Pissed off with the same questions all the time

[David Miller]

    I would also love to help out.  I have quite a bit of experience using
REALBasic, a great developing language and integrated developing
environment.  While the coding itself can only be done on a Macintosh, the
applications it compiles can be for the Mac or for Windows (also Mac OS X,
but I doubt anyone really cares about that yet).  While its Windows builds
aren't perfect, they are very very good, especially with the newest version,
3.5 - which I currently don't own.

    Having an application as the database would help those listers on slow
internet connections, as well as provide a better user interface than many
web based apps.  How I imagine it is having all the different hints and tips
divided by car and area and able to be looked through in that way, and also
having a simple search function.  The application itself would not be very
large, it would be the text files that contain all the real information that
would take up the most room.  Having the information contained in secondary
text files from the main program would also make updates to the application
rather quick and painless.  Or of course, the best approach may be a regular
database... of which REALBasic has a few, although they are expensive

The website of REALBasic is http://www.realbasic.com  I have a license for
version 3.0, but would most likely need to upgrade to be able to do windows
applications well.

Don't be turned off by its name, it's actually very powerful.  Please
include me in any discussion about this topic if anyone happens to be
writing down those who are interested's names.

David Miller