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Neko 1.2.4 (Palm OS)
The basic premise of the game, click on the screen to put a bird/fish/mouse for the kitty to chase is pretty mindless for an adult. On the hand, it has kept my three year old twins entertained for MINUTES at a time at restaurants and other places I want to keep them quiet for a little while. Highly recommended for anybody with small children. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 15 2007 @ 01:45 PM PST
SudokuX 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Can't open disk image under 10.3.9
I tried this program and it worked fine on my work computer running 10.4.8. However, I cannot open the disk image file running 10.3.9, so I can't test (at least until I get back to work to transfer the file manually). [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 26 2007 @ 04:45 PM PDT
SudokuX 1.0 (Mac OS X)
This Sudoku program has a unique "Just One Hint" mode which is really useful for learning how to do harder Sudoku's. The interface takes a little bit of getting used to, but eventually I can do most of the things I want it to do. The price can't be beat. This is worth using for the hint feature alone. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 26 2007 @ 04:43 PM PDT
Wenlin 3.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Scaffolding for Intermediate Chinese Reader 
Wenlin is not so much of a CALL system as it is a bilingual word processor with support for Chinese language learners. The on-line Chinese dictionary is just about the easiest to use of any I have tried. Using the mouse-over translation feature, I am able to read Chinese texts that I find interesting and not just the ones at my reading level. Thus, I find it a very handy tool at about a Chinese II level of instruction. It supports both simplified (PRC) and full form (Taiwan) characters, and it supports the most common encodings (Unicode, UTF-8, GB, Big5). It will also translate between them. The user interface is not MacOS X, it has more of a early smalltalk look and feel. Its not difficult to learn to use, but it could use a few more keyboard shortcuts. (I suppliment it with iKey to get keyboard access to the dictionary search commands.) [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 05:54 PM PST
iTeXMac 1.3.5 (Mac OS X)
Based on a previous comment I verified that plain TeX documents can be typset. The secret is to select TeX>Activate Project>pdftex (This runs off of pdftex/latex instead of the DVI version). [I'm withholding review because as an old Unix hand I find the emacs TeX-mode under X11 to be my ideal environment.] [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 28 2003 @ 01:41 PM PST
Wenlin 3.1 (Mac OS X)
Chinese/English word processor and dictionary system which enables me to read and write Chinese at far above my proficiency level. Despite its unique interface design (it more reminds me of early smalltalk programs than Windows or Motif look and feel) it is quite easy to use, especially the character lookup functions are quite well designed. It has a larger dictionary than any other I own (paper or electronic). For a long time, Wenlin 2 was the only Mac OS 9 app I had that was worth booting classic for. The only addition I would ask for is to allow its dictionary lookup to be used as a service, like Word Lookup. [alert admin]
Friday, April 18 2003 @ 11:01 AM PDT
Simple Video Splicer 1.0 (Mac OS X)
work with MPEG format movies. (This appears to be a limitation of the approach taken). Works great with Quick Time. Nice interface for quickly splicing together movies, however, a few key controls were unlabeled. It could use better documentation, like a simple walkthrough. With better documentation and MPEG support this would be a winner. [alert admin]
Monday, January 20 2003 @ 04:56 PM PST
WordLookup 1.09 (Mac OS X)
kind of thing that the Services features of MacOS X was designed to encourage. An application to make your Windows using friends jealous! Note Chinese dictionary will also do lookups using pinyin (phonetic description in Roman Characters) so it acts like a poor man's Chinese input method (at least until Apple gets its act together about distributing a real Chinese input method). [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 06 2002 @ 09:53 AM PST
Macromedia Shockwave Player 8.5.1 (Mac OS X)
problems with the Macromedia web site downloading the wrong version of the installer if your browser is not IE. (The link above appears to be correct, however, Macromedia's web site "helpfully" directed me to the MacOS 9 installer.) (minus 1 star for lousey web site design.) It appears to properly install the plug-in in the /Library/Internet Plug-ins directory. Works with iCab 2.6.3. [alert admin]
Friday, January 25 2002 @ 09:12 AM PST
Xsee 1.7.0 (Mac OS X)
were very fast, on opening large directories in thumbnail mode, it seemed to hang with spinning beachball (maybe it is not robust to files which were corrupted on incomplete on download). Also, it seemed to show the images much smaller than I remembered (maybe this is a resolution issue, or maybe it is showing the preview rather than the data). Documentation was scanty so I couldn't figure out how to work around my problems. It may be a good start, but it still has a long way to go to match the functionality of Graphic Converter (which is Carbon if not Cocoa). [alert admin]
Monday, December 31 2001 @ 07:52 AM PST
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