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Re: TabCloud

Mitneck Sahab — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:23:23 -0000

mitneck
your extension is very helpfull and awefully very nice. One thing that it lack is to export all those bookmarks to another account. so Do please provide a feature which enables this. Thank you in advance

Re: TabCloud

Rinnie — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:37:32 -0000

I love this app! But is there a way to re-save a set of tabs? If not, please introduce one!

Re: TabCloud

Connorhd — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:06:19 -0000

Hi, thanks for the comments (sorry for the delay in replying),

I'm working on a new version which more permanently logs in, the current version uses Google App Engine which seems to log some people out more often than it should. I'm pretty busy right now though, so I'm not sure when the new version will be ready.

Here is as good a place as any to post any ideas you have :)

Connor

Re: TabCloud

Jose — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:09:28 -0000

Hi Connor, te quiero felicitar desde Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. Pienso que tu trabajo es EXCELENTE, lo que has logrado en efectividad y simpleza con TABCLOUD, debería ser un modelo de aplicación para otros desarrolladores. Suerte con tus otros emprendimientos en código abierto.
José Castro.Lic. en Bioquímicajotadoc@gmail.com

Re: TabCloud

X_Hunter — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:53:55 -0000

Dude, this is really awesome! Instead of using those specific session management addons, this is just swifter and cool!

There's only one con I found so far: restarting Google Chrome or simply shutting it down, requires me to log in again and whenever that happens. I don't know if it's just me or all users, but... Is there any chance to add an automatic (saved) login feature? Or even attach the Google Sync login form to keep it logged on as well. It's simple: Someone logs in on Google Chrome Sync, then with that form filled, it just gives access to your TabCloud management on that specific account.

I got some other ideas about this addon in specific, but I don't know if this is the right place to post at. Well, I'll keep in touch. ;)

Regards, all of best and keep on the good work!

Re: WebApp – An Android experiment

surajkala — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:57:13 -0000

doesnt work.. 404

Re: TabCloud

Taras D — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:59:59 -0000

Is there a way of independently backing up the tab cloud data (just in case.. :))

Re: TabCloud

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:36:48 -0000

Love your work. Covered it in my new syndicated Techlife column - "The Tab King" - enjoy - http://bit.ly/qXEd4M

Re: WebApp – An Android experiment

cedric — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:27:26 -0000

http://connorhd.co.uk/files/We... dont work -> 404

Re: Kindlizer – Adapting the web for the Kindle browser

Truexc — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:53:59 -0000

This is a good step in the right direction. Unfortunately some RSS feeds do not allow you to read the entire article. They might consider making it so that when you click on the link to the full article instead of loading the full blown website it loads a compacted version via a service such as skweezer.com

Re: TapeMeasure - Another Android experiment

tb — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:09:21 -0000

I know this is an old post, but I found out a junior engineer at my company was forced (by an idiot boss) to attempt this. I actually have done a lot of work with MEMs accelerometers before they were ever put into phones, but was never asked. Please don't get stuck like she did.
To put it bluntly, it'll never work without correction from another sensor. Here's why. Assume that 'a' is the true acceleration, but a real-world sensor measures error too. This error is included in the equation to remove gravity. This means that you partially leave gravity as real acceleration. This feeds back into the next step and the effect of that error increases as the square of time (due to double integration). So after say 10 seconds, it is multiplied by 100. After 20, by 400. And that is just the error from that ONE sample. All the others are accumulating on top of it with the same increase.

A second sensor like a camera can be used to zero out the error periodically and may be a good solution. Look up Kalman filters to see how this is done in inertial measurement units.

HTH, good luck.
t

Re: TabCloud

pip010 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:10:39 -0000

like creating your own ontology?

Re: TabCloud

pip010 — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:08:22 -0000

TabCloud rulez ! I have a similar idea but keep it in a browser win rather than plugin. we need to collaborate on ideas about UI and behavior. will love it :P

Re: Kindlizer – Adapting the web for the Kindle browser

Jamieerakine — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:12:38 -0000

everytime i add a url, it loses it the next time i visit. Not sure what goood about that if you have to enter the url each time. I must be doing something wrong, but there arent exactly many options, so i fail to see where i could go wrong

Re: TapeMeasure - Another Android experiment

Anilsharma Y — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:15:09 -0000

All in all a bit of a waste of time
:))

Re: TabCloud

5354 — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:43:43 -0000

awesome!!!! ^^

Re: TabCloud

Tony Sukiennik — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:59:39 -0000

Connor... Nice job on all of your projects... I'm involved in a couple of SW Ventures with Padraig Harrington and his brother Columb that lie in your areas of interest... I found you because of your TabCloud Extension... Try out mine called OxyChrome: https://chrome.google.com/exte... -- which was just published on the Chrome Web Store yesterday... We have this and a couple of other Products that we might want to talk to you about working on in some capacity this summer and beyond if you are not otherwise occupied... My name is Tony and you can reach me at oxyChrome@infoGenome.net...

Re: TabCloud

Connorhd — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:34:51 -0000

I was planning to have some kind of tabbed interface to split the ones saved as bookmarks and ones saved on google (although I imagine most users would use one type of storage or the other). I was also planning to extend this interface to allow you to view the windows you have open now/recently on other computers.

There is a scrolling mechanism at the moment, in the form of a thin scrollbar that will appear if the box gets too big.

Yeah I'm quite busy, its my final year so I have a 15,000 word report to write right now, followed by exams. I'm hoping to get some of the smaller tweaks and fixes done in the next couple of weeks, but the bigger things are going to have to wait a little while.

Re: TabCloud

eboyhan — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:29:40 -0000

OK, I see how that will work -- might even make bookmarks marginally useful to me :-). Is it going to be an either/or thing? If I'm logged in to Google will I see the open windows/contents, saved windows/contents, bookmarked windows/contents? Or will I see Open+saved or open+bookmarked depending upon some option. If it's open+saved+bookmarked, I could see the tabcloud pull down getting awfully busy.

BTW what happens when you have so many open/saved tabs/windows that the pull down needs to extend beyond the physical bottom of your screen? Is there some scrolling mechanism?

As you said the coding for some of this is going to be complex. Rest assured I won't be holding my breath waiting for any of this any time soon :-). I assume you're back in school with exams on the horizon, pubs to be explored, etc :-) -- so maybe nothing till the hols eh?

Re: TabCloud

Connorhd — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:56:25 -0000

To be honest, coding this will be a challenge and I'm not entirely sure what the end result will be. Ideally I'd allow selections from any of the windows (saved and open) then as soon as you drag they would all group together and the group can be placed in any window.

Re: TabCloud

eboyhan — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:53:50 -0000

When you do the multi-select, you will have to provide some kind of highlight for the selected tabs, and this highlighting will have to be different from whatever you use to highlight the active/current tabs. Do you think you'll be able to provide multi-select across multiple open and saved windows, or only within a single window?

Re: TabCloud

Connorhd — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:51:38 -0000

My bookmarking proposal is that TabCloud will create a bookmark folder, and within that a folder for each tab group saved, containing the tabs saved as bookmarks. You can then ignore that folder in the bookmarks list (or use it if you want) and the TabCloud popup will let you view what is stored in there with the same interface it has now.

This would mean you no longer need to use a Google login to persist sessions on one computer, and if you use Xmarks or similar your TabCloud saved windows would be synced to other browsers just as your bookmarks are.

Re: TabCloud

eboyhan — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:47:09 -0000

After some reflection of course you don't have direct access to the local file system -- as this would vitiate the security-oriented sandboxing, which chrome is rather good at.

Bookmarks are not my thing -- I hardly use them -- different usage styles -- which is why I usually run with over a hundred tabs open I guess -- replaces bookmarks for me (which is also why I'd like to have the counts of open tabs provided -- many other extensions in a similar space as yours provide this functionality -- I guess I'm more of a cardinality sort of guy rather than steeped in the mysteries of ordinality:-)).

Since I don't use bookmarks much, I'm not sure of what use your proposed bookmarking of tabs is. Xmarks I guess provides cross-browser access to bookmarks, but that's not the same as cross the cloud. As I say I'm not au current with the bookmarking way of doing things.

Nevertheless, yours is by far the best of all the tab/session/group management extensions that I've experimented with since Chrome 10 came out -- I'll be sticking with it -- keep up the good work.

Re: TabCloud

Connorhd — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:10:53 -0000

I think I'd be ok changing copy to the alt+click/drag combination. I don't think it is used too much anyway, I agree that move should always be the default action, and I would really like to allow selecting multiple tabs (you may be interested to know that Chrome 12 will allow you to ctrl+click on tabs to select multiple ones and drag them into a new window). I'd prefer to avoid right click+drag as I don't think I've seen that used in a web interface ever.

I'll try to improve the documentation, but to be clear, middle click is a click function the same as left and right click. You have changed your middle mouse button to make it not perform a middle click, the same software probably lets you reconfigure the left and right click buttons, but I have to assume no one would do that. I will update the help to make that more obvious though.

As far as the sync issue goes, for those users I plan to allow them to save the data as bookmarks, which means it will be stored locally and optionally synced using whatever their favourite bookmark sync service is. Unfortunately I cannot save data into local files as extensions in Chrome have no direct access to the users file system. I do also plan on adding an export/import function which would allow the user to download and save the data stored in TabCloud as a backup, this would be manually run though, rather than automatically synced.

Re: TabCloud

eboyhan — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:07:16 -0000

Well, there's an implied question in your response, so I'll try and provide some help. I just spent a little time swanning around in windows explorer to get a precise understanding of the standard Windows multi-select, and copy/move semantics.

I think you should try and adhere to windows standard mouse button semantics, which have been around since the dawn of time (well at least since the mid 80s:-)). Unfortunately, this will mean having to change your current usage of ctrl+left click because windows already uses this for non-contiguous multi-select (shift+left click is used for contiguous multi-selects). As an alternative might I suggest Alt+left click for your copy function -- as I don't think there are any widely used conventions for this combination.

That leaves the copy/move semantic. If you drag a multiple selected block of items with the left mouse button, and drop it (somewhere legal :-)) this means copy the dragged block to the target location. If, on the other hand, you drag the selected block of items with the right mouse button and drop it, what happens is that a little bubble window opens asking you whether you want to copy (the default) or move the block of items.

I still think that a drag and drop anywhere outside the bubbles representing current or saved windows should mean open a new window and drop the selected block (or single) of tabs/icons there. Other than the standard windows left button drag/right button drag described above, I don't have any strong suggestions as to copy/move distinctions.

Perhaps, if you adopt my suggestion (made above) that alt+left click means copy, then alt+drag and then drop means copy the selected block of items, and a simple drag and drop of a selected block means "move". I would give priority to "move" as this seems to me to be the more useful action.

To be clear about my prior comment about the confusion caused by the middle mouse button, my point wasn't to get you to change the middle mouse button semantic per se, but to make the help page clarify that the middle mouse button is meant to copy the clicked item to the current window. I would also recommend putting a warning in the help page that the middle button only works as stated if the middle button behavior has not been modified. Any non-locked down user can change this behavior in control panel. I am using a wireless mouse from Microsoft, and their provided driver apparently modified the middle mouse button semantic. So if even MS is modifying the meaning of the middle button in their own drivers, I don't think you can really assume that the meaning of the middle button is any way standard. Just a sentence in the help alerting the user as to how the middle mouse button must be configured in order to get the copy behavior you desire is all I'm suggesting (making software work in all possible contexts is SUCH a pain:-)).

Lastly, I'll return to the Google saving suggestion one last time -- as I see from your response, that I wasn't as clear as I might have been. Some of your users I'm sure (and I am one for now) are using your extension merely as a session/tab management facility. The ability to carry browser "state" across multiple machines is not all that critical to this user subset. Your extension would work just as well (and perhaps more reliably for some -- witness the few comments you've received about the necessity of being logged on to Google for this to work) if the "state" info were saved in a local file (many of the session management add-ons in the Firefox world do precisely this). What I was suggesting was that you provide on your options page, the ability for a user to specify a filename where they wanted the "state" info saved. By doing so they would of course forgo your google-based cross cloud synch capabilities. On the other hand they could provide a filename which is a mapped network connection to one of the services I mentioned (no effort for this on your part - you just read/write state info to the file handle the user has given you). On my system my Z: drive is mapped to the public folder on my Skydrive cloud storage. Similar mappings are possible with Dropbox, Sugarsynch, et al. Skydrive for example allows you to specify a folder the contents of which are synched automatically across all your participating machines. So, if I did not want to use Google, and you merely provided me the option of using a local file instead, I could map that local file to my Skydrive synch folder, not use Google, get all the benefits of your standard tab cloud using Skydrive (and perhaps just a little more since the Skydrive synch is an automatic industrial strength facility), and as far as you are concerned you are just reading/writing a local file -- no muss no fuss.