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User Name Nick Sloan
Member Since 2000-03-15
Total number of Feedback Posts: 94
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SnapMeasure 1.8 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
SnapMeasure represents not only a massive improvement on Illustrator's native measure tool (no more peering in the info palette to see results, no more guessing when the cursor is just over a path) but it adds a raft of incredibly useful features which you can turn on or off as needed: readouts for radius at any point along a curve, measurement along a path, path direction. You can even measure to scale in a wide choice of units. The developers have been kind enough to implement (and improve on) some of my suggestions, so to that extent I am an interested party, but I'm connected in no other way to Nineblock: just a very satisfied user who would now find Illustrator unuseable without their products. [alert admin]
Sunday, June 07 2009 @ 04:09 AM PDT
Labels X 1.8.2 (Mac OS X)
Labels X was great, but if you are tired of waiting for a Leopard version…try iconXprit instead. [alert admin]
Friday, January 23 2009 @ 12:13 AM PST
iconXprit 1.2.1 (Mac OS X)
For those who much prefer classic labels to the garish X versions, and have been waiting interminably for Unsanity to update Labels X, iconXprit could be the answer. It can colorize icons from a custom list or any free colour via a contextual menu. In fact, though it takes a bit more setting up, iconXprit exceeds the capabilities of Labels X in several important respects: colours can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts, there is no seven colour limit, and you can still use Finder labels alongside icon colours (for those occasions when an in-your-face banner is what you really want). And colorizing icons is only a part of what iconXprit can do: it can also apply text, copy and paste custom icons, apply from an archive, and more. Early versions were a bit buggy, but the current version seems stable enough for me (G5, Leopard)—and it does not use APE. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 23 2009 @ 12:08 AM PST
NR Time 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I have tried a lot of these work-timer apps. They tend to fall into two camps: those that try to do everything for you (client lists, reports, invoicing etc), or those that just record time. If you want the features, then I’d recommend OfficeTime, but if all you want is a list of tasks and a timer with a very direct and simple interface that doesn’t get in your way, I think NR Timer is now the best: there are still one or two minor oddities to get used to (there is no option yet to show just the total for the current task in the status item), but with single-click toggling of the timer, direct editing of totals, minimal system load and no redundancy, this is the one. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 16 2009 @ 05:10 AM PST
TimeTable 1.5 (Mac OS X)
This was one of those apps that I badly wanted before it existed, and when it appeared it was everything I could have hoped: simple, solid, well-designed. It was even one of my reasons for upgrading to Leopard. There is nothing else for extracting timings from iCal so easily and reliably. Thank you. [alert admin]
Monday, December 08 2008 @ 11:08 AM PST
Yank 1.4.1 (Mac OS X)
...of this app, which I have found to be very stable and effective, at least in the latest version. There are many effective uninstallers which look in the obvious places for detritus left behind by discarded apps, and some which run permanent (and sometimes conflictual) processes logging all installs, but nothing else that I know of monitors just installations, keeps a list of what was installed (including those invisible tracers which developers never intended you to see) and removes them all when required. Or at least nothing does it as effortlessly as Yank. I hope the developer brings out a Leopard version soon. [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 25 2008 @ 08:11 AM PDT
RagTime 6.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Powerful and solid but tricky to use. 
I really want to like RagTime. It is amazingly versatile. It gives you more fine-grained control over the appearance and function of spreadsheets than any other app I know, and although I do not use it for word-processing, I am sure that the same is true there. It can combine spreadsheets and other forms of document in unique ways. I have been using it for several years for my own accounts, and I have found it to be very solid. The catch is that even with the supposed interface improvements in v6, it is fiendishly opaque to fathom. I am an inveterate fiddler, and I can find my way around most apps if I really want to, but every time I need to do something other than working on existing documents I find myself struggling with the byzantine complexities of the interface. This is definitely one Achilles heel. The other is the price. I bought it at a discount, having used Solo happily for years for free, but I would not have considered the full price. A shame, because I really want RagTime to flourish and improve, but until someone with a realistic understanding of interface design can harness its power in a much more accessible way, I can only give it a rather lukewarm recommendation. [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 04 2008 @ 09:33 AM PDT
CaliBrate 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Very flexible and effective tool for searching iCal and making batch changes to events. Quick response from the developer when I reported a problem with date formatting. Altogether a nice bit of software to have and to use. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 05 2008 @ 11:09 PM PDT
Butler 4.1.5 Transient (Mac OS X)
Butler is a miracle of configurability. It can duplicate the varied functions of at least eight other best-of-class utilities, and do so elegantly and without compromise. It had been hovering around my consciousness for more than a year when I decided to spend a little time seeing whether it was really all that it was cracked up to be. Definitely, but it is only when you start fine-tuning and putting it to your own uses that you fully understand what it is capable of. It is like a digital Meccano set: it may not arrive in the form that quite suits you, but you can take it apart and reassembe it in infinite different ways. It would be a rare Mac user who could not somehow work more efficiently or pleasantly with Butler's help. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
OfficeTime 1.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Don’t be mislead by the name...
...this is not klunky bloatware but a sleek focussed app that does job timing and cost tracking with style and economy of means. The iCal integration is particularly good. I have found nothing to compare with OfficeTime for thoughtful and efficient design. [alert admin]
Friday, December 14 2007 @ 05:19 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by Nick Sloan [ Search for All ]
I'd just like to add a correction to my review for anyone who delves into the details: I apparently gave a low score for support, whereas in fact the developer was extremely helpful and responsive. The low score (which should have been neutral) was just to reflect the current lack of documentation. Overall, very good.
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Friday, January 16 2009 @ 11:20 AM PST
Sadly, since posting this review just a few days ago, I have upgraded to Leopard, and find that Yank no longer works. Nor does there appear to be the prospect of an early 10.5 version. I wish the developer well, and hope that he might see his way to updating Yank in the future.
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 06:01 AM PST
RagTime quitting on launch was caused for me by having disabled various fonts that it requires to run, notably Apple Goihic Regular, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, LiHei Pro and STHeiti. Probably others too, but these were the ones I had to re-enable.
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Friday, December 22 2006 @ 09:19 AM PST
Not arrogance Kalsta. A two-star review is pretty brutal, and potentially damaging to a developer. I just wanted to right a perceived wrong. If you had made your comments with a less negative star rating I would not have bothered. I like the principle of careful comparative reviews, complete with links, but to publish a review with an arbitrary list of objections which did not apply to the version then current and to rate it on…
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Monday, November 27 2006 @ 05:19 AM PST
I hear the Xounds of CRASHES...
I have also been suffering a series of disturbances since running the Xounds and FruitMenu updaters on 10.3.8. All back to normal after an uninstall. Also the first time I have traced any problems to Haxies after 2 years solid use.
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Friday, March 11 2005 @ 01:14 PM PST
Yes Mojolive, I have been having the same problem for a couple of weeks. I emailed the developer, and he says that it affects only some people. Try emailing him yourself on <johnred@inventive.us> and see if he can find a common link.
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Wednesday, December 22 2004 @ 03:34 PM PST
NetBarrier: Is there a similar program? - Without Intego's pain-in-the...
Yes: FirewalkX. Much neater than NetBarrier, and more powerful in some ways.
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Monday, April 05 2004 @ 01:07 PM PDT
