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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: New webpage created to highlight the GOE Programming Challenge 2007 Entries

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2007, 10:31 AM »

We made it into lifehacker!
http://lifehacker.co...ion-coder-330688.php

Time to comment there!

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: Interruptron - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2007, 09:39 AM »

Note: there are extensive docs, have a look. I'll post later a few tricks that I use to get the most out of it.

Edit: typo

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: PlainTextWiki Toolkit - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2007, 05:56 AM »

I used a plain text wiki for a while. It was vim-specific (the name is viki).
It was fun while I was using a big arse text file for diary/todos... then I moved to onenote.

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: Interruptron - GOE Challenge 2007 Entry

« Last post by urlwolf on December 06, 2007, 05:49 AM »

Yes. Sorry, I changed the location of the thank you page. The 404 you get was supposed to be a simple "Thanks":

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 It's fixed now. I'd like to have you on the mailing list, but of course I leave it up to you... there's a direct download link as tomos pointed out.

I locked myself out of this forum by playing with the settings in my firewall

Anyway, thanks to those who subscribed (and didn't get the thank you message ).
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: cool: a wp plugin to make a WP blog look like a forum

« Last post by urlwolf on December 03, 2007, 11:47 AM »

Noone has an opinion.... like OMG ! don't even try it! go fro SMF!

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General Review Discussion / Re: Best spreadsheet

« Last post by urlwolf on December 03, 2007, 10:33 AM »

I think excel 2007 has named cells, and pivot tables can do much of what the demo  advertises as Quantrix-only.

Still, I'm salivating too...

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: GOE 2007 Programming Contest for November 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on December 02, 2007, 10:58 AM »

Ok, I'm done with one of the programs (interruptron) and documentation... I'm building a site around it, so it'll take me a few more hours... I'm almost there

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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)

« Last post by urlwolf on December 01, 2007, 02:09 PM »

http://winamp.com/ (PR=8)
This was the first music player most people started using. They are celebrating their 10th anniversary. If you cannot find that page... well. There you go.

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General Software Discussion / Re: cool: a wp plugin to make a WP blog look like a forum

« Last post by urlwolf on December 01, 2007, 05:36 AM »

More info:

• Optional registration for posting and searching.
  
• Mark threads as solved
  
• Administrated through WP-admin.
  
• Uses WordPress database for registration and users.
  
• Spam words filter option. (Optional). The spam filter option gets the spam words from WordPress’s own spam filter and words can be added in the WordPress admin -> option -> disscussion.
  
• PHP 4 compability.
  
• Moderator can be set individually for every forum.
  
• Supports BBCode. (Optional)
  

Another issue might be security. How easy is this forum to spam?
I can envision a nice CMS system based on WP; that makes management a breeze... and the thing is very portable too (if you ever need to change hosting).

I like it!

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General Software Discussion / cool: a wp plugin to make a WP blog look like a forum

« Last post by urlwolf on December 01, 2007, 05:29 AM »

http://www.fahlstad....wp-plugins/wp-forum/

Advantage: you can integrate blog users and forum users (no need for 2 signups).

No idea about performance or support. This might be necessarily not as good as an specialized solution such as SMF.

Thoughts?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Microsoft OneNote 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on November 30, 2007, 08:32 AM »

There's a portable version of oneNote. I'm sure it's not legal, but it'd solve your problem (oh, I see you found it sorry).
You can synch the databases (they are simply files) using a simple synchronization program such as super flexible file synchronizer (SFFS)

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General Software Discussion / Re: winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)

« Last post by urlwolf on November 29, 2007, 08:56 AM »

I think you can do it using gracenote's recommendations.
Plus, you can install the musicIP plugin and have the same recommendations you would using musicIP.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Favorite Productivity or Programming Supplement?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 29, 2007, 04:25 AM »

hmm, I use none Damn, am I weird.
Maybe comics reading in my scheduled rest is my secret productivity booster...

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program

« Last post by urlwolf on November 28, 2007, 03:31 PM »

I like eyeCue! it sounds like IQ, -which reminds people of psychology- it's really short... it's catchy!

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program

« Last post by urlwolf on November 28, 2007, 02:19 PM »

Great stuff! I like JediType!
it's kind of difficult because it does two things, reading and writing speed-ups. Maybe these should be named differently and be independent somehow, although it kills the nice advantage of having them combined.

app, I do have Wordzilla's thesaurus! thanks for the suggestion!

Keep'em coming! I'm sure something great will come out of this thread!

Ralf: I think the martial arts idea is good too. I think it's Sensei (but still, it's just western alphabetization of a japanese character , who knows! )

Justice, thanks for your suggestions too.

The problem is that there are 4 concepts (speed, attention, reading, writing) and the final name must be short! Hard!

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Help me find a name for my reading/writing speed-up program

« Last post by urlwolf on November 28, 2007, 10:23 AM »

After reading mouser's threads on how important it is to find the right name for your applications, I decided to ask for help here.

I'm writing:

[...] a program that helps you read and write faster. It will use stats on what you read/write to help with autocompletion and to present words at the optimal speed. If everything works, it will even generate APML feeds with your attention habits:

http://apml.org

(From the main GOE 2007 thread)

How do you name such a thing?
I have been playing with variations of reading/writing/attention/saving/speed-up and they all suck

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do you write a .chm file?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 28, 2007, 06:51 AM »

hmm, I'm trying Vizzac... I don't see how it creates PDF, other than that it looks great.

NOTE: big downside for me: it doesn't work with intellicomplete!

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General Software Discussion / winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)

« Last post by urlwolf on November 25, 2007, 04:03 PM »

winamp 5.5 is fantastic (I thought I'd never say that)!

I grew tired with musicIP constant crashes and lack of features. The new standard UI for foobar 9.5 is quite cool, but I'm too lazy to spend dozens of hours chasing all components to make it work the way my 9.3 does.

So I hit winamp. Holy shit. They have improved a lot.
They grab album art quite well. Even fix tags. Album art is displayed in all sizes very well, and the entire thing loads super fast!

Give it a try and tell me what you think...
Plus, it has a MusicIP plugin so you can still mix the way musicIP does (the only saving grace of a tool that looks more like the flintstones' car now than ever )

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Found Deals and Discounts / snagIt 7 free: grab it

« Last post by urlwolf on November 23, 2007, 02:25 PM »

Of course, this is a fully working version. They are hoping a lot of folks upgrade to the latest version. The upgrade is $19.95 and still a good deal just as the Camtasia upgrade.


To get the free download go here:

http://www.oldapps.c...d.php...nagIt725.exe


Then go here and enter your name, state, and email. They will send you the software key:

http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/ukdn.asp

You're all done!

Be aware that it is version 7 of SnagIt...a very useful product. Current version is 8.2.

Not sure if it has the nice 'scrolling capture' (something screenshot captor does, but fails on some applications such as opera) of the latest version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software

« Last post by urlwolf on November 23, 2007, 02:20 PM »

Here's yey another one:
http://www.debriefnotes.com/

free, $29, and $39 versions.

It's based on the index card idea, seems to be good for bibliography management (not as good as endNote, no interaction with word). Does contacts, reading lists , etc

Outliner seems pretty good.

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder.com Yearly Fundraiser for 2007 - Advice Requested Please

« Last post by urlwolf on November 19, 2007, 07:25 AM »

I like Zaine's idea!
We could also target sites like lifehacker... I'm sure they could feature some of the programs that randomly pop up in the forums.

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General Software Discussion / Re: onenote Shared notebook: can you do it without a sharepoint server?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 19, 2007, 06:25 AM »

just to reword the question,...
Noone here knows where I can get a sharepoint server where I can stick a (tiny) oneNote notebook?

If you work for a company that uses M$ servers (and you are ok with it!) I don't mind hosting my notebook on a DC friend's computer

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General Software Discussion / Re: SyncBackSE vs. SuperFlexible

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2007, 08:31 AM »

by the way, SFFS has an option to recover all those individual zip files (even if you have incremental versions!) automatically. It mangles the names, but it understands them so no problem.

I'm using SFFS for incremental backups and it works better than any of the specialized solutions I have tried (backup4all, Genie, etc). Just tested it 4 days ago.

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General Software Discussion / onenote Shared notebook: can you do it without a sharepoint server?

« Last post by urlwolf on November 17, 2007, 06:59 AM »

I'm addicted to oneNote.
Now that I have a company in the making and a partner, I'd like to share oneNote notebooks (it beats wikis etc when we are only 2 people, it works offline better, etc).

The problem with a onenote Shared notebook: can you do it without a sharepoint server? I don't think so. But maybe you can.

If there's no way around, do you know of any way to use a sharepoint server without having to pay for an (incredibly expensive) M$ server?

Thanks

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GOE 2007 Challenge Downloads / Re: GOE 2007 Programming Contest for November 2007

« Last post by urlwolf on November 16, 2007, 06:04 AM »

Ok, I have two applications that suit the purposes of the GOE 2007. One of them is a timer that counts interruptions, working time, and rest independently, and plots those. I call it the interruptron!

The other one is a program that helps you read and write faster. It will use stats on what you read/write to help with autocompletion and to present words at the optimal speed. If everything works, it will even generate APML feeds with your attention habits:

http://apml.org

Now... timing is an issue. I have an iron-set deadline for the interruptron to be ready by 30 Nov. Docs included. The other tool may be in beta by that time.

Depending on how many entries we are having, I'd like to suggest an extension of the deadline. Either way, I'll do my best to get these two out by 30 Nov (l'm a last minute guy, I know )