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Last 10 Feedback Posts by Greg Raven [ Search for All ]
Summary 2.6.5 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Summary knows your website better than you do 
If you're serious about what your website is doing, check out Summary. It has great reports, and really helps you see what is going on with your site(s). The basic version allows you to monitor three sites, which is nice, although the configuration process is so modal it can be maddening. Fortunately, once you get it set up, you rarely have to re-configure. Also, while the basic version allows you to watch three websites, it is capable of downloading the log files only for one, so you have to do the other two manually. I bought a copy even though Earthlink provides "free" Urchin web log analysis. [alert admin]
Sunday, November 13 2005 @ 02:47 PM PST
Analog 6.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I've used Analog off and on for years because of the great price (free). It does provide useful reports, although the reports are better if you do DNS lookups, which take Analog forever. That's why you should pre-process your log files with DNSTran, which performs IP address-to-domain name lookups a LOT faster than Analog does, and then gzips them to save space. Analog also provides a single page that contains all the report information, which is nice if you want to publish this information on a website -- there's only one page to upload (you'd have to upload the graphics files only once). However, if you want a much better look at your web site traffic, check out Summary. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 13 2005 @ 02:38 PM PST
DeepVacuum 1.43 (Mac OS X)
I used to use PageSucker, but came across some sites that caused it to crash. Also, PageSucker has a lot of set-up options, which make it difficult to configure properly. DeepVacuum has worked great on every site I've downloaded, and I love the fact that it makes use of one of the built-in Unix utilities in Mac OS X. It seems plenty fast to me, and because it fetches (wgets?) one page at a time, I don't worry that I may be overwhelming the target server as with other programs that open multiple streams simultaneously. The pre-sets are also extremely handy. I tried a bunch of other, supposedly similar programs, and chose DeepVacuum. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 26 2005 @ 02:05 PM PDT
Atmosculator 2.01 (Mac OS X)
This is way more program than I expected. Despite it's modest description, this is something Chuck Yeager could use. We live in the high desert in California, though, so it's neat to be able to see the effects of altitude and temperature on air density, even though I'm using only about 3 percent of the program's abilities. [alert admin]
Monday, October 24 2005 @ 02:53 PM PDT
Google Sitemap Automator 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I've run Google Sitemap Automator on both medium and huge websites, and it worked every time, doing just what it said it would do, just they way it said it would do it. It even seems to generate valid XML code, and Google accepts the files just fine. However, you must be very careful setting up the filters, because if after generating a sitemap for your multi-thousand-page site, you discover you should have set the filters differently, you have to start over from scratch -- there seems to be no way to edit the filter settings after scanning your site. Also, if you set a filter to de-emphasize the contents of a subdirectory, it only works on the files in that subdirectory -- subdirectories within the de-emphasized subdirectory are given your default emphasis. [alert admin]
Monday, September 19 2005 @ 04:51 PM PDT
TextMate 1.1b16 (Mac OS X)
TextMate does have some nice features, but as an HTML editor, it is so far from the functionality of BBEdit as to make just about any comparison absurb on its face. TextMate does colorize tags, etc., and it has a crude parser of sorts (perhaps for the tags, only), which is easily confused by missing line feed characters. With no HTML palette, it's more akin to TextWrangler, which is free and made in the USA. I should mention that I'm not trying to knock TextMate, but some of the reviews for this program make it sound MUCH more mature and useable than it actually is. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 05 2005 @ 05:47 PM PDT
HP DeskJet 3.3 (Mac OS X)
Doesn't work with Deskjet 648C
My Deskjet 648C worked fine under Panther, but barely printed under Tiger (printed pages were unusable). I downloaded this from the HP site and installed it, with no improvement. I now have my printer set up as an ESP printer using the CUPS HP Deskjet driver. At least the print-outs are legible this way. HP must be trying to get me to buy a newer printer. Fat chance! [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 21 2005 @ 11:25 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Greg Raven [ Search for All ]
It does seem expensive for the individual user, as opposed to a corporate client, but it does seem to work, unlike the alternative you offered, which threw up error messages like crazy and failed to import even one message. This program not only imports from the e-mail client, it also imports plain text files, correctly parses them, and adds them to the database with no problem. Furthermore, I'll bet that the SQL engine of this…
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Monday, October 17 2005 @ 04:58 PM PDT
