IMatch 5 public website

[pajaro]

Congratulations, the website looks great! There is a typo, though (see attached) . Could not reply to the original post (https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=2356.0), therefore I opened a new thread.

Pavel.

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[jch2103]

Wow - must be very popular already...the page isn't loading for me...!

EDIT - This turns out only to be an issue for my desktop version of Chrome - other browsers my desktop and Chrome on my Android are working fine. Must be a cache issue...

EDIT 2 - Chrome just updated itself to version 35.0.1914.114 m. The web site is working OK now. Must have been some issue with Chrome on Win7/64, or something specific to my desktop configuration.

[BanjoTom]

Congratulations on getting the website for IM5 up and visible! 

I "liked" it on Facebook, but noticed this typo/misspelling (attached).  (Too many letter "i"s in "Diigital" )





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[Mees Dekker]

The new website is indeed very good. Congratulations on reaching this milestone.

But: I don't see any yellow bar at the top of pages.

[Menace]

Can't it be confusing when someone click on "Buy IMatch" and can buy IMatch for "US$ 64.95" without telling him that this will be the old version 3.6? Because of the "frames" it is a little bit confusing for new persons.

[jch2103]

But: I don't see any yellow bar at the top of pages.

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[Mario]

Congratulations on getting the website for IM5 up and visible! 

I "liked" it on Facebook, but noticed this typo/misspelling (attached).  (Too many letter "i"s in "Diigital" )

Where does this come from?

[Mario]

Can't it be confusing when someone click on "Buy IMatch" and can buy IMatch for "US$ 64.95" without telling him that this will be the old version 3.6? Because of the "frames" it is a little bit confusing for new persons.

I think it would be very unexpected if IMatch 5 would take more than 6 months to become officially available. So users who buy IMatch 3 now will get IMatch 5 for free.
I already notice a slight increase in purchases for IMatch 3 - I think many users anticipate IMatch 5.

[Mario]

But: I don't see any yellow bar at the top of pages.

The yellow banner is only on IMatch 5 specific pages, not on the entire site. Where did you look?

[Mario]

Congratulations on getting the website for IM5 up and visible! 

I "liked" it on Facebook, but noticed this typo/misspelling (attached).  (Too many letter "i"s in "Diigital" )

Where does this come from?

Forget it, I found it. It was in one of the metadata elements not visible to users. Facebook seems to pull that header when somebody links to a page. Jeez - that's social networks for you.

[Menace]

So users who buy IMatch 3 now will get IMatch 5 for free.

Wow, this is very generously.

[Mees Dekker]

Hi Mario

my system takes only one step at a time :-) Probably because of the awe for the new website.

Initially I did not see any tekst about the non-availibility of iMatch 5, then after refreshing (F5) the text appeared and finally (again after refreshing the page) text is on a yellow background. So: all is good and well now.

[Mario]

So users who buy IMatch 3 now will get IMatch 5 for free.

Wow, this is very generously.

No. I referred to my standard six month grace period:

http://www.photools.com/shop/

Users who buy a license within six month from a new (paid) upgrade receive the upgrade for free. I'm not greedy and fair is fair.

I know that people will again argue that some users paid the last time for IMatch in 2006 (!) and others who purchased IMatch only a year ago will have to pay the same price for the upgrade. But I don't want to get fancy and use scale prices.

Although, with my new shop system, I could...

IMatch 5 will cost the same for everybody. Existing users which are eligible for a discounted upgrade will receive a voucher code in the customerWeb site (where you download IMatch 5 Beta) automatically. Using that voucher code allows them to purchase IMatch 5 at a discounted price once.

[Mario]

Hi Mario

my system takes only one step at a time :-) Probably because of the awe for the new website.

Initially I did not see any tekst about the non-availibility of iMatch 5, then after refreshing (F5) the text appeared and finally (again after refreshing the page) text is on a yellow background. So: all is good and well now.

Probably your browser cached to much.

[Menace]

Mario, this wasn't meant (?) as a critic; it is more than a fair offer and I appreciate it. *thumbs up* 

[Mario]

I didn't take this as a criticism. I just wanted to point out that this is in accordance with my long-standing fair upgrade policy.

[Mees Dekker]

Mario

your offer regarding buying iMatch 3 and getting Imatch 5 for free, implicates that the final price for IMatch5 will be US$ 64,95 ?

[DigPeter]

Good luck with the new website, Mario.

[Richard]

I found no announcement at the old forum so I took the liberty of posting something.

[ianrr]

Nice work Mario ... the new web site is very nice and effective without being too much. Congratulations !   

[ColinIM]

Yes, this is a superb new 'Home Page'!

If I didn't already know what we're looking forward to getting with IM5, I'd be very very intrigued by the list of features in "IMatch 5 at a Glance" and by the excellent User scenarios!

On the topic of flawless spelling, I really don't expect anything less than perfection nowadays from Mario  but as a painfully pedantic perfectionist, let me cheer and applaud your correct use Mario of the oh-so-often mistaken word "complements" in this paragraph -

Why do you need it?
....
IMatch is an ideal companion for typical RAW processing applications, which usually have only limited organization capabilities. IMatch also complements image and video editors, music software, office applications, video players, databases, back-office systems...

And then, on those rare but inevitable little typo-gremlins ... I found another one (see attachment), where I guess you intended to say "we present six different users." -

Colin P.

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[ColinIM]

Ummmm ... while we're here ... I'll suggest a couple more tweaks 

(Would you prefer these suggested web-site edits/corrections to be sent directly as emails to you Mario?)

These suggestions are for the User Type "Mike" page.  Proposed changes shown in red.

1. In Renaming and Distributing Files, the words following 'plus' should read "an ascending sequence number."

Renaming and Distributing Files
....
....
.... He appends the current date in YYYYMMDD format, plus an  ascending sequence number.

2. Again in Renaming and Distributing Files, I'd suggest the punctuation in the paragraph beneath the image labelled "Renamer (1 files)" could instead be as follows:

The Renamer allows Mike to rename his files in dozens of ways, from simple numeric file names to file names including date, time, camera model and more. Everything is possible. The Renamer can also be used to copy and move files and it can even create folders dynamically.

It currently reads as here:

The Renamer allows Mike to rename his files in dozens of ways. From simple numeric file names to file names including date, time, camera model and more, everything is possible. The Renamer can also be used to copy and move files and it can even create folders dynamically.

3. In the Stacking description, the last sentence should perhaps read as follows:

Stacking
....
....
.... He can expand the stack at any time using a keyboard shortcut, or just use the Stack Panel to view the files hidden in the stack.

It currently reads as here:

.... He can expand the stack at any time using a keyboard shortcut, or just uses the Stack Panel to view the files hidden in the stack.

4. In the Integrating Other Applications section, one extra comma would improve the scanning of the last sentence in the second paragraph, as follows:

Integrating Other Applications
....
....
.... When Mike saves a file in Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop, IMatch recognizes this and rescans the file to bring the database up-to-date. All this is automatic and runs in the background. IMatch also keeps track of which photos were updated and when, using the History feature.

Or perhaps instead, rephrase that last sentence to read as follows: (?)

"IMatch uses the History feature to keep track of which photos were updated, and when."

5. In the caption beneath the sample image in the Versioning section, I suggest adding the word "as" before the word "special" in the second sentence, as follows:

.... Versions are displayed and treated as special in File Windows, and the Version Panel is used to show all versions of a file - even if these versions are in different folders or on different disks!

Just "buffing up" some remaining blemishes on this beautifully crafted addition to the IMatch web-presence 

Colin P.

[Sorted]

"... works with all your other applications ..."

Am I being too cautious in suggesting you phrase this "works with most popular applications" or similar? Just thinking about the implications of the claim.

Jolly fine website, very exciting!

[Mario]

Thanks all for spotting typos and sending corrections. I incorporated them now. It's a massive amount of text and a few typos are inevitable. If you read the same page several times you may spot new typos in each attempt. And there is also hidden text that's not for visitors but for search engines...

[Richard]

Just "buffing up" some remaining blemishes on this beautifully crafted addition to the IMatch web-presence

Colin, you did well. You are a good proofreader. So often we read something as it should be, not as it is.

[ColinIM]

Thank you Richard,

(....) So often we read something as it should be, not as it is.

Yes indeed, it's common to be blind to our own errors.  I had a job as a Technical Author a long time ago and it was a "house rule" that before we presented our work to our sub-editors, we had to have a fellow writer read our hand-written work back to us, aloud, in every detail (including spoken "comma", "period" & "new paragraph"!) and it was a common surprise to find that one or more errors had sneaked past the writer's own careful scrutiny of the same words, just minutes earlier!

(O.T. Our work was all hand-written because as "Technical experts" who had been recruited into being "writers", we weren't expected to be able to type, and we literally did cutting and pasting of paper fragments while editing, using scissors and that then-modern glue called Pritt Stick. In the late 1980's the IBM PC and early word processors were already well established, but our little company had a big 'pool' of skilled typists who weren't (yet) ready to be made redundant!)

What a contrast with today, eh?!
Colin P.