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User Name delCavallo
Member Since 2003-10-03
Total number of Feedback Posts: 13
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Adobe Reader 8.0 (Mac OS X)
So, let me get this straight - Adobe expects me as an admin of a mixed network of Intel and PPC Macs with a PPC on his desk to; 1) Download a disk image containing an installer, 2) Run this installer to install a downloader (tied to a specific platform version.) 3) Run this downloader to download another disk image, 4) Run this installer to install Reader, 5) Repeat this entire process for the other platform Have they completely lost their minds? And naturally, the Intel installer won't install on my PPC Mac, and it's not a standard Apple Installer package, so I can't use Remote Desktop, and instead have to go install it manually on every machine! Unbelievable. And don't even get me started on the bizarre, windoze-esque interface changes. If this is the direction Adobe is headed, I can honestly say it will impact our decision making process as we debate Quark vs. InDesign for our graphic designers. [alert admin]
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Friday, January 26 2007 @ 02:13 PM PST
Baytex Party! 4.0b12 (Mac OS X)
Is this thing dead? The last update here on VT was months ago. The last posted beta version has expired, presumably months ago. The last update on the developer's site was in January of 2006. Their Kagi store is not currently accepting orders. Shame. Seems like it could have filled a niche. [alert admin]
Friday, November 17 2006 @ 02:16 PM PST
REALbasic 2006r4 (Mac OS X)
In one dot rev, I've gone from good stability to incessant IDE crashing - on the order of 8-10 times per day with heavy use. Sadly, the recovery feature is a crapshoot. Frequent saving before doing anything in the IDE allows me to progress, but it's no way to work. YMMV, but beware just the same. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 30 2006 @ 06:14 AM PST
Egoid 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Yep, just as others have said - it does precisely nothing. Even the 'floating window' pref does nothing. Not only that, the complete lack of anything like documentation leaves me wondering what it's even supposed to do if it did anything.
Not to mention, it looks like it was designed by a 12-year old - especially the pref sheet. Why on earth would you have a sheet (ugly or not) pop out of such a bizarre, custom window anyway? And what's with the "Quit NewApplication" menu command? Is it called Egoid, or is it called NewApplication? I think someone needs to beat this guy senseless with the UI guidelines for a few years. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 30 2006 @ 08:18 AM PDT
FileFinder 1.0 (Mac OS X)
A very promising disk catalogger. Not without significant problems, however. 1) It sees application bundles as folders, and lets you view the contents. This should be a pref, and be off by default. 2) It shows locations as posix paths beginning with /Volumes. No-one wants to see the ugly unix details. Again - pref, off by default. 3) When a quick-search is active, paths still begin with /Volumes, but then rather than show the volume name next, the next folder name is displayed. The result is that when you then try to get finder info you get a dialog complaining that the file is missing. Well, duuh! There is no volume named Users! But bugs aside, this could be a great app someday. It's very clean, simple, uncluttered, and extremely fast. Here's looking forward to 1.1. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, December 07 2005 @ 01:15 PM PST
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In the past, I have been very outspoken and critical of Real Software, and RealBasic. RB is buggy as hell, a disturbing number of the documented features don't actually work as documented, and Real seem to think it's the end user's responsibility to pay for their mistakes in the form of bug fixes that are available only with paid upgrades. These are all legitimate problems that the people at Real still need to address. However, I have to say that despite all this, I regret having delayed my upgrade to 2005. After a few days of adjustment, I find that the new IDE interface utterly kicks ass. It still has some quirks, but overall I find I can navigate a project far more quickly than ever before. Add to that the (in some cases brilliant) new features added to the language itself, and the end result is an upgrade I was actually glad to pay for, unlike years past when I merely felt as if I was being held hostage. In short, now would be a great time for anyone considering RB to take the plunge. As the new IDE matures, it will doubtless only improve. Hopefully, the bugs will too. Thanks, Real. Let's hope you don't lose your momentum. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 07 2005 @ 11:56 AM PST
GarageSale 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Downloaded and tested Garage Sale wondering if it would improve on my current indispensable tool - eLister (http://www.blackmagik.com/elister.html - curiosly, NOT listed in VersionTracker.) Well, it has one thing eLister does not. Namely, the ability to batch-post auctions in an automated fashion. Beyond that, it's hardly ready to replace eLister in my arsenal. The interface is very simple, granted. It is, however, too simple to be adequately flexible. Also, the auctions aren't stored as files in an easy-to-fathom format - a feature I really need in order to integrate any assisted posting system with my database. Overall, it's nice, and should get an 'E' for effort. However, the lack of configurability, lack of integrability, oversimplicity, all these things add up to a nice little app for the casual user, but nothing terribly useful for people doing real business on eBay. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 24 2004 @ 08:21 AM PDT
DiskCatalogMaker X 3.2 (Mac OS X)
Does just what it needs to and nothing it doesn't. My only complaint is the way a catalog window will pop up a path menu when you just click on the name in the title bar. This is a great feature, but it should only happen when the command key is pressed. There is a reason why the Finder works this way, and DiskCatalogMaker should do likewise. Apart from that, this is an excellent little program.
Perhaps best of all, it is NOT from Haxial, so it has a real gui. [alert admin]
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Monday, April 26 2004 @ 08:18 AM PDT
MorphX 2.7 (Mac OS X)
After trying for about 20 minutes, I can't get it to do a single thing. Sounds like it would be an excellent app, but I can't figure it out for the life of me. I've dragged just about every kind of image I can imagine into the first pane, and nothing will import. Jpegs, Tiffs, Photoshop files, Giffs, PDFs, you name it - nothing. Pity. Seems like it would be awesome... [alert admin]
Thursday, January 08 2004 @ 10:19 AM PST
Still Life 2.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Hookoa - what are you smoking? 
What are you smoking, Hookoa? I had never seen the program before today, and within about 90 seconds I noticed that you can export to quicktime at any resolution you like, and at any framerate you like. I just exported at 1024x768 at 30fps, just to verify that it can be done. Are you blind, or are you lying? [alert admin]
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Monday, November 17 2003 @ 01:31 PM PST
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In all fairness, coding a 'Recent Items' and/or a Window menu is up to you. Also, if every Cocoa app contained all the Cocoa frameworks, they'd be huge as well. Perhaps we should lobby Apple to support the RealBasic frameworks at the OS level?
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Friday, February 02 2007 @ 07:55 AM PST
I wouldn't recommend this as a primary server solution either. Definitely buy an XServe.
However, in a shop where you may have no other choice but to run Win2k server for purely political reasons (not technical ones,) I can wholeheartedly say that this is a HUGELY better solution than Win2k's native services for Macintosh. Our shop went from having probably 8-10, 90-second network-wide client lockups per hour with MS FSM to having…
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Tuesday, July 20 2004 @ 09:54 AM PDT
