TED Notepad Aid and Support
You can help!
Donate to TED Notepad
The easiest way to show your support and interest, and to encourage me continuing this mission, is to make a donation of your choice. The money raised here is used to pay for this site and to buy software and hardware necessary for its development. This is a freeware and will remain freeware, and as such, relies on your kindness.
| Chip in regularly to help grow the project |
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Thanks for recent donations (in random order):
Konrad Grzeslak,
William Trenaman,
Andrew Tudberry,
Todd Williams,
Rainer Clements,
Brad Hall,
Yahya Musoke,
Danny Hand,
Ruben Moran,
Thomas Clements,
Henk van Setten,
Bruce Bunker,
Daniel Talsky,
Kevin Kelleher,
Investment Strategy Inc,
Peter Lundquist,
Antonio Rodríguez García,
Jonathan Max‑Sohmer,
Houke de Vries,
Michael Reindl,
Dave Sandeman,
Thomas Cook,
Carlo Barcellan,
TKABE Technologies, Inc.,
Zoran Zakic,
Peep Dimse,
Generose Lambert,
Pioneer Spirit Enterprises LLC,
Chris Collins,
Terry Dansey,
Charles K Wong,
Robert Hare,
Bruce Witzel,
Hyun Sheung Heo,
Patrick Forkin,
Joseph Raine,
Adrian Popa,
JG Weston,
David Gomez,
Mark Palmos,
Naing Win,
Thomas Little,
BueGrass West,
Uku‑Kaarel Jõesaar,
Rob van Putten,
Mark Renwick,
Andreas Göbel,
Hubert Jakubiec,
Byron Lunz,
Marek Klikar,
Alton Allen,
Michael Warseck,
Peter Middleton,
Caio Kramer,
Peter Kovacs,
Benjamin Hickson,
Vito Orlando,
Keo Paolo Saulog,
Mike Hubbard,
Shiv Prabhu,
徐 翔,
Mike Wilmot‑Dear,
Anthony Tulio,
Ben Hickson,
Rudy Espinoza,
Rita Karath,
Francisco Adán Reyes Guerra,
Ryan Creel,
Marybeth Long,
Paul Kent,
ASPWired, Inc,
Serban Dragne,
Pablo Puga Reynolds,
Niels Cambon‑Brandt,
Aycardo Veterinary Center Inc,
Andrew Schultz,
Nino Ortner,
Konstantine Sykiotis,
Persimmon consulting,
Richard Hixson,
Matthew Ahmed,
Adriana Ferguson,
Frank Nash,
Dan Cunningham,
Sherwood Anderson,
Kenneth Carrasco,
Patrick Duffy,
David Long,
Guildford Group Arts,
Roy Axford,
David Andersen,
Charles L Hamilton,
Donald Sorensen,
Sudipta Banerjee,
Harry Parshall,
Alfred Franz Simkovics,
Yves Lepage,
R Frank Wayman,
Jay Matthews,
Roland Fischer,
Netzverb® Deutsch,
Amanda Kistilensa,
David Senior,
Rod Vance,
Instant Attitudes,
Andrzej Nowicki,
JC van der Hem,
and many others who have chosen to remain anonymous.
Note: Have you donated, but your name is not on the list yet? The list is populated mainly on per-request basis. Ask for inclusion by sending an e-mail to notepadjsimlo.sk. I would be glad to add your name.
Spread the Word
TED Notepad is primarily meant for users with non-trivial demands and tasks: Those that need to quickly extract information from text, find duplicate lines or sort them, convert case, replace or reverse something non-trivial, etc. As such, the amount of true users is growing rather slowly and there is naturally few people recommending this utility further to others who might be interested.
Become an ambassador for this project. Help spreading the word. Tell your friends about TED Notepad, if you feel they could benefit from it as well. Post to a forum or a discussion, if the topic is right (but do not spam). Or perhaps post a link to this site on social networks to make it more popular. Or write about it on your blog or place a button/link on your website. Thank you!
There is no point in spamming places, where people are not interested in software pieces like this. But there are many places where people are actually searching for us and they can not find us there.
Become a Tester
As with any other software, the group of testers puts considerable efforts and resources towards testing new releases before they go public. Though we can say we have been quite skilled and lucky with this task so far, since only few bugs actually made it to public and final releases, this does not mean we are done.
We could use more people, both skilled testers and ordinary users. Current testing versions of the application are self-testing a lot as they are run and used, but we still need someone to use them, edit text and launch tools for any self-testing to take place. Once you start a testing version, you actively test it, even when you do not think about it. When something undesirable happens, you are usually warned and asked to report it. That's mostly all that's to it. Can you do that for us? Become a tester!
Recent bug reporters and active testers (alphabetically):
David Roper,
Doug Tally,
Frank Walter,
Jim Harmon,
Jon Tech,
Martin Tkac,
Mike Welch,
Tim Sneller,
천상천하,
and others who have chosen to remain anonymous.
Criticize a bit
There are plenty of things that could be done better and nicer. This web is a good example. If you think something is not right, suggest a correction or better wording. If you think the web-design is not that great anymore, suggest a better solution or another color perhaps? Sometimes we just don't get it right ... :)
Write back
I have received many good e-mails over the years, and I am always grateful for your support, encouragement and suggestions. I have read them all and they sure helped me to continue this project. At times they provide the necessary fuel to push yet another feature, yet another release.
Actually, there is something in return for me: Knowing that you are there, that you like and use this piece, it encourages me to go on and do more. I am glad to be able to share this application with you, and I am always happy to learn what you like about it.
