Posts by happygeek

Here’s the concept behind the smartpen: there are millions of pages of good old fashioned handwritten notes taken every day in business meetings and school lessons around the world. Unfortunately they remain trapped within the confines of the paper they are written upon. But what if you could easily share those notes, make them searchable and accessible by digitising them with a tap of the pen you write them with?

That’s where the Echo smartpen comes in by digitally capturing what you write, and what you hear, and then ‘pencasting’ the data using the new Livescribe Connect software. To pencast your written data is really easy, and involves nothing more complex than drawing a line and writing the name of the destination (such as Facebook for example) followed by a tap or even the drawing of a circle to lasso the information you want to share. The next time the pen is docked with your computer the pencast is sent. Livescribe Connect currently works with Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus and AOL for email, Facebook, Google Docs and Evernote. There is also a ‘Mobile/iPad Connector’ available which allows you to send pencasts from paper to iPad and iPhone.

The hardware itself incorporates a microphone, memory storage and an infrared camera within the body of a pen. Oh, and a pen of course. Now you might think that stuffing all of this into a writing implement would result in one chunky pen. …

Taking care of bald spot is easy, shave the rest of your hair off and it vanishes. Sorted.

Gym? What's that? I exercise at home (weights, spot of running) and until recently did some boxing (but at 47 it was probably a mistake, as my dentist will confirm next week as he repairs the damage from a tooth being punched out) to help keep in shape.

For me, though, diet is king. I used to be veggie, lapsed, and then returned to the fold recently. I avoid dairy and follow a low fat diet regime. Have lost three stones (42lbs) in a year, and 5" from my waist.

Oh, and lots of sex helps keep you fit and happy...

Erm, THIS is the final word. Discussion now complete, and before this just turns into a trolling session, thread closed.

You can participate in this forum, but seeing as you yourself admitted you were not confident in the response you gave on behalf of the admin team here then it's best to leave those responses to us. Not doing so runs the very real risk of confusing members who may think you actually know what you are talking about ;)

No, the admins will not delete the account, or any account for that matter.

I didn't know Google could search for images using camera serial numbers...

Ask a group of 100 people how they search for images online and the chances are that the vast majority will give the standard 'Google' response. Indeed, Google Images is a useful search engine if you are satisfied with a scattergun approach to finding all images that match a specific search term. But what if you wanted something a little more focussed, if you'll excuse the photographic play on words? What of you wanted to find all the images taken by your camera and that now appear online?

Impossible, you might imagine, but actually it's not only possible but actually incredibly easy using a free new resource that has entered a public Beta. Called, with a sad lack of creativity, the GadgetTrak Camera Serial Search it does pretty much what it says on the box. Enter the serial number of their camera and search for images online that were taken by that particular camera. As I write this, there are some 2,923,272 camera serial numbers indexed. When you connect to the site you can watch the serial numbers, along with the make and model of camera they belong to, whizz past on a scrolling display under the search box. Hover your mouse pointer over that scrolling display and it stops dead, allowing you to click through and return a search for all the images taken by that particular camera that are now online. Great fun for the voyeur in us, but …

I certainly email much less than I did 10 years ago, or even 20 years ago for that matter. As Dani says, it's Twitter and Facebook that are slowly replacing email as the default method for keeping in touch with family and friends. That said, the most special person in my life I keep in touch with mainly by SMS first and foremost, then email...

It may seem like email has been around forever, but actually it is exactly 40 years since the first email was sent by the man credited with inventing it, engineer Ray Tomlinson, on Wednesday 8th June 1971.

Tomlinson was a computer engineer who was working for a company that had been hired to help build the Arpanet, the predecessor to the Internet, at the time. And in case you were wondering, that very first email message simply said: 'QWERTYUIOP' which as any self-respecting geek will know is the top line of letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard. QWERTYUIOP is actually quite apt if you ask me, as it makes as much sense as most of the email sent today considering more than 90% of it by volume is spam.

But don't let the abuse of email taint the fact that without it our lives just wouldn't be the same, and in a very positive way. Email is, in many ways, a return to an age of letter writing and as a writer myself I cannot see that as anything but a huge positive.

Research by Sky Broadband has uncovered some interesting email related facts:42% of Brits have not sent a snail mail letter in the last six month
51% of British workers would rather send an email than pick up the phone to a colleague, whereas only 24% would do the rather do the reverse
25% of Brits don't want their …

No mistake. You have consistently created accounts to circumvent your ban, which also breaks the rules. Some of these accounts have only come to our attention when they too have been infracted.

Any account you create will be banned as soon as we realise it is you as you have shown a flagrant disregard for DaniWeb and it's rules during the last six months.

Although the Aurora is, theoretically, a portable speaker system it’s not really that easy to lug around with your laptop unless you do away with a slimline carry case and replace it with a small suitcase. The tubular super-woofer, two tennis ball satellite speakers and not forgetting the power cable all adds up to a lot to carry around with you. Especially when it all weighs in at something approaching 1.8Kg.

Which might leave you wondering just who the Aurora is aimed at then, and that’s simple: people like me who have a laptop which only ever travels between office and living room. It is a desktop replacement in all senses of the word and that includes audio. Like most desktop computers, my laptop and quite probably yours, has pretty awful built-in speakers. Fine for system beeps and perhaps a bit of Skype action, but not what you’d want to listen to your music collection through. Which is where the Aurora comes in, handling the audio with no small amount of aplomb and cool style.

Cool if you like colour that is. You can opt to be a boring git and choose a black set, but why would you do that when there is a metallic blue offering, or a red one, or green, yellow, bronze, silver and pink.

Cool if you like unusual design which combines form with function. So you get a tubular super-woofer to deliver some meaty …

@happygeek
I have a question, if I copy paste something from another website, but I tell others that it is not mine and is from the other website(by giving the link), then will I be banned?

You are only banned if you accrue 10 infraction points. A Keep It Legal infraction is worth 5 points.

The Keep It Legal rule clearly states:

"Do ensure you own the intellectual property rights to everything that you post. Do not post copyright-infringing material"

And that still applies even if you then add a link saying "this is where I copied that from" unless you can prove that the IP owner has given you explicit, written, permission for you to use it and for us to publish it.

Seems like abelLazm being banned is attracting a lot of attention here.

Generally speaking, when someone breaks the rules and then argues the rules don't apply to them it tends to get my attention.

Hi Wenbnet, the Keep It Clear rules state:

Do not write in all uppercase or use "leet", "txt" or "chatroom" speak

and

Do post in full-sentence English

This is primarily to ensure that everyone, including those for whom English is not a first language, can understand what is being said.

Surely you know what is copied and what is not copied, especially when you copied it yourself?

Indeed,you earlier stated that what you posted was not a cut and paste, now you are saying that you cut and pasted it from the company website.

What you actually posted was not what you stated above at all, but something completely different starting "Since 2005 Brick Marketing has become one of the premier and effective boutique search engine marketing firms" but which I will not copy here in full for obvious reasons.

Finally, if getting banned from DaniWeb 'doesn't matter at all' you sure have a funny way of showing it...

Try the Mobile Development forum right here on DaniWeb :)

i mentioned the address where the definition was from

You did not state that the definition was from there.
You just added a couple of links with 'details here and here' which is not the same thing.
Just adding a link to a statement, in any case, does not mean the posting would not breach the keep it legal rule.

Don't copy and paste your rules here .... just tell me what is brick marketing and it will be over ?

???

Please note, with the exception of this thread, using a new account to circumvent a ban is also in breach of the rules and any such accounts will be banned if they start posting in other forums.

One last question Why not the other people were banned who posted there the same thing i haven't at all copy pasted but they surely did that..... any ways bye

Accounts are only banned when infraction points reach a total of 10.

Other posts in that thread have been deleted and, where appropriate, members have been issued keep it legal infractions. However, if those members did not have any infraction points already, as you did, then their accounts would not be banned.

The rules are there for the benefit of everyone, and that includes both members of the community and DaniWeb itself as a business. The Keep It Legal rule protects DaniWeb from action that could be taken against us if people are breaching copyright by posting content that is not theirs to post.

In your case the post was, for the most part, a straight cut and paste of content lifted from another website. You say that you never said they were your words, but the fact remains they were posted using your account and so that is the reasonable assumption everyone makes.

You say it was 'given that these words are from where' but actually all that you did was add two external links stating 'details here and here' which again do nothing to disclaim your ownership of the content.

Both your keep it legal infractions were given by admins (myself and Narue) who are very well aware of how to interpret the rule. There was no mistake, this was not a borderline decision, it was a clear cut infraction. The first infraction drew your attention to the ruling, and suggested you familiarize yourself with it to prevent any further breaches.

You also know you are old when someone says have you got a tablet and instead of talking about the iPad or Xoom you head for the medicine cabinet...

You are banned because, as explained in the PM that accompanied your Keep It Legal infraction, it is against the rules to cut and paste content from another website and then post it here as if it were your own. This breaches the Keep It Legal rule and gets you a 5 point infraction. You already had an active Keep It Legal infraction for posting a code snippet that was a verbatim copy of code published elsewhere, this took your total points to 10 which automatically means your account is banned until your points expire.

<cough> You know you are old if you remember the games console Magnavox Odyssey! I have three fully working, complete and boxed, original Odyssey consoles from 1972 in my loft...

I access DaniWeb from my iPhone when away from the office, just to keep an eye on things. Most of the time I use my lappy.

AD: what is this 'PC' thing you speak of? You are taking the 'ancient' thing too far my friend :)

Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb

At the moment it looks like the company is only selling into the Australian and UK markets, but there's nothing stopping you sending them an email to see if they will deliver elsewhere...

The clue is in the name: Agora 7" tablet :)

You've got to remember the price point, this is at the value end of the market and not intended to compete directly with the iPad end of the lifestyle spectrum to be fair. Corners are always going to have to be cut to hit a low price like that, I'm just surprised that Kogan appears to have done so well all things considered. That said, I will reserve judgement until I've had a chance to get hands-on with a real device and put it through its paces for a DaniWeb review.

The Kogan Agora 7 inch Android tablet has been kicking up something of a storm even before it has actually shipped. Not least because of the pricing. The Australian company is attempting to break into the UK market and is marketing the device as the best value Android tablet in the world to tempt buyers. It can do this, so the company tells us, as it is the manufacturer of the tablet and only sells directly to the customer via an online shop, cutting out additional middleman costs completely.

Thing is, it may just have a point with a selling price currently sitting at £106 ($175 US) which places it at around a third the cost of a Samsung Galaxy Tab. I say ‘currently’ as the price is a bit of a moving target depending upon when you commit to purchase. The Agora 7” is only available online, and Kogan uses something called LivePrice to determine how much you pay. According to Ruslan Kogan, the 27 year-old founder and CEO of Kogan, that price gradually increases “at a rate that depends on a number of key factors until we sell out, reach our expected dispatch date, or reach our everyday best value price”. Commit early and you get a better deal, and one assumes Kogan gets a better idea of how many units to produce. Full refunds are available at any time while a LivePrice is still being offered, apparently.

If that …

The reaction doesn't happen in my brain, although many people have commented that I do much of my thinking where the reaction happens >;)

What is newsworthy, and what Symantec pointed out, was that the spammers are now operating their own custom URL shortening domains rather than using existing services.

Anyone who uses Twitter, and has at some point posted a link to something interesting, will have almost certainly used a URL-shortening service such as bit.ly for example. Now the spammers are exploiting the popularity of such link-reduction services by establishing their own fake URL-shortening services in order to redirect users to their own spam and malware sites.

According to the latest Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence Report, this is the first time that spammers have been found to be using custom URL redirection (with domains registered many months before being used) as part of their efforts to evade detection by anti-spam filtering services and software. It seems that the spammers are using a double-dip technique whereby they are not linking directly to the target sites using these services. Instead, the spam emails contain a link using a genuine link reduction service which in turn points to the spam shortened link itself - a technique being used with great success. The figures suggest that during the month of May 2011, spam increased by 2.9 percent over the previous month and it is suggested that much of this is down to the newly uncovered evasion technique.

"MessageLabs Intelligence has been monitoring the way that spammers abuse URL-shortening services for a number of years using a variety of different techniques so it was only a matter of time before a new technique appeared," said Paul Wood, MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst. "What is unique about the new URL-shortening sites …

Thanks Eyal :)

Thanks Sanjay :)

I know AD, but people reading this may see moderators saying stuff and interpret that as DaniWeb policy. Hence the clarification.

Davy I think you may have misinterpreted the meaning of the debate. Nobody made any such suggestion.

You need to talk to Eyal (WASDted) who can advise you on format and style etc.

However, generally speaking, post your tutorial in the most appropriate forum, and then make sure you PM the mods to let them know it's a tutorial so it can be peer reviewed etc and if suitable flagged as a tutorial on the system.

Erm, do you want to try that again but this time wrapping it up in an actual question?

Can I just point out, seeing as this is the community feedback forum, that members will not be punished just because English is not their first language, or indeed they are crap at spelling or grammar. The official line is that txt speak, leet speak and the like are not allowed, and if a posting makes absolutely no sense at all due to the poor use of language then that will get dealt with on a case by case basis as well - but we will absolutely not stop people from getting help just because their spelling is poor.

Why the need for two accounts with different names though?

you've come to the right place, be sure to check out our Internet Marketing forums. But please make sure you read the rules first.

By the way, why do you have two accounts with different usernames both posting here at the same time?

we do not delete accounts, but you can go to your control panel and toggle off all the options to receive notification emails etc. You can also edit your user profile to remove any personal info. Then just don't login again.

Good Karma comes around and kisses you when you need it. I needed it, it kissed me, and I'm pretty much back to the old Davey now - although not everyone might think that's a good thing. Spammers watch out... :)

Can I just say, YAY!

:)

Good to know your hard work, as always, is paying off Dani.

Thanks all, it's good to be back home at DaniWeb after a bit of a rough few weeks...

Hey Adam, welcome aboard the Good Ship DaniWeb mate! I'm sure you will fit right in :)

I'm back...

I didn't watch it, I did something more enjoyable instead such as pulling my toenails out with pliers.

I'll be back in a couple of weeks :)

Thanks everyone for the support, and thanks to Narue for stepping up while I've had to step down for the time being.

I'm glad to say that my absence will only be temporary, I honestly couldn't stay away from DaniWeb for too long. As Eyal has said, DaniWeb is a big part of my life.

I've just got some personal things that need to get sorted out before I can give DaniWeb the 100% it deserves, but as soon as they are resolved I will be right back.

I am hopeful that I can resume my community admin duties next month, although it may well be nearer the end than the beginning...

Once again, thanks everyone for the words of support it really does mean a lot.

Davey

What does your Android, BlackBerry or iPhone say about you? That's what newly published research by YouGov on behalf of Intelligent Environments aimed to find out, but the results were a little surprising to say the least.

The research analysed the financial profiles of each smartphone to paint a picture of the average user personality depending upon their choice of phone. Of course, it's all just a bit of fun really but interesting nonetheless. The sample size was 2001 British adults aged 18 plus, questioned between the 18th and 21st March 2011.

Perhaps the most striking of the revelations was that Android and BlackBerry users are a lot less likely to overspend than iPhone users, with the results of the survey suggesting that only 39% of iPhone users are likely to never get overdrawn whereas the figures are 49% for BlackBerry users and 54% for Android.

iPhone users were also most engrossed in their smartphones, with some 18% spending more than four hours a day on the device compared to just 4% for both Android and BlackBerry.

BlackBerry users didn't care much for apps, comparatively speaking, with 23% never using any apps at all. When it comes to apps, 10% of BlackBerry users spent the most time using financial apps but the figure was just 4% for the iPhone, suggesting that (shock horror) the BlackBerry fits the business personality better. 34% of Android users said that travel apps were their favorites. BlackBerry users also …