Buzz Bruggeman

Member since: Mar 25th, 2006

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ActiveWords - The most useful utility I'm no longer using (Download Squad)

Jul 24th 2006 2:08PM I am a bit late to this party, but would echo Peter's comments. We have broken our hearts and backs trying to build the very best software we can. I routinely run into people who praise the free stuff, which is fine with us, but our methodolgy of licensing and installing software is the very best we have found. If there are better ways to do it out there, please, please let us know.

We think we have given lots and lots of people back lots and lots of heartbeats and time. I didn't see any comments from anyone who uses ActiveWords on a tablet, as ActiveWords on a tablet changes forever how you use a tablet.

We are working on ActiveWords on Mobile devices, and I am proud that we have a vision, i.e. http://www.activewords.com/vision.html where the users language is the driving part of the UI not a different UI that he/she has to learn for every device they own.

We love positive criticism, but we have no control over the Windows metaphor, and would love any and all suggestions as to how to make ActiveWords better and even more useful!

Buzz

Streamline typing with text substitution (Download Squad)

Mar 29th 2006 7:15PM Tim:

The core ActiveWords engine is rock solid, I think that the latest version, 1.98. And one of these days we will re-write and and re-build, maybe post Vista shipping. We could have called it 2.0, but we are trying to come up with something really spectacular by way a breakthrough idea.

We know we need to upgrade the UI look and feel. What you are missing is that we have really focusing on building agents. Look at what we have done with MindManager, MSN Desktop Search, Google, and ClearContext. Let us know which applications you are using, and we will look at building at more content in these areas.

We are also working hard on ActiveWords for Origami, and beginning to look at ActiveWords for WinMobile 5.0 and the Blackberry.

Brian:

See my notes above.

I really have no clue where our current release date is, but will see what our guys think about posting it. Again, once our core technology was built, we have sought to just refine and improve it, instead of re-inventing it. We are looking at a bunch of new tools that would allow us to re-write, re-build and both speed up and shrink the size of it.

As for history of previous commands�.good idea, let me see what our guys think about it. The up and down arrows are really about scrolling up and down if you were using the �ActionPad on a massive scale.

As for �invalid commands�, is the fact that they just don�t work not an indicator?

We would be happy to talk to your about our APIs, and everything else we have if you will sign an NDA. Let me know if that is of interest to you. And also, tell me what apps you are thinking of.

Again, our stuff only gets better when we have conversations like this.

Buzz
buzz@activewords.com

Streamline typing with text substitution (Download Squad)

Mar 25th 2006 2:29AM One thing Nick missed was one simple tweak that will help a lot:

Right click on the ActiveWords monitor, go to options, go to confirmation options, and then enable the spacebar/spacebar box at the top 1/3 of screen.

This way you don't have to reach for the F8 key, and can just use the space bar to trigger ActiveWords.

Let me know if you have any ideas on how to make ActiveWords better...

Buzz