standalone of miletracker is back, can be downloaded here.
 

while it is now in german (brought by german travelagent "destinations touristik"aka "vorne-sitzen", thank you,guys ! ^ ) it is working with the us airline and hotel links.

to get it go :

www.miles-and-points.de

looks like it is endorsed by mike;support still seems to come from moonlightlabs.

That means it's only a matter of time before we get a version we can read...

FYI: Miles & Points will take your old copy of Miletracker.settings and work just fine - in german. I just copied it form my old Miletracker directory into the Milesandpoints directory and all my old accts and passwords came over.

-g

worked painlessly for me --thank you sunseeker and gunn!
nice to have the checker again!

How did you do this?

Thanks

1. Use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate the German into English and read the directions.

2. Register and they email a password.

3. Download software after log in.

4. Then open Windows Explorer and copy the miletracker.settings file from C:\Program Files\DeskPort to C:\Program Files\Miles & Points and replace the file in Miles & Points.

5. All Deskport Miletracker settings are now in the new program and it works fine.


Quick and easy if you are Windows literate, get help otherwise.

I can't use due to firewall
 

The previous 1.9XX version, I can use it behind my company's firewall. However, Mr Mike decided not to include some settings in his 2.0, which won't work behind firewall automatically. Anyone here has a way to tweak it to work behind a firewall. Even his software too won't work in Deskport behind firewall.

Thanks for the instructions. I have downloaded it and it works like a charm!

I am running DeskPort just fine on my laptop which operates on my corporate network behind a firewall and using a proxy server.

CrAAzyPlatinum:

Thanks for the instructions ... it works fine!

Sorry for the paranoia...but are we sure that this new German version is authorized by Moonlight? Does the German version store password info only on the local machine and not transmit any of it? I'm a little leary of using a third party version unless it has expressly been authorized by Moonlight Labs, whom I trust.

You bet user ID and password is transmitted.
 

It is going to be pretty hard to authenticate your account to the various FFP websites without transmitting your user ID and password information. As for as the FFP servers are concerned, Miletracker is communicating to them just like any other browser, and requires the same information to authenticate a new user session.

hmm... the "view" links disappeared. Only Check and Navigate functions remained.

Where is the 'check for upgrades ...' option
 

Looks like this option is gone now.

Thanks for the link.

I guess "Miles & Points" checks for updates when you start the program.
.. at least my installed Zone Alarm asks for permission that "Miles & Points" can access the Internet..

And here is the version:

I am glad to hear Mile Tracker is back! I absolutely hate Desk Port! I found a similar site, with a link to the site https://www.myairmiles.com that is similar to Mile Tracker. The downside is it doesn't track hotel points, only airlines, and a limited number besides. It's easy to use and you can set the frequency of how often you want updates sent to you. I had problems with Alaska and American account numbers/passwords, the system said there was an error. Not sure what the problem was! For what it's worth, this is an okay site. I much prefer Mile Tracker!! Much more comprehensive and includes hotels, car rental, etc.... :)

Very Nice! ... and surprisingly easy to navigate (despite the language barrier!).

Same here. Thanks.

for those of you using deskport -- have you noticed that when you quit out of the program, it remains running on your computer? and if you restart it, it starts a 2nd copy running?

i just looked at the running "processes" on my computer, and saw 6 deskports (i dont reboot too often).

should i be worried?

Quit vs. Quit
 

Well, if you "X" out of the program, it does not "quit"; rather, the program remains running and its content (eg obviously not miletracker) is updated periodically depending on your settings, eg. like TV Guide. As far as why it does not detect when a copy is already running, i suspect that's more poor programming that anything sinister.

Personally, I run Deskport when i want to run miletracker. After I'm done, i RIGHT CLICK on the icon and EXIT out of the program entirely. Given the price (free), the 5 seconds it takes to right click and exit sure isn't a problem for me.

English version sponsored by USA Today Mile Tracker 2.0
 

Folks,

Get your English Mile Tracker stand alone version 2.0 here

http://usatoday.deskport.biz/index.html

Hooray!
 

Thank you! Just downloaded and installed - can't believe it found all my information - I thought I had deleted everything!!! Works fine - I've been using On Center and had gotten used to it - although I didn't really need all the tracking of credit cards and"stuff" - it came in handy - so for now will leave both programs on and running. :)

I downloaded both. Personally I prefer the deskport version to the USAToday version, as the latter fills half the screen with pesky ads or USA today links.

So far no computer performance issues with either one. ^

Thanks for the updates. The new USA Today Miletracker works for me. It is much easier than resetting the computer clock and remembering to reset again when finished. Even with the resets the old Miletracker wouldn't pick up my starwood or upromise accnts. This new version does. I am happy with it!

Does this mean that our original Mike sold it to a German company who in turn sold it to USA Today?

I dunno, but...
 

I removed deskport from my computer and am now relying on the USA Today version. Works ok for me. Great product, free, i ain't complaining.

not complaining.... just curious... how come when I thought I had removed the miletracker software from my computer months ago...this new version ( which is GREAT) was able to pick up all my old stats ( although the numbers of miles and points were listed in quanities from months ago when I thought I had removed the program....)

I believe...
 

that when you go to uninstall the program, it removes the program and associated program files, but does not remove your data file. That's why your old data was able to be picked up.

Because uninstalls usually leaves bits and pieces behind, data files, registry entries, etc. Sometimes it's intentional (so you don't keep installing a 30 day full featured trail over and over again every 30 days so you don't have to pay), sometimes it's not intentional, they just forgot to list some files to be removed in their routine.

It's why so many people believe you should reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your stuff every now and then to keep the system functioning the way you want.

There are also commercial uninstaller programs to help, but they too miss stuff.

glad that usa today did this. I never liked the deskport version. unfortunately i deleted everything a while back and am having to start over

I'm very grateful to USA Today for bringing back MileTracker, but am I the only one having trouble with the program? Specifically:

1. The entire top and the right side of the bottom of the screen is travel news and advertisements. No problem with that, I understand that USA Today is a for-profit organization. But the actual "MileTracker" part of the program is squeezed into a bottom left corner of the screen, and I found that it takes a lot of scrolling and minimizing/maximizing the screen size to input all the data, and then seeing all the results at once is pretty much impossible unless you print out the table.

2. I also don't see any option for checking all accounts with one click, as the old MileTracker did. I seem to have to click on each account separately in order to update it. Am I missing something? With the old MileTracker, it was really convenient to click on "Check All" and update all accounts in an instant.

No problem here
 

1. On my screen, "MileTracker" part takes up 1/2 and is nicely centered. No scrolling is needed.

2. I simply click on the "Update Account Balances" button on the bottom, left hand side, and all accounts are nicely updated.

So, i've not experienced any of your problems...maybe it's your screen resolution settings or a bad download?

Non-mile content only takes up the top quarter of my screen, once I resized it. Top left has "latest travel news". Top right is blank - various blocking programs must be working.

I resized mine to stretch fully top-to-bottom and it just squeeze in all 17 accounts.

As mentioned above, the "Update Account Balances" buttons updates everything, as does clicking on any "Check" (despite the title "Single check", which used to check only the one line).

I'd rather not have the minimal advertising, but it does what I need and I won't feel bad not paying a shareware developer.

How did you resize your screen? Were you able to "grab" the sides with your cursor? I can't do that, for some reason.

Also, I don't see an "Update Account Balances" button anywhere. And clicking on "Single Check" only checks that single account. Guess I'm just one of the lucky ones...

BBRebozo,
I would guess that you have your screen resolution set at 800X600, for Miletracker to display properly your resolution should be set at 1024x768. For Windows: Go Start->settings->control panel->Display->Screen Resolution (and switch the tab). Some computers (older laptops for example may not support the resolution).

Yes, I just grabbed the side, top, and/or corner and resized them like any Windoze app. Resolution might affect how much of the screen it takes up (I'm at 1280x1024), bus shouldn't change your ability to resize.

The "Update Account Balances" should be at the bottom left, regardless of resizing the window - only the internal program-specifiw rows compress and scroll.

Wait a second - you are on the "Check my accounts" tab, correct? In the "Review summary" and "Updates users and accounts" tabs there is no update function.

John,

Changing the screen resolution as you suggested did make the program more accessible. But now everything on my computer is teeny-weeny (which is why I lowered the resolution in the first place). But anyway, that's the problem. Thanks.

CPrich,

Still can't find the "Check All Accounts" button, although I do have a few mysterious "less than" and "greater than" symbols all over the screen. But anyway, I'm done posting my personal problems on this bulletin board; I've written to their help desk to try to get support on this directly. Thanks to you (and everyone) for your help.

Same Screen Issue...
 

That "Check All Accounts" button likes to hide. It is not on the portion of the window that scrolls. It's below that. I found that screen resolution helped on my laptop. On the PC the "Status Bar" on the bottom of the screen caused a problem. (It can be turned off in "View".)

I fully accept the ads, after all we deal with them here. At the same time, the inability to resize the window is really a pain. I don't want to have to resize the screen everytime I use the software. I just won't run it on my laptop. :(

Does anyone know the name of the data file. I would like to find it on the old machine and move to a new one.

Look for "MileTracker.settings" in the appropriate folder under "Program Files". I believe all versions of Miletracker used the same file.

Nope. "Original Mike" (me) still owns all of the rights to MileTracker. No part of it has been sold. The German and USA Today releases were completely unrelated but I can imagine how it might appear as you speculated.