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User Name arcturus1
Member Since 2004-04-15
Total number of Feedback Posts: 68
Total number of comments: 9
Last 10 Feedback Posts by arcturus1 [ Search for All ]
Adobe Acrobat 9.2 (Mac OS X)
9.2 solves some "Save to Adobe PDF" issues
I've just gone through one nasty day trying to get Acrobat 9 to print to PDF on Mac OS X 10.6.1. Was using v9.1.3 with little luck. Spent most of the day on the phone with Adobe, Vectorworks (CAD), and Apple. Towards the end of my day of misery, v9.2 appeared as an update and seems much more stable. Truth is, when you need Acrobat, you need it, and I have to send architectural plot files to print houses who plot from various Windows versions of Acrobat. Using OS X pdf technology with Preview is many times faster, easier, and more reliable on my Mac, but I'm not sure how things would go at the print house, at least for the near term. Here's hoping for smoother days with Snow Leopard. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 13 2009 @ 08:33 PM PDT
Google Earth 5.1.3506.3999 (Mac OS X)
I'm not comfortable with Google software reporting any computer info back to the company. Please read the privacy statements that appear when first starting the application to make sure you're OK with Google's policies. Just an advisory. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 11 2009 @ 05:45 AM PDT
Eudora 8.0.0b7 (Mac OS X)
Inbox "From" column shows recepients
The inbox in this version (v.b7) appears to show the names of the recipients instead of the senders. Hope they fix this soon. [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 09 2009 @ 08:36 PM PDT
BBEdit 9.2 (Mac OS X)
Not sure what ftp issues were present in earlier versions, but I have no problems with working with BBEdit's ftp functions, although I typically use Interarchy for ftp. When I need to get something done, and done quickly, BBEdit always comes through. I've tried out others, but BBEdit is the strongest and most comprehensive tool I've found. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 08 2009 @ 07:37 AM PDT
TextMate 1.5.8 (Mac OS X)
The developer apparently is receiving criticism from some users regarding the perceived slowness of updates, particularly regarding the lack of a split window, code completion, and chunk undo command (current undo acts on one character at a time). An TM v2 alpha is apparently under active development, with a beta release still some months out. [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 08 2009 @ 05:28 AM PDT
TimeCache 8.0 (Mac OS X)
Invaluable for architecture billing 
TC's billing categories dovetail replicate architectural project phases (I'm an architect), which makes it an excellent choice for creating invoices or transferring time/billing info to accounting software like AccountEdge or Quickbooks. Customized invoices with .pdf backgrounds are a great addition. I've used this software for 5 years and have complete confidence. Excellent reporting and analysis tools, which I particularly rely on when working on a fixed fee as far as my accounting software, but want to keep track of my hours per phase and overall hours on a given project. Pandaware development is rigorous and support is first class. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 31 2009 @ 04:02 PM PDT
MYOB AccountEdge 2009 (Mac OS X)
I've used AE for six years (architecture) with never an issue. AE is stable, flexible easy to use, and is rigorous in terms of proper accounting protocols. On a Wintel platform, MYOB has serious competition in Peachtree, but on a Mac, Quickbooks doesn't even come close. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 19 2008 @ 07:45 PM PST
Eudora 8.0.0b4 (Mac OS X)
Eudora rises from the ashes...
Amazingly, this release is useable and stable so far. Safari mangles the download; use another browser such as Firefox instead. Mail, filters and settings import from Eudora v6. As expected, some features don't work, such as the Transfer menu. All told, a major improvement over the b3 release, which was generally useless. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 05:39 PM PST
Eudora 8.0.0b4 (Mac OS X)
Eudora 8.0.0b4 .dmg not recognized
Sad to say, the developers can't even place the app properly within a .dmg file. Won't mount because the .dmg file is not recognized (OSX 10.5.5 on 2.8 MHz Intel iMac). [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 08:13 AM PST
BBEdit 9.0.2 (Mac OS X)
The following new features in Release 9 make a big difference in my work with html: 1. Projects 2. Auto-complete for html tags 3. Edit in search windows For working with large web sites, nothing else comes close. This is a mature, powerful text editor. [alert admin]
Saturday, October 25 2008 @ 07:54 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by arcturus1 [ Search for All ]
This will not run in Snow Leopard
Wrong. VW v.2010 specifications list this app as Snow Leopard compatible; and it is running perfectly on my iMac w/Mac OS X 10.6.1. No crashes. No problems.
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Tuesday, October 20 2009 @ 12:06 PM PDT
Agree. I'm sure TextMate has its devotees among professional programmers, but the developer seems to be satisfied with this niche. Too arcane for my uses, but that's just me.
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Wednesday, February 11 2009 @ 05:08 PM PST
Eudora 8.0.0b4 .dmg not recognized
Turns out that Safari is the culprit. Firefox and Interarchy do work.
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Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 10:18 AM PST
See <http://www.nemetschek.net/news/pressreleases/2008/060208.php>.
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Tuesday, June 03 2008 @ 11:16 AM PDT
Uploaded a test 66 MB .dmg file without a problem...
Check whether your ISP is timing out on long transfers; that's more likely the problem than Interarchy.
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Monday, May 12 2008 @ 07:14 PM PDT
Sadly, this problem has been reported on the Macfixit site. Quoting from Macfixit: "Dozens if not hundreds of users are now reporting that SuperDrive Firmware Update 2.1 killed their optical drives, with the devices no longer reading media, nor accepting or ejecting."
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Tuesday, July 10 2007 @ 06:28 PM PDT
Software the world doesn't need
Presumably, Panic gave thought to 1. the viability of the web development IDE concept itself, and 2. the relative difficulty of creating an elegant assemblage of small-footprint components that compete feature-wise with discrete heavy-hitter apps such as BBEdit, TextMate, etc. For a product aimed at the professional market, that's bucking the tide on both counts. This last point was probably not lost on the Panic folks. I'm guessing that Coda is currently positioned as an entry-level/prosumer…
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Friday, April 27 2007 @ 06:26 AM PDT
No problems with a 373 MB web site...
Does that qualify as decent-size? Fetch manages it just fine.
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Thursday, January 25 2007 @ 01:50 PM PST
No indication that this wingnut has actually used the program; I actually think he's talking through his hat. (g)
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Sunday, February 06 2005 @ 09:00 PM PST
