I do hours of research weekly on the web. That’s why I bought an iPad. I can sit on the couch and search for hours, occasionally getting up for a bathroom or drink break.

But, now I am searching for a tool to make the worst part of research easier and faster. The worst part is selecting text and pasting it in a document, over and over. The Safari browser constantly refreshes when switching between tabs, or switching between notepad and back to Safari. What is worse is when I have a form almost complete and I switch back and, poof, data gone. Apple prides itself in being the computer that gets out of your way. In this case, it fails miserably. So, I need a solution.

This post is for keeping track of my research. But maybe some iPad developer will stumble across it and solve my problem.

There are three main activities: search, compare and edit.

Side by side browsers like Duet are good for the compare part.

Review Queue:

Knowtes
DuoWeb – Russian only?
We leaf Smarttab
Spaze
Note Hub
My Webnote
Two Browse

Sling Note – 2.99
formatted notes and dual browsers.
www.mobilebuster.com

Two view .99
Last update 4-13-2011
Good reviews

Maven

Multiweb .99
Last update: 8-26-2011

Good, but Issues

Duet .99 and Free version.
Last update: 10-24-2011
Evernote integration
Resizable windows
- press hold link did not work on google mobile links, and many other pages.
- displays wrong link in pop up navigation.

Webnotes 1.0.1
Last update: March 11, 2011
- Free to test drive.
- URLs don’t render as clickable links in non edit mode.
- How to create new notes? Not good enough.

HalfNote 1.1.1
Last Update: Jan 6, 2012
- Free
- URLs don’t render as clickable links in non edit mode.
* I sent the developer an email about a couple of issues and they were fixed in a few weeks. So Halfnote moved from fail to viable option.

Failed

Twin browser – .99
Last update: 5-2010 <–FAIL no recent updates.

When the web really took off and the sky was the limit, print magazine publishers lost subscribers like a plague. Why buy a magazine subscription when you could get free information on line?

Time passed, people don’t want to work for free anymore. Yeah, it was cool for a while, but people need to pay rent and feed their family. Advertising took over and solid content went away. Programming is a heck of a lot more complicated than it was fifteen years ago, for me at least.

It’s time to bring good development magazines back. I think most everyone is sick of the crap online and are willing to pay again, maybe even more. For example…

I found .Net Magazine has a print magazine available for $125 a year. Seriously, what happened to 9.99 for a 12 month subscription? At this point I might be willing to pay that.

A side note…

Is anyone listening? Enthusiast programmers need some real help. We code after work, and also have a life. We use hosted web servers. We have one development computer at home and we pray every time we boot up or install new software, in hope that it doesn’t hose the O.S. We need help with the basic and intermediate stuff of web development. Too many smart people write books and articles for other smart people. Please put a stressed out novice on your team and gain a new perspective.

One book I thought would have expert guidance was Building Social Networks with ASP.NET and .NET Framework 3.5. I thumbed to the image section, because surely I would find the solution. Everyone know social websites process and manipulate loads of images. However,the book was a joke with regards to learning about image manipulation.

Maybe as more years pass, someone will actually take on this task and save the world tons of time so we can do other stuff.

Stuff I might research in the future…

http://imageresizing.net/

You want to create one or more tab-like widgets for showing content based on tab selection. You maybe tried a DIV tag, but it always wants to take up the whole width of the containing block.

You try a SPAN tag, which works. Arrrg, but you find you can’t set the padding or the vertical margins.

Solution:

Allow padding and margin to work on a span tag.

span tab
{
display: inline-block;
}

For many years it has been artificially propped up. But times change. They built their empire on shifting sand, and shifting it is.

Who will stand with you when you fall?

Your children will desert you, your friends will abandon you.

Your enemys will laugh at you.

Then your eyes will be opened. Maybe.

“App_Offline.htm” feature introduced in ASP.NET 2.0
File should be greater than 512 bytes[1].

Make sure you don’t delete default.aspx while you have app_offline.htm or
you will get “Directory listing denied” if you do (assuming you don’t allow directory listings).

New requests will not be allowed. Existing requests will finish processing[2].

You can add the file and remove it, or rename it.

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/09/442332.aspx
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179556/will-appoffline-htm-stop-current-requests-or-just-new-requests

re: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4449084/iis-get-restart-on-file-delete-store-operation-in-server-and-losing-session

What? Uploading a Jpeg causes my site to ecompile??? The above is too generic (delete file/folder).

Here is a reference to when an asp app is restarted.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178473.aspx

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javascript File Picker extension filter:

http://forums.asp.net/p/1156963/1903896.aspx

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If you’re not “saved”, where will you go ???

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/519542/where-does-an-uploaded-file-in-asp-net-2-go

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Ditch and Buy:

http://krystalware.com/Products/SlickUpload/

That’s all for now,
Pfffft!  ^..^

Access Page Variables:
<%= var %>

Turn off text field validation:
validateRequest=”false”

Back Button
OnClientClick=”history.back(1);return false”

Is HTML a Humane Markup Language?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/is-html-a-humane-markup-language.html

OnClientClick="history.back(1);return false"
OnClick="history.back(1);return false"