MyInfo 4 Beta

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Oct 10, 2007 at 02:09 AM

Bob, I am a little ticked with Milenix. They fell way behind their schedule and, in spite of having the blog, didn’t provide any information about the delay.

Their are still issues with web pages. Why? It ain’t rocket science any more. Others have done it.

I find it could be a lot easier linking to Word and other documents.

There’s no hoisting feature—another no-brainer for this kind of program.

So I’d say they are good on some things, and surprisingly poor on some basic stuff.

Daly

Bob Mackreth wrote:
>Yesterday, Milenix released a “private” beta of version 4 for current owners of
>MyInfo 3.
> >In my initial tests, one hugely important piece of good news is that the new
>indexing algorithm has seems to have speeded up program operations immensely.
>Cutting and pasting operations that sometimes took a minute or more now take only a few
>seconds. This improvement is a very big deal for me; without it I might have seriously
>considered walking away from the program.
> >Disappointing news is that, in the
>current version at least, rendering of collected web pages and snippets remains
>so-so at best. Interestingly, if you select a page or block in Firefox, then call the
>“Send to MyInfo” extension, MyInfo only captures the text. If you select and copy the
>same page or block, then paste it into a blank topic, MyInfo captures the images as well
>as text.
> >I’ve just begun to play with the other new features, so can’t really address
>them yet. Milenix has acknowledged that some of the promised v4 features have not been
>implemented in this beta, but say they will be included before release of the official
>product.