Minutus

I'm also interested in comparison of the materia medica files of the different programs. I know that MacRep, with its complement ReferenceWorks, is immense, and also devilishly pricey. Soooo, I am still using my 2008 version, on my long-defunct old computer, which thankfully still has enough life left to keep handling that -- for the moment.

Shannon

I use Isis and I love it. I have been with miccant since I got involved with homeopathy back in 2000. I bought Cara Professional and I would still be using that but Miccant unfortunately phased it out. they offer Isis now and I love it. as Rochelle said most of the updates are free. their technical support is incredibly thorough and accommodating. I've managed to be technically ignorant and they just do everything for me. the dongle: when my kids were young they pressed down on the dongle and broke it and I had to buy another one. to avoid that happening again, I bought a USB extender. that way the dongle is plugged into the USB extender and thereby becomes flexible rather than rigid, and I've had no further problems. am looking forward to the program going dongle free, however, which I hear is in the works.

From: "Irene de Villiers furryboots@icehouse.net [minutus]"
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Hom Software
Me too though after a lot of negotiaton I got a special deal on the upgrade with a new dongle.

As to Radar usefulness, I use it almost daily and greatly rely on it.
I bought the education package but never found time to do the course.
So I use what I could figure out to use. I never open most of the system, just the repertory.
It IS a really good repertory, no question about that.

I live in fear that the current dongle will die of course.
I have not updated Radar for a long time because of the dongle support issues, it is too much tro invest and be beholden to a dongle staying alive... and becasue of the fact that they even have a dongle in the first place.

That kind of paranoia went out in the 1980s in any other industry.
They shoot themselves in the foot with dongles. If they lost the dongle and made the software self-evident the way apple designs theirs, they could drop the price and sell far more.

I see it as a "lack of business acuity" issue, as the repertory itself is great.
It is always better to sell ten times as many copies at a tenth the price minus dongle - than to lose sales to the bad taste of a dongle dingbat - with the very real threat of a huge lost investment just by haviing the dog chew the dongle or spilling coffe or the dongle wiring quit, etc. There is no backup for the dongle, and that principle is foul.

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

If Complete Dynamics was as comprehensive and sophisticated as Radar/Encyclopedia Hom or MacRep/RefWks it would have a protection dongle also. At $299 it doesnt need it.
Selling high value, low volume software does require protection methods. The incentive to steal it is high. Once there are millions of homeopaths out there using this high value software the price can drop, Lets get on with making that happen. I am sure they will then drop the dongle.
MacRep/RefWks require a dongle also for installation and if you want to use them on multiple computers. They do have a nice feature that allows you to dispense with the dongle if you only run them on a single computer, something that I wish Archibel would emulate. I am guessing they will soon.
I dont worry much about the dongle. I have been traveling now for 8 months with my laptop and RadarOpus and I dont give it a second thought. But I wouldnt do stupid things like putting liquids next to it, OR my laptop OR my cell phone. I take reasonable precautions against theft, damage, etc. and dont worry about it.
Roger

Do any of the reps mentioned allow you to enter your own rubrics, cured symptoms, notes that you may have observed from remedies but not listed for that remedy?
Susan

In MacRep you can create rubrics and also create a personal materia medica file (where you could note those observations etc.).

Creating rubrics I found to be so much of a nuisance that I never actually managed to complete any, but a more organized person would perhaps find the process accessible enough.

Radar does.
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

Isis from Miccant.com which I use allows you to put your own rubrics in a rep called My Repetory. I think you can also add remedies to existing rubrics in the Complete Rep and maybe others.
Rochelle
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 19 August 2014 03:20
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Hom Software
Do any of the reps mentioned allow you to enter your own rubrics, cured symptoms, notes that you may have observed from remedies but not listed for that remedy?
Susan