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User Name Jeff Mincey
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 524
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DragThing 5.9.3 (Mac OS X)
No new version of DragThing has appeared for nearly a year (at this writing). If anyone has knowledge as to the road map of this software, please enlighten us here. Will we see DragThing on a Snow Leopard platform? [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 02 2009 @ 09:57 AM PDT
Eudora 6.2.4 (Mac OS X)
Since VersionTracker has seen fit to delete the full complement of reviews and commentary about this product I will revisit this page just long enough to express the view that Eudora 6 is obsolete and end-of-life. Anyone who downloads and uses this should be apprised that no further development is being done on this code base. Eudora 8 is an effort by Qualcomm to put a front end on the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, but I wouldn't advise Eudora proponents to take much solace in that inasmuch as this new version itself has (for the Mac OS X platform, at least) been languishing for a long time. Qualcomm, either commit to this project and do it justice or scrap it altogether. Put your code in open source for others to use. Pick one approach or the other. Anything is better than allowing the product to drift in development limbo. [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 29 2009 @ 09:34 AM PDT
Columns 1.3.2U (Mac OS X)
Is this product now deprecated under RapidWeaver 4.x or has there been no further development on this in over two years time? [alert admin]
Sunday, March 22 2009 @ 07:28 AM PDT
Lotus Notes 8.5 (Mac OS X)
Lotus Notes 8.5 spills hundreds of megabytes of files in the root directory of either the boot volume or the volume which is the destination of the Notes install, (and usually these are one and the same). Imagine if all software developers made a practice of doing this. It's outrageous and not done by IBM on the Windows platform. I know OS X has lower market share, but if you bother to develop for this platform, do it right. IBM, clean up this mess you carelessly make in the root level. Leave root alone. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 06 2009 @ 04:21 AM PST
Google Earth 5.0.11337.1968 (Mac OS X)
From the new Google EULA: "To continue using Google Earth, you must accept the new Google privacy policies and allow Google Software Update to run in the background on your computer." This is wholly unacceptable. I can't have all software developers -- whether Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Google, etc., taking it upon themselves to essentially hijack my computer with unauthorized processes running 24/7 simply because I have the gall to want to use one of their applications. No mention is made of how one might go about reversing this or un-installing it. No mention is made of how one might terminate the process or prevent it from auto-running later. No "Read Me" file is included -- at least none that is made available PRIOR to committing to this preposterous license. Google is not "mother." It is for me to determine whether I would wish to have Google perform auto-updates or whether instead I would want to run this manually if at all. Computers belong to their OWNERS -- not to developers. [alert admin]
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Monday, February 02 2009 @ 05:53 PM PST
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
It's not terribly helpful for the product description to advise that we must have the latest version or build of X11 from Apple in order to use OpenOffice 3.0.1. What is the definition of "latest"? I should think they should give a baseline version and build number of X11 and then use the phrasing, "This version or later." It's possible some of us already have a version of X11 which would meet the requirements of this software. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 11:25 AM PST
DragThing 5.9.3 (Mac OS X)
All has been quiet with this utility for some time now; even the blogs on the developer's web site don't discuss it, and I cannot but wonder what the future is for DragThing or whether development has ceased or the author has lost inspiration. Perhaps after a program evolves so much over time there is little more that can be done. Is there a future for DragThing? What lies ahead? [alert admin]
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Monday, January 12 2009 @ 08:02 PM PST
Cabos 0.8.1 (Mac OS X)
Cabos makes for VERY high use of the CPU. Acqlite, in contrast, though it has other problems of its own, uses very little of the CPU. So while using Cabos, be prepared to have your fans kick in and to experience quite a drag on your system for other running apps. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 06:29 PM PST
Acqlite 0.3.5 (Mac OS X)
There appears to be no way to adjust the width of the columns. Mousing over a value in a column does not display the full value either. This is basic stuff. As others have pointed out, filters for specific searches are not remembered from one session to the next. Cabos does not have this problem. Also, filters appear sometimes to be global rather than applicable to specific searches. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 28 2008 @ 06:09 AM PST
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How to Compare at Twice the Price?
I've always been impressed with the development at Panic but I cannot but wonder how this tool compares with RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and others of that niche -- especially when you consider that this product, Coda, is twice the price. I have no opinion on this question inasmuch as I've not yet given Coda a trial run. I look forward to doing so and to learning the experiences and opinions of more experienced Coda users on this question. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 11 2008 @ 03:53 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by Jeff Mincey [ Search for All ]
iWeb does EVERYTHING else better? This is rubbish. iWeb is a fine product for its niche but it does not have nearly the power or flexibility of RapidWeaver. You cherry-pick two functions -- one of which iWeb itself doesn't do either, by your own admission -- and in your mind this means RapidWeaver is not worth spending money on. This "logic" of yours is an example of "blunt-instrument thinking" at its worst.
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Saturday, May 16 2009 @ 07:36 AM PDT
I'm sorry to have revisited this question in so short a time. I see that some months ago I posted essentially the same question. VersionTracker provides no apparent way to delete a post, so there you have it. Still, a year is quite a long time for software to go unattended -- unless it is end-of-life or to be superseded by another product altogether.
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Saturday, May 02 2009 @ 09:59 AM PDT
I appreciate that you are making an effort to compare these two products from your own point of view, but RapidWeaver is so much more powerful and flexible than iWeb that they are not even competing for the same market. iWeb is more suited to the development of personal, individual web sites. RapidWeaver is suitable for this too, but it can be used to develop web sites used by small business, government, or nonprofit organizations.
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Thursday, April 02 2009 @ 04:21 PM PDT
Excuse me, but this is the place to review RapidWeaver -- not Smith Micro. If you have a problem with ANOTHER company, don't blame Realmac Software, the developer of RapidWeaver. Do you have no sense of fair play?
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Thursday, April 02 2009 @ 04:16 PM PDT
If OpenOffice is a throwback to anything, it's to X11 and traditional X11 window managers. It has nothing to do with Windows and never has. Also, the original poster said from the start that OpenOffice doesn't require X11 -- that's his point. Between NeoOffice and OpenOffice, (both of which run native), what are the pros and cons of each?
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Monday, March 30 2009 @ 06:52 PM PDT
OpenOffice 3.x does not require the use of X11. It runs native under OS X and its graphics and window environment.
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Monday, March 30 2009 @ 04:02 PM PDT
Not very good at catching things !
No security software -- no matter how good it is -- will find ALL malware. This doesn't mean one product is no better than another but only that you shouldn't be so quick to judge on the basis of a single miss such as the one you cite in your post. ClamAV will not protect you against all malware either.
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Saturday, March 21 2009 @ 10:20 AM PDT
It's great to call attention to a bug that prevents the user from giving the software a test drive, but it's very bad form to give a bad rating to a product you have not even seen or used. You come off like a petulant child who throws a tantrum. There is no good reason for slamming a product you have not tried or tested.
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Saturday, February 21 2009 @ 03:53 AM PST
If there is any surprise here, it's that someone would expect major new features from a "dot release" -- such as to go from 7.0.1 to 7.0.2. Typically a dot release includes only bug fixes, some optimization, and refinements of existing features. To be disappointed at this reveals a lack of understanding about software versioning and software development.
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Friday, February 06 2009 @ 04:17 AM PST
I wish to amend my previous remarks by correcting myself to some degree. Google does provide additional information here: http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/ However, it does not alter the basic concept which is that the computer is for the use of its owner and it's fine for developers to recommend certain approaches and also to provide auto-update functions as OPTIONS. But it's unacceptable and in fact outrageous for developers to DEMAND this.
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Monday, February 02 2009 @ 05:56 PM PST
