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iText Express 2.1 (Mac OS X)
I just checked at MacUpdate.com and there they have version 3.1 http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/21977 [alert admin]
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Tuesday, September 09 2008 @ 10:10 PM PDT
PC PhoneHome 3.0 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
A while back I bought 25 licenses after we had a burglary at work and my laptops were stolen. The first disaster was during the update to Leopard on my Mac - my Mac would hang during booting up. Turned out MacPhoneHome was the culprit. Brigadoon was silent on the problem for an awful long time before releasing a 10.5 compatible version. I now tried to install this new version on my new MacBook Pro but all I get is a "user name or password incorrect" - which they certainly are not. I contacted tech support and am still waiting for an answer that fixes the problem (I suspect the different endianess of Intel vs PowerPC machines is the root of the problem). Haven't tried it on my PC but am now very reluctant to do so. [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 03:44 AM PDT
MacPhoneHome 3.2.1 (Mac OS X)
A while back I bought 25 licenses after we had a burglary at work and my laptops were stolen. The first disaster was during the update to Leopard - my Mac would hang during booting up. Turned out MacPhoneHome was the culprit. Brigadoon was silent on the problem for an awful long time before releasing a 10.5 compatible version. I now tried to install this new version on my new MacBook Pro but all I get is a "user name or password incorrect" - which they certainly are not. I contacted tech support and am still waiting for an answer that fixes the problem (I suspect the different endianess of Intel vs PowerPC machines is the root of the problem) [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 03 2008 @ 03:41 AM PDT
plist Class for REALbasic 2.11.1 (Mac OS X)
(1) Don't use GetReal & SetReal - they are suppossed to replace GetDouble & SetDouble but they don't work (haven't had time to locate the error yet) (2) As soon as I add the plist (but not plist dict) to my app the app looses it's menubar in the IDE. Even when you set the menu bar again, save it and load it - then the app menubar is gone again [alert admin]
Friday, July 11 2008 @ 10:51 AM PDT
Transmission 1.22 (Mac OS X)
for those cases where you only want one of a large number of files. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 03:31 AM PDT
Bean 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
German version available on developers website 
This is an amazing little gem of a program - and when I discovered that there is a german version on the developers website I found the ideal word processor for my aunt. [alert admin]
Saturday, June 14 2008 @ 01:05 AM PDT
RapidWeaver 4.0 (Mac OS X)
I like RapidWeaver and have been using it since 3.2 - but in my opinion it's biggest shortcoming is that there is still no way to set the font size. You can only do bigger or smaller, but not set it to something like 12 point. I often paste in text with the result that while it all "looks" like the same size there are actually slight differences which look horrible on the web - and being able to make text "bigger" or "smaller" is no help. Why can't one just set the text to size 12? Why am I forced to copy the text to another program, change the font size, and then paste it back (and it gets really annoying if you have a lot of pictures as you need to do it piece by piece)? There don't seem to be any real new features, just a cosmetic overhaul which I'm not sure is for the better (but then I might just be used to the old layout) All in all I'm quite disappointed. It certainly didn't deserve to go to version 4, a simple 3.7 would have done. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 30 2008 @ 03:05 AM PDT
Papers 1.7 (Mac OS X)
and I got them. I purchased a license when Papers was still in beta for one simple reason - to support the two programmers who had given us some outstanding free bio software. And I have to say I wasn't disappointed - Papers has become an immensely useful program for me, and I love the fullscreen reading mode. The support has been outstanding - any problem I reported has been dealt with quickly and professionally (I wish others would do that). If I had to niggle then it would be: - sometimes the automatic recognition will misrecognise a paper, which isn't surprising when several DOI are present in the pdf - I'd love to have the ability to use several libraries (one for work, one for private use) as I have hundreds of eBooks (for SciFi fans have a look at www.baen.com) Final word would be: I'm waiting for the day when papers can replace EndNote on my Mac Well done guys [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 16 2008 @ 01:02 AM PDT
REALbasic 2008 r1 (Mac OS X)
There is a lot to like about REALbasic ... 
I think REALbasic is a great implementation of a modern object-oriented programming language. There is a lot to like about it - and I gave it a few 5 star reviews before. But not this time. And not because version 2008R1 would be worse - in all likelihood it is actually better than previous versions. It is because some features simply don't work - and haven't for ages. Example: REALbasic 2007 Release 2 introduced RTF support From the release notes: RTF Support: The EditField now supports saving and loading styled text content in the RTF format. From Wikipedia: The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents. RTF support is added as an extension to the EditField and as such is limited to styles the EditField can handle - that's fair enough. However according to the REALbasic engineers RTF support is only meant to work between REALbasic apps - there is no guarantee that RTF files generated by an REALbasic app can be read properly by Word or that RTF files created by other apps can be read in an REALbasic app. This makes the RTF feature basically useless for data exchange and has been a major point of contention in the user community. However it gets worse: The current RTF implementation has some serious bugs - for example read/write speed is extremely slow on Macs (bug report: http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=uhzdvrvx) From Bob Keeney's Blog: Using Apple’s Shark profiler revealed that 72.9% of the program’s time was spent in StyledTextParagraphCountGetter and 25.0% in StyledTextParagraphGetter. It’s difficult to imagine the code that would produce these results, but between the point that the decision was made to add RTF support and delivering the current release to the public it’s clear the something went terribly wrong. There’s nothing in the RTF format that requires eight times more processing for twice as much data. […] Extrapolating from these numbers it would take more than 10 hours to read a 200KB file on an iMac with a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM. So even if RTFdata is only supposed to work between REALbasic apps the read and write speed makes it useless for any purpose! I certainly can't see how I can possibly use the RTF feature for my cross-platform apps (and I had spend a LOT of time replacing the StyledTextData with the RTFdata in my app just to reverse it all again) I like new features as much as the next guy - but what I like even more is for the features to work. And that bugs like this which make a feature completely unusable isn't fixed four releases later is something I find difficult to understand. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 28 2008 @ 12:19 PM PDT
SeaMonkey 1.1.9 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
Each time an update is installed the program looses it's mail - it is still there on the harddisk but you are being presented with an empty account and asked to enter your provider details - ridiculous! You have to find the invisible folder and copy the mail by hand to rectify the situation. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 04:00 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by MarkusWinter [ Search for All ]
I think the main reason for my foul mood is that there is simply no way to test the app with the demo - the demo is utterly useless as most functions are disabled so all you can do is look at the interface. So I felt pretty much forced into paying for something that I couldn't even test - will certainly not do that again. I will take up the offer for a refund and…
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Monday, November 26 2007 @ 12:27 PM PST
20 in iMac (white) 2.16 GHz Core2Duo
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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 12:04 PM PST
Your company does not exist, your website is non-existent either.
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Wednesday, November 14 2007 @ 02:37 AM PST
Your company does not exist
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Wednesday, November 14 2007 @ 12:24 AM PST
Interface Builder has undergone its first major update in over a decade
That's what the Xcode 3 release notes say
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 09:50 AM PST
nor on some G4. Why o why would you embarrass yourself like this????
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 09:21 AM PST
P.S. Xcode 3 doesn't even run on
Panther or Tiger like REALbasic does as it requires Leopard, and it officially requires a 867 MHz G4 whereas REALbasic will happily run on a 400 MHz G4 and a 500 MHz G3 (haven't tried anything lower lately as I don't have hardware that old anymore)
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 09:11 AM PST
then don't make it so obvious
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 08:35 AM PST
then at least don't make it so obvious.
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 08:33 AM PST
I'm a Mac man myself (and helped migrate dozens of people) but as a lot of our students used to have Windows machines and I wanted to make the programs available to them as well I needed a cross-platform solution. In hindsight I would propably have ended up using REALbasic even if I would only program for the Mac. I like my code to be easily readable, similar to reading english. C is just too cryptic…
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Thursday, October 04 2007 @ 01:23 AM PDT
