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User Name CraigP
Member Since 2003-09-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 63
Total number of comments: 14
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Pixelmator 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Pixelmator was outstanding before this update. I had a few niggles, however, mainly around the ability to move and resize easily. With this 1.2 update, these niggles have now been fixed and I will finally stop using Photoshop. Guys, this is an amazing update for an already outstanding application. If you do any kind of graphical work, and you haven't purchased Pixelmator, you're a fool. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 12 2008 @ 03:41 AM PDT
XBMC 0.4.5 (Mac OS X)
The original xbox is a great little device to act as a media server, and the xbmc software that was developed for it is seriously mature and advanced. Now the xbmc software has been ported to OS X, you can get all the benefit of a first-class media centre, but on your existing hardware! Although this project is very much in its early stages, this is a very promising piece of software. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 03:26 AM PDT
Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 (Mac OS X)
Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari 
The performance issues with Safari in Leopard and Flash video was really starting to get on my wick. There seemed to be some kind of memory leak, and required Safari to be force-quit after some limited time. Thankfully, this seems to have been resolved with this update. On a more general note: I love Flash. Its cross-platform nature, and Adobe's move into HD video, means that more people will be able to get video in the way the publishers intended. Every platform has a level playing field - and for once, content makers have an effective way to distribute their content using a platform that isn't Real or Windows Media. It may still be proprietary, but at least all platforms are covered! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 05 2007 @ 02:00 AM PST
Pixelmator 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Photoshop Lite, but great value 
I'm an occasional Photoshop user. My usage patterns tend to be weeks of non-use, then a few days of frantic abuse. With my new MacBook, I feel unclean running anything in Rosetta, and with the upgrade fees for Photoshop CS 3 (first native Intel version), I had to take stock and a long hard look at whether I really needed Photoshop at all. I have tried GraphicsConverter in the past. I'm sure it is a workhorse, as some have described, but I found it confusing, unintuitive, and overly-complex. Oh, and its as ugly as hell. Pixelmator was a breath of fresh air. Its clean, simple to pick up (for a Photoshop user), and can do pretty much 90% of what I used to use Photoshop for. Its also a first-class Mac application, and runs like lightning on my MacBook. For £40, it was a practical no-brainer for me. My only problem is with that 10% of things I used to do in Photoshop that Pixelmator doesn't support. Small things, like being able to move an object when you size it; having edge boxes to size an object when you're in 'move' mode, etc... I can get around these things, but they do cause me to stumble and have a less than perfect experience. As far as image manipulation apps go, however, you're not going to see anything finer for the price. Pixelmator is exceptional, and exceptional value for money. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 14 2007 @ 06:04 AM PST
BluePhoneElite 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I just wanted to comment on some of the negative feedback I've seen about this product. Personally, I've been a very very happy BPE customer since the first version. Any support requests I have sent had always been promptly responded to (1-2 days), and they are very responsive to comments, feature requests and suggestions for improvements. In terms of support, by experience has been that the BPE guys are always busy, but still efficient in their communications. In terms of the software itself, I do agree to a certain extent that v2 isn't a quantum leap forward. Its basically a re-write of several core components from the original v1 BPE. Of the new features, talk-through is probably the most exciting, and it probably a reason to upgrade in itself. If current users are experiencing some performance and stability issues with BPE v2, they need to understand that this is very early days for a software product that is essentially brand-new (due to its re-write) and, while you have ever right to expect a stable product if it is out of beta and you've paid for it, software development isn't an exact science and there will always be issues. All that any software developer can do is a) make sure their lines of communication to customers reporting issues are good, and b) quickly and efficiently identify, isolate and resolve bugs. My experience has shown that the BPE team are good at (a), and the BPE v1. product has shown that they are entirely capable of making an outstandingly useful and stable product to satisfy (b). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 07 2007 @ 02:36 AM PST
Unison 1.8 (Mac OS X)
I posted a review a few posts back about how I think Unison is probably the best NNTP client in the world, on any platform, but is crippled by its performance (or lack thereof). I'd like to follow this up with a review of Unison 1.8. After only using it again for about 10 minutes, I can already see that my one and only (but crippling) complaint has been fixed. The application now feels nippy handling many millions of threads, downloading binaries is super-quick and I've not had a single crash. I immediately went out and purchased a licence and am now a happy owner. If you need a client to browse and download stuff from newsgroups, Unison is what you need. The price is fair, (now) the performance is good, and it has the features you're likely to need, and is a shining example of the great UI design that exhibits itself on the Mac platform. Thank you Panic. +1 happy customer. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 06 2007 @ 03:22 AM PDT
EyeTV 2.4.1 (Mac OS X)
Why is the download link so slow?... Getting 60KB/s on a 2MB/s line... come on Elgato, you're not hosting software updates at home, are you? [alert admin]
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 12:08 PM PDT
EyeTV 2.4.1 (Mac OS X)
Why is the download link so slow?... Getting 60KB/s on a 2MB/s line... come on Elgato, you're not hosting software updates at home, are you? [alert admin]
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 12:04 PM PDT
Apple iPhoto 7.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Bug with .Mac Web Gallery picture download not available - fixed?
I was experiencing a bug when publishing .Mac Web Galleries from iPhoto. The first publish of a set of photos would be fine and the picture download button would be visible on the web gallery. However, if I was then to add any more pictures to the gallery in iPhoto, when they get published, the download button would be greyed out in the web gallery. After much too-ing a fro-ing with .Mac support (which was mostly unhelpful), it looks like this update has fixed the problem. In 7.0.2, I went into the settings for the problematic gallery, noticed that the option to enable the pictures for download was disabled, checked it, and the gallery started to republish. After this all was well. Thanks for fixing this problem, Apple. But next time, how about a little more feedback from your technical support department, eh? I still haven't heard back from .Mac technical support about this issue. How about owning up to there being a bug, and letting me know its fixed? [alert admin]
Wednesday, August 29 2007 @ 09:19 AM PDT
Unison 1.7.9 (Mac OS X)
I've used Unison on the 15 day trial and have to say that it is by far the best newsgroup reader for people who want to download things from newsgroups. By far. However, when you're dealing with what are typically very many posts (some groups containing nearly a million posts) Unison just grinds to a halt. I realise this is a huge amount of data, but its this lack of performance that is stopping me from buying Unison. The thread caches it creates are also absolutely huge (many GBs on my machine) - again, not sure if there is anything that can be done about this due to how much data is being thrown around. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 21 2007 @ 04:34 AM PDT
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I love this comment. Its rambling, creative, stream-of-consciousness. Love it. Don't bang this guy for his comments. He's entitled to his opinions - however incoherent they may be at times. Personally, I don't agree with him about Leopard - its superior to Tiger in so many ways its silly. But this guy has obviously been around a while and knows his stuff, so we shouldn't just write him off. Dude, you get your quad-core G5…
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Friday, January 18 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari
I had loads of problems with the installer saying that I've got web browsers open - and I absolutely didn't. Problem was, other users on my machine had some open. Look through Activity Monitor to see what's open (make sure you look at 'All processes', not 'My processes'). Failing that, reboot and do the install as the first thing you do.
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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 04:09 AM PST
Seems to improve performance in Leopard/Safari
I may have been a little quick off the mark there, with my comment about it fixing the performance issues. I'm pretty sure its as bad as it was before. Weird. It only seems to happen when I play Flash-based internet video. My entire machine grinds to a halt, Safari uses about half my active memory, and I have to force-quit it. I think I'm off to try Camino since its new release...
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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 04:08 AM PST
Eclipse is completely open - Apple dropped the ball with XCode
Adobe's use of Eclipse as the foundation of their development platform was wise in every respect. The very nature of the Eclipse workbench means that is straightforward for application developers to strip out and write their own 'plugins' for Eclipse to do whatever they want. XCode, on the other hand, is one big monolithic application that has no support for 'plugging in' other editors or tailoring it to support other types of development. Apple would have been…
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Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 02:20 AM PST
I couldn't agree more! There are two things stopping me moving across from Safari to Firefox for all my browsing, and the other is lack of integrated .Mac Bookmark syncing (again, the plugins I've seen that try to do this in Firefox are woefully inadequate compared to the comparable feature in Safari). What I actually think we need is a dedicated Firefox on Mac team, or at least a discussion board. There are so many…
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Friday, November 11 2005 @ 06:47 AM PST
lol, can't even get past the password prompt
I'm having the same problem!! I assume its asking me for my admin password, not some OnyX-specific beta access password?
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Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 04:51 AM PDT
Yes, I do believe Omnigraffle Pro (only the Pro version) supports Visio input and export. Look here: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/ Standard Visio is a proprietry format, but you can save in Visio XML format since Visio 2002 - which is a format that OmniGraffle supports. Yey for the standards!
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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 01:41 AM PDT
Requires a Substantial Machine
No problems with speed on my 12" PowerBook. As is the way with OS X, plenty of RAM is always a good thing. I always work with 768MB as standard.
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Thursday, April 07 2005 @ 01:35 AM PDT
PS2 Copies Fail to Run in the console
You will still need to install a mod chip or use something like Swap Magic. The Playstation 2 knows if you don't put in an original Playstation game, and won't play it. The mod chip or Swap Magic will stop it knowing.
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Monday, January 24 2005 @ 08:35 AM PST
So, surely, the solution here is not to shoot the platform in the back by exporting to this format, but rather to convince the other higher-up that WMV isn't the best way. Every time I encounter WMV I wonder how it has managed to become so proliferate. When you choose what format to produce, the only thing WMV seems to have going for it is that it can only play on Windows... How about MPEG4?…
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Monday, January 24 2005 @ 04:06 AM PST
