Web Research -->> WOW!

Posted by Cassius
Jul 6, 2007 at 07:27 AM

Personally, I usually do not find comments on comments and their authors as useful as comments on/descriptions of the software. Having said this:

While a side-by-side comparison of products would be nice, such comparison would have to be done by someone very familiar with all of the products…probably too much to expect most of the time. Partial info can, however, be quite useful. For instance, my earlier posting requesting info on OneNote elicited enough useful information for me to be able to decide that it is not for me. The responders also saved me much time that I would otherwise have spent trying ON. For this I am most grateful.

Finally, as has been pointed out, each of our systems probably has accumulated some quirks over the years that might cause a particular software program to act flaky. For example, the Kensington Expert Mouse [actually a large trackball] disabled the “CTRL- =>” and “CTRL- <=” functions on my Win XP Media Ctr. Edition Toshiba laptop. On a previous Win 2000 machine, it caused no problems.

Again, personally, if I were to find a program I REALLY liked, but it acted flaky, I’d post a question listing my machine’s specifics and asking others what their experiences have been.

-c