Hey! Free Program!

Hi folks.



How's it going?



I've been sequestered away for the last couple months working on my genealogy program. Had a couple job interviews over the last couple weeks, but still the same old same-old - it's been five years, now! Unbelievable.



But I have high hopes - I think this program is going to fly. It's one I've been working on it for over three years now, and it's just gotten bigger and bigger - I keep thinking of cool new features to add to it. But last December I hit a wall - scope creep got to me - it was just too much. It had gotten up there to compete with the big guys - Family Tree Maker, Legacy, AFT, and PAF (hard to compete with a free program!). But I'm a one-guy shop - it just got to be too much. I was daunted. So to encourage this old shoe-maker to get back to his last, I promised myself I'd nip the scope creep in the bud and stop with the add-ons - after I add just one more really cool feature that just HAD to be in there (because absolutely NO one else had it) - namely, a glorified copy/paste function that would speed up data entry from genealogy websites by a factor of about 1000.



And it was about that time I heard Marilyn's voice saying, "Chunk it down, Ricky!"



And I thought, you know? This feature is just so cool it could stand alone all by itself. I can do that, and have it ready to go in a couple months. So let's! And then I thought, you know? I could even do that with the rest of the cool features. Instead of providing one great big program full of tools, I could make those tools available seperately - like snap-ons. And that was just the ticket. I've been running with that epiphany ever since, and now the first of the bunch is ready for Beta testing, with a couple more following shortly.



So. Have a free program!



Due to present budget constraints I can't offer much more than that at the moment, but next year, who knows. Hey, I'd hire you in a heartbeat!



You can download the zipped install program from here:



http://www.gentlespirit.com/Rick/Text2GED.zip



And the install instructions and mini-manual here:



http://www.gentlespirit.com/Rick/Text2GEDminiManual.doc



I'll be leaving for Florida tomorrow morning. My sister Karen and I will be there for a week, visiting our dad. Probably have a story to tell when I get back on the 28th.



See you around the word-world. Wish me luck?



~Ricky