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User Name TECHWORKS
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 11
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Toast Titanium 7.1 (Mac OS X)
Roxio offers but doesn't deliver a competitive/previous users rebate for this new version from old versions of their product or from competitive products. Previous users' registration and on line purchase proof information is being rejected as unprovable and they (according to their website) also reject some store bought purchases where proof of purchase from specific stores is provided. I find this outrageous. Second the company is difficult to contact and does not respond to email or contact through their website. I have not called them in Canada, but you might want to ask their sales office about this issue (if you can get them to talk about it). Caveat emptor! [alert admin]
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Friday, September 29 2006 @ 05:31 AM PDT
Battorox 1.8.2 (Mac OS X)
Has not been updated in long while... 
You might want to look into MiniBatteryLogger. This hasn't been improved and needs it! [alert admin]
Sunday, September 10 2006 @ 05:27 PM PDT
MiniBatteryLogger 1.1.5 (Mac OS X)
I tried this sahreware product on my MBP 2.0GHz/1GB and it works quite well. I sent the author and copy here my two suggestions for future use (also note that the prefs don't appear to work in the pre-registration version). These may already work in the registered version but I can't tell. 1. color the left and right idices of the graph to match the color coding of the two graph lines. Current in Amps is purple by default, and voltage is green. 2. Monitor MBP case temperature (I believe this data is available from the machine), either as a separate function or as a separate (future) product. The case temp varies considerably while in use. My MBP can get too hot for a lap at times. It'd be nice to know what the temp is when you have it on the desk. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 10 2006 @ 06:05 AM PDT
ZipIt 2.2.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Previous commenters have much the same opinion as I: - UI a bit dated. I used 2.2.0 forever before updating to this version. I found the old version quite reliable, and this one too... so far! Regularly zip a 68MB (which deflates to 4.8MB) file to send to a WIN user of a cross platform program (MYOB). You can guess that this is very important data that, while password protected hasn't been compressed previously. So far Zipit has been flawless. Oh yeah. The author is one of few still supporting OS 9. Kudos! I'm downgrading my rating only on the basis of UI. Otherwise the pluses far outweigh the minuses: + Reliability + Compatibility + Ease of Use + Classic/legacy system support. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 22 2006 @ 10:13 AM PST
Moneydance 2005 (Mac OS X)
Tried this demo of a very 'Quicken-like' product for the Mac. I had mixed results in part due to the limited nature of the demo mode (transactions) and the fact that you may download a lot of transactions but the demo only save a few of them. Other than the limitations it is a fully functional edition, just not much good for anything. I'd have preferred a limited functionality in time not transactions to check the download and on-line capability. Accounts An unlimited number of accounts can be set up in MoneyDance. The checkbook looks like it would work but I couldn't set it up to my bank's transactions because MoneyDance doesn't (yet?) support Wachovia for On-Line Banking (OLB). They also don't support investment funds direct download (Quicken Direct Connect). Two stars because they're so new, and for taking on the 'big boys'. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 07 2005 @ 02:55 PM PDT
MacSudoku 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Feedback sent to author and posted here
See number ratings below. This game is more a notation method than a game if used with puzzles from outside (imported). Not too bad to enter as text and import to 1.1. No suggestions or hints visible. No methodology/training aspects at all. Did not have a crash in the four or five games I imported. Support barely acceptable, since it has no features it's OK for no documentation. For better play try some others. Notation features are nice. Bad news, saving a game doesn't save the notations made or the solution-in-progress! Not worth it at all, give me pencil and paper. Two stars for effort. Not a game! [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 11 2005 @ 06:03 AM PDT
OnyX 1.4.9 (Mac OS X)
1.5.x on OS X Tiger no workee, uninstaller doesn't either
Tried to install 1.5.2 which appears to be the latest, but says it required 1.6(?) to work with Tiger. 1.4.9 worked OK with Panther although it said that compatibility would be better on 1.5(?). This definitely isn't up to date. And the un-installer they provide didn't work to uninstall either version properly. Script hung after deleting 1.4.9, and yet again when trying to delete the current version. It doesn't give direcct access to the log to find out what else to delete. Hey, it was free, right? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 17 2005 @ 06:32 AM PDT
GyazMail 1.2.4.2 (Mac OS X)
Overall the program is much better than AppleMail, in it's operation. Two somewhat minor bugs I've noticed using Gyazmail the last six or so months: 1. When selecting items in a folder, the selected items scrolled in a window get fuzzy and tend to almost become unreadable. 2. This program lacks an export feature to export messages to text files. Because of the way other programs work, an an example Micorsoft Entourage, you may not be able to drag and drop messages or folders properly to those programs (or export them in any other way). This is less a fault in GyazMail and more a problem in those text based programs though. [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 13 2005 @ 10:34 AM PST
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Be aware that the current shipping version of this product is as above. It seems that the company has been "unifying" their versions and they are not using an orderly pregression. The later versions may be lower instead of higher or as in this case different. I purchased my version in April 2004. The desktop version is 4.10 dated 12/10/2003. The PDA for Palm version is undated but version 4.10h. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 22 2004 @ 05:42 AM PDT
SplashID 3.0b (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Be aware that Splash is probably doing some version numbering shenanigans at best, at worst they may be fooling you into believing there's an actual update since April! I can't explain the numbering and features any other way. Check it out for yourself before buying. I got snookered into upgrading. I downloaded, bought and paid for version 3.05 dated April 4, 2004 through Handango. Then, a couple of days ago, I looked on Splash's web site and, Lo! There's Splash Wallet version 5. It contains 3.05a version of SplashID desktop (and for PalmOS PDA 4.x). There have been no desktop feature changes between these two versions and upgrade went from 3.05 to 3.05a- both of which are from April, 2004. Now it's 3.0b in development??? The version on Versiontracker is a lower number but a later release date (than 3.05 from April). Again with no apparent feature changes. And they want $10? Something's fishy. I wrote sales and have not gotten a reply as yet. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 22 2004 @ 05:29 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by TECHWORKS [ Search for All ]
Any idea if the Que Bridge would work with a Pioneer 110D CD/DVD drive. I'd be interested in replacing the original with a new CD/DVD DL drive. Probably not workable but thought I'd ask.
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Friday, February 24 2006 @ 04:05 AM PST
There are many apps that don't deal with having the target install located where they don't expect it to. Seems that's what happened here the installer gives up/hangs when the target is elsewhere in this case. Have you filed the info with their help desk or on their web site. I've found Quicken to be somewhat responsive. As a suggestion you might consider having the applications located in the root directory. In my case /yourbootdrive/Applications.…
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Monday, February 20 2006 @ 04:40 AM PST
I found an issue with 2.2 which I reported. When making a .sea Windows file (self extracting archive) with ZipIt of a single file, in OS X 10.4.4 the program quits without making the file and gives no error. ZipIt works fine making a .zip file of the same exact file. Here is their response to my message to support email query: > Ticket: [96810] MacZipIt > ================================ > > Henry, > > There is a known issue…
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Monday, January 23 2006 @ 06:29 AM PST
The big problems with NikonView, et al. are speed, loading up larger picture files, and (Windoz-like) GUI. My laptop simply bogs waiting for all the above. I'm still on 1.1.1. Haven't upgraded because I got around all the Nikon software with iView. I may stay with iView for everything including transfers/capture from CF. But just have to keep up with the updates in case I get lucky with a single solution. So far no joy.
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Monday, August 29 2005 @ 03:17 AM PDT
'Five stars for working well as a viewer...three stars for limited editing...four stars average.' Sorry, but I must disagree after using FM Mobile for a while- it deserves its low rating. Why? Because it crashes, requiring a reinstall, and doesn't like syncing records with characters beyond the basic ASCII letter set. Then, good luck finding which character sets it off. Beware the dreaded 'error:1' and the 'Some records contain characters that are not supported by the…
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Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 04:28 AM PDT
'Five stars for working well as a viewer...three stars for limited editing...four stars average.' Sorry, but I must disagree after using FM Mobile for a while- it deserves its low rating. Why? Because it crashes, requiring a reinstall, and doesn't like syncing records with characters beyond the basic ASCII letter set. Then, good luck finding which character sets it off. Beware the dreaded 'error:1' and the 'Some records contain characters that are not supported by the…
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Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 04:28 AM PDT
I perused the entry for Cocktail and Lo! They have similar problems there. It looks to be the order of the items- for instance if you clear caches before repairing permissions, perhaps? Shareware, the developers don't respond? On Freeware, like this program, I bet there is no response either. Any have experience contacting the developer(s)? Think I'll stick with the standard Apple tools until the next version, hoping it'll work with G4 desktop and TiBook without…
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Sunday, February 13 2005 @ 05:45 AM PST
