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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.
Posted by Bob Mackreth
Oct 13, 2007 at 02:57 AM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>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
Can’t argue with you, Daly; there are some issues that disappoint me, too.
You’re absolutely right about the program’s weaknesses in saving web pages, as far as I’m concerned. I’m never sure whether images clipped from a web page will show up in the MyInfo document, or if I’ll find big red X’s in their place.
Additionally, though version 4 runs a good deal faster than previous versions of MyInfo, by comparison to other programs, it takes a long time both to load and save files.
Finally, I posted a bug report on their forum about MyInfo’s annoying habit of stealing focus when you’re working in other windows, and got no reply at all.
Overall, I’m still happy with the program, and give Milenix mostly good marks for responsiveness, but there’s still room for improvement in both respects.