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| Overall Rating: |   (1.0) |
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| Ease of Use: | (1.0) |
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Thanks for the caring review - Version: 3.2, 11/22/2008 07:00AM PST
apfelz
· of course Tab from Address Field to Google works - btw. why not directly use the standard-shortcut for the search or adding bookmarks et cetera? (thats what I call a workflow…)
I know, there a few out there that rather have a time-limited demo and than want to be tortured with Serial Numbers, Hardware-bounded Activations (those with Names with Umlaut and on the Master Card for example now what I am talking about…) and all the other crappy ideas - but there are a lot more out there that do understand why I decided to limit the amount of Projects (5 Projects with unlimited notes, bookmarks, outlines, images etc.) for an unlimited time - I think thats a god compromise to really test if Recherche is something for you and after you've purchased it (maybe) you really own it and you won"t be punished with Serials etc…
So I hope you give it a try and use these reviews to give me feedback on the app itself that can help me making it better :-))
Absolute Shodware - Version: 3.0.1, 11/5/2008 06:33PM PST
jarlaxle.merc
Absolute Shodware
You have got to be kidding me. This app is a bust right out of the gate as even the demo-versioning scheme is ridiculous. WARNING: the demo version is a complete waste of your time. It is not possible to take this app for a full blown test drive, there is no way to see how it actually fits into your current workflow.
Apparently the developer thinks the licensing of software parallels that of commercial media and that somehow, by skipping a fully working, time-limited demo the product should be nominated for a humanitarian award.
“A lot like DRM-free music” [ sic ]
So the app greets you with a message displaying “Demo Information”. Towards the end of the “Demo Information” synopsis there is a short list of the “First Steps” for using Recherche, the first of which is, “1. Create Project”. Easy enough (NOT!). Immediately after creating a new project the user experience is interrupted with a ridiculous “Sorry!” dialog that rambles on about the merits of software being similar to “DRM-free music” and that contrary to the aforementioned first step, which was “1. Create Project”, this dumb thing doesn’t allow you to create new projects. Ok so instead I’ll delete one of the example projects and create my own. Denied! Again with the absurd “Sorry!” dialog. At these point it hasn’t even been possible to use the app and up goes a BIG RED FLAG as to the probable caliber of the rest of this app. A third try at a personal project is successful after deciding to reconfigure one of the existing projects to reflect personal settings, a task that is utterly ridiculous next to what should have been as simple as File > New Project.
Finally up and running, the nonsense continues right away. This is Mac OS X, it allows developers to provide for an incredibly consistent experience across applications, so I can probably hit Command L to focus the Address Field right? Yes. Cool. But what I really want is to type a search query in to the Google field, and seeing as it’s right next to the Address Field, I should be able to just press the Tab key to move my cursor there. Nope. So I click inside the Google field just to see if I can use the Tab key to navigate from it to the next field (or control, which depends on your System Preference settings). No luck there either. Hitting the Tab key to navigate away from the Google search field actually sends the event as the search query, which obviously returns with Google essentially saying WTF?
This confirmed that the whiff of application stench given off during the “Demo Information” absurdities was in fact the reek of rotten to the core usability stink!
Upon reexamining the Recherche application title, while on the surface it appears to read "demo", it is now plain to see that it is meant to be read as "dumbo". In a nutshell, Recherche may very well have set the bar for all other Mac OS X applications in judging their candidacy for a Digital Darwin Award.
As hard as it is to believe, Recherche's features don't even integrate with one another, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Top it off with the developer's complete lack of professionalism, as revealed by the previous post.