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User Name cogden
Member Since 2002-10-06
Total number of Feedback Posts: 12
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SQLEditor 1.4 (Mac OS X)
Indispensable Product for Developers 
This product is an essential piece of software for anyone doing any database development. It consistently helps us with everything from graphically documenting existing databases (ERDs) to creating/maintaining new systems. The developer is extremely responsive and keeps improving this application. Well worth every penny! [alert admin]
Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 10:15 AM PDT
TAO 1.8b (Mac OS X)
As an original ThinkTank/More user, one of my biggest OS X hurdles was converting my (and those of my colleagues') outlines to a OS X application. After testing all the available software, we found Tao to offer the most robust feature set. I then helped Takashi Hamada with the alpha/beta testing and the product's evolution (then called "FO"). The product was very promising Unfortunately, what was once solid support has waned. Development (which people once complained resulted in too many updates) has stalled. Indeed his website that addresses "Current State of Development" hasn't been updated since 3rd June, 2007. The "shipping" version is a beta. Worst starting June 2007, the product has led to total file corruption in more than six instances. Takashi wrote that they were working on the issue, yet a year has passed and no new version has been released, and the product continues to corrupt critical data beyond recovery. Unfortunately, additional emails to Takahasi have gone unanswered. Sady, we can no longer recommend this product. While OmniOutliner seems to be the next best thing, it doesn't match Tao in several key areas, namely "Cloning" (which Omni has promised for over two years now) and ease of keyboard custom configurations. They are still stuck in 3.x releases, with no 4.0 in sight. The funny thing is that More still rocks as a mean, lean, featured outliner. To bad Dave Winer doesn't brush off the source code and release it for Leopard (seeing as how the product was abandoned by Symantec). [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 10:10 AM PDT
MAMP PRO 1.7.1 (Mac OS X)
Clicking the link to the developer's site throw a 404 error. There's no mention of this product on their site at all, save one lone press release from Jan 2007. Is this still even a viable product? [alert admin]
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Monday, June 16 2008 @ 04:10 AM PDT
XML Editor 2.31 (Mac OS X)
We've tried pretty much every XML tool out there. While Oxygen is undisputedly strong for XML "programming" (ie, XSLT transformations, etc.), we've found that it's not nearly as clean/easy to use as XML Editor for "exploring" XML docs. XML Editor's tree view is excellent. Also, it's $55 as compared to Oxygen's $225, which is 4x the price. As well, we had a couple of questions/issues that we sent to the author. Not only did he reply within a day, but he actually programmed a handful of fixes and enhancements and sent a new build within a couple of days. Unbelievable responsiveness and customer service. Two thumbs up [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 08 2006 @ 06:24 AM PST
OmniOutliner Pro 3.6 (Mac OS X)
We have a bunch of Macs still using Classic to run large More outlines. We were promised that v3.6 would add the old More ability to clone lines - unfortunately, no dice! Now we're starting to move to MacIntel machines and won't be able to run Classic. Looks like we'll have to go with TAO (a worthy competitor, but not as user-friendly/easy to use as OmniOutliner). Unfortunately, Omni has not responded with an update of when cloning will be available either. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 15 2006 @ 04:14 PM PDT
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After searching high/low for a Mac tool to create ERD diagrams from existing databases, I finally found this one that works. Used the beta version and ran into some bugs and "nice to have" features. Corresponded with the author and got a response the next day and the fixes the day after!!! It even included some of my wish list items! If only more companies had such customer service! When they complete documentation (eg, how to set up the JDBC data source, etc.), it will even be better! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 29 2004 @ 01:54 PM PDT
PHPStar Admin 1.2.2 (Mac OS X)
We spent an hour trying to download this guy's products (despite the complaints on his site that no one has paid him). When we did download them, they save out with .php extensions. One of my staff download the products many, many times. I finally figured out they should be ".dmg" files. it would appear that his download count is probably highly inflated. Still can't download the admin piece. PS. Apple has the product linked as "freeware" (but that link doesn't work either). Sigh. hard to pay the guy if we can't try his product... [alert admin]
Saturday, August 07 2004 @ 02:23 PM PDT
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We have been waiting for an application like this since OS X shipped. We have hundreds of More™ files and still have to crank up Classic to run it. We've tried all the other outliners and none of them out there have the key features (such as cloning, totally configurable keyboard commands, ability to export in OPML, RTFD, HTML, etc.). It will be a 5 star app if FO supports importing our old More files (either through More2XML, saved as RTF's to save formatting, etc.). (that and a personal nit - hide/change all the spurious black (and white) triangles before each and every line - whether they have children or not - very visually distracting). Overall, awesome app, the developer has often been very responsive with bug fixes. Now, if he'll announce the pricing to be sure we can afford it... [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 17 2004 @ 08:21 AM PDT
ChangeDesktop 2.4.2 (Mac OS X)
Great App - EXCEPT no "Fit to Page" 
Awesome App. Still wish it would have an option for "Fit to Page" (ie, not crop not "fills screen" that distorts), but a simple resize such that portrait images would proportionally be shrunk/expanded so the top-bottom fits. The same for landscape except right-left fit. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 30 2004 @ 07:45 PM PST
BOOM 1.4.1 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
absolutely worth the $15. Played back in the quadra days. Now have to go through it all again on my G4. Will I ever be able to finish the 80th level this time??? [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 15 2003 @ 04:54 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by cogden [ Search for All ]
Ditto - it finds my Colorado 400t, appears to download the software and then fails. Using FileBuddy to find any recently created/modified files shows a cache folder, but not software. Sigh.
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Saturday, March 01 2008 @ 11:18 AM PST
Wow - tried MPEG Streamclip.app as you suggested - it ROCKS! It even has an AVI extra that allows one to edit an AVI and save without re-coding. Thanks for the tip!
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Friday, August 25 2006 @ 02:38 PM PDT
I was able to download the standalone installer and update without incident. By any chance have you moved and/or renamed the app? The stupid Apple installers can only find/update when the "iPhoto.app" is in the root of the "Applications" folder. Good luck!
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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 12:01 PM PDT
I just downloaded the standalone version and updated without a problem. By any chance have you moved and/or renamed the iPhoto application? If so, you need to put it back in the "Applications" folder root, named "iPhoto.app". Apple's installer is stupid and can't find the app by creator, etc. Good luck!
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Wednesday, June 21 2006 @ 09:21 AM PDT
I totally agree with Frank - We've been asking for cloning since OmniOutliner 1.0. After v3.0 came out, we were promised that it was a key priority for version 4.0 - So far no luck. One has to wonder if OmniGroup is listening!!!!
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Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 06:00 AM PDT
I totally agree with Frank - We've been asking for cloning since OmniOutliner 1.0. After v3.0 came out, we were promised that it was a key priority for version 4.0 - So far no luck. One has to wonder if OmniGroup is listening!!!!
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Thursday, April 20 2006 @ 05:59 AM PDT
