WinMerge is wonderful for those souls that are still trap developing in windows.
Their “main” site is currently down but you can check it out later at winmerge.org.
Meld is another great app which I found ones I moved 100% to linux.
I really like them both but there is one feature that WinMerge has that I haven’t been able to reproduce in Meld. WinMerge has keyboard shortcuts for everything, so you do something like alt-down, alt left (can’t recall the exact commands) and that will go to the next diff and replace the right file with the left file. In Meld you have (or at least as far as I know) to do the same but with the mouse which makes it slower.
A smaller thing is that WinMerge is faster and I believe it’s both because it’s more mature and because it’s C++ while meld is python+GTK .
And of course Meld gets extra points for the cool effect to reflect changes.
I have been wanting to post about a couple of small apps, that I have been using. Which I think rock but not many people know them. So in no particular order here is the first .
InfraRecorder is what I dream of having for all those years I was using windows, ever since Nero crapped out it’s own UI, I think it was nero 5 or 6 when they redoit to make it idiot proved, which in most cases ruins the experience for the “advanced users”.
InfraRecorder is simple and usefull, the website is very ugly (default wordpress install) and the UI too but who wants a flashy UI if all you need is to burn a CD? Infra has 3 or 4 tabs each with 3 or 4 “links” you click. It was everything you will ever need; burn data, mp3 (with a plugin due to copyright), burn ISO, copy disk-to-disk and delete re-writables.
A warning: If you are trying to burn a CD with a DVD burner (always?) it gives you a dialog, which the first time I read confused me, it’s really asking you if you want to burn a CD or DVD and if you choose the wrong one it will ruin your disk.
This is something very cool, someone named Peter has been working on a driver for X to support multi touch, some of you may be saying 2006 call it want’s it’s really cool multitouch screen back, but let me tell you why this is different.
We don’t need gesture support in X. Gestures depend a lot on the context. A gesture in one context can mean something different in a different context. And the only thing that knows the context is the application. This is very similar to a button press. Pressing a mouse button can mean a zillion different things, depending where and when it happens. That’s why all X does is relay the button press to a client application, which then does the right thing.
Which in short means the X server will just send an event to the client, remember that in X terms the client is the Desktop Environment (gnome,kde,enlightenment) or the window manager (fluxbox,w3m, etc.).
To your multi-touch driver all this doesn’t matter. It sends blob events, the server takes care of the rest. You’re guaranteed to be able to interact with any X application. X doesn’t care about the hardware. You can use your DiamondTouch, your FTIR table or - if you can afford one - your MS Surface table.
which means that ANY application can work with multi-touch, in fact ones GTK gets support for BlobEvents all your program has to do is support one more event and process it.
Even better you can use the mouse and keyboard and multitouch all together as MPX is just another driver!
Full article here which is the cool part which is the reason why I’m not liking the video from here, so go read the artcle and watch it in action.
Just a quick note on a great interview. I really like Moore, I have to agree that sometimes he has a very narrow point of view, and a very cruel way of saying it, but he is right. As for the “introductory” piece by Dr whatever, that was just a low blow by CNN. Come on really how you introduce someone questioning his crediability. Anyway here is the video
UPDATE: here is the promised point-to-point response
I have added the subscribe to comments plugin (anyone could tell me if it’s working?), upgraded to wordpress 2.2.1 and I have a new theme which is supposed to be very nice to edit.
