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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What is the Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006?

« on: August 31, 2006, 05:00 AM »

I'm in.  I purchased MLO with DC's discount, with an eye to applying a GTD approach but, after a good start, I got distracted and fell off the wagon.    Thanks for offering a great way for me to take another run at it.

-david.intp (August 18, 2006, 02:03 PM)

Me too. I have had David Allen's book for a couple of years now. I'm struggling to restart and perhaps this experiment with give me a jumpstart.

Just a side note on MLO discount. Since we are talking of this experiment, it would be great if Mouser and/or Superboyac (credit for introducing MLO goes to him) can get the author to extend the discount again to donationcoders.

Also the since the discount expired before MLO PocketPC version was launched, although he does offer the MLO PPC version for $18 instead of $29.95 if you bought the MLO professional.

It would be nice if he can extend the discount for those who would like to get going for this experiment, and off course even a discount from the $18 for those who bought MLO Professional and have yet to buy the PPC version.

Personally I think if you use MLO Professional, you will eventually need the MLO PPC version so that you can update on the go.

Why did I fall off the MLO (GTD) chair ? I think one of the key reasons was that yes, you can prioritize Tasks with MLO with the in-built computed score priority method, but unfortunately (at least to me), you cannot see if based on the importance and priority of a task, there was no visual feedback in the Outline tab whether the task would appear in the To-Do tab that shows your so-called Next Action. I mean, if I thought that submitting my Tax Return next week was important and urgent, it certainly should appear as my Next Action, and hence there should be a quick visual feedback that it would indeed appear.

That left we with a nagging fear that something that I expected to be in the To-Do tab would not be there and I would miss it especially if it was critical.

I thought that this detracted from David Allen's dump from your brain principle.

I wrote to the MLO forum but I don't remember a response from the author.

Maybe another MLO user here can give me a solution to this.

Perhaps, this is probably due to my lack of understanding of how the whole system works and maybe through this experiment, I will gain a much deeper insight.

Having said that, I still think MLO (www.mylifeorganized.net) is probably the closest one can get to a software that follows closely the principle behind GTD, that also includes a version for the PocketPC.

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Living Room / Re: inline search highlighting in word?

« on: August 30, 2006, 08:48 PM »

Another possible freebie  candidate is

HandyFind: A faster, friendlier way to find words
"HandyFind    

HandyFind is a faster, friendlier way to find words in documents and web pages. It finds words as you type so you'll find what you're looking for as soon as you enter enough letters. After using HandyFind for a short time, you'll find it such a quick way to get around that you start using it for navigating documents as well as just searching.
Features

    * Find as you type in Internet Explorer, Notepad, Excel, Microsoft Word and more
    * Much less cumbersome than the regular Find dialog
    * Instantly jump to the next occurrence of your currently selected text or repeat previous searches
    * "Click" on hyperlinks with your keyboard

HandyFind is free. Enjoy!

Reviews

    This time-saving utility...will be useful to all users -- CNET Review

    HandyFind truly is a handy word finder...If you use the supported programs often then HandyFind is well worth having around and is much less cumbersome than the regular Ctrl-F "Find" command. -- CFS Program Review

    Just hit a hot key, start typing your search term and you're off. Simple, effective and, yes, free. -- Download Squad

    A lightweight alternative to the onboard Find tool, locating text inline without any disruptive box to block your field of view. -- Jake Ludington's MediaBlab

    Verdict: A very useful little tool -- PC Magazine

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General Software Discussion / Re: Right Click no longer works in Firefox

« on: August 27, 2006, 08:27 AM »

Thanks for the tip.

I tried it and it works.

The only problem was that all my settings, extensions etc were gone and it was too hard to go and reinstall all the required extensions again.

I had to do a quick take before I lost all my Goback history. I went back to a date a couple of days back when Firefox was working properly and presto !, I was back in Firefox right click heaven with all my settings intact.

Norton GoBack: Overview - Symantec Corp.
""
http://www.symantec....id=br&pvid=ngb40

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General Software Discussion / Right Click no longer works in Firefox

« on: August 26, 2006, 01:10 PM »

For some unkown reason, my right click no longer works in Firefox.

I tried reinstalling Firefox 1.5.0.6 but that did not solve the problem.

I tried searching Google for a solution but could not find one.

Can anyone help please.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Neato - Design Labels Online

« on: August 24, 2006, 08:47 AM »

Before you get too deep into designing labels, it would be useful to read
http://www.langa.com...003/2003-11-06.htm#1

The only safe way to do this is not to use labels but printable CDs, which means you probably have to use the software that came with your Printable CD - enabled printer.

I believed this issue was discussed in an earlier thread in this forum, but for some reason, I cannot find it at the moment.

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Living Room / Re: inline search highlighting in word?

« on: August 23, 2006, 02:20 AM »

The following may be of use too. I can't remember if it works in Word. I think it does and it has an important attribute - It's free

Keywords Seeker
"KeyWords Seeker

Do not miss any important information.
 
Today, in internet era, there are a lot of information coming to us every day and reading all the e-mails, web pages, on-line documents and other files becomes time consuming.  Almost any web site offers you to subscribe free e-mail newsletter but information you are consistently getting are not always interesting and worthy reading.   You often read e-mail and delete it because you find nothing interesting in it.   From other hand you do not want to miss worthy e-mails or overlook an information rich web pages."
http://www.softwareu...ies.com/pkwindex.htm

KeyWords Seeker helps you to decide if the e-mail you got or web page you entered might be interesting for you.  The main idea is very simple: Within KeyWords Seeker, that silently runs showing just an icon in the system tray,   you create a file of keywords that are interesting for you (keywords can be divided to several groups called vocabularies).  When you enter a web page or open an e-mail and want to know if it is worthy to read just drag the KeyWords Seeker icon from the system tray and drop it on the document you have open on the screen.  The KeyWords Seeker will "read" the document and searches it through for defined keywords. If some keywords are found then they are listed in a window for you.  Depending on keywords found (or no keyword found) you can decide if the document is worthy further reading.  Using KeyWords Seeker you never miss important information but save great volume of time not having to read everything you get.

KeyWords Seeker features:

User can define unlimited number of keywords and group them logically in vocabularies (for example, Interesting software , Interesting companies, etc.).
Three type of matching keywords: any, all, exact phrase.
Either keywords of selected vocabulary or all keywords are searched in the document.
Easy to use user interface.
While running, the program doesn't occupy space on your desktop.

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Living Room / Do you reach for your mobile when it did not ring ?

« on: August 19, 2006, 08:11 AM »

How often have you reach for your mobile phone when it did not ring. You just thought it was your mobile ringing when it was your wife or son or just a stranger's mobile ringing.

Well, it happens to me. Many of us use Nokia phones and guess what, the default ring tones are the same in many cases. They do have a few others but some are just too jarring or too plain.

I was wondering if anyone knows a good, safe website where you can download catchy and nice FREE ring tones so that you only need to reach for your mobile when it actually rings, even in a crowded train.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Nelson Email Organizer Pro (NeoPro) 50% discount

« on: August 04, 2006, 12:35 AM »

This may sound like Marketing hype on their part, but here are some quotes from their site.

"I use NEO every work day to manage my e-mail, as I get 50 to 60 e-mails a day. I never realized how difficult it was to keep up with the messages in Outlook until I tried NEO. Now I never look at my e-mail in Outlook."

"Average daily savings per case study user is over 1 1/2 hours per day!"

Anyway, there's some pretty cool tutorials made with Camtasia Studio that will give you a pretty good idea of what it can do for you.

You can see them here:

Nelson Email Organizer - NEO Tutorials
""
http://www.caelo.com...ebinars_tutorial.php

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Found Deals and Discounts / Nelson Email Organizer Pro (NeoPro) 50% discount

« on: August 03, 2006, 10:26 AM »

For those of you using Microsoft Outlook as an email client and suffering from email overload, you may find this of great help.

It's now at 50% discount for a limited time (How long ? Unknown). I used to use it until I switched my email client to Gmail.

But for the diehard Outlook user, this could be the solution for your email overload.

Nelson Email Organizer - NEO - The Microsoft Outlook Email Software Add-On
""
http://www.caelo.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / 1 Day 50% discount on Advanced DHTML Popup

« on: August 02, 2006, 01:27 AM »

Some of you may be interested to know about this discount.

I'm kind of wondering how useful this software is ?

BUt if you have a message for people who visit your site, it may come in useful to get a response.

On the other hand, it may irritate your visitors.

Any thoughts from people who run websites.

Bits du Jour: Discounted software and programs
"Flashy Little Windows
Advanced DHTML Popup

Regular price: $35.00
Bits du Jour price: $17.50
You save: [Big Discount!] 50% [Really Big Discount!] "
http://bitsdujour.com/

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Found Deals and Discounts / Thumbplus 7.0 Competitive upgrade for a limited time

« on: July 06, 2006, 11:22 AM »

Thumbsplus is a great image management software.

Check it out.

I know that there are some free alternatives. But some of the free ones do not cater for certain formats that Thumbsplus 7.0 have.

And if you like to annotate your images to make it easier to retrieve by keywords, Thumbsplus is really good here. Not much point collecting images when you have great difficulty looking for the one you need amongst the thousands that you accumulate.

"For a limited time only, Cerious Software is offering competitive upgrades from several products: ACDsee®, ACDsee Pro®, CompuPic®, Cumulus®, Extensis Portfolio®, and ImageAXS®. "
https://phlipper.cer...s.com/compupg7.shtml

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Found Deals and Discounts / Pocket Informant, Flexmail, Flexwallet- great PocketPC software- 40% summer sale

« on: June 12, 2006, 08:20 AM »

This is a site with really top in it's class Pocket PC software.

http://www.pocketinf...ess/SummerSale06.php

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Found Deals and Discounts / Inksaver 2.0 - 30% Discount during June 2006

« on: June 09, 2006, 06:37 AM »

Great way to save money on Expensive Printer Inks

http://www.inksaver..../overview/index.html

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Found Deals and Discounts / "Ilium Software's ONE-day sale begins June 2! Here's what's on offer f

« on: June 02, 2006, 09:58 AM »

Pocket PC Thoughts - Daily News, Views, Rants and Raves
"Ilium Software's one-day sale begins tomorrow, June 2! Here's what's on offer for the Pocket PC:

• eWallet Professional Edition: $9.99 (originally, $29.95).
• ListPro Professional Edition: $9.99 (originally, $29.95).
• Keep Track Professional Edition: $9.99 (originally, $24.95).
• NewsBreak: $3.33 (originally, $19.95).
• DockWare Pro: $3.33 (originally, $9.95).

And if you're a Smartphone user, you can still take advantage of these excellent offers. Remember - one day only!"
http://www.pocketpct...?action=expand,49081

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Living Room / Re: PDAs - any use?

« on: May 30, 2006, 08:22 AM »

then went on a search - never-ending - for freeware which met my needs. Have found a lot which Ive been happy with.

-tsaint (May 30, 2006, 05:04 AM)

Perhaps you can help some of us by pointing us to the useful ones.

The number of PPC freeware can be overwhelming in sites like
Freeware for Pocket PC windows mobile and wm5 ppc, PocketPC free downloads.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/

So perhaps you can suggest some useful software and or sites.

Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: Some users locked out of Google Mail - Some Wiped (Yikes)

« on: May 26, 2006, 01:18 PM »

Wow, I certainly hope Google does not send an email on our behalf with ads.

I do add an occasional email address manually as and when needed, but I don't import my entire email addresses list.

I thought their motto is Don't do evil or something like that !

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Uninstallers (a very short look at what I've tried!)

« on: May 26, 2006, 01:10 PM »

Actually it was upgraded to version 4 I think sometime last year, after Symantec bought it.

One thing I must say, no matter which software you use, it is always wise to have a properly tested ghosted image (come to think of it, this is another other Symantec software I use) supplemented by other forms of incremental backups in between images, so that when the inevitable happens like a hardware failure or catastrophic software failure whatever the cause, you will still be smiling, somewhat thankful for the precaution you took.

In all these many years, I've never had a situation I could not recover from using Goback during  the couple of times there was a problem. There was once an "internal" error, but uninstalling and reinstalling Goback fixed it.

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General Software Discussion / Some users locked out of Google Mail - Some Wiped (Yikes)

« on: May 26, 2006, 11:27 AM »

Backup, Backup, Backup - like via Outlook etc

Some users locked out of Google Mail | CNET News.com

Google said it is "working to resume normal service soon" for Google Mail after a number of users of the e-mail service were left without access.

The search giant on Thursday confirmed the outage after some people complained they couldn't access their e-mail accounts. Problems were also reported with Google Desktop.

Nathan Anderson, a user of Gmail (as the service is known outside the U.K., where legal issues necessitated a name change), said he was shut out of the mail service for at least three hours.

.....


"Back in March, several Google Mail users complained that they were struggling to use the free service. Two said their accounts had actually been deleted.

The search giant eventually admitted some accounts had indeed been wiped, but claimed it was not responsible."
http://news.com.com/...076957&subj=news

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Uninstallers (a very short look at what I've tried!)

« on: May 26, 2006, 10:56 AM »

If you want to avoid recording extraneous effects you need to run it with as few extra apps, processes and services running as possible.

-Carol Haynes (May 06, 2006, 04:48 PM)

TU wont remove the trial key in the registry, i tested a shareware program a while ago but didnt like it, so i uninstalled it with TU and when i tried it again recently, the program is expired.

TU doesnt remove everything.

-kimmchii (May 07, 2006, 11:10 PM)

Actually there's a "perfect solution to the above problems".
http://www.symantec....ery/ngb40/index.html

It's the only Symantec software I use. I started with it when it was with Roxio.

It's like a time machine that rolls back everything (and I mean 100% of changes) on your computer to a previous time. How far you can roll back depends on how much space you allocate to it. So if you are paranoid about the changes made trialing software on your PC, then Goback is the software you are looking for.

For me, it has enabled me to roll back many kinds of problems, such as the famous BSODs, unruly trial software, or even a poorly tested Windows Critical Update ( https://www.donation...52.msg22841#msg22841 ), and would have save grief for some whose system was trashed by a poorly tested virus signature update, recover data files that I accidentally overwritten (saved my life a couple of times) etc.

There have been a couple of times I had some problems with Goback over the years but they were few and far between.

Of course some have said that running it in the background consumes resources. In practice, I hardly notice any load and I have been using it for several years now even back in the days of slower processors.

I think IBM laptops have a similar roll back capability.

I have trialled TU once but never could convince myself that it could roll back software installations completely and only related to that particular software, since there are so many other processes in Windows that are running at the same time.

I might as well trial a software and if I think it's a no go, or windows update for that matter, I just Goback as if I never seen it in the first place. This, to me is the perfect software for the shareware junkie since we don't know what spaghetti changes they are making.

That way, I can keep my system stable for a long time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Taonotes (weird software!)

« on: May 19, 2006, 11:08 AM »

Actually, the following is a thread (verbatim) from the Ecco pro forum in which Vadim, the author of Taonotes is writing in response to the announcement of a new & forthcoming Ecco Pro "clone" by one of the long time Ecco Pro support experts, Phil Seeman

So you could say Taonotes it's a Ecco Pro wannabe in a sense.

Take note that Ecco Pro is an abandoned PIM (Outliner) with a cult like following despite having been abandoned close to 10 years

The posts are rather long, but it gives you an idea where TaoNotes is trying to position itself.

-----------------------------
<[email protected]> to eccopro
    More options     May 4
   I was not writting here for a relatively long time... but today
there is good reasons for that: 1) the topic that was initiated; 2)
today I am releasing new TaoNotes v3.00... so, I will use this case to
post here once... escuse me if you treat it as off-topic...

   I did not change my point of view... I do not believe in
announcements about concerned forthcoming products... None of them is
being developed well... Working on the main job as IT consultant for
life-living I develop TaoNotes in my spare time... But I think it has
progess despite of it's less than a year I started to develop it...

   So, I am in jeleous a bit when I see that someone announces the
new application arrival and about 100 people in the moment becomes
followers.... of nothing... and I have less then 100 followers of my
application working hard for a years...

   I need a beta testers too.... I do not promise user-definable
columns in this version, nor cross-referencing items.... just working
outliner with predefined columns set...

   So pardon my lirics above, I wanna inform you that there is new
New TaoNotes Pro v3.00 that delivers WYSYWYG content editing and many
outline navigation improvements. So now it's three-pane outliner with
possibility to edit and format (HTML formatting is supported) items.
visit http://actitrend.fre3.com to learn more....
-------------------------

And here are a couple of posts by someone else responding to Vadim's post

Vadim -

I think the critical difference -- one you keep missing, I believe --
is that your product doesn't provide any of the core functionality of
Ecco.  You've never taken the time to understand what Ecco does at its
most fundamental level, and so you product lacks any true "Ecco-ness".
 For that reason, it's simply not of much interest to anyone here (I
believe).

By contrast, Phil has been an Ecco-phile for many years.  He
understands inherently what Ecco does and how it does it, and he's
told us he's writing a new program to implement the basic Ecco
paradigms.  Consequently, people here are interested.

You want to get people here interested in TaoNotes?  Implement an
outliner coupled to an ad-hoc database, and you're half way there.

- Jeff

----------
These are all very good points.  In the absence of the character that Jeff
talks about, Vadim, your program becomes just another PIM.

I'm going to add another comment that I hope you will not take personally.
It is meant as constructive criticism.  I belong to a number of groups that
you apparently subscribe to, most of them involving GTD.  Your
self-promotion in these groups is constant.  In addition, though much less
important, when I have tried to engage you directly about some of the
characteristics of the software in these forums I have received no answer.
Given the above, especially the first, your posts have taken on the
characteristics of popup ads.  I believe that I can state with some
certainty that most people are ignoring them by now.  Combine this with the
petulant tone of the post below, bordering on the implication that you are
being persecuted because we are not all raving about your program, and I
believe you may start to understand some of the resistance that people may
feel about getting too involved with your software.  I've seen you make
other such posts in the past and I believe that I can state uncategorically
that they turn people off.  I'm deeply sorry to put it that way but I
believe that it is so.

I would strongly and constructively suggest that you limit your own posts to
these groups advertising your software to major upgrades, perhaps about once
every 6 months.  I would also constructively suggest that you not respond to
posts about other people's software, whether it exists or not, with
promotion of your own.

Tom S.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Bits du Jour - 1 Software Title Each Day At A Big Discount- Pocket Informant

« on: May 15, 2006, 01:50 AM »

During this week as I understand it, www.bitsdujour.com is concentrating on PocketPC software.

And the 1st one is Pocket Informant which is at 40%

Pocket Informant is one of the best PocketPC PIM you can ever find and is very actively developed.

You only got about 23 hours left for the 40% discount.

Wish I had a 40% off previously.

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« on: May 13, 2006, 01:22 PM »

  Thumbs up for Womble.  Not reencoding is such a huge plus.  Not to mention it's mpeg support.

-skywalka (May 13, 2006, 12:22 PM)

Would be good if Womble can offer a discount to donationcoder members

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General Software Discussion / Re: video editing software

« on: May 13, 2006, 06:59 AM »

Also check out Video Edit Magic. Easy to use and will convert to anything you want and makes editing — cutting, pasting, adding/changing audio, and transitions — a snap.

-zridling (May 13, 2006, 05:07 AM)

If you ever want to buy it, then check out (get a $10 discount)
http://www.wugnet.co...fault.asp?pageid=279

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Living Room / Re: Web Hosting Review - what about "other" toptenreviews

« on: May 05, 2006, 08:53 AM »

Along the same lines, I wonder about the independence of such sites as

Registry Repair Software Review 2006
http://registry-repa...w.toptenreviews.com/

Especially when there's a Buy button on each of the 10 contenders.

or

Video Editing Software Review 2006
http://video-editing...w.toptenreviews.com/

And the mother of all Top Ten Reviews ?

TopTenREVIEWS Software Reviews
http://www.toptenreviews.com/


But I'm not totally discounting the above as I do see that some fair amount of work has gone into tabulating it. But how independent I'm not quite sure.

For example the Registry Repair review seems OK although I'm aware of the controversy surrounding such software.

And the Video editing software did not include the one I thought was superb at www.womble.com or the one mentioned by Carol "TMPGEnc MPEG Editor"
See mention of both in :
https://www.donation...94.msg17113#msg17113

Any thoughts ?

Of course, we have a great site to help us sift through all the junk out there ! www.donationcoder.com 

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General Software Discussion / Re: One-hit wonders

« on: May 03, 2006, 11:33 AM »

It's amazing!  I read this the other day and was highly interested.  Then today, at another forum, I saw an old post where someone was saying how utterly fantastic Ecco Pro was.....so I go searching on it and find this write-up - heck, I'm drooling now!  If I could just be sure it would work with Windows 2000, I'd get it right now! 

-Harrie (April 04, 2006, 05:21 PM)

Well Harrie,

I can assure you that Ecco Pro works fine in Windows XP. And I'm a long-time user and a victim of Outlook killing Ecco Pro's development when it came out free then.

I've been looking for a better and flexible outliner ever since that would have a similar functionality like Ecco Pro but dispite many years of searching, have never found anything close to Ecco with it's flexibility.

I still use it especially when I out to do outlining, given it's capability. But it's more powerful than that. But to be frank, since it's no longer being developed, I decided that it would not make sense to keep using it as a PIM and put lots of data, contacts etc in it.

So much as I would not like to admit it, I use Outlook to keep contacts, calendaring etc, not so much because it's good, but because it's unlikely to die on me. But for outlining, Ecco anytime or the new upstarts like www.mylifeorganized.net

But if you are also a Pocketpc user, Ecco is dead in the water for you as it only syncs with Palm. And that is another bummer for me.

Inspite of that, I still use Ecco - for Outlining and processing my thoughts.