Can we talk about Info Select?

Posted by razorboy
Aug 28, 2012 at 04:35 PM

Slartibartfarst wrote:

>As a result of responding to this
>discussion that you started, I have reinstalled and tested is9 (called “2007”), and
>is10 (the latest version is v10.00.87).
>I put them both into my trial directory,
>running .concurrently with is8 (which was already installed).
>I am currently
>putting is10 through its hoops, and so far it is looking quite good, though it kept
>crashing when I tried to install it with my old .wd2 is8 database files, so I figured out
>how to install it first and THEN convert the .wd2 files. It’s a bit tedious that way, but
>as a workaround it seems to be OK.
> >I had not trialled this version of is10 before, and I
>must say it looks quite good! If it enables me to easily save my browser .html pages (I
>currently have these in a Scrapbook library), then I might consider using it for that,
>though it seems expensive so I am hoping I shall find more befits than just that.
>Otherwise I will not be able to easily justify the outlay. I am already doing what data
>management/manipulation I want with OneNote and separate tools and FREE Firefox
>browser add-ons. At worst, is10 may not offer much extra, but at best, it could offer a
>degree of increased consolidation of functionality - which is always a good thing
>IMHO.
> >I would recommend you download is10 free of charge as a trial, and that will
>apparently give you 60 runs (that is what it states) before the trial licence expires.
>You should be able to get some idea of how useful it is from that.
>WARNING: Though the
>is8 and is9 Help files were self-contained and very well-documented, there is
>apparently only an online Help facility for is10. I have tried using it and it
>unfortunately seems like rubbish. I presume that they are still writing a proper one!
>It badly needs one anyway - and especially for the price they are asking.
> >You can
>download the various versions of “is” from here:
>http://www.miclog.com/download/index.htm

Thanks for all your work, Slartibartfarst. I will do the IS 10 trial, although I’m not sure what a “run” is. (Open and close the programme?) I qualify for the upgrade price, and it is worth that much $$$ to me if it works for me as well as the ancient version did. Perhaps there is some way to minimize the effect of the ribbon, although it does not sound promising in that regard.

I emailed support about the forum, copying your post about Jim Lewis taking over the forum, and I suggested that he must have turned the thing over to someone else. I have had no response. I don’t think I’ll get one. BTW, their street address is an industrial mall with several businesses in it, none of which is Micro Logic, it seems. Of course, half the software companies in the world exist only on someone’s desktop computer, with employees working from home and having four such jobs each. As well, the info about the address could be wrong.