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User Name Windgazer

Member Since 2006-08-04

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par2formac 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Previous feedback seemed to indicate that the tool wasn't operating anymore under later versions of OSX. However, as of this writing, I can report the tool still works just fine under OSX 10.5.8 with two caveats:

You must draganddrop your par2 file onto the app-icon, the menu's are indeed greyed out, as mentioned before.
The par2formac must be on a path without spaces or other special characters in the name. It seems to use an unquoted reference to itself and this breaks when your path has spaces, or possibly other special characters.

Problems such as what I mentioned for the second caveat are reported when the app opens, just read the dialog carefully :) I agree, the interface is crude, but hey, the tool works! It just saved me from having to wait for the last 4 Gig of a huge database dowload! [alert admin]

Bricksmith 2.2 (Mac OS X)

Even better than expected

From an apple standards perspective I can only truly complain about the odd choice of packaging. Where most application drop their 'library' inside the package or in (~)/Library/Application Support/... BrickSmith is pacakaged with its' own folder containing the application package, some example documents and the LDraw Library. However, after downloading some extra parts for my MindStorms Educational set, I happily began documenting my latest invention. It's deceptively easy and intensely satisfying to see my MindStorms HotRod coming back on screen, with steps so that in a distant future I might actually rebuild it! I had not expected it could be this easy to use a 3D modeling tool for Lego... P.S. There's even some usefull info in the help-section, for instance: a list of shortcuts! Not everyday somebody thinks of such a useful addition to the help-catalog! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, August 25 2009 @ 04:53 AM PDT

Google Quick Search Box 2.0.0.1447 (Mac OS X)

Not quite quicksilver yet

Still not sure how long quicksilver will remain viable so whenever a new product comes along that might have a chance of replacing it, I go ahead and try it out. QSB however, like all similar apps, fails to even come close to the quicksilver potential. QSB does what most app-launchers do and adds a quick link to searching the net, wow, not impressed. Unless it's obscured but possible, QSB doesn't have context-aware triggering (start your search with whatever is highlighted), which I use a lot for opening a folder from a finder dialog into the terminal, or to dig deeper into such a folder's sub-tree. Also to open a document with something other than the default app, which QSB can't do even if you find the document from it's search-box. Any custom triggers? Since QuickSilver has such comprehensive trigger-support I don't have to install numerous apps to, lock my screen when I walk away, control itunes through key-combo's and various other common tasks. I was really psyched about QSB when I heard of it, google tends to come up with realy useful software, but this time it's useless, it doesn't do anything that doesn't come with OSX's own software... [alert admin]

Perfect Pitch 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Quite impressive, especially for donation ware

There's plenty of pitch tuning software out there, most of them reserved for guitars, crashing on startup, or payware. So to have found one that doesn't crash and is free for use, unless you feel like donating some money, is a great boon on its' own. To then find that it works quite perfectly for my trumpet, even though somebody mentioned it doesn't bode well for acoustic instruments. The reason I had downloaded this piece of software was to check which pitch my several didgeridoos were tuned for. This the software, not surprisingly, had some trouble with those, but by keeping my tone as pure and unwavering as possible was still able to give me a good indication. I tested this by having my conductor lend me his pitching hardware the same evening to double-check the two didgeridoos that were in a pitch that was usable for a certain piece of music. So, in the end, seeing as a professional piece of hardware had no trouble deciphering the pitch of a didgeridoo I can't in honesty rate this software as perfect, but it came quite close, if you're asking me :) [alert admin]

Bean 1.2 (Mac OS X)

Flawed by it's own nature

Bean is a great and useful text-editor with a little more usability than TextEdit but with all the flaws of TextEdit inherited from it. If you're seriously looking to replace you bloated office-ware but want to work in an environment where you need to be able to work with 'any' type of document, be it OpenOffice, Miscrosoft Office or Apple's iWork files, keep looking. Like TextEdit, Bean (still) does NOT transparently import all the formats that they claim to support. They'll import the more advanced formats only partially and you'll lose a lot of formatting / images and layout in the process. I was really hoping Bean would do better than that, but alas, I'll just have to suffer through NeoOffice a little longer :( If your looking for a simple Text-editor that can make reasonably good looking office-documents with layouts that aren't too overly complex, this is the tool for you though, just don't expect too much of its' import functionality. [alert admin]

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Saturday, May 03 2008 @ 11:11 PM PDT

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