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