Testimonials

General, Kill Docs, Time Thingy, Mouse Trap, Mr. Notes, Close Popup

General

Thank you very very much for all your help last evening. It is not very often in this life time that you find someone so nice and helpful over the computer. – Kathy & David

Thanks for the quick response and fix! What you say it does, it does. Sometimes the less complex does more. Thank you. – Ed

Thanks for adding my suggestion to your program. – Jody

Anyway I was perusing your website and thought it was very well design and had content to match. Balanced. I am an aspiring web designer and I look at various sites to garner design and content ideas.

I think your collection of utilities are great as well…useful too. This is the first time I am visiting your site, so I’ll take a look around from time to time.

Just a note to say thank you for all the information and help you have provided me.
It is very much appreciated.

I seem to muddle through the web, not very well, but I seem to get there. So at age 70, what do people expect… perfection? Anyway, you seem to be a very bright young man and I wish you great success. Like I said…I like your style. Don’t ever change!

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Hey! I download your "kill doc" program…. So easy, simple, direct, wonderfull!!!

I discovered your site by linking to Mike Lin’s site from a PC Magazine article. I have to say that I’m impressed with both of you. I think it’s great that both of you have the where-with-all to write and post shareware.

I also wanted to thank you for two of your programs that I am now using. My secretary and I are trying out a program called Secure Explorer that allows us to password protect confidential documents while still using Win98. One of the short comings of the program is that a document that has recently been created and then locked in a folder can still be accessed from the recent documents list. Kill Docs makes plugging this hole a lot easier. Thanks!

The second program I downloaded is Time Thingy. I love being able to move the clock to the title bar (space that is generally wasted). I like to keep icons for programs I use often in the Quick Launch Bar and I have amassed quite a bit of RAM so I tend to have several apps open and way too many internet windows open at once. Therefore, space is at a premium on the toolbar that holds the Sys Tray. You have helped me recover valuable real estate. Being able to also display the date is well received lagniappe. Thanks again!

Keep up the good work and good luck with your mission work. I hope it will be an horizon expanding and enriching experience for you.

Thanks one more time,

Tracey

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TimeThingy is as close as I can get to my ultimate clock requirements! – Dave

Your time thingy program is a great idea, simple, small, and wonderful to use.

The second program I downloaded is Time Thingy. I love being able to move the clock to the title bar (space that is generally wasted). I like to keep icons for programs I use often in the Quick Launch Bar and I have amassed quite a bit of RAM so I tend to have several apps open and way too many internet windows open at once. Therefore, space is at a premium on the toolbar that holds the Sys Tray. You have helped me recover valuable real estate. Being able to also display the date is well received lagniappe. Thanks again!

I just wanted to say thankyou for your little "time thingy" program. I find it very convenient, and today discovered a very valuable use for it – to place it on a screen that I want to capture and time-stamp, such as part of Windows system register, which changes quite a lot.

Anyway, thanks again,

Chris

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Thank you very very much for all your help last evening. It is not very often in this life time that you find someone so nice and helpful over the computer.

Mouse Trap works FANTASTIC, No children will be on here anymore. Keep up the great work with Take a Hike Software. It is now in my favorites list and I will check it often.

-Kathy & David

I am so darn happy with this Mouse Trap program. Two days and NO problems on my computer when I am not right in front of it. It is a BLESSING!!!!! Please, Please keep up the great work.

I admire Mouse Trap’s direct simplicity and it’s going to become my frontline layer of protection. – Judi

A few months later from the same person:
Your Mouse Trap is paired with the school board’s copy of Deep Freeze, and in the past months I haven’t had to spend a single minute undoing anything that the boys had done in my absence.

Before Mouse Trap, the boys did all kinds of damage to the machine just trying to thwart Deep Freeze and Net Nanny. They were never able to do anything really coherent to bypass them. In fact, most damage that they did just prevented the machine from booting at all or it cut them off completely from Internet access. (The donated machine is so creaky and old that they didn’t so much bypass Deep Freeze as they took unpredicted advantage of random failings in the hardware.)

With Mouse Trap, though, I’ve been able to monitor every moment that they spend on the machines. I’ve even become bold enough to remove Net Nanny, because they’ve always wasted so much time and energy trying to bypass such a luscious target. The simplicity of Mouse Trap has simplified my time in the classroom. Thank you.

Judi

[Mouse trap is] a great program and I thank you for the use of it.

In the July 24th, 2001 issue of Lockergnome:
And you know what else you’re going to like? A Gnomie is headed to Peru on a mission; he’s having to unsubscribe, but as a ‘going away present,’ he’s giving away a copy of Mouse Trap (which was featured in Lockergnome in June of 1998) to the first 50 Lockergnome subscribers to e-mail him. Ah! A timely reward for those of you who read this report when it first hits your Inbox.
Some of the responses:

Good luck on your mission to Peru. I have been a faithful Lockergnome reader for the past year. Chris didn’t get into too much detail on your trip, but I’m sure it will be exciting. Your Mouse Trap program looks very useful. Thanks again!

Just entering since I got on-line pretty early. – Not early by Peru standards, but early by Midwest standards. (Although I suppose there are fifty New Yorkers who may have beaten me to the punch.)

This [Mouse Trap] could be helpful curbing my daughter’s on-line appetite.

Chris

Hello there!

Do I qualify?

Anyway I was perusing your website and thought it was very well design and had content to match. Balanced. I am an aspiring web designer and I look at various sites to garner design and content ideas.

I think your collection of utilities are great as well…useful too. This is the first time I am visiting your site, so I’ll take a look around from time to time.

I live in the Caribbean and shipping charges for products external to the country can be a bit high. So if I did qualify for a copy of Mouse Trap, pass it along to the next Gnomie.

Regards,
Chris

I saw mention of Mouse Trap in the latest Lockergnoe issue and it sounds interesting…

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Your Mr. Notes is the best, best, best little note-taker there is out there, and I’ve looked at many of them. It’s far and away the fastest working one.

I appreciate your pro bono work. I do some pro bono work myself and it’s largely thankless, but I guess it’s better to do things without expecting a reward.

Thanks for a nice product.
-Pat

I’ve been using your Mr. Notes for years, its still one of my most useful programs and I’d be lost without it. Also, thanks for keeping it FREE. You are a very talented software creator; I hope you stay with it.
-Linda

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Just wanted to thank you for Close Popup. The popup ads for casinoes, tiny video cameras, etc. got me near to screaming. Thanks for the program. We’ll give her a try and see where we get to.
-Leo