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User Name dcortesi
Member Since 2004-11-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 13
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AirPort Radar 1.2 (Mac OS X)
The "Download Now" and the "Developer Site" links both go 404. Poking around the site (MacWireless.com) doesn't turn up any reference to this or any other freeware. [alert admin]
Friday, August 14 2009 @ 10:53 PM PDT
AddressBookToCSV 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Just works. Two buttons to click, the first does the export to a location you select; the second opens your Gmail "contacts" page (must be logged in to Gmail at the time). Click import, find file, badda-bing. Dunno what other functionality you would want... [alert admin]
Thursday, May 24 2007 @ 04:47 PM PDT
Nikon Scan 4.0.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Partial with CS2, not compatible with CS3
Back in November I wrote that Nikon Scan 4.0.2 did not work with intel macs. A small correction there: it absolutely does not work (crashes immediately) when launched as a standalone app. However, if you launch it from Adobe Photoshop CS2 as a plug-in, it does run in an Intel mac. Unfortunately I have now upgraded to Photoshop CS3 and it will not load Nikon Scan 4.0.2 as a plug-in. So now it just doesn't work, at all, period. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 26 2007 @ 04:00 PM PDT
DoubleTake 2.0.4 (Mac OS X)
I have spent a lot of time in photoshop putting panoramas together. So I was just blown away when I just dragged six frames of a 150-degree panorama onto the DoubleTake window and in 3 seconds or so it displayed a perfect panorama, 10,000 pixels by 1,900 pixels. The six frames were taken hand-held, they have a lot of overlap but the amount of overlap varied, as did the vertical framing. No problem for DoubleTake, it found all the match points instantly. Really, really impressive. [alert admin]
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Friday, October 20 2006 @ 03:25 PM PDT
Nikon Scan 4.0.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Absolutely doesn't work on intel macs 
Nikon Scan 4.0.2 crashes instantly when I try to run it on my Macpro. Fortunately, there is Vuescan (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7610) which operates the LS-4000 just fine. The Vuescan interface is more techy and takes some study to master but it can control all the features of the Nikon scanners just as well & in some cases better than Nikon's software. And it WORKS JUST FINE on the Macpro - congrats to Hamrick and a big "boo, hiss" to Nikon. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 03 2006 @ 10:44 AM PDT
AuctionGenie 3.5 (Mac OS X)
Tries to do everything, nothing well
This program attempts to manage every phase of buying and selling on eBay. It centers on a database in which it retains info on all the auctions you are tracking either as buyer or seller. My only interest is in quickly preparing new auctions using photos I have previously uploaded to a personal website. I do not buy much on ebay so I did not attempt to evaluate this program for that use; only for selling. Ebay's auction-creation web page is tedious to use, but at least it presents you with a clear, well-defined work-flow: a sequence of simple actions, with clear prompting of the relevant choices at each step, and instant feedback. I went looking for a tool to build auctions locally then upload them. This program will do that but it has a number of drawbacks compared to the ebay pages. (1) The form you use to view/create an auction uses tiny type, I'm leaning in and squinting at the monitor; (2) It doesn't know the ebay category codes, and it has a tool for looking up only the Major category codes -- for example you can look up and enter "Book:nonfiction" but no way can you specify the sub-category "Literary Criticism"; (3) although it claims to handle pictures you've uploaded based on a URL you give it, in preview mode it doesn't display them. The "manual" is badly organized and much too short for such a complex program. The writer has tried to lay out all the program's fields and forms in a program-based sequence, but this has nothing to do with the order the user needs them. The manual should discuss bidding, preparing, and post-sales as three different topics, the way the user thinks about them, but it just covers every feature more or less top to bottom left to right so info you need in each phase is mingled. I'm giving it 3 stars because I suspect it actually could be useful if (a) you track a LOT of auctions (dozens) and (b) you are prepared to put a lot of time into learning it. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 02 2006 @ 01:57 PM PDT
Auction Listing Creator 6.5.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Pretty basic failure, considering the description claims "compiled on Tiger"! Really?!? Downloaded to OS 10.4.5 system, double-clicked the application inside the folder named "CALC OS X" and... OS X started "Classic" mode and program came up in Classic. It's been months since I ran a Classic app and I'd forgotten how ugly they were. No thanks. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 02 2006 @ 12:46 PM PDT
GarageSale 2.2b4 (Mac OS X)
Sorry, I would like to like this program but its clunky interface just fights me off. I've sold things a half-dozen times on ebay using the ebay website, now I have a bunch more and want to prepare the auctions offline. This program ought to do it, and it apparently does for some people but I just can't get into it. Every single thing I want to do requires another trip to the online manual and "huh?" and then poke around its menus and window and back to the manual and "eh?" and back to the menus. It is just totally confusing; nothing matches up to the work flow I expect. I've been at it two hours now and still have not completed one crummy listing. It starts with the problem that you don't prepare an "auction" you prepare a "template" -- that would make sense except that in order to make a "template" you have to fill in all the details of a very specific "auction". You edit the "description" in a text window, except that when you go to the Preview, there is a box headed "Description" with a number of items that you don't edit as part of the "description" but instead using a menu Template: Edit Item Attributes, and try finding that in the manual! Hah!. And it just goes on like that. I totally give up, I can put in ten items using ebay's web page faster than editing one "template" here. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 02 2006 @ 12:31 PM PDT
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This is very useful if you need to make .zip files that are fully compatible with MSDOS, which the gzip included in OS X is definitely not. However the doc is slim to the point of transparency. For the record, in a terminal window, type "zip -h" for the help. To create an archive based on the directory ./foo, use "zip -rv9 foo". When you are going to send to a Wintel user, remember to cd into foo first and delete .DS_Store, a Finder file that frightens windows users. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 11:44 AM PST
ZipIt 2.2.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Downloaded to Panther (10.3.7). Launched. Dragged a 6MB folder to the window and used File>Save As to save the Zip. Application crashed. The developer is welcome to the crash log if he/she wants it. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 11:22 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by dcortesi [ Search for All ]
Partial with CS2, not compatible with CS3
Further correction: Following suggestions from Nikon support I carefully trashed all Nikon-related preferences and application support files, and reinstalled Nikon Scan 4 and the 4.0.2 update, and now the program does run as a standalone application. It is still incompatible with Photoshop CS3.
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Saturday, April 28 2007 @ 04:38 PM PDT
