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Developer's Corner / Re: MonoDroid Becomes Mono for Android

« Last post by phitsc on April 11, 2011, 02:11 AM »

I've never clicked one of these except by accident . But honestly, I wonder how many clicks you need until it gives you 400$.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Cheap Artwork for Web Sites and Software

« Last post by phitsc on April 11, 2011, 02:10 AM »

I've written it up here:

Purchasing Artwork for Commercial Use Cheaply

-Renegade (April 10, 2011, 12:40 AM)

Interesting writeup, thanks. Are you typically allowed to modify bought stock images?

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Developer's Corner / Re: MonoDroid Becomes Mono for Android

« Last post by phitsc on April 09, 2011, 04:59 PM »

Yeah, I'm not saying it's not justified. Just that it's way too much to create freeware with it

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Developer's Corner / Re: MonoDroid Becomes Mono for Android

« Last post by phitsc on April 09, 2011, 01:17 AM »

But 400$, not yay

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Living Room / Re: Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by phitsc on April 08, 2011, 02:20 AM »

Instead, a may finally get a smartphone. I discovered today that they've become sensibly affordable at long last.

-nudone (April 07, 2011, 07:09 PM)

If web surfing and pdf are important to you, then do that. Since I've got my Desire HD I'm using it a lot for web surfing. I find the experience quite remarkable. I even use it for this at home instead of using my laptop because the laptop is in the basement. I guess the only thing that will change that is when I finally get a tablet

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Living Room / Re: Kindle 3G - free 3G web browsing - got to be worth a try

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 03:53 PM »

I think the Kindle is an excellent ebook reader, but definitely no replacement for a browser like the iPad offers. Black and white is one thing. But it's also slow and has less resolution. It's also not free worldwide (book downloads are (well, there's an extra charge on the books), but not web browsing, except Wikipedia I think). I have to admit though that I don't have much experience with the Kindle browser. The little bit I have made me not want to have more

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 03:46 PM »

I was thinking about making a FARR plugin for Stickies for a while but came to the conclusion that there's not enough benefit of having one. If you want notes in FARR I guess hamnotes is as good as it gets. If not, Stickies offers global keyboard shortcuts and much more. Don't know if it has timers though.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 03:38 PM »

My current session of Firefox 4 is using well over 250 MB, in the background or not. I still prefer it over a 3 year old version. I'm glad the times when I cared about a few megabytes are over.

Your experience with the timer plugin is very unfortunate though.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 09:16 AM »

I guess that's fair enough. If you're happy with your installation and don't want to make use of any of the newer plugins there's no need to worry. Any suggestion for a feature that would make you update?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 07:34 AM »

I guess the reference list for available plugins is this: https://www.donation...user/findrun/addons/

Also cool would be a way to sort the above list by date when plugins were last updated.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by phitsc on April 07, 2011, 07:32 AM »

A thing to note is that all the subfolders you have underneath your Farr/Plugins folder are not actually installed plugins, but just placeholders for some (most?) of the plugins available for FARR. These directories contain files that allow the DCUpdater application to install these plugins for you.

To see what plugins you have really installed, open FARR and type aplugins.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Request for FARR Python Plugin support

« Last post by phitsc on April 06, 2011, 08:55 AM »

Shouldn't that already be possible with the C# SDK and IronPython?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: waiting for a better reason to update

« Last post by phitsc on April 06, 2011, 03:26 AM »

You're not using any plugins I guess. Many features that were added since then allow writing more sophisticated plugins. And these features are being used.

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by phitsc on April 04, 2011, 03:51 AM »

Congratulations to all the winners! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by phitsc on April 02, 2011, 03:35 AM »

Opera's popularity over all those years is kind of pathetic. But at least it's still around! Unlike Netscape.

-Deozaan (April 01, 2011, 10:12 PM)

I would assume that a major reason for this is that Opera has been a commercial product for many years while both Netscape and IE have been free.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on April 01, 2011, 05:10 PM »

Just found this one:

Overlook Fing - Really good network scanner.

-4wd (April 01, 2011, 05:57 AM)

What a cool app!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Graphical depiction of web browser popularity from 1995-2011

« Last post by phitsc on April 01, 2011, 03:11 PM »

I still have an un-opened (i.e. sealed) original Microsoft Internet Explorer StarterKit from 1996. It says: The Complete and Easy Way to Get on the Internet

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Living Room / Re: Movies I Love to Listen To: Dialects and Accents

« Last post by phitsc on April 01, 2011, 10:04 AM »

I've just seen True Grit last weekend and have to agree. That movie came to my mind when I read your topic title. A European classic concerning cool dialect is Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. It's a French movie.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on April 01, 2011, 07:52 AM »

I guess via patience and appropriate future devices this sort of thing won't be necessary.

-ewemoa (April 01, 2011, 07:28 AM)

Indeed. I was honestly surprised when I learned that I need to either root my device or install the SDK just for taking screen shots when I wanted to make some for the micro reviews. And getting this to work with the SDK was not even trivial!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on March 31, 2011, 08:03 AM »

And it's not available in Europe yet   (well, the app is, but you can't buy anything and not even download the free apps).

-phitsc (March 31, 2011, 07:48 AM)

Sorry, didn't realize it was region restricted. 

-Deozaan (March 31, 2011, 07:55 AM)

Well, not living in a restricted region, how could you

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on March 31, 2011, 07:48 AM »

And for anyone interested, Amazon now has an Android Appstore. That is, it's an app you download that lets you download Android apps. Kind of weird, IMO. Also, they seem to have different prices than what's on the official Market. e.g. Angry Birds is free on Android Market but costs $0.99 on Amazon Appstore.

But the main reason I mention it is because they're giving away a free app (that otherwise normally costs money (from them)) every day to promote their new app store. So if you don't mind downloading the Amazon Appstore app on your Android device to get the free apps, then take a look.

-Deozaan (March 31, 2011, 07:45 AM)

And it's not available in Europe yet   (well, the app is, but you can't buy anything and not even download the free apps).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on March 31, 2011, 04:59 AM »

3 (Cubed) - Cool music player with widget (but lacks EQ)

-phitsc (March 24, 2011, 05:09 AM)

Trying this out now - do you happen to know if it's possible to display the time elapsed so far of the current track?

Also, is there "sleep timer" functionality?  I have SleepTimer, but it seems more convenient for this functionality to be built-in to the audio player.

On a related note, I'm also trying MortPlayer Music - have you tried that out?

-ewemoa (March 31, 2011, 04:30 AM)

I'm afraid I can't help with any of these questions. To be honest, I'm not listening to music on the device very often.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on March 30, 2011, 02:58 AM »

So much has already been mentioned.  So one I haven't seen yet.

Screebl - Saves a ton on battery life

-Gailin (March 29, 2011, 10:02 PM)

Can you explain what it does? I don't get it just reading the description to be honest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« Last post by phitsc on March 30, 2011, 02:56 AM »

Eager to try out some of these apps, but not being a Market user, I was happy to find Android Freeware as it appears to provide a fair number of .apk files for download.

Prior to using this site, I'd been using SlideME and AndAppStore -- neither seemed to have RealCalc or ASTRO File Manager but Android Freeware did

-ewemoa (March 29, 2011, 09:30 PM)

What's your reason for not using the market?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Remember The Milk 1.1.2

« Last post by phitsc on March 28, 2011, 02:22 PM »

I guess you've already tried to do the whole process again, i.e. revoke the authorisation in the RTM web GUI, then restart FARR, type RTM, give authorisation in RTM web GUI, press enter in FARR?

If you want you can screen cast what you're doing (http://www.screentoaster.com/) and PM me a link to check what might be going wrong.