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User Name Superstitious
Member Since 2002-08-30
Total number of Feedback Posts: 81
Total number of comments: 21
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Microsoft Silverlight 4.0 beta (Mac OS X)
Many Mac users are going to end up with Silverlight because of the clever packaging with Flip4Mac. As far as I can tell, a user has to do a custom install to install Flip4Mac without it. I empathize with many of the comments here which ask why we need yet another conduit for annoying animated ads. However, how often has the public resisted a "free" Microsoft product? [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 18 2009 @ 06:37 PM PST
RealPlayer 11 build 884 (Mac OS X)
Despite saying it runs in 10.3.9, no build of Real Player 11 will launch for me. [alert admin]
Friday, September 18 2009 @ 08:48 AM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Someone else said, concerning the 12.1.9 updater: "Update won't install but I don't care because I just won't use this garbage any more. Office really is just junk." I'm in the same boat. And, people are abandoning the Mac for WIndows because they can't do simple things like Arabic and are sick of trying to use programs that can't exchange/open .doc and .docx files well. We can thank Apple for not doing enough with the Lisa 7/7 Office suite and its Lisa tech and letting Microsoft establish this horrid monopoly. Even primitive software has had the feature of enabling the user to manually point to the location of the software if the installer is too stupid to find it. But, not this wonderfully expensive and purposefully feature-poor "Microsoft Office". The installer tells people to go to the Help page and instead of having a direct link to the specific help document, the user has to copy and paste the quoted sentence. Then, the user is treated to a condescendingly useless list of admonitions, like "reinstall your software" -- everything to not accept blame for a bad installer. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 21 2009 @ 07:39 PM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.5 (Mac OS X)
Hobbled overpriced product that's four steps backward 
1. Still not unicode and not bi-directional People want to use Windows in our language lab so they can do Arabic text. The Arabic letters not link up. Guess what the students say? "Macs suck." 2. No VBA makes Excel worthless. Windows Excel has it. Excel for Mac used to have it. 3. New interface is less user-friendly than before. It's time for every Mac user to stand up and say "I'm not going to buy another version of Office until it has feature parity with its Windows counterpart." [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 08 2009 @ 08:43 PM PDT
Melodyne 3.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Worth every penny if you're a vocalist, or producer/record them
Yes, this software is really expensive. Unfortunately for the developers, tons of people pirate it, using the expense to justify that. It's circular. The fewer people buy it, the more the high price is justified in the eyes of the developers. But, we're talking about their top tier app, here. There are less expensive less feature-rich versions of Melodyne available, like Melodyne UNO. If you have another multi-track program and just want to polish a vocal track, consider that one. There is also a plug-in. Adobe Creative Suite is really expensive. Office is really expensive. Frankly, I think Melodyne is a much better value than Microsoft Office, and how many more people buy that? This software's most impressive feature is how well it adjusts defects in vocal takes without sounding artificial. It can save a lot of studio time and studio time is expensive. If you're on a limited budget like I am, you can do a lot more songs because you don't have to do so many takes of each one. One thing that I'm unhappy about, though, is that the Spitfish plug-in doesn't work in this version. It did work in 3.0.1.5. The audio units version of the plug-ins isn't seen at all, and the VST versions no longer work. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 14 2009 @ 02:57 PM PDT
Bean 1.0 (Mac OS X)
It has some nice features, like the ability to resize the page view simply by resizing the window by click-hold-drag. One quibble is the way it places the scroll bars together at the bottom instead of respecting the system setting (top and bottom on my machines). [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 25 2008 @ 02:54 PM PDT
Apple Leopard Graphics 1.0 (Mac OS X)
The text with this update is too vague. Are there new drivers for recent cards, bug fixes for specific recent cards? Does this update address anything when it comes to older cards like the 6800? [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Apple Safari 3.0.4 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
It's great to not have to manually delete anything after closing a browser. Safari is a great browser. Hopefully Apple will continue to improve its stability. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Readiris Pro 11.5.6 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Crashes always with Canon LiDE 25 scanner, can't update
Software update doesn't work, so there is no way to update version 11.5.0, which we bought several copies of. Since all of the scanners in our lab are these Canon models, we can't use this software. MacInTouch.com wouldn't print negative feedback about this product so it's difficult to warn people. [alert admin]
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Monday, January 14 2008 @ 12:20 PM PST
Microsoft Office Open XML Converter 0.2.1 (Mac OS X)
There has been a converter our for versions of Windows Office as old as 2000, and yet we're still being offered a beta. I suppose this beta nonsense is going to go on until the next version of Office is released, and even then it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft were to pull an Apple BootCamp maneuver and withdraw/expire the beta or never finish it. Customers are getting a rawer deal every year with these companies. Keep forking out the cash! This is what happens when there's no real competition in a "capitalist" marketplace. When was the last time there was a viable corporate competitor to Microsoft Office? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 01:48 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by Superstitious [ Search for All ]
Your post is hardly objective. There are serious shortcomings in the bloated and overpriced MS Office suite for OS X. Entourage's performance, for instance, is so poor on the Mac that since our university has adopted Exchange for e-mail and switched everyone to Entourage, people are having to dump perfectly good computers (like 17" 800 Mhz flat panel iMacs) because Entourage slows the machines down to a crawl. It's absurd that e-mail is something Microsoft…
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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 06:22 AM PDT
Versiontracker should have categories for crippleware and adware. I don't know if SMS Plus does it, but some of his emulators have had ads for Emulator Enhancer in them, and reduced functionality, functionality available with the purchase of that.
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Saturday, May 19 2007 @ 02:29 PM PDT
Lick, Lick, Lick.
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Saturday, March 17 2007 @ 08:25 AM PDT
Before being juvenile and calling people names, you might reconsider your point that being unable to download the update is completely irrelevant to the Versiontracker.com feedback. Perhaps you can explain how one might rate software they're unable to get. I have my own name for you: fanboy.
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Saturday, March 17 2007 @ 08:23 AM PDT
What's particularly odd is that it apparently is working for a few people. Very strange.
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Wednesday, March 14 2007 @ 06:19 PM PDT
same problem
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Wednesday, March 14 2007 @ 05:40 PM PDT
Thank you for that prefs solution! I searched the prefs several times in version 9.02 (or something similar) and didn't find anything that seemed relevant and gave 9.1's prefs a quick look-over. I guess I missed that pref. Still, the program shouldn't be so modal by default, so that when the tab bar is turned off, the functionality is broken.
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Monday, December 25 2006 @ 09:48 PM PST
You personally attacked me, and now you refuse to even acknowledge the screen shot that proves I'm right. Keep talking about bug reports and posting silly things like "if the bug exists". It's there in the screen shot. Unless you can say you tried turning off tabbed browsing and had no problems getting back to the main browser window after downloading something, you are wasting everyone's time with comments like that.
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Friday, December 22 2006 @ 12:05 PM PST
You tell me how a user is supposed to get back. http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/images/modaloperastrandsusers.tiff
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Wednesday, December 20 2006 @ 01:48 PM PST
What nonsense. I tried to use the browser and gave up, because with a 1024x768 screen, I didn't want the tab bar on because I don't use tabs and don't want to waste the screen space. It does seem inexplicable that such a big issue remains in Opera 9, but unless it's been fixed in 9.1, which I seriously doubt (and will test today), it's a show-stopper for me. Your silly assumptions about me are completely false.
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Wednesday, December 20 2006 @ 01:35 PM PST
