http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/forum/3 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Forum: Suggestions and proposals on our forums, blog or web-site - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:41:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/313#post-99008 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:40:46 +0000 Prince777222 99008@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Walkerpbus. For example you are on a vacation and not able to check giveaway site for a day you cannot download and activate the software in that case you can look at the previous giveaway comments and look for a better software which is free and with more facilities. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/313#post-98975 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:16:18 +0000 graylox 98975@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@ walkerpbus</p> <p>What&#39;s wrong with that? You can go back to former giveaways to read the comments.</p> <p>To be honest, I&#39;m not quite sure if I understand your question.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/313#post-98974 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:24:30 +0000 walkerpbus 98974@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Why does GOTD page list yesterday &amp; day before page? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98750 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:33:33 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 98750@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Here are some more links for Databases courtesy of Chazzo, who emailed them to me. (He is no longer able to post in the forums):</p> <p><a href="http://kingstairs.com/products/jot/" rel="nofollow">http://kingstairs.com/products/jot/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.azzcardfile.biz/download.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.azzcardfile.biz/download.htm</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.hsinlin.com/software/database.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hsinlin.com/software/database.html</a> (several very good offerings on this link!) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98727 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:24:31 +0000 Inas 98727@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>OOPS! I got confused and meant to say it has spreadsheet function, which is not same as database function - sorry about that. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98723 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:55:16 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 98723@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Woody, There are database programs readily availab;le for free if you search Google or another search engine. I posted a thread last week <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11060"><strong>HERE</strong></a> that lists hundreds of decent freeware apps and I&#39;m sure there were database programs included? </p> <p>You can also find free database programs <a href="http://www.freebyte.com/programming/database/"><strong>HERE</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.mysql.com/"><strong>HERE</strong></a> and <a href="http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-talk/choosing-a-free-database-15971"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. </p> <p>The last link is four years old, showever some of the programs suggested will have been updated. </p> <p>I do have a whole bunch of free databases stored on one of my external HDD&#39;s, but at the moment I&#39;m unable to remember which of the discs it&#39;s on. What precious time I have awake is taken up fully with several projects and family at the moment. When I do find them, I&#39;ll list the programs here. </p> <p>I&#39;m sure there are some threads in this forum that deal with your question, unfortunately they aren&#39;t always tagged, so it can be hard to find them using the search function. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98718 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:42:51 +0000 Inas 98718@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello woody19021, Kingsoft Office (today&#39;s giveaway) has a database component (similar to Microsoft) - you can verify this yourself if you download and use the program. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98717 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:15:03 +0000 graylox 98717@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, woody 19021, welcome to the forums.<br /> I&#39;m sorry, I don&#39;t understand the meaning of your post.<br /> If you want to suggest a new giveaway then please post it in the correct thread:</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1450/page/48#post-98691">Giveaway Suggestions</a><br /> Thank you.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11119#post-98716 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:10:54 +0000 woody19021 98716@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I would like to know if there is a database program going to be added, or available such as Microsoft&#39;s Access added to Kingsoft Office? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10516#post-95572 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:12:12 +0000 Trenton 95572@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>---EDIT---</p> <p>Please post it in the related thread: <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1450/page/46" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1450/page/46</a></p> <p>Thank you! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10472#post-95341 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:38:56 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 95341@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Personally I think all the fuss about spelling and grammar is a no brainer - so long as you can understand what is being said it shouldn&#39;t matter if there are spelling errors. Many of the giveaways we are getting are from non-English speaking countries, so I think the attempts that are made to create an English version is brilliant (despite errors). Some argue that the dev&#39;s should employ someone to translate. My brother in law runs a translation business out of Poznan in Poland and the charges are usually for the number of words you translate and it&#39;s not cheap, so being forced to do that may increase the price of the software. If the program works well, should we be so bothered about those insignificant errors. IMO a categorical NO</p> <p>I find the off topic discussions just get in the way of the factual stuff that we and the developer wants to read. The developer may even consider not bothering with the giveaway project again if all they get is criticisms that aren’t even related to the working of the program. </p> <p>The English bard Shakespeare spelled his name differently many times yet no one picks up on his spelling errors despite English being his native language.</p> <p>As Mikiem mentions, many of the community members that complain of these errors also spell badly themselves. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10472#post-95340 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:15:05 +0000 mikiem2 95340@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Today there was again quite a few comments based on spelling &amp; grammar error on the AthTek site -- there were also several comments blasting the dev because people couldn&#39;t find awards/reviews on the American version of the sites listed... international companies like PCMag do have separate, localized sites &amp; AthTek did show up in Google searches for those localized sites. </p> <p>On the one hand, if a company like AthTek wants to sell to US customers, those are complaints they&#39;ll have to decide how or if they want to deal with -- it&#39;s much better to know why some portion of the market doesn&#39;t like you than trying to guess. </p> <p>And on the other hand it makes some folks, myself included sometimes want to scream... I see spelling &amp; grammar errors all the time, very often in the same comments complaining about some company&#39;s poor grasp of English. Today was interesting because the developer&#39;s responding to complaints sparked it&#39;s own debate, on whether it was proper for a company to respond that way or not -- I imagine that if the poor dev is from another culture that must really have been confusing. </p> <p>So my question is -- and I really don&#39;t know the answer -- is it better to speak out or keep quiet? </p> <p>If the dev, whomever it is that day, doesn&#39;t hear what I consider maybe irrelevant comments, then maybe GOTD isn&#39;t being as useful as it could be. But OTOH if people don&#39;t speak out, does that drive others away from the site, which could have the same end effect of not being as useful as possible. I imagine it&#39;s a 2-way street -- if GOTD isn&#39;t helpful to software companies, they won&#39;t be helpful to GOTD. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10268#post-93993 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:33:55 +0000 graylox 93993@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, welcome to the forums :)</p> <p>I forwarded your message to the Project Team.</p> <p>You can reach them via PM to &quot;admin&quot; or via the <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/about/contact/">Contact Form</a></p> <p>Thanks for your interest.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10268#post-93991 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:19:55 +0000 Opptokoppter 93991@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi guys!</p> <p>Recognized this day when visited your website that the Ticker system we use in gadgets as well inside own blogs doesn&#39;t let the viewer see if there&#39;s more giveaways going on besides the regular program that are announced and published.</p> <p>Would be wonderful see all active giveaways in these tickers.<br /> Much appreciated if it is possible to fix this in a near future :)</p> <p>Best Regards<br /> Thanks </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93670 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:00:53 +0000 Simples 93670@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>With this Thursday&#39;s download page was a different version of Idea Informer, which enabled comments to be separated out into improvements, queries, bugs, and bouquets. Was this just a one off? It seemed like a useful way forward and I was sorry to see it disappear, apparently without trace..</p> <p>Today the top two suggestions are asking for features that are already in the Odin Video vconverter software, indicating that visitors are voting based on what seems a sensible idea (with lots of votes already) rather than their own experience of the application. Is this likely to give the developer useful feedback or encourage others to offer their wares? </p> <p>One of the advantages of the categorised Idea Informer would be its position at the top of the page. Today&#39;s only comment to make it past moderation so far is a query about formats for Windows mobile phones. This would be fine under questions in Idea Informer, wouldn&#39;t then be liable to lots of negative votes - and someone could have responded to it. For those who are having problems it would help not to have to hunt through a long list of comments to see if anyone else is having the same difficulty.</p> <p>This would (you&#39;d hope) reduce the number of less than useful comments on the &#39;main&#39; section of the download page.</p> <p>You could also consider letting users indicate under which category they think an Idea Informer comment should be - either to Moderators via response comments or &#39;simply&#39; by the number of visitors who tag a statement as actually being a question of plain misleading. </p> <p>Thanks anyway for all the freebies. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93632 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:45:16 +0000 BuBBy 93632@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I can&#39;t see why GOTD doesn&#39;t publish the MD5 for downloads - along with some instructions (or a youtube video) to a free utility like <a href="http://www.georgejopling.co.uk/md5check/md5check.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.georgejopling.co.uk/md5check/md5check.html</a> (If you are unfamiliar with MD5 checks - there is an explanation on this webpage).</p> <p>At least it could go some of the way to reducing the questions users post saying &quot;there is a problem with the download&quot;. If they can verify that the problem is with what they received, and not with the file that is sitting on the GOTD servers. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93612 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:05:17 +0000 mikiem2 93612@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If it helps, is of interest or whatever, saw a map the other day -- in a nutshell, in large portions of the US a surprisingly large % of downloads fail to complete... if I remember correctly somewhere around 80% success was tops, &amp; it went sometimes rapidly downhill from there. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93594 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:42:30 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 93594@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Old Fella, if you did get a full download and still get a corrupted message try using another file archiver such as J-Zip or 7-Zip (both are free) I sometimes get the same problem when using winrar. Using one of the others has always sorted the proble.</p> <p>Download 7-Zip <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/"><strong>HERE</strong></a></p> <p>Download J-Zip <a href="http://www.jzip.com/"><strong>HERE</strong></a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93593 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:32:01 +0000 graylox 93593@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Old fella, welcome to the forums.<br /> I tested the zip file and didn&#39;t find any problem.<br /> It seems your download was interrupted.<br /> Clear your download cache and re-download, then extract the files to your desktop or any folder.<br /> When you use a download-manager like <a href="http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/">Free Download Manager</a> you can resume broken downloads.<br /> .<br /> <blockquote>Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads<br /> FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption....</blockquote> <a href="http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/</a></p> <p>Good luck!</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/4213#post-93592 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:24:20 +0000 Old fella 93592@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I wanted to try Easy Flyer Creator - but my system says the zip is corrupt or invalid. Not sure where to post this but can someone please fix this! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10202#post-93464 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:44:30 +0000 graylox 93464@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi, Etnies, welcome to the forums.</p> <p>Firefox 6 is still in beta - so wouldn&#39;t it be better, to report any bug to <a href="http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/feedback" rel="nofollow">http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/feedback</a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/07/08/firefoxbeta6-0-2/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/07/08/firefoxbeta6-0-2/</a></p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10202#post-93451 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:29:05 +0000 Etnies 93451@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello, Everyone I am new here. I was having trouble making an account on Firefox 6 not sure if it a problem with firefox or the site but it would not show the whole user name, email it would only show the capcha and the time zone, therefore i ended up registering using chrome. Thanks for reading. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92473 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:39:09 +0000 Kerry 92473@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I agree, graylox. Good call, Key Master :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92464 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:24:41 +0000 graylox 92464@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hello Team :)</p> <p>That is a wise decision, indeed.<br /> It&#39;s not only better for your clients - users and developers - but for the reputation of the GOTD project too.</p> <p>Thanks for the info!</p> <p>graylox</p> <p>PS: Is there any hope, that there is a cure for the ailing voting system too? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92461 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:52:24 +0000 Giveaway of the Day project team 92461@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><strong>Hello everybody!</p> <p>First of all let us thank you all for your concerns and suggestions regarding GOTD freeware library. We created that part of the project for you to be able to find free alternatives for the titles no more available as giveaways.</p> <p>Unfortunately, further proper support of this section is impossible due to technical reasons. Thus the decision was made to close it permanently.</p> <p>We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause.</p> <p>Best regards,<br /> GOTD project team</strong> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10031#post-92368 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:23:39 +0000 graylox 92368@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, wizz. :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92357 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:55:21 +0000 ⓒⓗⓘⓟ 92357@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><blockquote>Seems it&#39;s been months.</blockquote><br /> Months? Try years lol </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92354 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:10:04 +0000 Kerry 92354@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Any idea why the Freeware Section is still in &quot;Beta 2&quot; <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/">(top of the page)</a> after all this time? Seems it&#39;s been months.</p> <p>I&#39;ll be asking the devs, too, but wanted to see what forum users knew. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10016#post-92349 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:18:40 +0000 hotdoge3 92349@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://hosts-file.net/default.asp?s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giveawayoftheday.com%2F" rel="nofollow">http://hosts-file.net/default.asp?s=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.giveawayoftheday.com%2F</a></p> <p>Classification: MMT - Sites engaged in the use of misleading marketing tactics<br /> may be talk to Hphosts and fix it ?</p> <p>The sad truth is that GOTD last 2 day spam it like we like spam tell me why ?<br /> tipard com<br /> <a href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http%3A//www.tipard.com/video-converter.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http%3A//www.tipard.com/video-converter.html</a></p> <p>spam</p> <p><a href="http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tipard.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/tipard.com</a></p> <p>Spam </p> <p><a href="http://hosts-file.net/?s=tipard.com" rel="nofollow">http://hosts-file.net/?s=tipard.com</a></p> <p>Query: tipard.com<br /> This site is currently listed in hpHosts<br /> Host: tipard.com ( 2 H )<br /> Current IP*: 208.43.131.62 ( 2 H )<br /> IP PTR: 208.43.131.62-static.reverse.softlayer.com<br /> Added: 23-04-2009<br /> Added By: MysteryFCM<br /> Updated: 23-04-2010<br /> Classification: EMD - sites engaged in malware distribution </p> <p><a href="http://www.websecurityguard.com/detail.aspx?domain=tipard.com&amp;url=tipard.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.websecurityguard.com/detail.aspx?domain=tipard.com&amp;url=tipard.com</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10031#post-92347 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:28:23 +0000 wizzard_of_ozz2004 92347@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>As Bubby said, clearly Tipard and Aiseesoft are at the very least affiliated if not the same. This has been discussed before several times and this has become Aiseesoft&#39;s chosen tact. Please refer to <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7722">here</a> and direct any further comments on the already created thread so as to keep the forum nice and clean. For more on untrustworthy developers, see <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7768">here.</a></p> <p>Let&#39;s not forget this conversation on <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5146#post-54961">thumbs up and down.</a> </p>