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User Name big_mig
Member Since 2005-03-11
Total number of Feedback Posts: 11
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by big_mig [ Search for All ]
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.2 (Mac OS X)
The Expose bugs alone make Word virtually unusable - for example, you click on a tiled Word document in Expose, and it doesn't come to the forefront. Nor does choosing that windows in the Window menu bring it forward. And, believe it or not, it used to be worse before SP1. It has been 7.5 years now since the initial release of OS X 10.0 and, honestly, Microsoft has yet to release an office suite that actually works well on OS X. It's so bad that I basically avoid Office at all costs now except when I have to collaborate with someone else who is using Word/Excel. I'm hoping that the next version (Office 2011?) will finally behave like a real OS X app, but I'm not holding my breath. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 13 2008 @ 10:01 PM PDT
iMote 2.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Memory leak ruins an otherwise great product 
I really want to like iMote, but it leaks memory like no other application I've seen. After a day or two of being open it can easily consume 150+ MB of real memory, which is ridiculous for an application of this type (the only apps that regularly consume more than that are web browsers, which have a bunch of open tabs storing tons of history and cache, etc. etc.). It is quite annoying to have to relaunch the app every couple days. My advice to the author would be to switch to Objective C 2.0 with automatic garbage collection when Leopard is released. This should solve the memory leaks once and for all. At that point, I would gladly register and contribute to his development fund. [alert admin]
Monday, January 15 2007 @ 02:52 PM PST
Keyword Assistant 1.9.2 (Mac OS X)
iPhoto keyword functionality is essentially broken without this. This is the most useful iPhoto plugin I have ever encountered, and now it is finally Universal. [alert admin]
Friday, September 15 2006 @ 03:48 PM PDT
Smultron 1.2.7 (Mac OS X)
Very nice. However, one minor annoyance I have noticed is that when you select "Check Spelling As You Type" from the Edit menu, the setting does not stick between multiple documents and relaunches. Is there anyway to just set it for the app and forget it? If not, this would be a nice addition. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 06:43 PM PDT
WristSaver 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I was running it under 10.4. The functionality is not bad, but after a few days I discovered it was using 300 MB of RAM!!! (the machine I installed it on only has 768 total) That was the point at which I threw it in the trash. Now I am trying TimeOut...better features than WristSaver, and hopefully it doesn't leak as much memory (we'll see...). [alert admin]
Monday, September 05 2005 @ 07:04 PM PDT
Google Maps Widget 2.1 (Mac OS X)
Contrary to what the reviewer below says, I find this to be much more convenient to interact with than the actual Google Maps website/browser window interface. However, I find it annoying that the Satellite view doesn't work right now. If it doesn't work, then don't put it in as an option! [alert admin]
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Friday, August 19 2005 @ 05:43 PM PDT
BART Widget 0.92 (Mac OS X)
Dude, this software kicks *ss. It is easily the best station-to-station public transit trip planner I have ever seen, by an order of magnitude. If you are a BART rider and Panther/Jaguar user, it single handedly justifies the upgrade to Tiger! If you are a BART rider and Windows user, it single handedly justifies switching! (not that there aren't a dozen other good reasons too ;-) ) The audio option, which sounds exactly like the actual station announcements, is obviously totally superfluous, but it's a great touch because it shows such attention to detail!! I can think of no higher compliment than to say that this widget is a quintessential Mac app - it exemplifies everything that is great about Mac OS X and the Mac platform in general. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 27 2005 @ 07:34 AM PDT
MimMac 1.5.9 (Mac OS X)
Seems pretty good, but I wish that there were a "preview" feature so that you could see which files were going to be overwritten with "newer" versions before actually running the synchronization job. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 25 2005 @ 09:28 PM PDT
Butler 4.0b22 (Mac OS X)
This is a pretty nice app, though I use it mainly just for its iTunes functionality (skip tracks w/o changing apps), and use Quicksilver for launch capabilities. However, it leaks memory like there is no tomorrow. I have disabled most items and set the cache to the minimum possible, but after 24 hour it gets up to almost 100 MB and after a few days it is at almost 200 MB. We are talking real memory here, not virtual! I know RAM is cheap and I've got 1.5 GB in my G5, but this is a little bit ridiculous. [alert admin]
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Monday, April 11 2005 @ 07:36 PM PDT
SAS System 9.1.3 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
Avoid this program like the plague. It is the worst program I have ever come across, period. The "user interface" is impossible to interface with, and the syntax and grammar of the programming language make no sense at all (it's as if they were designed in the 1950s...probably because they were). Even something as simple as opening a SAS data file from an older version of SAS can take a veteran user several hours. (I know this from experience!) Software built with this type of incompetence and user-unfriendliness does not deserve to exist. Stata and SPSS are far better alternatives for statistical analysis. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 19 2005 @ 09:24 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by big_mig [ Search for All ]
And by "a while to catch up," you apparently mean less than two months (Konfab currently has 1,042 widgets available, Dashboard has 909). I'm sure Dashboard will surpass it very shortly...it's incredible how many Dashboard widgets are appearing so quickly. But of course there's no reason why you can't use both if you want to!
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Monday, July 25 2005 @ 09:54 AM PDT
