MyBase on sale at Bits du Jour today
Started by Stephen Zeoli
on 1/25/2010
Stephen Zeoli
1/25/2010 2:34 pm
Here: http://www.bitsdujour.com/
MyBase is a fairly full-featured tree-based PIM often discussed here.
Steve
MyBase is a fairly full-featured tree-based PIM often discussed here.
Steve
Jan Rifkinson
1/25/2010 5:59 pm
What's the major difference(s) between myBase & UltraRecall?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Stephen Zeoli
1/25/2010 6:32 pm
Jan,
I'm not sure I can answer your question adequately as I use neither application (though, in true CRIMP form, I own licenses for older versions of both), but here's what little I think I do know.
First of all, they are very similar programs in many ways. MyBase has been around longer (my license dates from around 2001 or so). MB seems to use a plug-in architecture to add different functions, including what is reputedly a very good web page archiver. MB has (or at least used to have) the ability to create a run-time version of any database, so you could share data with anyone. If I were to choose one or the other application at this point, I'd probably pick MB, but I don't think there's a really big difference.
Steve
I'm not sure I can answer your question adequately as I use neither application (though, in true CRIMP form, I own licenses for older versions of both), but here's what little I think I do know.
First of all, they are very similar programs in many ways. MyBase has been around longer (my license dates from around 2001 or so). MB seems to use a plug-in architecture to add different functions, including what is reputedly a very good web page archiver. MB has (or at least used to have) the ability to create a run-time version of any database, so you could share data with anyone. If I were to choose one or the other application at this point, I'd probably pick MB, but I don't think there's a really big difference.
Steve
Cassius
1/25/2010 9:34 pm
I am a long-time user of MyBase+WebCollect and have a license for UltraRecall Pro 3.5.
I have tried UR but found it slow in saving Web pages as compared with MB+WC. That plus all of the material I already have in MB led me to stick with MB+WC. I keep finding new capabilities in MB, but I expect that UR has capabilities that MB does not.
Other Web page-saving PIMs that some contributors on this site have recommended include Surfulator and WebResearch. Very occasionally, there is a Web page that MB+WC cannot properly save. In those cases, I often just copy the entire page as a .jpg graphic and paste it into the "Text Note" tab. (Corresponding to each left-pane tree entry are two right-pane windows accessible by tabs: a pane for a web page and a pane for notes, RTF text & graphics.) I use "FastStone Capture 5.3" to save Web page images. This version is free and I KNOW you will be pleased with it.
WebResearch developers are in Germany; MyBase developers are in central China. Software development is truly ubiquitous.
-c
I have tried UR but found it slow in saving Web pages as compared with MB+WC. That plus all of the material I already have in MB led me to stick with MB+WC. I keep finding new capabilities in MB, but I expect that UR has capabilities that MB does not.
Other Web page-saving PIMs that some contributors on this site have recommended include Surfulator and WebResearch. Very occasionally, there is a Web page that MB+WC cannot properly save. In those cases, I often just copy the entire page as a .jpg graphic and paste it into the "Text Note" tab. (Corresponding to each left-pane tree entry are two right-pane windows accessible by tabs: a pane for a web page and a pane for notes, RTF text & graphics.) I use "FastStone Capture 5.3" to save Web page images. This version is free and I KNOW you will be pleased with it.
WebResearch developers are in Germany; MyBase developers are in central China. Software development is truly ubiquitous.
-c
Jan Rifkinson
1/26/2010 3:57 pm
Thanks Stephen & Cassius.
quant
1/26/2010 10:38 pm
I can only comment on the version of MyBase about 2 years ago when I switched to UR. The main reason was that UR offered much more customization, custom attributes/templates/saved searches/forms/... but maybe MyBase offers all of that now ...
Cassius
1/27/2010 2:28 am
quant wrote:
The current version of MB is probably the one you used. A new version may be appearing in a few months. As I am now retired, UR's capabilities probably exceed my present needs.
-c
I can only comment on the version of MyBase about 2 years ago when I switched to UR. The-----------------------
main reason was that UR offered much more customization, custom
attributes/templates/saved searches/forms/... but maybe MyBase offers all of
that now ...
The current version of MB is probably the one you used. A new version may be appearing in a few months. As I am now retired, UR's capabilities probably exceed my present needs.
-c