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As far as actually being a competitor for gmail, lycos isn't one -- the only significant competition I see is Yahoo/MSN -- both of whom are seriously overhauling their webmail clients.-allen (March 21, 2006, 09:18 AM)
New features in version 3.0
April 15, 2006
Options
* Added: a settings screen containing many new options. You can access the settings screen through "menu: View/options" or the new options toolbutton.
Toolbars
* Added: a new button to open the options screen has been added to the file toolbar
* Improved: the 'Follow Hyperlink' icon on the 'navigate' toolbar has been replaced with a better icon.
* Improved: the 'Search article' icon has been replaced with a nicer icon
* Added: the right-click toolbar menu now also contains menu items for the infobars
* Added: the right-click toolbar menu now also appears when right-clicking on the article title bar, just below the article.
Skins
* Added: one can now switch between ten skins to adjust the appearance of TreePad's toolbars. Menu/view/skin or toolbar popup-menu/skin. The following skins are available: classic, silver 1, silver 2, blue sky, blue metallic, chrome, aluminium, vanilla, purple and green. The 'classic' skin corresponds to how the program looked during the last few years.
* Added: a new skins menu has been added to the toolbar popup menu, as well as to the view menu
User-interface
* Added: Windows XP themes support
* Improved: the tab below the article has been replaced with a nicer looking panel displaying the name of the article
* Updated 'About' screen, menu: help/about
Tray icon
* Many new tray icon options, such as: show in tray when minimized, show in tray when active, show in tray and taskbar when minimized, etc. etc. Menu: View/options
Tree
* Added: a tree folder icon for each node. You can hide (and show) this icon using the options screen, menu: view/options
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I'm not popular, but it has saved me on many occasions when I forgot about my family's birthdays-allen (April 08, 2006, 10:17 PM)
RJ, your comment is quite common in my email this week. Seems most people use other tools, viz., their file managers like Total Commander or Directory Opus to rename files on the fly. This fact of utilization will need to be noted within the review, I believe.-zridling (April 09, 2006, 10:42 PM)
rather than writing in a "real" programming language, [people] were stretching the tools they liked.
For example, BRU cannot rename files using mp3 track information. Its developer, Jim Willsher, holds that mp3 extraction slows down the program too much and recommends specific mp3 renamers for that purpose.-zridling (April 04, 2006, 06:57 PM)
Jan Falke's RenameFiles utility. When you open it up, it does 90% of what most people do with a renamer on the fly. I love his description of Preview: (for cowards!)
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Version 4.90 contains the full Pro Mail, Forum & Newsgroup Message Archiver.
For non registered users it will be free during a 30 days trial period. After that period the Mail Archiver part will be blocked, unless the program is registered. However, the Pro Forum & Newsgroup Archiver parts are freeware and will always be available.
I had everything backed up, as TB has a very effective backup/restore feature. Unfortunately, the backup was on the same hard drive -- in my defense, I was in the Navy and didn't have a lot of options on where/what to do with my data.-allen (April 07, 2006, 05:48 AM)
It's not picking on the bat specifically -- this is the case, in my experience, across the board. Search is often thrown in as a feature not the focus
No. Well, TB does have virtual folders now -- they're a relatively new feature (Last year or two) -- I haven't spent enough time to know just how effective they are, though. Even with virtual folders, one can lose a lot of time organizing
I do keep my mailing lists in separate views, though -- as I don't need them mixed with personal mail or vice versa.
re: m_s
-- Might be time to start a new thread about mail conversion/archival
I recently reinstalled XP on home and work machines, and I've not got around to reinstalling FK on the work machine - which is where I use it: as I said, I've not used it much in awhile, so it's a pretty low priority.-m_s (April 07, 2006, 04:19 AM)
Which means I don't know which version I have...
five versions of the CompuServe software installed, in order to be able to read messages from all the different versions! FK fixed that nicely.
I've used ForKeeps for two years now, and it was absolutely invaluable for accessing an archive of 5 or 6 years of CompuServe and Pegasus message. It's really easy to work with and very simply does what it says on the box.-m_s (April 07, 2006, 01:19 AM)
I haven't used The Bat! in a dedicated fashion in a few years--not since I lost my hard drive with everything on it. I just haven't been in the mood to setup everything the way I like it -- you wouldn't believe how many hours I put into making TB 'perfect' for me. Just don't have the energy to do it again, maybe one day . . .-allen (April 06, 2006, 02:48 PM)
a well organized mailbase is easily more a hindrance than asset. I say this for two reasons -- first of all, the amount of time spent setting up and maintaining a convoluted hierarchy of folders and sub-folders. Secondly, the amount of time spent decoding this.
up having to check multiple folders. If, perhaps, you organize by people as well as by subject, you can never know for sure if you filed a message by one or the other -- unless you copy it over into each -- but then you're increasing your mailbase potentially by 100%.
Two things. One, as I understand it, XML may be an open format, but it isn't necessarily easy to work with. You rapidly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms.-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 08:16 AM)
Sure, but the XSLT would be specific and transform one format to the other format. User doesn't need to see the xml.-pmowbray (April 06, 2006, 08:35 AM)
It's got it's own field (not part of notes) and has a pop-up to insert the various variables and constants for you
So not more complex, just easier to use.
My license keys are all stored in fsekrit. I keep a copy on my computer, my palm's SD card, my usb drive and a copy on my ftp server.-allen (March 19, 2006, 01:06 PM)
If all notetaking programmes agreed to export to xml it'd be relatively simple to transform that into an import xml file for a different notetaking programme.-pmowbray (April 06, 2006, 07:13 AM)
Just had a look at KeePass and it does infact look excellent: very similar to PINs (my current standard). PINs has a better Auto-Text entry and URL definition, but KeePass could produce better trees (deep).
I'm hoping that once the notes are exported, they can be processed somehow with a little bit of work to be imported into whatever the new program I have chosen. Yeah, it's a pain-superboyac (April 05, 2006, 09:55 AM)
Something of the sort should be possible, no doubt with limitations. The author of Jot+ Notes offers his registered users a free-standing tool to convert numerous other formats into Jot+ format. Export to text file and re-import may be possible, but I suspect with a lot of work.multiple accounts.-pmowbray (April 05, 2006, 07:25 AM)
I keep all my licenses in my notetaking program-superboyac (March 19, 2006, 12:55 AM)
One of the nice things about AnyPassword (which doesn't interfere with RoboForm as the free version isn't automatic) is that the fiedls have a single click to copy to the clipboard function.-Carol Haynes (March 19, 2006, 06:41 AM)
I used to palm notes. Now I keep all this stuff categorized as "serials" in gmail.-vamp07 (April 04, 2006, 09:20 PM)
Erstwhil I use The Bat! to download/maintain the actual backup of my mail.
I had used mailbag assistant in the past --
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it natively supports most formats. (All but Opera, really). I've since lost my registration, however, and don't have enough need for it right now to warrant the price. Maybe with a 50% discount . . .