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<title><![CDATA[By: Shahdan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131843</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi..

First, Thank to GOAD and Crystal Office System for the great software

I've tested the software and I have several idea for the improvement. I want to use ideainformer but the form not loading(I want to get the lifetime license of course). Nothing I can do right now.

<strong>Here is my idea:</strong>

- Can choose my own default web browser at configuration where, each time I click a link, it will open in my choosen web browser
- Open content in web browsers(right click-open in web browser)
- Set the table at the center of document(right now, we can't put it at center)
- Can choose spell Check from other Office SUite such as LibreOffice
- Can export as pdf(the tree node as a bookmark)
- maple reader for GNU/Linux and Mac OS(maybe you can make it using java)
- user can own create plugin
- can set the tree node/content as sidebar gadget]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:58:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Max Starr]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131842</link>
<description><![CDATA[It seems to me like the main feature of this is that it is hard to use. When you use this on once computer you need others to install a reader to view your documents? I am a little paranoid when I get onto a website and it tells me I need to download a file so I can view a document, and my mind always jumps to virus.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:18:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Peter]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131841</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>#12</b> Ditto to <b>Andrew</b>'s comments about <b>AllMyNotes Organizer</b> &amp; the paid version <b>AllMyNotes Organizer Deluxe</b>  (and a former GOTD offering too).

<i>Whats more the developer usually responds favourably (<b>and fast</b>) to customer input or ideas!!

Just check out the version history info at <b>[</b>http://www.vladonai.com/allmynotes_product_whatsnew.php <b>]</b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:39:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Susan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131840</link>
<description><![CDATA[. . . and I'm back! Installed &amp; activated MaplePro on WinXP flawlessly. Nice clean interface, intuitive layout, easy to use. Based on an admittedly VERY limited tryout, I'll give it a solid 7 out of 10. Good text editing features, ability to save to a variety of formats, good search feature, excellent encryption, many other good solid touches -- but nothing to warrant the $30 price tag, in my (fairly experienced) opinion. 
     If I were not already using the superior (for my uses &amp; preferences) My Notes Keeper, I'd have scored MaplePro higher. Points off for: (1) no way to customize keyboard shortcuts which, for me, is a deal-breaker. I'm old-school, I use the mouse as little as possible and customize all my in-use programs to the same K/B shortcuts (in so far as program parameters allow). 
    (2) no tabs/sections. Again, personal preference. In MNK I use 18 different dBases, all of which have an unlimited number of tabbed sections, each of those in turn having an unlimited nested tree structure. Maple's usefulness is thus limited for me.
   (3) no back-up feature. You can auto-save at a user-defined interval, but I like MNK's ability to do that AND create a separate backup to a drive &amp; folder I define.  
   (4) no clipboard monitor I use this feature in MNK daily -- turn it on, save things to Windows' clipboard, MNK automatically pops 'em into the active tree. Saves vast amounts of time. 
   (5) no alarm feature. Not necessary as there are 1000s of alarm programs available, but having it integrated in a program that's already running saves cpu activity &amp; memory.  
     All of these comments are pure opinion &amp; worth what you paid for them &amp; are based on my personal preferences and what I've found available elsewhere. MNK is my benchmark -- a program has to be pretty darned good to beat it and as impressed as I am with Maple, I'm sorry to say it's just not special enough to coax me into switching. But I WILL be watching it closely because I get the impression the development team is keen and open to input.
    Many thanks to the CrystalOffice folk for allowing me to try their product (as I said, I'll be following development of this software closely) and to GOTD just for being . . . .]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:25:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Minh Quan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131839</link>
<description><![CDATA[Very nice software! Thanks very much both GOTD and Crystal Office Systems! It help me a lot! It will be wonderfull if node can change colour :)]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:12:04 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ozawa]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131838</link>
<description><![CDATA[too bad! I was happy until i found out that the Editor doesnt support UTF-8. Any free alternatives?
thanks]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:41:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Susan]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131837</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am an organizer fool -- there isn't a two-paned information organizer on the planet I haven't tried (or so it seems). Loved KeyNote best, Have moved to My Notes Keeper which is so phenomenally advanced for its price ($20US) it's my benchmark -- I have my entire professional &amp; personal life in MNK, but its slightly erratic support makes me nervous &amp; am always looking for "the next best" thing. My non-negotiable needs: good spell check, lots of customization -- especially with keyboard shortcuts -- bookmarks, search, good editing tools . . . I'll put Maple through its paces as soon as it finishes downloading &amp; will check back. If it can beat MNK, it'll be both spectacular AND worth the $30!]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:21:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: jim]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131836</link>
<description><![CDATA[For two seconds I thought I was going to get the real Maple for free, not $1900. https://webstore.maplesoft.com/catalog.aspx]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:45:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: DougS]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131835</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is in reply to Harley (today's #15), but this issue has come up often enough in the past that I thought I (as a former developer) would take some time and comment during today's free software offering for the benefit all of those who do not earn their living developing computer software. 

Despite the fact that the product is free today, comments about its normal price are VERY relevant, and VERY welcome. 

The people who benefit from the GiveAwayoftheDay website are not just those who are getting commercial grade software for free. Those of us who produce software for a living benefit from it also. 

In return for surrendering the revenue for one of our products for an entire day, we get a) visibility across the planet for our company and our ENTIRE line of products, b) hundreds of people (not directly associated with our company) volunteering to do advanced Beta testing on our product AND writing reviews about it, and c) LOTS of business intelligence: which products (open source or otherwise) are perceived to be the competition, which features are considered to be vital (and which are valuable, and which are useless), and (finally) pricing information - does the group of people who visit the GAotD website (while not IT professionals, are more "computer literate" than the general public) think that our product is worth our normal asking price?

Setting the price point of computer software has always been difficult, especially now in the 21st Century's global open market. On the surface, it appears to be easy to determine the cost of developing the product - you just multiply the number of hours it took to develop the product by how much we pay our programmers for an hour's work. Then add in a portion of our overhead costs (heating, lighting, electricity, &amp; etc.) and a bit of profit (so that investors will invest in our software development company rather than a company that publishes books) and let the market know about it.

But it is not that simple - there are so many factors that whole books have been written about it (see your nearest business college bookstore for samples). As this is already a long comment , I will just give two examples: 1) what languages should we allow for the user interface? English (a language which is actually a merger of the German, French, and Latin languages) is well on its way to becoming a universal trade language (much as Greek was in ancient times, and French in the Colonial era). But today, the native languages of a greater number of people are the Oriental languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) or Slavic languages (such as Russian, Czech, or Polish). When you use a specific language, it means you intend for your product to be used by the people in that specific market. THIS means you have to learn and abide by the LAWS of the nation(s) that help govern the citizens within that market (laws that seem to be constantly changing). The EU has a series of regulations that seem very arbitrary to the Chinese, whose regulations mystify the Americans, and so on. So the language(s) chosen for the user interface has a number of cost implications. 2) Maintenance cycles - do we intend to use a large number of small updates (such as the Mozilla Foundation does w/the Firefox web browser) or would we prefer a small number of large updates (in the manner that the Microsoft Corporation uses "Service Packs" to maintain the Windows operating system). There are advantages and disadvantages to either choice, that besides affecting the cost of the product, also affect the image of the company. For example, if we chose the model of "a large number of small updates" are we giving the impression that we are releasing software full of "bugs"? Or are we giving the impression that we care a lot about our customers and are constantly working to make their user experience better. (Or both?)

We live and do business in a very complicated world - the more accurate information information we can receive from websites like this one, the better. So PLEASE, let us know whether YOU think the normal price of these products is correct, too high, or (heavens forbid!) too low. 

Thank you very much, GAotD Staff for letting me stand on this soapbox ... I will now step aside and allow others to provide more typical comments :-)]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:24:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: GMO]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/maple-professional/#comment-131834</link>
<description><![CDATA[Allow GOTD users free upgrades for one year just like your normal download does.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:18:06 -0400</pubDate>
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