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 |
| contribute in € | contribute in $ |
..and put yourself onto the list of donors.. | |
Thanks for recent donations (in random order):
Dan Cunningham,
Benjamin Hickson,
David Senior,
David Andersen,
Rita Karath,
Andreas Göbel,
Todd Williams,
Ruben Moran,
William Trenaman,
Mike Wilmot‑Dear,
Peep Dimse,
Sherwood Anderson,
JG Weston,
Hubert Jakubiec,
Serban Dragne,
JC van der Hem,
Antonio Rodríguez García,
Adriana Ferguson,
Donald Sorensen,
Andrew Schultz,
Rod Vance,
Konrad Grzeslak,
Mark Palmos,
Bruce Bunker,
Carlo Barcellan,
Paul Kent,
Niels Cambon‑Brandt,
Marek Klikar,
Uku‑Kaarel Jõesaar,
Henk van Setten,
Roy Axford,
Yves Lepage,
Instant Attitudes,
Rudy Espinoza,
Thomas Little,
Danny Hand,
Yahya Musoke,
徐 翔,
Robert Bull,
R Frank Wayman,
Bruce Witzel,
Joseph Raine,
TKABE Technologies, Inc.,
Guildford Group Arts,
Charles K Wong,
Michael McNamara,
Konstantine Sykiotis,
Ben Hickson,
Anthony Tulio,
Kevin Kelleher,
Chris Collins,
Patrick Duffy,
David Gomez,
Michael Welch,
Andrzej Nowicki,
Thomas Cook,
Shiv Prabhu,
Rob van Putten,
Mike Hubbard,
Pablo Puga Reynolds,
Barry Brod,
Peter Middleton,
Mark Renwick,
Jonathan Max‑Sohmer,
Aycardo Veterinary Center Inc,
Byron Lunz,
Marybeth Long,
Nino Ortner,
Francisco Adán Reyes Guerra,
Kenneth Carrasco,
Roland Fischer,
Frank Nash,
Hyun Sheung Heo,
David Long,
BueGrass West,
Netzverb® Deutsch,
Michael Warseck,
Dave Sandeman,
Pioneer Spirit Enterprises LLC,
Sudipta Banerjee,
Andrew Tudberry,
Investment Strategy Inc,
Peter Kovacs,
Richard Hixson,
Michael Reindl,
Matthew Ahmed,
Rainer Clements,
Naing Win,
Robert Hare,
Houke de Vries,
Terry Dansey,
Zoran Zakic,
Thomas Clements,
Alton Allen,
Daniel Talsky,
Amanda Kistilensa,
Alfred Franz Simkovics,
Ryan Creel,
Keo Paolo Saulog,
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.
