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User Name afterhours
Member Since 2004-06-07
Total number of Feedback Posts: 79
Total number of comments: 59
Last 10 Feedback Posts by afterhours [ Search for All ]
SqueezeCenter 7.1 (Mac OS X)
Installed 7.1 on a G4/450 with 10.4.11, 1.5Gb RAM. Preference Pane won't start. More exactly, clicking to start changes the button to stop, but 20 seconds later it reverts to Start. The Web Access button never changes from its greyed-out state. Anyone have a link to the v7.0 download? [alert admin]
Monday, August 18 2008 @ 03:53 PM PDT
NeoOffice 2.2.4 patch 4 (Mac OS X)
On a PowerPC G4, It seems to function fine. Word processing and spell checking works. No loop issue noted. This on a 593 page document. Excel documents open without issue. Hard to beat that, even if it launches slower -- it isn't $400 :) I'm happy. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 16 2008 @ 08:12 PM PDT
MoneyWorks Express 5.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Does the company offer a Quicken replacement? That product needs serious competition -- and Intuit has made the Mac the ugly stepsister to the windows fare for too long. Time to jump ship and give our money to a company that cares. [alert admin]
Wednesday, August 06 2008 @ 07:29 AM PDT
Intuit Quicken 2006 R6 (Mac OS X)
post your questions, concerns, grips and requests...
at their forum: http://www.quickencommunity.com/webx/Forums/Quicken%20Personal%20Finance%20Software%20Forum%20for%20Macintosh/ The only way we can make Quicken better is to snailmail their senior management, to post on their forum, and to let them know we want better. The product is serviceable as a check/credit card ledger. It can do simple loans. It can do simple stock investments. To improve it, you need to let them know. Directly. [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 23 2008 @ 12:23 PM PDT
Macromedia FreeHand MX 11.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I don't know what the previous poster is relating to... but Freehand MX certainly does work in Leopard. There are some warts. The biggest is some kind of font irregularity where things may need to be proofed as a PDF, or working around Apple's silly commandeering of Helvetica Neue as an OS font. But Freehand DOES work in 10.5. Why does Adobe cripple one's ability to apply updates by not posting the 11.0.1 updater. They are really a pain in the as$ about maintenance updates and that horrid thing they call a website. Three monkeys using PageMill could have done better. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 07:37 AM PDT
ClamXav 1.1.0 (Mac OS X)
Works just fine, and you can update it on your own 
The author provided us with a GUI for the program -- it isn't his responsibility to update the program itself. But he has gone the extra mile to tell us how to update the program ourselves with this link: http://www.clamxav.com/index.php?page=byo [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 15 2008 @ 07:57 PM PDT
OnyX 1.9.6b3 (Mac OS X)
Tiger users will need to go find an older version, or use a different tool. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 01:47 PM PDT
Parallels Desktop 3.0 Build 5608.0 (Mac OS X)
Can't get the downloaded dmg to mount. Tried twice, and the Parallels app didn't successfully allow for the update, either. Nasty that we can't get to the update dmg any other way. I'm disillusioned with this company. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 01 2008 @ 02:36 PM PDT
Dejal Simon 2.4.1 (Mac OS X)
Excellent replacement for Whistleblower
I waited years for James Sentman to get around to updating Whistleblower for the newer APC equipment. Sadly, that hasn't happened (yet). But on the bright side, it forced me to find a modern solution, and with Simon, I've got all the control over my alerts and AP7900 that I need. Server monitoring is back, and with Simon, I feel unleashed from the server room again. The developer has been open and responsive to questions about the product and feature enhancements. Once I outgrow my $60 license, it'll be a no-brainer to move up to Enterprise. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 23 2008 @ 12:42 PM PDT
BusySync 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
using iCal with BusySync saved me from going with Now Up-To-Date and their model for calendar sharing. While there is a place for Now, or MeetingMaker, or Daylite, there simply isn't the need for the cost of those products -- or the update nightmares. BusySync does exactly what I needed it to -- properly and unobtrusively share calendars between 5 Macs running Tiger and Leopard on a LAN. Scheduling and time-management is almost too simple -- and having this as a p2p solution obviates a workstation having to be on as a server, or a dedicated server such as Leopard server. I'm totally happy with what we've seen thus far. Stable, functional, as easy as using iCal itself. If an addressbook sharing feature was added, that would be icing on the cake. For now, I just can't see going back to Now or the other choices. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 30 2008 @ 08:23 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by afterhours [ Search for All ]
I don't think $25 is unreasonable at all. Yes, it costs $1 for the DVD blank, and perhaps 20 minutes for someone to process the order and mail it, but it also covers additional programming to keep up with Apple's ever-changing specs, machine and OS requirements. This is additional engineering beyond the 'hey, it's a bug, they should fix that for free'. It's not like YOU can build a replacement DVD just on their…
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Monday, August 04 2008 @ 05:32 PM PDT
There is no reason to believe what you are using now will be around in 5 or 10 years. In any aspect of the computing industry. I'm uncertain what your gripe is with Adobe. I can't open a single application I purchased in 1999. Why, because time and technology marches on. With Leopard, anything 'Classic' is gone. Can Vista run the games, Word or Quicken you bought 8 years ago? I'm not…
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Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 10:28 AM PDT
Incorrect download URL here, AND at EMC...
The link appears to be correct now. And the update fixed a few problems I was having. Thanks EMC for keeping the Mac product working.
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Sunday, July 20 2008 @ 07:13 AM PDT
They are very different OS versions under the hood. Why would you make that assumption?
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Sunday, July 13 2008 @ 07:28 AM PDT
Interesting theory. I went through this with the makers of MacScan, who have played dodgeball with their ratings. Their supportive posts were all made by posters who had registered only the day they left the feedback, and only one feedback. Oddly, their posts were worded similarly to the marketing and verbage on their website. In the last year, they've not repeated the behavior, so that's a plus. As for using all caps…
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Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 07:26 AM PDT
REALLY, absolutley not ready for Prime Time,......
Well, you're no genius -- that's established. I suppose you'd like to do open heart surgery on yourself, too? One cannot properly defrag any drive if that drive has open files. That would be your boot drive, genius. So, this product has you boot from the optical drive -- thereby avoiding any open files on the target drive of the defrag. There, don't you feel smarter about giving a star rating to a product…
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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 08:30 AM PDT
40 bucks is about what I bill for 1/2 hour of work. If a product can shave that off of my time to implement a task, it has a certain value. Is this in the 'spirit' of the open source community? I have no idea. How many man-hours went into a project, and whether that project should be free or not, is entirely up to the individual who creates it. Do folks who work…
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Wednesday, January 30 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Nokia 6230/i & 6300 not compatible
They cut/paste'd the wrong link: this is the link for supported phones thus far: http://europe.nokia.com/A4423135
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Monday, January 21 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Spelling matters. If they can't spell, can they code? I use this product every once in a while for ebay auctions. I bought it. I expect the coders to pay attention to details that make it a superior product. And I expect them to either be able to spell, or to proof their work, or to at least be able to run a spell checker. It isn't hard, and…
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Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 06:21 AM PST
You just can't put a (good) GUI on BIND
'Of course, it's simply impossible to put a (comprehensible) UI on every option BIND has to offer, so a little slack has to be cut somewhere. What I think would be the most beneficial to everyone would be to have the default config files include other files (possibly in ~/Library/Application Support) that would permit the user to override or extend the default configs to suit their needs, but then again, anyone who knows how to…
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Tuesday, January 01 2008 @ 05:26 AM PST
