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Agreed. There are proxies which defeat detectors. If i were a fraudster i'd use those. So all you're doing is losing real customers.

I run several mailservers but my main email addresses go to fastmail.

the OP wants "low-maintenance". that's fastmail, it just works.

I ran with protonmail too for a while, it's good, but costs about the same as FM. Unless all your friends are on proton it will go out decrypted anyhow, so not so much advantage. proton worked with the bridge to my regular email client. it worked, but clunky. My main gripe with proton is they only let you have one domain for the standard deal.

FM let's you have many. This is exactly what i want. Providing i keep within the overall limits I've paid for, i can't see why i can't have multiple domains with providers.

my owns servers often have email bounced back. outlook.com and yahoo are notoriously bad. Microsoft actually operate a whitelist you have to get on, which is nasty. gmail also bounces sometimes.

So these are for side projects. not for real work.

another big+ for FM is you can connect over port 80 via their proxy. my VPN blocks outgoing email which is a PITA, but it works with FM in this way. That was really nice to have working again.

and JPEG option to use arithmetic encoding. The patent expired YEARS ago and is saves 10-20% of the size. for some reason people still aren't using this option for JPEG (compatibility mostly).

and a button that says; map this image into sRGB and discard the color profile. please!!

This is impressive, I'm going to start using this. I know that the wish list must be long, but I'd really like to see things that i CANT do in other editors, such as PS;

(1) PS (the version i have anyhow) does not support PNG8 with 8bit alpha. This annoys me a LOT because i have to use another program to generate these from PNG24 for all my web work. why doesn't PS support this format?? PP to have this please!

(2) Sometimes i want to quickly add some markup to an image. arrows, callouts, etc. This is a PITA with PS because it's just TOO complicated. A "simple editing" page would be cool.

(3) I do a lot of work with APNG (animated PNG) now, which appear to work in most browsers. most editors won't touch APNG. PP will load and generates each frame as a layer. would be nice to see the frame boxes and edit/move them, then recombine. would save a TON of work with APNG authoring.

(4) edit JPG/PNG metadata please.

blue sky stuff: i "waste" a lot of time in PS extracting items from images. I know this is HARD, but any help here would be a massive boost and worthy of payment. same goes for "unblurring" as alternative to sharpening. i know this is technically impossible, but it might be possible to help fix camera shake a LITTLE BIT, knowing it's shake and not just random blur, etc.

my 2c, but good luck with it!

nice idea. I'll use that in the blog!

Hi everyone, Strand here; We're BAKING the tapes now. check it out. https://strandgames.com/blog/tk50-tape-baking

A while back i wanted to write my own calendar to support custom recurrence rules, as well as the usual ones you always get. Custom rules would include things like calculation of Easter and other holidays and events that move about like moon phases.

So the idea was to build a translator that turns something like iCal into a "program". and if you're a hacker, you can write directly in this program :-)

I chose LUA for this because it's compact and sufficient for this requirement.

The other thing i wanted is to be able to write a date and/or a time as words on the end of any event and have the calendar figure it out for. There are so many times that i want to specify, for example, a relative event.

I might extend a cloud payment for 6 months. so i type cloud XYZ expires, 1 day before 6 months from today.

and things like: Radisson Hotel, May 27th at 2pm for 3 nights.

Also then terms like "Easter" and "xmas" can be part of the word parser. And stuff just like "beer friday with Pete."

One thing i still need to do is have it set up recurrences automatically for stuff like "Dave's Birthday, next Friday". So it puts in in the calendar, and adds annual recurrence automatically. would be nice.

I'm thinking of open sourcing what i have.

Hi, i have a similar app, which is free. I see that your app needs access to the Android contacts and calendar. I didn't want that for mine. I wanted something totally independent, secure and encrypted - but also sync across platforms including desktop.

I like to be able to make notes and calendar entries whilst I'm at my desk, then take them with me. I don't want to access my private notes from within a browse.

https://lexiy.com

point taken. but it need not be solved by increasing the barrier to entry. instead it's a ranking problem; make the poor titles sink to the bottom.

i think this is bad news. "We will ask new developers to complete a set of digital paperwork, personal or company verification, and tax documents similar to the process of applying for a bank account."

It's all about control and stopping real indie development. "low as $100 to as high as $5,000." That's _per title_ ! and it will whatever they can get away with. $5000 to publish a game is not indie anymore.

Does the rest of the UK also get a vote to leave Scotland?

I used clouds to store files and my own app to store notes and calendars. Im thinking of open sourcing my app for the benefit of others. http://lexiy.com

isn't there supposed to be a major update Jan?

i agree. Stuffing everything into one tin makes it too big with too short battery life. The problem with putting sensors & power in the strap is that it's not longer a watch insofar as you can change straps. personally, i think the "band" format is superior, mainly for these reasons.

It was great. but writing on a micro screen is no fun. press and swipe are about as far as it should go with wrist touch interfaces.

yeah what possessed them to make people say "ok Google". I might as well say, "I'm an idiot". Was it not possible to make it start listening for commands when you activate it/turn wrist etc.

im thinking biosensors evenually have to go subcutaneous with the watch/band being the reader.

can i do voice recognition on a pebble?

I agree. I think the mistake made by the industry is selling them as "watches" and not gadgets like bands or wearables in general.

A watch should be good to tell the time. smartwatches are a throwback to the 70's where you had to press a little button.

Haven't they figured out yet that telling the time is the thing that smart watches do the worst.

instead, i want a band. I'm still waiting for an Android Wear band. i want something a bit like the Microsoft band 2 [1], but slimmer and a smaller screen. something as a notification device and to take voice notes. but i don't need it to replace my watch because it's not "on" when i look at it.

For telling the time, I'll either wear a "proper" watch (as well) or none at all.

[1] I'm on my 3rd ms band. they randomly die (stop charging). ms are good about it and replace it quickly... but soon my warranty will be up and it's all over.

thanks for the link. I'm actually looking for any open source software that would turn, say a webcam, into a mouse.

Are there any DIY mouse projects, specifically the methods to detect movement in software? than

tangential question; does anyone know of a cheap hardware random number generator for PCs. thanks.

thanks. For web pages, I usually clear any existing metadata within images, then insert some simple (but correct) keywords about the image. Wondering if I'm wasting my time.

Does Google index the metadata within images?

Wow! I had the same idea over 10 years ago. I'm glad it's being done.

My idea was using a giant P2P indexbase. However, I read the tech page, but it doesn't explain enough. For example, for this to work, there would have to be some kind of "information routing" whereby queries within certain information domains would be routed to machines. I can't see how this is being done.

Because you can't have the whole index on each machine, therefore, how does it know where to route a given query?

Additionally, peer nodes would have to crawl to a certain criteria; either subject based, or perhaps geographically. Otherwise you'd just end up with the same stuff everywhere.

If there's some more explanation, please link.

thanks.

so, they didn't bother checking his cv?

Hey thanks. I wasn't aware of the dylib appstore restriction. Is this still the case with iOS8 and if not, could a dynamic LGPL Qt app be put on the store. I hope they allow this going forward.

Yes, I'm compiling for Windows using mingw64. I gave up with VC because, it worked, but since Windows 10, the MS dynamic runtime contains parts of the OS. This doesn't always install properly on windows 7 & 8. Mingw worked.