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Of course, you can laugh at your users this way but you may want to check out this.

Anway, it is your business. Good luck. Bye.

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So, you want to teach your users your ideas of how their passwords have to look like?

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After I heard about Phrase Express the other day, I did actually give it a try. Didn't like it. It learns the most bizarre phrases!

PhraseExpress only learns what you enter and does not blend or mix it up. ;-)

By the way, I had a brief look at your software as well. Does your software really reveal and store passwords in your program visible for everybody after I entered them in web forms a few times? Whoa!  :-\

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Hi,

as you discuss our software PhraseExpress, I kindly ask to step in.

The software seems good but I and others on DC have disagreed with the company's attitude

Rjbull, I believe this describes your posting best. ;-)


No, that's Instant Text.  But it's fiercely expensive.

InstantText is absolutely worth its money for its specific purpose and is tailored with awesome capabilities to the specific market of medical/legal transcription. However, I would hesitate to say that it has "more features" than PhraseExpress.

InstantText does not support text formatting, does not offer completion of full sentences and afaik, it has no macro automation programming language. Just to name a few.

PhraseExpress is not only a text auto-completion software, but also a text/code snippets organizer. Well, ...Merylic already provided the list of features.


The feature I was interested in was being able to use the same short form for more than one long text, e.g. "apon" for "application," "apparition," and "apportion."

I am happy to tell, that this feature always was and is available in the free version and I am sorry if you missed that.

This video illustrates it for you:



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Found Deals and Discounts / -- Expired --
« on: May 17, 2010, 07:39 AM »
-- Expired offer --

Check with Bitsdujour for additional offers. Stay tuned.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 14, 2010, 05:09 PM »
I see why you might need that, so may I suggest that you make PhraseExpress itself collect as much of that information as it can, so it can be pasted into a "forum" post with one click, rather than have users running about all over their computers trying to gather it together and probably relying on faulty memory instead?

I fully agree with you and PhraseExpress collects some of the required information if you create a debug file.

The amount of the additionally required information varies depending on the actual nature of the issue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 14, 2010, 05:03 PM »
OK, maybe I am just slow this morning, but....

...if I put a license key in a forum sig, wouldn’t that let all who look take my key and, well, maybe do something they shouldn’t with it?

Thank you.

Jim

You are absolutely right. It should not be put into the signature. Please put it into the forum profile. The first 6 digits are fine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 06:03 PM »
I am very sorry for all the rage. We just try to provide a useful software and never intended to upset anyone. This is a strange experience but I learned a lesson.

This includes that we will rethink our forum policy. We take your feedback serious.  :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 04:57 PM »
Your behaviour is hardly calculated to encourage "enthusiastic users."

I am sorry that you felt the urge to be offensive but we entertain a comparatively vivid forum. We love our users and love to exchange thoughts, carefully listen to user input and help where we can.

It's a convenient way of describing what I mean.


It assumes that we would be aware about any (discontinued) program but in your case, I already understood the issue based on your description.


Pretending they do not exist is futile.

Yes, you are right.

In an ideal world, everyone would read the manual.  In practice, nobody does.


So, it does not hurt to remind to read the manual. Because it is a rich and valuable source of information created by those who developed the software and know all the tricks. In our case, we also added many instructional step-by-step videos.

Nobody has time.

Yes, indeed. That is why we offer personal trainings for those who do not like reading manuals.

if you didn't answer this one, my natural assumption was that PhraseExpress could not do as I wanted.

I understand. The challenge is that PhraseExpress can be easy to use but also can get very complex as it can be configured in great detail to customize it for special uses. We find it very difficult to balance the level of description of details vs. simplicity. It is a constant evolution and we learn every day.

If I do, there's probably something wrong with the software.

Probably. It is very easy to say that. It is more difficult to make it better though. We try it every day.

So it's not as if you hadn't received any monies from me.

So, please do not feel addressed by my posting. By the way, it would help if you would have added your license key to your forum signature to identify yourself as a supporting customer. Of course, supporting users do get extended and preferred customer support.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 04:22 PM »
But you're getting me more and more annoyed, so however good it is, I'm not prepared to continue with it.
TypingAssistant forgot to add some sort of "garbage collection" and quickly spill over with unwanted junk you accidentally entered.
How would a phrase expander know what's junk and what isn't?

PhraseExpress only adds new words if they have been entered a configurable number of times and automatically removes junk (such as misspellings or words that are used only very rarely) after a customizable grace period.

Single-words auto-completions can also be configured to appear only if they fit to the foregoing context.

One example: If you type "The car is green" or "My car is fast", the word "car" would not show up in the beginning of a sentence (unless you entered it in the beginning) but only after "My" or "The" or any other word you have entered before car in any other sentence.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 04:20 PM »
My statements were in direct response to the claims against DA, which I do use, so please don't twist what I said?

No twist at all. I can also help you in this case (Byte-wise stealing at 1:03).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 03:27 PM »
> Two suggestions: if you want a text expander that launches,
> try Typing Assistant, which does.  

As you recommend Typing Assistant, have you actually personally tried it for a few days?

Has it never bothered you that it collects any misspelling you ever entered on your keyboard and repeat to offer it over and over again? Unfortunately, TypingAssistant forgot to add some sort of "garbage collection" and quickly spill over with unwanted junk you accidentally entered.

As you apparently do not like PhraseExpress (that also does single-word autocompletion, but including garbage collection) then I would recommend the free LetMeType (Opensource).


---

Regarding program launching. I never got the idea of a launcher program. Why not simply hit the WIN-key and start typing the first letters of a program name. A sophisticated "program launcher" is already built into Windows. While PhraseExpress also has a program launching feature I personally do not need it and wonder about the hype about program launchers. Do I miss anything?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bartels Media paranoia
« on: February 13, 2010, 03:11 PM »
@rjbull: We invest several thousand Euros every month to drive traffic to our website. I kindly ask for your understanding that we do not want to give competitors free exposure/advertising. If you want to discuss other products, you are welcome and free to do it everywhere else (e.g. here) but please do not do it in our support forum that is solely dedicated for technical issues with PhraseExpress as explained in our forum disclaimer (which ironically have inspired DirectAccess quite a bit for "his" forum disclaimer. This guy is just plain incredible. *duckandcover* :-)).

Your actual support request was quite general in nature and it would require a 30 minute training to configure PhraseExpress for your specific task if we would have to start from "zero". That is why we recommended you to start with the manual that explains the general concept with many step-by-step video tutorials.

This would give you an overview about the PhraseExpress concept and would make it much easier for us and for you to go into details afterwards. We are there to help but it makes it easier if you made some first steps with PhraseExpress first before engaging with advanced configuration. I am sorry that I have not made this clear in my first reply to you.


> "It was basically about features being integrated rather than a byte-for-byte copy that I remember."

Just one example and evidence.


@J-Mac: Unfortunately, my Breevy related postings have been censored/deleted here and I have been banned from this forum (so much about “1984”). That said, I find it important to mention that I never said that Breevy stole from us. I rather mentioned that the Breevy maker seem to have been very attracted by the DirectAccess user interface. My posting had nothing to do with PhraseExpress. I actually was advocate for DirectAccess in that particular matter.


> how can we expect someone to not reply to a thread claiming he has no proof people are stealing his work?

This is a very good point. A few users here are twisting my words as they like and expect from me not to set it straight.

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Here is the PhraseExpress style-sheet:
/***********************************************/
/* text properties                           */
/***********************************************/

body{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
font-size: x-small;
voice-family: "\"}\"",inherit;
font-size: small;
margin:20px 40px;
padding: 0px 40px;
}

html>body { font-size: small;}
 
p,h5 {margin: 10px 0 10px 0;}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
color: #990000;
letter-spacing: -1px;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
font-size: large;
padding-top: 30px;
}

.notopmargin {margin-top:0px; padding-top:0px;}

h1 {
font-size: x-large;
padding-top:0;
}

h3 {font-size: medium;}

hr {
margin-top: 20px;
}

ul {list-style-type: none; padding-left:0; margin-left: 10px;}

ul li {background: url(bullet.gif) no-repeat;
margin-top: 10px;
padding-left: 14px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;}

.infotext {padding: 1px 0px 1px 25px;
 background: url(info.gif) no-repeat;}

ol {list-style-type:none; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 5px;}
.bullet_one, .bullet_two, .bullet_three, .bullet_four, .bullet_five, .bullet_six {background: no-repeat; padding: 2px 0px 10px 30px; margin-bottom:20px;}
.bullet_one {background-image: url(bullet_one.gif)}
.bullet_two {background-image: url(bullet_two.gif)}
.bullet_three {background-image: url(bullet_three.gif)}
.bullet_four {background-image: url(bullet_four.gif)}
.bullet_five {background-image: url(bullet_five.gif)}
.bullet_six {background-image: url(bullet_six.gif)}

a:link, a:visited, a:hover {
color: #000099;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {color: #0066CC;}

.help {cursor: help;}

.highlight {
background-color:#FFFFCC;
border: solid 1px;
border-color:#CCCCCC;
margin: 30px 0px;
padding:10px 20px;
}

.hotkey {background-color:#eeeeee; color: #333333; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; padding: 0px 4px; border: 1px solid; border-color: #dfdfdf #cacaca #cacaca #dfdfdf ; font-size: x-small; font-weight:bold}
/*******************/
/* Normal Button */
/*******************/

ul.button {margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; list-style-type: none; clear:both;}

.button li, p.button {
background: url("bl.gif") no-repeat center left;
white-space: nowrap; float: left;
background-color: #990000;
padding-left: 10px;
margin:20px 0;}

.button li {margin: 10px 10px 10px 0; display: inline; }

p.button {clear:both; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;}

.button a {
display: block;
}

/* Commented backslash hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
.button a
{float: none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */

.button a, .button a:link, .button a:hover, .button a:visited {
background: url("br.gif") no-repeat center right;
color: #FFFFFF; margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-right: 10px;}

.button a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}

p.button, ul.button {float:right}

em.type, span.type, p.type {
font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bolder;
padding: 2px 10px;
}

Here is the version of the copycat:
/***********************************************/
/* text properties                           */
/***********************************************/

body{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
font-size: x-small;
voice-family: "\"}\"",inherit;
font-size: small;
margin:20px 40px;
padding: 0px 40px;
}

html>body { font-size: small;}
 
p,h5 {margin: 10px 0 10px 0;}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
color: #990000;
letter-spacing: -1px;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
font-size: large;
padding-top: 30px;
}

.notopmargin {margin-top:0px; padding-top:0px;}

h1 {
font-size: x-large;
padding-top:0;
}

h3 {font-size: medium;}

hr {
margin-top: 20px;
}

ul {list-style-type: none; padding-left:0; margin-left: 10px;}

ul li {background: url(bullet.gif) no-repeat;
margin-top: 10px;
padding-left: 14px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;}

.infotext {padding: 1px 0px 1px 25px;
 background: url(info.gif) no-repeat;}

ol {list-style-type:none; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 20px; margin-left: 5px;}
.bullet_one, .bullet_two, .bullet_three, .bullet_four, .bullet_five, .bullet_six {background: no-repeat; padding: 2px 0px 10px 30px; margin-bottom:20px;}
.bullet_one {background-image: url(bullet_one.gif)}
.bullet_two {background-image: url(bullet_two.gif)}
.bullet_three {background-image: url(bullet_three.gif)}
.bullet_four {background-image: url(bullet_four.gif)}
.bullet_five {background-image: url(bullet_five.gif)}
.bullet_six {background-image: url(bullet_six.gif)}

a:link, a:visited, a:hover {
color: #990000;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {color: #0066CC;}

.help {}

.highlight {
background-color:#FFFFCC;
border: solid 1px;
border-color:#CCCCCC;
margin: 30px 0px;
padding:10px 20px;
}

/*******************/
/* Normal Button */
/*******************/

ul.button {margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; list-style-type: none; clear:both;}

.button li, p.button {
background: url("bl.gif") no-repeat center left;
white-space: nowrap; float: left;
background-color: #990000;
padding-left: 10px;
margin:20px 0;}

.button li {margin: 10px 10px 10px 0; display: inline; }

p.button {clear:both; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;}

.button a {
display: block;
}

/* Commented backslash hack hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/
.button a
{float: none;}
/* End IE5-Mac hack */

.button a, .button a:link, .button a:hover, .button a:visited {
background: url("br.gif") no-repeat center right;
color: #FFFFFF; margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-right: 10px;}

.button a:hover {text-decoration:underline;}

p.button, ul.button {float:left}

em.type, span.type, p.type {
font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bolder;
padding: 2px 10px;
}


.STYLE1 { color: #0000FF; }

.notice { font-weight:bolder; }

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- how often must we hear this song?

You find me surprised as well. I couldnt believe what I saw. This idiot copied our style sheet byte-wise.

Watched the video? Any doubt about the validity of our claim?

91

Yet another blatant copycat stealing from PhraseExpress.

Here is the evidence:
http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=F7EuL_nNN1Y

We probably better start just feeling honored as quite a few hobbyist programmers cannot resist to imitate and steal from us.  :-\

But you can have the Original free-of-charge rather than buying from a copycat.

A major new PhraseExpress version will be released very soon. Here is a sneak video preview.

Michael


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General Software Discussion / Turn any spare PC into an extra monitor
« on: September 20, 2009, 03:46 PM »
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General Software Discussion / Re: Word AutoCompleter
« on: September 20, 2009, 03:35 PM »
Please check out PhraseExpress. It can auto-complete single words but more important, also complete sentences that you have entered frequently.

Video Demo: http://demo.phraseexpress.com

PhraseExpress is free for personal-use and additionally includes a Clipboard History Manager, can store formatted text snippets and can run programs or open documents with text shortcuts.

Here is a show-case of some applications: http://www.text-expander.com

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Shameless self-promotion:

PhraseExpress can save text and code snippets and organize them in categories. Additionally, it includes a clipboard cache, supports html/rtf text formatting and bitmaps in the text snippets.

Check it out at http://www.phraseexpress.com

It is free for personal use.

95
Users reported that PhraseExpress works just fine on x64 systems. Our quick tests confirm that.

Perhaps, http://manual.phraseexpress.com#autolearn may be helpful.

96
I'll have to check out PhraseExpress. I'm currently using LetMeType for autocomplete, and Speed Typing (from Invention Pilot, colorpilot.com) for text replacement/correction.

PhraseExpress actually integrates both features in one application. This means that sentences written with the help of text replacements (Autotext) are also recognized for the text prediction feature. Both features complement each other.

You can make static text snippets from any text prediction sentence you have accepted to insert by PhraseExpress. These will show up in the "Last Used" phrase folder and can be moved to any other of your custom phrase folders applied with an Autotext of your choice.

The problem I typically have with these utilities is list management. Proprietary formats make it hard to port word lists from one app to another, something I really need to do if I'm going to consider switching.

PhraseExpress can import:

  • Hotstrings from AutoHotkey
  • DirectAccess command packs
  • AutoCorrect and Autotext items from MS Word/Outlook
  • Your sent Outlook emails for the text prediction feature
  • Any plain text files containing word lists or sentences for the text prediction feature
  • Any plain text containing phrase lists and optionally Autotext associations by using the separate free Importer tool

You can find more information at http://manual.phraseexpress.com#import and http://manual.phraseexpress.com#autolearn

There are many options with slight variations that may cause completely different results. So, if you have any question, we gladly help in our support forum.

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urlwolf, I can assure you that the video is no fake. It really works.


By the way, (*) it offers plenty of non-helpful suggestions.

Just right-click such text suggestion to permanently remove it in a snap. :-)


It offered 'what about you?' in the place marked with a star.

If you choose to get suggestions without context, then you get suggestions, perhaps our of a usable context. It works just as you configure it.


But you have to see too that my time is very valuable and that the tool simply doesn't work for me.

I am sorry to hear that. PhraseExpress is a no-brainer for most if used with the factory presets but it can also be configured and taylored to almost any need. Such customizability is at cost of complexity and this requires some involvement. We are sorry that it does not paid off in your particular case.

98
My posts asking for help in their forum got deleted.

I am sorry, if that is all you find worth mentioning about our support service after we tried our best to help by answering all your postings/emails and by even preparing a custom video tutorial for you. The forum disclaimer explains that we do not archive postings that are no help to the community in favour to keep the forum easy to browse for solutions. The deletion was definitely not meant as a sign that we do not care about problems.

It is quite the opposite as we have improved the text prediction feature and latest version 6.0.140 will do much better suggest individual word auto-completion. This development was actually triggered by your inquiry.

Download of the latest version:
http://www.phraseexpress.com/phraseexpress.exe

The unique benefit is that it not only suggests single words but will also start to suggest complete sentences in context once entered a few times.

Please find an updated step-by-step video tutorial here.

The text prediction feature can be fed by your own text input and/or pre-defined word lists, e.g. for medical or legal transcription, which can be easily imported.

I could not get it to mimic intellicomplete. It may be interacting with something else I have installed.

You may want to disable/shut down any other text replacement utility as running multiple such utilities at the same time may cause malfunction. It would be great if you would give it a try and share your experience.

99
Just found this topic.

The requested "text prediction intelli-autocomplete" feature is implemented in PhraseExpress v5 and has significantly improved in v6 .

Here is a video demo:
http://demo.phraseexpress.com

Additional background information in the manual:
http://manual.phraseexpress.com#autolearn

Basically, the text prediction feature continuosly listens to your text input and recognizes repetitive words and, more important, repetitive complete phrases which makes this system quite unique.

After you entered a phrase a few times, PhraseExpress starts suggesting to autocomplete the sentence for you if you start typing it again.

This feature does not depend on a static dictionary but only on your personal input; in any language and with any words. The dictionary does not need to be maintained in any way. Misspellings are sorted out automatically and new words are learned as you type. Passwords are not stored and excluded from PhraseExpress automatically.

We found that full-sentence auto-completion is much better than just to autocomplete single-words. Single-word autocompletion may generate too many suggestions whenever you start typing a new word; which can be distracting.

However, you can also configure PhraseExpress to suggest single words if you require it for a specific application:

Settings Screenshot

Single words can be suggestion either within a context or in independing of the context.

Example: The word "island" would not be suggested after you entered "The car is..." as it just would not fit to any meaningful context.

PhraseExpress is free for personal use:
http://www.phraseexpress.com

100
who lacks the sense to see when his constant whining is an alienating force.
-cranioscopical (February 03, 2009, 05:33 PM)

It is a misconception if you believe that I would not recognize that a few do not agree that I brought this topic up.

It seems that I fell into a snake pit. Is it that a few may have found themselves in a self-defence position in case that they entertain the same business of imitating or copying?!

No offence and no sarcasm intended, really! It just would explain all your hostile reactions. The sheer amount of motivation of defending the actual theft imitator feature-follower  ...well, your English is better than mine, so please add the appropriate word here ---> ....... <----- ...is worrying me.


Enough is enough? You are darn right it is! Especially (..)

App, picking my line this cheap and sarcastic was not only unfriendly but also completely unnecessary. You have not explained your motivation but just continued to bash, now even in an insulting manner.

Folks, let's leave it with that. It is really getting redundant and hostile.

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