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User Name Vexis58
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iCal Events 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
This program works great for me, and the recent update fixed some of the problems I was having (especially the scroll wheel thing, thanks a lot for that) but recently one particular event shows up twice. Same time, same calendar, same event name. In iCal, it is one event, so I don't really know what to do to fix this problem. All the other events are normal, but this one shows up twice. I tried moving it to a different time to see what would happen, and now the two copies of it have separate times, one at the original time, and one at the time I changed it to. It's like there's an invisible event listing in iCal that I can't get rid of. Any ideas? This was a problem before I updated to the new version, so that isn't it. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 20 2005 @ 05:02 PM PDT
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This is a great little widget. The only problem I can see is that it makes me not want to check my email so that there will be more flowers in the vase! [alert admin]
Tuesday, May 31 2005 @ 12:31 PM PDT
iCal Events 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I tried this widget out and it did not display any calendars. I flipped it around and under "Calendars" it was just a blank field. I fiddled around in iCal for a bit, then decided to quit iCal and see if that would work. Sure enough, they came up. Widget seems to work fine now, besides only being able to choose from the top three calendars in my list. A little annoying, but since this is the only widget of its kind out there (and one I would have thought would be included with Tiger by default anyway) I'll live with it -- I can just rearrange the calendars to change which ones I want to view. But thanks for making this widget! It'll really help a lot, because I hate opening up the huge window that is iCal just to check one simple thing. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 31 2005 @ 12:27 PM PDT
Key Advantage Typing Test 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Not only is it a demo, but the "free typing test" it gives you is hard to type straight. If you miss a single letter, it counts every letter after that wrong until you stop and get back on the right track. That wastes a lot of time in a test that's supposed to test your typing speed. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 06:31 PM PDT
FitnessBrain 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I have tried FrenchDiet and liked it, but wanted to try out some of my other options before buying. This program is one of these. I find the interface difficult to work with. None of the windows' close buttons work, you have to actually press the button inside the window that says "close" or "cancel" on it -- particularly windows-like, as a previous reviewer said. My scroll wheel cannot scroll through the list of foods, which particularly annoys me, because it forces me to use the very light gray (another complaint, grays are too light in many places, making me think that an option is unavailable) arrows at the top and bottom of the list, which scroll the list a lot more slowly than I would like. Though it doesn't look like it, you CAN click between those arrows to jump to a place in the list, but since that bar is invisible, you have no way of knowing where exactly you are in the list. The search function would be useful except for things like "pnut butter" and "frstd flakes" and "appl jacks" where things are abbreviated in such a way that if you tried to search for them, you'd come up empty-handed. And since the foods in the list don't seem to be sorted in any way other than perhaps the order they were entered into the database, it can take a while to find what you're looking for. All non-traditional American foods are lumped into a single category -- "ethnic foods", which contains at default only references to alaskan natives and navajo. Things like caribou eyes, walrus oil and owl meat. Because all of us health-food nuts encounter ground squirrel meat on an everyday basis. Or something. Though I did find some mention of mexican food under the "fast food" section, I was hard-pressed to find any kind of asian foods. Perhaps a mention of teriyaki sauce here and there. What am I to do when I go out for chinese or thai for dinner? Let alone sushi... I love how frog legs and turtle meat are listed under the fish/shellfish category. Not as if I'd have any idea where they should go. Every time I opened it, it told me that the program's date and time formats were different than those used by my system, and asked me which one I'd like to use. It did not ask me which ones I'd like to use from now on, or have a little check box to cause it to not ask me that question again, it simply asks me every time I open it. I have no idea how well any of the health tools related to heart rate or body mass index work, because they're locked in the demo version to a person completely different from me in every way: a 35-year-old male who weighs more and is taller than I am. You can change the age, sex, height and weight, but you can't recalculate any of the numbers based on those values without buying the program. The vitamins and minerals included are more limited than I would like, only including calcium, iron, vitamins A C D and E. What about potassium, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, and all of the B vitamins, among other things written on my multivitamin supplement? I'd love to know how much of those I'm eating in a day, but this program won't tell me. I don't really do a whole lot of exercise other than about an hour's worth of walking to, from and between my classes every day, but I suppose if you took the time to enter in the exercises you do (as there seem to be only six actually programmed in) that it might be helpful as a log of how many calories you burned versus how many you consumed. And this program also doesn't seem to have any way to compare what you're eating to a healthy diet. Nothing saying that you should try to eat more of this or less of that, or saying if you've gotten enough of this or that vitamin or mineral. It really puts it into perspective when you've got a graph or something telling you what you need to change about your diet, rather than just telling you how much of each thing you ate. Also, when I go to select "daily food report" from the file menu, it wants to print something (I'm assuming the list of food you ate on the currently selected day?) and from that moment on, you can no longer change anything. The interface changes into what looks like a page in appleworks (with margins cutting off the edge of the window, even) containing an image of the program you were just using, and you can no longer hit any of the buttons without quitting and restarting the program (oh yeah, and quitting the demo opens up the company's homepage in your browser every time). And I go to see what the thing was it wanted to print (I saved it as a PDF so I could look at it) and it was the same page, basically just a screenshot of the program with the edge cut off because it's wider than the page is. My search for a program better than FrenchDiet continues. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 08 2005 @ 07:36 PM PST
Measuring Cup 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
This is probably the best free recipe program I've tried so far, for the features it has. I love having a main library of recipes, then sorting them out into different categories. I love being able to put a picture of the recipe along with it. I don't really love having the ingredients split into three different fields like that, but that's just a personal preference. I gave this a four, however, because the interface is a little hard to get used to. The new category and new recipe buttons are so tiny I didn't see them at all for the longest time, and kept searching the menus for a way to add a new category. Whenever I add a step into a recipe, it is added at the top, and when I'm writing a recipe, I usually start with the beginning and work my way to the end -- so it'd be a lot better if the new steps appeared after all the other steps. Also, I can't seem to find any way to rearrange the categories' order. They seem to be forever stuck in whatever order I created them in, which was rather random. When I try to drag a category folder, it will act as if I'm trying to move a recipe, and then do nothing when it realizes I'm not. And I would also love to have an export to text feature in this program, so that I can export a recipe to my iPod's recipe database without having to copy-paste the text from a print preview and reinsert all the line breaks. But I'm not going to grade you on features I wish it had but doesn't, only on the features it actually has ^.^ [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 22 2005 @ 05:46 AM PST
Recipe Cleaner 2.2 (Mac OS X)
The whole point of shareware is that you can try a program to see how well its main features work before you purchase it. But in this program, the thing this program is mainly supposed to be useful for is locked until we pay money! I wanted to find a program that could remove those ugly tags that result when I export recipes to text from Yum!, the program I use to organize my recipes. I drag a recipe into the box and hit "clean" only to have the program tell me that it won't do it unless I register? How do I even know it's going to work? Try locking some other feature that is not essential to trying your program, like exporting files. Oh wait, that's locked too. Can this program do anything other than install and look pretty without me having to pay you? I can manage to view the help file and fiddle with the preferences, but every other feature is locked. When I read "some of Recipe Cleaner features have been disabled" hidden all the way at the bottom of the readme file, I didn't think you meant ALL of them! [alert admin]
Friday, January 21 2005 @ 02:33 PM PST
PodGourmet 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Though it's not a program, not what I'd call a "database". It's just a bunch of recipes in text files so that you can read them on your iPod. I could do this myself, and plan on doing just that. I was looking for a program I could use to help me organize my recipes for my iPod, and this will not do anything to that effect other than provide a good template. But I suppose if you're looking for a cheap cookbook for your iPod, this would be a good thing to download. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 21 2005 @ 02:15 PM PST
Yum! 0.5.10 (Mac OS X)
This program is really quite nice to use. I love how you can put recipes in multiple sections if you can't decide where to put them. Does my mom's roast chicken go under main dishes or poultry? Why not both? However, I have a few complaints. 1. The sample recipes that it comes with are mostly unusable by me (I'm assuming the author is from Australia, due to the wallaby recipes I'm encountering?) since almost all of the ingredients are measured in grams and liters, and the temperatures that are given (though most say something like "bake in a moderate oven" what IS a "moderate" oven, exactly? 350? 325? 375?) are all in Celsius. I could possibly use them, but I dislike having to convert every single thing in the recipes to units I can understand. If you had a way to convert measurements in the program, that would make some of these a little better. I am a firm believer in the metric system, but I just can't get myself to use it when cooking. Also, a lot of the dessert recipes use a kind of sugar we can't really get here in the US. 2. When I went to try to get my recipes out so that I could turn them into text files for my iPod, I discovered that the "export to text" feature doesn't really work in a way that saves any time for me whatsoever. Sure, it exports all of my recipes to a text file, but there are tags everywhere. And not useful tags, like as if I could put it into HTML and have it do cool things. Around every single ingredient in the list are amount, unit and foodstuff opening and ending tags. That's SIX tags I have to remove for each and every ingredient. Can you at least try to make this useful? 3. The whole units thing is less useful than it is annoying. I rarely have a need to multiply my recipe, since most of my recipes are approximated anyway. And having the ingredients in a separate bar really makes it difficult for me to add any notes on to my ingredients, since if I make the ingredients bar larger, that makes the text area smaller. Maybe the "Ingredient" field could wrap around or something, so you could see notes like "cut into small pieces" or "finely chopped" without having to resize the whole ingredient bar? I'd suggest a notes field, except that the combined width of such an ingredients field would probably leave no space at all for the actual recipe. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 21 2005 @ 02:00 PM PST
File Stitcher MP3 Edition 1.1 (Mac OS X)
This program does not work for megamixes that are meant to go from one track to another with no pause. I have megamix CDs from Dance Dance Revolution, and iTunes is no help, because I can't make it play songs with no gap between them without burning it to CD. I don't see why I'd want to do that, since I already HAVE them on CD, and I'm trying to move them to my iPod. I managed to merge all of the MP3s for the songs, and in the proper order, but there's a very slight gap between songs. It's not very noticeable when listening on iTunes, but when I try to listen to it on my iPod, there's a VERY noticeable garbled skip around one second long between each and every song, and it makes me cringe every two minutes when a new song comes along. I'd really like to be able to listen to these megamixes on my iPod, but so far I'm not finding it to be possible. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 11 2005 @ 01:22 PM PST
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And today it did update an event I entered in to iCal without having to quit the program, but now it's listing events on next saturday and the following saturday as both being next saturday when I'm in the 14-day view. If I lower it to 7 days, it realises that one of them isn't supposed to be there and removes it, but then if I go back to the 14-day view, it still doesn't…
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Sunday, June 05 2005 @ 05:35 AM PDT
I don't have both arrows at both ends, I have one up arrow on top and one down arrow on bottom as is the sensible way to do it. But for whatever reason it didn't work before, I can scroll now, and select however many calendars I want. But it doesn't update any of the changes I make in iCal until I quit the program (maybe why I had the initial problem where it didn't work?).…
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Friday, June 03 2005 @ 06:18 PM PDT
