[OT] Wiki page to Useful 3rd Party Tools

[Sheepdog]

Now the Wiki page to the Useful 3rd party tools to complement TC is online. It is not yet up to date but maybe it could be helpful to find a certain tool.

sheepdog

[sas2000]

 
Thanks Sheepdog
 

[Juergen]

Thanks, sheepdog!

I noticed that some entries appear multiple times there. E.g. Irfanview is mentioned in the sections "Page 6", "Page 9", "Page 16", and "Page 29".
I don't know whether this is done deliberately, in order to make it easier for people to read all the corresponding original posts. I personally think it would be better to remove multiple entries, so that the list would become at least a little shorter.
If you want, I'll look for more redundant entries.

Regards, Juergen

[Hacker]

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[Sheepdog]

I noticed that some entries appear multiple times there. E.g. Irfanview is mentioned in the sections "Page 6", "Page 9", "Page 16", and "Page 29".
I don't know whether this is done deliberately, in order to make it easier for people to read all the corresponding original posts.

Indeed this intentional.

If I want a zillion of "free and sharware pearls" I can buy any Computermagazine that publishes at least twice a year a compilation DVD with them.

Those recommendation are so precious because they have been made by other users and they mainly tell in short words why it's worthy to give the program a try.

On the other hand, which link should be removed? the First one? The Last? Or should the one be used with the best explanation?

But I'm not the one to decide this (and I don't like anyone to decide this either). I wanted to make it easier to access one of those Recommendations.

But we could link to another Wiki page with a plain list of all mentioned programs, if you like to maintain it ( I certainly wouldn't, it's enough to try to update this page ). With that page as a start it should not be so difficult.

sheepdog

[majkinetor !]

If people are using the same technique to post comments on software they found organising everything in a huge and non-repating list would be matter of seconds with scritp which is once written.

Like:
!Name: bla.exe
!+: bla bla bla
!-: bla bla ....
!Link:

so if we start this from nowon... next 3000 pages will be easy to organise, and everything on previous pages will be soon forgoten or repeated. And if somebody choose not to fallow convention script will just skip it, so no harm done.

[Juergen]

2Sheepdog:
Another option is to write duplicate entries directly side by side. This would make it even easier for the user to compare recommandations that were made by different people concerning the same program.

Regards, Juergen

[majkinetor !]

Juergen, you don't understand: somebody need to organise that... and nobody wants that. because it is huge.

so , we can do it on the fly, and script can handle it. It is that simple.

[XPEHOPE3KA]

2m
But someone should write that script
And then another someone should update some site software and then test the script... But the latter Someone is a little bit busy now and you know what he's doing

[Juergen]

... and nobody wants that.

False. I had offered some help and I'm still offering it. I just don't want to do anything that Sheepdog doesn't like. And I also don't want to do anything that I don't like myself (like maintaining an additional page dedicated to the same topic).

[Sheepdog]

2Sheepdog:
Another option is to write duplicate entries directly side by side. This would make it even easier for the user to compare recommandations that were made by different people concerning the same program.

Regards, Juergen

... and nobody wants that.

False. I had offered some help and I'm still offering it. I just don't want to do anything that Sheepdog doesn't like. And I also don't want to do anything that I don't like myself (like maintaining an additional page dedicated to the same topic).

That may be an option, but still a lot of work. And also a lot of work to keep it up to date. Work that I wouldn't like to do.

And I personally like the current concept. I have choosen it after a time of reflection. And I'm not really fond of the idea to reorganize it once again (When I started this project I made a HTML-Page that was indeed up to date at that time. But when I considered how to publish that page the Wiki appeared and I had to rewrite it to Wiki-code).

But I don't see why you should not create a Wiki page fulfilling your desires. I think that it is not that much work. Even maintaining should be feasible when you observe the current page.

But I don't plan to change the current concept/layout.

sheepdog

[icfu]

Don't change it, it's ok like it is.
Everything else that needs editorial work, will fail anyway sooner or later 'cause people usually tend to talk too much instead of just doing it on their own.

Program proposals that can be parsed by a script will certainly be BORING to read, I don't want that at least.

Actually I wonder why you took the time to create this extraction at all. Hasn't there been a user in that thread who had told something about "list will be ready in the next days?" Has he died in the meantime?

Icfu

[Juergen]

But I don't see why you should not create a Wiki page fulfilling your desires. I think that it is not that much work. Even maintaining should be feasible when you observe the current page.

As I wrote, I don't like to maintain an additional page dedicated to the same topic. And what I wrote are not my desires, just some small suggestions (for improvement, as I believed). If everyone is happy with the page like it currently is, no changes are required anyway.

But I don't plan to change the current concept/layout.

I see. Thanks for your comprehensive reply.

Regards, Juergen

[majkinetor !]

well, the croud must be right, right...

2XPEHOPE3KA
This script can be done in AWK in few days... but, the crowd doesn't like the idea.

[Sheepdog]

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