Hey Ryan – Cybernetnews used to be one of the *premiere* tech blogs, along side LifeHacker. Is the trickling content an unfortunate trend to stay?

Unfortunately it’s tough for us to write more than one article per day. We are no longer doing the site full time, and only maintain it as a hobby now.

I installed PhraseExpress and found the pop-ups randomly generated.

The license reminder is shown in a random fashion. However, this does not mean at all, that the commercial-use detection itself is made by random. We kindly ask for your understanding that we are not able to explain the license violation detection in more detail.

Please just try to understand these basic facts:

* PhraseExpress is free for *personal* home use. Period. The policy is advertised and explained in detail at [phraseexpress.com]

* Use with commercial sounding phrases or use in corporate network environment is *not* free-of-charge.

* PhraseExpress does actually *verify* if the license policy is violated.

* If you have the feeling that the commercial detection is a false alarm in your individual case, we invite you to send in your phrase file for free inspection.

By the way, NONE of the guys complaining here have sent anything to us so far. Mmmmh…

Please understand that we can only provide such professional software free-of-charge to personal users, if the ongoing development is supported by professional users who get a significant productivity increase in return.

I hope that you understand, that a “deal” would *break* the license reminder rather than the license reminder ought to be a deal breaker.

Michael

Rick, You are a desperate loser if you cheated them.

Geez, having a bad day, JackShack? The only ones “losing” are those that resort to name calling tech forums.

You may hopefully agree that phrases such as “Your order”, “Dear Customer” or “Thank you for purchasing(..)” clearly and undoubtlessly indicate commercial activities. All trigger phrases are of such obvious kind only.

To me that totally makes sense. I was wondering what kind of phrases triggered it, and I think you guys are going about it the right way. Hopefully Rick will agree.

If you use a phrase they feel is for commercial use, the program will shoot a timed pop-up asking the user to register the product.

We publish and inform about this policy here: [phraseexpress.com]

Please note, that PhraseExpress is no hobbyist project but a professional solution with many people involved. We are not backed up by a billion dollar company like FireFox or Skype.

Even though, we offer a free version and we believe that the present model is a fair deal. If you have a amarter idea about the licensing we are eager to learn more: [contact.phraseexpress.com]

We can certainly not confirm this for the current version.

You may hopefully agree that phrases such as “Your order”, “Dear Customer” or “Thank you for purchasing(..)” clearly and undoubtlessly indicate commercial activities. All trigger phrases are of such obvious kind only.

We would be curious to learn why you complain about this license model. If you believe that a false alarm occurred in your particular case then we kindly ask you to send in your phrase file to pex-at-phraseexpress.com and we will gladly verify it for you. All that for free.

AutoHotkey certainly has it’s strength in Windows Automation (at the cost of complexity).

We believe to deliver the best feature set for typing productivity and Autotext, AutoCorrect, Auto-Completion. Here is a complete feature-list: [phraseexpress.com]

Michael
PhraseExpress Team
[phraseexpress.com]

This is a innovative piece of software.

I definitely agree… it can be a huge time saver.

Huh, didn’t realize they checked what phrases you use to determine commercial use. It hasn’t flagged any of my phrases yet.