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Be very careful about downloading anything from SourceForge, particularly from inactive projects. They were recently found to have hijacked the GIMP repositories that remained on their site after the ...
AllMyNotes for free on BDJ Monday
6/16/2015
Ken wrote:
> It is certainly hard to pass up free,
>
>--Ken
Not that hard -- this is basically a limited free trial with restrictions on installation. No support or upgrades, and according to the ...
Microsoft Buys Wunderlist
6/3/2015
yosemite wrote:
Buy it, kill it. Well, sometimes they don't kill it straight off but it
>dies a lingering death. Hackpad comes to mind. I'm sure there's a
>zillion others but I don't remember the...
Ultra Recall at BitsDuJour today
6/3/2015
Ultra Recall is listed at 61% off at www.bitsdujour.com today.
That makes it $19 for the Standard Edition and $39 for the Professional Edition.
Task Unifier ceases development
3/25/2015
Benjamin LeClerc, the author of Task Unifier, has announced that development of the software has ceased as of January 31, 2015 and the Pro version is now free for all users. He has said that he expec...
I can't imagine writing without WordWeb Pro - a much better dictionary and thesaurus than is built in to any word processor and since it reads from the screen, it is available to you within every prog...
Mac Envy
2/27/2015
Macs provide a visual environment designed to appeal to specific creative types, including writers, photographers and visual artists. Much of the software developed for the Mac is also designed to ap...
askSam dead?
10/16/2014
behirsch wrote:
Is there any database program that will import (and convert) askSam
>files? Or is there any way to save a file and its contents in any other
>format?
An old post on the Kinook forum...
GS-Calc from Citadel5 can supposedly handle up to 12 million rows and use up to 16 processor cores during calculations. And to get the thread back on topic, it has a hierarchical view of sheets that l...
Change in hardware/change in software?
8/23/2014
Dr Andus wrote:
P.P.S. If your privacy concerns are about remaining totally anonymous
>towards Google, then probably a Chromebook would be the wrong choice, as
>it is so deeply integrated with one's...
Just got an email from Gingko announcing the breakup of the team that built the app.
"...after a few weeks of intense deliberation, it was decided that the best thing for Gingko, and for Aleksey pers...
little red hen needs help
2/4/2014
MadaboutDana wrote:
>Having said all that, there are alternatives. One of them is ListPro by
>Ilium Software (http://www.iliumsoft.com/listpro/), also available for
>iPhone and Android. The desktop...
WinCatalog
1/25/2014
Wayne K wrote:
I went to "Alternative To" website and entered Wincatalog. The top
>choice returned was "Where Is it". I just installed it and gave it a
>quick try. No customizable columns there, ...
Pimlical
11/16/2013
Dr Andus wrote:
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>>Does anyone have a suggestion for a
>>>good desktop calendar for the PC that syncs with Google Calendar,
>>mostly for backup
>>>and ...
Version 7 of FileLocator Pro, which was released less than a month ago, introduces Mythicsoft calls Document Caching:
While FileLocator Pro’s multi-thread searching algorithms are lightning
...
File Search
9/1/2013
I've tried and abandoned a number of file search programs over the years. The only two that I still use are dtSearch and FileLocator Pro.
I use dtSearch for research in a large collection of mostly ...
Bento end-of-life -- what next?
8/12/2013
22111 wrote:
Bento is a classic example of a spin-off marketed to its death.
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>But as said, there is always askSam 7, regularly on bitsdujour, and
>version 8 will come out rather soon it appe...
Alex wrote:
Hello everyone. I'm glad to get in this forum at last, after visiting it
>many times before. I have been looking for the best 1-Pane Outline long
>time ago, since I moved to Android, and...
"Google Keep" notetaker ??
3/23/2013
Evernote was once a stand-alone program for Windows PCs that stored collected information and notes in a single sequential “endless tape.” It didn’t have a lot of organizational cap...
For $1.92, you can get DroidEdit Pro, which supports Box as well as Dropbox, and also ftp/sftp.
DroidEdit is a programmer's editor that is easy enough for anyone to use, but also provides features li...
Best Apps for the Nexus
3/9/2013
One thing I strongly suggest for the Nexus 7 is a case with a magnetic cover to turn the screen on and off. This makes the device more like a book that you can carry around and simply open to begin wo...