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User Name Aqueous Silver
Member Since 2000-06-15
Total number of Feedback Posts: 96
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Dead Pixel Identifier 5.7.4 (Mac OS X)
It is tests, not the possessive test's. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 15 2004 @ 12:08 PM PDT
Opera 7.54 (Mac OS X)
djdiesel,
What Web development has to do with knowing the intricacies of a browser that impact the average consumer is beyond me, maybe if you were a Web designer instead. Regardless, some of your points are off consideration.
1. Opera is more bloated than Firefox or Safari, yes, but they have not allowed that to impact the browser’s functionality itself (see point 2). Consumers like these extra features, especially in a product they pay for, so the Opera team adds them. If you want bloated to a poor extent look at Mozilla or Netscape (I personally use Firefox). This is the same reason why places like Quark add odd features of this nature to their program. Though designing Web graphics might be easier in Photoshop and ImageReady, some people are much more familiar with Quark, or want to work with something they created in Quark, so their solution is pretty obvious.
2. I use a dual 533 with 1.5 GBs RAM. A damn good machine, but certainly not the best out there. Opera starts with reasonable speed, and is very fast in rendering. It isn’t quite as fast as Shiira or Camino for me, but it does beat Firefox and Safari. Maybe you should look to your own machine for answers to these problems.
3. I doubt the problem in question with those chat Web apps is HTML.
4. Sometimes there is a difference between professionally developed applications and freeware applications. You have applications that are developed by a professional team, such as Safari, open source programs such as those based off the Mozilla project, and other professional programs that people must buy. Safari is a wonderful option for people to have, and could eventually eclipse everything out there on both Windows and Mac… but for a lot of people that time has not yet come. Firefox and company have their own issues, and the open source community is frequently very slow in fixing them (if at all). Opera includes many unique innovative features which have drawn in their own paying customers; people who have come to enjoy the browser above all others. There is nothing wrong with trying it, and, if it is better than all the others while being worth the price, purchasing it.
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Thursday, August 05 2004 @ 09:22 AM PDT
Strateges 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Needs one player mode… badly. I wanted to relive the good ol’ Stratego days! [alert admin]
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Friday, June 25 2004 @ 10:32 PM PDT
Microsoft Office 2004 11.0 (Mac OS X)
Microsoft isn't always evil, just with Web browsers… 
I’m honestly not sure why so many people here are bashing the accessibility and usability of Microsoft Office. Compared to other word processors and spreadsheet applications Word and Excel are quite usable, and in fact I am very fond of Excel (though I use multiple text editors). Powerpoint is simple enough that computer inept executives can use it, and use it well, so that’s another point in the positive (it does what it is supposed to). Entourage as well is user friendly, in league with Mail at least, though I personally prefer the later. The interfaces of the programs are quite Mac-like now, though if you look into deeper parts of the program you’ll still see some old-school graphics. I haven’t had any crashes since I started using them (I make frequent use of Word and Excel), though it looks like they use more RAM than before (Word likes to suck up between 120 and 160 MBs for a simple document, though Mac OSX manages just fine). Word still likes to nip away at CPU (between 8 and 14%) when idle, probably along with the other Office programs. I’m not sure I’d actually suggest the upgrade from Office X for people that don’t need these programs on a very regular basis, or for business use, but if you don’t have Office and need this sort of application, they are a reasonable investment. Especially at student price. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 27 2004 @ 08:22 PM PDT
TrackYourMac 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
What good does that do? If someone pilfered your Mac the IP address would change… Or rather does it report updated IP addresses? Should clarify. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 21 2004 @ 12:03 PM PDT
Unicoder 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Without a doubt the finest way to encode and hide email addresses placed inside a Web site (when simply using a form that makes it completely inaccessible isn't an option). The Hiveware Enkoder: http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoder/ [alert admin]
Thursday, May 13 2004 @ 09:03 PM PDT
Opera 7.5 (Mac OS X)
Opera has come a long way since the previous Macintosh versions, which I feel were all basically crap. 7.5 renders pages very fast, and very well could be the fastest browser on the Macintosh on this regard. It handles Unicode characters very well. It has wonderful HTML support, but I would say not the best CSS support. It renders the size of drop down menus quite a bit larger than other browsers and it looks odd on site that use them in their navigation bar. It also has some CSS shortcomings that are immediately obvious (both shown at kongming.net). The user interface, I feel, is still cluttered, and the ads only make this ten times worse. They certainly have more a right to charge than the OmniWeb makers have (their browser is still poor, you can just use Safari), but I feel Firefox is still much better in features while Safari offers speed along with a decent featureset and similar stability when rendering pages. I would still easily choose either Firefox or Safari over this browser, and both happen to be ad free. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 12 2004 @ 10:20 AM PDT
HTML Character Converter 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Very wonderful to have software programs like this around. Encoding special characters can be very time consuming, especially while typing. I would like to point out, however, that a very well made freeware application, UnicodeChecker, allows this same service through the Services menu and through its own built in utility to convert whole documents to decimal entities. [alert admin]
Sunday, May 09 2004 @ 03:00 PM PDT
Toast Titanium 6.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I registered at their site and at no point was I asked for a serial number—something that they would have a right to ask for anyway. If you are that worried about spam, set up an account specifically for registration and account information retrieval, and don’t put your personal account online. If you pirated the software and are afraid to enter the SN you got from Surfer’s Serials, that’s what you get for not buying software. You shouldn’t expect a company to smile and give you a thumbs up when you steal their product. The whole process is simple and userfriendly for anyone who owns a legitimate copy of the software. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 23 2004 @ 11:39 PM PDT
Homeland Alert 3.5 (Mac OS X)
Review the product, not the politics.
The program appears to do what it says, which was a bit of a surprise to me after seeing the reviews here. I’m not going to actually try it myself, because it is also something I don’t personally care about one bit. However, I will point out that a lot of you should cut the crap and drop the political nonsense. Some people care about this—let them care. You shouldn’t trash a program just because it has a weird version number. I will, however, take issue with the author for charging money for it. If he/she actually cared about the information he/she would have made it free. Though if, for some reason or another, you want a homeland alert status available on your computer, this might be a good product for you. I’d suggest following the news instead if you really care about that, since it really isn’t vital information. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 17 2004 @ 07:53 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Aqueous Silver [ Search for All ]
Or rather, I would suggest getting used to using CMD+W and CTRL[+SHIFT]+Tab to navigate tabs, you don't even need the button anyway.
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Wednesday, June 09 2004 @ 09:46 AM PDT
Why on earth are you browsing in full screen on a 23 inch monitor?
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Wednesday, June 09 2004 @ 09:44 AM PDT
Good heavens man, why haven't you purchased Synergy yet? Anyone who will go through all that to handle their ratings would find the $5 or so for Synergy to be a very wonderful deal.
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Tuesday, June 01 2004 @ 09:04 PM PDT
Check your preferences to make sure JunkMailer is sending them to the Junk inbox (rather than the trash). If it is supposed to be putting them there, then you probably ran into something I did when I installed Junk Mailer. Those messages are gone if this is the case, and all you can do is clear your preferences and re-install the program. I caused this problem by doing a lot of blundering…
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Sunday, March 07 2004 @ 04:06 AM PST
Nightly-builds are ruining it for me! (0.80+)
The nightly builds, by their own admission, are works in progress. The problems you’ve mentioned have already been fixed. That’s why they posted a stable build (considering it is still in Beta) for you to download. Don’t rate the nightly builds like that, they aren’t supposed to be that stable because sometimes things are in the middle of being done. If you want a stable browser, stick to the stable releases.
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Friday, January 23 2004 @ 03:23 PM PST
From a third party view, you should actually remove your negative feedback. You tried to use a program made for something you didn’t understand, it didn’t work given incorrect input, then you give it a bad rating. I wouldn’t call it ‘defensive posturing’, the guy went out of his way to tell you what you were doing wrong even though you weren’t trying to use the program for what it was meant for…
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Monday, January 19 2004 @ 02:01 AM PST
Is this the same browser as you get with Firebird 0.7?
Firebird is based off the Mozilla engine. The idea behind it is to have the Mozilla browser without all the extra stuff (ChatZilla, etc.) to increase speed. Presently, I believe Firebird is a little behind from Mozilla in actual content updates, but last I checked they were thinking about breaking Mozilla down into Firebird, Thunderbird, and other stand-alone products.
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Friday, January 16 2004 @ 10:39 AM PST
Problem with GSOD once update installed on 1Ghz PB
"for OS X 10.3.2 (use Software Update)" - Should you guys even be installing this?
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Friday, December 19 2003 @ 09:47 PM PST
