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FileSystemWatcher (.net wrapper): doesn’t work on FAT32 (removable or Samba)

July 26, 2010 by Andrea D'Intino · 1 Comment 

HELLO WORLD,

We’ve always perceived the FileSystemWatcher as “moody”, meaning that it would work on some disks and not on some other… but we couldn’t quite understand the reasons behind it. It would work on fixed HD but not always on removable drives…

A few days ago we bought 2 of those fantastic mini NAS-adapters, which work indeed fine even if they:

1)  have an embedded Linux using Samba to manage the sharing.

2) support only FAT32 partitions.

Of course we started testing Tabbles furiously and we immediately started yelling “OMG, the FileSystemWatcher doesn’t work on Network drives!”. The reason of such a panic attack is that our auto-tagging rules and one click-tagging are based on the FileSystemWatcher and Tabbles looses much of its appeal without those.

After a bit of yelling and hair-tearing we googled “FileSystemWatcher Samba” until we stumble on this article suggesting to use the “Win9xWatcherStrategy class”… deeply moved in the heart, Maurizio tries immediately to implement this but soon enough he finds out that the method “Win9xWatcherStrategy” doesn’t exist in the FileSystemWatcherClass. This means that we’ll probably bin the .net FileSystemWatcher wrapper, and move to the lower-level Win32 function.

For any of you using Tabbles Portable: be aware that for the moment the auto-tagging rules work only if your USB drive is formatted as NTFS… sorry for that but we’ll try to fix this soon!

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But we also have some good news here: totally out of the blue, Mr. Leandro “O Dragão” posted on our forum a solution to the annoying problem of  Tabbles not being able to track files moved with Explorer, have a look at this thread. This is among the most exciting thing that happened to us in the past months…we don’t really know a lot about it yet, but so far it looks really promising – Kudos to Leandro! :-D

Mr. Burns

Mr. Burns

(Not sure why, but I believe Mr. Burns would be proud of us!)

:mrgreen:

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Social tagging tool, Chinese, Hungarian…and more

July 22, 2010 by Andrea D'Intino · 2 Comments 

HELLO WORLD,

We’ve just uploaded the 1.5.9 rev8 (silent update – you’ll need to manually uninstall if you have a 1.5.9 already installed)

1) Tabbles speaks now Hungarian and Chinese!!! :-D    (thanks to Requin and WEntropy for the translation)

Tabbles in Chinese and Hungarian

Tabbles in Chinese and Hungarian

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2) The shared-tabbles features are nearly ready to go!

- We added more icons to describe various situation

- We unified the dialogues making way more clear how the sharing process work -> now it looks usable for real! :mrgreen:

- A bunch of bugs have been fixed…no, it’s actually a BUCKET of them!

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Yes, I hear you: “Yeah ok, but what is this shared-tabbles thingy and what’s all the fuss about?”…well, briefly, Tabbles is turning into a social tagging tool, aimed at tagging files and urls on LAN or in the cloud (yes, in the cloud too – check out this list of tested services).  Basically I tag some files and you browse my tags and add some more… and so on.  Read more on our forum. Some more stuff (videos, pics…) is coming soon.

Enjoy,

Andrea

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1.5.9 is out + some news

July 13, 2010 by Andrea D'Intino · 1 Comment 

HELLO WORLD,

this will be  a lazy update… the reason is that the last days were particularly hectic. Let me try and sum it up:

  • On Friday we were featured on GOTD.
  • Re-installed (read: fought with) phpbb, but now it works fine and has a lot of cool new things, including the much needed open-id mod (which now works like a charm!). I’m planning a blog post about phpbb: I’m not an expert but for sure there is a lot I know that is worth sharing :-)
  • Just released the 1.5.9 including Polish (and I just received the Hungarian translation too…will be in the next update).
  • Quite a few things fixed/improved in the shared-tabbles features
  • We sold the first Corporate licenses! Yes – it came as a surprise to us too!!! (The Corporate license will include the shared-tabbles features…which is not there yet!)
  • Something REALLY cool: Don Syme (the man behind F#) wrote a blog post about Tabbles!

Well, as I’m here, let me share some more visual stuff:

Ok, now look at our GOTD peak here:

gaotd-peak

look at our peak on the giveawayoftheday promotion!

Look at how sexy is our yahoo pipe (subscribe to RSS)

Tabbles yahoo-pipe, we use it to aggregate all our feeds
Tabbles yahoo-pipe, we use it to aggregate all our feeds

And finally, I just sketched this:

Tabbles new tag-line...or something

Tabbles new tag-line...or something. You like it? ;-)

GOOD NIGHT WORLD.

P.S.: on a sad note, I’m stuck with the error 0×80004005 whil trying to let people browse  shared folder on my Windows Server 2008 (sp2). Looks like there is no way out… anyone? :-O

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Shared-tabbles is in beta

July 9, 2010 by Andrea D'Intino · 1 Comment 

HELLO WORLD

Our most anticipated feature is now available for beta testing.  This is what it looks like right now:

The shared-tabbles feature is in beta

The shared-tabbles feature is in beta

Check the shared-tabbles thread on the forum (or subscribe via RSS).

We’re looking to hear from as many of you as possible out there! :-D

Andrea & Maurizio

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Tabbles in Japanese, RSS and OpenID on our forum, shared-tabbles.

June 28, 2010 by Andrea D'Intino · 2 Comments 

SHORYUKEN! :D

Well, this 1.5.4 is mainly a bug-fix release, but Tabbles speaks Japanese now!!! Thanks to Hiroki “Rocky” for this :)

This is what it looks like:

Tabbles in Japanese - I've no clue what's written here but it looks really cool to me! :-D

Tabbles in Japanese - v. 1.5.4

Anyone who knows anything about the Japanese software press? Please drop us a line if you do, we’d love to be featured on a Japanese magazine!!!

As I’m here, I’ll write about a couple of other things.

Cool improvements on the forum:

- RSS of topic: After  months of wandering looking for phpbb mod to have RSS feeds of a single topic, I just realized that the feature is built in it already :O (Yes, I’m such a dope, I know… ). So now you can subscribe to a topic using your favourite reader, or just using the functions built in each browser:

RSS per topic on Tabbles forum

RSS per topic on Tabbles forum

As I’m here, let me suggest you the RSS tool that made me finally love RSS: RSS live links for google Chrome. It’s VERY tiny, VERY unintrusive and plays a sound each time there is a new feed! Dunno if there is something similar for Firefox and IE7/8… this is what it looks like:

RSS live links for Google Chrome

RSS live links for Google Chrome

If you want to follow the development of Tabbles, I suggest you have a look to our topic “what we’re working on” (RSS here) which is currently syndicated on the right side of this page.

OpenID: something else I’ve been craving to have on our forum for a long time… finally found the openid-phpbb mod from Masterz. I had to fight a bit with the installation and the configuration – dunno if it was my fault or the developer’s fault, but I wrote to him and he wrote back promptly – and now there is a minor bug with displaying text, but the OpenID login works just fine! :-)

Shared-tabbles are coming…

To thos who follow the forum this is nothing new… to everyone else: this is the most crucial set of features for us. It allows (it’s working already) to several user to share their tagging, and works on a local network, on the internet (as long as there is a shared drive) and also using syncronizing software which have desktop client… I won’t write more about this, but the progresses will be posted on this topic on our forum (you can subscribe to it here).

Something that didn’t work too well: the phpbb3 to bbpress converter.

Well, it does indeed work, it deliver what it promises, and it’s easy to use, but it lacks core functionalities such as converting BBCode and attachments, therefore all the links and the pics in the forum will be lost… nope, not acceptable. Hopefully this will be fixed soon! :)

Well, that was it for this week…

Andrea

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