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User Name awaMan
Member Since 2003-07-15
Total number of Feedback Posts: 23
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Delicious Library 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Recently I upgraded to v2.1.1 from (I think) v2. This formerly rock-solid program has become a crash-ridden mess. Only one crash triggered a message to the developer. All the others have been nearly instantaneous, although they usually leave the data intact. Most frequently crashes happen when I click on an item without a graphic or when I click on the "Reviews" tab. It seems there's a serious bug in connecting to Amazon for the data. The upgrade also lost some of my data, including notes and personal ratings. I trust the authors to fix this (so I still recommend it, but only if you try it), but right now it's a serious let-down to what was an excellent program. Other than a change of panel orientation, I don't see any real changes, which makes the crashing all the more annoying: one cosmetic change and your whole program goes down the tubes. Lame. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 03:37 AM PDT
iStock 1.5.2 (Mac OS X)
I filed a bug report about iStock not accepting fractional shares (i.e., share < 1, as some of my DRIPs buy). About a week later, the fix is made. Excellent! [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 18 2008 @ 04:35 AM PDT
iStock 1.5 (Mac OS X)
I like the new options, but the ability to add dividends, incremental buys/sells, and notes (for explaining the company) that appear in the Info window would make this even better. The price is down, which is nice, too! [alert admin]
Friday, October 03 2008 @ 05:33 AM PDT
The Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.4 (Mac OS X)
After upgrading to Leopard, I bought the MS 6 upgrade to continue using my Palm TX with my MacBook. Things work, but I swear that about 75% of my syncs now end in the Mac application crashing--crazy. I almost always send my crash reports in, so I hope a 6.0.5 update will appear soon. Startup time for v6 seems to be very slow, which adds to frustration following crashes. Though it's Apple's fault, the program can no longer mount external memory cards on the Desktop, something I loved under Tiger. For syncing a Palm under Mac OS X, this is really the only game in town. It does a competent job, and if you use J-OS to use Japanese on your Palm, the program will handle Japanese text syncs well. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 06:02 AM PDT
iStock 1.3.3 (Mac OS X)
For $15, I think this program has been a reasonably good buy. It will track your stocks, create charts, allow multiple portfolios, and even track currencies (nifty!). However, it could be <i>even better</i> if users could: 1) add their individual stocks' dividends (as a preference even) 2) add a note column (e.g., to remind yourself what the company's core business is) 3) incrementally add share buys (instead of having to recalculate the whole cost-basis following the 20 more shares you just bought) Basically I want the Palm OS program StockManager on the Mac ;-) [alert admin]
Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 05:37 AM PDT
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I've used QuickNews on my Palm TX for a long time to download feeds with both the Mac conduit and direct with WiFi. For Palm OS, the program is generally stable and works well with other applications (e.g., passing feeds' article links to email programs or a browser like Xiino (but not Opera).) It shows, as an option, embedded images, and lets you choose which feeds to download depending on your connection (conduit or direct). My only gripe, and a piddling one it is, is that QN cannot display Japanese feeds, even though I have J-OS installed. However, I don't hold that against the developer at all. [alert admin]
Thursday, December 20 2007 @ 08:58 PM PST
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I registered my copy of Xiino a few years ago. I still use it every day, usually to read articles from RSS feeds read in QuickNews. I note that the company's website (www.mobirus.com) is now gone, which I assume means the sad end of Xiino. I still recommend it, but it's probably dead to future development (there haven't been any updates to it in years anyway). [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 20 2007 @ 08:51 PM PST
FontSight 3.2 (Mac OS X)
I use application this on a MacBook, Tiger 10.4.11, without any trouble. Handy! [alert admin]
Thursday, November 29 2007 @ 04:05 AM PST
Global Warmth 2.3 (Mac OS X)
I've bought licenses for both Global Warmth (first) and WeatherPop (second); WeatherPop is better because it's cheaper ($8 vs. $19) and it allows input from various weather sites (GW apparently allows only one source). I also prefer having WeatherPop in the menubar, out of the way, whereas GW stays in the Dock. In short, Global Warmth is OK, but WeatherPop is better. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 29 2007 @ 03:55 AM PST
iData 3.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I like iData 3 (and liked v2) very much but I miss the Palm conduit that v1 had. Thankfully there is <a href="http://www.mootjelitt.se/jfc">JFile Companion</a> (JFC) for reading and writing Palm <a href="http://www.land-j.com/jfile.html">JFile</a> databases. Export your iData files as tab-delimited files (sadly, you must do without freeform field data), choose the right JFC conversion template, convert, and install to your Palm. To go Palm to iData, backup your Palm; if you've already made JFC templates for your JFile databases, just double-click on the backed up pdb files in JFC and it will convert them to tab-delimited files you can import and merge into your iData files. I keep lesson plans, software updates, and other things "synced" in both iData and JFile this way. A conduit would be better, but this will do just fine. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 03 2007 @ 07:07 AM PDT
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Here's 3 free apps that do the same things as PDFPenPro
Whoever you are, your bio and ego are irrelevant. I'm tenured at a Japanese university. So what? Thank you for the relevant information about similar products. PDFpen Pro does what it says and works well enough for me; I prefer it to Adobe's Reader and Digital Editions for reading PDF books, as it is easy to add notes and chapters, although it can be slow to save. It handles Unicode well (important for Japanese) and is updated…
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Saturday, September 12 2009 @ 03:26 AM PDT
The company was delisted from the Vancouver stock exchange a while back. I think you can still buy the product, but I wouldn't expect any more updates. :-(
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Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 05:52 AM PDT
I had similar experiences trying this software and junked it. I found the freeware Clutter to be much better, especially since--nearly 40 years old--I still listen to plenty of CDs not available on iTunes or even no longer being pressed, so the program can't always autodownload a cover. However, if I scan or otherwise obtain a cover, I can drop it on Clutter's window and it'll display whenever the proper CD is played through iTunes. Yay!
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Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 05:46 AM PDT
Hopefully some Unicode support for multilingual hotspot text. That quibble aside, I think CubicConnector is a great program for working with QTVR content.
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Thursday, October 04 2007 @ 07:43 AM PDT
How does PTGui compare to PTMac, other than costing more (even more now with the wimpy USD) and offering full fisheye support (PTMac is officially limited to 160 degees' field-of-view, although there is unofficial support for full fisheye shots)? Though a novice, I use a fisheye and 16-bit images in PTMac and get (I think) good output, although PTMac's workflow is not wholly 16-bit-friendly. PTMac upgrades have been steady, usually (always? I can't recall) free, and…
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Thursday, October 04 2007 @ 07:36 AM PDT
It's the kind of mistake <em>you</em> would expect from Bush, as opposed to, say, yourself.
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Friday, July 06 2007 @ 06:07 AM PDT
Yes, I've read the conduit has problems with MissingSync, but it works just fine for me on OS 10.3.x with all MissingSyncs from v4+. However, if I have non-ASCII text documents (I have some Japanese text files on my Palm), WordSmith will try to sync those and choke. Now, if the DocsToGo people would add better keyboard support so I could skip about text documents easily with Option-arrow or other such keystrokes instead of having to…
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Monday, May 02 2005 @ 06:16 PM PDT
I registered Gradekeeper back at version 4 I believe, but Palm support is apparently not planned, according to the developer (from an old email exchange, though). As a result, I finally opted for EasyGradePro X and its extra cost conduit, which run $99 together, but the Palm conduit and the app superb. The app itself offers everything Gradekeeper does and then some.
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Tuesday, April 27 2004 @ 10:13 PM PDT
