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User Name Lou Zer
Member Since 2000-12-06
Total number of Feedback Posts: 18
Total number of comments: 22
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fennel DVDManager 1.6.7 (44) (Mac OS X)
For what it is, this product works really well. It searches various on-line listings to prepopulate your entries. It doesn't burden you with too much UI-candy or overblown features. On the "Like to have" list would be small stuff: - add to the genre list - export to text/ipod notes format - edit the underlying link to IMDB/Amazon. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 20 2007 @ 12:17 PM PDT
PowerMail 5.1 (Mac OS X)
They have a huge problem with filters and small (iBook) screens. If you set up a filter with 20 items (the maximum, at least it used to be), you can't see all the options on the bottom of the screen. Basically I can't change the options on what to do with an email when this is the case (maybe they're trying to tell me something?) Also, they still haven't (up to the last time I noticed) fixed a bug I have downloading attachments to mail. Downloading through my DSL, it seems that PowerMail almost locks up (doesn't accept many of the events I'm attempting, clicking on mails etc) when its downloading a large attachment. When dialing in through a modem, everything is fine. I can do other tasks while its downloading. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 15 2004 @ 10:39 AM PST
StuffIt Expander 9.0.1 (Mac OS X)
This entry is misleading, as you cannot get Stuffit Expander by itself. Despite what this page and the download page state, you get the whole "Stuffit Standard" package, which forces an install of everything, even if you only need expander. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 22 2004 @ 07:55 PM PDT
Camino 0.8 (Mac OS X)
Guess I look at it in terms of what's missing from what I use/require. First up, no image blocking that I can find. Second up, no support for Mozilla/Firefox extensions, which means no AdBlock (the best blocker available, beats the heck out of even image blocking), which means having to be bombarded with zillions of stupid Flash ads driving me insane! Not sure what wgscott refers to with regards to downloading, as the only place I see to change that is in the preferences, or by control-clicking the link to do a save as..., both of which Safari has. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 23 2004 @ 10:18 PM PDT
ffmpegX 0.0.9L (Mac OS X)
Not that this is probably the place to put this, but I don't care. What's the deal with the *nix crowd and their program names? ffmpeg? What's that supposed to mean? Can't they come out and name things like, well, readable? You know, use spaces, full words, that kind of thing??? [alert admin]
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Sunday, June 20 2004 @ 08:42 PM PDT
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 (Mac OS X)
still no bookmark groups like mozilla, where just clicking the name opens the group. You have to either control-click the folder, or use the 'open all in tabs' menu at the bottom (bottom???) of the bookmark. This just kills it for me (well, that and the default theme, which I can't seem to update to anything else). [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 15 2004 @ 07:55 AM PDT
PithHelmet 0.7.2 (Mac OS X)
Ad filtering/image filtering is something a lot of browsers have. But pith helmet blocks those freakin' flash ads as well. That alone is worth 5 stars! [alert admin]
Monday, June 07 2004 @ 07:28 AM PDT
PowerMail 5.0b12 (Mac OS X)
Looking at the list of updates, I'm irritated that long file name support is going to require another $40-$50 upgrade. As for useful upgrades, I'd prefer if they could lose the address book correctly and just integrate with the OS X address book. I've had many problems with the 'synchronization' of the address books. I don't use Spamsieve or other spam filtering. I have a single filter that sends HTML to a junk folder, and that takes care of like 99% of my spam. Besides that, I find PowerMail much more flexible and powerful then Mail.app. [alert admin]
Sunday, April 18 2004 @ 10:40 PM PDT
PowerMail 4.2b1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
OK, it looks like they're working on the troublesome filtering/searching problems, but there's one thing I'm still waiting for. Long file names! I'm not asking for much. I'll live with some of the deficiencies. But I'm tired of getting a bunch of files (esp. from PC users) where (a) the file names have been truncated to 31 characters, and (b) due to that, the extension is lost (great idea going to extensions, Apple!). So I have to copy the file, add the appropriate extension (if I can figure out what it was), then open it (I could just rename the file, but then the attachment link would be lost on the email). Even if you guys just truncate the file name, but keep the extension, I could handle that (wouldn't be happy, but I could handle it). [alert admin]
Monday, August 11 2003 @ 09:16 AM PDT
PowerMail 4.1.3 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Haven't had a chance to install 4.1.3 yet, but after reading the bug reports, they still haven't fixed some of the more glaring problems. First and foremost, they still limit attachments to 32 character names, regardless of the fact that OS X has supported 255 for two years now. This is truly irritating. Also, some HTML mail will cause the program to 'hang' (although it will timeout after a while). I think this is due to servers no longer being around when the mail tries to read from them (yes, its mostly a spam problem, but there are times you don't realize its spam until you click on it). But at least you have the ability to turn off HTML mail by default, or only show it if there's no plain text. (And if you click and hold the globe icon at the bottom of the window, you can show HTML in the mail window, rather than in a browser). Filters are nice, but could be more customizable. If there's a filter criteria in a long list of criteria you want to delete, there's no way to easily do it. You have to update it with the last item's criteria, then delete the last item. And, most irritating, you can't search the body of text in a filter. It sure would make spam filtering easier if I could filter for some common text of those, uhum, 'enlargement' products I keep getting. And I'm hoping this release fixes my indexing problems (I haven't been able to search for content for at least 6 months, if not longer, keep getting an error message about some LADY error). But, besides that, its the closest thing to Emailer out there, and, for me at least, it works well and quick. (I just wish I could find something as useful and easy to use on Windows, as I can't find a decent choice there at all). [alert admin]
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Monday, May 26 2003 @ 08:48 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Lou Zer [ Search for All ]
Actually, the appeal of IMAP is the ability to store all your mail on-line, so you can get it from any mail client. The appeal of POP is you download the mail to your computer and remove it from the server (so you can make sure you don't hit your mail server's 10MB limit). I mention this as I think your comment on IMAP is backwards. The more space email accounts get (1GB in your…
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Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 10:06 AM PST
Yeah, really. Why would anyone want to be concerned about running an installer (that asks for your admin password) on your computer. Its a Mac, for goodness sakes. There's no spyware/malware/viruses for the mac, so don't worry about it! In fact, there's no software out there that shouldn't just be blindly installed. Oh, and yes, I'm being sarcastic mr. "Get a clue!"
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Thursday, July 14 2005 @ 11:51 AM PDT
Oh, sure, and when Apple adds it to the OS, everyone gets whipped up into a frenzy that Apple's taking markets from the developers!
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Friday, December 17 2004 @ 08:25 AM PST
Well, then, that sums up that. Guess the penalty for a pretty OS X interface and supposed faster redraw times is less functionality. Guess I won't be wasting much more time with Camino then. Off to Firefox (w/AdBlock and other extensions) and Safari (w/PithHelmet).
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Wednesday, December 08 2004 @ 12:49 PM PST
Good point. I make use of three extensions that I find irreplacable (I know, since when I updated to Firefox v1.0, it took a while for me to find the updates, and Firefox felt severely limiting without them). Once I used it, I have a hard time browsing without AdBlock. It feels so busy without it. In my mind, the developers should be worrying about how to get those ads off the screen, not so…
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Tuesday, December 07 2004 @ 10:34 AM PST
Well, they technically didn't lie to you, as they aren't offering an iPod with color display AND bluetooth capabilities...
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Tuesday, October 26 2004 @ 09:28 PM PDT
Not to moan, but its 'option', not 'alt'.
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Thursday, October 14 2004 @ 10:36 AM PDT
Why wouldn't you refuse it. When you can just download all this stuff for free anyway....
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Wednesday, September 22 2004 @ 07:50 PM PDT
Sorry, but for me, AdBlock for Firefox wins hands down over PithHelmet. PithHelmet's ad-blocking blocks too much good stuff, and let's other stuff right on through. I can tell AdBlock what to throw out, including scripts, based on where its from (or even something as vague as */ads/*). Now if only there were a way to get the tab-key to stop going between all links on a page (the stupidest thing that I've ever seen that…
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Tuesday, September 14 2004 @ 01:38 PM PDT
Eggheads and Dweebs EVERYWHERE! 
I've run several programs from a disk image, with no problems. Why you think that this is some kind of stupid-assed thing is beyond me...
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Saturday, September 11 2004 @ 12:17 PM PDT
