Advanced SearchUser Name dasoe
Member Since 2004-04-02
Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
Total number of comments: 11
Last 10 Feedback Posts by dasoe [ Search for All ]
StuffIt Expander 12.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I use expander for a long time. Though I personally don't use sit-files any more (they do not bring any advantages any more as far as I know but are less "compatible" than other files), I'm very happy that there is Expander, now working flawlessly for me on Leopard. It decompresses not even the .sit files I sometimes still get but simply anything I ever came across, let's see, the official list is this: .sitx, .sit, .zip, .sea, .tar, .bin, .hqx, .cbr, .bz2, .tgz, .lha, .mime, .rar, .arc, .gz, .cbz, .uue, .exe, .cab, .yenc ,.z ,.pf, .uu.
Have you noticed? Not only all the superb compressions of the unix world like .gz, .bz, .rar and so on but even self-extracting .exe files work (on a Mac!) with this utility. I do not know if there is a decompression utility out there as simple and powerful - I don't know one. And in fact I don't need any other, for Expander alone is enough.
PS: Just to avoid misunderstandings: 1) Stuffit Expander is a simple Standalone App, that does not interfere with your system like somebody claimed. - Please do not confuse it with Stuffit Standard or Stuffit Deluxe. 2) It's free and you do not even have to give your email address (although smithmicro tries to get it), please check the post of amcgee below for the link. [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 3 of 4 users found this helpful
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 02:59 PM PDT
Iconographer X 2.5 (Mac OS X)
Fine App, don't know an alternative 
I used Iconographer X on 10.4 PPC and now started carefully trying it on a 10.5 Intel. Until now it seems to work without problems. For me Iconographer has nothing to do with favicons, which are simple to create. The great thing of the Appp is, that you create your system icon for any File or Application a very flexible way: You can create different sizes for the Icon (let's say a big Verison - more detailed, with text and a small Version - simpler, without text), each size with own Mask (Alpha Channel). Then you save it in a file and see the result: Depending on your display preferences, OS X chooses the appropriate icon size. Fine, but it gets better: You can also create Windows icons for 95/2000/XP (For this software has not been continued for some good time, there unfortunately is no support for the bigger Vista Icons). So when I create a Flash Game and burn it on a CD for both Mac and Windows, Iconographer helps me to make it look professional with perfect Icons. I am very sorry that Iconographer has not been continued. I do not know an alternative, so I keep on using it - it is a great piece of software. [alert admin]
Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 03:14 PM PST
VisualHub 1.28 (Mac OS X)
This will be is one of the best reviews I ever wrote. The really cheap App is excellent for converting (and combining) video, probably the best I know for Mac. I have to do different tasks like that professionally for five years know and do know most Apps out there for Mac. Finally I tried VisualHub and I am so very happy. It renders some of my former complex tasks in a time saving one-step-operation. It combines hundereds of files to one other video or directly to DVD (Toast Titanium for example does a Maximum of 99). It automatically sorts the files even if they are hex-numbered! It runs stable and - one of the best things in my eyes lets you work your other work flawlessly, for it has a "nice App" option. If clicked it uses only really unused Computer Power. No stumbling of the Computer, while processing ansd working other tasks, even on a G4 Dual 450Hz. Also possibility to use Xgrid-Power, but I haven't tried that yet. Picture support (like JPEG) would be nice for me too, but this is another thing, so absolutely no flaw of the App. Thank you so much for that work! [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 1 of 1 users found this helpful
Friday, November 02 2007 @ 10:07 AM PDT
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Firefox works fine for me. I had no bugs, did also not notice a system slowdown when using multiple tabs (although working a lot on a G3 Powerbook). It is not fast, but also not so slow that you can't work comfortably and it shows all pages correct, so I use it when safari won't do this.
My problem with it lies at another place: it just does not behave like a mac application. For Example: The search page function is intended to be very comfortable, but if you ever used the basic search function of, let's say safari, you may - like me - prefer that by far: It will open where your eyes are, not at the bottom of page, it will not scroll your page nore beep while you're typing. It will just let you type (and correct your typos) and waits calmly till you hit the bottom to search. Then (with your full attention) it scrolls the page. This is what I want: If I say search, please search, till then wait - it's so easy. This is only an Example - many parts are blown up more and more, want to be sophisticated and are surely not getting better.
But even worse: I am a heavy user and for that do many things with the keyboard. And there are mac-basics that applications should respect in my eyes. For example: When striking key down in a single line of text, the cursor jumps to the beginning. Key up brings it to the Front. I know of other possibilities of course, but that's not the point. I don't like that Firefox ignores this mac-basic in its address bar as well as in the search bar fields, although it does respect it in the HTML-Text-fields.
So I stick to safari that tries to behave like the rest of the mac. This continuity makes it possible to work confidently, even blindly and that gives speed.
Nevertheless, I can't rate Firefox bad for that. [alert admin]
Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 03:11 PM PST
StuffIt Expander 11.0 (Mac OS X)
It works absolutely fine for me, version 11 also. I have not yet tried to expand a password protected rar file though, so can't say anything about that possible bug. I again got the file without entering my email address - just clicked "Download now" in Versiontracker and I was done - I don't know why this seems to work for me only. But even if I had to give my mail address, I think this would be a fair price, I'd just unsubscribe when I get the first mail. Anyway, the email-collecting has nothing to do with the Software, and should not be a part of the rating in my eyes (besides from maybe the rating category "price"). We're all grown up and can decide if we want to give our mail or just resign under that circumstances. Rating the software one star because you have to give your email address is simply impossible if you are fair - just take a look at the rating categories. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 4 of 4 users found this helpful
Thursday, November 23 2006 @ 04:03 PM PST
StuffIt Standard Edition 9.0.2 (Mac OS X)
If you are angry about firm politics add this as a comment, but do not rate a good product bad. This is unfair behaviour for the one has nothing to do with the other. The review is to tell other people how the product works. And this is a great product. In my opinion ist's the best compression all-in-one on the market. It's very easy to use, it's fast, it provides a useful functionality, it is stable and not expensive. (For OS X users: you can also try "Mac OS X Encoding Plethora" which is a free script collection which does a good job, but I will stick to Stuffit, if you compare you'll maybe see why) By the way: The reason for the sharpened download politics for Stuffit is easy: until Version 8 you could just download Stuffit Standard and use it forever. After launching you just klicked "Not yet". Everybody did it. Nobdoy paid. This is the Problem of shareware. Now you have to give your email and after 30 days of using without paying it's over. Whose fault? By the way 2: has anybody tried to unsubscribe after buying the product? [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 6 of 8 users found this helpful
Saturday, August 13 2005 @ 08:44 AM PDT
StuffIt Expander 9.0.2 (Mac OS X)
You are complaining the wrong things
There were some problems in release 9.0 which are now fixed but everybody keeps on complaining (btw: if you weren't so keen on always beeing the very first with the newest version without needing it you would have not run into problems).
Strangely enough the recent complaints are not at all about the product but about the company collecting email-adresses. And you just mess everything up, so let me put this straight: You DON'T have to give your email-adress to download this product, you just leave the fields blank, click the button and there you are. If you are not able to read and understand a download page don't critizise the company for it.
You have to give your email-adress before downloading a demo version of STUFFIT STANDARD which is a completely different thing (and also a great product I can only recommend, but not free). So please open you eyes and learn to differentiate between different applications. (And talking of your abilities, a pity that you don't rule the world and decree which kind of compression format we will use)
This is a great product which opens whatever archive you have and it's free! It's very easy to use and works without problems for me .
(Ah, and I am sure that all of you complainers have already written some major pice of useful software and gave it away for free, so you are really at the level to run down people who do.)
Wow that was harsh. I'm sorry, but I just don't like ungraceful people that supply wrong facts in reviews. [alert admin]
Read Comments (9) | More Info | 9 of 14 users found this helpful
Saturday, August 13 2005 @ 06:29 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by dasoe [ Search for All ]
Did you - by chance - notice that this is the Stuffit Expander site? You are probably talking about Stuffit Standard or Deluxe, which has contextual menu items and things like that, and so of course has to write some files in your system. Why exactly did you choose it if you do not want this functionality? Why dont you - like me - choose Stuffit Expander which is the product this page talks about.…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 08:17 AM PDT
Did you - by chance - notice that this is the Stuffit Expander site? You are probably talking about Stuffit Standard or Deluxe, which has contextual menu items and things like that, and so of course has to write some files in your system. Why exactly did you choose it if you do not want this functionality? Why dont you - like me - choose Stuffit Expander which is the product this page talks about.…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 08:16 AM PDT
Stuffit doc turns into Quick Time Movie
Well, you dropstuffed a file and probably sent it to someone who does not have Expander, so his computer does not know what to do and tries it with QuickTime. Man, this is embarrassing - If I choose to send you a .pru file and you (most probably) can't open it you think I should blame the company that developed the .pru file system?
Original feedback item : Read More
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 08:09 AM PDT
I am happy, that I'm not the only one wondering about this thread and the often sheep-like arguments you find here. You perfectly put togehter everything that is to be said - I could not agree more. Tank you for this bright comment!
Original feedback item : Read More
Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 07:57 AM PDT
I would totally buy this app, if it weren't for...
Well only a question if you like the style. I know what I am doing too, so am using e.g. Advanced settings all day. Nevertheless "Don't! You'll screw it all up!" is not at all un unprofessional remark as heading on advanced window in my eyes - it's likely to come true for most users. Depends if you like it, but why being all reputable and staid all the time. The software does it's…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 10:26 AM PST
Still crashes when opening preferences on PPC macs
Please try to be specific and fair.
It does not "crash on PPC macs" but on your PPC Macs. That's bad enough, I know, but anyway.
peace
Original feedback item : Read More
Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 04:08 PM PST
It works, its free and there are direct download links
You tell him what he can't do and that is to tell you what you can't do? Well well, I think you are more polemic than him and at least the same height of horse. But all this will lead to nowhere. Of course you are right, you can complain if the program does not work well - in fact you should, that is the sense of reviewing. All this is kind of tense, for there have…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 04:02 PM PST
Yes you're right of course, use built-in Archives (which is .zip), that's fine. But again: That's not the point. There are .sit-files out there. There are even reasons for that, but let's pretend there are none. 1) There are .sit-files out there. 2) So you need Expander. To say "if anyone used .dmg (or .zip)" does not really led anywhere...
Original feedback item : Read More
Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 03:28 PM PST
Well yes, it would be great if everybody used .dmg files - just that this is not the case.
Btw.: Maybe you are even a bit fast with your utopian solution - .dmg files would only be the solution if you configured alongside every server to handle them correctly, if not, many users would rapidly run into problems with the format. That's the reason why you mostly find .dmg.zip (or .dmg.sit): The file is usually not…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Thursday, November 23 2006 @ 04:34 PM PST
You are complaining the wrong things
Of course it is OK to rate a bad software bad, wether it is free or not. What I say is (read below if you like), that many people here are not rating the software fairly: They are rating one star, but are not even talking about the software but about the collection of emails.
Original feedback item : Read More
Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 06:31 AM PST
