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RedNotebook 1.10.1 review

2015-07-12 / / 0 Comments
Hey guys.
I hope you are having an awesome day =)

Today I’m looking at RedNotebook 1.10.1 which is the latest version of the cross-platform diary and journal .

The latest version brings many improvements and bug fixes. Feel free to check those in detail from RedNotebook’s website under the section news

I haven’t tried any version since the 1.5.0 which I reviewed in this post and I had a brief run with version 1.8.0 which failed on Ubuntu 13.04 for some reason. So it’s kind of a big jump for me.
I’m pleasantly surprised to see you can tag notes by simply using a hashtag “#” become a tag you can search and access all the notes tagged with #RedNotebook for example.
Also clicking the last day of a past month doesn’t crash the program losing all the notes you entered in that session! Ouch!!

The program is coming together nicely and it became irreplaceable to me!

If you haven’t downloaded and installed it yet I urge you to download it from the developer site. It’s definitely worth your time! !

And while you at it you have a look at my backup and restore guide. It’s a must have for RedNotebook users..!

I hope you liked this post, please comment below and let me know what’s on your mind!

Atom 1.0, you have let me down..

2015-06-26 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys

I’m about to breakdown my experience with Atom editor 1.0

Introduction

Atom 1.0 was released yesterday and for those who just joined me here are some basic facts about it.

It took me over an hour to download it for Linux & Windows. As it detects your platform, I had to reboot just to download it and install it!;
What I liked is that it remembered all my customization and even reopened some files I was working on! Also all the packages I downloaded were preserved!
In my initial review of Atom I had 3 major draw backs. So I won’t turn the thumbs up until I see some serious improvements!

1. Resource consuming

Still pretty much resource consuming!!

Look at those processes!
Screenshot of my system monitor

 

2. It takes a long time to load

It takes about 10 seconds to load on both Linux and Windows (no mac data so far!).

 

3.File size restriction of 2 Mega byte file size

It took several minutes to be responsive with a 2248 line .js file less than 2MB!!
I took sometime to test it. It took several minutes to render .JS files under 2MB, hung on and totally crashed with other scripts all less than 5MBs. And the computer was under so much stress I though I was gaming at 4K!
I tested on both (Linux and Windows) while Linux was slightly better. Windows was a catastrophe with Atom.
I tried opening some larger .jar archives, it didn’t have a huge issue with those. And a 39MB .sql file that killed it on Windows.
How can .JS files crash it if it’s made out of JavaScripts?

4. Doesn’t recognize Arabic by default!

Still doesn’t recognize Arabic ..**Arabic update: I managed to make Arabic work on Ubuntu by downloading language support and changing the fall back language in Firefox to Arabic. I’ll post more when I test on Windows.;
Also done on Windows.

So far.. It has let me down 🙁
PS: I used the same computer to test Atom now and then ..

Final verdict

Until they take it seriously. I’m not using Atom anymore! It has a nice look and some neat tricks. But I need something serious to work with..

Atom 1.0 is released!!!

2015-06-25 / / 0 Comments
 This just in: Atom 1.0 is released!!

Atom Editor, 7 years in the making! Hey there you guys! I’m surprised to see that Atom has released the 1.0!!! They moved from 0.211 to 1.0 so fast?!
 I had my doubts about the deadline! But they made it!!
As I was checking the releases page every hour or so.
So that was a really pleasant surprise!
One of the notable changes is that “Atom 1.0 has been released and Atom will be semantically versioned going forward.”
I’ll let you enjoy the introduction video while I dig into Atom 1.0
I’ll be posting more soon!!

So retro!!


Atom.io v1 Atom facts + 1 year of open source!

2015-05-08 / / 0 Comments
Hey there you guys. I hope you are doing well on this fine day

Atom celebrated it’s first year as an open source on the 6th of May by releasing an info-graphic. It contains facts and numbers that are truly interesting!!

Interesting facts

I never would have guessed that most Atom users were Mac users! Or that it has been downloaded 750.000 times!! for full info click this post over here.

Great read

As I was browsing the Atom blog I came across this rather interesting announcement: That the support for deprecated API’s will end on June 1st.
(Sounds really exciting huh? No! Not really!) but the other part of the announcement is what really matters. Announcing that V1.0 milestone will be released sometime later that month (June).
Atom v1.0 will be released in June. That’s according to the official atom blog.

Future hopes

I’m hoping that update brings the removal of the file size restriction. Which has been a real drawback for Atom. I’m also expecting some under the hood improvements. I hope they work the Arabic language problem (it’s shown as scrabble). And maybe the icon. I don’t like it very much :p. Other than that I’m quite happy with the program’s features and performance (on Linux! Of course) Windows boot is almost as long as the Windows boot itself!!

Promised bug fixes 

They have published a list of bug fixes to include in the 1.0 milestone. Some of them as you might have guessed were boot time and file size restriction. The rest can be checked from here.
Let’s see if the Atom team can pull it together. I wasn’t in favor of comparing them to industry titans as I kept saying it’s in Beta. But now the play time is over!

Final words

I really wish them the best. As they put together what could impact the coding world!
What do you expect out of V1.0 of Atom? Are you excited as I am? Please let me know in the comments section below. Don’t forget to give Kudos. Share this post and help the blog grow! Have a lovely day 😀

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