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User Name Pascal Lessard
Member Since 2000-04-21
Total number of Feedback Posts: 44
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Apple MacBook/Pro Trackpad Firmware 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Does the job simply and efficiently. As a bonus, you'll end up with a working trackpad on your MacBook ! Yay ! [alert admin]
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Monday, November 17 2008 @ 08:27 PM PST
Perfect Diet Tracker 2.3.1.4 (Mac OS X)
I wanted to loose weight and even though I had changed some habits, I could not progress after some time : I was stuck and I didn't know what I did wrong. I discovered Perfect Diet Tracker and it easily and quickly helped me find the problematic foods and helped me better identify the appropriate portions... and it worked ! Thanks to the good training Perfect Diet Tracker gave me, I have maintained my weight since I met my goals. To help me, Perfect Diet Tracker provides graphs, many products already pre-entered and it remains very easy to enter new products over time. I only used the traditional way to loose weight (that is : calorie counting), because I do not believe in unbalanced diets like Atkins and others like those... and I like all foods (vegetables, fruits, breads...) so I would not be happy if I had to limit myself to high protein foods. Still, Perfect Diet Tracker helped be prove to myself and to the people around me that if one's too big, it is simply because he eats too much ! [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 28 2008 @ 07:30 PM PDT
SRS iWOW 2.0.2.255 (Mac OS X)
Makes MP3s sound great, whatever the speakers 
Computer sound, MP3s in particular, tend to be hollow and whiny, lacking depth and realism. SRS' iWow corrects this in iTunes, making the music experience richer. For me, it means that I can now listen to the music stored on my computer for long periods of time without a headache — even a whole day — something I could never do before (unless I plugged my computer to a real audio system). iWow was updated for Leopard compatibility less than a week after the official version of the OS was available, and there has been 8 updates in the last year to the software. For me, this is shows excellent support and commitment. The next improvement would be to extend iWow beyond iTunes, to the whole OS experience. I'm tired of tin-can beeps ! ;-) [alert admin]
Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 09:32 AM PDT
Xtorrent 1.0 (42) (Mac OS X)
As usual, Dave created a great package with a great "MacOS-feel" UI, very usable and frequently updated. If only he learned to reply to his fellow humans with less contempt, there would only be positive things to say about the guy ! Still, the app is worth every penny. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 06:43 AM PDT
Dali Clock 2.24 (Mac OS X)
To the guy lamenting the lameness, below : you failed to understand the "historic-ness" of the program, that predates even the first Mac. Forget Aqua, forget Core Animation : morphing numbers was the hottest thing a computer could do at the time ! For keeping history alive, the author deserves 5 stars ! [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 29 2007 @ 07:08 PM PDT
UNO 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
The application works well : installing and uninstalling the theme works like a charm. Unfortunately, I ended uninstalling the theme because the appearance was too dark, and - dare I say - a little bit too boring. I agree with the Uno creators that the current interface of OS X is somewhat a mix up, but I believe their answer is a theme that is too toned down. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 15 2007 @ 07:41 PM PDT
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Still not a good Mac OS citizen 
My current policy when I buy new apps is to make sure that they are Universal. Granted, my current Mac isn't Intel-based, but it will be next year, so I want to plan my Intel transition. Anyway, when I got the email from DataViz informing me that an upgrade to Documents To Go was available, I didn't think twice... and I forgot to check if it was Universal. Alas ! it isn't !!!
I was happy to see a new version of Documents To Go, because I considered the previous versions to be unstable, not very usable. And... I was hoping for an updated application for the Mac.
On the plus side, the Palm applications are much improved in version 9. One cannot use the specific (and compact) Documents To Go file format anymore, but Word and Text files are viewable directly. And the Palm apps are apparently finally stable enough not to crash in the most mission critical moments.
On the negative side, the Macintosh application is still crap. Even in version 9, it is still a PowerPlant Mac OS 9 port, and not a true Mac OS X application. 5 years ago, I could understand, but nowadays ??? Come on : Mac OS 9 was a great OS in 1999, but we are now (almost) in 2007. 8 years should certainly be enough to rewrite a 1,4 MB app !
Still on the negative side, the conduit provided for the Mac is terrible. It simply refuses to install anything on my expansion card. I deleted everything I could find that was Documents To Go related (apps, prefs, you name it) both on the Mac and the Palm, but nothing worked. I even updated to version 9 for this very reason : forget it. As a david160 wrote, I am now using Missing Sync's "Folder Sync" to keep my Mac's Word docs in sync with my Palm. It works very well, and fast, but it only offers a "version A or B" approach, while Documents To Go promised to update the file's content.
I keep Documents To Go because I need an application on the Palm that displays information in a more organized fashion than the simple Memo.app can. The files I display in Documents To Go are personal data for use on the Palm, and not files that will be edited on the Mac (except when I specifically want to update the content on the Palm). So I can happily bypass all the Documents To Go Mac apps. But for users who need the functionality promised by DataViz, Documents To Go for the Mac fails miserably, even in version 9.
Can one hope that things will work natively (both Mac OS X and Intel-wise) and flawlessly in version 10 ?
Saturday, December 09 2006 @ 05:36 AM PST
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Still not a good Mac OS citizen
My current policy when I buy new apps is to make sure that they are Universal. Granted, my current Mac isn't Intel-based, but it will be next year, so I want to plan my Intel transition. Anyway, when I got the email from DataViz informing me that an upgrade to Documents To Go was available, I didn't think twice... and I forgot to check if it was Universal. Alas ! it isn't !!!
I was happy to see a new version of Documents To Go, because I considered the previous versions to be unstable, not very usable. And... I was hoping for an updated application for the Mac.
On the plus side, the Palm applications are much improved in version 9. One cannot use the specific (and compact) Documents To Go file format anymore, but Word and Text files are viewable directly. And the Palm apps are apparently finally stable enough not to crash in the most mission critical moments.
On the negative side, the Macintosh application is still crap. Even in version 9, it is still a PowerPlant Mac OS 9 port, and not a true Mac OS X application. 5 years ago, I could understand, but nowadays ??? Come on : Mac OS 9 was a great OS in 1999, but we are now (almost) in 2007. 8 years should certainly be enough to rewrite a 1,4 MB app !
Still on the negative side, the conduit provided for the Mac is terrible. It simply refuses to install anything on my expansion card. I deleted everything I could find that was Documents To Go related (apps, prefs, you name it) both on the Mac and the Palm, but nothing worked. I even updated to version 9 for this very reason : forget it. As a david160 wrote, I am now using Missing Sync's "Folder Sync" to keep my Mac's Word docs in sync with my Palm. It works very well, and fast, but it only offers a "version A or B" approach, while Documents To Go promised to update the file's content.
I keep Documents To Go because I need an application on the Palm that displays information in a more organized fashion than the simple Memo.app can. The files I display in Documents To Go are personal data for use on the Palm, and not files that will be edited on the Mac (except when I specifically want to update the content on the Palm). So I can happily bypass all the Documents To Go Mac apps. But for users who need the functionality promised by DataViz, Documents To Go for the Mac fails miserably, even in version 9.
Can one hope that things will work natively (both Mac OS X and Intel-wise) and flawlessly in version 10 ?
Saturday, December 09 2006 @ 05:31 AM PST
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This is a very good product, and for me it has proven to be reliable. We all know that disk defragmentation is not as necessary as it used to be, but to do video edition or to do DVD authoring, there is nothing as contiguous free space ! I would like to see a better list of improvements when a new version is posted. Sometimes, an improvement is not as necessary as another, so there is no need to download again. Was the version bump a result of some cosmetic fix (language file, news web site...) or some function-critical bug was found ? As you can see, the need to download the file again won't be as necessary in the first case as it is in the second... [alert admin]
Saturday, September 23 2006 @ 04:34 AM PDT
Apple AirPort Extreme 5.7 (Mac OS X)
No problem before, no problem after !
I updated as soon as I saw this update on VersionTracker's RSS feed. AirPort Admin Utility also suggested the update (but the System Update didn't). I updated from my PowerBook, using the WiFi network of my AirPort Extreme Base Station. The updater immediately saw my AEBS, and I had to enter my AEBS password to continue. After the firmware update, the AEBS restarted and everything was back to normal in less than a minute, including printing to my venerable 810C. In short : no regressions caused by the new firmware ! Install without fear ! [alert admin]
Tuesday, January 03 2006 @ 08:44 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by Pascal Lessard [ Search for All ]
Nice blast from the past : I feel I'm 7 year old all over again with someone thinking he'll insult me by changing my name ! Woot ! Problem is, that's the only thing "MAC_1984" can do or say, because for the rest I'm totally right and he cannot counter the fact I mentioned. Hence the puerile retort, I guess : the poor thing is vexed ! Now go see your mommy, your diaper is wet !
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Sunday, January 27 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Always Amiss on One Thing or Another
You are so right, this would never happen to paid software like, say, Intuit's QuickBooks. i d i o t
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Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
How can it be slower than Transmission when it is based on (the latest version of) Transmission in the first place ?
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Monday, June 04 2007 @ 05:16 PM PDT
I totally agree with the comment above about the idiocy of your review, and your reply, which is even worse, confirms my opinion.
You may have a problem with a particular feature of Onyx, but you never mentioned which. Instead, your "threaten" the programmer to use another app instead. Good for you. Wouldn't it be more productive if you at least explained what feature is not working exactly ? I use Onyx myself and I have…
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Monday, January 08 2007 @ 04:28 AM PST
In the Terminal, type : defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_stereo -bool true and Return. Voilà. (The $ is never part of the command.)
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Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 03:09 PM PST
Excellent for...french people now!
Facist
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Friday, September 01 2006 @ 04:17 PM PDT
Nobody ever forced you to buy the service. Because this is what it is : a service. If you don't need it, if you don't find that it saves you time and effort, why bother posting such comments ?
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 08:12 AM PST
That's because utilities like Onix, TinkerTool and Cocktail simply modify the system preferences : they do not install extensions or system-modifying software of any sort. To return to the pre-Onix state you either have to re-download Onix and reset the preferences to the factory defaults or, alternatively, you can trash the pref file where the setting is stored.
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Tuesday, August 24 2004 @ 05:40 AM PDT
