In the end, I have seen nothing in my use to warrant mistrust and I have decided the benefits of DT (searchability, E2EE, capture, deep links) were very real and the fears were not proven, at least in my personal case. Nothing in all this is scientific or provable in any way, which is why it’s a tough question to answer. I believe DT’s devs care a huge lot about user data, even more now after this serious fright. In a nutshell, after having some fears, I realized my personal experience does not substantiate any loss of confidence in the app compared to what people are saying and there might be a shred of collective scare. And I suspect at least some cases of that famed data loss might be in fact attributable to user error. There are no reports of any more missing data on their official forums and I believe, due to the nature of the Internet, that if there was a widespread situation, it would literally have been burned to the ground by now. DEVONtech support has always been helpful when I had problems. Personally, I have seen exactly two ghosts which were very quickly picked up by DTTG. Now, that’s a really tough question to answer as I think it boils down to a very personal level of confidence with the app. Thank you very much, sir, much appreciated! I admire your many accomplishments, as well as your calm and kindness online, which is something I do learn a lot from. (On an entirely unrelated matter, it’s a joy to have you here, Jim) (And I know you can’t react to what I just said – nor should you ) On the other hand, I don’t trust Smile anymore for anything. This problem was much more serious but, as far as I’m concerned, I ultimately still trust you guys and the app because you kept your user base in the loop, owned up to everything, helped everyone and fixed this. If I compare, DEVONtech managed the recent difficulties with the ghost files ten times better, with clear communication, constant development and stellar support. Nothing happened despite continuous promises.ĭifficulties can be understandable, especially in such a time, but for such a long time now, this points to a vision / leadership problem. Using my affiliate privileged channels, I have pointed Smile to growing dissatisfaction and concern about TE. I used to love the product, and recommend it heartily to my readers, run contests on my newsletter and so on.īut I couldn’t help but see that a) development was barely active despite the promises and b) the software was running worse and worse. If you are interested in sponsoring TMO, please and we'll get you more details.I used to be an affiliate for TextExpander. Check it out, and let them know we sent you, too, please – I think you'll be glad you did, and we thank you! As always, Smile offers a free trial download so you can confirm this before you buy. PDFPen is truly one tool that I find necessary and invaluable, and I'm convinced you'll feel the same way. And, of course, since Apple's Pages also reads MS Word files, you can edit with Pages, as well (or any other word processor that reads Word format, which basically means all of them!). This means you can get a PDF, let PDFPen do its magic, and then not only edit it but format it, too, right there inside Microsoft Word. On top of all that, the new version, PDFPen 6, now includes the ability to export documents in (editable!) Microsoft Word format, as well. PDFpen makes it easy to just paste in and lay the image out exactly where you want it. I mentioned above that I often add my signatures to PDFs with PDFpen, but there are times I use it to add images, too. With PDFpen, it's simple to edit text in pre-made PDFs. Normally I'd have to go back to the person who made it, ask them to make changes, wait for the change, and then I can move forward. There are times when I get a PDF that doesn't have quite the right information in it or, even worse, has a typo. I just use PDFpen and then email the result back. It's so easy I don't even think about printing and filling out those PDFs any more. I can even paste my signature right onto a document if I want. No worry, I just load it up into PDFpen, place my cursor where I want to type and. So often I get PDFs that are forms but don't have those handy form-fill-out fields in them. Long-time TMO readers and Mac Geek Gab listeners will know that these are just some of the things I use PDFPen for regularly: The features I'll mention here are availale in both versions of PDFPen, regardless of whether you get the standard version or enhanced PDFpen Pro. Smile makes several of my favorite, can't-live-a-day-on-a-Mac-without products, and PDFpen is one of them. It's sponsor time here at TMO again and I am thrilled to welcome back Smile in that capacity.
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