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Member Since 2006-04-22
Total number of Feedback Posts: 69
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by Central Scrutinizer--2008 [ Search for All ]
MacATM 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I tried withdrawing cash and got nothing. I even opened my Powermac's case to search inside, still nothing. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 01:31 AM PDT
Drive Genius 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
I've been using Drive Genius for over a year, it's a great utility. Recently I upgraded to Leopard and tried out Drive Genius 2. The GUI is AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. I hope they didn't pay someone to come up with this abomination. The intro screen is worthless eye candy; it wastes acres of screen real estate with empty space, yet still forces the user to click for a second screen of utility icons. Utterly worthless. But the real surprise came when I went to shut off this miserable eye candy in the preferences. That's right, there is no sensible alternative to Drive Genius's asinine utility chooser. It must have taken a genius to come up with something that sucks so bad. I will not be upgrading to version 2 until the GUI is fixed. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 12 2008 @ 08:17 PM PDT
FileSalvage 6.1.5 (Mac OS X)
Mysterious installation process
I downloaded FileSalvage to try it out, but when I launch it, it asks to install "files necessary to run this program." I looked over the manual and couldn't find a listing of these necessary files and their locations. Sorry but I don't trust these utility sort of apps that spread their code all over my system. In my experience this results in background processes hogging CPU time or even mysterious "phone home" network traffic. Maybe FS doesn't do this, but how do I know? I just did a full reinstall to purge my drive of all the leftover turds from Techtool Pro - I'm not going to let another utility drop it's bread crumbs all over my system. "A+" for effort, "D-" for bad documentation. This looks like a wonderful app. Tell me what it installs and I'll try it. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 10:05 AM PDT
WBZ Helper 1.3 (Mac OS X)
What I need is a good UPloader 
I have no clue why anyone would need a separate application to download individual images from Webshots, since every OS X web browser supports drag and drop. If someone can't figure out drag and drop, then they will be even more hopeless when trying to use WBZ Helper. What I would love to see is a good application for uploading images to free image hosting sites like Webshots. Both Webshots and Imageshack offer rudimentary apps for this purpose, but we really need something with more sophistication and polish than the existing apps offer. Last I checked, both apps lacked the ability to organize images into albums for uploading, and they could not be used to organize one's already hosted images. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Wx 5.15 (Mac OS X)
I've tried at least a dozen, and this is my favorite weather app. It has a gorgeous interface and really packs a lot of info into a small area. Alternatively, I can click on the link in my dock and load a custom www.wunderground.com page in Safari, which has, at only a click or two away, more weather and radar info than Wx can shake a stick at. It's not as pretty as Wx, and the information isn't displayed quite as efficiently as in Wx, but it loads just as fast and Safari is rock solid and always updated to work with the latest OS X release. All else being equal, I'd probably opt for Wx, but all else is about $17 in Safari's favor. Wx is a wonderful app, but IMO it's trying to fill a niche that isn't there. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 10:17 PM PST
OmniDiskSweeper 1.6 (Mac OS X)
It's free and does the same thing as OmniDiskSweeper. I've been using WhatSize for years and was shocked to find that the OmniGroup is trying to sucker Mac users into paying for the same functionality. Don't know which came first, but I know which I'm sticking with. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 10:00 PM PST
TubeTV 0.9.2 (Mac OS X)
It's great to be able to save flash video to my Mac, and it's a nice touch that TubeTV can automatically convert the video to mpeg4 after downloading. Unfortunately, I found a few problems with TubeTV. First, the web browser is redundant. Why include it when I can use a real browser without any browsing limitations? And the search field for YouTube is also unnecessary, since I can just go to the YouTube website using my browser and search for videos (and open multiple videos in multiple browser tabs). A far better solution would be either a Safari add-on or standalone app that simply grabs flash videos from Safari and saves them on the local HD. The real flaw with TubeTV is that it cannot "grab" flash video from the browser cache, not from Safari and not even from it's own browser! If I load a flash video in TubeTV's browser, view it, and decide I want to save it, TubeTV must download the entire video again. This is a waste of time and bandwidth, especially for dial-up users. All in all, a nice little app. If it were shareware, I'd consider it's shortcomings a deal-breaker, but as freeware it's a welcome addition to my hard drive. Thanks! [alert admin]
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Friday, November 09 2007 @ 08:43 AM PST
Logitech Control Center 2.1.4 (Mac OS X)
Awful! The worst software I've EVER used!
I tolerate this abomination because I love Logitech's mice and keyboards, but my patience is at the end of its rope. Just a few delightful points about LCC: 1. My trackball mouse randomly loses it's custom settings about once per week. 2. To set the custom settings, I must use Logitech's Device Manager. Device Manager crashes ALL THE TIME. As in, after every second or third customization. When it crashes, I cannot simply go back to System Preferences and launch it, no, I must quit and restart System Preferences, relaunch Device Manager, and get in a few customization settings. Then it crashes, and the ordeal repeats itself. I've added two new HDs to my Mac since I began using LCC, and with each one I did a clean install of OS X, followed ONLY by installing LCC, and in both cases, the problems with Device Manager persisted. I've been using Macs since 1991 and have never before encountered such crapware. 3. I cannot use USB Overdrive if I want to use a Logitech keyboard. I had my trackball acceleration curve set up perfectly for my carpal tunnel syndrome, but then I bought a Logitech Keyboard. Now LCC overrides USB Overdrive settings, but I must use LCC, or my Logitech keyboard is mapped out wrong. LCC needs an option to select only certain Logitech products to control. 4. LCC uses the unsupported hack, Application Enhancer (APE). That's right, a freakin' HACK, they couldn't be bothered to develop a real driver for OS X. Being unsupported, APE may cause system instability or other wierdness. Unsanity says no, it works great, but the folks at slashdot find APE more controversial. Regardless of whether it works well now, it is unsupported by Apple and it is inappropriate for a company like Logitech to resort to such a shortcut. Unless Logitech gets LCC working at a subnormal level (far above it's current functionality), I cannot buy anymore Logitech products. It's too bad, because I've got nothing but praise for my Logitech mice and keyboard - the ergonomics help my CTS and at a great price. Please, Logitech, try hiring at least one full-time OS X driver developer. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 19 2007 @ 08:18 PM PDT
LiveQuartz 1.6.3 (Mac OS X)
This is a nice showcase of Core Image technology, but it needs adjustable histograms to serve as a full time photo editor. The GUI also needs some refinement. As is, LiveQuartz is a curiosity. [alert admin]
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Monday, April 09 2007 @ 12:11 AM PDT
InVisibles 1.5 (Mac OS X)
There are many of free invisibility togglers that just work - InVisibles is not one of them. Ask it to toggle file visibility, and it will begrudingly do so, and then hop up and down in the dock in the protest. Click its dock icon, and InVisibles nags like a spoilt housewife, insisting to be recognized as "mailware." WTF is "mailware"? Who cares? Go download a FREE visibility toggler and you'll never care, either. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 07 2007 @ 09:14 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Central Scrutinizer--2008 [ Search for All ]
Don't blame developer for your ignorance
As was already described, SuperDuper will do what you needed in the trial version. You could also restore your drive using Apple's Disk Utility. In fact everything you did could have been done with Disk Utility. As a general rule, it's best to research tools and methods for backup and restore <i>before</i> you start copying and reformatting drives. If you're relying a shareware sales pitch to educate yourself on managing…
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Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 02:26 PM PDT
SafariPlus and SafariSIA were two indispensable Safari add-ons for my system. Keywurl is a drop-in replacement for SafariSIA, but I've yet to find a SafariPlus replacement. I know it's got to be tough for developers of little shareware apps like this, which do one or two simple tasks but need a major retooling everytime Apple tinkers with Webkit. And really, c'mon Apple, SafariPlus shouldn't even need to exist - just add this functionality to…
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Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 01:48 AM PDT
Well I need incremental backups scheduled for every 3 hours, so your review is useless for me. Even worse, YOU'RE useless - no, worthless - to me. If you had any clue why, then you would be useful. Now you are not.
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Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 12:09 AM PDT
Suspicious review. A bad review is followed by a reply from the developer, and then soon after a gushing bloviation appears that reads like ad copy, without a single critical observation or even suggestion for improving Hear. I bet the price of a Hear registration that the above review is the developer himself, here to stroke his own mojo.
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Monday, June 23 2008 @ 10:16 PM PDT
That links to the v1.5 beta. Is there a stable release available? I'm having the same issue with no download links from osxplanet.com working.
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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 11:00 AM PDT
Let's see, it plays your favorite tunes, synched to a mesmerizing visual, and intersperses advertisements throughout. I can't think of a more efficient way to ruin my favorite songs.
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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 11:55 PM PDT
All OS X systems have at least an administrator password, you twit.
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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 11:48 PM PDT
Pacifist will open a package and let you view the install locations of all files, and then install it or even extract it to a specified directory. It's indispensable for dealing with betas or software from questionable sources.
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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 06:45 PM PST
If you cook enough to need a recipe database
then you shouldn't need pictures with your recipes. It's a valid suggestion to make to the developer, but a two-star rating? That could affect his sales, and then you're less likely to see such a feature implemented.
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Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 10:25 PM PST
I've had similar experiences with Norton on Wintel computers. It seems to attempt to take over the startup items so that it is always running, and by default I think it runs a battery of tests on every bootup. It's a real pain, but since Wintels are so insecure, its a necessary evil.
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Saturday, December 02 2006 @ 02:24 AM PST
