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Obscure open source apps you wouldn't be without

nimzov said:
Does something like freemind exist that is not an application that runs on a browser but a standalone app ?

(A compiled program).

Thanks

nimzo
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Are you referring to freemind at SourceForge? That is a standalone application, albeit in Java. If that's not it, what's the web site?
 
grmcdorman said:
Are you referring to freemind at SourceForge? That is a standalone application, albeit in Java. If that's not it, what's the web site?
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Yes thanks I have installed it and it looks fine.

I thought it was an application that ran within a browser and that it might be slow.

Sorry I should have checked first. :boxedin:

nimzo
 
Another couple for Mac users, both designed to rid yourself of those irritating Mac registry files which get everywhere, and aren't invisible on devices running anything other than OS X...

CleanArchiver - zips your files and folders but deletes the registry crap first. This is especially important if you're making a file for a comic book reader, as some PC readers will come to a dead stop when they reach a non-jpeg file like a registry file.

FinderCleaner - does a similar job, but on removable media such as USB drives and memory cards. Ideal if your digital camera/mp3 player/whatever has trouble dealing with Mac registry files too...
 
I have started exploring freemind and I have a question.

I want a text hyperlinks to open multiple web pages.

What is the character that seperates the urls ?

Example: in firefox I can have multipe homepage by separating each adress with the caracter |. For instance url1|url2|url3 in the homepage box will open the 3 web pages url1 and url2 ans url3. This character "|" does not work with freemind and could not find any information on this subject in the documentation.

Thanks

nimzo
 
This is not an application that I use but it is quite interesting. And I contributed at the start of the project.

Dasher is a computer accessibility tool enabling users to enter text efficiently using a pointing device rather than a keyboard. It has been likened to an arcade game, since to use it you zoom through characters that fly across the screen. It uses a probabilistic predictive model to give priority to more likely character combinations.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher

Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.

The eyetracking version of Dasher allows an experienced user to write text as fast as normal handwriting - 29 words per minute; using a mouse, experienced users can write at 39 words per minute.
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http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/djw30/dasher/





nimzo
 
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nimzov said:
I have started exploring freemind and I have a question.

I want a text hyperlinks to open multiple web pages.

What is the character that seperates the urls ?

Example: in firefox I can have multipe homepage by separating each adress with the caracter |. For instance url1|url2|url3 in the homepage box will open the 3 web pages url1 and url2 ans url3. This character "|" does not work with freemind and could not find any information on this subject in the documentation.

Thanks

nimzo
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Please ignore as I have started another thread so as not to derail this one.

Thanks

Maybe mod will want to delete these 2 messages.

nimzo
 
most obscure.. bitlbee .. it is an IM -> IRC gateway. i have an irc server with one channel in it, i connect to the server, join the channel, and all my msn, icq, jabber, IAM, gtalk, etc, contacts are in there...

Works with any irc channel.

Besides for that i use mplayer, bochs, screen, mutt, smartmontools a lot.
 
Floyt said:
Freemind and Stickies have taken over all note-keeping tasks on my computer - the former for big, multilayered projects with links and stuff, the latter for reminders, jottings and scheduling. I'm especially sold on the Stickies, since the latest version lets you attach them to specific applications, only popping up when those are opened. Thus, for example, I keep my sig collection on a stickie that only rears its yellow head when the mail program is opened.
Who said using a computer does away with desktop post-it clutter :D
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Thanks for Stickies!

I've been using it for a week now and I swear my productivity has just doubled :D
 
Jahshaka is a realtively well done video editor/effects generator I use from time to time. I enjoy audacity for small quick edits. VLC is nice because it supports a true 5.1 audio output where OS X DVD Player does not support anything higher than stereo.

I am a fan of Quicksilver, iTerm (tabbed terminal windows for OS X), and adium.

The one I couldn't do without, however, is GeekTool, for which there are both Windows and Unix counterparts (check lifehacker.com) which I use to embed the output of specific log files and shell scripts on my desktop, as well as several sitemeter graphs for sites I administrate - all embedded to the desktop. handy when you just want some info at your fingertips while you work.
 
Hey Ducky, will Jahshaka let you edit the screen area on a piece of video? I have a piece of home movie which has black areas at the top and bottom of the screen, and want something that will let you box off the 'useful' part and discard the rest, a little like Photoshop's clipping tool.

Does Jahshaka do that, and if not, do you know anything that does?
 
Ian Osborne said:
Hey Ducky, will Jahshaka let you edit the screen area on a piece of video? I have a piece of home movie which has black areas at the top and bottom of the screen, and want something that will let you box off the 'useful' part and discard the rest, a little like Photoshop's clipping tool.

Does Jahshaka do that, and if not, do you know anything that does?
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Sure thing:

One of the most common needs for an editor is simply to 'trim' unwanted footage from a video clip.

There a couple of ways of doing this while in the Project page:

* LCD Trimming - there are 3 LCD displays labelled In, Out and Length respectively - In and Out are interactive and can be used in the same way as the Scrub Bar LCD described in the previous section - click and drag to change the values, or use the LCD Calculator. Double clicking on these will restore the values to the originals.
* Keyboard Trimming - you can use the I and O keys to set the In and Out points of the cut.
* Splitting - you can also use the S key to split the cut at the current point.
* Deleting - pressing the Delete key will remove the current cut. Pressing Ctrl and Delete will replace the cut with blanks.
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http://www.jahshaka.org/

Give it a download and try it out. You have to sign up, however it's still a free download.


ETA:

Sorry I misread, and quoted you an editing trick, not a "trim" style cut down of the frame, as you wanted. However, you can do that also.
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
The FileZilla FTP application.
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That reminds me of a couple of other programs I get incredibly frustrated if I have to do without:

ncftp -- a text-console FTP client, with proper tab-completion and lots of other low-key, practical goodies.

Midnight Commands -- text-console File manager. How can people endure Windows Explorer?

gnuplot -- program for plotting large amounts of data. Priceless for performance testing.

gnat -- The GNU compliant Ada compilator. Because C++ is an abomination in the eyes of Djikstra.

pan (most recent beta version) -- Usenet newsreader with unmatched handling of large, binary newsgroups. Beats Agent by a mile.
 
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