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User Name BusyGuyy
Member Since 2009-01-21
Total number of Feedback Posts: 16
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by BusyGuyy [ Search for All ]
Cepstral Voices 5.1 (Mac OS X)
Note the installer does not have the courtesy to inform us ahead of time that a re-start will be needed. Why, oh why, do 99% of installers not give us the option "ok. I'll do it later." [alert admin]
Saturday, September 19 2009 @ 09:24 AM PDT
iSpeak It 3.5.1 (Mac OS X)
It works fine on my Intel 10.5.8 MacBook Pro but I can't get it to work on my PPC 10.5.8 G5 dual. It must lose stars because of that. I'll drop several in order to create the average I now think it deserves. [alert admin]
Saturday, September 19 2009 @ 09:03 AM PDT
iSpeak It 3.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Now if only there were more options in Preferences. For example, other languages... I think I would like to see it as a preference pane (on/off mostly) and a menu item. Open a document, go to menu, select "read it out" Or, even more ubiquitous, when Pref Pane is on, open document and tool starts to read it without further intervention, after a manually-set time delay. Most Apple voices are pathetic. This technology still has a long way to go which, of course, is not the fault of this developer. I remember once trialling some voices and a core technology from Cepstral (or a name like that) and they were many times superior but...expensive. A great one-trick pony that probably has a distance to go in terms of GUI and features. I support it. [alert admin]
Saturday, September 19 2009 @ 08:52 AM PDT
QuarkXPress 8.1 (Mac OS X)
Go to Quark site. Enter email address and password. Download. What? I now have a Windows updater! Quark, by demanding registration for every hapless ingénue who visits them, already knows I am a Mac user. I feel alienated already by the compulsory registration, now I'm pissed off at being forced to waste time on a Windows download. Oh well. Go to the "Not what you were looking for?" tab. "Downloads. Search for available downloads." Enter "Product: QuarkXPress. OS: Mac OSX. File Type: Updater." Click "Search" Around I go in a useless loop. Now I'm REALLY grumpy! I only find what I need after choosing a top menu item "Downloads" then I can make the right choice. This is exactly the sort of BS that has alienated what appears to be hundreds of thousands of formerly-loyal Quark customers. Amazing. There are some damned annoying bugs in my version 8.0. If they have not disappeared in 8.1 (If I ever get it installed) I will join the deserters. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 09:11 AM PDT
Name Munger 1.7.3 (Mac OS X)
Hard to have confidence in an app when there is an instruction "Use 'most recent settings' box" yet there is no such box. (There is a box "use most recent selections" but that is a different thing.) Would be helpful if this, being a simple utility, would have a preference "quit when done" Other than that...great. However, I do note that Name Mangler does exactly the same jobs in the same efficient way, for free. [alert admin]
Saturday, August 29 2009 @ 11:16 PM PDT
LimeWire 5.2.13 (Mac OS X)
Somehow, the whole Limewire experience is flawed. The user interface is all ass-backwards. I'm not a software engineer so I cannot put into words why I don't like it and how it should be improved, but I don't and it should. The developers should start over. The VersionTracker page should also contain a link to the latest PPC version. Limewire should also not prevent me from changing the name. I prefer all my apps to contain the version number in their names. Limewire does not permit me to change its name to "Limewire 5.2.13" And how strange. When I go to the developer's site to download a copy of the last PPC-compatible verson, 4.18.8 according to them, the installer that arrives on my machine, although it indeed is version 4.18.8, is titled "Limewire 5" It also gets uppity when I try to move it to where I want it to live I also object that the only English version available is American English. There are many other English-speakers who do not like American English. Indeed, about a quarter of the world speaks non-American English! (OK small point, I know.) No offline help. Annoying. But most of all, I am extremely annoyed at being constantly nagged to upgrade to the paid version. This app is gone! Plonk [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 19 2009 @ 07:38 AM PDT
Easy Wi-Fi 3.0.53 (Mac OS X)
...I am not impressed that the app chose to install itself as a startup item without asking me! I don't like apps that take control so this thing is off my machine immediately without me even testing it. Plonk And now what's this VT won't accept my post. Hope it doesn't appear multiple times. Apologies if it does. [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 18 2009 @ 06:10 AM PDT
FarFinder 1.3.7 (Mac OS X)
Un-mac-like. Running the installer is an opaque operation. We are not told what goes where. No installation log, no manual. Where to go to set preferences (Damn. My question mark key has stopped working.) On re-start, various attempts to log on to a variety of places are reported by LittleSnitch. Why would FarFinder want to connect to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and goodness knows where else. I want to uninstall. But...how. Spotlight does not disclose what was put where. This could be a dangerous tool or it just might be a badly-authored tool. Either way, I don't want anything more to do with it but I appear to be locked in now. Shame on the developer. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 15 2009 @ 11:24 AM PDT
Searchlight 2.1 (Mac OS X)
it won't install anyway! [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 15 2009 @ 06:42 AM PDT
Apple Numbers 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Version 2 is here. What is this all about? [alert admin]
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Monday, February 02 2009 @ 09:20 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by BusyGuyy [ Search for All ]
VersionTracker is no place to give people the "benefit" of your "wide" knowledge of security. You went way beyond a product review and, in the process, made it likely fewer people will read your waffle and certain that it will disappear as soon as the next review appears. And please take a refresher course in English, for god's sake. Your writing style, solecisms, catachreses and other errors make your writing difficult to follow.
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Monday, January 26 2009 @ 07:15 PM PST
