Recent Posts
Hi, MiniCap is really cool. Unfortunately I've got a problem when starting it from Flash with a batch file. The commandline-window is always in front of all other windows and is bein captured as well. Is there any possibility to put the commandline commands in the minicap.ini-file?mouser can probably help you, he must've missed this post...-FabD (November 12, 2008, 10:13 AM)
Their online database is the ONLY search method available for 6.x users, however.Yes, I've noticed-Josh (January 03, 2009, 04:34 AM)
I believe most of the features mentioned by Superboyac and others are added to <Power Favorites> now. Please just list your requests if you need some new features to rock with your bookmarksSo... any chance of a DC discount?-markstone (October 21, 2008, 08:45 AM)
He's integrated a custom forum system into regexbuddy, and I think that new versions of the other software (Like EPP) might see that feature integrated. Here's to hoping!Yeah, that's right. Buuiltin forum would be a solution, I suppose, although I'd still prefer a dedicated EPP forum online. Some sort of place where users can share experiences and support, really. Anyone know of an unofficial list/forum/something?-allen (December 19, 2008, 02:32 PM)
Own RegexBuddy from before so used to quality from JGSoft!
I'd guess the reason for the change is that either the search sites were charging and Collectorz wants to cut down on costs, some of the search sites have told Collectorz to cease and desist in the old way of doing things ...Actually, if that is the real reason, I'd expect Collectorz to say so. I think it would save them a lot of trouble with angry users, since it would be a valid reason to change the software, and hard to argue against for the users. And as far as I understand they do have some sort of deal in place with Amazon at least, which is why there'll be a link to Amazon from the entries in your database (not absolutely sure, though, but I read an Alwin post that way).-Carol Haynes (December 12, 2008, 04:57 AM)
What is the bet that in a year or two the software will be free and the data base will be an annual subscription? It will get around the loophole for customers with lifetime updates because they will be able to argue that you have lifetime updates to the software but the database is now on a subscription which I am sure is still niggling under the surface (and why there is no mechanism for lifetime licensees other than to request a new key every time there is an upgrade).Surely, they would never...-Carol Haynes (December 12, 2008, 04:57 AM)
I don't know if there's any good reason to do it that way. To me it's obvious that the previous way of being able to select search sources is way better, but at the very least this "solution" is better than not providing the "background" search. I'll certainly do more testing to see if there's any point in using Book Collector 6 (I have lifetime license, so upgrade costs aren't an issue).They do this, actually. If I'm understanding it right, when a user searches ISBN through BoC, if it isn't found in Collectorz database it'll look for it in other sources. I found a book in the Norwegian national library this way. Also, when a user has searched this way (like I have), the result will be available in the database when the next user searches for the same ISBN. So, I suppose that's some user input that is used after all...-TucknDar (December 11, 2008, 02:36 PM)
Just out of curiosity - is there any good technical reasons why anybody would want to do it that way? What is the advantage to shoehorning all that data, and all those queries, through a keyhole. I'm not challenging their right to do it, since I'm not a customer, but I just don't get what the advantage would be.-40hz (December 11, 2008, 03:08 PM)