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 :up: Welcome to Donationcoder.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lyx is the answer
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 16, 2011, 10:15 AM »
As I am new in this community, I didn't see your past posts. But I can say about your style. Because I'm answering your present post.
No big words for you, I just impressed.

S P A M
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You can get domain name from namecheap at cost 9.95$/year and point it to your tumblr or typepad blog or dreamhostapps blog. I think that will do for personal branding.

Studiopress has premium framework upon which themes are built and it's privately maintained. Alternative frameworks like hybrid and thematic are free frameworks and there are also some themes which are free based on those frameworks. It's not about CSS editing but about premium support and extended features which are usually required if you're web developer and building web sites for clients. For example, genesis (studiopress) framework has SEO and php hooks built-in inside the dashboard of theme, which you don't find with free theme frameworks. You don't need them because that's not needed for your blog.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 14, 2011, 03:29 PM »
Zipgenius and 7-zip portable.
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We humans are multiplying like virus and if not kept busy in some shells, inconvenience is going to kill us all anyway. We die here with nuclear waste or die killing each other with less facilities and more social stuff-sounds like just issue of choice to me. Energy problems were never solved to cut the needs of large population and hence the nuclear power. People who waste fuel on nascar/f1 and enjoy watching them least bother about environment and sooner or later we're going to worry about power anyway. Opposing nuclear power is just another rant from environmentalist who solve no real world problem on large scale.
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Oh sorry. I should have clarified. I understand that there are technically free CMS out there (although I didn't realize Wordpress was one of them) but they still require paying for a domain and also understanding their entire landscape and that's something I couldn't fully understand either and I still haven't found a way to understand them without actually paying for something.
You don't need a domain if you're not concerned about branding. Wordpress can be installed on paul.dcmembers.com subdomain. There is no charge for using someone's subdomain if they're offering you free hosting. If you feel to host your content on other free subdomain blogging service then try typepad or tumblr. Another free hosting site is dreamhostapps.com where you can host your content for free without paying a cent but URL is a bit cluttered on that site.

Take the three Copyblogger ads:
http://getpremise.com/
http://www.studiopress.com/
http://scribeseo.com/
Do I need these? Do I not need these? Only way to find out is to pay and I can't afford them.
You don't need getpremise because your goal of using blog has nothing to do with premise platform. You don't need studiopress theme because there are free wordpress themes like hybrid theme or thematic as alternative to studiopress. You don't need scribeseo because it is for copywriting and keyword optimization. Unless you're working on heavy on-page optimization there is no need for scribeseo. You just wordpress and good free wordpress theme for now to showcase your content.
 
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I was checking Hybrid theme's business model and found that people who usually don't want to pay for things are supposed to be charged via support model. In case of open source programs, macro and micro donations don't work because people don't want to pay for software in open source world. Again this is my observation.  I'm following warrior forum where most of the marketers are learning from each other and also post some interesting things. I found one thread six months ago about pricing model- 7$, 17$, 27$, 37$ and 97$. They were talking about price that appeals buyers. In case of 5$, depending on where you live, paypal will charge 66 cents to 1.20$ and this will reduce your donations/earnings. 7$ and onwards price is usually most marketers prefer for their products. The reason they don't prefer 10, 20, 30 and 100 is because people feel uncomfortable for paying for software/products in multiple of 10 dollar bill. That's what my observation is from that thread, i'll see if i can dig that thread later.
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Living Room / Re: Which cartoon character do you most relate to (and why)?
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 13, 2011, 11:53 AM »
90% resemble this guy. Earlier i used to be little bit like this and brooklyn.  :P
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To be fair to mouser, I can't even figure out how to grab much of an audience with my forum posts so I don't event want to consider burdening mouser for that.

It's not easy to get audience for site but if you're on platform like DC and also comment on other productivity blogs then slowly you'll get a lot of traffic. So i doubt if it'll in any way is burden on mouser.

The problem is, those CMS still require money.
Which CMS ? Take a look at some of the free php cms - joomla, drupal, wordpress, mambo,textpattern, movable type, etc. all free and even some good themes are there for free.

As for name suggestions, let me try web 2.0 style.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 12, 2011, 11:36 AM »
The easiest cut and dry way of combining both worlds is to scan the cards and then let a photo tagger (like Picasa) deal with it.I don't have an OCR scanner though so I make do with regular reviews of adding my notes into software and then ripping the paper notes apart and throwing them into the trash can - sort of like a reverse in-basket.
I thought about OCR/Mobile image capture but this is very painful as it's one more task that goes with every to-do list which is very bad for this index card system. Xmind is helping me to some extent with relational tasks and long term goals settings stuff.
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L. Ron Mouser welcomes you to our community - but first we will need you to spread the word about our DonationCoderology "philoshophy" through the use of "surveys"

 :D  :D  :D
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I prefer not to put any eggs on google hosted place. Many gmail accounts and in turn bloggers blogs were removed by google spam team recently and good blogs are also lost in that wave. Blogger amit from labnol.org -who hosted his blog on blogger and his hard work was washed because google thought it was spam blog. Better not take chance with their system. If you're not adding affiliate link to your site then it's better to put your blog under wordpress.com.

Question - Why not host your blog on dcmembers server ? i'm sure mouser will create account for you in few minutes and you can create wordpress blog, abandon it or come back to it anytime to make changes without worrying about deletion of your content.

You don't need to learn php or css unless you want to make your own themes for blogger or any other php cms. You don't need to know HTML as well because most of the ad copy pasting or banner copy pasting can be done with any modern cms out there. By the way dont stop posting on forums, it's really feel good to see your findings and other posts.  :up:
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Even for day dreaming this post has some strong base.  :up: For example using religious places/charitable trusts/spiritual organization to carry this idea. I do think this idea will be picked up by atleast spiritual places like auroville if coders in that place see it productive. Who thought in 2003 that FSF/GNU/OS will be success that we see today in 2011 ? :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Search Engines
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 11, 2011, 05:11 PM »
No,i was looking for php based solution and found this as alternative.
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: My System - Index Card Centric
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 11, 2011, 05:07 PM »
I'm using Xmind(mindmapping software) to make such index cards (or lists), alternatively even scriveners cork board is also effective. Why software ? because it's hard for me to keep track of paper cards and if nephew is around this machine then it's hard to maintain it. But i guess such limitation exists for people like me, so software is better way to manage index card system.
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Hm, the cause of your non stop laugh is not in vain at all. Here the reasons of taking down the notice isn't clear at me. But, there's the way to strip up it by receiving the DCMA and mouser is ready to do it.

Okay, is there any change in TOFEL's standards lately ?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Search Engines
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 11, 2011, 08:23 AM »
Something like this ?
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So fox site's results are going to get stripped out from the search now ? :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: What the hell is OpenCandy?
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 10, 2011, 11:57 AM »
Okay. This thread is stretched a lot and we're moving away from test data. Why not just open another thread with OC tests on performance, Adware false positive signals( if any), revenue potential etc etc. ?
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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 10, 2011, 08:03 AM »
I guess this program is java based that's why it is taking resources and hangs irrespective of how much RAM you've on machine.
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This *idea* will restrict the flow of knowledge to a particular geographical area which i always hate to see. These things are possible online (cutting the building and related part) if we wish to do so. It's like bringing together "stackoverflow+donationcoder+sourceforge+google summer of code" under single brand.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 08, 2011, 01:04 AM »
Okay what happened to 'babe of the day' forum mod's request ? Don't tell me that mod is not made yet for SMF  >:(
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 07, 2011, 10:28 AM »
Please have them call me to schedule an interview.  I will try to find some time to meet with them and discuss possible positions.
:up:

I want 'babe of the day' mod on doco forums and this is serious request  >:(

 :D
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Living Room / Re: Note taking Methods and Software
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 07, 2011, 08:13 AM »
@rjbull- i forgot about that thread and it was hard for me to navigate to get the best apps for student note-taking use. I'm concentrating on apps with GTD+Note taking feature for students. I know there are plenty of such apps out there but i wanted to which ones are good for students.

@Timmins- cool. thanks for pagico suggestion, have to try that one out now.

@Paul - These are some good apps with plenty of options for note-taking. Thanks. I'll check them out and see if it fits the needs. By the way, any idea where exactly i can download compendium(google is giving very garbage results these days here).
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Living Room / Note taking Methods and Software
« Last post by mahesh2k on March 06, 2011, 01:24 PM »
I'm sure you're aware of some of the note taking methods like Cornell etc. I'm focusing entirely on students and note taking programs which are helpful for them. Both web based and desktop. I know we have big review of text editors but i'm in search of note taking softwares like evernote(which can be used for Cornell note taking method).

Any suggestion for note taking softwares ?
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