (7.6 kB - downloaded 611 times.)

What is Jamendo?
Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
Share your music, download your favorite artists!

wms jamendo (with no search string) will display a list of albums in popularity rank:


Note:

• FARR doesn't seem to be parsing the HTML Character codes correctly (hence the  )
• WebMetaSearch has a bit of a functional anomaly: It does not display the subSearches when you type "+" when the search is defined as a Feed. Therefore you'll need to remember the subsearches:
  
  • +Album: Search by album name
  • +Artist: Search by artist name
  • +Member: Search by member name
  • +Tags: Search by tag
  • +Playlist: Search by playlist name

If your native language is not English you should probably change the "/en" to an appropriate language  (although I've had no reason to test this)

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Living Room / Re: I hate Valentine's Day!

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 22, 2010, 08:06 PM »

If you don't like Valentine's Day, but your loved one does, a selfless, loving gesture would be to drop your politics, give them a little something (flowers, card, whatever) & make their day. 

-SKesselman (January 22, 2010, 07:04 PM)

I really liked the idea of the Barber-Shop Quartet

One of the things we learned fairly late in life, was that the object was to share yourself and one of the best ways to do that is to share your feelings (as they are uniquely yours); and you're right, it doesn't matter what container they come in, just as long as they are in there and they are received.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 22, 2010, 07:23 AM »

While we're thinking future things  I was playing with a RegEx from Lannux and could have used a RegEx Replace function to remove some text first... but that would have to come after multi-stage RegEx I'd think?

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Living Room / Re: I hate Valentine's Day!

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 20, 2010, 09:46 PM »

I love Valentine's day because it reminds me that I'm about to get a Calendar reminder about my wedding anniversary in 7 days 

I believe that the day pre-existed what we have today and has since been converted into the marketing extravaganza that we now enjoy (not).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 19, 2010, 05:21 PM »

History: I mean something like this scenario:
1. Reverse look up -> list of words
2. Quick search a word from the result list -> list of definitions
3. Not the definition I want, Navigate back 1 in history -> #1 list of words
4. Quick search a different word -> list of definitions
5. Happy with definition, get Dictionary List for word -> dictionary listing
6. Not happy with dictionary list, Navigate back 2 in history -> #3 list of words

Abbreviations: will they be either/or?

subSearch switching: Just a note -- I've just realised that I used $1 in each of the examples... it may be $1 for one subSearch and $3 for another: if you get my drift 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 18, 2010, 06:03 PM »

If we start by thinking what would work for this scenario that then refine so that it's useful for all??

For this type of search what would be nice is to re-use part of the result for different subSearches.

So if I had a reverse search on "Play with words" I get a hundred results+ (words). What would be neat is to be able to get that result ($1 from the RegEx) and use that as the search term for a new search. That way if I wasn't sure about the meaning of a word I could select it and use it to do a new search.

This was why I was wondering about a context menu definition: you could add text for menu and the subSearch to use

• "Definition of $1" >> [Quick]
• "Dictionary listings with $1" >> [Dicts]
• "Phrases with $1" >> [Prase]
• etc

Is search history a possibility? I'm wondering about navigating backward from the definition lookup mentioned before. That would make good status bar icons.

subSearch abbreviations is a good idea, you'll notice I used [Dicts], but +Di would be even better 

 I'm not sure how that fits with the whole plugin??

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.3.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 18, 2010, 04:21 AM »

No, everything looks like it's working fine.

Here's an update for onelook: onelook.zip (2.31 kB - downloaded 575 times.)

So Onelook contains:

• Quick Definition (Default)
• Reverse - return words based on a concept. Use <pattern>: words where pattern can contain ? and * wildcards
• New: general phrase search - returns phrases that contain the word
• New: common phrase search - returns only common words/phrases
• New: match all - returns word / phrase matches of a pattern (use ? and * as wildcards)
• New: match common - returns common word / phrase matches of a pattern(use ? and * as wildcards)
• Dicts - Returns links to dictionaries that contain the word
• Name - Returns name information about the word

I'm also playing with OneLookType onelooktype.zip (2.51 kB - downloaded 574 times.):
OneLook has the ability to look within certain dictionary types. At the moment the results are only sorted with the requested dictionary matches on top; once two-stage RegEx parsing is enabled we can make this a little more clear. The dictionary types that can be searched are:

• Art
• Business
• Computing
• Medicine
• Miscellaneous
• Religion
• Science
• Slang
• Sports
• Technology

I'd love to have some quick way of navigating between one search, say looking for a word and then searching for the quick definition. Originally I was thinking of being able to have the switches at the end, but maybe there's a better way?

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - POST YOUR MUG PHOTOS HERE

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 15, 2010, 07:15 PM »

So let's see your mugs!

-mouser (January 15, 2010, 10:35 AM)

Actually, according to my survey, there were lots of teddy bears chosen this year!

Not sure if that means we should "bear the mugs" or "mug the bears"? 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.2.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 15, 2010, 04:49 AM »

Did I say "only"?  

I'd also like to be able to construct the searchUrl, not just add the SearchTerm to the end of the searchUrl.

I'd be happy to be able to do something like:

searchUrl=http://www.somewhere.com/?q=%SEARCHTERM%&t=quick&p=slow

Maybe with the functionality that if no %SEARCHTERM% is present current placement (at the end) is used?

I was just about to also ask about descriptions for each subSearch: but you've already done that  

Also: it'd be much better if you can switch to small icon view when there are greater than 10 matches, or if mouser can override the Plugin with FARR setting??

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Older Instance Of Script Running

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 15, 2010, 02:52 AM »

OK: I've just sorted this out with CleverCat and it was a very messed up FARR plugins directory with duplicate plugins directories hidden in other directories  ...That was running this update script on plugin init.

All fixed now 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.2.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 14, 2010, 04:34 PM »

Looks great! 

The only thing I'm (and maybe others) is missing (apart from multiple stage RegEx searches) is the ability to add the farrPath from somewhere other than the RegEx match. For example, either allow the substitution of %SEACHTERM% so it can be constructed in the search definition, or have something like %SEARCHURL% which would be the url that WMS uses to get the data.

Also: Added a Name subSearch to OneLook -- onelook.zip (0.75 kB - downloaded 548 times.)