MilesBuzz! - Miletracker (Mike)...come back and charge us!!

The old expression, "you don't know what you had till it's gone" couldn't be more true. I was a miletracker addict. I donated from time to time and I'm willing to pay $25 or so a year. (I wonder if that would motivate Mike to bring it up to date).. $25 doesn't sound like a lot but with all the other addicts out there and addicts to be..it could work. The program helped me make strategic decisions on which credit card to use for the bigger purchases.

On anther very long thread it was recommended we start a campaign. I couldn't agree more.

Mike, we need you. I'm willing to put my money out for this extremely valuable tool. Anyone else?

Let's start a conga line on who else will pay.

I also made some contributions, and I would pay again.

Ditto! I'm waiting very patiently but its not easy! Would be glad to contribute to new Miletracker. I absolutely hate Deskport and would never contribute to that site. However, a stand alone version of Miletract would get my donation real fast.

I made a donation 2 months before Miletracker went with Deskport thinking this was one of the best sites around. Then Deskport was in the picture.

Mike please come back to us!

Yes, yes, yes.

add me to the list.

miletracker is one of the greatest shareware programs i've used.

I thought his new thing Deskport has miletracker built in. Works good for me. Were there added features in the plain miletracker that I don't know?

I downloaded Deskport yesterday. I haven't noticedd any problems with having Deskport installed - I don't see anything that I'll be using any time soon other than Miletracker.

Miletracker actually seems to be working much faster than before. I have noticed that the Southwest Airlines link is actually to the number of credits earned during the year instead of how many currently in your account. But, other than that - no problems here.

Deskport with miletracker use to be terrible, now it works great for me; i only use miletracker, I ignore the rest of stuff in deskport. Miletracker has never been faster, and i agree re the current bug re Southwest reporting total credits, but i'm sure it'll be fixed soon. I'd gladly pay for miletracker, whether standalone or part of the deskport program.

Okay, I bit and downloaded Deskport. Didn't think I would like it at first, but used it a few times and no longer are Aeroplan and SPG not working. It's quite a bit faster too as randix mentioned. Still would like (and would pay for) a stand-alone program, though.

aloha

Okay, I bit and downloaded Deskport. Didn't think I would like it at first, but used it a few times and no longer are Aeroplan and SPG not working. It's quite a bit faster too as randix mentioned. Still would like (and would pay for) a stand-alone program, though.

aloha

I'm not randix , but I'll share the credit. :p

I don't know about Aeroplan, but the SPG site was down most of the morning, so that might have been part of the problem.

I'm not randix , but I'll share the credit. :p

I don't know about Aeroplan, but the SPG site was down most of the morning, so that might have been part of the problem.

Credit for all! :) My apoligies.

On the stand-alone Miletracker, SPG wasn't working because of their site improvements (which was noted and updated on Deskport)... but that's not to say that SPG's weekend maintenance didn't inconvenience me when trying to book a stay in October late last night. :mad:

aloha

In the fwiw column...I've found that using MileTracker on a dial up is an invitation to seeing lots of "N/A" or timeouts on your screen; anything faster, and it now seems to work great, very fast and reliable, and the issue on the dialup is without regard to trying and "tweak it" by using the options in the settings menu. I did get an email from the developer a few weeks ago, who was toying with the idea to try and make the program recognize (and adjust accordingly) whether you were using it on a slow or high speed basis. imho, if it's important to you, do whatever you need to do to use it with a relatively high connection speed as opposed to the prehistoric dial up...

Now that they've fixed the problems with the non-standard application window and the extra-large taskbar icon I have no problem with Deskport. I am super impressed by the speed with which you have implemented my suggestions and fixed my complaints. Thanks! :)

QL

I like it but have a problem with the AMEX rewards. Will it track corporate AMEX rewards? Probably no the place to ask but still am.

I agree that Deskport is a much more acceptable alternative. I reinstalled it after the above comments and am no longer looking for an alternative.

I agree that Deskport is a much more acceptable alternative. I reinstalled it after the above comments and am no longer looking for an alternative.

Me, too. I installed Deskport, and aside from not being able to resize the window, I like it as much as Miletracker. As reported by others, the speed is even better.

I found, though, that I had to re-enter all my account information. Is there a way to import it from Miletracker?

Me, too. I installed Deskport, and aside from not being able to resize the window, I like it as much as Miletracker. As reported by others, the speed is even better.

I found, though, that I had to re-enter all my account information. Is there a way to import it from Miletracker?

My data imported automatically.

Note from Mike Hoeffner, Developer of MileTracker - June 16, 2004
--------------------------------------------------------------------------.................I'm close to completing discussions with another company that will allow me to offer a standalone version of MileTracker in the very near future (late July?). .......

mike,
desk port is still not working on my pc and most of the old links are outdated when using the old miletracker version (by setting the calender back).
so is there any news regarding your anouncement above ? :confused:

Reloaded today and certainly working better then earlier version!

Me, too. I installed Deskport, and aside from not being able to resize the window, I like it as much as Miletracker. As reported by others, the speed is even better.

I found, though, that I had to re-enter all my account information. Is there a way to import it from Miletracker?

When deskport starts for the first time, it asks you if you want to import your old settings from miletracker. It looks for the "miletracker.settings" file from the miletracker directory in Program Files. If you removed miletracker or changed the directory structure during installation, deskport will not be able to import your settings. You can try uninstalling deskport, removing any left over items in the "deskport" folder in "Program Files" and then re-install and make sure you select import settings.

Regarding deskport, it works great for me now and I highly recommend people re-installing it. No crashes, no bloated memory space, and is able to update all my accounts in light speed!

in my opinion the current version of miletracker (embedded in deskport) is entirely usable and probably better than the "old" version.

However, it would be great if deskport could startup displaying the miletracker page by default. Does anyone know a way to do that? (If not, it would be a good feature for deskport to add: to set which page the system displays on startup).