Advanced SearchUser Name Mr Reynolds
Member Since 2002-06-13
Total number of Feedback Posts: 28
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StuffIt Deluxe 12.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Some of us who have been using Stuffit Deluxe since the brilliant young developer was still in school, and who have not yet recovered from paying for the upgrade to v. 11, and who have never really found a use for all the bells and whistles anyway but upgraded perhaps for sentimental reasons, and who feel that a product should be upgraded for FREE until it is in a "marketable" state, are probably through throwing money at Smith Micro. But perhaps you wouldn't understand, as Smith Micro seems not to. Milk the cow by all means. See you again someday maybe. Best wishes! [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 24 2007 @ 02:25 AM PST
SilverFast Ai (Epson) 6.5.r8 (Mac OS X)
. . . try clicking on "Developer Site" above. Perhaps the developer is too busy counting his "$50+" dollars? [alert admin]
Sunday, July 22 2007 @ 11:23 AM PDT
Global Conflict: Palestine 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Whoever the genius is for this fun game might want to check the spelling of "Palestine" before his game destroys it--this is the sort of stupid error we would expect from George W. Bush, but not from a game developer. Or is this a little satire? [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 05 2007 @ 11:22 AM PDT
Tidy Up! 1.2.7 (Mac OS X)
An brief addendum to my review: SPEED!
I mentioned the length of time it took to evaluate an 80 GB external firewire drive in my review, but I felt I should add that an exactly as stringent examination of the computer's 80 GB internal hard drive, which similarly has only 9 GB free, was completed in under thirty minutes. Undoubtedly Tidy Up! was aided by the fact that I have 2 GB of installed RAM on the iMac G5 PPC running at 1.8 GHz, but even so I find the results very impressive. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 27 2007 @ 09:38 AM PDT
Tidy Up! 1.2.7 (Mac OS X)
Learning Curve--Take Your Time! 
I believe I had this product or its forerunner long ago, and as some of you evidently have, I carelessly lost some data I was sorry to lose back then. A sadder and slightly wiser man, I then wrote to advise anyone using it NOT to run the application if he is tired or not alert for some reason. But then as now I was impressed with the amount of data that the application could evaluate, and the feedback that I could get from it BEFORE making any disposition of my files. This is a very complex application capable of comparing files down to the tiniest shred. Using the most elaborate of filters, I set it to work on an 80 Gig external firewire drive that had about 72 Gigs of backup data on it. It finished analyzing all the data in about 6 hours and 20 minutes. Naturally a less stringent filtering setup would have run much faster, and probably most people will be able to accomplish everything they want to do with a brisk run of the Wizard. With the results in hand one is able to free up space intelligently and with a minimum of risk: but as most of us have learned by miserable experience, you can't have your cake and eat it too. So it will pay the owner to think through exactly what he is doing--he will be aided by help, by a manual, and by buttons which will explain their function when the cursor is passed over them. Remember when you use this application that you are functioning as the Destroyer: more than one step is necessary to destroy files, I think the developer has written in excellent safeguards, but the fact is, once you have committed to destroying files, they WILL be gone. And not until then will the space become available again for other data. Seeing the files laid out before you, you may be reminded of things you knew but had perhaps forgotten: that some duplicates exist, for example, because different applications treat the same file in different ways: iPhoto imports an image and sorts it by date into folders it generates, while GraphicConverter, for example, imports it and sorts it by name. Each application seems to want its own copy. It is a nuisance if you use more than one application for image manipulation or storage; but if you have only one copy of an image on the hard drive, you will have to reimport it to the application each time you want to use a different application if you do not retain the dedicated duplicate. You do need to ask yourself whether in that case space is more valuable than time, as you know how long it takes to import any image to any application. Tidy Up! is a valuable tool, and I think an excellent one. But it is also a powerful one--stay alert! It is the very chainsaw for a massacre! [alert admin]
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Monday, June 25 2007 @ 08:28 PM PDT
Speed Download 4.1.12 (Mac OS X)
The "Problem" is not with Speed Download!
I have never quite understood why Speed Download has run to four versions, as I never had any trouble with it an any manifestation. I have always assumed that any changes were made only to conform to changes in the Mac OS. What do I like? SD remains invisible until it is time to download. It opens itself, snags the download, downloads it as quickly as your connection to the Internet will allow, TELLS YOU WHAT IT IS DOING WHILE IT IS DOING IT, gives you an excellent idea of how long it will take, puts the download where you have told it to, expands and opens the downloaded file, and disappears. It works equally well in all of my browsers--IE for Mac, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, OmniWeb and Camino. It works equally well on my old G3 B&W 400 MHz running OS X 10.4.10, and my old iMac G5 PPC 1.8 GHz running OS X 10.4.10. Also, if a download is interrupted--by, for example, a power outage, a server failure, connection--when power or server or connection is restored, it goes back to work FROM THE PLACE IT WAS INTERRUPTED to complete the download. If you are still using a 56 K modem, you NEED THIS APPLICATION! Now that I have a high-speed Internet connection, I am not sure I need it so much: but I admire it so much, I have purchased two copies of the current version, although I got no discount on the second one . . . . [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 23 2007 @ 08:23 AM PDT
VersionTracker Pro 4.2.2 (Mac OS X)
VersionTracker Pro 4.2.2 "Not Responding" in OS X 10.4.10?
I hope it is just my problem, but I seem to see nothing but spinning beachball now. After a LONG time I choose "Force Quit," which states that VTP is not responding. I have always found VTP rather sluggish to run, so I feel I have been patient--but, really! I am using an iMac G5 1.8 GHz with 2 GB installed RAM--which doesn't seem to have any trouble running any other applications--so I am rather worried at this anomaly. I am connected to high speed Internet, and there doesn't seem to be any problem with network connections, either. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 22 2007 @ 05:44 PM PDT
EasyEnvelopes 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Thank You Again, Andrew Welch!
I believe my review of version 1.0 is as true for version 1.0.3 as it was when I wrote it for the original Widget on August 20, 2005. The Desk Accessory version printed the envelope in Landscape mode; the Widget has always printed in Portrait mode, with the top of the envelope to the right margin on the printer. I have used the Widget on to print on both an EPSON 740i and an EPSON Stylus Photo 785EPX, choosing Commercial 10 as the default size of the envelope and New York 12 as the default font/size; usually I elect to print the address with the postal code. I have found Easy Envelopes+ to be much easier and faster to use than printing envelopes from within any application, and the results have always been satisfactory. If Mr. Welch could teach us to bathe printers with the same facility he showed for cats, the results might be even better! Thank you again for what I believe to be the best freeware ever! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 27 2007 @ 03:38 PM PDT
Intuit Quicken 2006 R6 (Mac OS X)
Those who have purchased Quicken by download from Intuit recently already have version R2. Check "About Quicken" in your application to be sure you need this update. I used Quicken 2004 from 2004 to my purchase of 2007 just recently--downloaded and installed without any problem, and converted files without any problem. I haven't noticed any particular improvements, but I don't use the application for online banking or for checkwriting--just as a personal bookkeeping and check reconciliation method at present. Quicken is a good dependable application that backs itself up and does all that I want it to do flawlessly--so I keep on buying it, and recommending it to friends. [alert admin]
Friday, February 09 2007 @ 03:46 AM PST
GraphicConverter X 5.9.4 (Mac OS X)
Perhaps the Greatest Software Bargain !
This is the single best photographic image-handling software I have found, and many others are still crowding up my hard drive because I have not had time to discard them. I forget what version of GraphicConverter I initially downloaded, but I have been using it for several years now. This version seems even more nearly perfect. There is a learning curve for all software. The massive capabilities of GraphicConverter X do make it appear daunting initially, just as when Brownie Bob picks up a professional digital camera for the first time and finds it is more than he can handle. Brownie Bob would be happy if all of us were forced to use Brownies because he thinks he can't move beyond them without hurting his brain. I have found no software so enthusiastically supported as Thorsten Lemke's magical GraphicConverter X. He has produced corrected versions in response to my rare crashes within 24 hours. He seems never to sleep, and he is always helpful and friendly. With a little experimentation I have been able to do everything I wanted to do with my digital images: the printing options alone seem endless, and if I were smarter I know I could do a great deal more than I do now. But I certainly don't blame Mr. Lemke or his bargain software for being so much smarter than I am. I am just very grateful that he is spending so much time to provide us with a tool that is so very, very good--and charging so little than anyone could afford it! Count your blessings and send the money TODAY! And take the time to learn to use it before you write your review. ;) [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 30 2006 @ 11:45 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Mr Reynolds [ Search for All ]
Keeps on crashing when Quitted
If you have recently installed Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," it may be a Leopard issue, as I am noticing a LOT of applications reported "crashing" when they have actually just closed properly.
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Wednesday, December 12 2007 @ 06:45 AM PST
Excellent tool for actual photographers
Of course the "actual photographer" in this case seems more of a marketing specialist or math instructor than an "actual photographer." Most "actual photographers" are more interested in perfecting their image before it passes through their lenses, and less interested in juggling the resulting image pixel by pixel in a computer. I don't remember reading a review so lavish in praise supported by so little in example--and the "actual photographer" seems determined to support the…
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Tuesday, August 21 2007 @ 09:08 AM PDT
I suppose I should have said, "one" and "oneself"; I certainly hope one expects more of oneself. But I am not a practiced liar, and no thousands of people have died for my brilliant ideas.
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Monday, July 09 2007 @ 08:05 PM PDT
Both applications seem to me overpriced for their relatively obscure utility, but my wife says I'm a dinosaur who has been run over by inflation. I hardly think an icon is a reasonable criterion for evaluating any application, however--none of them these days seems comparable to the dogcow of ancient Macintosh--I suspect our correspondent never intended to "put this politely" after all.
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Wednesday, July 04 2007 @ 01:07 PM PDT
The "Problem" is not with Speed Download!
Let's not play THAT game. I admit the product is worth the $25 price. Allow me to refresh your recollection as to the advantage of emailing you directly: "On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Yazsoft wrote: You do [get a discount] if you've purchased SD4 at regular price but since you've already purchased SD4 at reduced price (by upgrading from SD3), a 2nd license would be at regular price. It comes around to the same thing though.…
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Sunday, June 24 2007 @ 06:00 PM PDT
Doesn't Solve the Safari 3 beta issue
I agree with the developer: it works perfectly, as it always has with previous versions. I have tested it on an iMac G5 in OS X 10.4.10 using Safari 3.0 (522.11) and on a G3 B&W in OS X 10.4.10, also using Safari 3.0 (522.11). There has NEVER BEEN A PROBLEM.
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Friday, June 22 2007 @ 11:38 AM PDT
Whatever was wrong must have been fixed--Speed Download downloaded it from VersionTracker, opened the .dmg, opened the "disk," and all I had to do was move the app to my utilities folder. It is a very attractive little application, although I'm not quite sure how useful it is.
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Tuesday, June 05 2007 @ 03:18 AM PDT
Think what great freeware this would be! And if anyone thought it was worth anything, they could donate whatever they thought appropriate to the cause--especially in two or three more years, if anyone has bothered to attack the Mac by then.
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Wednesday, April 25 2007 @ 06:09 AM PDT
Interesting--Speed Download 4 (4.1.9) had no difficulty bringing it down to my iMac G5 1.8 GHz via Cox high speed cable. I'm sure by now everyone has noticed the sluggishness of VersionTracker in responding and loading pages. I have always assumed their servers are simply overloaded. I do not know. Once a download begins in Speed Download, however, I have never experienced any problem.
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Friday, March 09 2007 @ 03:38 AM PST
I have used photographs in all the versions of MacFamilyTree that I have owned, now including v. 4.4.0, and I have never experienced the problem you describe, either with original digital images or with scans. There are other reasons not to buy this application, not the least of which is the price, but as my wife says, this is the Twenty-First Century and most people have too much money invested in Iraq anyway. It is…
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 08:20 AM PST
