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User Name alajuela
Member Since 2000-09-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 282
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by alajuela [ Search for All ]
URL Manager Pro 3.5b10 (Mac OS X)
Excellent Utility.....Could Be 5 Stars If....... 
But the archaic look and feel is in serious need of an update. I love URLMP, and it works with the browsers I care about. Granted, it only works halfway with Firefox 3.x, i.e., your collection of bookmarks is available from the menubar, but it seems that addition of new bookmarks does not work correctly. Still, precisely because I do most of my work in Safari, URLMP is particularly effective for me, because every time I have occasion to use another browser, all my bookmarks are there. However, the interface is archaic, more like System 8. Alco is a dedicated developer, and I just wish he'd bring URLMP into the Big Cat Era. That and complete Firefox compatibility would restore this to first class, 5-star status. But even with those faults, nothing else matches URLMP. I have tried every other bookmark manager, and they all seem to get the model wrong. URLMP gets the model right, and in that respect, it has no competition. [BTW, if someone knows of another manager that allows you to collect bookmarks from within any browser and make them available in any browser, without itself having to be the front & center app, let me know. I love Quicksilver, but apps like it are not the same. And I would gladly pay good money and give 7 stars to anyone who could integrate 1Password and URLMP functionality into a single app.] [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 11:46 AM PDT
SousChef 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Three years ago, I might have given this app five stars. It is very nicely done, and has some "cook friendly" features, such as the recipe/instruction display. In some ways, it is much nicer than the other cooking/recipe apps I have paid for. But this is almost 2009; I shop with my iPhone now. I want a recipe manager that integrates with IQGrocer or Shopping List, or has its own iPhone app to drive/integrate the shopping list. I'd rather have its features on my iPhone, so that in my kitchen, I could listen on speakerphone, over my headset, or in my iHome clock radio. If all you want is a good recipe manager, and this has the features you want [especially the blogging, sharing, and display features], it is nicely done, and its price is on a par with the market. Still, I do like its recipe/instruction display. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 07 2008 @ 11:35 AM PDT
Anxiety 1.0 (Mac OS X)
This is an excellent, fast, reliable interface for creating ToDos and checking them off. Effective menubar icon only takes up the minimally necessary room. Really not sure how this could be any better, perhaps with MailTags integration, but that would seem to defeat its very purpose. Worth a donation. [alert admin]
Sunday, October 05 2008 @ 07:15 PM PDT
Auction Hunter 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I am a long time JBidWatcher user [and the developer is very assiduous at keeping up with ebay and user requests], as well as some other auction tools before that. I tried Auction Hunter for the first time today, and after playing with it for an hour, paid to register it. I have a couple of small auctions today on which to test the snipe capability. I understand the "arms race" in which ebay engages--unethically it seems to me--to break the sniping capabilities of third party software. I also understand the crybabies who claim that sniping is unfair. Oh well. Even if AH doesn't work any more reliably than JBW did, its Cocoa foundation and OS X-like presentation is so much more attractive. And that alone made it worthwhile. I plan to share some suggestions with the developers, mostly along the lines of including some JBW-like capabilities. Among other things, I would like narrower rows, so that I can see more of my auction data at one time without having to scroll. And within the "All" view, I would like some more clear designations of those items I am bidding n, those that are Hot, and those I have set to snipe. Also, twice today it has beach-balled on me, so I had to knock off a point on stability. And while I do not think the price is unfair, I think it is a tad high; if support remains good, it will be worth it. [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 03:45 PM PST
Xtorrent 1.0 (45) (Mac OS X)
I like the way Dave designs his stuff to be very "Mac-ified." But Xt keeps crashing [kinda defeats the whole purpose of being part of a torrent community], and Dave doesn't respond to user requests for assistance. So, for all his "anti-corporation" polemic, the reality is that supporting Dave is not good for the user. That's a shame, because Xtorrent has lots of potential to be the premiere Mac torrent client. Right now, it's just money into Dave's wallet with a poor and frustrating return to the user. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 28 2007 @ 01:35 PM PDT
Flip4Mac Drive-in 1.0.0.32 (Mac OS X)
Actually, on two DVDs so far, it works flawlessly, and the images are playable in Front Row, which is pretty cool. But each image does take up 7gb, and while the quality is excellent, Handbrake creates playable images of 1/10 the size with an acceptable deterioration in quality for casual viewing. I'll keep trying this, because it seems well done, and it might be nice to use on the home system where it preserves all aspects of the DVD. [alert admin]
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Friday, December 01 2006 @ 08:01 AM PST
iPlanner 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Yeah, the demo worked fine for me, and it appears to be decent. I don't use either of the supported planners. Instead, I use a Levenger Circa system, which is letter size. So, I can use the LutherSoft full-size page template. That's cool. But inability to print weekly or monthly calendars is just killer for a $25 price tag. I don't mind that the demo prints un-useable pages; it proves it will work, though a time-delimited demo would be more effective, so I could actually use it. But single days only? C'mon LutherSoft, that's pretty narrow functionality. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 15 2006 @ 12:57 PM PST
Bookpedia 3.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Why separate apps for every media?
I am impressed with Bookpedia, but am disappointed that the developer has chosen to segregate library apps by media. I mean, does it really make sense to have a separate app for CDs, games and DVDs? I want my library to be integrated on the computer even if it is or isn't in real life. I am not complaining about the price of buying all 4 apps; I am complaining about the loss of functionality and inconvenience associated with separate apps. And no, it is not superior because it allows the user to only pay for what he or she wants. That's easily solved. Even Intelliscanner offers a front-end to its separate apps. But as near as I can tell, only Delicious Library truly integrates the multimedia approach. One thing I can do with DL that I cannot do with BP is to look at what titles are repesented in books, DVDs, videotapes and even games at the same time. Am I missing something that the *pedia apps offer here? [alert admin]
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Friday, November 10 2006 @ 05:25 AM PST
NNW Unread Menu 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I would like a menu notification for NNW, but when installed on my MacBook pro, this does not behave quite as expected. Unlike the screen shot shown above, my list of feeds is grayed out. That's not that big of a deal, but it does mean I cannot use this utility to go directly to the feed I want to check out [and I think that should be one of its features]. Also, this utility does not respect groups in NNW, i.e., it does not behave the same way the NNW dock icon does, and that is what I was hoping for. Finally, it would be nice if there was some indication of which feeds have been updated. Still, it shows promise, and for now, I can tell when I have updated feeds without having to open NNW. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 26 2006 @ 11:39 AM PDT
e2Sync Tiger 2.8 (Mac OS X)
I was an early and enthusiastic and paying supporter of this product. But as noted in a reply to my own review below, I have run into a problem with e2Sync. It repeatedly times out in syncing between Entourage & iSync. iSync works great for iCal and Address Book and my Nokia N70. This is clearly an e2Sync issue. I have filed bug reports [over two weeks ago] with the developer, including my email address and cell phone and have heard nothing. Indeed, when I filed a feature request/explanation early after buying the product, months ago, I never heard from them then, either. For now, I cannot recommend this product. To the developers: there is still "a hole in our lives." [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 23 2006 @ 09:13 AM PDT
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Well, I went and tried Butler again. Been a while since I donated, a long while. I agree the bookmark manager is pretty nice. It's not a truly integrated bookmark manager, i.e., your bookmarks remain separate for each browser, but I can see where someone might like that. At first, when I invoked a Firefox bookmark, it still opened in my primary browser Safari. But I found out how to change that, though the setting…
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Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 12:16 PM PDT
I am a long time user of URLMP, and apart from the "OS 9" look, love it. I use Quicksilver as my keyboard launcher, having bought LaunchBar and left it for Q, and tried Butler, but not grokking it. Help me understand how Butler replicates URLMP functionality. I don't see it.
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Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 10:31 AM PDT
Same behavior here. This is precisely what I do not want to happen.
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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 09:52 PM PDT
I continue to like AH very much, but I have noticed an increasing instability. Depending on how many apps I have running--it seems--AH will last as little as two or three minutes before it beach balls and then crashes. This instability is a serious issue because, while AH seems to snipe just fine, it cannot snipe if it has crashed. Therefore, I have been forced to monitor AH in order to ensure I get my…
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Sunday, March 02 2008 @ 12:55 PM PST
My crashes seem to be linked to my 10.4.10 upgrade. Prior to that, it was doing fine. I have not previously had the problem of Dave not answering emails Am hopeful that there is a specific resolution for the crashing.
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Thursday, June 21 2007 @ 07:32 PM PDT
Deeply suspicious - think before you leap...
Man oh man, what a load. Nothing suspicious here at all. Sheesh, get a life and some dose of objectivity. You can't figure out how it works, so you instantly suspect foul play. Well, that's rational.
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Friday, December 01 2006 @ 08:11 AM PST
Perhaps you could provide some examples. I am just a DL user, and occasional "try something else out" kind of guy, but what is it that DL so misses out on with respect to how people work and what computers can do? I tried out the *pedia apps for example, and while I like things about them better, how convenient is it to have to open a different app for every single type of media?…
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Friday, November 10 2006 @ 05:08 AM PST
Still not working......
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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 03:20 PM PDT
I sure have a difficult time agreeing that Apple has buggered this up. I miss the swinging part of the animation, too, though Coverflow still works fine as a stand-alone app. What I am hoping for is: 1. a full-scale iTunes visualizer based on Coverflow, which Apple can easily do; 2. A full-blown controller inside that visualizer; 3. A screen saver. Since you seem fond of complaining, I hope you shared your unhappiness with APple, rather than merely airing…
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Thursday, September 14 2006 @ 03:38 PM PDT
at this point, version 2.8 is timing out under OS X 10.4.7, with iSync 2.3 and Entourage 11.2.5. iSync is otherwise working fine with my Nokia N70, so there is some new failing with e2Sync. Have filed a bug report with the developers.
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Monday, September 11 2006 @ 09:13 AM PDT
