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Jibz's Tools / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DINA FONT - v2.88, October 30, 2005

« on: November 15, 2005, 04:01 AM »

I think I managed to create a version that also works with Visual Studio on Win2K now. I've sent a new package to mouser, and to zhichao to test.

Thanks a lot for the bug report and help with fixing it! .

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Discussion of version 2.03.10

« on: November 11, 2005, 08:46 AM »

This program has certainly come a long way since the last version I tried .. I am extremely impressed .

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Living Room / Re: I did not know this,try creating a text file named con.txt

« on: November 05, 2005, 09:50 AM »

Yes .. it's because con refers to a device .. you'll probably have similar problems with nul, aux and prn.

Why the operating system doesn't handle device names with an extension differently, I do not know.

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Jibz's Tools / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DINA FONT - v2.88, October 30, 2005

« on: November 01, 2005, 05:13 AM »

Thanks a lot .

It has been more work than I had expected, but I am really quite happy about the result myself.

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Official Announcements / Re: New Software Release (11/01/05) - Piper

« on: November 01, 2005, 04:49 AM »

My god .. only an American could exaggerate so wildly .. but thanks for the kind words anyway .

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: EssentialPIM Pro free licenses - one day only (31/10/05)

« on: October 31, 2005, 04:51 AM »

Just bumping this post, since the free licenses appear to be available now .

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Official Announcements / Re: New custom programming font available for download at DonationCoder.com: Din

« on: October 29, 2005, 01:31 PM »

The current release contains 8pt, 9pt and 10pt versions of the font. I am going through them to add bold and italic at the moment, and only finished the 8pt so far, which is why it's in the screenshot.

If you like, please try out the 9pt or 10pt in the current release .

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Official Announcements / Re: New custom programming font available for download at DonationCoder.com: Din

« on: October 29, 2005, 09:23 AM »

Hi,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still working on improving the font. At the moment I am adding hand-edited bold and italic versions as shown on the attached image.

While it is a lot of work, it has the advantage that I can make the bold and italic versions the same width as the regular font (like with Courier New).

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Can´t get license key so i quit this damn page

« on: October 28, 2005, 11:55 AM »

Here's an analogy ..

You go to the supermarket to buy bread, but you can't find the bread. So you spend an hour looking for the bread, and finally yell at the woman at the cash register and head out the shop before she has a chance to help you.

Now .. why didn't you just ask her nicely after 5 mins of not being able to locate the bread so she could help you?

I don't know .. maybe I'm just getting too old and grumpy .

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Can´t get license key so i quit this damn page

« on: October 28, 2005, 02:47 AM »

Good idea to post here after having spent an hour searching and finally being this angry .

Sure was a lot smarter than posting a question here after 5 mins and getting some help .

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Bug Tracker

« on: October 25, 2005, 09:48 AM »

I recently saw a site using trac .. have no experience with it though.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the QuickZip Joseph Leung ^_^

« on: October 20, 2005, 03:08 AM »

You don’t have to wonder about this, as back in 1999-2000, in freeware world, there was only 2 "Archiver", Power Archiver and Quick Zip.

-lycj

I guess that depends on the size of your world .. what about Info-ZIP Zip or LHA, both free end released in the early 90'es .

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Living Room / Re: use a real Wiki on this site?

« on: October 16, 2005, 04:57 PM »

Wikipedia has a comparison of wiki software.

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Living Room / Re: What did your first computer's hardware consist of ?

« on: October 15, 2005, 12:18 PM »

My first computer was a Power 3000, a ZX81 clone .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« on: October 14, 2005, 03:09 AM »

Hehe indeed I do .

Guess you have to be a bit of a geek to find beauty in what looks like ascii art gone wrong .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« on: October 13, 2005, 12:49 PM »

Looks good .. except does it work if there is more than one . in the domain part? like [email protected]?

And what about if there is a . in the local part? like [email protected]

I didn't know about the + thing either .. very handy indeed .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« on: October 13, 2005, 12:02 PM »

Perhaps seems a bit overinclusive just to allow + and -, but whatever works for you .

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: ITSD Organizer keeps your notes at hand

« on: October 13, 2005, 10:42 AM »

Here are a couple of slighly different but related programs you might want to check out:

C-Organizer - calendar organizer kind of thing

ToDoList - project planning tool (free)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AdMuncher 20% discount code (advertisement blocker)

« on: October 13, 2005, 09:59 AM »

Sounds intriguing indeed .

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General Software Discussion / Re: nitroPDF half price offer ... but be quick offer ends on 15th October

« on: October 12, 2005, 04:57 AM »

By the way I sent query by email and got a response within 3 hours - not bad support ...

-CarolHaynes

I used the web based sales support form on their homepage on October 7th (same day as you) asking the same question .. all I have gotten so far is an automated reply giving me a case number and saying they will get back to me as soon as possible .

Perhaps it's some mixup, or they give priority to paying customers (which would only be fair) .

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General Software Discussion / Re: nitroPDF half price offer ... but be quick offer ends on 15th October

« on: October 07, 2005, 12:48 PM »

Oh .. sorry to hear that .

But thanks a lot for sharing this information .. I will probably keep away from it until v5.0 is released then.

If that happens roughly 60 days after the discount has expired, I reserve the right to complain at length about their sales tactics .

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General Software Discussion / Re: nitroPDF half price offer ... but be quick offer ends on 15th October

« on: October 07, 2005, 09:42 AM »

Having read the threads you pointed to the issues seem to have been a bug which is now resolved in version 4.9.

-CarolHaynes

Glad to hear that. I am not a big fan of product activation for a number of reasons, but at least it's good that they try to fix the problems it is causing their paying customers .

As for the updates I am not sure what the policy is but there is a product update button under help, and the version on offer above is version 4.8. It updated fine to version 4.9!

-CarolHaynes

Let's not hope you get free updates until the next major version number then .

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General Software Discussion / Re: nitroPDF half price offer ... but be quick offer ends on 15th October

« on: October 07, 2005, 08:46 AM »

I was seriously considering this deal, but after browsing their support forums I am a lot less hyped. Apparently they are using some crippling activation system (read for instance here, here and here) .

Also, I could find no mention what so ever about what exactly the license covers. Am I buying only this version? Will I get updates/upgrades? For a year? Forever?

Seems like a nice product though.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the ALTools Evangelist :)

« on: September 15, 2005, 03:05 AM »

ALZip is free for home users - commercial users pay. When they pay, they need to get something for their money, and not just warm fuzzies from doing the right thing and supporting the products they use. They do get personalized license keys, but so what? At some point there needs to be some kind of differentiation for commercial users. All the functionality is the same - there's no difference between paying and not paying - except that registering removes the animated GIF at the top. It's really just about trying to deliver the best product possible and at the same time trying to deliver a good feeling about purchasing the product. We want our commerical users to feel good about their purchases, and this is just one way that we can help do that.

-Renegade

I know exactly what you mean .. some of my software is also free for non-commercial use, so I face many of the same problems.

How about putting some text in the topic line (or about box) of the program saying it's unregistered but free for non-commercial use, and for your registered users remove that line?

The problem with the current solution seems to be that it's both annoying and relatively easily mistaken for adware.

i'm reallly enjoying this thread - it's great to hear developers and users talking like this.
i'd like to express some opinions about adware that i've been chewing over for a while, and i think it relates to the issues faced by donationcoder.com.

-mouser

I think there is a big difference between the approach taken on this site and adware. Here, the user is in charge, and downloads and enters the key. With an add supported program, the author (or some advertisement company) is in charge of the code inside the program running on the users computer and connecting to the internet from it.

That's a pretty big trust to put into an application. For instance, on my machine only very few programs have access to the internet, and I wouldn't dream of opening up access for some advertisement mechanism in random programs.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: Review comments from the ALTools Evangelist :)

« on: September 14, 2005, 02:53 AM »

That entry in the FAQ was for ALZip 4.8 or 4.9 or something like that. It's quite outdated and the function was taken out of the English/International version years ago. There is no network connectivity in the English/International version.

-ALTools

I am happy to hear that .

Though it is blatant self-promotion, it's pretty hard to call it "advertising-supported software" as it's all free.

-ALTools

I kind of disagree with this. The problem I see is that your software is not free -- it's free for non-commercial use. So you do have a commercial interest in advertising for your other products. While the banner adds may not generate revenue directly from some advertisement company, it does indirectly.

Also, no matter how free all your products may be, users who see the banners will immediately think "adware".

Now, personally I'm not against adware at all. I don't have a problem with it as long as I know what's going on. (Yes - I read license agreements before I install anything new.) I'm also an ISV, so I understand the need to generate revenue. None of my own software includes any, but I can understand why there's a need for it - food on the plate and all that stuff.

-ALTools

I don't have anything against it either, as long as it's made perfectly clear before I download and install an application that it contains advertisements.

The disappointing thing is the popular attitude towards adware. It is too often confused with spyware, and that's a real problem for legitimate developers.

-ALTools

It's one of those things that could be a great idea, but has been ruined by people exploiting it. There has simply been so many bad examples of hidden spyware and other tricks that people find it hard to trust adware.

So for ALTools, I really want to distance them from the seedy side of the Internet - spyware - and also distance it from legitimate software that is advertising supported. ALTools are not advertising supported.

-ALTools

May I suggest to consider removing the add banners and instead just put a static image with your company name. This would also make the interface less distracting .

Btw, I think it's great that you, as a developer, come here and discuss the review and our opinions of your software .