TPA Software News

  WavMan Professional 1.0.43 now available!
  Sunday, January 15, 2012 @ 6:29PM EST by:  Kevin
The minor update to WavMan Professional fixes a few outstanding issues, and adds compatibility for AOL 9.7. Download your copy now at the WavMan Download page.
  WeatherMan Discontinued
  Tuesday, October 18, 2011 @ 9:33PM EDT by:  Kevin
The time has come to sunset and discontinue the WeatherMan application. For years weather.com offered freely their weather XML feed for developers to take advantage of for their 'freeware' desktop applications. I am sorry to say this is no more. In their corporate greed and a desire to make a buck wherever possible, weather.com now requires a monthly fee (approx. $168.00 per MONTH) to offer the same weather data currently available in the WeatherMan application. In today's economy, I do not have that kind of money to blow for a program that brings in no revenue and to which no one has seen fit to donate for. Alternatively, it would be possible to offer WeatherMan as a shareware app. The problem then becomes demand, to which I do not believe there is enough of. If I were to offer the program at $10.00 license fee (for the life of the major version of the program), 17 unique people would need to download and register a month to break even. Again, based on visits to this web site and the WeatherMan page specifically, I do not believe that kind of demand exists.

I am sorry I am no longer able to offer WeatherMan, for free or otherwise. If you would like to register a complaint with weather.com over their greedy business practices, feel free to contact Scott H Zucker at theweatherchannelapi@weather.com. I'm sure he'll ignore you the same way he did me. ;-)
  Help support this site, read my eBooks!
  Saturday, September 3, 2011 @ 6:09PM EDT by:  Kevin
Over the years, I've written a few books, some short, some longer. In order to support this site (to raise some money to keep it going a few more months), I've posted some of my work at Smashwords, where my tales may be read via the Internet, or with your favourite eBook reader.

I need to raise thirty dollars by the end of the month to keep this website up and WavMan available till the end of the year. If you like to read, and enjoy a good tale, then please consider checking out my Smashwords page.

Thanks,

Kevin Provance
  NEW POLL: I would sincerely appreciate your feedback!
  Sunday, March 13, 2011 @ 9:38PM EDT by:  Kevin
The new poll (which used to be a weekly thing) now offers questions that determine the course of what's to come with all things TPA Software. I need to find ways to keep this site going, both monetarily and in terms of new content. Since - through experience - no one wants to make a donation, I thought I would redesign tpasoft.com as a social network. Not as fancy as Facebook (but you could use FB to logon with) but something where each user would have their onw page, friends, content system, and more ideas as I design this thing. So the poll this week reflects how you would feel about such an idea. The truth is, AOL chat rooms could go away at any time, as this would be a great way to keep the waver community alive and well. New features could be added upon user request. It would start off free and I would do my best to keep it free. Perhaps I could try asking for donations again, or offer advertisements (I hate doing it, but the site does not pay for itself, and FB's Zuckerberg discovered) or even offer some extended "premium" feature. I don't know. For now I would like your feedback while I design this thing and if it looks like a good idea, get it off the ground and working. At that point I would put out a call for beta testers, to test the new site, fix it up and then make it live.

So? What do you think? Take the poll and let me know.

A few more facts to help you decide:

* You could use any name you want, it does *not* have to be your screen name. Conversely, you could use your screen name and I could add a feature to display any name you wanted, instead of just the screen name.

*All information you enter is completely secure. It would be stored in a mySQL database that no one can get to through my website. Heck, I own the site and I can't even get to it, and if I could, it would be encrypted. So, that make me feel better anyway.

*Like other social networks, you get a page to post to, share with friends. You can upload a photo or some other image for your avatar. Maybe down the line a FB like chat system could be implimented.

The possibilities are endless. But let's get there first.

Tell me what you think via the poll, or if you have more to say, shoot me an email. PLEASE, no support issues. If you use that email address for anything else other than this topic, then it will be returned unopened! :P

Seriously though, please respect this use of the address for what it's for.

Thanks!

Kevin Provance
  WavMan Professional 1.0.41 now available!
  Tuesday, February 8, 2011 @ 9:12PM EST by:  Kevin
This maintenance released of WavMan Professional fixes a few issues with the moderator tools. Download the update at the WavMan Download Page.
  New Poll: Would you be interested in simple, but clever screensavers from TPA?
  Friday, February 4, 2011 @ 10:13PM EST by:  Kevin
Over the years, I've written some clever little screen savers. Some for myself, others as a challenge, some out of boredom. Now that I have a bit of a collection of them, I thought, why not post some and see how they are received?

Take the poll, tell me what you think and we'll go from there.