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User Name Tim McNamara
Member Since 2000-09-13
Total number of Feedback Posts: 93
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by Tim McNamara [ Search for All ]
Seatubes 1.1.5 (Mac OS X)
I used Seatubes for the 8 day test period to download several videos from YouTube. It worked but not without flakiness and interface problems. The interface itself seems poorly thought out. Adding a URL is not intuitive and the buttons don't work as expected. Sometimes trying to import a single URL into Seatubes results in the application spontaneously importing a bunch of URLs that were not what I wanted. When closing the application it asks if I want to save the document "Untitled" even though the downloaded file has already been saved and is playable. There are too many rough edges and akwardnesses for it to be worth buying the application. For my use, TubeTV is a better product with a more intuitive and simpler interface. [alert admin]
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Thursday, February 07 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
One Finger Snap 1.4.1 (Mac OS X)
Just installed One finger Snap 
and it's pretty doggone cool on my iBook. It's nice to be able to do a one handed right click without having to hold down another button. [alert admin]
Friday, August 31 2007 @ 03:44 PM PDT
Google Desktop 1.1.0.520 (Mac OS X)
I can understand this product for Windows and maybe for OS X 10.3 and earlier (but it doesn't run on those!). But how does it improve over Spotlight, introduced in 10.4, and the Dock? Looking at the Web site I can't see an advantage to using this product with 10.4 and later because those abilities are already built in to the OS. Add to that the issue of system slowdowns, memory leaks, bug and security questions and it is hard to see why Google bothered to expend the resources to create this program for Macs. If it ran on 10.3 and earlier, it would have a potentially useful niche. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 31 2007 @ 11:08 AM PDT
NeoOffice 2.1 (Mac OS X)
but I agree with the foregoing. I've used NeoOffice every day at work as my only word processor and spreadsheet for well over a year. It has gone from a painfully slow but workable program to a very good looking program and is easy to use. I get excellent interoperability with users of Mac and Windows M$ Office. The application (up to 2.1) has been stable and has not crashed in a long time. The only down sides are that the launch time is slow (but much better in 2.1), but that may be due as much to Apple's Java implementation as to the NeoOffice code, and the somewhat odd Preferences which are due to OpenOffice.org's code base. Tomorrow will be my first day using 2.1 at work, but my preliminary experimentation this evening has been very good. [alert admin]
Monday, March 26 2007 @ 08:44 PM PDT
Camino 1.1b (Mac OS X)
On two computers, one running 10.3.9 and the other running 10.4.8, the beta version (1.1b) is broken. I suspect that the problem is actually related to CamiTools, as changing the appearance in the CamiTools menu resulted in 1.1b failing to open a browser window on the 10.3.9 computer. On the 10.4.8 computer, the toolbar is missing the forward, back and home buttons as well as the Google search bar. I haven't tried uninstalling CamiTools and trying again, but since no one else is reporting this (so far) I suspect this is the problem. Reverting to 1.0.3 resolved the problem. Until CamiTools is updated, I would recommend being cautious if you install 1.1b. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 06:51 AM PST
Xnntp 0.4.2 (Mac OS X)
This version is much improved compared to earlier versions which were not very useable at all. It seems quite fast and unlike the other review, it loaded the entire group list from my ISP's news server. Subscription is very simple. The application seems stable and doesn't crash. It appears to thread reasonably well by subject. The interface, like all multi-paned style applications, feels claustrophobic to me. That's not specific to Xnntp. It would help if messages could be set to pop up in a new window. There seems to be no way to mark all the articles in the newsgroup as read, so that you don't have to see them again the next time you read the newsgroup. It would be nice to have the standard Unix-style keyboard shortcuts for paging through articles and through group lists (e.g., space bar to page down or move through the article list). NewsWatcher derivatives (e.g. MT-NW) have implemented this nicely, for example. The developer has made very good progress with this version, although in my opinion it is not yet ready for daily use. As a result I will check "no" in terms of recommending it, but I fully expect it to be a very good newsreader eventually based on the progress I've seen. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 30 2006 @ 10:16 AM PDT
NeoOffice 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
This is an outstanding adaptation of OpenOffice.org to OS X. It looks clean and Mac-like (except for the Preferences looking a lot like OO.o, but there's only so much that can be done). The developers and the NeoO community are outstandingly helpful. I use this every day at work for writing reports and spreadsheets. I have to share them with Windows/Office users and thus has been seamless. It does feel a tiny bit slower in use than Office apps, and it takes longer to launch, but other than that it is as good as anything out there and better than most. [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 30 2006 @ 11:38 AM PST
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For example, the Open menu item doesn't work. Neither does Quit. I'm running 10.4.5 on a 12" iBook 1.33 gHz. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 22 2006 @ 03:55 PM PST
Apple Broadband Tuner 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Note that VersionTracker's page says this product requires OS X 10.3 and above, but Apple's site says 10.4. It would not install on my computer with 10.3.9. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 28 2005 @ 09:24 PM PST
Aquamacs Emacs 0.9.7beta (Mac OS X)
I've used Aquamacs Emacs off and on. Previous versions did not seem anywhere near as useable as Carbon builds of GNU/Emacs or buulds under under X11. This version has made a big step. In particular, it seems as though standard Emacs keybindings can be reliably used as well as many Mac-standard command keys. That goes a long way toward making Emacs much more accessible to OS X users and non-frustrating for experienced Emacs users. My experimentation with t 0.9.7 version thus far indicated that the application is stable under OS X 10.3.9. I wonder if this will ever be migrated into the standard source code for Emacs? One note for users of a Carbon Emacs build, you may need to check the release notes for 0.9.7 re: (setq mac-command-key-is-meta) in your .emacs. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 20 2005 @ 04:43 PM PST
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"The fault is with APPLE and it's sub-company CUPS." Nope. If you're installing open-source system level software designed for Linux systems (CUPS), don't be surprised if it causes problems on OS X. There is no reason to install CUPS stuff outside of Apple's system updates, which are tweaked specifically for the unique vagaries of OS X. The open source software world requires that you know what you are doing. If you don't, there is…
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Tuesday, February 12 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Always Corrupts Its Own Prefeferences 
Very peculiar. In years of using MT-NW on OS 8, OS 9 and OS X 10.0.03 and upwards, I have never had this happen. I've never heard this complaint in the various newsgroups, either. Was the cause of this on your systems ever identified?
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Sunday, December 02 2007 @ 11:22 AM PST
Four identical posts in 18 minutes? Was there a point to doing that? Perhaps you expected the developer to whip one up especially for you in the interim. Well, maybe s/he did, since an Intel version is available on their Web site: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ Hope this helps.
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Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 07:11 AM PDT
Breaks Gmail webmail in Safari
Wouldn't it be the other way around- that Google doesn't write its applications to operate in Safari? Generally speaking it is up to the Web site developer to make sure that their services work in the various browsers.
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Wednesday, May 30 2007 @ 03:10 PM PDT
It's hard to tell from your note. You have to run Enabler from the disk image. Are you following the directions at: http://andrewescobar.com/frontrow under Step 2? If you don't follow the instructions exactly, it won't work and might screw up your menu bar. Hope this helps!
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Sunday, September 17 2006 @ 07:55 AM PDT
The most common file format for US users would be the Quicken file format (.qif). I have no idea where you'd find the particulars as to how the data is specified, but it must be available as banks and such use it for downloading bank statements and the like.
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Sunday, July 30 2006 @ 07:25 PM PDT
The most common file format for US users would be the Quicken file format (.qif). I have no idea where you'd find the particulars as to how the data is specified, but it must be available as banks and such use it for downloading bank statements and the like.
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Sunday, July 30 2006 @ 07:17 PM PDT
Flip4Mac allows Apple's Quicktime Player to play Windows Media files. Have you tried that? I have found that it works transparently and very well indeed. Flip4Mac llowed me to throw away the Mac Windows Media Player, which is no longer supported by Microsoft.
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Friday, July 28 2006 @ 06:15 AM PDT
Screwed-up Quicken updates are part of the tradition of fine Intuit products. I never ever install one of these things until they've been out for a while and I can see what's wrong with them.
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Monday, March 13 2006 @ 07:46 PM PST
<p>Of course "free" is going to be hard to top in terms of value for dollar, so Apple's adequate Mail and Mozilla's fugly Thunderbird stack up well.</p> <p>I've not understood the appeal of IMAP. Leaving your private e-mail on someone else's computer (such as, say Google's) is a risk to your privacy and security. IMHO not having IMAP is actually a positive feature.</p>
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Thursday, March 02 2006 @ 10:43 AM PST
