User Profile for Betty Woo

User Name Betty Woo

Member Since 2005-09-07

Total number of Feedback Posts: 3

Total number of comments: 1

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Simple Solitarus 1.2 (Mac OS X)

The card faces were too disturbing after a while... .

I played the game for about ten minutes and that was that. The bizarre card faces were too disturbing to look at and were too hard to differentiate easily. I agree with a previous poster - the mouse movement of cards could have been a lot more desensitized and more intuitive. I also wish the card images were a lot sharper and clearer; they seemed 'fuzzy'. Guess the shadowing didn't help. Too bad. This would be a full five stars if it weren't for those glaring minuses. But what do you expect from free, right? :-) [alert admin]

eDonkey 1.1 (Mac OS X)

*Finally* getting uploads and downloads and no 'lowid's :-)

First I couldn't even get it to connect with anything. So I made sure I allowed sharing (System Preferences - Sharing, etc.) -- which may have been overkill since I never had to play with that option in Acquisition or LimeWire... . Then, after playing with the router (a D-Link DI-604) and opening certain ports, I at least got the search function to work - but wasn't able to really download properly or to let others upload. I finally figuered out that my router has a different IP Address than my public IP Address that all those whats-you-IP web sites were telling me (the router address is found by opening the System Preferences - Internet & Network - Network - and it's listed either in the Built-in Ethernet description or if you double-click it to get the full information). I went back to the router's web-based configuration page and made sure the firewall ports were open to *both* IP Addresses (one step for the router's IP and another step for the Public IP). Even though I now have a lot of eDonkey open ports, at least this thing works properly now. Things I like: The search is extensive and it keeps searching for the same file without prompting from you. Things I'm not so happy about: It takes a heck of a long time for most files to download (i.e. under 10 kbs) and I can't preview the files to check if I already have the file under another name. Oh, and the program got completely hung up when I tried to share my large folder of mp3s so I'm left with sharing a much smaller folder I had to create specifically for eDonkey. For hard-to-find files, this has been the best P2P I've had. For more common files, I think I'll stick with LimeWire or Acquisition. Hope that helps somebody. [alert admin]

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Sunday, September 11 2005 @ 01:28 PM PDT

iSwipe 1.7.4 (Mac OS X)

Great in theory... in practice? Eeeeh.

I've been trying the program since it's early days and it has never really worked well for me. Download times have always been a huge issue - right from some of the earliest versions when nothing would download no matter how popular the file might be... . Yeah... I've been waiting for *years* for this to work better :-P And now it's worse since I can't seem to put iSwipe on my work hard drive at all without it trying to reestablish itself on my OS 10.3.9 system hard drive and eating up all the (small) disk space with temporary files that are immediately blown out to the full size of the incoming (eventually and perhaps over a period of days) files. If it's going to do that, then either the files will have to come a lot faster so I can quickly move them off the hard drive or the program will have to leave a really small 'step' on the hard drive while it ssssslllooowwwwllly fills up a file so after I've waited and waited, I can move the downloaded files off the hard drive. This 'download slowly, bloat up quickly' doesn't work for my hard drive or my patience. Which at least is a change over just getting turned off by the lack of downloaded files at all - that's the usual reason I just give up on this and go back to Acquisition or LimeWire. Too bad, too, since, if this program ever gets all the bells and whistles right, I would certainly donate. So close and yet so [insert your choice of 'slow' or 'bloated'] It may also help if the programmer or someone who he trusts would actually drop in every now and again to the iSwipe yahoo group he established so that someone knowledgeable could perhaps answer some of the questions that trickle in from others who obviously want this program to excel. [alert admin]

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Simple Solitarus 1.2 (Mac OS X)

eDonkey 1.1 (Mac OS X)

iSwipe 1.7.4 (Mac OS X)

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