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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 05:12 PM »

But isn't that true of all clipboard enhancers?  Which begs the question, what are the special requirements of a code snippet program over and above regular clipboard enhancers?

-rjbull (October 04, 2011, 02:38 PM)

For me, it's integration with the IDE past simple C&P, i.e. variable substitution, the ability to categorize, and the ability to highlight.

-wraith808 (October 04, 2011, 03:39 PM)

Should have known I'd get a coder answer that I wouldn't understand    Is the variable substitution like that in mouser's FLM, only able to pick variables up from the editor in the IDE?

-rjbull (October 04, 2011, 04:21 PM)

I don't know.  I've never used FLM.  Let's call them fields.  The template is put in, and fields within the template can be navigated and changed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 03:39 PM »

I love how acetext just keeps a simple list of everything that's been dumped in your clipboard.

-superboyac (October 03, 2011, 03:27 PM)

But isn't that true of all clipboard enhancers?  Which begs the question, what are the special requirements of a code snippet program over and above regular clipboard enhancers?

-rjbull (October 04, 2011, 02:38 PM)

For me, it's integration with the IDE past simple C&P, i.e. variable substitution, the ability to categorize, and the ability to highlight.

I use a combination of snip-it pro (mentioned above) and coderush.  I didn't mention code rush before, because its quite expensive, and there were already complaints of the price of snip-it pro ()  But adding either CodeRush or ReSharper increases productivity so much once you get used to using it and get it set up, that IMO it's well worth the price...

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General Software Discussion / Re: research system where emails w/ inline pics are the base

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 01:30 PM »

Each evernote note has its own unique url in addition to the tag url.  I'm still not sure if thats the missing piece you were looking for, but there you go.

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General Software Discussion / Re: research system where emails w/ inline pics are the base

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 12:46 PM »

In Evernote Any time you want to access the info you would have to go into the program environment and taggify.

-Steven Avery (October 04, 2011, 12:43 PM)

I don't understand this line.  What do you mean by "taggify"?

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General Software Discussion / Re: research system where emails w/ inline pics are the base

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 12:25 PM »

However, what about alternatives like Evernote or Onenote or some Web Archiving systems ?  Do you know of any way to accomplish the same end ?  Here is the key:

Start with : email with RTF and inline .jpgs, composed with your home email editor.
Send the email: to some place.
And have the url reasonably easily accessible for that very same email, and have it show up as sent.

Any help accomplishing this, or coming up with an alternative method of accomplishing he same general :
(Does not have to be email.)

COMPOSE -- SEND -- LINK with KEYWORDS ... the goal... using any tools.

-Steven Avery (October 03, 2011, 04:20 PM)

I haven't actually tried to send rtf with embedded jpg to evernote, so that's the one bit that you'll have to research yourself, but evernote does give a unique e-mail address to send notes to in order to get them to show up on evernote, and you can set tags in that e-mail.  For more info on this feature, see https://support.ever...r.asp?questionID=547

As far as the link to a note, if the notebook is private, the links would have to be shared individually, i.e. you have to manually share it to get that link to work.  If the notebook is public, I don't think you have that step.  If it's just for you, then even the regular link will work- you just have to be signed in first.

HTH

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 11:51 AM »

edit/ it's the square brackets in it - confuse the bbcode

-tomos (October 04, 2011, 10:39 AM)

Thanks, and yes, I should have figured that out 

Still waiting on my final confirmation. An email said it could take 4 to 24 hours??

-bob99 (October 04, 2011, 11:04 AM)

How did you pay?  I used paypal and it was pretty much immediate.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2011, 09:07 AM »

Just as an FYI- the following link is available for the 50% discount for the next 24 hours (straight from the developer)

https://secure.share...it/cart.html?PRODUCT[300330156]=1&cartcoupon=1&COUPON1=HDSPH5

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Living Room / Re: How many slaves work for you?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 04:13 PM »

42.

-wraith808 (October 03, 2011, 03:24 PM)

That 42?

-Ath (October 03, 2011, 03:34 PM)

I was wondering how long before someone said something about that. 

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Living Room / Re: How many slaves work for you?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 03:24 PM »

42.

On a side note- I noticed a little flicker then it skipped - it seemed like the skipped page said something about how many times have you paid for sex...?  Anyone else see that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 03:12 PM »

Thanks wraith, that looks really good but a little bit expensive ...

-joiwind (October 03, 2011, 03:00 PM)

from http://www.snipitpro.com/tryItFree.html

If you have a blog or website, just post a review or mention Snip-It Pro, linking to http://www.snipitpro.com/ and we will send you a free license key. Just send an e-mail to [email protected] letting us know where the review or comment is. Help us spread the word.

I'd say try it, see if you like it, and if you do, post a mini-review (or a review on your site).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for the best solution to stock and organize code snippets

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 01:30 PM »

I use snip-it pro, and have really been satisfied with it.  One of the biggest selling points to me is the integration with snipplr, but it's good enough on its own.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.10 (7/12/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 12:13 PM »

ps. you can turn off automatic update checking in farr, it's in the options somewhere.

-mouser (October 03, 2011, 10:47 AM)

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Find And Run Robot / FARR Update Check

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 09:39 AM »

Today, while running FARR, a dialog popped up for Update check with a notice that a new version was available.  This update dialog had no way to close it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Hard Disk Sentinel Professional on BDJ

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2011, 05:09 AM »

50% off today, 10-3-2011 only for 17.50

Link to Deal: http://www.bitsdujou...ntinel-professional/
Link to Software: http://www.hdsentine...nel_professional.php

One positive comment from a user on the site (which doesn't necessarily mean anything), but the developer has been quite responsive to questions on the listing, and the answers have seemed very thorough.  I'm still on the fence...

...does anyone have any experiences with it?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: A new Humble Bundle

« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2011, 01:09 PM »

The latest bundles have unfortunately had things that I already have.    I guess I buy before they bundle!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2011, 10:18 AM »

To me, it still comes down to this simple thing:  people won't pay if they don't HAVE to pay.  Ever.

-superboyac (September 29, 2011, 09:47 AM)

Not always never...

I do.

Quite often in fact. 

(I'm such a boy scout about stuff like that.  )

-40hz (September 29, 2011, 10:15 AM)

I do also.  Not just about being a boy scout- it's more about understanding the value of the service provided IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Is Kindle Fire set to be the Apple/MS slayer tablet?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 28, 2011, 02:16 PM »

Take a look at this post on gdgt- it has some interesting inside info on the tablet, that definitely points to it not being any kind of slayer, and more pointed towards the NookColor (and it's basically a playbook... and we know how *that's* working out).

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by wraith808 on September 27, 2011, 09:32 AM »

I think anything to do with money or time is going to turn some people off.  That's just the way of the world, unfortunately.  Time and money represent the measurable things in our lives, and most people are very conscious of both.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by wraith808 on September 26, 2011, 08:23 PM »

As far as the ear touch thing, her proximity sensor must be on the blink- I can't get that close without the screen kocking for input during a call.

And yes, you need to register with iTunes. That's a known quantity. But these reports of android interface differences are off putting as well. Each is a tool, and you use the one that appeals more to your sensitivities, and works best for what you do. The existence of one doesn't obsolete the usefulness of the other.

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by wraith808 on September 26, 2011, 12:35 PM »

^ +1.  That sums up my feelings too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 01:22 PM »

Good point about installers recommending that people turn off AV software. (I don't think it should be necessary, but that's just what I think.)

In the past, most of the problems I've had with false positives have been rooted in either compression or encryption. Was the licensing issue you had due to network traffic or encryption/compression?

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 09:46 AM)

I think it was due to encryption, but I couldn't say that with 100% certainty.  From the work I had to do, I know that compression wasn't used, and I don't *think* there was any network traffic associated with the solution; it was put in place to replace the dongle solution that they used before, and they called it 'software dongle emulation', though in retrospect, it was more like software license management, where you have a licensing server that validates keys against the keys that are on the DVDs of the connected computers, so the DVD itself acted as a sort of dongle.  Really complicated (and complicated the mastering process) and really pointless IMO.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 01:10 PM »

Well, thanks for your reports- I was very close to buying one of my own.  I still might, but I also might wait.

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 09:07 AM »

I think it depends on the implementation.  Much "Donationware" is just download it, use it, and if in the future you want to pay, give what you want.  Some "Pay What You Want" software involves the act of going through a payment, even if its zero, in order to get full functionality, or non-time limited functionality.  It's like "Shareware", but the registration just gives you the option of what to pay.  The lack of a common set of definitions for the terms makes defining what fits in what categories pretty difficult.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 25, 2011, 08:58 AM »

This is just a case of two different understandings of what "false positive" means.

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 12:46 AM)

Agreed on that point.

Whether it's OC or DevExpress or Infragistics or whatever, they all just seem like components to me. They all have a purpose. Saying that it's not a functional part of the software is only expressing an opinion on what level of utility one perceives in it.

-Renegade (September 25, 2011, 12:46 AM)

To help drive this point along, in many installers there is the bit about disabling your AV software.  I used to work at a company where we had a pretty tight licensing system, that used an implementation of a third-party licensing component.  I had to write a lot of code to get it to work and integrate with the product.  But apparently some AV programs looked at the licensing as virus-like activity.  In that case, would it not have been the company that was affected and so the company that should have a right to pursue remedies, instead of waiting for the developers of the licensing component?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The False Positive and Improperly Rated Site Epidemic

« Last post by wraith808 on September 24, 2011, 05:07 PM »

^ re the last line there:
it's good to be clear, but jeez app, give the man a break
he's already made his point and wished the site good luck:

[...]
Good luck with things. I hope that you can get the AV companies to stop dropping the ball so much.

-Renegade (September 24, 2011, 02:23 PM)

-tomos (September 24, 2011, 04:30 PM)

That's sort of my point.  Renegade is a pretty respected member of the site, and is pretty level headed and logical in his arguments.  He's also done quite a bit of research into the OC thing, even before using it.  However, whenever this comes up, he gets piled on, either in a passive aggressive manner or just an aggressive aggressive manner.  I know this is a hot point, but it seems like we can agree to disagree without the strife that seems to come up on these threads- I mean, its obvious that its in his software; he's even said as much, openly.  He's not trying to hide anything.  But the negative feelings towards the malware seems to spread out onto him, as if he's part of the problem.  That's my big problem with the whole thing.