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Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
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SketchFighter 4000 Alpha 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Simply brilliant and very original. In a weird way makes polished photorealistic games suddently look old-fashioned! It'll spawn a million imitators. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 07 2007 @ 09:28 PM PST
Xnntp 0.5.6 (Mac OS X)
This falls so far short of what it should be it's hard to know where to begin. First, it's not multi-threaded, so everything that takes more than a second or two brings up the spinning pizza and makes you wait. In practice that's a lot of pizza when downloading a big news server, or even just opening a group. The UI is clunky and awkward, and took a while to figure out. When you add a server, you have to close the prefs then open them again to then get it to show up in the next tab where you can do stuff with it. If a server isn't available, it just hangs with no error message. The basic UI elements don't work properly - text fields stay highlighted when they don't have focus and selecting text within them doesn't work. This is basic stuff that the programmer must be going out of his way to prevent working properly. Even once you get it to open a message, it doesn't understand any of the common encodings used, so you'd need to have a suite of helper apps to view images, etc. There is no reason to bother with this when the free but far, far more capable MT-NewsWatcher is available. [alert admin]
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Thursday, February 22 2007 @ 04:50 PM PST
Guitar Shed 2.9.9.5 (Mac OS X)
Tuner seems more or less useless
I only really downloaded this for the tuner. I might be able to make use of some of the rest of it later, but for now, I have to say the tuner is useless. I'm only using it with the internal microphone on my MacBook, which took a bit of fiddling about in the Midi Setup Utility (then the tuner itself must be quit and restarted, something its help dialog fails to mention). The main "needle" display of the tuner doesn't work - it hovers around at the -50 end of the scale no matter how delicately or roughly you tune. Since this isn't giving you a worthwhile indication of tune, you have to go by either the numbers, which change too rapidly and jumpily to be useful, or by the colour, which is equally erratic. The programmer needs to a) fix the needle display so it works, and b) put in some sort of damping time-constant so that the thing isn't so jittery. Then it might be OK. Also, a better default configuration would be to use the built-in microphone right from the get-go without any further setup needed - this is how most people are likely to use it initially. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 25 2007 @ 10:23 PM PST
Yahoo! Messenger 3.0b1 (Mac OS X)
You'd think Yahoo would have the resources to hire a Mac team that knew what they were doing. This barely works. File transfers work fine for a few times, then just hang, requiring a relaunch. Contextual menus in the main window open information for a completely unrelated user. Basic, basic stuff that is really a no-brainer to program in Cocoa doesn't work. As a programmer I get the impression that the codebase is messy, since simple trivial things are broken or dysfunctional. The interface is nice, much cleaner than the old, but that's so far all it has to recommend it. Seems more alpha quality than beta at this stage. [alert admin]
Saturday, November 11 2006 @ 03:10 AM PST
Check Off 3.6 (Mac OS X)
Excellent - works as advertised (better in fact, since it works on 10.3!), doesn't nag you to pay a silly amount of money for shoddy work, and does what it says on the tin. [alert admin]
Monday, July 31 2006 @ 05:13 PM PDT
EasyTask Manager 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
I won't rate this based on this one incident, since it's not fair. The demo launches but no window appears and no menu items are available. This is on 10.3.9. If a program won't even start properly it's not very confidence inspiring. Minor rant: let's see more higher quality freeware and less overpriced shit. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 31 2006 @ 05:03 PM PDT
SimiliPod 1.4 (Mac OS X)
Unlike others I can see the point of this, in fact I went looking for something like this for a specific project I'm working on. Unfortunately this falls somewhat short of what I had in mind. The basic problem is, that as an iPod owner, this works nothing like an iPod. It lists only your playlists, so while you can view tracks in the playlists, if you're not sure what playlist a particular track might be in, you're stuck. This is made infinitely worse by the fact that there is no top level iPod-like menu that allows you to browse by song, artist, album, etc. This is the basic functionality I was looking for, and it's not there, so for me, it's useless. On top of that the icons are ugly and some of them are completely non-obvious. Also, why are there two (ugly) volume controls? I can't figure out that at all. Only the iPod mini is simulated, oh and the U2 edition, sort of. Something that truly emulated the iPod could be handy, but this deviates enough from the real thing as to just seem half baked. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 01 2005 @ 04:15 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Graham_Cox_727 [ Search for All ]
To exit full screen mode, type command-F. Works fine on all Mac OS X versions including Leopard.
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
The plan is to release as open source in due course. Why not now? because some of the code is not really public-ready, and it's part of a much larger suite of open source software that is not yet finished. We had a deadline to meet for this part, so we exposed parts of the API publicly that we know we can support and won't break in future releases. Those parts that are not public…
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Wednesday, May 23 2007 @ 05:18 PM PDT
Sorry about that, we are a bit ahead of ourselves ;-) Dev release should be up on that site soon, but here's a link to the same code: http://apptree.net/gcgradient.htm
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Sunday, April 22 2007 @ 06:24 AM PDT
I am the developer and I do reply to emails if I receive them. Yes, it works fine on 10.4.
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Monday, July 31 2006 @ 05:05 PM PDT
It works just fine in 10.4 I am the developer - I never received an email about this unless you sent it to my old address (or my .mac one, which I never use).
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Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 11:55 PM PDT
