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User Name ToddK1
Member Since 2002-04-23
Total number of Feedback Posts: 14
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fiwt 0.4 (Mac OS X)
'fayt'? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 27 2004 @ 05:23 PM PDT
SEELEWASCHEN 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Do you want to touch my monkey?
Mein ears tremble with the sonic equivalent of postmodern angst. Yet it grows tiresome. Dieter would give it five stars. Now is the time on Sprockets ven ve danse. Gut bye! [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 29 2004 @ 02:50 PM PDT
AHole II 1.0b7 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Maybe that's why I keep playing it over and over and over again. Obsessively. At home. At work. When the boss comes in... Now that I got fired for playing too much AHole, I still play it. Can one be a professional AHole-r? My boss got $50/hr for being one. Maybe if our elected AHoles got their act together, I could find another job. I'll have to look in the classifieds again. Or maybe I'll find one up my... [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 23 2004 @ 12:34 PM PST
Dramatist 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Hitting "download now" does nothing but produce a screen full of gibberish. (At least I can still keep my fingers crossed and pray this will be a Final Draft killer.) [alert admin]
Saturday, March 20 2004 @ 03:19 PM PST
Nisus Writer Express 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Bright Future, Partly Cloudy Present 
Nisus Writer Express gets hammered in the reviews for three main reasons: it has no tables, no footnotes, and no styles. These criticisms are certainly fair, and they make NWE either underpowered or overpriced for many. But if you can do without those three features, you're likely to find Nisus Writer Express a clever and handsome application that does several important things better than any word processor on the planet. The ability to drag margins inside the page, in real-time. Resize text and page-zoom on the fly. Customizable, well-placed drawers. Anti-aliased text. At long last, here's an innovative word processor that begins to leverage the true power of OS X. Other word processors (like Word, Mellel, and AppleWorks) use floating palettes to access important features. This is convenient, except when you want to move your document window. Often your document is obscured, because your writing hides beneath the floating palette. By contrast, NWE features a tool drawer that's attached to your document. So when you move the document window, the drawer – and all of your features – move with you. Very nice. And because it's located on the side, you get more vertical screen real-estate to read the pages of your document, without sacrificing easy access to your features. Very, very nice. The tool drawer should be a standard user interface element for all word processors to follow. Nisus is promising to add some much-needed features to NWE, and I hope they are true to their word. Despite its shortcomings, it is built atop a solid foundation, and it looks to have the brightest future of any word processor around. (Now if Nisus would just guarantee its customers three years of free updates like Mellel does...) [alert admin]
Saturday, February 28 2004 @ 12:28 PM PST
Nisus Writer Express 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Let's take our Ritalin and read the Nisus FAQ: www.nisus.com/Express/FAQ#Features As you can see, Nisus is well aware of the pressing concerns on this message board. They've provided the answers to such burning questions as: "Express doesn't seem to have a lot of features. What happened to all of the features?" "Will there ever be an OS X version of Nisus Writer that has most of the features of Classic Nisus Writer?" and... "Why didn't you just port Nisus Writer 6.5 to Carbon? Wouldn't you have released a new version faster?" The sky isn't falling. Read the fine print. Caveat Emptor. [alert admin]
Friday, July 11 2003 @ 11:52 AM PDT
Fetch Art for iTunes 1.04b (Mac OS X)
This software is such a simple and helpful add-on to iTunes, you've got to think it's just a matter of time before Apple incorporates it into its own software.
Why doesn't it merit five stars? Installing Fetch Art is clumsy. If you've already added different artwork for a song, Fetch Art acts as if there's no artwork to download at all. The album title must be spelled perfectly in iTunes – otherwise no art for you! (Fetch Art is most unforgiving when it comes to spaces, comments, alternate titles, or additional information.) And it would help to have a LOT more feedback than just a click when art is downloaded; usually you have no idea why it couldn't fetch the art for you.
Still, it performs the basic task of getting your album covers very well. The software is young, the price can't be beat, and it can only improve in time. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 24 2003 @ 12:08 AM PDT
Virex X (.Mac edition) 7.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Virex is a Bio-terrible application
What's worse about this lackluster product, its bugginess or its user-hostility? Hmmm... since my complaints on both of these counts could fill a small textbook, I'd say it's a tie.
Innoculate yourself against motion sickness, because here we go: Virus updates don't download, they just freeze the application by displaying the aqua bar indefinitely. Feedback on what the application has done or is doing to the contents of your hard drive is slim to nonexistant. Virus scans are painfully S...L...O...W... and they bring the rest of my computer to a crawl. There's no explanation as to why Virex refuses to check certain files or what to do about those unchecked files. And of course I'd love to consult the Help Menu to get the solutions to all these problems, but Virex Help doesn't work at all.
All in all, the decision to use Virex reflects poorly on the .Mac service, which has otherwise been terrific for me. If you're mainly looking for an antivirus application, you're probably better going elsewhere and buying a singularly dedicated program for the task. (Although given the paucity of viruses out there for the Macintosh, I think it's worth questioning whether a product like this is necessary at all.) [alert admin]
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Monday, May 12 2003 @ 04:54 PM PDT
Apple iTunes 4.0 (Mac OS X)
downloading. Smart interface. Free. This American likes it. Five stars. [alert admin]
Monday, April 28 2003 @ 12:05 PM PDT
Final Draft 6.0.4.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
remains the Hollywood standard, Final Draft 6 should be much better than it is. For lack of a decent alternative, I’ve used this application for the better part of a decade, and it remains clumsy to use and well behind the curve of technology. The big issue: Everything you type is guaranteed to look atrocious onscreen. This is simply unacceptable. After a year on the market, Final Draft still doesn’t use OS X’s technology to render beautiful anti-aliased text. Third-party fixes, like Silk, work only halfway to solve Final Draft’s shortcomings. But should an application that costs $189 need fixing at all? And beware of WYSIWYDG, or “What You See Is What You Don’t Get”. You might find the perfect font in the Font Menu, but good luck applying it to your screenplay. Worse, there are frequent text ‘hiccups’, where the text-rendering is garbled and screen redrawing is skewed. 'Authorization' remains a nuisance, too. (Bet you didn’t remember to “deauthorize” before a system reinstall.) I know of no other software that requires such an unwieldy process just to keep the application running smoothly. Final Draft is still better than a typewriter or a standard word processor for writing scripts, but I expect a good deal more than that. Considering the steep price, maybe it's time to revisit the competition. [alert admin]
Thursday, February 20 2003 @ 11:15 PM PST
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Final Draft's Days are Numbered
An honest and scathing review... but why did you rate it four stars out of five?
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Sunday, November 09 2003 @ 08:30 PM PST
