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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MyLifeOrganized - a journey in search of the perfect GTD software
« Last post by brotherS on June 22, 2006, 02:56 AM »
I'm struggling with GTD and MLO myself.
Lately I just don't even open it, I know more or less what's pending...
-urlwolf (May 15, 2006, 05:26 PM)
That's not exactly GTD-style ;)

But I have the same problem... I let AutoHotkey open a specific txt file twice a day that I need to review/edit, maybe I should use that solution also for todo GTD lists.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: modify Peer Gaurdian **Lite**
« Last post by brotherS on June 21, 2006, 07:02 AM »
The mod Nobby wants is for a specific group of users of the program. A rather large group with at least 1 million users.

PGLyte currently doesn't contain any type of automatic updating features and this is needed. Not only is it needed, but it needs to check for updates more frequently than the regular PG program does, and to a different location than the full version does (as to not hammer the servers of the poor dudes that host that list).
-app103 (June 21, 2006, 06:45 AM)
Yes, but then that modded PGLite would have to allow ONLY that other list to be updated more frequently. And - as history told me - that limit won't be there for long as soon as modding has been started...

Regarding "this is needed": millions of people think beer should be free for everyone, but that won't (and shouldn't) happen either ;)

P.S.: Now please all say together: Lite! (as in http://phoenixlabs.org/pglite/ ) :D
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: modify Peer Gaurdian Lite to check site for updated blocklist
« Last post by brotherS on June 21, 2006, 06:42 AM »
That would only be possible by hacking the program, which would not be a Coding Snack anymore. (And probably illegal too.)

But why do you want that at all? Paranoid? ;)

Also, please keep in mind that you don't pay for their bandwith (it's a free program). Checking every 2 hours instead of every 24 hours might bring their server down.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: email follow-up reminder
« Last post by brotherS on June 21, 2006, 06:39 AM »
Your idea sounds useful indeed, but I think that's virtually impossible, given the fact that many use different clients - and then there's webmail (yes, I love Google Mail).

Maybe it's better to use some kind of reminder tool? With web-based tools it's even possible to remind you if you aren't at your PC.
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Official Announcements / Re: AutoHotkey Fund Goal Reached and Donation Made on Behalf of all DC Members
« Last post by brotherS on June 18, 2006, 10:41 AM »
Ahk gets some very good recognition from DC. :)
Sure is worth it!
-jgpaiva (June 18, 2006, 06:01 AM)
I fully agree :)

Now lets expect chris comes visit the good people at DC!
Chris is very busy, but I wouldn't mind him saying hi here :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: PZIZZ power napping software
« Last post by brotherS on June 17, 2006, 04:48 AM »
Today I stumbled over http://www.pzizz.com/ and then saw there's this discussion on DC. So, what are you own experiences with it?
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool!
« Last post by brotherS on June 17, 2006, 04:36 AM »
wow, Locate is really fast, thanks brotherS.
-kimmchii (June 16, 2006, 03:40 AM)
Yes! :Thmbsup:

I also love the little details, which I discovered over time.
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Living Room / Re: Creative PC Cases
« Last post by brotherS on June 16, 2006, 02:00 AM »
I'm not into case modding, but this one looks pretty cool  ;D
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Instant Folder Access (no matter how deep you buried it)
« Last post by brotherS on June 16, 2006, 01:46 AM »
Hi allowe, welcome aboard!

Not 100% what you described, but AutoHotkey (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1167.0) and Locate (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1385.0) are two other tools to check out.
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Living Room / Re: Lifehacker - what, who, why, how?
« Last post by brotherS on June 09, 2006, 09:45 AM »
I love Lifehacker as I put in my signature in out going mail.

Lifehacker
http://www.lifehacker.com
"Great knowledge you can not live without."
-thunder7 (June 07, 2006, 07:43 AM)
Nice idea, but I personally can't do that - there's already the DC info in my signature :)


A lot of very use full info there and lots of freeware as well.
Isn't it "useful"?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?
« Last post by brotherS on June 09, 2006, 09:38 AM »
should I forgot one that I didn't use in weeks I just hit my shortcut that brings up the AHK script where I can search for it :) Would I use some Treepad-clone I wouldn't be able to access that info so quickly.
-brotherS (June 05, 2006, 09:49 AM)
I should have thought of using a hotkey to bring it up  :)  presumably in whatever editor you're using.
-rjbull (June 05, 2006, 10:49 AM)
Yes - since it's AHK we are talking about you are totally free to decide. ;)

Type Pilot from Two Pilots stores its abbreviations in a tree structure, which should work well for large numbers of phrases.  But you seem indissolubly wedded to AHK  :)  After all, it does a lot of other things, too.
Hehe, true :D

Jon Knowles' ABCZ rule for making abbreviations - found by following one of Harrie's text expander posts - is a very useful way of systematising abbreviations/shorthands for normal text, but needs modifying for things like paths and whatnot.  You system looks sensible, as long as one sticks to it  ;)
Nice page! It's never bad to get some new ideas :)
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Living Room / Re: Thinking outside the box: very cool simple idea from epson
« Last post by brotherS on June 05, 2006, 09:57 AM »
[...] something very cool epson just started doing..

[...]
well what epson has started doing is using some distinctive pictures, that are on your printer and on ink packages that are compatible with is.

so one model has a guitar, another has a tropical fish, etc.
-mouser (June 04, 2006, 12:29 AM)
Really, really cool! Companies need to think way more often in that direction. Worst thing I ever experienced: a company forcing you to write down a 30-digit invoice number if you wanted to call them back about delivery details etc. - no email to confirm the delivery, nothing.

while in the store looking for lcd monitors [...]
-mouser (June 04, 2006, 12:29 AM)
I hope you'll check online reviews too. Those, in combination with online price searches (and no, I don't pick the cheapest, I pick the most trust-worthy with a great price), is how I bought hardware for the last years, after being disappointed with offline shopping too often.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use any GTD/calendar system to get organized?
« Last post by brotherS on June 05, 2006, 09:51 AM »
[...] and my cell phone's agenda ;)
(but i don't do any time scheduling)
-jgpaiva (June 04, 2006, 07:56 PM)
I couldn't live without my cell phone's calendar, which I use several times a day, even for minor things/tasks. Pretty helpful, since you don't have to carry around another piece of hardware.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Living without AutoHotkey - possible?
« Last post by brotherS on June 05, 2006, 09:49 AM »
brotherS,

  • to help newbies in several IRC channels with a variety of FAQ triggers
-brotherS (October 10, 2005, 08:58 AM)

I've been mildly puzzled by this one, because I assumed that the quantity of information you keep would be fairly large.  In that case, I'd have expected you to use something more like a Treepad-clone, for better organisation?

In fact, you have such a wide and varied use for AHK that I'd have thought you needed a GUI interface to help keep track of it all; hard to remember the less commonly-used items.
-rjbull (June 04, 2006, 03:23 PM)
I admit it's not easy to remember ALL of hundreds of tirggers, but I'm doing pretty well so far. And should I forgot one that I didn't use in weeks I just hit my shortcut that brings up the AHK script where I can search for it :) Would I use some Treepad-clone I wouldn't be able to access that info so quickly.

And using triggers that contain names or parts of names really help too. For example, ".pdo" expands to "D:\Downloads", the "p" means "path" and "do" makes it easy to remember it's for the "Downloads" folder. Very helpful, I use shortcuts for my most often used folders. A few other examples: ".weather" expands to the full URL of an online weather forecast for my city, ".cinema" to the next cinema's URL, ".mail" for my GoogleMail account, etc.
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Living Room / Re: time to accept it...
« Last post by brotherS on June 05, 2006, 09:41 AM »
we're all doooooooooomed.
-nudone (June 05, 2006, 09:09 AM)
Did I just read the same article? ;)

The article is nice, let me quote some stuff:

For Peter as for many others, procrastination was an almost natural outgrowth of perfectionism
So true... perfectionism = evil!

The greatest boon to procrastination is the online chat room, Knaus observes.
No comment.

Part of the solution:
And follow the 10-minute rule. Acknowledge, "I don't feel like doing that," but do it for 10 minutes anyway. That gets you over the hard work of initiation.

"Procrastination is not a problem of time management; time-management skills won't cure it."
-nudone (June 05, 2006, 09:09 AM)
Your quote here was a good example of what happens when you leave out the important part: :D

Procrastination is not a problem of time management; time-management skills won't cure it. But procrastinators do underestimate how long it takes to complete tasks. So cut yourself some slack and build in to your schedule 20 extra minutes between tasks. You'll get more done; you'll like yourself better—and so will everyone around you.

Saved! :)
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Living Room / Re: What to do in case of a terrorist attack
« Last post by brotherS on May 29, 2006, 05:24 AM »
  http://www.msxnet.or.../humour/terror_alert
-app103 (May 28, 2006, 11:03 AM)
Nice! ;D
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Living Room / Birthday Calculator - really cool
« Last post by brotherS on May 28, 2006, 10:32 AM »
http://www.paulsadowski.com/birthday.asp

Quoted output for a randomly chosen birthday:

As of 5/28/2006 11:28:36 AM EDT
You are 27 years old.
You are 328 months old.
You are 1,430 weeks old.
You are 10,007 days old.
You are 240,179 hours old.
You are 14,410,768 minutes old.
You are 864,646,116 seconds old.

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.91663405088063 years old. (Life's just a big chewy bone for you!)

There are 220 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 28 candles.

Those 28 candles produce 28 BTUs,
or 7,056 calories of heat (that's only 7.0560 food Calories!) .
You can boil 3.20 US ounces of water with that many candles.

:D

Found through http://www.lifehacker.com/

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool!
« Last post by brotherS on May 28, 2006, 05:18 AM »
how blazing fast Locate is :)
-brotherS (May 27, 2006, 04:14 AM)
But you have to keep its indexes up to date, which takes time.  OK, you can schedule that, but it still has to be done.
-rjbull (May 27, 2006, 02:43 PM)
Of course that has to be done, but - as you say - that's all done automatically. I let Locate update its databases about every two hours and once at night, and that's good enough for >95% of my searches. If I really need to search for newer/changed content, I just press a button to update the databases right now.

IMHO this is nothing to hold against Locate - you only can have your seaches blazing fast if databases exist, and this is the best way possible. Some people somehow manage to never search for files (I don't know whether they have a small HD, just don't know about Windows' search or simply prefer to click through lots and lots of folders), but if you search for files daily: install Locate!


I finally got around to installing Locate, and I must say it's a treat. I don't think I'm going to use it as my only file-search app, because of the database update issue, but it certainly is nice for doing fast finds of "archived" material.
-f0dder (May 27, 2006, 03:55 PM)
No issue here, see above 8)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally, a robust keyboard shortcut app!
« Last post by brotherS on May 27, 2006, 04:19 AM »
rjbull, would you mind giving examples of how you use ClipText?  (Some diehard WordPerfect DOS users might be interested).  I looked at the whole site (nice) and from what I see, it's not quite a program to make copying between Windows and DOS apps as easy as Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V, correct? 
-Harrie (May 26, 2006, 08:39 AM)
Harrie, you're correct
-rjbull (May 26, 2006, 09:47 AM)
:o I'd trash every program that tries to separate me from two of my best friends: Ctrl+C and Ctrl-V :D
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Locate 3.0 - great HD search tool!
« Last post by brotherS on May 27, 2006, 04:14 AM »
Nice first screencast! I like how you showed how blazing fast Locate is :)

Are you going to develop some kind of internal checklist for what to cover in a screencast review? Maybe a quick glance at a program's options would be helpful too?

Also, please turn up your volume, as this is my first screencast, I have yet to perfect the microphone usage so volume is really low. Anyways, enjoy!
-Josh (May 26, 2006, 08:29 PM)
You also might want to use a headset microphone (I read ones with background noise cancelling aren't expensive anymore) and increase the "mouth to mic" distance a bit for improved sound quality.
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Official Announcements / Re: Please welcome two new DontionCoder Official Volunteers: Ampa and Josh
« Last post by brotherS on May 27, 2006, 04:07 AM »
Thanks and welcome to your new 'duties' :Thmbsup: Everything that lets mouser focus on less tasks is highly welcome.
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Living Room / Re: Blog Post: The death of Wikipedia
« Last post by brotherS on May 26, 2006, 02:47 AM »
Compared to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Wikipedia is pretty damn good! IIRC, some university compared several articles and didn't find extremely more errors in the Wikipedia.

The only thing I see dead in the long run are some of Wikipedia's printed counterparts.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally, a robust keyboard shortcut app!
« Last post by brotherS on May 25, 2006, 07:04 AM »
I "grew up" on DOS, and prefer WordStar editors.  I still use my DOS WordStar-style programs for getting any significant amount of text down on disk.  One of the nice things about AHK is that, when you run a DOS program under Win2K, AHK's hotstrings still work, if slightly slowly.
-rjbull (May 25, 2006, 03:49 AM)
There are so many good editors around... is it really worth running an old DOS editor? For some casual editing, I'm using win32pad - it's very light-weight and free: http://fileforum.bet...Win32Pad/944076528/1
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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally, a robust keyboard shortcut app!
« Last post by brotherS on May 24, 2006, 05:35 AM »
With autohotkey you don’t have to remember any key combinations.
You can launch anything simply by typing a word of your choice
-Babis (May 23, 2006, 01:01 PM)
But this is just the same problem - you have to remember lots of shorthand triggers.  OK, they're arguably easier than arcane key combinations, but while it's easy to remember the ones you use all the time, it's harder to remember the rarer ones.  That's why I'd still like a point-and-shoot GUI for both hotkeys and hotstrings.
-rjbull (May 24, 2006, 05:06 AM)
Try watching less TV to unclutter your mind ;)


I can only recommend to spend some time with AHK, it's truely amazing what you can do with it! I too started at a complete AHK newbie.
-brotherS (May 23, 2006, 01:04 PM)
Yes, I've been dabbling a bit lately and it looks very useful.  AHK strikes me as not so much an application as an application development kit, though.  That means that the incorrigbly computer-shy might be more rapidly productive with something like SuperKeys for hotstrings and/or one of the targeted hotkey applications, perhaps Hotkeyz that was zridling's previous best choice before AHK, simply because they're complete applications and behave as such.  Having said that, you don't have to do very much with AHK to get basic productivity out of it.
-rjbull (May 24, 2006, 05:27 AM)
You are right, AutoHotkey surely isn't your average "mom and pop" tool that everyone is able to use 3 months after buying their first PC. That being said, I think it's perfect for the (even only slightly) advanced user. Like you said, it doesn't take much time to get into the basic stuff, and in my opinion, its online help is pretty damn good to get more and more done if you keep being curious.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally, a robust keyboard shortcut app!
« Last post by brotherS on May 24, 2006, 05:27 AM »
Speaking of having a hard time remembering a slew of hot keys, that is one reason I very much like and use the program ActiveWords.   (Yeah, I use several programs simultaneously - Instant Text, ActiveWords, AHK!)
[...]
I'd love to do a review of ActiveWords some time soon! 

In the meantime, here's a link 
-Harrie (May 23, 2006, 09:01 PM)
ActiveWords ($49.95 USD :o) looks like a combination of parts of DC's FARR and AutoHotkey to me. It seems to aim at more novice PC users, right?
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