Advanced SearchUser Name PeterNSteinmetz
Member Since 2002-06-24
Total number of Feedback Posts: 40
Total number of comments: 2
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Interarchy 9.0 (Mac OS X)
This upgrade has been a serious disappointment. Their forum was full of complaints, but they've taken it down now for maintenance. I would be very cautious about this new developer, until we see an upgrade for some of these bugs. Interarchy has been a great ftp and file transfer client, no doubt. We have to see if the new developer will keep up good work, or has just been trying to grab upgrade fees. Cannot recommend at this time. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 08 2008 @ 04:29 PM PDT
DYMO LabelWriter 7.7.1 (Mac OS X)
Need to follow instructions for printer hook up 
I also had trouble with it finding the printer, until I read and followed the fine print in the readme the installer displays. The printer must be unconnected when you start and connected when prompted. (Note to developers: you can readily scan the devices on the USB bus for items matching a list of vendor and product ids, thereby finding all currently installed printers of the types you support, rather than this kludge) The program works OK and with one of these printers provides a much needed office function. Though I think the UI is very much a Mac port of a Windoz program and it shows! [alert admin]
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Thursday, February 14 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
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Consider alternative office suites
Personally, I think it is crazy to install any Microsoft X.0 update. You will then be the beta testers! In any case, why pay money to microsoft to use their bloated software when relatively reasonable cheap or free alternatives are available? For example, Neooffice. Been using that since last year and it does a good enough job. And one can actually get images to stay in the proper place in a word processing document. Just say no to M$. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Bookends 10.1.2 (Mac OS X)
I had a few hiccups with importing an older version of the data, but the developer took care of it right away. Over the years I've been using Bookends, developer support has always been great. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 09:57 AM PST
OmniGrowl 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Once I discovered how to not have it open the Address Book and iCal each time I launch, I find this program very handy. Reminds me of appointments and birthdays. Very nice. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 01:42 PM PST
StuffIt Deluxe 12.0 (Mac OS X)
now duplicating files and GUI is horrible
Needing to extract some items from old stuffit archives, I had to launch the manager. Low and behold, each item now appears twice! I know of no other Mac program that insists on scanning your whole hard drive to find items of its file type. This interface is so non-Mac like and has been for quite a few versions now. Clearly a bad port of a Windoz program interface. As noted by a previous poster, the right-click shortcuts a few versions back were _much_ more useful. The only real use I had for this was encrypted archives. But as pointed out in OsXHints and elsewhere, you can construct an encrypted disk image to store a bunch of files in one place that is encrypted. A quick tar cfz in that directory will compress everything contained, if needed. 11 was the last version I will purchase after many years of supporting this program. This upgrade is clearly just a quick cash grab by Smith Micro. If they want my $, here's a suggestion: have someone who has worked on and programmed a Mac for a while sit down and figure out how to provide a document based interface that is useful and easy to use. Perhaps start over -- don't even look at what the Windoz programmers have done. [alert admin]
Thursday, October 25 2007 @ 10:04 AM PDT
StuffIt Deluxe 12.0 (Mac OS X)
I've used Stuffit since way back in the 80s and pretty much maintained a license as long as Alladin was running it. I'm seriously considering dropping the ball now with this. When was 11 released? Just a year ago, and that barely had much real improvement over the previous version. The user interface is now terrible -- clearly maintained by a bunch of Windoz programmers who don't have a clue how to make a product useable. Clearly Smith Micro doesn't have any real Mac programmers to think about the UI and just thinks of this product and its releases as a way of grabbing money from upgrades fees. And any of their XX.0 releases have been extremely buggy since at least 10.0, if not 9.0. Wait for the "fix the bugs" 12.01 release at least, since Smith Micro releases just like Microsoft, testing their betas on paying customers. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:27 PM PDT
Circus Ponies NoteBook 2.1 v255 (Mac OS X)
This is a great product, use it every day. The latest version, however, takes forever to open a notebook. Several minutes on a MacPro for a Notebook which is 11 MB. Much slower doing this than the preceding version. [alert admin]
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Monday, April 23 2007 @ 10:33 AM PDT
SteamTRAIN 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
This is a nice basic steam train simulator. I've always thought it a bit overpriced for the features, however. The lack of an upgrade path now seems rather out of line, particularly given the level of improvements between the original and 2. As to complaining about people's reviews, this is a customer review site. One idea might be to make the product have more features, so more people think it is worth the price. Alternately lower the price. OTOH, no product will ever satisfy or impress everyone. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 10 2006 @ 08:38 AM PST
StuffIt Deluxe 11.0.1 (Mac OS X)
The version 11 Archive Manager is a very bad replacement for the old Stuffit Deluxe application. The UI reeks of a port from a Windows version. Very awkward to use and almost impossible to get it to properly compress and add files to an archive. Almost not worth having anymore, just use tar bz2 from the commandline for this level of difficulty. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 01 2006 @ 09:09 AM PST
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Needs at least admin privileges to install into /Applications
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Tuesday, May 06 2008 @ 08:58 PM PDT
Causes silent dropping of sent mail and inability to quit on my Tiger system. Definitely remove until fixed.
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Saturday, May 14 2005 @ 09:14 AM PDT
