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General Software Discussion / Looking for Open Source... So...
« on: September 16, 2007, 05:33 AM »
Of course I want to know what platform the software runs on. However, far too often you need to download the code (sometimes through CSV or some other hellish interface) to find out what it's written in and if you can use it.

Now I'm trying to figure out why this is. Why would you post OS software, but neglect to mention what the language and platform is?

Either that or I'm completely blind. Has anyone else run into this?  :huh:

Then again, there are projects that wear the platform and language on their sleeve much like they are just trying to evangelize the platform/language.

Any middle ground?  :'(


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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / ALPass v2.74 Released
« on: August 27, 2007, 02:55 AM »
ALPass v2.74 is now available at www.altools.net.

ALPass is an Internet Explorer enhancement to securely store logins and passwords, and to automatically log you into web sites.

The top improvements in ALPass v2.74 include:

1) Fully Windows Vista compatible (x86 and x64)
2) Can now be directly installed to removeable storage, e.g. USB Drive, digital camera, iPod, portable media players, etc.
3) Full support for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7 64-bit not supported)
4) Security update
5) Language updates - Now in English, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese (Available through Ahnlab), Korean, and Polish

For more information, please visit the ALPass home page.

Regards,

Ryan - Your ALTools Guy here at DonationCoder.com :D



Version History Since Last Public Release:


### ALPass 2.74 ###

1. Added: Greek translation
2. Fixed: ALPass did not properly handle importing malformed ALPass database files (*.APW)
3. Fixed: Security issues related to #2 above
4. Fixed: In rare circumstances, creating a new folder in ALPass and entering illegal characters could cause a system crash


### ALPass 2.73 (Limited Release - Invitation Only) ###

1. Fixed: On some sites ALPass would incorrectly enter the login information from a previous site
2. Fixed: In some ALPass site folders sites would become shuffled out of order
3. Fixed: Languages were not properly displayed on Windows Vista
4. Fixed: Could not connect to "ALPass Online" with Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 running. (***NOTE: ALPass Online is only available in the Korean edition of ALPass.)


### ALPass 2.72 (Limited Release - Invitation Only) ###

1. Added: ALPass can now be installed directly to removable storage devices
2. Added: Support for Internet Explorer 7
3. Added: Full support for Windows Vista


### ALPass 2.71 (Limited Release - Invitation Only) ###

1. Added: Windows Vista support
2. Fixed: Starting multiple instances of Internet Explorer at once from ALPass caused ALPass to misbehave
3. Fixed: Starting multiple tabs in Internet Explorer v7 at once caused ALPass to misbehave
4. Fixed: When uploading sites to ALPass online, manually set site keywords were not properly uploaded (Korean version only)
5. Fixed: When uploading folders to ALPass Online, collapsed folders were expanded (Korean version only)
6. Fixed: When an ID and password weren't entered for a site in ALPass, ALPass mistakenly autofilled the ID and login with nothing then submitted the form.


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General Software Discussion / Organizing Reviews
« on: August 18, 2007, 01:02 AM »
I'm splitting this from a previous topic...

You know I'd love to see a more organized process on this forum where a small group of people could agree to do an organized, exhaustive, frenetic testing of programs and try to come up with some consensus of best tools for a task.

In other words, it would be nice if we could take a thread like this and have a few people just go out and try every help file maker they can find and winnow down the list of top candidates.  Not only would that be helpful but we could then go and try to get some discounts on these, as well as provide some guidance to the non-top authors on how they could improve their programs.
-mouser (August 18, 2007, 12:19 AM)


Just one consideration...

I'd like to throw in "not-testing"... For these kinds of things there are people that use the software in real-world production and can contribute that real-world experience.

One of the problems I find with a lot of reviews is that they are little more than "feature lists" with no real commentary on how the application truly performs in real life.

I simply don't have the time to go out and download, install, then test a bunch of software, but I can certainly contribute for those applications where I really know them very well from real world experience.

I say "real world experience" because there's a VERY big difference between running a simple test for 5 minutes, and using an application on a daily basis.

Of course feature lists are important, but adding in something about the performance would take a review from being a "review" to being "authoritative".

Ok - That's all. Let the ideas start flying on how to get this organized... Perhaps we should start with a list of goals. I'll go first:

GOALS:

1) Make the reviews authoritative and reliable for readers
2) Exhaustive reviews of individual pieces of software
3) Exhaustive comparisons between pieces of software
4) Relatively easy to contribute to the process in a structured way, perhaps "templated" - this would require a metadata type structure
5) Not sure... Please continue...

Cheers!






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General Software Discussion / PC Hate
« on: August 16, 2007, 07:05 PM »
Check out this PC hater.

That's a lot of time & effort to spread PC hate... The worst part is that the videos are pretty clunky and this guy is a 'video pro'.

Ah well... I guess everyone needs a hobby. :)


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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Dot Net Preacher Show - Interview with Grant Frisken from Infralution
« on: August 13, 2007, 09:22 AM »
This week's .NET Preacher sermon is an interview with Grant Frisken from Infralution.

Infralution produces .NET components for developers and has some great solutions to some tough problems.

Also in the interview we talk about Infralution's new Globalizer.NET solution for software localizaton.

Enjoy~!

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