[OT] how do you keep info about what your programs do?

[spoon2001]

A follow up to the "Organizing Large File Collections Thread" ...

How do you keep track of what your downloaded programs DO?

One thing I have been doing is to go to the website and save the program
description webpage to an MHT file. Screenshots are particularly helpful.

I should keep these files together with each download but unfortunately I
have stashed them with my documents.

Unfortunately, I haven't been consistent in saving program description
pages, so it would take a lot of work to get it all up to date.

 

[tanstafl]

A follow up to the "Organizing Large File Collections Thread" ...

How do you keep track of what your downloaded programs DO?

One thing I have been doing is to go to the website and save the program
description webpage to an MHT file. Screenshots are particularly helpful.

I should keep these files together with each download but unfortunately I
have stashed them with my documents.

Unfortunately, I haven't been consistent in saving program description
pages, so it would take a lot of work to get it all up to date.

Take a look at SoftCat http://www.fnprg.com/softcat/softcat.html . It
has form fields to record where you installed it, category and
function, where you downloaded it from, registration and license info
etc. It also has a free form notes field where you can wax eloquent
on the functions and use of the program. It's free. It has a $ware
big brother, but the freebie should do what you indicated.

 

[Roger Johansson]

A follow up to the "Organizing Large File Collections Thread" ...
How do you keep track of what your downloaded programs DO?

I change the filename of the file, to become more informative, like
this:

F:\NeoMem-quick-keynote-like.zip

NeoMem.zip was the original file name.
I added the rest to show that it is a keynote-like program, quick
because it keeps the whole file in memory. I did not install it but
kept the downloaded file.

I also sort my downloaded files in different ways.
Normal sort is by date, this keeps the latest downloads on top in the
file manager.
It also keeps things downloaded together together in the file list.
Sorting after size, name, type is useful now and then.

Sometimes I create a text file or save a html file with the same name
as the program, or at least the same date and time, so I can find a
program and its addons and comments by sorting by date.

I do not consider such downloaded programs as important data, so I keep
them on a big partition without backup.

More important programs and text, images, etc are stored in special
folders on a smaller partition and often backed up to another physical
hard disk.
Once in a while I burn the latest version of the special folders to
CD's also.
There is no need to back up programs in general, as they can usually be
downloaded again, and are often updated so you want the latest version.

 

[miskairal]

I have a downloads folder, category folders (all with their own icon - I
got bored one day) and a folder for each programme (and subfolders for
each version if necessary). In each folder I save the program
description page as an html file but usually without images. I then save
a screenshot if one is available.

I then use FileNote
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp (towards bottom of page)
to simply right click the downloaded file, and choose filenote which
creates and opens a blank .txt file with the same name as the downloaded
file. I type in the date of download and copy and paste the address and
add any other info I think relevant at the time, save and close.

You have your work cut out for you but one day you will be bored and
feel like tidying up

 

[Pelo]

I just use Treepad.
www.treepad.com

 

[Paul]

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There used to be a program that allowed a info bubble to be made using the
right click context menu. It worked liked this ...
After installing your new program you could right-click on it and choose the
menu item (I forget now what the name was) and a window would appear in
which you wrote your details. Then anytime you placed you mouse pointer over
the program executable, the info bubble would appear. I would love it again
but I have not seen it for a while. I lost it when I changed computers and
operating system.
Paul

 

[Henry The Mole]

Hello, Paul!
You wrote on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:30:10 -0500:

There used to be a program that allowed a info bubble to be made using
the right click context menu. It worked liked this ...
After installing your new program you could right-click on it and
choose the menu item (I forget now what the name was) and a window
would appear in which you wrote your details. Then anytime you placed
you mouse pointer over the program executable, the info bubble would
appear. I would love it again but I have not seen it for a while. I
lost it when I changed computers and operating system.

I really love ZipHunter, that works a bit differently: it allows to
search within zip files on any kind of disk (fixed, removable and
networked).

You can find it on rareware section of my Mole Zone (url in sign).

 

[normancohen]

Could you, (or someone else) please explain what an MHT file is? How is it
used, in terms a novice could understand? Thanx very much
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[Adam Piggott]

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Could you, (or someone else) please explain what an MHT file is? How is it
used, in terms a novice could understand? Thanx very much

An MHT file is a "container" for a web site page and all of it's images and
other associated files; style sheets etc. MHT is used to save a web page
into a single file; Internet Explorer and Firefox can read and save in this
format (the latter saves with the Mozilla Archive Format extension).

I believe it stands for "Microsoft Hyper Text" but could be incorrect.

Hope that answers your question suitably

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[spoon2001]

An MHT file is a "container" for a web site page and all of it's

images and other associated files; style sheets etc. MHT is used to
save a web page into a single file; Internet Explorer and Firefox can
read and save in this format (the latter saves with the Mozilla
Archive Format extension).

I believe it stands for "Microsoft Hyper Text" but could be incorrect.

Hope that answers your question suitably

Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing).
http://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML)
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mht

 

[Adam Piggott]

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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension HTML (MHTML)
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=mht

Ta.

I was thinking to myself while typing "Why, if they're a Microsoft format,
can Firefox read them?" ;-)
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[Lou]

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Ta.

I was thinking to myself while typing "Why, if they're a Microsoft format,
can Firefox read them?" ;-)

So users do NOT need MS. Convenience.

Lou
I eat my peas with honey.
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny.
But it keeps them on my knife.

 

[Frank Bohan]

So users do NOT need MS. Convenience.

Lou

Internet Explorer can create or read .mht files. AFAIK Firefox and Netscape
can only read them.

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