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| ksr | TiddlyWikiLet me tell you about a little bit of software I find really useful: TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/). I've been looking at personal wikis but they all seemed too bloated, requiring a local server or running as an application. TiddlyWiki is really lightweight and the whole wiki is stored in a single html file. I use it as an active desktop object in XP and it works very well:
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I've placed my desktop icons in a auto-hidden toolbar:
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In general I think that the active desktop functionality is very underrated, especially since the proliferation of AJAX and DHTML. | 2009-06-25 | 2:26 PM |
| Todd | Re:TiddlyWikiThis looks neat! I was taking a look at the site. I can't find a demo since the "example sites" aren't very navigable. Do you have it on your website or something? I'd like to get a look at it and try out the AJAX-y stuff. ;) | 2009-06-25 | 4:17 PM |
| ksr | Re:TiddlyWikiThe best thing to do is download it and have a play - you're only downloading a single html file and it's there ready to use. My copy is in a local folder and you can apparently sync it with other copies held on USB drives.
btw, I'm using this theme: http://tiddlythemes.com/empties/Monochrome.html | 2009-06-25 | 4:31 PM |
| pharoah | Re:TiddlyWikiYeah, TiddlyWiki is pretty cool. I'm surprised that active desktop is still around though, thought they took that out after '98 :). | 2009-06-26 | 9:22 AM |
| ksr | Re:TiddlyWikiI think in 98 active desktop probably seemed a bit pointless, but now I can see it being really productive - it's actually one of my favourite features of Windows. If you have a local PHP server (wampserver or something) you could make a really cool interactive desktop.
The only problem of course is that it's IE under the hood :P | 2009-06-26 | 1:44 PM |
| Brandon | Re:TiddlyWikiThis is like ActiveDesktop for Mac, as far as what forums say: http://www.stupidfish23.com/desktopmagik/ | 2009-06-26 | 2:15 PM |
| Todd | Re:TiddlyWikiSpeaking of active desktop, did you know you can watch movies and videos on your desktop with VLC? | 2009-06-26 | 2:22 PM |
| Brandon | Re:TiddlyWikiNope, but I do love VLC, its nice to be able to watch DVDs without codecs :) | 2009-06-26 | 3:34 PM |
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