User Profile for Skyhorse

User Name Skyhorse

Member Since 2004-12-18

Total number of Feedback Posts: 6

Total number of comments: 1

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Hot Plan 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)

I've been using this product now daily (all day) at work for months to manage HR systems operations for a governmental agency with 40 sites and over 8,500 people around the world. It has proven to be an extremely reliable product that packs a tremendous amount of information into a small amount of real estate--enough so that a 12" screen leaves plenty of room for other work to show as well. I have anywhere from six to a dozen projects with dozens of different tasks going or listed at any given time, and still haven't reached a point where I notice any slowdown in performance, even with copious notes on many and links from most of my tasks to reference documents or other information sources. I also have my closed projects in it as well, having had no need to archive them to free up performance! Obviously, I both maintain my laptop and execute routine backups, but have never had issues with this app locking up, failing, or losing data. It faithfully reminds me of suspensed items and enables me to be much more efficient. My peers (all of whom run Windows) consider this product a marvel and wish they had similar, to the point that some are now considering migrating to Macs to be able to use it and other Mac products for which they can find no equivalent Windows software. Based on my experience, it is very much worth the sixteen dollars charged. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 05:46 PM PDT

PMX 2.28 (Mac OS X)

Another Favorable Comment on PMX

It says something about a product when you have to wade through multiple pages of highly favorable comments by satisfied users who are responding to a couple of negative comments by people who apparently had very, very little familiarity with this product. I feel that those who have commented since are a much more reliable source for information about PMX. I too am a professional who has delivered multiple very large scale projects--some involving worldwide deployments to dozens of sites and the work of hundreds of people, though I don't claim the title of project manager full time. I've used PMX for at least a couple of YEARS now, since at least version 1.8. It was buggy then, but showed great promise, and I used it when I could for smaller, then bigger and bigger projects as it grew. The developer, Joe Jones, is and always has been the most responsive developer I've ever had the pleasure to do business with. He is very open to suggestions, and is VERY fast with implementing good ones, including some of mine as he has so many of the rest of you. He gives us a terrific product at a very fair price, and one that has uniquely Mac qualities that other good Mac--or Windows--Gantt tools simply lack. I use traditional products primarily when I have to deal with those who lack the flexibility of mind to be able to perceive data in anything except a traditional Gantt format, but the ability of PMX to present more data in the same space while keeping it clear and obvious makes it my own personal favorite. If you find bugs with PMX, let the developer know, and you'll hear from him in a new release a few days later--and the bugs will likely be fixed. This guy really puts a lot of effort into getting it right. If everybody we deal with daily was as conscientious, we'd all get a lot more done a lot faster and easier. Dick Nelson [alert admin]

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Monday, May 16 2005 @ 06:13 PM PDT

iProject 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Shows promise

This very basic application does have some good ideas, and I'll be very interested to watch it develop. I use it primarily for managing simple lists like my honey-do list, basic trip planning, etc. for which a heavier duty application like Jumsoft's Process would be overkill or which aren't time or task dependent like I'd use a gantt for (iTaskx, PMX, and GanttProject being the ones I like best). That said, hopefully features to be added very soon to iProject will include printing, a real save (right now you have to retype the file name to save, even if modifying an existing file), and a way of telling from the drawer whether or not a task is completed. Another is to somehow get a handle on the file size: even an empty file with a name only is 4MB in size! If these are fixed, this will become an even handier little tool, and offer greater utility in addition to the handling we expect of a Mac app. I recommend it within the limitations I've cited. [alert admin]

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Monday, May 09 2005 @ 07:08 AM PDT

Process 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Process

I've been using Process now since August 2004, and fairly heavily--over a dozen projects, each with around a hundred entries. It's become my most important single application period, as I not only track items I need to do in it, I also enter meeting notes live into the window at the bottom, and have found that I can drop in a source document and then add notes at the top. I have everything right there, from multipage PDF reference documents to network diagrams to official correspondence and much, much more. The source document feature is a very handy tool. Despite the size of my database, I haven't noticed a slowdown at all. I'm not sure what you might be doing, MPH, except that you can only drag and drop (or use Action|Choose Source) to add a source document. A line item is apparently intended only to refer to one source document, not a folder. It'll take a lot of file types, but not everything. Within those limitations, I've never had a problem. Note that this is true linking--there's no embedding. One thing I have done is set up a folder for Process in Documents, then put the process data file in there along with subfolders for my various projects. I dump the source documents in the appropriate project subfolder, then link to them from there. It's easy to add to or search that way when you have a lot of source documents as I do. All in all, a terrific app that will hopefully continue to improve for a long time to come. Five stars! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, February 22 2005 @ 02:14 PM PST

Data Rescue 10.4.3 (Mac OS X)

Further on Last

Well, that didn't take long for a response. Hope Customer Service is that good. No, I am not a competitor or trying to unjustly whack your product. I tried the demo, but it said that I could recover only one file--but then didn't let me do that. I kept getting offers to buy it instead. I did, based on the reviews further down in this in desparation to try to recover some pictures I accidentally reformated. I have used it further now, and it does work, after a fashion, and yes, it is quick and easy for those files it does recover. I don't overwrite files I delete to destroy them, just let the system do that as it needs to. I tried this on an SD drive from my camera, after accidentally deleting vacation pictures. No luck at all. I tried it on my hard drive, after deliberately deleting almost 4,000 files that I had saved to CD-ROM a week ago, but I've put very little on this computer since. This was a test, as those are safely stored. It recovered less than 200 of them (but fully recovered those). All files recovered came from two of more than thirty folders. I used Thorough Scan on both. I will let others draw their own conclusions from my results. Do I want my money back? No, for what limited use it is, it works, and I can always hope that if I use it IMMEDIATELY after deleting files, I might get some of them back. For now, it's an annoying expense but I can afford it. It's better than nothing, and there really aren't a lot of good options for Mac in this area. I hope to see this product get better over time. [alert admin]

Data Rescue 10.4.3 (Mac OS X)

Bad Experience

This product didn't work for me. It recovered exactly 8 kilobytes in two files from my SD card, which isn't exactly what it advertises. Even that data wasn't accessible (the original images were no smaller than half a meg anyway, so who cares). The demo did give me warning of that, but the fact that the offer to register kept popping up almost every action I took was distracting enough that I failed to understand that. The product now costs way more than advertised when I looked at this a couple of days ago ($59 then, $89 plus minimum $10 shipping now). I decided to take a chance with the registered product because I really hoped to recover some photos and because the ratings a couple of days ago were solid 5's. Today's rating of 1 is a lot closer to my experience, too. Don't waste your money on this one! [alert admin]

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Another Favorable Comment on PMX

VersionTracker's a little buggy itself tonight, because it's getting too many hits at once. It just posted my comments twice. Please ignore EITHER ONE of them--but take the other to heart. RN

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Monday, May 16 2005 @ 06:28 PM PDT