tomaspollak

Not for the moment. I wanted the voting popup to be as least annoying as possible -- that's why it automatically disappears after 10 seconds. I'll add a keybinding to the R key so you can manually toggle it. Thanks!

Will keep that in mind. Thanks!

Very helpful insight, thanks again mate.

Curiously, I don't normally click on the hamburger icon because hitting the ESC key also toggles the top menu, so I completely agree with you that it doesn't feel natural.

I've been tempted to put more information on the player panel but have forced myself not to do so to keep the UI as clean as possible (mainly thinking in mobile browsers). I guess I could put in some icons, though, that would give hints to user as to what's actually going on behind the scenes.

Thanks for the feedback. The intro was thought as a way to onboard users that don't know much about MIDI (or MOD or NSF or VGM), but it can definitely be improved. I'll play around with a more integrated version as you suggest. :)

The reason why the menu is automatically shown is precisely to let the user know, on start, what options are hidden behind the hamburger menu. Do you mean the positioning is weird or that it shouldn't be shown automatically?

Y-E-S! This is definitely number 0 on the to-do array.

It's a mixture of patches from different soundfonts, the primary being the amazing Arachno. Playback is done via libtimidity, and old C library that was ported to JS through Emscripten.

Yes, as well as a volume control! You can also hit [tab] as a shortcut to toggle the sidepane with the active playlist.

Yup, just hit the "V" key.

I guess you're right. YouTube already hosts a ton of game music videos and they don't seem to have any problems.

I guess it depends on the era. Most of the computer games of the early nineties relied on MIDI, although their Amiga ports did use MOD of course, being the de-facto Amiga music format.

Thank you very much sir!

Thanks!

This is actually a long topic because Muki contains a mixture of ripped vs sequenced tunes, etc. I've contacted some of the authors of sequenced tunes for permission, and also taken great care of crediting both the source where I got each one plus the company who holds the rights for the original tune. You can see this by clicking over a song's name when playing.

That said, I'm definitely not an expert on copyright so if there's something I'm missing please let me know! There's also more info about this if you click on the "about" link.

Good point! And this is actually the short version of the intro, the first one was like twice in length... :)

Hehe, me too. Thanks!

funny thing: 'robo' in spanish actually means theft.

They aren't making our jobs harder, we just want to make it up for all the people that have been constantly asking us about the iOS app.

The parallel sale does sounds good though, so thanks. :)

Because Find my iPhone is only meant to help you find your phone if misplaced, not stolen.

Law enforcement needs static, printable data in order to do their job, because evidence needs to be shown in court and Find my iPhone's information is only real-time, not historical.

Or heck, you can always do what this guy did:

http://preyproject.com/blog/2012/02/lost-found-case-v93l

6 users! wow.

you're welcome Greg! really glad to know you got your laptop back. :)

yup that's right, at least me and most of the guys that work for Fork (the company I founded after Prey took off). however there's lots of contributors from Europe, the US and Asia.

no it's not. and please don't start with this over again.

we (the Prey team) don't have the time or the interest to pay people, thieves or whomever to build and publish these elaborate stories.

I spent almost all afternoon yesterday on Reddit -- where some guy published a similar story -- trying to make it clear that we had nothing to do with it (besides having developed the software).

I'd be happy to answer any questions regarding Prey, but please don't make me go repeating today the same thing all over again.

"Having our passwords in plaintext is more secure than obfuscating them precisely because, when a user is not misled by a false sense of security, he is likely to use the software in a more secure manner."

I must say I don't agree with the Pidgin devs. They think that the user will use the software in a more secure manner because they assume he's aware that the password is stored in cleartext.

That may be true on 1% of the cases. But the other 99% of the people probably don't have a clue, and they wouldn't even know where to find the accounts.xml file in the first place.

As someone noted, this only applies for the old standalone mode, as Prey needs to store your SMTP password in order to send the report via email later.

Most people use Prey + Control Panel nowadays. :)