User Profile for BarrettCPO

TurboCAD 2D/3D 3.0 (Mac OS X)

Frustrating - glad is was a free demo  

I have made a frustrating attempt to use the Tcad 2d and 3d for Mac OS X demos. I had wanted to use the 3d to visualize a possbile new cabinet shelving design, but found the interface completely unintuitve and waste of my time. I have no previous CAD or 3d experience. TCad 2d - We had planned on using this to sketch up 2D files for steel rule die production requests to a service provider. I swear it is also the most unintuitve !#$#@$%$%. I could not even draw out basic square gemometry and move around and interact as I would expect. I would have better luck with AppleWorks draw appication or pen and paper for that matter. Huge disappointment. Maybe proficient CAD users would pick this up quick, but then they'd probably stick with their high end product at the office, eh ? [alert admin]

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Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 07:07 PM PST

Yummy FTP 1.0.6 (Mac OS X)

Great app  

There is a lot of competition out there with FTP clients. I've had my old reliable like Transmit, but it is either my server or it I don't know where it keeps getting kicked off offline; others did the same. It may be in our situation we were trying to upload xx,xxx's of files at once and quickly learned it was more efficient to send up archives and expand at server side. Never had cared for Fetch's interface... Anyway Yummy looks to be a great new FTP app on the block. I've only used it a short time as a trial and just recently purchased a license. The A#1 thing I like about Yummy so far is the rapid support response to my questions ! I can tell they are motivated to support the product and continue to advance it's functionality ! That is a huge deal. Barrett [alert admin]

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Sunday, April 24 2005 @ 10:23 AM PDT

CuteFTP Pro 7.0.1 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Mac guy likes it  

I've gone through like 5 different app titles and or versions attempting to do some larger uploads which are around 50 megs but may contain over 20,000 files. First thing is my old faithful Transmit for OS X let me down as did all the other clients available. CuteFTP on OS X had some problems with failed transfers and crashed on me a few times. Now CuteFTP Pro on Windows as with both platforms has some interface functionality I dont' care for like a Site Manager concept vs simply favorites as in Transmit. The synchro functions are confusing and darn right dangerous if you don't know what you are doing or not used to that functionality. It may be fine; I just don't fully understand it coming from a Mac Finder functionality background. What I really like about it is the the Queue window and how it give such a plethora of info with lots of visual feedback and hey cool color coding. It did not crash on me and managed to upload around 30,000 different files for me in various directories. Once in a while it would show a failure on a fail to STOR or the negotiation for it and mark the file. That is a hugely great thing. This way I just went back and reselected that item and queued for transfer again. I did have it lose touch with the server while away and lost 4 hours. Hopefully there is way to have it reconnect. It has several settings for that I played with, but I'm really green on them. Overall it looks like a really solid and robust app with a much better than usual support staff with the appearance of a mature company behind it as compared to many of the other choices out there that look more like a one person coder and support person. This is all coming from a guy with 15 years on Macs that uses both now. [alert admin]

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Monday, March 21 2005 @ 07:55 AM PST

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