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User Name Hiram
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 175
Total number of comments: 43
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DrawBerry 0.4 (Mac OS X)
This is an excellent, if simple, vector drawing app, and it's free... I don't know why no-one else is praising the developer for it. Let's hope DrawBerry will be developed further. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 18 2008 @ 03:24 PM PDT
Cha-Ching 1.0 (Mac OS X)
What's in a name? This app is 'cha-ching' for the developers, more than anything else. It was in beta for several months, with a very limited set of features, for a reduced price. I bought a license, as did many others, trusting that the 1.0 release would bring the missing (indispensable) features and get rid of some annoying bugs and oversights. The launch of 1.0 was hyped in a way seen rarely before. A special web page was put up, where big new features were to be announced, one a day, during the four day countdown to the 1.0 release. This is when registered users started worrying, because the web page looked very slick, just like the app itself, but the features being announced were not at all impressive. And did not address the needs expressed by users on the Cha-Ching forum in preceding months. So users started to voice their worries on the forum. Then the developers decided that the forum would be closed down upon release of the 1.0 version. And they announced that the 'free updates for life' promise they made earlier was no longer valid. Early adopters would now have to pay for 2.x and other future versions. Many users did not particularly like this change of heart, or the attitude displayed by developers in response to user complaints. Meanwhile, every day new 'underwhelming' features for the imminent 1.0 release were announced, and the final announcement was a joke (Cha-Ching was going to actually make users rich, it claimed). But one of the developers said that the real new features were kept under wraps for the big day. So we all waited. And the 'big day' came, and it turned out 1.0 did have no surprises at all. Nothing new, nothing that wasn't already announced, and the features that were announced were... just lame. Nothing special. So what do we have? - A much hyped 1.0 release with zero new features of any importance - Developers who break promises of free upgrades for life for early adopters - Developers who lie about great new features in 1.0 - An unfinished app, with lots of bling-bling, but far from useful - Glaring bugs and oversights not fixed even though users pointed them out patiently for months There's a word for this kind of thing: it's a rip-off. The developers should be ashamed of themselves, and quickly provide those who paid for a license with a decent app, or give them their money back. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 22 2007 @ 02:34 AM PDT
GrandPerspective 0.99 (Mac OS X)
Does what it should do, in a smart and visually appealing way. Good job! Would be nice to be able to select groups of files, in order to determine their cumulative size. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 12:51 AM PST
Agent Orange 1.4.0 (Mac OS X)
Change the disgusting name, will you? Minus 4 stars for lack of good taste. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 24 2007 @ 07:17 AM PST
LifeSavers 1.0 (Mac OS X)
The disk image won't mount. Not surprising, as it's a mere 32KB in size. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 02 2007 @ 01:27 PM PST
PTHPasteboard 4.0.0 RC1 (Mac OS X)
I'm glad PTHPasteboard is back. And it's better than ever. Good job, developers! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 07 2006 @ 08:19 AM PST
OmniWeb 5.5.1 (Mac OS X)
OmniWeb is the browser of the gods. It has features not seen in any other browser, like site-specific preferences, separate window form editing, and page thumbnails in tabs. It used to be rather slow, but it isn't anymore. It's usually faster than Safari, Camino and FireFox. It used to be rather buggy, but now it's solid as a rock. It used to cost 30 dollars, now it costs only 10 (till the end of the month). It's a thing of beauty. Five stars barely do it justice. Is nothing lacking, then? Is this the best possible browser, that cannot be improved? Of course it can be improved! It could be less of a memory hog. And claim less CPU when idle. But it's improving already, in those areas, with version 5.5.1. And there are two features that I miss. I'd like to have search-as-you-type, not just for links, but for normal text as well. And I'd like to see OmniWeb work with Growl. But those are minor issues. This is the browser of the gods, sold at a discount. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 03 2006 @ 03:59 AM PST
Quicksilver 1.0b51 (Mac OS X)
I downloaded this three times; the disk image inside the .bz2 archive fails to mount. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 29 2006 @ 01:54 AM PDT
Quinn 3.3.4 (Mac OS X)
This is a very good concentration building tool. And it looks very good, a perfect Mac OS X citizen. Game play is reliable and fast on my MacBook. The legal unpleasantness connected to this game shows once more we have to abolish patents on concepts. You can sell code, binaries, but not ideas. If the Tetris Company would release an even slicker Mac OS X falling blocks game, I'd play it. Maybe I would even pay five euros for it. But Quinn is hard to beat, in the way it looks and in the way it works. So there's a pretty picture for you. A company, whose only merit is having bought some patents, waving with pieces of paper and asking for your money on the one hand, and a wonderful game you can play right now without paying a cent on the other. Pick one! [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 27 2006 @ 04:35 AM PDT
Shiira 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Wonderful. Fastest browser on the platform 
Shiira is a very fast, very smart little browser. The fastest on the platform, in my experience. Some features are lacking (like auto-fill forms), but otherwise, there's no reason to look elsewhere. Some of Shiira's specific features are a really handy, like the dated downloads folders. This app is a good example of what WebKit, and the whole development model behind it, makes possible. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 06 2006 @ 03:19 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Hiram [ Search for All ]
I'd like to point out that this is the first and only comment by user pixelant1.
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Saturday, May 05 2007 @ 02:04 PM PDT
This comment would have been true a year ago. OmniWeb 5.5.1 is fast and furious.
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Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 01:26 AM PST
Safari is not faster than OmniWeb, in my experience. There's been some testing, too, showing OmniWeb's the winner in terms of speed: see here.
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Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 02:28 PM PST
Hurray, I suppose. In any case, I second the request for universalification.
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Thursday, November 02 2006 @ 12:43 AM PST
The jaggy edges are, I think, Apple's fault.
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Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 05:33 AM PDT
Riddle solved: using an interval time longer than the total session time causes the Start button to fail.
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Friday, July 28 2006 @ 08:09 AM PDT
I found out what the problem is
Setting a time shorter than 21 minutes causes the Start button to stop functioning. This is a bug, I suppose; sometimes a short session, 10 to 20 minutes, can be worthwhile. (Of less importance, I noticed Meditation Timer is using quite a lot of CPU, up to 5% even when idle, which seems a bit too much for such a simple app.)
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 06:07 AM PDT
I found out what the problem is
Setting a time shorter than 21 minutes causes the Start button to stop functioning. This is a bug, I suppose; sometimes a short session, 10 to 20 minutes, can be worthwhile. (Of less importance, I noticed Meditation Timer is using quite a lot of CPU, up to 5% even when idle, which seems a bit too much for such a simple app.)
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 04:56 AM PDT
I found out what the problem is
Setting a time shorter than 21 minutes causes the Start button to stop functioning. This is a bug, I suppose; sometimes a short session, 10 to 20 minutes, can be worthwhile. (Of less importance, I noticed Meditation Timer is using quite a lot of CPU, up to 5% even when idle, which seems a bit too much for such a simple app.)
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 04:53 AM PDT
Does not work on MacBook (Intel)
Version I tested was 1.0pre8, not the rc5 earlier version.
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Saturday, July 08 2006 @ 03:43 PM PDT
