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User Name Edwin-schemer
Member Since 2002-09-25
Total number of Feedback Posts: 98
Total number of comments: 55
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Apple Mac OS X 10.5.3 (Mac OS X)
I updated (from the same combo updater) three machines (a 2.16 GHz iMac, both on the internal hard disk, and an external FW "emergency" disk, and a 2.16 GHz Macbook). Permission repair is considerably faster (after it finishes reading the permissions database). The only wrong group was on cups. Otherwise everything looks fine. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 03:53 PM PDT
OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 (Mac OS X)
Beta version of OOo 3.0 Aqua is now available
I have just downloaded the beta version of OOo 3.0 (macnative,i.e., without X11) and am quite impressed (sic)! It is somewhat faster than NeoOffice, and passed all my torture-tests. See: http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html [alert admin]
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Friday, May 09 2008 @ 05:06 PM PDT
Adobe Reader 8.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Why bother with Adobe Reader if Skim is so much better
For all who are unhappy with the Adobe reader: Have you tried Skim? I wouldn't read a PDF-file without it! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
iPlayMusic 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Not really freeware, just a portal to a store with some freebies
This application takes you to their store, where they have a few free videos, but most of the stuff is not free. This should be mentioned in the software description. In addition, it installs a package, and I am not sure that just moving the application to the trash deletes everything it installed. It would be preferabe if one could just copy the app into the Apprlications folder! [alert admin]
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Friday, February 01 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
You Control: Desktops 1.3 b5 (Mac OS X)
Is it worth spending thirty bucks when you have Spaces in 10.5?
I used this software on Intel before 10.5 and it worked nicely, but is there a point spending an extra thirty bucks for it if you are running 10.5 and can use Spaces? It is true that Spaces misses a few of the nice features of Desktops, like being able to have a different wallpaper on each virtual desktop or naming them. On the other hand, Spaces is more stable, has easy shortcuts and interacts nicely with the Apple mouse. Maybe the "You Control" developers should concentrate on enhancing Spaces before Apple adopts their features. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 06 2007 @ 01:26 PM PST
Apple Numbers 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Does not import Open Document Formats (from OpenOffice.org or NeoOffice, and some xls files 
I don't know why Apple needed this, since it is incompattible with the Open Document format, and even fails to import some older .xls file. OpenOffice.org (under X11) or NeoOffice are faster and read all files. [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 20 2007 @ 10:41 PM PDT
PLT Scheme 370 (Mac OS X)
Thanks for the update , but ...
As previously noted, the distribution still creates a folder with the version number, so when moved, e.g., to the ~/Applications subdirectory it still does not overwrite the older version, and thus requires making a new link into the Dock. Otherwise it is probably the best programming environment, which both my 11-year-old grandson and any experienced Lisp/Scheme programmer can enjoy on any platform. [alert admin]
Saturday, August 04 2007 @ 01:57 PM PDT
Skim 0.4.1 (Mac OS X)
Skim is the best PDF software available
I have been using skim for all my pdf-needs (except LaTeX processing with TeXshop), when compared to Adobe Reader, Preview.app, or Xpdf. In addition to being able to attach and save notes, highlights, etc, its search function is quicker, and when you click on a reference in an article, rather than taking you there, it displays the refeeence in a box. I can highly recommend it, particularly for people reading scientific article or books in PDF. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 16 2007 @ 01:01 PM PDT
AOL Radio 1.2b1 (Mac OS X)
Beware: Works only for AOL subscribers!
I wasted a few minutes downloading and installing this. In the system requirements the do not state that an AOL subscription is required. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 01 2007 @ 01:14 PM PDT
LaCie Update Tool 1.4.2 (Mac OS X)
I sent my report to LaCie yesterday and they responded proptly with: Thank you for contacting LaCie Technical Support. LaCie Update Tool ver 1.4.2 has been temporarily removed pending investigation of reports that the Update Tool is not working for some users. We hope to repost once the problem is resolved. Follow the URL below to download the latest DVD update tool: http://www.lacie.com/download/drivers/LaCieDVDUpdateTool.dmg Once all your questions have been answered, please close this ticket. If you need to contact us about this issue again, please refer to this ticket number. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 03 2007 @ 03:04 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Edwin-schemer [ Search for All ]
No Covert Art following this Update
If it was "covert" how could it find it? ;-)
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Saturday, July 12 2008 @ 11:01 AM PDT
Not Apple's best implementation...
If you move an application to a nonstandard place, how do you want the updater to find it. Best advice: if you moc=ve it,make a symlink to the original location!
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Friday, April 04 2008 @ 10:15 AM PDT
Why don't you guys/gals switch to NeoOffice/OpenOffice.org?
If there are so may complaints about MS Office, why not just switch to NeoOffice or OpenOffice.org, which works perfectly?
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Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Actually OpenOffice.org is not really broken apart. There are just different startup scripts for writer, calc, etc. AFAIK Neooffice is just Openoffice with a nicer Java interface in place of the X11 interface
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years...
Have you ever tried the "locate" command in a terminal?
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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 12:03 AM PDT
Since this is essentially a user-friendly front end to a shell script using hdiutil, it should not be hard to do this "by hand" in a terminal. For detailed instructions, open a terminal and type "man hdiutil."
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 04:43 PM PDT
Since this is essentially a user-friendly front end to a shell script using hdiutil, it should not be hard to do this "by hand" in a terminal. For detailed instructions, open a terminal and type "man hdiutil."
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Monday, September 10 2007 @ 04:42 PM PDT
Another trivial typo (in the description): of coarse -> of course
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Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 01:45 PM PDT
No font or other problems.
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Saturday, June 23 2007 @ 10:09 AM PDT
No font or other problems.
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Saturday, June 23 2007 @ 10:09 AM PDT
