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User Name HerrFunken
Member Since 2004-05-25
Total number of Feedback Posts: 60
Total number of comments: 18
Last 10 Feedback Posts by HerrFunken [ Search for All ]
Bean 2.1.0 (Mac OS X)
aggressively marketed app- AVOID!!!
It says in the title "are you fed up with firing up MS Word or Open Office?", Yes personally I am, but what really p*sses me off is that now when I double click on a doc file, instead of iWork Pages opening up my files (yes- MY word processor of choice), this Bean nonsense pops up. I can't seem to get rid of it. If I do a 'get info', and change my default (which always defaults to Bean- whether I like it or not), this wretched application opens up- despite having binned it from my applications folder months ago. Spotlight brings up nothing either. Bean is like a horrible virus, and the developers need to know that this kind of behaviour is completely unacceptable. (hmm- similar to the way Microsoft behaves eh?) [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 11 2009 @ 01:15 PM PST
Point N See 1.4 (Mac OS X)
Erm... what is the point in this??
Hold the 'ctrl' button down and scroll with your mouse. OS X will zoom in to as big as you want. move the mouse to the menu and use your menu controls like you normally would. Want to zoom out? Do the same again. Simple. It's all there- built right into Mac OS X!! No need to clutter your screen up with extra junk that basically does the same thing! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 06:32 AM PST
Amadeus Pro 1.3.3 (Mac OS X)
Absolute bargain for the price! 
Amadeus Pro is up there with Bias Peak IMO. At $40 (!) though, Amadeus knocks the spots of Peak! This latest version (of Amadeus Pro) is fabulous. Buy it and love it. Well done Hairersoft! :¬) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 11 2008 @ 04:18 PM PST
Wavepad Audio Editor 3.12 (Mac OS X)
I take back everything I said :( 
Wavepad is PAYWARE not freeware- like advertised here- shame on you Mr developer! Finding this out, I threw it in the trash. Then emptied it. Bye. [alert admin]
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Friday, October 17 2008 @ 04:58 AM PDT
Things 0.9.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Things? Can't work without it!
Things has probably become my most used application- both on my Mac and on my iPod Touch. Okay there are still a couple of bugs- mainly with reordering to-do's on the iPhone version, and the fact that it doesn't always update to the available list immediately, but Things to me, in my work has become indispensable- even almost replacing iCal. If the developers put in Calendar facilities, then it would. I would even go as far to say that Apple should buy Things and bundle this brilliant GTD app with iWork! Highly Recommended. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 13 2008 @ 02:43 AM PDT
Tables 1.4.5 (Mac OS X)
As an alternative for Excel, Tables does a very good, if not excellent job of both producing, importing and exporting spreadsheets and Excel data. Where Tables really falls down is in its rather basic chart implementation. The chart function compared to that of Excel is very rudimentary, with virtually no customisation. If Tables really is to compete with the likes of Excel, and even Numbers for that matter, it really needs to improve, big time in this department. Buy it- and write in to the developer! [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 28 2008 @ 05:42 AM PDT
Wavepad Audio Editor 3.12 (Mac OS X)
And a bargain too. Would have been nicer if the interface was a single window, but being freeware, I'm not complaining. :¬) [alert admin]
Sunday, September 07 2008 @ 04:36 AM PDT
ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 (Mac OS X)
Nothing else out there for Mac OS X, to touch it!
I don't know what this last reviewer is on about? I use ViaCAD almost everyday. Yes it does crash from time to time- about once a month actually- but no where near rendering it 'useless'. If you are looking for a more cost effective alternative to Solidworks, on Mac OS X too, this is the place to start. ViaCAD will even talk with Autocad and Pro Engineer and will now sucessfully output OBJ files, which are useful for more generic modelling apps such as 3DS Max. It is worth also mentioning that ViaCAD uses the same Spatial kernel used in many of those PC-only apps. At $99 you can't really go wrong, but you'll probably want the parametric constraints that VC's big sister Shark FX has got. However, where it stands, ViaCAD V6 is already a powerful engineering quality technical modelling system, and is in my opinion, worth every penny. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 08:05 AM PDT
Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.0 (Mac OS X)
Don't bother any more. Get iWork instead.
FWIW, I only use Office 04 to view files that absolutely refuse to be viewed in anything else. As a Macintosh user, I bought iWork 06 instead (and now have iWork '08). I haven't looked back. Why bother with Office when Apple themselves already make a great office application suite already? I've had no problems either opening up Pages, Keynote and Numbers files in any of the MS Office applications either. So do yourselves a favour and go and buy the suite made by the very makers of your computer- Apple. Enough said? :¬) [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 25 2008 @ 05:19 AM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1 (Mac OS X)
At least Microsoft are trying? Come off it. What a lot of nonsense! Worse still, it seems Microsoft have deliberately left out VBA from the Mac version, it seems to stop the only major non-Mac development sector left; 3D design engineering packages like Siemens NX from coming to the Macintosh (see here; http://www.plmworld.net/home/blog/?p=35). Go figure? I bought Apple iWork which is a far better office suite than Office 2008, having got sick to the back teeth of the overly complicated Microsoft Office 2004 (which I still own, but never use now). Come on you Mac people- support the cause!! Pages is great. It works so much more smoothly than Word In pages too you can export to PDF and even DOC format- which works very well. Keynote is far, far more slick and sophisticated than clunky Powerpoint. Keynote takes advantage of the Mac's dual screen ability so that Keynote will prompt you- like an autoque prompt, so no continual turning around to watch the screen behind you. And then there is the Excel killer- Numbers, which is so much easier, so hence quicker to use than Excel. But best of all, iWorks applications are made by the same people who make your computer- so why purchase anything else? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 25 2008 @ 05:09 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by HerrFunken [ Search for All ]
aggressively marketed app- AVOID!!!
It turns out that if you have also installed CopyPaste Pro (which I had), there is in fact another copy of the Bean application hidden inside resources inside the application shell- very sneaky. Perhaps this wasn't intentional? Whatever. Still not impressed as it has both taken this long to find out and to get to a point where I was about to commit homicide!! (computer OS homicide that is) :(
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Thursday, February 12 2009 @ 03:25 AM PST
Excellent tool for the visually impaired
If you use your mouse scroll wheel while pressing down your control key, Mac OS X will do exactly the same operation- so there is no need for silly apps like this to further clutter your desktop/ menu bar. Want to use your menu bar while zoomed in? No problem. Everything works like normal.
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Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 06:35 AM PST
Very slick application(?- Perhaps not).
You don't need an Evernote button in your browser, if you use Apple's own Safari browser and Apple's own "Services" in the menu bar, you can achieve exactly the same results and much, much more. I sometimes get the feeling as if Evernote is being marketed by stealth across many sites such as VT. "Services" is a brilliant Apple function that has been missing from operating systems such as Windows XP. And here, yet another…
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Sunday, November 16 2008 @ 03:41 AM PST
>>other applications started to freeze Then this indicates the state of your computer and not the fault of the application itself. If a single running application suddenly freezes and then crashes, Mac OS X will never bring the rest of your computer down with it as the application in question will simply quit, leaving other applications alone. So I'm afraid either you don't know what you are doing or you are not giving us 'the greater…
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Sunday, September 07 2008 @ 04:32 AM PDT
How to Install iPhone SDK on PowerPC Macs!!!
Quote; "Windows users are still out of luck when it comes to the official SDK, though developers are currently seeking alternative, Windows-based deployment methods". Sigh- poor Windows users :( Well, I suppose there isn't a better time like now, to buy a Mac, is there? =0)
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Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 12:00 PM PDT
Not true. You can purchase PowerCadd in any country. In the UK you can get it here; http://www.prdsoftware.co.uk/software/pages/contacts.html
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Tuesday, March 18 2008 @ 05:17 PM PDT
Demeter: the unheard of browser that is World Cup Winner
I presume that you are the developer? Do you not think that people will be put off this software by automatically awarding yourself 5 stars? If your creation is really that good, then let other users tell you so!
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Tuesday, February 19 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
A great piece of software! NOT ANYMORE
Well I've been on VT for ages and I also have saft for Safari which has enabled me to do away with that awful Firefox nonsense almost once and for all. I've got no problems with saft at all, or its developer for that matter. In fact I can fully recommend saft for Safari- it does a grand job for this otherwise fairly mediocre browser. So there!
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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 12:20 PM PST
Well I'd say that the man is a fool! lol! Running a copy off Leopard off a FW disc to test it out? LOL I think the problem lies more with that foolish nonsense rather than this application LOL! It's just what we wanted- just make sure you tell MacUser magazine. The transparent menu bar was last week's only 'Zero' in "Zero's and Heros" :D
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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 11:49 AM PST
Don't blame Solidworks, blame AutoDesk!
The DWG/DXF format is renowned for its awkwardness. Don't blame Solidworks for this, blame Autodesk for continually changing the format. Now I would say Format Standard here, but I won't, because as far a Autodesk is concerned, there is no 'standard', which makes it very difficult for companies like Solidworks and Standards such as BIM and PLM to keep a grip on the DWG file system. If you don't like it, stop using industry standard…
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 06:46 AM PDT
