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User Name Eckius
Member Since 2004-12-27
Total number of Feedback Posts: 15
Total number of comments: 2
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SecretBook 4.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I have been using SecretBook daily for over a year now (first version 3, and now version 4), and I find it truly excellent. Very simple to use, yet rather feature rich; affordable; stable as a rock. Highly recommended! [alert admin]
Tuesday, January 06 2009 @ 02:00 PM PST
SecretBook 4.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Most of the time, after having bought an application of a certain kind, I continue to try out other similar applications, in order to see whether one of them after all suits my needs better than the one I already own. With SecretBook, however, which I bought over a year ago, this hasn't been the case, for the simple reason that it has always fully satisfied my needs. Powerful yet very simple to use; affordable yet very reliable; nice clean interface. The only, very minor thing is that the (fixed) font size in the 4.0 version is somewhat small for my aging eyes; but the developer has already promised that this issue (which for the vast majority of potential users might not even exist) will be solved in the near future. Highly recommended! [alert admin]
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Monday, September 15 2008 @ 12:54 PM PDT
Mellel 2.5 (Mac OS X)
Mellel is not perfect: it has flaws and shortcomings, it still lacks some rather essential features, and existing features are not always perfectly implemented. And it certainly isn't the most user friendly of wordprocessors. And yet, especially for writing long and complex documents, Mellel is absolutely invaluable: truly a class of its own. Solid as a rock, superb outlining, excellent crossreferences, very fast and very pleasant to use even with documents counting many hundreds of pages with thousands of footnotes. I have been working now with Mellel for over four years, and could not imagine my academic writing without it. Besides Mellel, I own many other wordprocessors. I use them regularly for less demanding writing tasks, and like quite a lot of them. But if some cruel tyrant forced me to give up all my wordprocessors except one, that one would undoubtedly be Mellel. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 29 2008 @ 03:15 PM PDT
LaunchBar 4.1 beta 3 (Mac OS X)
Excellent piece of software! I have used it for more than a year now, and couldn't do without it anymore. Stable, fast, versatile, and just twenty dollars; what do you want more? [alert admin]
Friday, March 17 2006 @ 01:37 PM PST
Bee Docs' Timeline 1.3 (Mac OS X)
A nice, promising piece of software, but as yet with a very small amount of features. I imagine many users would like to be able to link certain events together; to create any number of strings of events within one and the same document; to hide temporarily certain events without deleting them; to choose the exact (vertical) place of an event, etc. etc. These and other features unfortunately are still lacking. Price definitely too high for what it is now. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 17 2006 @ 01:09 PM PST
KeyCue 2.0 (Mac OS X)
A good idea, but the implementation is far from good. In order to be of real help, an application like this one should be quite responsive: a quick touch of the Command-button should suffice to get immediately to the shortcut panel. But unfortunately this is not the case. Even when the interval between pressing the Command-button and the popping up of the panel is set at its minimum (a quarter of a second), the application remains slow and rather unpredictable, interrupting the workflow rather unpleasantly. Moreover, the trial version (with many ?????? taking the place of the shortcuts) almost seems designed to tease the user, rather then to give him (her) a fair chance to try out the application. Let's hope future versions will bring the indispensable improvements. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 01 2006 @ 04:33 AM PST
ToDo X 2.0 (Mac OS X)
A To Do-manager without the possibility to add dates and times, and without an alarm function, is completely useless. At least for me. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 21 2006 @ 03:33 PM PST
CopyWrite 2.2.3 (Mac OS X)
A very good idea, which still has some way to go 
An interesting application, certainly deserving the vivid attention of all those who want to be able to concentrate on the text itself while writing, and hate every possible source of distraction. Very easy to use, with some very nice features. In some ways, even more attractive than Ulysses, which to many users will seem somewhat too Spartan. Copywrite, for instance, happily offers the possibility to underline text, or to mark it as bold or italics, which Ulysses does not. This makes Copywrite definitely more suited for academic writing than Ulysses, which seems to have been designed especially for creative writing. In order to become really suited for academic use, though, it would be very handy if notes (not in the sense of loose annotations, but in the sense of marginalia destined to be part of the final version), could be tied to an exact place in the text. Moreover, a highlight feature would be very convenient: this would make it possible, for instance, to easily mark portions of text in need of revision. And finally: it would be very nice if one could see and revise two documents (two chapters of the same book, for instance, or a text and its commentary) contemporaneously. It's not all roses there, though: because at the present state of the application, the idea seems somewhat more mature than its technical implementation. Apart from a whole range of small technical imperfections, which don't need to be mentioned here and which will hopely be overcome in future versions, it must be said that the application as such is not very responsive to commands, and becomes unstable as soon as you're beginning to work with long documents. This keeps me from buying it now; but as soon as this problem will be solved, I'll certainly add Copywrite to my collection of writing tools. [alert admin]
Sunday, June 05 2005 @ 02:38 AM PDT
iVerbum 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Interesting, but clearly immature
Interesting application, as far as I know unique in its kind for the Mac. Yet clearly immature, and finished in great haste. Just one example: under "Preferences" the application is called not "iVerbum" but "iThesis"! Search features poor. User instructions on website insufficient. Designers warn that time for support is limited, and that the application will continue to improve "as time and energy permits". Price too high for what it is now. So before buying … [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 01:31 PM PDT
LaunchBar 4.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Among the applications I use most, and love best
Even under Tiger, the ease of use of LaunchBar is unrivalled. Spotlight is nice for searching the content of documents, but not for searching and launching documents as such. LaunchBar presents you any application, any document you need in a split second. Yes, I could do without it; but I would dearly miss it! [alert admin]
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Friday, May 13 2005 @ 12:40 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Eckius [ Search for All ]
I totally agree. I choose Mellel too. It seems MW's days are numbered; their forum attracts no visitors at all …
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Monday, March 14 2005 @ 12:20 PM PST
Cloning is a feature you also find in Devonthink, where a file with these characteristics is called replicant.
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Saturday, January 01 2005 @ 09:41 AM PST
