As a member Give Away since its inception and professional assistive technology evaluator as I see it we are doing the software industry a huge favor in evaluating and commenting on their software substantially greater than the cost of purchasing software outright!! It appears that the professional commentary is extremely useful to publishers and the dismissal noise is not helpful to us. We should be provided with full software [not done in this instance] and full upgrades as a thank you for testing this often not ready for prime time software that can't even pass the Norton AV trust test.

In this instance this is a potential useful piece of AT software and the author is only offering the AUTO-Typer version and has stripped of the talker component as I understand it. As a suggestion to our GAOTD website owners, might I suggest that you cherish our FREE professional commentary and not treat us as if you are doing us a favor. Further to the point perhaps you should consider a new marketing approach in suggesting that publishers provide full versions with all the whistles and bells attached and possibly add an annual commentary /suggestion box e-mail for continued use. IMHO we are not privileged to get this as a giveaway, we are earning this by waving our $150+ per hour consulting fees to help you succeed and the authors publish better software. Noting that certain of my professional associates are no longer commenting I would ask yourselves why?? Could it be that things have changed and we are being less respected?? Just a thought and a suggestion that the publisher would be better served if they were made aware of the value added when respectful and helpful suggestions are made and when the rating system is made when the software is evaluated worldwide before evaluations/opinions are skewed to the benefit of the publisher before a reasonable evaluation is available.

mentor-one  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+30)

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The derisive and and snipey comments toward other commenters are getting out of hand. The comments seem so entrenched that it's becoming obvious there is often an operative-shriller involved. Rarely do posters state their operating systems anymore as they complain about installation issues and other problems. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get to the matter at hand, which overall is whether to bother downloading and installing the gotd offering. More and more lately I don't. If we all want to assume we're all running Windows 10, that's great, but perhaps the site owners should state that at the top of each day's giveaway.

Floyd  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+2)

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Glen C, My main point: I was talking about the argumentative rude discourse , such as yesterday's "You're lying" and the confrontative nature of responses, such as yours right now. I guess by pointing out crudeness and sniping, and suggesting a postive change - then that automatically means to you that I'm sniping.
Of course it matters what operating system you're using. I'm not on this planet to reinvent the wheel.
If posters are using XP or Vista (which lots of posters obviously still use, like and prefer, despite being scorned by other posters responses) and report having tons of trouble installing, yet never mention their operating system, guess what? I'm much less apt to install it. Apple programs are also given out simultaneously here too. What about them? Should their installation problems affect me? Probably not. But I'd sure like to know what system they're using, to make an educated guess on how much weight I give to their generous comments on reporting the issues. Yes I do believe when a giveaway is starting, one should just go ahead and install if interested and not keep nagging people about what it is like. But when there are already lots of negative comments about installation (without stating their operating system), why would anyone want to take time installing, then spending half their morning trying to fix the possible problems being reported, when there is so much good free software available. Does that answer your question? I'll finish with your final statement to me, "What are you complaining about?

Glen C, My main point: I was talking about the argumentative rude discourse , such as yesterday's "You're lying" and the confrontative nature of responses, such as yours right now. I guess by pointing out crudeness and sniping, and suggesting a postive change - then that automatically means to you that I'm sniping. Of course it matters what operating system you're using. I'm not on this planet to reinvent the wheel. If posters are using XP or Vista (which lots of posters obviously still use, like and prefer, despite being scorned by other posters responses) and report having tons of trouble installing, yet never mention their operating system, guess what? I'm much less apt to install it. Apple programs are also given out simultaneously here too. What about them? Should their installation problems affect me? Probably not. But I'd sure like to know what system they're using, to make an educated guess on how much weight I give to their generous comments on reporting the issues. Yes I do believe when a giveaway is starting, one should just go ahead and install if interested and not keep nagging people about what it is like. But when there are already lots of negative comments about installation (without stating their operating system), why would anyone want to take time installing, then spending half their morning trying to fix the possible problems being reported, when there is so much good free software available. Does that answer your question? I'll finish with your final statement to me, "What are you complaining about?
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Floyd  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+29)

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I did got the error "the 'microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine" and googled fot it.
On this page there was a solution:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1d5c04c7-157f-4955-a14b-41d912d50a64/how-to-fix-error-the-microsoftaceoledb120-provider-is-not-registered-on-the-local-machine?forum=vstsdb
I went to the site
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=23734
and strange: in Firefox nothing happened.
In Internet Explorer there was a download of file "AccessDatabaseEngine.exe"
After running this file, there was no fault anymore.

Ootje  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+13)

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Does not appear to work. It appears to not save the files once you exit or close the program

Anthony McBride  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+8)

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