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« Last post by wraith808 on April 02, 2012, 02:09 PM »Thanks! Coincidentally enough, I'd just downloaded PhpStorm to evaluate for that Javascript PL101 class 
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I retain my worries about DropBox - there has been enough coverage of that already!-Carol Haynes (March 29, 2012, 11:12 AM)
1password's license isnt' a lifetime one. You'll get discounts for new major versions though. Or is there an option to buy a lifetime license? Thanks.-JaneDC (March 28, 2012, 09:19 PM)
Not sure I understand that comment? I didn't say anything about 1Password since I have never used it (or made any other password manager except RoboForm - a company I now despise and wouldn't trust at all).-Carol Haynes (March 29, 2012, 03:40 AM)
Who is to say 1Password is safe - and you use DropBox to sync (!!!!) - my God that makes LastPass look like Fort Knox!-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2012, 05:07 PM)
The yearly fee for MyEclipse seems a bit much to me, given that you can purchase other programs just once and be done with paying for them.-HankFriedman (March 28, 2012, 05:20 PM)
[Subscriptions] What happens when my subscription expires?
MyEclipse will start reminding you that you are getting close to the expiration date a month in advance. If you decide to let your subscription expire, MyEclipse will disable itself within your Eclipse install. This means any MyEclipse-specific functionality you were making use of will be disabled, however none of the other functionality provided by your Eclipse install will be affected, all the remaining plugins (including Eclipse itself) will continue to function without interruption.
Does 1Password have lifetime licensing or do you have to buy upgrades regularly? In which case $12 a year doesn't seem so much.-Carol Haynes (March 28, 2012, 03:14 AM)
Actually, "New Math" does work, and does increase my computational time...-wraith808 (March 27, 2012, 02:55 PM)
I think I'd prefer any "New Math" to reduce my computational time so I can get on and do other things.-4wd (March 27, 2012, 07:36 PM)
Who is to say 1Password is safe - and you use DropBox to sync (!!!!) - my God that makes LastPass look like Fort Knox!-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2012, 05:07 PM)
My point is what is the real killer feature in 1Password. Many people say 1Password is the killer mac product. It is worth the money.
Is it about GUI design or is it a hidden feature beyond password management to make 1Password so popurlar?-rail4you (March 27, 2012, 06:58 PM)
LastPass can fill applications - you use the LastPass application desktop client app!
I forgot it's a paid feature. I don't buy lastpass. Anyone compare LastPass application with others? If LastPass application is good enough, $12/y is a killer price.-rail4you (March 27, 2012, 09:33 PM)
With a $12 a year subscription, LastPass is also available on mobile devices (I use it on my Blackberry) and you can use it for storing passwords for apps that require credentials to use them. I haven't tried it but it is almost certainly possible to store serial codes etc. for future installations too. There is also a portable version (with 0 install footprint).-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2012, 10:53 AM)
because of its agonizingly slow startup and general sluggishness while editing notes (.Net again!)-tranglos (March 26, 2012, 08:12 AM)
It's an experiment. We also want to have more users and raise awareness of our products. We also hope that many customers will eventually upgrade to Professional edition, as it has much more features and majority of our paying customers prefers it.
What's the difference between Standard and Professional?
The Professional edition has all the features of Standard edition and many extra.
- It allows you to easily email tasks to others or to yourself.
- Set Start Date and Completion Date for your tasks.
- Assign tasks using Assigned To field.
- Track your progress more precisely using Percent Done field and Status field.
- Use Time Estimate and Time Spent fields for easy time tracking.
- Context field helps you to better categorize your tasks.
- You can receive email reminders and recurrence notifications
- Inbuilt time tracker for your tasks (floating window)
The best part is: The Professional edition can automatically hide fields that you don't use - the program is always kept simple and clear. You decide which fields you want to use. (This is a unique feature not found in any other task manager).
After trying to use PayPal as my initial provider, I would probably say that it is so much work that it isn't even worth it... The issue of not handling EU VAT is a major oversight by PayPal unless it's there and I just haven't found the right settings...-josant (March 25, 2012, 09:20 AM)
Wardell also lays into Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, claiming that it "will be considered a general failure" if it doesn't fix a few user interface issues: being unable to run entirely as a regular desktop without Metro; having no "realistic" way to organise Metro programs; and relying users to mouse-over elements to find out what they are.
Of course, Stardock will have quite strong opinions in this frield, as it makes a vast array of programs tweaking the Windows interface. Still, Wardell is concerned that Windows 8 might be so offputting that people simply won't switch, and there'll be no market to sell its tools to.
Even firmly entrenched Microsoft developers, such as many of us in the XAML Disciples (formerly known as the WPF Disciples), have expressed a lack of interest in learning WinRT. See this Disciples thread which veered away from its original topic (an announcement of some WinRT feature) into a series of thought-provoking explanations of why people are not bothering to get into WinRT. The general consensus on that thread is that if you lack confidence in the prospects of Windows 8 and, by extension WinRT, why bother learning it? Why not spend your time and energy learning more successful and in-demand technologies, whose futures look bright and promising?
I am not saying that Windows 8 will fail spectacularly, nor am I saying it won’t. All that I can say with certainty is that the .NET developer community is decidedly not flocking to it, and that should be very concerning for Microsoft.
And $1500 is standard charge for a software engineer. If I wasn't so busy, I might do it for $1000. Many don't realize the value of experience and knowledge. It's like a doctor or lawyer, requires extensive experience to have worked in the field, really understand it, and integrate multiple aspects of the field together -- instead knowing everything about one little piece. You can have it done a little cheaper I'm sure, but make sure their code is secure if you outsource to somewhere.-db90h (March 20, 2012, 05:40 AM)