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Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 21, 2006 at 12:05 PM
Well, CRIMP rules. Last night hell froze over. The moon was blue. Pigs flew. And I bought a year’s subscription to IS9.
I haven’t had a chance to try the new features. However, Transporter failed on the first few times I tried to schlep some material from Firefox to IS. I will try Transporter later with IE.
Considering the ability to classify data and make references, my initial comparison suggests that I can probably do more, more readily with ADM4.
Let cynics say what they will about ADM4 being in perpetual beta, its combination of keywords and easy to customize metadata columns makes it easy to slice and dice info.
As well ADM’s Quick Jumps and save views make it easy and fast to get to any topic.
And so far, ADM’s Collector is working, in contrast to Transporter.
I want to explore IS9’s calendar capability.
My question to Micro Logic remains as it has been, however: When will the aging interface be redesigned and cleaned up?
Daly
Posted by Kenneth Rhee
May 21, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Well, CRIMP rules. Last night hell froze over. The moon was blue. Pigs flew. And I
>bought a year’s subscription to IS9.
>
>I haven’t had a chance to try the new features.
>However, Transporter failed on the first few times I tried to schlep some material
>from Firefox to IS. I will try Transporter later with IE.
>
>Considering the ability to
>classify data and make references, my initial comparison suggests that I can
>probably do more, more readily with ADM4.
>
>Let cynics say what they will about ADM4
>being in perpetual beta, its combination of keywords and easy to customize metadata
>columns makes it easy to slice and dice info.
>
>As well ADM’s Quick Jumps and save views
>make it easy and fast to get to any topic.
>
>And so far, ADM’s Collector is working, in
>contrast to Transporter.
>
>I want to explore IS9’s calendar capability.
>
>My
>question to Micro Logic remains as it has been, however: When will the aging interface
>be redesigned and cleaned up?
>
>Daly
Welcome to the IS9 camp, Daly. The transporter works fine for me except a few sites including NY Times. What difficulties do you experience? What do you suggest for the interface though? I think they updated the interface somewhat for IS9 (bringing it XP style minimize/close buttons, etc). I think more specific comments would be helpful here. As far as the interface goes, I don’t see IS9 being anything less than ADM4 you seem to like. I for one have commented on improving the ADM4 interface over the years, I would love to hear your perspective on this.
Ken
Posted by Graham Smith
May 21, 2006 at 01:04 PM
Daly,
While it isn’t how its meant to work, in Firefox, if you select AND copy items, the tranporter then sends them to IS.
Graham
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>I haven’t had a chance to try the new features.
>However, Transporter failed on the first few times I tried to schlep some material
>from Firefox to IS. I will try Transporter later with IE.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 21, 2006 at 01:08 PM
Kenneth Rhee wrote:
>Welcome to the IS9 camp, Daly. The transporter
>works fine for me except a few sites including NY Times. What difficulties do you
>experience? What do you suggest for the interface though? I think they updated the
>interface somewhat for IS9 (bringing it XP style minimize/close buttons, etc). I
>think more specific comments would be helpful here. As far as the interface goes, I
>don’t see IS9 being anything less than ADM4 you seem to like. I for one have commented on
>improving the ADM4 interface over the years, I would love to hear your perspective on
>this.
Ken, as it happens, I was clipping from the NYT site—it’s unfortunate if that chokes up the transporter because I use that site a lot.
Re the GUI: I find that IS becomes very cluttered. For me, the ADM GUI is more contemporary and has a cleaner look. I realize that this is largely about personal taste and preferencess. I know people have an issue with ADM’s GUI, and I am not sure whether it is because it is different from what one usually sees in windows or not. I know the first time I saw ADM a few years ago I liked the way it looked.
Daly
Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 21, 2006 at 01:13 PM
Graham, I tried the NYT site again, selecting and copying. After about 25 seconds of a red transporter system, IS9 crashed.
I will try transporter on other sites.
Thanks.
Daly
Graham Smith wrote:
>Daly,
>
>While it isn’t how its meant to work, in Firefox, if you select AND copy items,
>the tranporter then sends them to IS.
>
>Graham
>
>
>
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>
>>I haven’t
>had a chance to try the new features.
>>However, Transporter failed on the first few
>times I tried to schlep some material
>>from Firefox to IS. I will try Transporter
>later with IE.
>