Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread Public
On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 01:39:37 PM Nic Carter wrote: > Apple, Google & Microsoft all have different/ulterior motivations for their > sync platforms, Dropbox is simply trying to make money from sync, hence (as > long as they don't go bust!) they're my choice... ;) Though dropbox has been

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread Israel
@ Nic Carter I think leaving the sync open to the OPTION of letting other programmers plug in their favorite sync service would be nice. Hard coding Dropbox only service could prove to be a disaster if they flounder. If you created a 'generic' way to interface with cloud syncing, then you cou

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread David Instone-Brewer
I love Dropbox but I agree that it doesn't give much in the way of APIs. I'm impressed by Google Apps Script which you can use to control their spreadsheets and other Google docs. Google docs now work offline fairly well with Gears, though for real-time syncs you need to be online of course. Y

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Burrell
As soon as you use software to study rather than to read I think you're talking about more than 5 users. A lot of my users will be Web based so syncing online could almost be expected as the same people will be using different computers On 13 Feb 2013 02:41, "Nic Carter" wrote: > > On 13/02/2013

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Nic Carter
On 13/02/2013, at 3:50 AM, Israel wrote: > Maybe you could create a way to plug in all the various cloud services. Make > it extensible. It would be nice to have all the same modules across all the > various sword programs on the various devices. That may be a bit beyond the > scope of wha

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Nic Carter
On 13/02/2013, at 2:20 AM, Chris Burrell wrote: > Any personal commentary feature that we would use from Sword/JSword would > have to allow for concurrent users and different users. I'm not sure where > we're at on that side of things in terms of the current Sword/JSword offering. This is an

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Israel
Maybe you could create a way to plug in all the various cloud services. Make it extensible. It would be nice to have all the same modules across all the various sword programs on the various devices. That may be a bit beyond the scope of what you were talking about. But syncing all devices

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Burrell
STEP is contemplating syncing with Dropbox and Google drive, mainly because the first integrates well with Google docs if our users are using that, and the second because it seems to me the most common file sharing facility out there. It also integrates well with Android. Any personal commentary f

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread David Haslam
Sorry for top-post reply, but now that Google Drive has an iOS app, this is also a cloud storage option for some users. See http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/google-drive/id507874739 I use Google Drive to sync some personal files across my Windows 7 notebook PC, my Windows XP netbook and my Android

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Public
On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 01:54:06 AM David Haslam wrote: > NB. Dropbox is not 100% secure - if you want complete security, with your > personal data encrypted at the user end, then you might wish to consider > http://viivo.com/ My vote would be for an owncloud access option for this as well

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Dan Blake
I'm thinking further ahead and not from a standard user perspective but from more of a power user stand point. I run my own servers. What would be more helpful to me would be a method to sync to a specified server or specific protocol (FTP, HTTPS, Webdav...) instead of a specific service (Drop

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Nic Carter
The way Apple manages to get iCloud to work & the way all other developers get it to work are a fair bit different. Probably having under the cover access helps? ;) Anyway, the Dropbox API makes things pretty sweet for the end-user in that it doesn't reveal anything to them besides getting the

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread David Haslam
Was it I who suggested http://evernote.com/ ? It may be that I was thinking merely of Share from And Bible rather than synchronizing bookmarks and personal notes. NB. Dropbox is not 100% secure - if you want complete security, with your personal data encrypted at the user end, then you might wish

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Manfred Bergmann
I think that on iOS synching to EverNote, Dropbox or other services feel like foreigners. This is probably different on Android or other platforms. Manfred Am 12.02.2013 um 10:36 schrieb Martin Denham : > Currently And Bible notes and bookmarks are stored locally but I have had a > lot of re

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Manfred Bergmann
No, haven't tried iCloud yet. Many apps use it though (Contacts, Calendar, Pages, Number, ...) and I'm quite happy with it most of the time. The advantage to the user is that there is zero configuration overhead, nothing to configure. Where on Dropbox there must be some settings which define wher

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Martin Denham
Currently And Bible notes and bookmarks are stored locally but I have had a lot of requests to be able to sync them with other Sword apps. It would be good to have an architecture such as Dropbox that allowed sync between different platforms. Somebody suggested EverNote to me but Dropbox looks go

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Nic Carter
Having a local copy, iCloud copy & Dropbox copy may be a little bit of overkill? and three copies of the data means if one version gets corrupted, that will replicate across all copies? And the effort to do 3-way sync is a lot more than 2-way... Dropbox sync would be off by default, the user wo

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-12 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi Nic. I wouldn't use Dropbox instead but additionally. iCloud is the standard for synching user properties and settings across OS X and iOS devices. Most people if not all using OS X or iOS already have an iCloud account. Many people do not have a Dropbox account and this shouldn't be a requi

[sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-11 Thread Nic Carter
Hi team, I think I may have mentioned this in the past, but I'm almost ready to go, and so have a few comments/questions about personal commentaries. Different front-ends do things differently, but there is the Personal Commentary module that we can use for the user to write their own notes to