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User Name KernelG
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 37
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File List 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Fast. Easy. Simple, and yet it always seems to have a way to do any crazy renaming job I ever need to do. Truly excellent UI makes it fun to use. Ok, I'm gushing too much, but the fact that File List is free makes it an easy choice. This is the kind of app where you just pray that the author will keep up with every OS X (or OS 11) update, so it keeps on working for years and years. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 02 2005 @ 07:18 PM PST
Saft 8.1.7 (Mac OS X)
I've emailed Hao Li but gotten no response so far, so I'll ask here. Is anyone having trouble with Saft 8.1.7 and custom search engines in the Google box? Before the upgrade, everything worked well. But after 8.1.7, anything besides Google (Default) just reloads the current page. I've wiped out all engines and re-populated from scratch. I've also removed and re-installed Saft. No other problems at all, so this is an odd one. OS X 10.4.3, Safari 2.0.2 (416.12), Saft is the only Safari modifier installed (I don't like these kinds of things normally, but I missed Ad-Blocker in Firefox). At least ad blocking still works! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 09 2005 @ 11:22 PM PST
PangeaVR 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Works nicely in Safari, but doesn't seem to work in Firefox unless I missed something. Reminds me, I got Myst IV for Christmas and still haven't played it yet.. gotta go.. :) [alert admin]
Saturday, March 12 2005 @ 06:04 PM PST
Roxio Popcorn 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Popcorn simplifies what used to require DVD2OneX and Toast, for a very nice price. You'll still need DVDBackup or MacTheRipper to pull CSS protected DVDs onto your hard drive first, but these are both free. The quality of Popcorn's compression is extremely good, considering the large amounts of data it is throwing away. I made a backup of Antz, a dual-layer DVD originally over 7.5 GB, and Popcorn compressed it 44% to fit on a DVD-R. The resulting copy looks great, with only a few jaggies showing on the almost-still opening credit text. While it lets you choose to keep the entire disc or just the movie and certain audio tracks, this is the one disappointment: Popcorn decides which is the primary audio track, usually DD 5.1, and offers that one or all. Period. If you prefer DTS, you'll be forced to waste space and keep all audio. If Roxio can improve this one problem area, I think they'll have a 5 star product. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 03:40 AM PST
Synergy 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Synergy is the best at what it does. It has the best looking floater, the cool animation as it draws, and the nice menu bar control buttons. However, an earlier version crashed my Finder repeatedly and caused so much havoc that it had to be trashed. Unfortunately, this new 'fixed' version still crashes, leaving my perfectly stable OS X 10.3.5 system with junk in the menu bar and a floater which won't go away. I'll try again next time. I do like Synergy, and can't wait to use it full time, but I don't want it on my system at this stage. Give it a try, but keep an eye on it. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 08 2004 @ 06:58 PM PDT
disclabel 2.0 (Mac OS X)
New improvements, new problems, old problems 
The black background vs black text/center ring problem has been fixed! But the program crashed hard the first few times I ran it and double-clicked a piece of text to select a word. Even though there are some nice advanced controls like alignment and text box linking, there are still no kerning controls for those oddly spaced fonts, and it is still way too easy to -move- a text box when all you want to do is select it. There is a reason why pro design apps pause for a half-second when you grab an item before it starts following your mouse, and this is it. Performance doesn't seem much better. It's still very jerky on my GHz PowerBook, which handles Photoshop and numerous other design apps simultaneously. The worst part of the upgrade process was the lack of information. I risked it anyway, and don't feel it was worthwhile because I will probably be using the free app which came with my Epson R200--it's quick, easy, and I'll still be doing most design in Photoshop anyway, so the efforts here are irrelevant. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 31 2004 @ 05:53 AM PDT
SwordfishExpress 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Twenty bucks a month. I can only assume that they need to charge that much because of the tie-in with endicia.com. We don't ship regularly enough to pay that much (or any monthly fee, really), but we've been waiting a l-o-n-g time for bug fixes and about half of the new features in version 2. I was also invited to beta test after reporting a bug, agreed enthusiastically, and heard nothing, so I have no idea how well this works. Or not. Sorry, my excitement at seeing the new version just took a serious nosedive. I'd still be happy to pay one time to use the new version without Endicia. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 17 2004 @ 02:41 PM PDT
Eudora 6.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Bye Eudora, You Were So Lovely
I'm saying my goodbyes early, as Eudora asks for my email password for the 6th time in the past hour, simply because it keeps misinterpreting a several-year-old POP3 error from Comcast (AT&T) and there is still no option to keep it from forgetting when this occurs. Eudora sits and does nothing else while requesting the password, not even other scheduled tasks and their resulting routings, scripts, etc. That's an app behaving badly, and a developer plainly ignoring comments from customers on Usenet (even after asking for more info, and receiving it from many others). Now that my subscription window has passed, I can't pay $40 to upgrade when all they seem to care about are useless features like a search bar. I've sworn by Eudora for years, since buying the burgundy and yellow box in the store for $35, and I'll keep using 6.0.2 despite the current annoyances, until a future OS X update breaks it, but I'll put my forty or fifty bones towards a new client next time. Darn it. I can't recommend anyone start using Eudora today. It just doesn't make sense. [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 14 2004 @ 03:24 PM PDT
disclabel 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
I do recommend checking out disclabel. It generally makes disc labelling easy and prints nicely at high resolution to inkjets. I'm looking forward to this app plugging a few annoying holes, though: New text elements start in black, which is useless over a black background image. Same problem with the center ring display. It's very difficult to select a text block without moving it. The app is often sluggish on this 1 GHz PowerBook (1 GB, 10.3.2), which causes the occasional misdirected drag and drop. Organizationally: While trying to learn disclabel the "proper" way, I wasted a lot of time on the second tab when I could have just imported any image directly in the 3rd Edit mode. The whole integration concept could be better handled by simply setting it up in a Preference pane so that it doesn't seem mandatory. Like I said, I do recommend it. The ability to save label designs and simply drag-drop them to template positions is excellent! I'm a graphic designer and I've been using a homemade Quark template, but this is actually kind of refreshing and I prefer the simplicity. I fight with disclabel to get what I want, but so far I do get what I want. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 31 2003 @ 06:28 AM PST
BetterHTMLExport 2.0.10 (Mac OS X)
The only thing I really used .mac for was iPhoto galleries. This almost fills the void, which is a pretty good trick. Adding FTP upload (or partnering with a friendly FTP app like Panic's Transmit) would make it the UltimateHTMLExport. Ding one star for a bug, possibly due to Panther, which causes exports to fail with a "not enough disk space" error, even though I have a minimum 10 GB free on both my boot volume and the destination volume. The included templates don't show the true potential of this gem, and the template web site is a confusing mess of multiple versions and repeat listings. I managed to create my own template, which works beautifully, but that process could be easier as well. Definitely recommended. I've already paid up and hope to see this get even Better. [alert admin]
Sunday, December 21 2003 @ 09:59 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by KernelG [ Search for All ]
Glims 1.0b21 works with Snow Leopard for free
My primary reason for using Saft is ad blocking. Glims doesn't do that yet, unfortunately, and they have been silent when asked about it. But wow, it is slick otherwise. If Glims had ad blocking, I agree it'd be over for Saft.
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Tuesday, October 27 2009 @ 06:28 PM PDT
Leopard compatibility issue, further development
I have to agree with ymalmsten. I'm a long-time user of BBEdit (over 10 years), and paid for the latest upgrade online in September 2006. Unfortunately, the final order page told me the new serial number was "Not Available." So I email BB support and Digital River support. And hear NOTHING. I finally received an email later with the new sn. I don't know if they received my email and acted on it quietly, or…
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Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Thank you, sir!
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Monday, November 14 2005 @ 11:48 PM PST
I just got an email from Hao Li. He says this is a known problem with the new version of Safari and will be fixed. Kudos!
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Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 02:13 AM PST
Just in case, triple-check your bitrate. The setting is KB and not Kb, so divide by 8. Since iPod video is limited to 768Kbps, that would be 96KB/sec max. I only know this because I just started experimenting with H.264 output from Streamclip and wondered why the files were so big and the quality looked so good at such a 'low' rate. LOL.. Like all things Streamclip, it's ultra fast either way. Gotta love it.
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Wednesday, November 02 2005 @ 03:33 AM PST
Tool.
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 06:34 PM PST
There are two versions. The 10 MB download only contains the Popcorn app, and is designed for people who own Toast (and therefore, already have the same disc label software). Supposedly, there is also a 127 MB version with the disc label app, but I didn't see that when I ordered w/my Toast discount. Have you asked Roxio?
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 06:31 PM PST
quote: Welcome to the Eudora Forums. A few notes you should be aware of- 1) These forums are TEMPORARY. They are only up for the 6.2 Beta testing period. After 6.2 is no longer in Beta, the forums will most likely go away. and here i thought qualcomm was finally interested in listening to customers about Eudora, not just one beta cycle. this is why i will be switching to Mail.app when Tiger is released and brings Spotlight…
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Monday, October 18 2004 @ 08:18 PM PDT
- Spotlight (coming in Tiger). - Continued development of core email app, not pointless add-ons as an excuse to charge for upgrades while not fixing bugs.
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Sunday, July 11 2004 @ 10:49 PM PDT
That's nice. Remind me to pay you $240 every year for the privilege (postage is extra) of using your buggy software, when you won't even perform a "minor fix" for a major OS X release installed on every current Mac.
Ok, seriously, have you guys ever thought about PR or customer research at all?
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Tuesday, May 18 2004 @ 08:42 PM PDT
