Tips & Tricks for daily forum reading?

At one point in time I used to visit the Arch forums quite actively in my efforts to contribute back to the community. More recently, I've stopped reading the forums but I now wish to get back into the "swing of things" and read/write the forums daily. I'm curious as to any tips or tricks the forum "regulars" know about to better tackle daily forum viewing.
The 2 helpful things I know about are..
Show new posts since last visit
and the lesser known about...
Arch Forum RSS Feed
How do you guys and gals participate in the forums so much and still have time to be a dev, work, eat, sleep.. rofl you get the picture! Tell us your secret strategy!

I recommend the Vimperator Firefox extension. Once you couple that with the It'sAllText extension you can zip through the forums very easily.
Why do you need It'sAllText? Simply hit ctrl + I
But you can only change tabs while gvim is open with the most recent version of vimperator.
@topic
open every sub-forum in a new tab
open every interesting topic in a new tab
--> work through all the tabs (usually just closing them without reading anything )
Last edited by jordi (2008-06-11 13:16:37)

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Some tips/tricks for KinTwom

First I want to say I got this phone yesterday, and I just love it. I found some things customizable on there and didn't know if anyone else had taken notice to them themselves.
First, I know that the social networks were removed from the sliding option
But there is a work around for that. When you open your browser select the address bar, and click the <-- key on your keyboard. type in facebook.com and log in as you normally do. then when that page loads, click on the star in the address bar area on the right side.. it will give you the option to "pin to apps" this will give you instant access to your facebook.. or any site you wish. I do not know how many you can pin. But this is an option to add your social sites to your apps window.
Secondly
I love the color schemes included, and although we arent able to customize the look, or make our own scheme colors.. you can however move the apps around. use 2 fingers and tap on apps screen, this will make the apps collapse.. you can then touch and hold to drag them anywhere on the screen.. put two fingers on it again and it will save and relock the apps. this is great for putting your most used apps at the top of the screen or anywhere you want them on that front screen
Zune is great, I am really enjoying it.. I have already figured out how to use the zune software with my phone, and move and delete pictures and music. If some of you don't understand how syncing works, when you plug your phone into your computer and your zune opens, you will notice your lock screen says "connected" to disconnect, unlcock screen.. or something like that.. if you unlock your phone screen, you will not be connected to the pc for syncing. I am thinking this is why people are complaining about not being able to sync their phones with the software or that the software isn't recognizing it.. if you do unlcock the screen, just unplug the phone and plug it back in, it will recognize it again. Keep it connected, and it will sync photos, videos, and music. back and forth. To delete music and videos off your phone.. in zune, click on "phone" in the very top navagation area then click on the media type.. you will then see what is on your phone.. right click on the item & select delete.
ALSO.. you DON"T need a ZUNE pass to enjoy the features of the zune.. there is a work around for that too.. in zune, go to marketplace, and select music or videos.. when you click on a song or music video, you can purchase it with microsoft points I purchased 400 points for $4.99 and was able to download one video and 2 songs I liked.. the zune pass is $14.99 a month for 10 songs.. thats rediculous... and expensive.
So,.Just purchase the credits seperately, your better off.. when you used all your points.. they have larger quanities you can purchase.. you will see these options when your in the check out area of purchasing them. you can choose how many points you want... AND the points you purchase can be shared across zune and xbox live as well for you gamers.
I LOVE the threaded texting.. I do not care about forwarding messages to people.. I personally hate getting those kind of texts myself... I dont care that you cant delete one message at a time.. I personally enjoy the simplicity of deleting the entire conversation at once..having this phone after having regular phones. this thing is the easiest, simplist phone I ever got... And it is great.
When I was activating the phone I had to have tech support help me, (because of area I live in) so they had me dial that ##number to go deeper into the phones settings.. I noticed that windows items are still in there... like the cloud server information.. I am thinking that these phones were reintroduced for a reason. There may just be updates and options down the road, why else would they keep all of microsofts product in the phone? It's just a thought. But anyways.. I have read so many people complaining about the volume keys not locking when the phone locks.. That doesn't bother me at all.. I never use the alarm.. don't care about it. I never make calls with my phone because I have poor reception where I live.., THIS IS THE BEST TEXTING PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!! at verizon... the other feature phones do NOT have threaded texting at all.. not even the cosmos touch do not believe what reviewers are saying on youtube about the LG cosmos touch.. they obviously don't know what "threaded" texting actually means. there is no threaded texting on that phone... that is why i sent it back and got the kinTwo instead..... with this phone.. you click on the bubble that pops up from a message you recieved, and wa-la conversation screen appears.. no need to go through 5 button clicks to send anything like those other feature phones(blah). you click on messages, click on the conversation and start typing thats all there is to that. awesome. LOVE IT!!!!!
It is VERY true that you DON'T need a data plan to have this phone.. but it would make sense to get the cheapest data plan.. that way if your not near a wifi connection you can still use the browser.. but it isn't a must have. I have nationwide messaging, which includes unlimited data.. so I am good to go either way. There are settings, you can turn off data roaming, turn off wifi and all that.. so you can choose how you want to utilize the options of your KinTwom. The browser has pinch zooming like a "droid" and it is pretty fluid too. This phone feels like a smartphone when I use it. I just LOVE it!
I read all the specs, and all the reviews of this phone before I ordered it, so I already knew what was capable and what wasn't and I have no complaints about it on those things. I think I know why the volume doesn't lock when you lock the device, because it is a music player.. and if someone were to use it as a music player, it would be more of a hassle to turn down the music in situations if it was locked.. BUT.. there however should be a settings option in the sound menu to lock it on phone lock.. that way people who do not use it for music, can choose to lock the sound. just a thought for verizon.
I hear people talking about there wont be any updates or anything like that to these phones simply because microsoft backed out of them.. people are not thinking clearly.. these aren't the original kin phones, they arent depleating their left over inventory.. these are reintroduced as feature phones with smartphone features removed, . and I highly doubt verizon would have people use phones that would forever be out of date.. or not updated. I read in this forum that someone did get some sort of modem update on their device... so updates are probable from verizon. What I would like to see, is the ability to change the app icons using photos downloaded or taken via camera..the same as we can for our favorite contacts. that would be a sweet thing to be able to do. just a suggestion.
My only issue is if I put my camera setting to night mode the camera will be slower for some weird reason, not sure why that is.. so I will just leave it on auto. But i love this phone.. it is the best feature phone I have ever owned in my life. Before you buy the phone.. get familuar with the specs and functions of it.. don't go blindly purchasing this phone thinking it's an android or something like that.. this is NOT smartphone... but it is pretty ****** close to it with some of the features it has and the look of it.
Hope this post helps some people! =)
If anyone has any other tricks or tips that havent been mentioned yet.. feel free to post them here.

I know this stuff is 3 months old but I just got mine and hadn't yet used the pin function so now I know.
I hope you are right Nancy that it will have updates, but I really doubt it. This is the norm for Microsoft when stuff they put out bombs. Dish Network had a DVR receiver many years ago that had Microsoft software installed and it was buggy to say the least. They updated it a few times but then abandon it. For a few years Microsoft wouldn't release the code to Dish Network to allow DN to fix the bugs. It was a real "Hate Microsoft" time for those users. DN had to put out their own coded DVR receivers and let the Microsoft ones die.
I think VZ made a deal with MS and removed the stuff MS wasn't supporting. Then VZ put them out without needing a data package to unload them.

New tip trick for capturing scanned images to the PB from your wireless network printer

I've read a couple of threads here and on crackberry about not being able to print directly to a printer on the local network (although there is a way to print via the cloud from gmail apparently). Anyway it occurred to me that I can browse to my printer's IP address and in addition to allowing me to configure it, it also lets me scan documents to jpg, pdf, and tiff formats and then renders the scanned image through the browser. I tried this from the Playbook browser and it worked perfectly. i was able to view and save the scanned document directly to my Playbook file system. Even more conveniently I could just take a screenshot of the browser window. Now if only the printer would let me print the scan or better yet browse to and upload a local file for print my printing problems would be solved. I am using an older HP 2500 psc. Does anyone know of a newer model wireless/network printer that allows printing via the browser interface?

Just to clarify. When your playbook and the wireless printer are on the same network, you can browse to the IP address of the wireless printer from your playbook just as you could from your PC or laptop. The browser will display the printer's web features which in my case includes the ability to scan the document that is laying on the scanner bed of the printer. When I click the scan button, the image of the scanned document renders on my playbook and I am able to save the rendered TIFF, JPG, PDF to the playbook locally or I can even just take a screenshot (press the playbook's volume up and down buttons simultaneously) and then the image of the document from the browser window automatically saves to the camera folder under pictures.
What I would like is to find a wireless printer that from the web page that is displayed when I browse to the printers local IP address be able to browse to a file on my playbook and upload it to the printer (kind of like uploading or attaching a document to a gmail email message or uploading a local picture to Facebook etc...) and then instruct the printer to print the document. Obviously this would only work when I was on the same local wireless network as the printer but it would essentially solve the "how to print directly to a wireless printer from the playbook?" question.

A Thought for This Forum

We are blessed to have several great articles by Harm Millaard. I have most, if not all, bookmarked and add those links to posts here, and in other fora. I am sure that other "regulars" do similar - matter of fact, I know several who do.
Wonder if it's possible to provide them as stickies, or similar, maybe a "Resource Central" from the top of the page? We have a little FAQ area now, but I feel that many would be immediately helped, if they had those articles to read first.
Perhaps a note along with the Search the Forum line, to the effect, "See ALL articles by Harm Millaard first."
We can "bump" Harm's articles, but that is clunky and it does not take too long, before they would slip back down the list.
Just thinking of how we can get those ever so useful assets into more hands, before they post the "what do I need to build" articles. There are many specific posts, where they might not cover things well enough.
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PS - if this gets moved to the Lounge, I understand, but as I thought that it applied here most of all, posted it here to start.

Because of the spatial considerations of the Hardware Forum header, I like the "Useful Links," or similar. The PrE forum has a "rotating" header message, and one can click to see them all, but many miss that, and will often not realize that the message might have changed, from the last time that they went back to the Articles List. They also do not see the little numbers (rather like what one gets with multi-page Article Lists (All of ours are multi-page) and those slightly different numbers do not seem to catch their attention.
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Just thinking here,
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SM36/37: Specification "After Job" does not work for Daily "periodcity"

I reviewed http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/20/2d513897110872e10000009b38f889/content.htm, which states what I am trying to do should work, but it does not.
Here's the deal:
1. I have two jobs: "A" and "B".
2. "A" runs Daily.
3. I set-up job "B" to run "After job" "A" in my SM36 definition.
Job "B" will run the next day, but never runs again after that even though job "A" continues to run "Daily" as it should.
Further info:
1. We have "Event-triggered" jobs that run fine, but the "After Job" designation doesn't seem to work ongoingly.
2. I can review both jobs "A" and "B" for any "Predecessor" or "Successor" jobs, and, the first jobs to run after the initial set-up DO reference each other (in other words, let's say I schedule job "B" to run "After job" "A" on Tuesday. After Tuesday's run, Job "A" sees job "B" as it's "Successor" job and job "B" sees job "A" as it's "Predecessor" job), but the definition doesn't last into the next day ONLY FOR JOB "B" (as I mentioned, job "A" always runs fine).
3. I can't set the "periodcity" for job "B" because, once I flag it to run "After Job" "A", the "period" options disappear.
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Here's my question:
Why won't job "B" continue to run "Daily" after job "A" (a "Daily" job) runs?
Thanks in advance,
Lara

Please close this thread since you posted the same question here:
[SM36/37: Specification "After Job" does not work for Daily "periodcity"|SM36/37: Specification "After Job" does not work for Daily "periodcity";

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Hi SCN Mates,
The question of managing time to contribute in SCN and be in the top list of contributors is always a challenge, I wonder how other guys are managing it along with project work and personal life.
Through this thread I would like to ask all top contributors to share few tips on how do you manage your time to contribute in SCN and be in top?
I know with dedication and knowledge, at same time everyone will have their office work at priority after family/personal time.
Also contributing for an hour daily is also not possible because you never know whether you get ideas within an hour ;-).
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Thanks,
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I am afraid there is no fixed way to achieve lofty goals with little or no effort.
There is a 3rd category, who are pretty decent in their knowledge and sporadically answer questions when they feel like, and who randomly get points for their responses, and they will never become top contributors, however, they are not too worried about it, and they do get to spend time with their families/other interests. This is a technicality that need not detain us.
YMMV
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Did you all get a chance to experiment with the tips & tricks we posted yesterday? If you did, what did you think? Did you discover anything interesting or find something you didn't like? What tips & trick can you share? Please keep providing us with your feedback. It's great to hear everyone's concerns, praises and suggestions, and it's immensely valuable!
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I know this stuff is 3 months old but I just got mine and hadn't yet used the pin function so now I know.
I hope you are right Nancy that it will have updates, but I really doubt it. This is the norm for Microsoft when stuff they put out bombs. Dish Network had a DVR receiver many years ago that had Microsoft software installed and it was buggy to say the least. They updated it a few times but then abandon it. For a few years Microsoft wouldn't release the code to Dish Network to allow DN to fix the bugs. It was a real "Hate Microsoft" time for those users. DN had to put out their own coded DVR receivers and let the Microsoft ones die.
I think VZ made a deal with MS and removed the stuff MS wasn't supporting. Then VZ put them out without needing a data package to unload them.

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