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Comictastic - 1.0b4

Comic strip viewer

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 1.0b4:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.0b4
Release Date:	2002-10-31
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0b4):	138
Downloads (all versions):	25,339
Price:	$15.00

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Product Description:

Your one-stop comic-viewing solution. Comictastic fetches and displays over 150 comics ( full list) including those all-time favorites, Wee Pals and Funky Winkerbean. It also supports many comics that are good for more than just mocking, including Diesel Sweeties, Doonesbury, FoxTrot, Red Meat, The Norm and more. Featuring astonding technologies like subscriptions and auto-downloading, Comictastic is a well-behaved and convenient part of your morning routine.

Important: You must delete your Comictastic preferences if you have used a previous version of Comictastic. The preferences are located at: [your name]/Library/Preferences/com.spiny.comictastic.plist. This should be the last version for which this will be necessary.

What's new in this version:

Subscriptions settings should persist though versions, after this version.
Auto-downloading of subscribed comics.
Fixed For Better Or For Worse support.
New Comics: Doctor Fun, Red Meat, Rockwood, The PC Weenies, This Modern World.
26 new comics from Creators.com.
Comics from King Features aren't two weeks behind anymore.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0b4:
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Still useful & great - Version: 2.3.2, 4/17/2008 10:11AM PST

macmedix

Comictastic is still my favorite comic scraping software. I use it every morning to read the funnies on my Mac, as I have for several years. Sometimes it is a little tricky to configure it to get the comic I want, but (except for flash) is always does it. I love being able to see my 42 favorite comics without having to wait for & deal with al the blinking spinning ads on the websites. Yes, the developer said he has moved on. But the software still works.

If you don't buy a license, it displays one of several nag comics to ask you to pay. Simply click to the next or any other comic to clear that for awhile.

So everyday, all I have to do is launch Comictastic (automated via Cronnix) and press the down arrow to see each new comic. Those are all cached on my HD, with option of how long to keep, so performance is great, even on a slow internet connection. I haven't found anything that works as well as Comictastic for what it does.