To get an idea of what they're up to, try creating a diagram in LucidChart and then check out the page source. While Gliffy is Flash-based, LucidChart uses AJAX to do the job and that's an impressively technical way to go. After the column was published I got a message from the chaps at LucidChart LLC regarding their eponymous product, LucidChart, an online diagramming tool similar in some respects to the Gliffy service I covered.
Next, a follow-up to the column from two weeks ago in which I discussed tools for diagramming. A very sophisticated way of dealing with the issue of building a market. While they trust you, they also check for certain types of use which includes using the network feature (this allows you to share text templates with other users on a network) and frequent use of phrases such as "Your order", "Dear Customer" or "Thank you for purchasing.", in which case they pop up a polite nag. What Bartels asks is for you to play the game: If you in any way make money from using PhraseExpress then they expect you to cough up.
#Who publishes phraseexpress free#
it's a sort of a Swiss Army knife for the Windows user interface that's linked to your keyboard.Īnyway, I wrote that "there's a free version with limited features" but the free version actually has no limitations. To refresh your memory, PhraseExpress is a Windows utility that, while its basic functionality is to store and organize frequently used text snippets and expand abbreviations as you type, it also runs macros for text manipulation and a range of system operations, launches programs, autocorrects, launches Web searches, closes HTML tags, can lock the CAPSLOCK key for you (prevents you from accidentally hitting the Caps Lock key which is annoying and something I do with monotonous regularity). In last week's exciting installment of Gearhead I mentioned PhraseExpress published by Bartels Media GmbH and I need to correct something I wrote.