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Susan: This is my drink-gallons-o-coffee-while-evading-all-realworld-duties
day, so I'm rambling much in my posts. To get to my actual ping subject,
jump down to section [ACF PROGRAM LISTING].
[Story: GridinSoft NotePad Lite devolving into Kripple/Trickster Ware]
Yesterday I installed some later versions of GridinSoft Notepad Lite, and
noticed that it was on a cycle of mutating into increasingly offensive
kripple/ad/promo/sneaky ware. I mean the kind of ware that embeds fake menu
items into the interface, not greyed out, to trick you into clicking them,
and on result click, puts a dialog in your face telling you SOL and go
purchase the pro version.
The version I'd originally had: v2.005, 2003-11-06.
The single krip/promotion factor in this release is the spellcheck menu
item, but it is greyed, not a trick into trying to make you click and bring
up the promo. Acceptable to my palate.
The next version I installed: v2.602, 2004-09-05
Same deal as the other, with the greyed-out spellchecker item. Removed the
hex editor function, but at least no fake menus for it in place. Added a
fake menu for Page Setup. (This is the only fako trick I observe going on
in this particular release, tho possible that I overlooked if any others.)
The next version I installed: v2.715, 2004-09-05
Same deal as the v2.6, but now with the krap every which way. Fake Hex
editor menu item, fake Code Template menu items, more. All for sleaze
purpose of launch the promo/nag window.
Loading the website as I'm about to post <http://notepad.gridinsoft.com>,
I note that there are more recent versions of this so-called freeware
available. However, given the trend that I recently witnessed when
looking over the sequence of versions yesterday, I seriously doubt
that the situation will have change other than for the worse, and
gage it a waste of time to verify definitively.
I'd decided to post the GridinSoft Notepad Lite story, especially since
I've recommended it in the past (well, sort of, I mean just as part of
a list for performing one more or less unusual quick function), but then
first decided to do my homework, and check the ACF programs list page.
(No Google groups search though, since I don't feel it's bad to repeat
things, if that's the case).
[ACF PROGRAM LISTING]
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php
: GridinSoft Notepad LFW v unknown release date 2004-06-11
Ah, okay, so the matter was basically already covered. Yesterday it was in
my mind that I'd propose changing the ware status, since the current release
is such offensive krippleware.
The one thing, though. This entry, I'd like to see one change. The program
name. There are two products. One is GridinSoft Notepad, payware. The other
is GridinSoft Notepad Lite. This latter the author advertises as freeware
(which it stopped being, since it is these days more a demo thing).
I feel that the entry on the ACF programs page should list the name:
"GridinSoft Notepad Lite."
As to LFW, well, I have the release slightly earlier than the one mentioned,
but I won't even bother with offering upload. It was not a very interesting
text editor at all, as freeware, compared against the wealth of features
offered by others. And these days it has turned, as described, krapware.
[GridinSoft]
The author's other so-called freeware program, btw, it also offends me
(tho' not nearly to the same degree as the trickster thing). CHM-Encoder.
Something towards half (!) of the interface is used up with advertisement
for the author's payware products. And re the program's functionality, to
extract CHM... That's something which can adeptly be handled instead by
clean freeware routes. Or simply by using hh.exe's inbuilt commands,
directly, without bringing in GridinSoft's promoware frontend.
Finish the post with something positive. This comparatively lamo editor,
it has one treat comes with it. The readme file. I was delighted to see
that AA-FUSSY is finally outsourcing his one true skill.
| GridinSoft Notepad Lite
| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Free version of GridinSoft Notepad with minimum functionality.
|
| Professionals need professional tools. Designers need Photoshop. Webmasters
| need Dreamweaver. Writers need Word. So what's the tool every programmer on
| the entire face of the Earth can't do without? Well, even thought there are
| over 50 different programming languages and file formats, up to very recently,
| there was only one tool that could be used to write and edit them, regardless
| of the format - plain old simple and absolutely free Notepad, installed on
| every PC in the universe.
|
| As unimpressive and absurd as it may sound, before GridinSoft Notepad was
| released in 2003, this really was the best tool available. What GridinSoft
| developers did was to keep the simplicity Notepad offers and add code editing
| features programmers need. Like customizable syntax highlighting,
| spell checker, console command support, Hex editor, math expression evaluator,
| LaTeX format, bookmarks, Drag&Drop support and 10 other options lacking in
| the original Notepad that many programmers need for their coding and editing
| routine.
|
| While it sounds boastful and perhaps even arrogant, GridinSoft Notepad is
| very likely to be the most valuable 1.2 megabytes a programmer can get
| loaded on a hard-drive. Ever since the program was released, it enjoyed
| strange cult-like following among coders worldwide, which translated into
| GridinSoft Notepad being localized to German, French, Danish, Spanish,
| Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Slovak, Croatian, Indonesian, Bulgarian,
| Hungarian, Polish, Korean and Norwegian languages. New localizations are
| added monthly.
day, so I'm rambling much in my posts. To get to my actual ping subject,
jump down to section [ACF PROGRAM LISTING].
[Story: GridinSoft NotePad Lite devolving into Kripple/Trickster Ware]
Yesterday I installed some later versions of GridinSoft Notepad Lite, and
noticed that it was on a cycle of mutating into increasingly offensive
kripple/ad/promo/sneaky ware. I mean the kind of ware that embeds fake menu
items into the interface, not greyed out, to trick you into clicking them,
and on result click, puts a dialog in your face telling you SOL and go
purchase the pro version.
The version I'd originally had: v2.005, 2003-11-06.
The single krip/promotion factor in this release is the spellcheck menu
item, but it is greyed, not a trick into trying to make you click and bring
up the promo. Acceptable to my palate.
The next version I installed: v2.602, 2004-09-05
Same deal as the other, with the greyed-out spellchecker item. Removed the
hex editor function, but at least no fake menus for it in place. Added a
fake menu for Page Setup. (This is the only fako trick I observe going on
in this particular release, tho possible that I overlooked if any others.)
The next version I installed: v2.715, 2004-09-05
Same deal as the v2.6, but now with the krap every which way. Fake Hex
editor menu item, fake Code Template menu items, more. All for sleaze
purpose of launch the promo/nag window.
Loading the website as I'm about to post <http://notepad.gridinsoft.com>,
I note that there are more recent versions of this so-called freeware
available. However, given the trend that I recently witnessed when
looking over the sequence of versions yesterday, I seriously doubt
that the situation will have change other than for the worse, and
gage it a waste of time to verify definitively.
I'd decided to post the GridinSoft Notepad Lite story, especially since
I've recommended it in the past (well, sort of, I mean just as part of
a list for performing one more or less unusual quick function), but then
first decided to do my homework, and check the ACF programs list page.
(No Google groups search though, since I don't feel it's bad to repeat
things, if that's the case).
[ACF PROGRAM LISTING]
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php
: GridinSoft Notepad LFW v unknown release date 2004-06-11
Ah, okay, so the matter was basically already covered. Yesterday it was in
my mind that I'd propose changing the ware status, since the current release
is such offensive krippleware.
The one thing, though. This entry, I'd like to see one change. The program
name. There are two products. One is GridinSoft Notepad, payware. The other
is GridinSoft Notepad Lite. This latter the author advertises as freeware
(which it stopped being, since it is these days more a demo thing).
I feel that the entry on the ACF programs page should list the name:
"GridinSoft Notepad Lite."
As to LFW, well, I have the release slightly earlier than the one mentioned,
but I won't even bother with offering upload. It was not a very interesting
text editor at all, as freeware, compared against the wealth of features
offered by others. And these days it has turned, as described, krapware.
[GridinSoft]
The author's other so-called freeware program, btw, it also offends me
(tho' not nearly to the same degree as the trickster thing). CHM-Encoder.
Something towards half (!) of the interface is used up with advertisement
for the author's payware products. And re the program's functionality, to
extract CHM... That's something which can adeptly be handled instead by
clean freeware routes. Or simply by using hh.exe's inbuilt commands,
directly, without bringing in GridinSoft's promoware frontend.
Finish the post with something positive. This comparatively lamo editor,
it has one treat comes with it. The readme file. I was delighted to see
that AA-FUSSY is finally outsourcing his one true skill.
| GridinSoft Notepad Lite
| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Free version of GridinSoft Notepad with minimum functionality.
|
| Professionals need professional tools. Designers need Photoshop. Webmasters
| need Dreamweaver. Writers need Word. So what's the tool every programmer on
| the entire face of the Earth can't do without? Well, even thought there are
| over 50 different programming languages and file formats, up to very recently,
| there was only one tool that could be used to write and edit them, regardless
| of the format - plain old simple and absolutely free Notepad, installed on
| every PC in the universe.
|
| As unimpressive and absurd as it may sound, before GridinSoft Notepad was
| released in 2003, this really was the best tool available. What GridinSoft
| developers did was to keep the simplicity Notepad offers and add code editing
| features programmers need. Like customizable syntax highlighting,
| spell checker, console command support, Hex editor, math expression evaluator,
| LaTeX format, bookmarks, Drag&Drop support and 10 other options lacking in
| the original Notepad that many programmers need for their coding and editing
| routine.
|
| While it sounds boastful and perhaps even arrogant, GridinSoft Notepad is
| very likely to be the most valuable 1.2 megabytes a programmer can get
| loaded on a hard-drive. Ever since the program was released, it enjoyed
| strange cult-like following among coders worldwide, which translated into
| GridinSoft Notepad being localized to German, French, Danish, Spanish,
| Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Slovak, Croatian, Indonesian, Bulgarian,
| Hungarian, Polish, Korean and Norwegian languages. New localizations are
| added monthly.
