"Google Docs looks underpowered, but dig deep and you'll find smart features that other suites can't beat. Here are 12 of the best."
- Amani
from Bookmarklet
gamer and also a part of the games media with my show Vertical Slice http://www.verticalslice.tv. My GF is currently seeking work in the games industry and we're off to Edinburgh tomorrow so she can attend an interview for Rockstar North :)
- alphaxion
Enthusiastic middle-core gamer, nearly jumped in the industry several times (chickened out for easier jobs every time), no longer owns a console (got burglared and not replaced) so PC-only. Currently disappointed with A-list titles and spending her gaming cash buying promising indie titles (not always playing them, but that is another story)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I used to game alot with PC or PS2. Been working more, but still get a chance to play every now and then. When my nephew comes over, that is when I really get a chance.
- Dan Woods
All around gamer, and Tech Evangelist for Stardock. :)
- Spencer
Say hi to Brad for me Spencer! I spent five years or so on Qt3 and Brad was a valued community voice there.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
there's an interesting social media site for people in the gaming media and production industries over at www.gameleon.net
- alphaxion
@alphaxion Thanks for the link, will check it out.
- Spencer
self-diagnosed online game addict since the first BBS MUD, long time computer, console, pen & paper, and tabletop gamer -->
- Mike Chelen
i skipped a few generations...from an NES to a Wii (& subsequently an Xbox 360)...
- Trent Olson
I spend more time reading/talking about games and the industry than I do actually playing games. I am in the progress of evolving a Nintendo fan site into a FriendFeed clone for gamers.
- Daniel Sims
I used to be a pro-gamer, win COD tournaments(2nd place on 1v1 in Turkey). I also became Match Referee in CPL, WCG (2 times) and other many tournaments. Now, I am head admin and organising Professional PC Gaming Tournaments (COD) (our new portal: www.oyuncuyuz.com) and also I am a casual PC Gamer mostly like playing racing, RTS, FPS etc. Nowadays playing Team Fortress II - steamID: th3crasher
- Zafer Yılmaz
I started working on a data-tree style notetaking application recently. Which similar web application (Wridea, Google Notebook, Evernote, and the like) are you guys using, and what do you love/hate most about that application?
Much less graphical. Mine has no Flash, no fancy graphics and sounds. Just lets you organize whatever you wish to organize into nodes and subs (like the tree on the left of Windows Explorer).. Most mindmapping and note-taking applications have too much detail, too many options and actions (imho). So I'm looking for simpler and easier-to-use applications. Got any?
- Necmettin
I have been using Treepad for this: see screenshot of how I am using it with. http://www.imagebam.com/image... .Also similar ones available are treedbnotes pro, rightnote, allmynotes organizer pro. But they all lack what I would like. I like the tree-style layout and the ability to create sub nodes of sub nodes at the left, but I would need text colorations and special...
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- TrafficBug
Google Tasks. I love lots of things about it. It's simplicity. How you can control it pretty much from the keyboard. Portability (I have it in Gmail and gCalendar). Things I don't like about it: I can't delete or rename my first list. It needs a few more keyboard shortcuts for full keyboard usage; like switching between lists. Exportability is not much of an option. If I pop it out, I...
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- Itachi
@TrafficBug I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'wiki of links'. And the applications you list are all desktop applications it seems. Any online options?
- Necmettin
@Mehmet Yeah, I love GTasks, too. Except it doesn't use the entire window, just a small portion of it. I don't like that, really. Do you use Google Tasks on a daily basis, or have a better option that syncs with your phone?
- Necmettin
Cool tip, thanks. But then again, I'm writing my own todo-notetaking-datatree application, and I'm hoping to have it published within the week.
- Necmettin
@Necmetting, by wiki of links I meant something like this. Link = http://imgur.com/IbezS.png Something like Treepad, but this could be a variation. I havent used online note taking apps so far because I need very fast indexing and fast retrieval and would prefer all data stored on desktop, with prohbably syncs to the cloud at a sequence and interval I determine manually.
- TrafficBug
Yeah, I use it daily. And thanks Vinayak for the link.
- Itachi
Here is a recap of feature list I would like - freeform database, full-text search, auto-completion of search results (autosuggest), prominent "Find" button provided as part of toolbar, and the whole thing could be like a spreadsheet with rows of data with only 1 column = "data" instead of a tree-data format, something like a scrolling table of entries that match the current dataset as found by the entry in the Find textbox.
- TrafficBug
Very nice, useful and applicable ideas, TrafficBug. Except, how would you enter more than one paragraph of text (say, something like a "note" about an entry)? When you say freeform database, do you mean being able to add new columns to entries (separately), or a more relaxed way of saving the data/text?
- Necmettin
I made this video of a bookmarking app I use: http://www.screentoaster.com/watch... I especially like how the Find text box is bringing up results as I type (the result dataset keeps changing as I type). As regards your questions, I would define one 'entry' to be a 'text snippet' that is allowed to occupy one row in the search results spreadsheet that appear like...
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- TrafficBug
Wow! Adding everything you described to my "considering doing" list. Thanks for such a detailed description.
- Necmettin
@necmettin I have used/tested all of the ones you mention, plus MindMeister, XMind (non-browser), Todoist, RTM, TwitDone yesterday (it actually has some interesting ideas), and even FriendFeed as a To-Do/notes app (as a private Group). None do everything I'd want them to be truly useful, GoogleNotes got close but was missing some things before Google archived the project (clipping was fast/great, as was manual clip sorting; no child nodes though).
- Alex Schleber
@necmetin BTW, have you looked into #Wordpress' P2 Theme for note threading? http://p2demo.wordpress.com/ It's only missing edit of posts/replies, which is probably turned on for the admin user, will have to do my own install to test. For clipping, just use the WP PressThis bookmarklet?!
- Alex Schleber
Checking out all the options Alex listed (and thanks, Alex, for that), yet I still do not feel like I found *the* todo/notes application. Each and every one of them has strengths, yet again each seem to lack at least one feature I would like to have (and planning to include in the application I'm working on). I have almost always been on the lookout for a perfect notes/todo application...
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- Necmettin
Please post here when your custom app is ready for a testing! IMHO, I could live without the data-tree as provided by Treepad, I guess what I would really need is the Powermarks-style text snippet database, just expanded to include right click integration from any app. (the app in the screencast video).
- TrafficBug
yes please keep us posted. I too would love to test!
- metalerik
I read through the thread again and may be I may not have been clearer about the term 'wiki of links'. What I really wanted to say (and meant) is a 'treeview of links where each tree node is able to collapse, expand, fold and unfold horizontally rather than vertically'. When unfolding horizontally, the list of links contained within that tree would appear horizontally - each item being...
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- TrafficBug
TrafficBug, I might as well include such a feature if experiments prove fruitful/usable, but it appears to be more of a visual feature than a structural/implementation one. Yet again, why not. I have bookmarked this discussion and implementing features listed / features found in mentioned apps. Beta will be rolled out soon. Just hang on a bit there ;)
- Necmettin
from IM
I am just wondering: does anyone know of an app that has the explorer folder-style note organization system, with another view mode that maps all of the nodes in a tree visually. What I am looking for is an app that has this: http://www.java2s.com/Tutoria... and this: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/jur...
- Eric
Well M. -- the Anti-Clique it does imply your soul purpose in life is to become a production cog in a great machine. That's worth protesting don't you think?
- Todd Hoff
And what about, 'When you feel drowsy, a competitor may have drugged you.'
- Micah Wittman
The best part is that the Korean says "Sleepiness Prohibited".
- Darren
I actually meant that I was picturing American parents protesting that this was pitting students against each other. But yes, in the fight-the-man feeling, it does seem like a noble cause to protest about
- Itachi
yes , just shows that Teachers don't take crap from kids in Asian Countries !!.. and I might as well add their Governments too !!
- Peter Dawson
WOW, no pressure, right? Sobering message for young minds
- Susan Beebe
Given the national scores and drop out rates, I think American kids could use some pressure, something to remind them that they are in fact, competing in the global market, whether they like it or not.
- Ray Cromwell
I think I also need one of this to put on my desk
- Ozkan Altuner
i have a friend also named ken,does he a korean or japanese?
- urin
Several good tips here: http://www.labnol.org/interne... (Save to PDF, Convert partial feed item to full feed via email, AddThis/AddToAny/ShareThis, Backtweets/Technorati/GoogleBlogSearch related conversations)
- LogEx
But, you're using the ice to dilute Whiskey. Whiskey's true flavor can't be tasted at full concentration due to receptor saturation, so you use water to bring all the of the flavor points within sensory range. I mean, yeah, I've hung out with the guys where we all drink Talisker straight up pound our faces on the table to get it down and kick each other in the nuts and call ourselves men, but we certainly weren't appreciating the flavor of the drink.
- Matthew DeVries
I prefer neat with maybe a splash of water. Ice can be unpredictable and changes the temp. It depends on the scotch, but I like mine closer to room temp.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yeah, I like room temp better as well, and prefer just a predictable amount of water, (I guess I could have just said "Eric is right" and saved pixels)
- Matthew DeVries
"About half of Americans would fly while sick with the flu rather than pay a flight rebooking fee, according to a poll. Some passengers have been trying to protect themselves by wearing masks."
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
from Bookmarklet
"Fun combat and a steady flow of rewards make this journey a massively enjoyable one, especially with some fellow mercenaries along for the ride."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I've played Borderlands the last 2 lunchtimes and really liking it. I got lucky with gfx card swaps today while I was doing compatibility testing on Napoleon: Total War and ended up with a Geforce 280 just before lunch. What a good looking game! Great card too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Borderlands is great, a lot of fun. I really enjoy it and would still be playing if it wasn't for the fact that Dragon Age came out.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I thought that little robot would become annoying at the start but he wasn't around for long. Now it's those dog-type creatures and they could become annoying.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've heard this is 40-60 hour game, if you do all of the side-quests... How steadily do the Xbox achievements flow...? (My is Andrew and, I'm an Achievement-junkie)
- Andrew Terry
I'm on the PC so don't know. So it will take me a couple of months at least if I do it at work only. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I've added a few users to a "faves" Twitter List but most of their tweets are from FriendFeed, where I already follow them. I wish I could turn this off on Twitter so I don't duplicate up.
- Kol Tregaskes
I try to avoid following someone on Twitter if they are on FF and posts their tweets here. I share the same wish for Google Reader though, the ability to follow someone but selectively based on sources they share.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Being a Friendfeed-Twitter user myself, I understand your concerns, but I think that the majority of my Twitter followers benefit from being redirected to Friendfeed, because I can use more than 140 chars here to properly comment the link I share there. Plus, Friendfeed avoids repeating the Twitter links when they come from Ffeed, so users here don't get the same link twice. I think...
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- Jordi Soler
The superiority of this program made me choose it over twitter i nthe first place.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Jodi, sure but you can't get away from the duplication.
- Kol Tregaskes
For instance, if you could hide "Twitterfeed" or "API", you would be in great shape.
- Louis Gray
Louis, yep, though "API" might help tweets from apps like Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeckm etc?
- Kol Tregaskes
How so, Kol? I don't see any duplicated items in my feed, and I'm redirecting them to Twitter. Maybe I'm missing something...
- Jordi Soler
No, no, duplication from a user's Twitter feed and their FriendFeed feed. I only need to see it once (preferably on FF) and don't need to see it again on Twitter. So I would like to hit, for instance, any tweets from the FF API in Seemsic Desktop for my Twitter List users.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, isn't it easier to stop following somebody on Twitter who imports their Twitter feed into FriendFeed? That way you only ever see the tweet once.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
I prefer to follow tweets in Seesmic Desktop and everything else in FF. Users who tweet their FF posts also tweet as normal and that's what I would like in Seesmic Desktop only.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol I just don't "get" seesmic and return to FF over and over again
- Thomas Power
For me it makes things a lot easier, like RTs, reporting spam, DMings (can't do on FF anyway) and faving tweets. I can also see my Twitter Lists and mentions, which I cannot do properly on FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol you are clearly a far more advanced user than I, any chance you can do a video on how use Seesmic so I can learn from you? Loic assumes we have so much knowledge and you only discover it by clicking which I guess I haven't yet. Thx for the tips KT. TPx
- Thomas Power
"Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel criticized a Teabagger protester in Washington, DC this week who held up a sign showing dead bodies from the Dachau concentration camp stacked in a pile, and compared this to the Democrats' health care reform plan. Here are a few of the Teabaggers' responses to Weisel, posted on Politico:"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"Rothschilds nothing! Everyone knows that Obama is George Soros sock puppet. Wasn't Soros Jewish once upon a time? May the Schwartz be with you."
- Steven Perez
"The jews need to clam up and accept the fact that they are in a Chritian country."
- Steven Perez
"This hollowcost thing is totally overblown by the jewish."
- Steven Perez
"Eli Wiesel should just go back to Indonesia. I don't see him condemnig the terrorist shooter at Fort Hood."
- Steven Perez
"Elie is a whiner. She should stop her whining. You didn't not complane when the libs were calling Bush Hitler."
- Steven Perez
From the look of these remarks, it's clear that hate is making these teabag people as stupid as they are mean.
- Dennis Jernberg
And the Holocaust deniers are already coming out too, alas...
- Dennis Jernberg
Hey, if they went after Max Cleland, a veteran and an amputee, then there's no way they're gonna take any guff from some Jew. God, these people make make ill sometimes.
- Steven Perez
I met Wiesel once, he spoke at my high school. he was incredibly compelling. the people quoted above make me sad for my country.
- Bren -- feeling merry
A couple decades of de-investment in education is bearing fruit.
- Spidra Webster
[facepalm] I'd ask when the 'baggers will ever learn, but I think they skipped class.
- Bill Sodeman
Spidra, listening to my mom and dad talk about politics back when JFK was prez, nothing has changed. Idiots are still idiots. For example, my mom taught school in Mississippi. On the day JFK was assassinated, there was massive cheering at the (all white segregated) school - amongst staff and students.
- Chrimmus Tad
Us vs "Them" that awful amorphous them... Always a zero sum game and the "uses"is always behind and deeply darkly bitter about it
- WarLord
That was as painful to read as I'm sure it could have been to experience for Mr. Wiesel. Fortunately, he probably doesn't hang out on the internet much.
- Helen Sventitsky
I'm sure it's always been around, Tad. I just think it's increasing.
- Spidra Webster
Think of the horrific Deja Vu for Wiesel reading teabaggers is like verbal reliving of Crystal Nacht
- WarLord
This is not the first and unfortunately not the last time Mr. Wiesel heard such remarks. Being the strong person he is, he will never be deterred.
- Amit Morson
not defending anyone, but I checked all the links out from your blog and I don't see any actual anyone saying any of what you've posted...only people typing what they've heard other people typing about what someone supposedly said. I'd really like to be informed, can you help by posting anything that isnt second or third hand sourcing?
- jeff hammond
Dear jeff if you know, this comments are the second or third hand, then you know the the hottest news is what
- Scorpio
I certainly understand not wanting to accept things 2nd & 3rd hand - which is why I made a point of looking those things up myself before posting my blog - but gah, some of that shit you just can't make up.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
i look at this comments but i didn't see the copy of them here, but if you say that, i accept it
- Scorpio
and think about it, if some haven't any good answer and said some shit things about Holocaust, he can't be GOOD gay! maybe he's follow the wrong way
- Scorpio
Scorpio - the comment was "voted down" but you can still click into it. It is by some person who calls self "In memory of Noor Almalek"... What is says is: "How about we round them up, load them on cattle cars and ship them off to Obama’s re-education camps? Maybe a quick shower before the crematorium?"
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
i see, he's answer it to who?? it couldn't be a deferential answer!!
- Scorpio
from IM
It was in response to a "Fred"... "Fred says: That’s over the line. Someone has to pay for this, one way or another" -- who was responding, it appears, to the actual TP posting in general.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
you know, we should think about what we say! but this person, i not sure about his answer!!
- Scorpio
from IM
Agreed, too...how does one pay? Who pays? meh, but I understand (I think) that Fred was just venting frustration. "In memory of Noor Almalek"'s suggestion was vile.
- ProsePetals (aka Denise)
Jeff: to your original point on not finding the comments there anymore, if one follows the link to the blog in question, one will find that the comments have a "report abuse" button next to each link. And Politico is not the sort of blog that would keep egregiously abusive comments on their site for very long.
- Steven Perez
yes yes, Who Pays? you know dear, when a person nothing know about an a abject and then see some one or in some place people talking about this abject he came & said some thing true or false, because this person thing now his the professor and he can said every thing want!!
- Scorpio
from IM
Scorpio: what the heck are you talking about?
- Steven Perez
thanks about your nice asking!! about complaisance in comment!! this should be very shiny!
- Scorpio
Allow me, Steven. Scorpio is saying that yes yes, Who Pays? you know dear, when a person nothing know about an a abject and then see some one or in some place people talking about this abject he came & said some thing true or false, because this person thing now his the professor and he can said every thing want!!
- Christopher Harley
Thanks, Mr. Harley. I got that part. :P
- Steven Perez
from IM
*chortling @ Mr. Harley* -- Steven, as I understand Scorpio, his suggestion is that both "Fred" and ""In memory of Noor Almalek" comments (within the ThinkProgress threaded comments) were out of line -- I might be misinterpreting his meaning, but that is how I understood him. In the sense of of the abject/professor comment - it seems to me a rhetorical question/statement about the...
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- ProsePetals (aka Denise)