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User Name Dana Nau
Member Since 2001-02-19
Total number of Feedback Posts: 83
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Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0 (Mac OS X)
Things worked OK for me with version 5, but shortly after I installed version 6.0 I started getting error messages (and a refusal to sync) whenever I tried to sync iCal. On the Mark/Space support forum, I saw some messages from a Mark/Space support person suggesting that the problem was because version 6 did some stricter error-checking than version 5 did -- but I don't believe this, because the error messages persisted even after I reverted to version 5. The only way I could get my calendar to sync was by reverting to an older version of my calendar :-( Since Versiontracker's description of 6.0.1b4 doesn't say they've fixed this problem, I'm not going to install it. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 14 2007 @ 04:28 PM PDT
EasyTask Manager 1.7.7 (Mac OS X)
I tried out EasyTask today, but ended up discarding it. Most of its features seemed pretty appealing, but I was disappointed to find that it often ignored the standard Apple keyboard shortcuts (the ones activated by the "full keyboard access" option of Apple's Keyboard and Mouse preferences). Instead, for nearly everything I wanted to do, I had to switch back and forth between the keyboard and the mouse. For many of you, this might not be an issue, but for me it's a show stopper. I work much faster when I can keep my hands on the keyboard. If a subsequent version of EasyTask fixes this problem, I'll probably try it again. [alert admin]
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Monday, January 29 2007 @ 11:05 AM PST
Default Folder X 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Wouldn't want to be without it 
I use Default Folder dozens of times every day, and would have trouble using my computer without it. In addition to clicking on background windows as described by julia2, I especially like being able to use the same hotkey to go to a folder if I'm in a dialog box or open the folder if I'm in the Finder. The developer is great - he has always been quite responsive to my comments and requests. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 14 2005 @ 12:53 PM PDT
Mulberry 4.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I disagree strongly with Hangnail's contention that "Proper IMAP clients don't load all mail locally." That may work if one has a fast IMAP server (like he says he does) and without much mail stored on it. But it doesn't work if one has a slow IMAP server and has a lot of mail (1.25 GB in my case) stored on it.
Two or three years ago, I tried using Mulberry full-time for about 4-5 months, but gave up in frustration: Mulberry was making me wait 15-20 seconds to switch from one mailbox to another, and several minutes every time I did a search. If they ever modify Mulberry to cache mail locally, then I'll try it again, but not until then. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 01 2005 @ 02:07 PM PDT
LaunchBar 4.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I've also used both, and I agree with blckbrry
Until LaunchBar came along, DragThing was my favorite launcher. But once I became familiar with LaunchBar, I started using it and discarded DragThing -- LaunchBar works much better for me because I'm a touch typist and hate to use the mouse. Nowadays, there are three system utilities that I keep running at all times, and can't (or don't want to) do without: LaunchBar, QuicKeys (which I use to get emacs-style keybindings in every program on my entire system!), and Default Folder (for better integration between open/save dialogs and the Finder). That said, there's one change that I'd really like to see in LaunchBar. Since command-D is supposed to be the equivalent of drag-and-drop, I wish it would obey the default drag-and-drop actions that I've set in the Preferences. But for something that minor, I certainly won't subtract any points from my rating :-) [alert admin]
Friday, February 18 2005 @ 04:22 PM PST
Remote Remote 0.7b (Mac OS X)
I think something's wrong with its authentication dialog. It lets me authenticate to the remote machine with my own username, but not with my wife's username. That's a problem since my wife is the remote machine's primary user. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 11 2005 @ 07:16 AM PST
Adobe Reader 7.0.0 (Mac OS X)
In the download image, Adobe really needs to rename the file "Adobe Reader 7.0.app" to something like "Adobe Reader Installer". Thinking that this file was the app itself, I dragged-and-dropped it to my machine and ran it seven times (installing seven duplicate copies of the app) before I figured out what was wrong! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 03:12 PM PST
Combine PDFs 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I've tried Combine PDFs, PDFLab, and PDFJoiner. Of the three, I think Combine PDFs is the weakest. It PDFs are about 50% larger the other two, and they aren't searchable (e.g., Preview's "find" command won't work).
For me, it's essential to have searchable PDFs, and PDFJoiner is the only one of the three that can do that. Thus I'm using PDFJoiner even though its interface is a bit clunky. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 05 2004 @ 11:29 AM PST
PDFLab 1.1 (Mac OS X)
doesn't create searchable PDFs 
I've tried Combine PDFs, PDFLab, and PDFJoiner. PDFLab has the nicest user interface of the three. But for me, it has a big disadvantage: its PDFs are not searchable (i.e., Preview's "find" command won't work). For me, that feature is essential. <br><br> PDFJoiner is the only one of the three that creates searchable PDFs -- thus I'm using PDFJoiner even though its interface is clunky. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 05 2004 @ 11:24 AM PST
PDFJoiner 0.40b (Mac OS X)
Main advantage: creates searchable PDFs
I've tried Combine PDFs, PDF Lab, and PDFJoiner -- and for me, PDFJoiner is the best of the three. Unlike the other two, it creates searchable PDFs (in which Preview's "find" command works). I regard that as essential -- thus I'm keeping PDFJoiner and discarding the other two.
I'm giving it four points rather than five because the user interface makes it a pain to specify what files to concatenate. I can't drag-and-drop files from the finder, and the "add" command always opens in the desktop folder rather than going to the last-previously-used folder. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 05 2004 @ 11:15 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Dana Nau [ Search for All ]
Maybe I'm missing something fundamental here, but I don't see how the above instructions are relevant for most users. I just downloaded 5.7.2 directly and replaced my copy of 5.7.1 with 5.7.2, with no problems whatsoever.
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Saturday, November 05 2005 @ 09:18 AM PST
Not an official release, and nothing special
Apparently your concept of what it means to "add value" is pretty different from mine. I prefer an emacs implementation that doesn't break any of the emacs-standard keybindings and macro files. As I discovered the hard way, Aquamacs breaks both.
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Saturday, July 16 2005 @ 12:14 PM PDT
Sorry - I meant shgd, not Hangnail
n/t
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Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 09:39 PM PDT
Nice but I need to locate units easier
If you feel comfortable using Max OS X's unix command line, there's a build-in command-line program called "units" that does what you want. For info about it, launch Terminal.app and type "man units". I like it better than any of the GUI-oriented unit-conversion programs I've tried.
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Thursday, June 30 2005 @ 11:33 AM PDT
According to http://www.bigreminder.com/admin, Drayson Design is BigReminder's webtools admin. Thus Drayson's comment is a rather obvious shill for his own product.
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Sunday, June 19 2005 @ 05:24 AM PDT
Requires a Substantial Machine (not!)
Same here. I haven't tried 3.2.1 yet, but have used several earlier versions on two PowerBook G4s (1000 MHz and 500 Mhz). I've had no speed problems on either of them.
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Wednesday, April 06 2005 @ 08:15 PM PDT
Thanks for the suggestion, but all the characters in my wife's password are alphabetic.
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Friday, February 11 2005 @ 05:30 PM PST
I'm running 10.3.5, and it works fine for me!
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Sunday, October 10 2004 @ 11:53 AM PDT
Syntax highlighting suggestion
Sorry, that's not feasible because latex is too powerful. Command definitions can be executed conditionally, commands can be redefined, commands can load files that define other commands and load other files, and so forth.
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Tuesday, August 31 2004 @ 10:01 AM PDT
I contacted OmniWeb, and it turns out that the problem was easy to fix. One of the previous versions had a bug that corrupted the fontsize preference - the fix is to reset it by editing the display preferences.
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Thursday, July 22 2004 @ 09:23 AM PDT
