Aide Onlinometer

Introduction

Before You Start Using Aide Onlinometer

How to Specify Charges for Online Time

The Warn-when-costs-get-to-high Feature

How to Reduce Costs for Online Time

How to Register Aide Onlinometer


How to Reduce Costs for Online Time

If you think that the cost for your online time is too high, you can try to reduce it by following this advice:

•	Choose the best internet provider. It could be worth spending some time comparing the charges of different internet providers. By choosing the best one, you will probably save quite a lot.

•	Call at low tariff. Many phone companies and internet providers have different charges depending on when you call. If you do not necessarily need to call at high tariff, make all your calls when the charges are lower (often at nights and on weekends). As you may have noticed, Aide Onlinometer can calculate how much you will save if you always call at low cost. After having entered the charges for online time on the Options page, click on the Create Report button on the Cost Analysis page.

•	Read your mail offline. Make sure that you are not online when reading your mail and Usenet news. Although this should be obvious, many people read their mail online using integrated web browser packages. There are several good standalone offline mail/news readers, just visit www.download.com or a similar software archive.

•	Use bookmarks frequently. Whenever you visit a new web site that you think you will visit again some time, do not forget to add a bookmark in your web browser. Even though it is possible to find this site again using a web search engine, simply clicking on a bookmark is much faster - and thereby cheaper.

•	Reduce unnecessary surfing. As a last resort, you may have to reduce the time you spend aimlessly just surfing around. Although it is fun, it is often the cause of high costs. By determining what you intend to search for and get on the web before you dial up, unnecessary surfing time is easily reduced.

Do you have a tip that you want to share with others? Mail it to friberg@digicron.com


How to Register Aide Onlinometer

For technical support or comments about this program, you may contact us at:

friberg@digicron.com

http://www.digicron.com/friberg

For orders within Sweden, please click here.

We want Aide Onlinometer to be used by as many internet users as possible around the world. Therefore we try to keep the prices down, hoping to sell more licenses at a low price instead of just a few at a higher price. To support this low price policy, please register your copy of Aide Onlinometer.

Aide Onlinometer only costs $19 per license.

What you get when you register:

•	A registration code to remove the nag screens

•	All future updates for free (and information when they are released)

•	A clean conscience, because Aide Onlinometer is not free software

How to register:

For your convenience we have contracted another company, NorthStar Solutions, to process any orders you may wish to place with your Visa, MasterCard, or Discover card. You may also register with a check or money order. Please be sure to mention you would like to order Product #1635 when placing your order:

INTERNET ORDERS

Visit NorthStar Solutions at http://www.nstarsolutions.com/919.htm and fill out their online order form--fast, easy and secure!

PHONED ORDERS

Calls are taken 10 am - 8 pm, EST, Monday thru Saturday.

1-800-699-6395 (From the U.S. only.)

1-803-699-6395

FAXED ORDERS

Available 24 hours.

1-803-699-5465

E-MAILED ORDERS

CompuServe: starmail

America Online: starmail

Internet: starmail@compuserve.com

MAILED ORDERS

You may register with a check or money order.

Make them payable to "NorthStar Solutions" and send them to:

PO Box 25262, Columbia, SC  29224

Please provide (or be prepared to provide) the following information:

•	The program you are registering Product #1635.

•	Your mailing address.

•	Your Visa, MasterCard, or Discover # and its expiration date (if using credit card).

•	Your E-Mail address (so NorthStar Solutions can send you an E-Mail confirming your order and so we can contact you easily with any important follow-up information, upgrade announcements, etc.).


How to Specify Charges for Online Time

The built in Cost Analysis needs information about charges for online time. Therefore, you will have to specify this as soon as possible (why not right now?).

Explaining how to do this is probably best done with an example. Have a look at this picture:

The settings above mean: The cost for online time Monday through Friday between 08:00 and 18:00 is $0.02/minute with a start cost of $0.03. The rest of the time, the cost is $0.01/minute with the same start cost. There is never a minimum cost per call. This version of Aide Onlinometer also has a setting for Minimum period in minutes. If, for example, your phone company charge you by the number of 150-second-periods, set this option to 150/60=2.5.

When you specify your costs, keep in mind that Aide Onlinometer reads the list of cost entries from top to bottom. If the time specifications overlap, the cost will be taken from the entry that is higher up in the list.

You can have as many entries as you wish, but there must be at least one. The entry with the text “The time not specified above“ in the Days column cannot be deleted. This will ensure that every call is assigned a cost.


Before You Start Using Aide Onlinometer

•	To get the Cost Analysis to work, you will have to specify charges for online time.

•	If Windows was set to log modem calls before you installed Aide Onlinometer, a log file already exists and you can start using Aide Onlinometer immediately. If not, Aide Onlinometer has made this Registry change for you, and you can start using Aide Onlinometer after your next modem call.


Introduction

Aide Onlinometer measures the costs for your online time. After reading the Windows modem log file, it calculates number of calls, average time per call and total cost for any selected period.

Aide Onlinometer provides you with an advanced Cost Analysis, containing a comparison between high and low tariff, and estimated monthly cost based on calls made so far. You can also have a complete Logbook Report, including time and cost for each modem call. If you are worried that costs for your online time get to high, you can have Aide Onlinometer to warn you when they have reached a given amount.

Before You Start Using Aide Onlinometer


The Warn-when-costs-get-to-high Feature

If you are worried that costs for your online time get to high, you can have Aide Onlinometer to warn you when they have reached a given amount. Warnings can be raised both when cost per month and average cost per call get to high.

In this example, Aide Onlinometer will warn you when cost per month has exceeded $30. It will not bother to check average cost per call.

Tip: If you would like to check that your online costs are within limits every time you start up Windows, you can place Aide Onlinometer in the Auto Start Folder. If you start Aide Onlinometer with the parameter /CHECK, only a check will be performed, and you will not see the window unless costs actually have gotten too high.


Beställningar inom Sverige

Vi vill att Aide Onlinometer ska användas av så många internetanvändare som möjligt runt om i världen. Därför försöker vi att hålla priset nere. Vi säljer hellre fler licenser till ett lågt pris än färre till ett högre pris. För att stödja denna lågpris-policy, var god registera ditt exemplar av Aide Onlinometer.

Aide Onlinometer kostar endast 150 kr (inkl. moms) per licens.

I priset ingår fria uppdateringar av programmet.

Var god gör inbetalningen på pg 443 79 82-4. Om du föredrar att betala med kreditkort, klicka här (internationella beställningar).

Vid inbetalning via postgiro, ange namn och adress (samt e-post adress, om du har) på inbetalningskortet.

Du kommer att få en diskett med den senaste versionen av Aide Onlinometer, och en registreringskod för att “låsa upp“ programmet, skickad till dig. Om du redan har den senaste versionen (från vår hemsida http://www.digicron.com/friberg) kan vi för snabbare leverans enbart skicka registreringskoden via e-post. Skriv i så fall “endast kod“ på inbetalningskortet.

Om du har några frågor eller kommentarer, kontakta oss gärna.


For More Information

If you have any suggestions of what you would like to see in future versions, or questions concerning how to use Aide Onlinometer or how to order it, please e-mail friberg@digicron.com

http://www.digicron.com/friberg

or write to:

Equation Grapher

Markus Friberg DATA

Klimatgatan 7

371 51 Karlskrona

SWEDEN