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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2019, 12:41 AM »

Ah... that clears things up.  I thought you were saying that Clibu was that piece of software.  Thanks for that clarification! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2019, 11:36 PM »

It uses the database on the Clibu server.

-nevf (September 12, 2019, 05:04 PM)

That means it does call somewhere to register, correct?  It just happens to call to you.  Am I parsing that correctly?

-wraith808 (September 12, 2019, 05:46 PM)

Clibu consists of a Browser App and a Cloud Server app which communicate back and forth. User registration is handled back on the server, so yes it calls our server.

-nevf (September 12, 2019, 06:51 PM)

So even with the following feature from your prior post:

This stores all data locally, and will have offline support with synchronization to other devices should you wish to use that.

You will still need to be connected to your servers to use the software?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Window offscreen at startup

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2019, 05:47 PM »

You might try after you get it positioned on the screen to close it (completely, including the taskbar notification icon) and then re-open it.  It's likely that they're saving the position on exit, and if you reboot without closing, it might not go through that procedure.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2019, 05:46 PM »

It uses the database on the Clibu server.

-nevf (September 12, 2019, 05:04 PM)

That means it does call somewhere to register, correct?  It just happens to call to you.  Am I parsing that correctly?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2019, 10:14 PM »

If you haven't tried Clibu yet, I'd welcome any feedback.

-nevf (September 11, 2019, 04:59 PM)

Does it use the same sort of registration as Surfulater, i.e. dial home instead of just inputting a code?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bored Developer's Dilemma: What to code and what to code it in?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2019, 10:12 PM »

there are NO bluetooth programmable devices. 

-superboyac (September 11, 2019, 12:52 PM)

False.  There are several programmable bluetooth keyboards.  I have one that I made, actually.  In this post, it's the bottom right one in the image.  I have to use TMK right now, but would really like to change to QMK.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2019, 10:10 PM »

with smartphones, things just gotta be able to sync easily and be in both places at all times.  I cant really stomach any longer having a desktop application like rightnote without being able to pull up the same info on my phone.  and that goes for anything else. 

-superboyac (September 11, 2019, 12:20 PM)

Totally agree.  One of the reasons behind my two choices.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are people using these days, instead of Surfulater?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 11, 2019, 09:03 AM »

I am sorry to hear that app, I think this underlines the importance of having good export/import functionality so your data does not get locked in a proprietary format. I am a little surprised the Surfulater author apparently created a new app (Clibu) with no way to import from Surfulater?

For what it's worth, I moved from Evernote to CintaNotes, which is a lot more bare-bones, but works well for many of the type of notes I keep. Besides that I keep a development log in markdown in plain text files.

-Jibz (September 11, 2019, 01:19 AM)

CintaNotes was what I was going to suggest, but it doesn't keep rich format items, so I didn't.

I personally use Ema Personal Wiki, as it works across all of my devices (sync via dropbox), is OSS (so I can make any changes I want), and stores in plain text.  I forked the repo so that I always have the version that I want, irrespective of any changes that he makes.

I'm also trying Boostnote, but haven't gotten that deeply into it yet.  It's also OSS, but updated more regularly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for AsciiDoc editor

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2019, 05:03 PM »

I think he's currently using a setup like that, but wanted it in the same UI.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for AsciiDoc editor

« Last post by wraith808 on September 03, 2019, 07:22 AM »

This whole thread started as a question, but could be seen as a reference or starting point now. For those in need, of course. And if I find new and/or better tooling for working with AsciiDoc, I'll update this thread again.

-Shades (September 01, 2019, 11:30 PM)

Thanks for documenting your experiences - useful! I hope plaintext readable document formats in general get more widely adopted.

-Nod5 (September 03, 2019, 05:50 AM)

I wish CommonMark would take off (or that the creator would let Markdown be standardized)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for AsciiDoc editor

« Last post by wraith808 on September 01, 2019, 08:11 PM »

Nod5 summarizes my path through finding out about AsciiDoc quite well.

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Living Room / Re: Series included with Amazon Prime

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2019, 11:31 PM »

I thought The Man in the High Castle was good.  Also, I can recommend Jack Ryan.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor from Visual Basic?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2019, 03:10 PM »

Code: Visual Basic [Select]

1. Dim RetVal
2. RetVal = Shell("C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.exe -capture workspace", 1)

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2019, 07:57 AM »

I personally used reopen closed window quite a bit to quickly get back to something in my history.  I'm sure others used some of those menu items also.  It would seem more customer oriented to put in an option to edit that menu.  I suppose I should be ahppy that they haven't totally killed Chrome yet, though.  (Yes, I'm salty about Google)

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2019, 10:00 AM »

That's hilarious!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail to SMS - (and any loud, annoying iPad notification method)

« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2019, 11:31 AM »

I never looked to see if it could do anything past a notification.  A quick look, and it doesn't appear as if that's possible.

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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2019, 08:49 AM »

This one seems for Linux only. Any similar for Windows available ?

-anandcoral (August 26, 2019, 05:12 AM)

I am still waiting for someone to come up with "LINE" and "MINE"...kind of like WINE, but for running Linux and Mac apps on Windows.

-app103 (August 26, 2019, 05:35 AM)

Well they have LINE, it just hasn't been updated in a couple of years and won't work with 64-bit yet.  I wish that it would be updated...  http://www.colinux.org/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2019, 08:16 PM »

There is no "the BSD license". Also, it is based on... Java? 

-Tuxman (August 24, 2019, 06:04 AM)

One would assume from the phrasing that they mean the original BSD License, but it would be good to check with them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail to SMS

« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2019, 08:14 PM »

1) A developer supporting a web-site

-Steven Avery (August 24, 2019, 12:15 PM)

That's what I use it for.  I can't access my work e-mail unless I'm on the VPN (stupid work rules), so I fire a rule whenever certain e-mails hit my inbox to forward it to my personal mail, that then notifies me by pushbullet.  It works well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail to SMS

« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2019, 10:30 AM »

That looks pretty cool... requires you to run your own server though, which for some people doesn't work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gmail to SMS

« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2019, 02:11 PM »

Have you taken a look at IFTTT?  And if you do decide to go that way, instead of using SMS, you might take a look at Pushbullet.  I have something like that set up where I install pushbullet on my phone, and receive the e-mail alerts for my site being down.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by wraith808 on August 21, 2019, 03:36 PM »

For a second there, you had me worried. I thought they'd done something controversial 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: VideoProc/Digiarty of WinXDVD Fame - ST FREE 4K/HD Capture/Edit/Download/Convert

« Last post by wraith808 on August 19, 2019, 09:51 PM »

@VideoProc Support

Why did you quote Deozaan's post without adding any comment?

Did something got lost?

-brahman (August 19, 2019, 08:44 PM)

It was posted in error and has been deleted.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on August 19, 2019, 10:08 AM »

I picked up this awesome $21 bike "computer" gadget for my bike last week; nicely shows speed, and lots of information in a nice way:

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https://www.amazon.c.../product/B07T7G3ZLQ/


ps I haven't ridden a bike in 20 years but last week we did two 20 mile trips, and then on a whim signed up for a 50 mile event yesterday.. We had fun!

-mouser (August 19, 2019, 12:02 AM)

What kind of bike do you have?  I've been thinking about getting another bike since I'm at home all the time.  Right now I only have my folding bike that I keep in the back of the car to use spur of the moment.  Since I'm working from home now, it doesn't get as much use as it used to.

https://smile.amazon.../product/B001459K1U/

It works well, but is mostly for light riding, and I have a lot of trouble with hills on it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ThunderDrive 2 TB Cloud Storage for $59 Lifetime / $98 4 TB Lifetime Fee

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2019, 10:26 AM »

In general, pcloud has been more, at least for the offers I've seen.  I've been paying attention because I like and use pcloud.  It's in one of those funny situations where I've made money off of pcloud affiliate program, but haven't actually bought anything because I'm waiting for a really good deal.