User Profile for Visionaire

User Name Visionaire

Member Since 2003-09-28

Total number of Feedback Posts: 6

Total number of comments: 1

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WeatherDock 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)

Over the years I have used a multitude of freeware, shareware, and commercial weather software programs installed on Mac OS X, and Windows XP computers. WeatherDock is almost a perfect weather program. It is one of the best freeware weather software programs available today for the Mac OS X user. What else does it need? Here are my suggestions for WeatherDock. WeatherDock only needs four features added to make it absolutely fantastic. They are: 1. Realtime weather radar imaging added to each favorite weather location 2. A weather alert feature that immediately notifies the user of potential severe weather conditions in their area 3. A one click WeatherDock icon menu placed at the top of the Desktop Menu Bar that does the following: a. Displays a very easy to read WeatherDock menu icon that constantly shows the current temperature and weather conditions a. Click on the WeatherDock menu icon and detailed weather conditions are displayed for favorite locations b. Click on a WeatherDock menu item and a current weather radar image is displayed for each favorite weather location selected c. Click on a WeatherDock menu item to bring up and adjust Preference settings d. Click on a WeatherDock menu item to Quit WeatherDock 4. Once Mac OS X, version 10.4, Tiger is released, WeatherDock should add a Widget feature. If the above list of features were added to WeatherDock it then would be worthy of becoming a commercially viable shareware weather application program with a fair and reasonable retail value of $15-$25. That said, why should WeatherDock ever become a shareware or commercial weather software program? One only has to look at the pattern of failure set by past, once great freeware weather programs (such as Meteorologist), to realize that for a worthy application such as WeatherDock to continually sustain itself as being a quality product, at some point it must become a commercial product or users will be forced to look elsewhere for another weather program. In that way, via profitable financial reward, the software developer would be motivated to continually upgrade WeatherDock every time Mac OS X is upgraded, and when the Weather Channel makes changes to their website that effect the function of WeatherDock, (which will begin to fail, without continued maintenance and updates over the long-term life of the product). In the long run users of WeatherDock would be happy and loyal to the product for years to come. At the outset of my comments I said "over the years I have used a multitude of freeware, shareware, and commercial weather software programs installed on Mac OS X, and Windows XP computers". Well, by adding the feature set I propose to WeatherDock and eventually making it a reasonably inexpensive priced product I would never need to use any other weather software program again. WeatherDock would become the end of this deja vu, (been there, done that) we all have faced with the countless freeware weather programs that have come and gone on the Macintosh platform. One more point. The Weather Channel potentially could then market WeatherDock to Mac OS X users directly at their website. [alert admin]

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Solution to Download Issue Resolved

After communicating with a Bandmateloops.com support person I have learned why failures most likely can occur when attempting to download their Bandmate Free Loop Packs, and how you may eliminate and correct this issue. In short, you most likely are attempting to download a Bandmates Free Loop Pack from a computer located behind a firewall. SOLUTION: TURN OFF THE FIREWALL SOFTWARE or DOWNLOAD THE FILE FROM A COMPUTER NOT LOCATED BEHIND A FIREWALL. TEST: With my third party firewall software activated I am not able to download a Bandmate Free Loop Pack. When this same third party firewall software is turned off the Bandmate Free Loop Pack downloads perfectly every time. NOTE: Mac OS X's built in software firewall, when activated, does not cause this download failure to occur. Only when I activate a third party software firewall does the download failure occur. My hardware firewall has no adverse effects either, and a download is successful every time. Here is the communication I received from Bandmateloops.com detailing the cause and solution. You might find this helpful. -------------- Many corporate and commercial firewalls, both software and hardware have "features" that cause identity problems over the web. In effect, our system is not able to confirm who you are because of a firewall. Often software such as Norton's firewall software is "blocking" the means to do that. The work-around is to use a firewall system that is not scrambling header data. ... Just for ha hah's we tried to block it using OSX's built in firewall but it does not cause a failure. Since the web is increasingly becoming restricted due to abuses, better security solutions are needed and we are constantly seeking them out. Rest assured, we are constantly working to make the Bandmates experience as seamless and easy as humanly possible. Hope this helps---- Sincerely, Bandmateloops.com -------------- I hope I helped. [alert admin]

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Saturday, August 07 2004 @ 09:53 AM PDT

Bandmates Free Loop Pack 3 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Update To My Earlier Comments

From a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X I have attempted to download the free Bandmateloops for GarageBand using several different web browsers with the exact same failures occurring each and every time regardless of the browser... BUT I was successful in triggering the download of these loops from a Windows machine though. Hmmm... Here are the details. From a computer running Macintosh OS X, Panther, version 10.3.4. I attempted these failed downloads multiple times using the following web browsers: Safari, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Opera. From a computer running Windows XP Professional I was able to successfully trigger the download process to receive the free Bandmateloops using Internet Explorer for Windows. I tried this with success multiple times with each of the Bandmate Free Loop Packs. That said, I canceled the download once I saw it was in fact possible to download these loops from a Windows XP machine. Why? Because the GarageBand software program that these loops are supposedly for only runs on Mac OS X v10.2.6 or later (Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later recommended). It doesn't work on a Windows PC. Once again I have contacted their support person with these details. Let's hope this gets rectified soon. This is exactly the wrong way to get GarageBand users excited about a product. [alert admin]

Bandmates Free Loop Pack 3 1.1 (Mac OS X)

VersionTracker should take down this Bandmates link for now

VersionTracker Should Take Down This Bandmates Link For Now, And Here Is Why. I have experienced exactly the same download issue everyone else did today (8-3-04) when they went to the Bandmates.com website to register as a member and was not able to download any so-called free GarageBand Loops... So I sent an email message to the Bandmates Webmaster addressing the issue but have not received any feedback yet. Hopefully this is only a recent download error with the Bandmates.com website. Since I have never been to the Bandmates.com website before today then I don't know if this is the case now. If it is not, then VersionTracker probably should NOT allow Bandmates.com to post so-called freeware product download links that are in fact bogus and completely misleading. Obviously VersionTracker doesn't want their excellent website to be tarnished by one vendor. In defense of Bandmates.com, this isn't exactly the best way to gain potential product buyers so let's think better of Bandmates.com in hopes their website download links just need correcting. I'm sure they don't want to stake their potential future business on misleading anyone, right? The stakes would be too high. Confirmation is needed though... Have any of you ever gone to the Bandmates.com website before today and successfully downloaded their FREE GarageBand Loops? If so, then we need to know ASAP. If more than one person can post a comment confirming this fact, either way, it would be helpful to all of us to know. Okay? If Bandmates.com has a known history of repeatedly setting up bogus download links (which they most likely don't) then I am sure VersionTracker doesn't endorse such activities and would want to know so they can take appropriate actions. I think harpdog's comments below describe best to everyone why no one should attempt to register at Bandmates.com right now until there download links have been corrected. Let's all be patient and see if Bandmates.com can correct this download failure issue and hope for the best. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, August 03 2004 @ 04:20 PM PDT

F1 Championship Season 2000 1.0.4 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

F1 is still the best Mac racer to date

I have F1 Championship Season 2000 plus several other Macintosh OS X racing simulators including the two Nascar 2002 and 2003 racers. I believe that F1 2000 still provides the best overall racing experience of all the sims available on the Macintosh platform TODAY. The quality of the Force Feedback is great too. Even though the Nascar racers have excellent quality graphics (just slightly better than F1) and Force Feedback too, you can only enjoy turning left until a certain point before it becomes just plain boring. The missing feel of the G force sensation that should be felt in the high bank turns driven in the Nascar racers to date is not available in a sim and contributes significantly to a false driving effect in the Nascar racers. With F1 the pure open wheel, unobstructed view, twist and turn excitement level experienced by racing F1 is not obtained with any other Mac racing sim, bar non. That said, the fact that a newer version of F1 has not reached the Mac platform yet is truly not significant yet. If a 2003 or 2004 version were to be released on Mac OS X I would be one of the first to get it. [alert admin]

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Saturday, March 06 2004 @ 08:46 PM PST

CE QuicKeys 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)

QuicKeys v2.0.2 works fine in Jaguar and Panther

I have installed QuicKeys version 2.0.2 on Macintoshes running both Mac OS X, 10.2.8, Jaguar, and Mac OS X, 10.3.1, Panther, without having any unusual adverse issues take place at all. I am not sure why others are having install problems take place with version 2.0.2. I do recommend that you read and follow the install instructions exactly as CEsoft instructs. First make sure that your earlier version of QuicKeys was working fine befoe you perform the update; export all your QuicKeys shortcuts; back up your current version of QuicKeys and exported shortcuts to a CD or somewhere off your main hard drive. Make sure before you do the 2.0.2 install that you first place your current version of QuicKeys in the trash, then log out and back in again. Do not delete your QuicKeys Preferences. Install version 2.0.2. Then delete the older version from the trash. Then log out and back in again. Then launch version 2.0.2 for the FIRST TIME. If it doesn't work after doing all this then you have some other issue going on including but not limited to human error. As a last resort I recommend contacting CEsoft for technical support. I have used QuicKeys since it's beginning and highly recommend it to anyone interested in automating redundent tasks on their Macintosh computer. Enjoy! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, November 25 2003 @ 07:52 AM PST

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EOS Digital Rebel

Yes, RemoteCapture Version 2.7.4 does work with the EOS Digital Rebel. After you download the updater review the ReadMe file and you will see that the EOS Digital Rebel is the second camera from the bottom of the list of Canon digital cameras that can use the new RemoteCapture Version 2.7.4 update software.

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Friday, December 12 2003 @ 05:12 PM PST