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User Name mixwiz
Member Since 2000-11-05
Total number of Feedback Posts: 12
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jBidWatcher 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)
eBay seems determined to thwart ALL sniping software...
so... OK eBay, you win... for now at least - until someone hopefully files a class action suit against them for booby trapping bidding software. (Why should I NOT be allowed to bid at the last second? This is the precisely the strategy that anyone but a total bonehead uses at a brick-and-mortar auction! Why should I be FORCED to show my hand before I want to? This is outrageous.) jbidwatcher has been by far the best at navigating eBay's apparently infinite minefield of traps set and perpetually revised to thwart sniping software. And jbidwatcher has worked well for some months now, but BLAMMO - eBay's saboteurs apparently just struck again. I just lost an extremely rare item I've been waiting to see on eBay for YEARS. So... no more sniping software for important items. You just never know for sure if it will work or not. I want to stress that as far as I can tell it's NOT jbidwatcher's fault. They are as diligent as you could expect at unravelling eBay’s booby traps; it’s just that you never know when the next one will spring. IMHO, just not worth the risk until someone (hopefully soon) forces a public agreement from eBay about bidding software protocols. [alert admin]
Thursday, February 07 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Flip4Mac WMV 2.2.0.49 (Mac OS X)
I haven't been able to get Flip4Mac to play .wmv files at all since upgrading to OSX 10.5 (& QuickTime Pro 7.4). I'm a pretty savvy user and have done everything I can think of - this after years of Flip4Mac working perfectly - prior to OSX 10.5. Anyone have similar problems, fixes? - Thanks [alert admin]
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Friday, January 18 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Maxi Bidder 1.99r7 (Mac OS X)
Sorry to have to say this but... 
...after being a very happy Maxi Bidder user for many years - and I'm reticent to ever post a negative review - I have to report that the last couple of versions of Maxi Bidder have been (for me at least) quirky and undependable - losing me at least three very rare eBay items I really wanted and may never find again. I've reported my problems via the online help forum - the ONLY way to contact them (I REALLY HATE not being able to email or phone) - but didn't see an answer that solves the problem of Maxi Bidder not placing bids properly. I use my system clock set to 24 hr. time and wonder if this may be a factor, but all other apps work fine this way. Out of desperation I finally changed to jBidWatcher despite its (to me) not-very-confidence-inspiring nerdy interface - but it has worked perfectly every time on the handful of bids I've placed. So.. sorry Maxi Bidder, I love your beautiful interface and great features and hate to abandon you after all these years, but I can't take a chance on losing any more auctions. Hope to find the problems solved one day so I can come back. I'll keep my eyes posted on VersionTracker reviews - not the infuriating, frustrating Maxi Bidder help forum. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 07 2007 @ 04:00 PM PDT
FLVR 0.9b11 (Mac OS X)
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!
FINALLY - How long have I been waiting for a Flash capture program???? (Forever!) FLVR is flawlessly intergrated - puts the videos directly into iTunes Movies. Killer app. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! [alert admin]
Saturday, April 14 2007 @ 01:45 PM PDT
LazyMouse 1.1.3 (Mac OS X)
I've missed a "jump to default" utility ever since MouseWorks abandoned this function as of OS X. I've bugged Kensington to death about this to no avail. So I was thrilled to find LazyMouse. It works great and I haven't noticed any side effects. THANKS LAZY MOUSE for providing a sorely-missed utility. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 01 2006 @ 02:07 PM PST
PandoCalendar 6.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Nearly flawless, indispensable little app.
Pando Calendar is a virtually perfect, completely indispensable little app. that launches in a blink, shows each day's notes in a balloon by just moving the cursor over the day, and best of all - lets you search (CMD-F) all of its contents and notes. The search feature is indispensable for finding things like "first day of new job," "Deb's birthday," etc. And the database is exportable - extremely handy for keeping a sort of de facto journal. Did I mention it's FREE!!` As to it being a Christian calendar, it simply gives you a CHOICE whether or not to see a once a week popup bible verse on Sunday. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 17 2005 @ 11:54 AM PDT
KeyCue 1.0 (Mac OS X)
For apps that I don't use so often, this is the perfect way to learn or refresh my memory on keystroke shortcuts. It's simple, troublefree, and does one useful thing very well. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 16 2005 @ 08:36 AM PDT
File Juicer 2.8 (Mac OS X)
What a perfect, brilliant, indispendable little app! A friend accidentally corrupted a CF card, no other disk utility could even see the vanished files - File Juicer restored them all in a few minutes - all 270 of them. A must have! [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 10 2005 @ 10:01 PM PDT
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How did I ever live without the full version of Acrobat?
I've been a creative pro for many years and use all of the std. flagship apps - Photoshop, MS Ofc, bla bla bla - but for some reason I always bristled at the price of Acrobat, which I perceived to offer many redundant functions and relatively little unique benefit. I finally bit the bullet and forked over the bux and boy was I wrong. It's now one of my most indispensable apps. How about: creating a single pdf of a whole website - with links intact; scanning directly to a pdf file for archiving bills and most paper correspondence which I now immediately scan and shred; and - hugely, being able to make pdf the default format in which I save nearly everything, with the hope that I'll never again be screwed by orphaned docs from abandoned applications. Lastly but very importantly, being able to edit nearly any pdf file (that isn't copy-protected.) I use this function all day long. This really is an indispensable app. [alert admin]
Thursday, May 27 2004 @ 01:39 PM PDT
Praeco X 1.7.9 (Mac OS X)
Anyone else having trouble? After years of flawless, reliable performance from Praeco, in the last few weeks - since I upgraded to OS X 10.3 - Praeco apparently misfired three times - losing bids on items that I really wanted. All of the dates and times were correctly entered in Praeco (1.7.9), my system clock was in perfect sync with the eBay clock, the bids were set to fire 30 seconds prior to close which is PLENTY of time with my T5 internet connection, and everything in my system was working perfectly. In one case Praeco did not place the bid at all, in two other cases, it reported the bids as placed, but they never showed up on eBay. Now I'm really skittish about trusting Praeco at all. Anyone else having similar problems? I would have written the developer directly - but the posted support link <http://www.desideratum.com/support/> only goes to the download page. Whassup what that? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 19 2003 @ 03:18 PM PST
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