Steal your data: There’s an App for that?

Get rid of these apps, unless you want your data stolen.

Image:

http://blogs.wsj.com/wtk-mobile/

Link to Icon Change in Napkee

I recently visited the GetSatisfaction site, and I found a post regarding that a link to icon change should be in place for Napkee, so I decided to work on it. Hope you like it.

Link to Icon Change.bmml
Download this file

Here is a video of it in action, as well as the mockup – Will add tonight

 

 

Shortcuts for ios 6 (NEW)

Great shortcuts for ios 6
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Delimiter is space comma space, select text you want, then paste into Excel or Numbers (it will automatically separate the shortcut from the phrase (desktop versions only)
Tip
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In fact, lets make this even easier to reproduce (phrase = , ) (shortcut = ,,)
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Now if you want to create this delimiter more quickly on ios, just follow the Tip above

Phrase , Shortcut
[Question] , ??
[Bug] , ???
[Feature Request] , ftr
Step 1 , s1
Step 2 , ss
Step 3 , sss
Step 4 , ssss
Step 5 , sssss
End Result , endr
http://www.facebook.com , //fb
http://www.twitter.com , //twi
http://www..wordpress.com , //wp
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To get the nice horizontal rules I used for this post add these to your list

Phrase = ——————————————— , Short = hrwp

Stay tuned, because I also have a nice tip on how to provide hints to your shortcuts
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These save me so much time.

Renovations are fun I guess (Going Offline temporarily)

Ever since Posterous told me to backup my blogs, I have been scrambling to find a simple way to manage my WordPress blog and do some renovations (or house cleaning). I have come up with some ideas to consolidate those former Posterous blogs into 1 or 2 meaningful categories/sub pages, but I have to take some time to do so. That being said, I will probably not update as often as I used to until this is all figured out, but here are some stats to show you how I will categorize them by order of importance.

My Posterous Spaces

What’s Left of Them

Over 8,000 Views

Mockups by Jon

5 Followers, 84 Posts, 101786 Views

Obviously my most successful and active blog, this is definitely not going anywhere and look forward to a bunch of new posts in the future. Mockups are my passion and I am very grateful to have come across this hobby, so thank you in advance for all of your views in the future.

Knowledge is Power

3 Followers, 45 Posts, 8451 Views

This one is a bit tricky to decide whether or not to combine with another blog, or to just provide links to all Getsatisfaction activity I have created over the past couple of years. Needless to say, this blog will be very active as well.

Over 1,000 Views

Win7Guru’s Wakoopa

2 Followers, 12 Posts, 2280 Views

Well, besides all the views and the 10+ posts, this blog was mainly a place for me to highlight som of the programs I had (at one point, I had over 300 at one time). Then, as all good things must come to an end, my computer got to be very slow from all of the programs and then Wakoopa shut down their tracking service and social site, so I am left with a bunch of raw data to sort through. As for the topic of keeping or trashing this blog, I think I will just sort through that data and eventually write reviews of my favorite programs.

The Best Google Chrome Extensions

2 Followers, 3 Posts, 1342 Views

As I mentioned in the previous blurb, I had some troubles with my computer slowing down from all of the programs, one of which was Google Chrome. Don’t get me wrong, it is a great browser, but for the things I used it for, it messed up my computer. I was a super user and would install the beta/canary/experimental versions. I have a list of all the extensions I have ever used and I plan on reviewing each and every one of them at some point when I have time. This site will be active until that task is done (which hopefully is never)

win7guru’s posterous

7 Followers, 14 Posts, 1271 Views

Two words, brand recognition. Okay, so I don’t have brand rights to the name win7guru, but I need to get my name out there and it seems as though the win7guru posterous site was somewhat successful. I will obviously change the name and if any of the posts have the word posterous, I will strikethrough that text and replace it with WordPress. I will probably have this on a sub page, but I will decide that going forward.

Over 100 Views

Flairbuilder Mockups by Jon

1 Follower, 3 Posts, 491 Views

I love this program, and when this blog was made, I was helping the creator of Flairbuilder come up with some ideas for his program. At that time, however, I had more time and wasn’t responsible for as many things as I am responsible for now. That being said, his program was also in the process of becoming the masterpiece it is today, so it became hard to juggle Balsamiq and Flairbuilder, as well as other projects I was working on. I plan to move forward and create some masterpieces of my own using this wonderful product and have it be priority right up there with Balsamiq Mockups.

Program Database

1 Follower, 30 Posts, 374 Views

As I stated earlier with the programs accumulating at a great pace, I have decided to create a spreadsheet for all the programs I used, consisting of the most important data needed.

1. Program Name
2. Company
3. Maintained (Is the program still maintained or is it possibly unstable)
4. Hash (MD5, SHA1, etc)
5. Program Version
6. Size
7. Issues if any

I plan to make this a simple task of analyzing the programs with HashMyFiles from nirsoft and just export them to the site, then after that, just delete the ones I don’t use.

World of Jquery

1 Follower, 0 Posts, 303 Views

Napkee, how I miss you so. Enrico, we had a good thing going with the interactive mockups, but then you (as did I) got more responsibility and I feel that this whole Jquery thing went up in smoke. I was curious to learn it at one time, but now I just will stick to static mockups, and the occasional markup magic that I have created in Balsamiq. I will never forget learning Jquery, and I hope that we can discuss other ways to make the mockups interactive in the future.

Themes I am working on

1 Follower, 3 Posts, 247 Views

This thing was just me trying to mess around with themes, without knowing a lick of html, css, or any other styling language. I will probably use some of this information for my own purposes, but I will be cutting it out of my long list of blogs.

Minnesota State University, Mankato Resources

1 Follower, 2 Posts, 238 Views

Seeing as I am no longer a student at Minnesota State, Mankato, and I probably don’t want to get into any hot water over posting links to resources I no longer have access to (although it is private anyway), I will have to be cutting this out of my long list of blogs.

These next few I will get to at a later time, but for now I leave you with my current plans for the blogs mentioned above.

TBD

appsreviewedbyjon’s posterous

1 Follower, 5 Posts, 220 Views

Jitbit Macros

1 Follower, 2 Posts, 156 Views

Troubleshooting Firefox

1 Follower, 1 Post, 135 Views

Google Suggestions

1 Follower, 3 Posts, 104 Views

WineHQ for Ubuntu

1 Follower, 1 Post, 101 Views

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Until next time, happy designing

Suggestions for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010

I will make it simple, but there are two suggestions that I have.

First- There should be an option to allow users to see the amount of total mail in a folder (example: Inbox (200) and then directly next to that when the user hovers over the 200, it will show them how many are new (example: **new** (2)

Second- There should be a shortcut to defer updates, such as in Access there is a checkbox.  I feel it is important to have this option/shortcut because those of us who have massive amounts of email and risk the program (not responding) need to defer the auto suggest.  Example

 

Say I want to do a search for themes, now I know themes only appears in 3 emails (for the sake of this argument assume this is true)  When I start to type t h e, the auto suggest feature automatically starts searching for all mail that contains the letters T H E.  I have had this happen a lot, especially when I am searching for a specific item and don’t remember the exact phrase.

 

My suggestion is to allow users the option of either 

A.  Deferring the updates (halt the auto suggest)
B.  Make it an option, as in a checkbox when you search.

 

I hope this gets to Microsoft because Office 2010 is already herecoming soon.

 

First Macro Posted

I have finally found the time to post a macro that was made with the Jitbit Macro Recorder program.

The following macro is meant to aide in the login behavior in Getsatisfaction, which were nice enough to inform me of this via this post

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]

Here are the decoded images if you would rather use the IF FILE EXISTS option.

I decoded them with a program called b64dec, which is a lightweight program that decodes the images from the encoded data.

Note: You will get an error if you have the IF IMAGE EXISTS: or FIND IMAGE: in the decode screen, so this must be removed prior to pressing Decode.

This will be updated once I can figure out a stable way to store these macros.

 

 

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Review of Infonautics DirectoryList & Print

Hello everyone,

It has been a while since my last review, so I May be a bit rusty with the layout. I am really happy to announce that I am going to review another program on this blog. The program, called DirectoryList & Print is one of my favorites, because of its power and usefullness. Here goes nothing.

Have you ever had a folder, chock full of files and programs, but did not know when they were created? Have you been pulling your hair out trying to maneuver the Command Line solution for achieving this? Well, whether or not you have, I am going to tell you about this product anyway, hehe.

Infonautics GmbH, a company based in Switzerland, has created a list of products; from that list, they have provided users with an indispensable piece of software called DirectoryList & Print. We will refer to it as DLP for short. DLP has so many features that make it easy and fun to capture complete directories of folders, including subfolders, and files. The problem with other products is that they are bulky, bloated, and sometimes bundled with other niche software. Despite this other software, DLP shines on its own, with the right balance of features and performance. Here are some of the features:

1. Date/Time/Modified/Created
2. Checksum/Hash
3. Recursive searching (Search within folders and subfolders)
4. Exporting into Excel or Notepad

The second portion of this review will provide you with a layout of the features and a description of the most powerful ones (#3 and #4 from the list above).

Mockup of DirectoryList & Print created in Balsamiq Mockups

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Features

1. Date/Time/Modified/Created

Feature in Action

2. Checksum/Hash

This review was made using the free version of DLP, therefore I will improvise when it comes to explaining the Pro Features

That being said, this next feature will look something like this
Screenshot taken using FileTweak module from Febooti
Here is a screenshot from their site and the one below is specific to this review

Feature in Action (sort of)

3. Recursive searching (Search within folders and subfolders)

Recursive searching is the process of searching a folder hierarchy multiple times until all files and subfolders have been displayed. My definition of course

Okay, you talked me into it, here is an example:

Say you have a folder titled Folder (Real Original) without any files, and you have 3 subfolders titled, Sub1, Sub2, and Sub3, also without any files. Looping the subdirectories, or Sub1,Sub2, and Sub3, is similar to running this command in a command prompt.

The output in DLP would be something like:

C:\Folder

C:\Folder\Sub1

C:\Folder\Sub2

C:\Folder\Sub3

Note: You can choose to hide directory names and just show the files, but for this example, let us stick to no files.

Feature in Action

4. Exporting into Excel or Notepad

Feature in Action

This feature is an integral part of this software, because it is one thing to display data, but it is quite another to sort and beautify the data. Thankfully DLP has a built-in exporter for common file types, such as .csv and .docx. As with all the other features I have mentioned, this feature is easy. However, unlike the other 3 features, this requires the user to click an icon instead of checkbox to enable it.

Since I use Word and Excel almost every day, I thought it would be fitting to give a tip on how to organize the data once it is exported. For example, say your company requires times and dates to be in a certain format, such as dd/mm/yyyy. This format is not available in the Free version of DLP, however I have created a workaround for this in Excel. I will post it. for you as soon as I convert it to a generic template.

Until then, I leave you with the feature screenshot

Usability
Price
Features
Stability

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5

This review has been a long time coming, and I am proud to finally publish it. I hope you like it and I will gladly take you up on that license Infonautics.

Thanks for being patient and as always

Happy Designing

Jon Edlund

[Component] Barcode

Here is the barcode

Barcode.bmml

Balsamiq Mockups

Here are some of the Prerelease versions and their hashes

Build and Description	MD5 Hash
MFD999.1 (Air doesn’t like 1000).air	c7250f6b44f53a08f4fd67ab22afa7fe
MFD999.1003 (Transparent Iphone).air	1faa17a7180d86963a8358638d7b4b5a
MFD999.22 (Icons and Dashed Shape).air	7b7bd5056d8d4202251ae63e40b88144
MFD999.600.air	cdaba3883fcff4099f02664ff901e8cc
MFD999.608 (Export PDF Enhanced).air	f86aeaf45e082e3be69ed69bbd446708
MFD999.611 (New Icons on Mac).air	446fd1587c5fbcef32002bc8d3e9f084
MFD999.626 (PDF Export fixed).air	c12928e6b19cb6c321353c771c5616c4
MFD999.669 (Toggle Markup added).air	273f7b684c3ca30f8340b36eccaf6f3b
MFD999.678.air	3dbfa74deefb8acfea83986d1154bbd0
MFD999.679.air	bf8e711c0380ffdac263acb3cf96d62c
MFD999.691 (Added Select Behind).air	48093ffc6dcac1384d0e3f4235f4a30f
MFD999.726 Drag to Select.air	6f18d3799afa1c98800461ad718a5042
MFD999.729 Drag to Select.air	cc1c42bc1dbf08e8261cdf4ab2b776ed
MFD999.736 Many Fixes and X.air	cd0a8b153afb0f1e4d749e77b1e1e7b4
MFD999.738.air	7f201f1aca8f6ae1841788058b83ad3d
MFD999.761 Fixing Drag to Select.air	0a66b07ff414fb75a20ed885acc6ad4b
MFD999.770 Presentation Exit Fixed.air	bfe652faa5053bf809dbb7bd10315a52
MFD999.774 Fixes Unknown now.air	6eb41b2d594dae6e210f1b9982f6acff
MFD999.781 Property Inspector Updated.air	41c117d38e31c504d33cb1adb70a8ea6
MFD999.785.air	0a168c182124d9c545d4d53393ef7f1e
MFD999.786 Fix Tag Cloud.air	1869f35734d3ea7c4d3d960ef616c6cb
MFD999.788.air	0946822a947c8440824590f568220b3e
MFD999.792.air	b42294bf3fa5ad127830d15136a7f21d
MFD999.795.air	08bb42f4c0656f83c18afaffe1bb3463
MFD999.801.air	721a186ba2a9e58a3588591f0cdebdf0
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MFD999.806.air	f1af9c53da2265825134d00b143e3a92
MFD999.807.air	bef2259b695a6729f7841a5ebdb46073
MFD999.809.air	f3e86c2081f028998360abb93d028c49
MFD999.811 Added rename mockup ability.air	7e8983ff0ed93fa5441caeb22aa31325
MFD999.813.air	fb4feeefbba29534b1a9dc5642151b00
MFD999.822 Color Macro Fixed.air	b74f07f4b6dbe72767221f57dca29f81
MFD999.829.air	e22a90e8afb4df403a01514e2579f2a6
MFD999.831.air	fb4837180e2bd0b0b72e6da94baf3a16
MFD999.835.air	e698e726f6f94883ad01330e8085a84e
MFD999.837.air	db8e54310a5865c580392acf0ac5ca43
MFD999.838 Symbols Break apart before export.air	2a05a6499853afc5c791d58ba59e62c7
MFD999.839 Fixed Break Apart feature.air	4bc2b54888eca2ae827de3004d1e2d7c
MFD999.841 Symbol Break apart fixed.air	b1dbc3f263638e7a1c22f39c7b09b07f
MFd999.845.air	4197b87a8a6be9584fb0eb5ba0e7e077
MFD999.846.air	76fa62f8701dfa4d4552110cb2c91ee1
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MFD999.859.air	7b4d698e2a9eec0056d7a8830a1bcf3f
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MFD999.864.air	91d05526fe0ea7d876516b952528373a
MFD999.867.air	a1c30663706fd902b4d1eaf4c650cea6
MFD999.875 (Size Reduction).air	b3064fbaee5f8465181636a458a9da89
MFD999.876 (Unknown Changes).air	37cf697bd53d72f6c89546fb7ad7ef73
MFD999.877 (Unknown Changes).air	00d7ff758736a64c480d4f61d871ce7c
MFD999.879 (Unknown Changes).air	6c6ce22557de0fcacccef7f457c6dd69
MFD999.880 (Unknown Changes).air	3a2b17a78a396aea800b6469f55eca32
MFD999.881 (Unknown Changes).air	8e2d8aaa3aa5145779dc4b404493acff
MFD999.882 (Unknown Changes).air	0a2e66f1df1c1f0ae9e7e5391689c336
MFD999.887 (Unknown Changes).air	1c66e7a550fe6d868ccab35dca1584e9
MFD999.892 (Add Triangle Geo Shape and 90).air	f3187b2833a74a738b35cb37b43ca0ef
MFD999.895.air	60ba2dd1a93e1c2ad78d7244e2086774
MFD999.902 (Fixed Placeholder Bug).air	5a215c86ef1f08400949aa2e61ff411d
MFD999.909 (Unknown Changes).air	42ac000bf31bb8211845b901e8cc09be
MFD999.911 (New Font Added).air	e41dc371a6a67cc9fa41a668c9689d29
MFD999.912 (New Font Added).air	91bde1f483d9b52b683e033ff7c04332
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MFD999.940 (New Font Added).air	b817b1ef5fe8ce76362431a32852ee76
MFD999.945 (Fixing Double Click BMML Bug).air	1b0d6a38f698ce9c3b6cc7d1c65fc14d
MFD999.949 (Tree Alignment issue fixed).air	af9002c794d5787889e59511eae899cd
MFD999.950 (Tree Alignment issue fixed).air	f7a3eb0759bf76176babfc31e360dda7
MFD999.952 (Issues Fixed).air	72c4f7f4b68c133c95df7609d883dcc0
MFD999.956 (Fixing new mockup issue).air	eed66d16f7433a760f5935e738ff100a
MFD999.957 (Fixing Bugs).air	38f668fd5b31051395091df32908751a
MFD999.962 (Fixing Bugs).air	b8fc91f0d8b877077aeffe48b6f34f1f
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MFD999.968 (Fixing Bugs).air	9bbec343efcd6500495e0cb3b8ec7fd0
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MFD999.973 (New Font Tweaks).air	fe984320afb60bcfa6d24bc166a25496
MFD999.982 (New Font Fixed).air	94944709414ab47f3e3b70d00fe0bd1a
MFD999.985.air	3f7743119f9465e24ae3ffc5007d01f4
MFD999.992 (Smoother Tree, Iphone, etc).air	433da8302d60c889eaf9d22f7a07cc01
MFD999.998 (Finally a transparent Iphone).air	4e9e765b64e1ef59c49d468eeaecebc4

To see a full list of the most recent builds, head over here