Other Programs Technology Passed By

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 16, 2006 at 01:37 PM

I think what happened is that once upon a time some of these programs were ok, but that other developers’ technology and imaginations passed them by.

My favourite love to hate program, simply because of its arrogance and inability to be completely honest in its advertising, is InfoSelect and it falls into this category.

At one point it was very good, if you don’t include its mail option, and its never perfected ability to consistently make web clippings.

Nowadays it seems to define goodness by adding features, and advertising the world.

But the implementation of those features, the glorious advertising notwithstanding, often falls short of what is promised.

The underlying question, with all these programs, is whether the developers have fallen behind conceptual and technological curve.

It has to be a tremendous pressure for developers in today’s environment to stay ahead of that curve, or at least to ride it. For example, a program such as Biblioscape, that has been trying for some long to come out with its latest version—what does it do in the face of a program such as newcomer IdeaMason? Unless IdeaMason 3 falls flat on its face, programs such as Biblioscape may face big problems in the marketplace.

Daly

Cassius wrote:
> >
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>>Jot Note and Maple would seem to be two more programs
>technology passed by, in addition
>>to My Notes Centre. I think the Gemx’s note
>program and Treepad’s offerings are trying
>>to resist the same fate.
>>
>>Daly
> >========
>1. JotNotes+: I agree. I wrote the author, telling him that I thought that
>the changes from ver 3.2 to 3.3 were minor. He disagreed.
> >2. Maple: I recommended
>this Russian PIM at one time, but posted a retraction some time ago. I did this after two
>successive updates included changes to its file formats which required one to “jump
>through hoops,” that is, spend an inordinate amount of time to get an older file to open
>properly in the newer versions. [Note: Maple is also the name of a mathematical
>software package.]
> >-c
> >-c