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User Name cooksw
Member Since 2001-11-03
Total number of Feedback Posts: 18
Total number of comments: 2
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Indigo 1.6.0b2 (Mac OS X)
Very easy to use, yet very powerful. Excellent, fast support by the developer. I don't know how he has time to respond in such detail so fast each time I have a question, but it sure has helped a newbie to home automation set up a rathe complex system very quickly. Great program, great developer. What more could you ask for in software. $90 is a lot for something that is included for Windows when you buy a controller, but he earned every penny from me. Bundle it with EvoCam with its Quicktime and unlimited camera support, and it outshines any Windows solution. Suggested next step, ability to send wireless commands from the CM15A. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 28 2005 @ 08:11 PM PDT
SideTrack 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
At first it seemed useless to be the nth person to say how great this program is, but I can honestly say that if I had to choose one system extension to have, it would be this one. If you use your laptop all day like I do, this app will you hours a month. Without this app, add up all the time spent moving the pointer from your document, web page, email list, picture, spreadheet, etc. to the scorll button and back to where it originally was. Multiply by countless itmes a day. Hours of extra time to spend with my kids is well worth $15. Not to mention that each of the last 4 versions have worked flawlessly and very smoothly. [alert admin]
Monday, January 17 2005 @ 09:27 PM PST
MacOS Classic Sound Pack 1.4 (Mac OS X)
I've missed my Uh Oh since converting to OS X years ago. When I first installed OS X, I converted Uh Oh to an AIFF and tried to get the system to recognize it. I have long since forgotten what I tried, but after about an hour I gave up. I agree that the current sounds are too short and quiet, even at max volume. Thanks for doing all of the conversion work, and for your tutorial on how to correctly install them. [alert admin]
Monday, November 08 2004 @ 08:45 PM PST
iEatBrainz 1.0b3.5 (Mac OS X)
great, easy, accurate, but crashes 
does a great job on first 20 songs, then crashes. Will start giving it 10 or so songs ata time. Would have liked to give it the whole list and go to bed, waking up to a finished list. Now I'll have to be present and awake to keep feeding it songs. One star off for that, otherwise great. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 17 2004 @ 11:07 PM PST
iEatBrainz 1.0b3.5 (Mac OS X)
great, easy, accurate, but crashes
does a great job on first 20 songs, then crashes. Will start giving it 10 or so songs ata time. Would have liked to give it the whole list and go to bed, waking up to a finished list. Now I'll have to be present and awake to keep feeding it songs. One star off for that, otherwise great. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 17 2004 @ 11:07 PM PST
Apple Security Update 2004-02-23 (Mac OS X)
I too have become somewhat disillusioned with Apple products. My system crases while awakening from sleep at least twice a month now. I had the File Vault problem and lost all of my bookmarks, contacts, etc several times. Had those pref files backed up, but reinstalling them did not fix the problem until File Vault was turned off at the suggestion of Apple. iTunes and Classic will not run on more than one user account at a time. That means, if anothr user forgets to close iTunes, and does not log out, and I log in I can't use itunes or classic despite 1GB of RAM. Kind of defeats the purpose of fast user switching if users have to close thier programs before someone else logs in. Finally, my FW HD often will not mount, even with disk utility unless I restart the computer. Then monuts right up. Collosal time killer whe I have iMovie, iDVD, Power point, Safari, Mail, Quicken, and Word all open, with open documents scrolled to where I am working on them. I have to reboot and re-open all of them just to mount my external hard drive. I don't think it is the HD's fault since a reboot with the FW cable pluged in or not fixes it. I'm done Ranting and raving. Each time it comes time for a new computer, I compare apples to windows and buy whatever has the most features for the lowest price. I've been using Mac since 1990, but I no longer have any loyalty. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 25 2004 @ 11:05 PM PST
Apple iLife '04 (Mac OS X)
Love the new iMovie, but have no use for GarageBand, and I don't use iPhoto because it insists on saving photos where it wants to, rather than letting them be saved wherever we want like iTunes does. I like the improvements to iDVD, but I'm having terrible problems with it. It is VERY slow on my 1GHz G4 PB wtih 1GB RAM. Even after waiting for the encoding to finish to free up the processor, there is still a significant pause between cliking on a screen object and being able to drag it. This is most annoying with slidder bars that I only want to nudge a bit. I click on them, start moving the mouse, nothing happens, keep moving, nothing happens, finally processor catches up and I've slid WAY past where I wanted. Same thing then happens when trying to find my original location. I find myself repeatedly clicking things not knowing whether the app has hung, or if I should just be patient while it catches up. stopping the motion menues helps a litte, then turn them all on immediately before burning. Finally, I've tried 5 times now to burn a project with 2 different brands of media (an old one I used many times with iDVD3, and a new one I just bought). 3 times I got a media error, and the other 2 times iDVD hung indefinitely (once overnight) after ejecting the unburned DVD. I even restarted the computer once in between tries 2 and 3. Didn't help. What gives? Also, there is a problem with the Archive feature. My latest 54 minute movie created with iMovie with 22 chapters took up 13 GB as an iMovie folder. The .dvdproj file that iDVD saved was 3.96 GB and could not be used without the original iMovie folder present (movie project folder is on external drive and .dvdproj file will not open when external drive not mounted). When I made an iDVD archive, it took up over 26 GB!! Why is the archive 10GB more than the raw materials alone? Instead, I drug the iMovie project folder to the laptop hard drive where the .dvdproj file is. What is the purpose of an iDVD archive???? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 11 2004 @ 09:33 PM PST
Apple iDVD 4.0 (Mac OS X)
Only one problem with the Archive feature. My latest 54 minute movie created with iMovie with 22 chapters took up 13 GB as an iMovie folder. The .dvdproj file that iDVD saved was 3.96 GB and could not be used without the original iMovie folder present (movie project folder is on external drive and .dvdproj file will not open when external drive not mounted). When I made an iDVD archive, it took up over 26 GB!! Why is the archive 10GB more than the raw materials alone? Instead, I drug the iMovie project folder to the laptop hard drive where the .dvdproj file is. What is the purpose of an iDVD archive???? [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 11 2004 @ 09:05 PM PST
Batteria 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Doesn't work, and if it did, what does it do?
First, there is no product description. What does it do? does it tell me haow much battery I have left, or how much left until its charged? The OS already does that in the menu bar if you want. Second, it doesn't work. After moving battery.sh to \Library\Scripts and launching Batteria, I get "AppleScript Error - NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1)." [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 10 2004 @ 10:29 PM PST
Apple Mac OS X 10.3 (Mac OS X)
Panther starting to disapoint.
Bought it the night it became avail. Great features, but too many bugs. Thought it was great at first, but the more I use it, the worse it gets. My computer is completely screwed up since installing Panther. One by one, my preferences have been corrupted. First lost all of my Internet explorer favorites and preferences. Then lost all of my Safari Bookmarks. Then my menu bar reset. Then, my Dock reset to it's original configuration. Now Safari unexpectedly quits any time I try to open it. I've lost countless hours of work reconifguring my computer over and over. I've got a backed up home folder, but when I drag the preferences out of the backed up Library to the current library, they don't get used. They get replaced by new default preferences. Now Safari wont open. I can't fax from MS Word. When choosing "Fax" from the print menu, there is no place to type a phone (fax) number, and if i click the address book icon, it freezes until I click cancel from the print window. Oh well. At least I didn't lose a whole firewire hard drive worth of data! I got VERY lucky that my almost full of video 250GB HD is firewire 400. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 08:25 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by cooksw [ Search for All ]
no, Panther is distributed on 3 CD-ROMs. I wish it was distributed on DVD-ROM. changing discs throught the instalation prevents the always convenient "start proces, go to bed, wake up to new OS".
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Sunday, November 02 2003 @ 12:53 AM PST
I disagree with the bitrate comment. I love the ability to choose the bitrate to estimate the output file size. I say don't "dumb down" the program by changing the bitrate chooser to "how good do you want the qualtiy to be?" If that is a concern, then add a popup window that explains what the bitrate is and how different bitrates affect the quality and filesize of the final movie. Please…
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Monday, October 06 2003 @ 10:12 PM PDT
