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Posted by Wolfgang
Aug 30, 2012 at 07:14 PM
Yes, it is this one:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/cleanup_text.html
very good. You may have to dive around the website a bit to learn how to install this sort of template, or not.
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(Ultra Recal is not a dissapointment!)
(( I would like to see Brainstorm back - it was a great outliner (could talk OPML like UR) and played nice with lots of software including UR - any news on whether someone would like to buy it))
((( Perhaps infoselect could junk their monster, buy Brainstorm and imobilise anyone who wants to bolt an email client on to it then market it ready to run on win 7 & 8)))
Posted by razorboy
Aug 31, 2012 at 05:51 AM
WHEW! What a relief: I uninstalled Info Select 10 and installed Version 9 (IS 2007.) This version seems quite stable and intuitive (including the calendar and address book) and everything works like the old versions. I look forward to working with it.
It is hard to believe that the same person/people wrote both programmes.
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 31, 2012 at 10:40 AM
Wolfgang wrote:
>I love it. I’m not exactly sure how much better it is, but I use Dragon all the time and
>having the latest seemed reasonable. The discussion at Knowbrainer is very good.
>Version 12 seems faster and it is easier to make corrections it also seems to fall over
>less frequently. I have a Fujitsu converable tablet with 8 G ram, i5 processor, 500 G HD
>and usually run originlab (or Matlab), Ultra Recall (definitely not a let down),
>dragon, Corel draw, mabe excel and firefox and thunderbird at the same time. Usually
>no problems unless I use Chrome or Internet Explorer and Outlook which bugger up the
>system and it slows to a crawl. If your daily bread depends on writing then DNS 12 is a
>good upgrade/investment.
Hugh & Wolfgang,
thank you for the link and for your thoughts. There seem to be some conflicting opinions out there about DNS 12. Some say it’s a cosmetic upgrade and that it actually slows down PC performance after a few weeks. I don’t use DNS for everything, just some particular types of writing. I’ve been fairly happy with DNS 11.5. I have Win7 64-bit, Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM but some people on the forum talk about 18 and 32GB RAMs, which I didn’t even know existed… So I’m a bit worried that it would make my system obsolete more quickly. Thank you anyway.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 31, 2012 at 03:29 PM
Slartibartfarst wrote:
>Oh. Wot an anti-climax.
Not at all; I don’t know what you expected but I personally found the whole story very interesting. It confirms that in this forum (a) we know just about every information management software out there aimed at personal use and more, and (b) there are still uses of much of that software that we haven’t considered.
UltraRecall’s ability to use an external editor for its embedded content is perhaps not the kind of feature that would stand out in a comparative overview of information managers. Yet in Wolfgang’s case it was very important, as it was in Pavi’s case for working on complex documents. I also found the concept quite similar to Traderclee’s use of the OPML editor via Text Editor Anywhere to edit content kept in Resophnotes described very recently in this thread http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/4275
I think most of us can think of quite advanced ways of using the particular information managers of our choice; as we get to know specific tools more, we find uses that even their developers might have not considered. At the end of the day some solutions may not come just by selecting the right tool, but actually using the right tool right. And this forum is a treasure chest of such examples.
I also found Wolfgang’s experience with Apple vs Microsoft systems at the level of a big lab quite insightful. It confirmed the reasons for my own dislike for Apple’s products and it explains why—as much as Macs may be the choice hardware for individuals- Apple is unlikely to win a government bid any time soon. Governments—local, national and transnational- are moving towards more open systems, and I look forward to the day that Linux will be used at the EU level.
Posted by gunars
Aug 31, 2012 at 03:32 PM
razorboy wrote:
>WHEW! What a relief: I uninstalled Info Select 10 and installed Version 9 (IS 2007.)
>This version seems quite stable and intuitive (including the calendar and address
>book) and everything works like the old versions. I look forward to working with
>it.
>
>It is hard to believe that the same person/people wrote both programmes.
The feature list for IS 10 also had this gem:
By request of our customers to simplify Info Select, we have removed the following rarely used features: font search, closed file search, image scanning, inserting text in images, web based data, spreadsheet, generating DB from deliveries, ODBC, import / export (doc, xls, Outlook, Auto mode, HTML), thesaurus, palm sync, presentation mode, keyword auto-color, programmer edit mode, space mapper, compressed files, file archiving, replace by style color font, dialer, NNTP support, secondary backups, external files, intra-topic shortcuts, alt+n key shortcuts.