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User Name Jak T Rip
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Tables 1.4.6 (Mac OS X)
I bought tables, because Excel and Numbers are huge programs and I wanted to quickly open excel files and do basic things with it. It does this job. Here is my experience: Pro: - opens most Excel files without problems - opens up fast - most handling is rather intuitive - OSX native app - good price Con: - has a strange own format that creates big files. These files take longer to save than exporting into Excel, but they open up quicker. I'd rather have no format change at command+s. - Does not stick to all OSX hot keys. The most annoying is that command+< does not swap between windows but zooms your window. HEY! I bought tables, because I wanted to be fully in the OSX world!! - _very_ slow scrolling when holding down mouse button on the up/down arrows. Also some other a actions are extremely slow (some are quick, though). Almost impossible to work on bigger files. - is less user friendly than I expected from an OSX app. Sometime this is understandable, because tables needs to mimic how (badly) Excel works, but sometimes I'd expect more clever/slick/direct/customizable ways of improving productivity. For example, most of the every day functions are (like in excel) hidden in the menus. They can not be linked to hot keys and they can not be put into the GUI as a button. In general, the menus feel like Excel and not like OSX. We can do better than that! Conclusion: - Tables is the right way to go for simple every day spreadsheet tasks. - For complex uses, you'll need Numbers and for full compatibility you'll need Excel or maybe OpenOffice. - I think tables is the best choice for me and it is worth the money, but I couldn't say that I love it, because it is still away from the very high standards other OSX apps set. I think that only very few things need to be enhanced in terms of usability/customizability/speed to make tables a true winner. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, March 04 2009 @ 02:31 AM PST
BlueHarvest 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
FINALLY!!!! Please do update your profile text!!! 
The text reads like all the other DS_Store wipers, but actually BlueHarvest is different, because it lets you 1. *prevent* DS_Store files rather than having to choose a folder you want to clean on a manual keypress and 2. it lets you prevent DS_Store (AND other OSX as well as Windows invicibles!!) depending on whether the volume is a network drive (...which is a standard OSX functionality anyway...) or an external drive and (THIS IS WHAT I, and I guess EVERYONE, need) decides on creating DS_Store depending on the FILESYSTEM. I would have liked more flexibility on this, though (configurability WHICH FSes in detail) For me, the latter is THE solution. I don't want no OSX invincibles on any fat-formatted or windows formatted drive, because that's usually the USB flash disks and network drives I use for multiplatforming - why else would I work with a non MacOS formatted drive! So, this is the tool you need, all the rest I've seen is pathetic. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 18 2008 @ 03:50 AM PDT
AviInfo 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Perfect - all info for so many file types. On very few it cannot serve you. For others -> grreeaat! [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
EncodingMaster 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
Does not convert special characters
Oh great, a utf-conversion tool - just what I need! But what does it do? Pretty much the same as my text editor when I tell my text editor to save a utf-16 file to utf-8: NOT MUCH AT ALL. I have some multilanguaged files to convert from UTF-16 to UTF-8. EncodingMaster did not help me - all special chars were garbled, no qualitative conversion was made, just a chop-off of the 2bytes to one byte. Yes, I can save my files in utf-8 via EM and later on fix the files with UnicodeChecker, but that does not make life easy. As well, I converted a file with EM from utf16 to utf8 and the resulting file was BIGGER that the original. Hmm... [alert admin]
Saturday, December 01 2007 @ 07:36 AM PST
UnicodeChecker 1.13 (Mac OS X)
Hmm, yes this is a well-coded piece of OSXware, but I cannot agree with the happyness around. Unicodechecker will only check STRINGS. I.e. it is helpful when you need to look up a value for a certain character or so - that is great but I personally would prefer this functionality more integrated in other programs or OSX itself, not in a seperated GUI. However, what I desperately lack here is a conversion for FILES. UChecker is the most intelligent software I know when it comes to knowing how to convert, but it can't convert... OKee, I'll search on for something that can change UTF-16 -> UTF-8 without garbling the special characters that happen to have a different encoding but do exist for both file types. [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 01 2007 @ 07:13 AM PST
Data Rescue II 1.1.3 (Mac OS X)
I rescued files from an external drive that was trashed by spotlight. (Do get "spotless" if you use bigger external drives) I first bought TechTool, because I thought I would get more functionality then just a file recovery weith that purchase. However, TT file discovery is plain sucks. It has a cumbersome method of retrieving files (no multiselection of files, all files go into a "rescued items" folder and you need to re-sort them after retrieval...) plus it is very buggy. The list of recoverable files gets burgorzed when you open and close folders, making it impossible to reach all files you want once you made the mistake and opened a folder. I successfully recovered 3 files, then TT didnt react anymore. It had taken 12 or 13 hours for TT to create the list of recoverable files, now I was to do it again. NO THANKS! Now I tried DR II, and this one really is wonderful. 1) it is easy to understand. 2) it has not one but 3 different scan methods (donno what the difference is, but the "unknown" folder that DR offers worked perfectly for me.) 3) Although 3 scan methods are used and not one, it took only 4.5 hours to scan a 500GB drive! Less than half the time TT needs for one inferior scan method! DR discovered many more files than TT, including system files. 3) it is robust. DR failed on some of my files and (just as TT) stopped doing anything senseful. But it did never crash. I could always stop the action and select other files to recover. All in all, DR is the way to go for file recovery. If your drive is OK but your directory structure or whatever got corrupted a little, you may also try DiskWarrior (or Drive Genius?) instead of a recovery util. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 01:49 PM PDT
TechTool Pro 4.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Hi, I tried to recover my files and found techtools to be poorly made. For recovery, the complete drive is scanned. In my (German) translation TechTool displays a message like "deleting volume for recovery" - HEY, you want me to get a heart attack!? OK, but the "delete" seems merely a wrong translation. However, after some hours my drive was scanned and I could pick my files to recover. 1) The filebrowser is totally buggy. When you open a folder and close it again, your display will be garbled and show files twice or whatever 2) There is no multiselect function in the filebrowser. The one thing you can do is you can select a whole folder. 3) I selected a folder, selected the output path and it was unable to save due to rights problems. All TechTools told me was "Operation Failed -35". Thank you for the information. 4) When I figured out it was a rights setting I tried again, and yes, it started working. However, it did not save to the destination path I gave TechTools, it saved to a path I used previously with TT. 5) After about 5 recovered files, TT stopped working. No error message, just a stop. No, I don't want to go through the 14-hour-scan again now. I'll try DataRescue instead. --> This is poorly designed software. Good functions, but buggy. [alert admin]
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Friday, October 26 2007 @ 11:48 AM PDT
KoalaCalc 4.3.1 (Mac OS X)
...this calculator is. I used this calculator due to two cool functions: - it can be used by keyboard, not necessarily mouse - it has a "history" of calculations where you can see different steps and what you entered (it would be cool if you could edit individual steps/typos right there in the history) I deployed this calculator again because, THIS CALCULATOR DOES NOT KNOW THE "POINT BEFORE STROKE" RULE, i.e. if you type 2 * 5 + 2 * 10 it will calculate 2 * 5 + 2 = 12 * 10 = 120... If I am just too stupid to use this, I'm sorry. Otherwise don't trust this one!!! [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 09:59 AM PST
XPostFacto 4.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I have posted before that I couldn't get XPostFacto to run. Now I was successful and want to share my experiences, because installing OSX on a very old machine is absolutely not a one-click procedure. At least it wasn't in my case. DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE to skip reading the install docs. If you are like me you usually skip all the bla bla and jump in to work, but that is not a good idea in this case. I own a blue iMac from 2000 (350Mhz G3, updated to 128MB RAM). Here's what lead to success: Step 1) XPostFacto on versiontracker i a dmg file, which is hard to open on OS9. I posted a link as a response to my other comment for a link to XPostFacto.sit - this link is written in the documentation inside the dmg file, which I luckily opened on a different computer with OSX. If you have problems opening the dmg, use my link. Step 2) Before you start, read the documentation of XPostFacto carefully, because depending on your Mac you will need to have other programs installed beforehand. Step 3) In my case the iMac needed a firmware update. But before you do such an update, check your RAM with DIMMFirstAid. It will tell you if the updated firmware will acceppt your RAM or not. If you update and have RAM installed that does not live up to apple's expectations, you'll have a real problem. Installing the new firmware is not as easy as installing a program. Read the instructions! Step 4) Insert your OSX install CD/DVD and start XPostFacto. It will restart and it will try to boot from the OSX installer volume. However, in my case, it didn't succeed. Instead OSX would display a stop-sign. If you, however, restart and press alt, you'll be allowed to choose your start volume. Now OSX will boot and install. Step 5) If you like, you can turn on the L2 cache. (See XPostFacto docs). It is not a necessity, though. As a result, I am personally puzzled about the great performance OSX has even on a 350Mhz G3 with only 128MB of RAM. It is not slow, nor instable. But you should watch your free space and restart when runs out. Especially Mail should not be open while the HD space runs out of space (due to virtual memory swapfiles that get created easily with so few RAM). If you (like my mom) do not use more than Word, Internet, Email, there is no need for a bigger config. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 28 2006 @ 09:54 AM PDT
XPostFacto 4.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I use OS 9.2 I downloaded XPostFacto but it isn't recognized as a disc image. I downloaded dmgfixer.dmg, but I couldn't open it - StuffIt said it was no encrypted file. I updated my StuffIt to the newest version for OS 9.x (v7.0.3. I think it was), but it does not help, still I can neither open dmgfixer.dmg nor xpostfacto.dmg I also tried opening the file on another mac with OSX. It works fine, but in the .dmg there is an osx app file - How would I start that one on OS 9??? All very strange - can anyone help? Why not release a simple .sit version especially for os9??? [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 01:39 AM PDT
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About who will want to keep DVDs on the HD: Well, everyone who wants to keep movies and doesnt want to waste time (for burning DVDs), money (because HDs are much less expensive than DVDs), storage space (no dvd piles in your room), comfort (all your movies always handy, no need to insert a disc) and security (DVDs are no long-term-storage solution, at least not the ones you usually get in stores, and are much more…
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Thursday, October 12 2006 @ 03:31 AM PDT
Ah, I see! In the .dmg there is a link to a .sit-version. However, it is not accessible through versiontracker. So, here is the link: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Archive/XPostFacto4.sit
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Thursday, July 27 2006 @ 01:47 AM PDT
