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User Name Thucydides
Member Since 2001-11-03
Total number of Feedback Posts: 35
Total number of comments: 4
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SousChef 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
This application looks great, and it has very good organizational features, but it is impossible to enter and edit recipes, because the editor is so buggy. If you hit tab to advance to the next item, you're as likely as not to lose the ingredient line, which will sometimes corrupt all previous input. If you start with another recipe and input it, you'll struggle endlessly trying to clean it up. Sometimes, it deletes fractions and numbers, so that you enter "1 1/2 onions, chopped" and when you advance to the next line, it changes to "onions, chopped" and you have to just try and try to edit it until it magically sticks, and you finally get "1 1/2 onions, chopped." In fact there are so many bugs relating to inputing recipes that it is impossible to list them all. Restarting the program doesn't help. Deleting the recipe can cause the corruption of the preceding recipe. I really wanted to like this program, but after months of struggling with these issues, I've decided to give up and move on. A poorly-functional or buggy recipe editor is a non-starter in a recipe management program. [alert admin]
Friday, October 30 2009 @ 06:47 PM PDT
Bee Docs Timeline 3D 2.9.3 (Mac OS X)
This Is Perfect for Making Timelines 
This makes timelines and it couldn't do it more easily. I wasn't in the mood to create a timeline in Word or Pages, so I downloaded the demo to give it a try. I then helped my daughter make a timeline for her 8th-grade English report, printed it, purchased the license in order to eliminate the water-mark, and printed it again. I was amazed at how simple it was to use and how elegant the resulting timeline looked. One obvious feature that is missing is the ability to scale the timeline to a specific size to fit a maximum number of pages (say, if you want the timeline on a single page) -- you have to export to a PDF and then scale the PDF. It's a bit pricey, maybe, but so what? It saved me at least an hour of screwing around with Word or Pages to make a timeline and gave me a higher quality, more easily editable and correctable product than either. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 27 2009 @ 07:36 PM PDT
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Office upgrade won't work if you've upgrade to MS Messenger 7.0
If you have upgraded to MS Messenger 7.0 (as I have because it's the only chat program that will work with the Microsoft Office Communications Server they use at my work), then the Microsoft AutoUpdate will detect the need for the update, download the 12.1.1 updater, launch the 12.1.1 installer, and then refuse to install the 12.1.1 update on your volume, saying that it does not contain a version of Office that can be upgraded. So far, the only workaround I've found on the web involves re-installing MS Office from scratch and then running the MS AutoUpdate until you reach the current version. I haven't done this. Aside from being a big pain in the rear, I purchased Office 2008 as an upgrade and I no longer have the old version available. Thus, it's not clear to me that a new install will work. I like MS Office -- having used it for 20 years on the Mac, it defines (for better or worse) how I expect word processors and spreadsheets to work. But this oversight that causes the upgrade installation to fail strikes me as sloppy, and hopefully they fix it soon. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 25 2008 @ 05:20 PM PDT
MacSword 1.3beta3 (Mac OS X)
The of Bible software that Jesus would have us use.
This is really slick, and it's free. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 26 2007 @ 02:16 PM PDT
OmniPlan 1.1 beta 1 (Mac OS X)
Great Product Now. Shows a Lot of Promise for the Future 
The fact that the OmniGroup has thrown its hat into the project management ring means that Mac OS X will eventually end up with the finest project management software on any platform (won't it be nice to have a reasonable alternative to the buggy, but irreplaceable MS Project?) It's true that there are currently project management software packages that do more, but I used those in their 1.0 version and they did less than OmniPlan. OmniPlan actually looks and behaves like a very nicely done OS X application. Plus, OmniGroup is committed to making best-of-class software applications. You'd have to have your head buried in the sand not to notice the thoroughness of their approach with OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and OmniWeb. This is a beta of the second release, so if you can't handle some instability, then stick with the 1.0 version and wait until 1.1 final. [alert admin]
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Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 03:07 PM PST
ClarusX2005 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Works Perfectly with OS X v10.4.x! I love it.
Sure, I've got a Unix based OS that looks good enough to lick, but the paper orientation icon on the "Page Setup..." dialogue contains this boring guy who probably wasn't even created by Susan Kare.
I now have the dogcow on my print dialogue boxes, and I couldn't be happier. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.
If you care about Clarus, please sign the "Save our Dogcow" petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sod/petition.html
Hopefully, they'll offer a preference setting for using Clarus in the "Appearance" prefpane of OS X 10.5 (or at least a hidden pref). [alert admin]
Saturday, January 20 2007 @ 07:05 PM PST
StuffIt Deluxe 11.0.2 (Mac OS X)
No other product on any other platform comes close to providing the range of functionality that Stuffit provides. Most of the low-star reviews here approach this product as though it were simple compression-decompression software utility, ignoring the fact that Allume has a variety of options for compression: If all you want to do is double click on things to decompress them, then use Allume's free decompresser, Stuffit Expander -- it works with just about every archive format. If you just want to make the occasional archive, then save your money and buy Allume's Stuffit Standard Edition -- it handles the resource fork issue transparently and allows non-experts to make foolproof archives. If you want to regularly interact with archives and actually manage them, then Allume's Stuffit Deluxe is the market leader by a long shot. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 04 2007 @ 06:43 AM PST
iTerm 0.9.4 (Mac OS X)
If you've tried iTerm in the past, and you've been put off by it's lack of completeness, now is the time to give it another look. I'd tried using this repeatedly over the past few years, and each time I had come up with the same verdict: promising, but not ready for prime time. It now has the polish and stability that it needs, and I'm ecstatic to be able to use tabbed browsing once again--for the first time since I switched from Linux. I do miss the line rewrapping that Terminal.app offers on terminal resize, but it's well worth the trade-off to get tabbed terminals, real profile management, plus useful and easy bookmarking. [alert admin]
Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 08:50 AM PST
StuffIt Expander 11.0 (Mac OS X)
StuffIt Expander: Always on top
Here are the strengths of StuffIt:
- It expands pretty much any expandable format
- It pops in an out of existence as needed; you don't need to keep it running
- It couldn't possibly be easier to use; you just double click on the item you want to expand, StuffIt starts, you get a window with a progress bar, and StuffIt quits when it's done.
- It's fast
- It's pretty
- It's always been there; forever -- even back before System 6. People were using this program during the Reagan Administration. Running a Mac without using Stuffit Expander is, to my mind, inconceivable.
- None.
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Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 04:26 PM PST
Acquisition 131.2 (Mac OS X)
I've been a loyal user of this application, and I've even paid the shareware fee to own it. But I'm fed up with not being able to locate the download link for the software--the obvious one on the site takes me to paypal to charge me again for the shareware fee. I can put up with the shareware warnings, but does the developer continue to punish me after I've paid? I'm forced to conclude that this reflects poorly on the integrity of the developer, and I'm now ceasing to use his products. Goodbye Acquisition. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 10 2006 @ 01:37 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by Thucydides [ Search for All ]
Office upgrade won't work if you've upgrade to MS Messenger 7.0
Already tried that before I posted this feedback. Same result. BTW, the "stand-alone" installer is identical to the program downloaded by MS AutoUpdate. There was no reason to expect it to behave differently in the first place, except that the downloaded installer is launched from a different directory.
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Friday, June 27 2008 @ 10:19 AM PDT
Your "review" makes no sense. This is not a prefpane, but an application. Did you run the omnigrowl application from the disk image? If so, the running application from the image would prevent you from ejecting it.
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Wednesday, December 27 2006 @ 08:21 AM PST
I know about assigning keys, but I haven't been able to find a menu item to which I may assign the keys. What is it?
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Monday, August 30 2004 @ 02:44 PM PDT
Whatever, Darkvisor man. I probably don't like you any better than you like me.
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Monday, June 02 2003 @ 02:44 PM PDT
