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User Name donlevy
Member Since 2001-06-03
Total number of Feedback Posts: 28
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HandyList 2.0b6 (Mac OS X)
but weak in practice. I absolutely HATE having to repeatedly download betas, especially ones that make no obvious changes or improvements, just so I can get my data back. And the inability to format the text (bold, italic, etc.) make it much more limited than otherwise. To the author: Either get this puppy up as a shareware and charge a little money, or f'getabowdit. But if you do charge, you can't be so secretive or lackadaisical about real updates, or it will be the kiss of death. Right now, the lack of a price can appear to be a lack of interest in seriously developing the product. [alert admin]
Sunday, May 16 2004 @ 08:40 PM PDT
JIMZip 1.41 (Mac OS X)
It works! I was having trouble downloading Collabra VL 2.0 (a 33 MB zipped application). I'd get it downloaded completely and then the latest version (8.0) of StuffIt Expander would try to unzip it. When it finished, the only remnant was an empty folder named "bin"; all the rest - all 33 MB had vanished - poof!!!
After three tries I called the developer of Collaba and he suggested I download JIMZip. It's slower'n molasses, but I only have to do this once, so that's a small negative against the much bigger positive - It Works! There's virtually no documentation (didn't try the dreadfully slow Apple Help), but it's absolutely intuitive, so perhaps none is needed. Five stars for working better than what I had (StuffIt Expander), and hopefully, the next version will be a bit faster (or Santa will bring me a G5 dual 2.0). :-) [alert admin]
Monday, May 03 2004 @ 09:31 PM PDT
JIMZip 1.41 (Mac OS X)
It works! I was having trouble downloading Collabra VL 2.0 (a 33 MB zipped application). I'd get it downloaded completely and then the latest version (8.0) of StuffIt Expander would try to unzip it. When it finished, the only remnant was an empty folder named "bin"; all the rest - all 33 MB had vanished - poof!!!
After three tries I called the developer of Collaba and he suggested I download JIMZip. It's slower'n molasses, but I only have to do this once, so that's a small negative against the much bigger positive - It Works! There's virtually no documentation (didn't try the dreadfully slow Apple Help), but it's absolutely intuitive, so perhaps none is needed. Five stars for working better than what I had (StuffIt Expander), and hopefully, the next version will be a bit faster (or Santa will bring me a G5 dual 2.0). :-) [alert admin]
Monday, May 03 2004 @ 09:30 PM PDT
CodeTek VirtualDesktop Lite 3.0 (Mac OS X)
In fairness, let me say that I consider version 2.x an absolute essential product. I've been running it for the better part of the year, and it has made my working environment far more productive and less cluttered and confusing. But that's what I have, not the upgrade.
The information here (and also on the developer's home page) mixes new features with existing features, making it difficult to be clear about what's really new (especially since I don't now use all features in version 2.3.11 and therefore am not familiar with all of them). One of the main complaints I have with the 2.3.11 version is that one must quit CTVD first (before quitting a program that uses multiple "desktops" and even then, it frequently fails to remember which window goes where when the program is re-launched. That makes it annoyingly time-consuming to re-organize many windows from scratch. It's nice when sometimes it works right, proving it can work, but frustrating when it doesn't. I'd pay the $15 upgrade in a heartbeat if that were fixed once and for all, but there's nothing in the What's New info to suggest that's the case. Guess I'll wait a while. But if you're new to this product entirely, you'll probably find 3.0 a great boon and well worth the forty bucks. [alert admin]
Monday, February 09 2004 @ 01:39 PM PST
SpamSieve 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Damn fast! I don't know if it's more accurate, too early to tell in just a couple hours use, but the speed jump was very, very evident the first time I used it. Bravo! [alert admin]
Sunday, January 11 2004 @ 02:10 AM PST
Friendlier Claris It! 1.8 (Mac OS X)
and not one person has reviewed it. Is it THAT bad? [alert admin]
Sunday, January 11 2004 @ 02:06 AM PST
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After my previous glowing approval, just below, I noticed that this version of Mozilla, like Netscape, suffers from making all contextual menu items, except thos specific to Mozilla, unusable. The only workaround I can find to take highlighted text in the browser and transfer or otherwise process it is to copy the text, then click off the window onto a blank place on the desktop, and then (having already copied the text to the clipboard), now use the contextual menu items from the finder. It works, but it's clumsy and not intuitive. Perhaps the fancy frame around the contextual menu items list has something to do with this bug. Hey, Mozilla, please fix this. [alert admin]
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Friday, October 24 2003 @ 04:23 PM PDT
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I was prepared to be underwhelmed... 
but instead was over (whelmed, that is). I was having a horrible time trying to list something on eBay. Safari fails to upload graphics to eBay correctly (usually one or two have to be re-uploaded), Netscape 7 seems to choke on uploading more than three graphics and sometimes on any graphics at all, and I was even having problems uploading with IE, which I use only when really desparate.
Then I noticed there was a new Mozilla, which I tried a long while back and found lacking. I noted a user comment that it was the "most compatible" of all browsers and thought it might just work...AND IT DID!!! Yaaaaayyy!!!
And it's actually more configurable and intuitive than the new Netscape, which I liked, but had some annoyances. Yes, the GUI could be prettier (hey, work on it), but my mother always said "Beauty is skin deep" and I'll live with some warts for a while if I can be able to use just one browser for 98% of the time.
Even though I'm swamped this morning, just had to post this and thank the nice Mozilla people. Now, if they would just go beat up those nasty eBay programmers who make dumb changes to their functioning they don't tell users about until they get swamped with frustrated screams.... [alert admin]
Friday, October 24 2003 @ 09:41 AM PDT
Funnel Web Analyzer 4.5 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Nice...if you know Unix and are comfortable in the Terminal
but most Mac users don't fit those parameters. Too bad, as it enormously limits who can use it to a small fraction of the OS X user base. Sure it's free, and that's great, but if a tree falls in the empty forest, is there a sound?.......How hard would it be to put a Mac user-friendly face on it and charge a little for what's now free? Just a suggestion. [alert admin]
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Thursday, October 16 2003 @ 03:26 PM PDT
Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Mac OS X)
As is often the case, Apple is cryptic about the real
meaning of their "what's new" descriptions. Specifically, does anyone know what this does to improve Safari? Since Safari was "upgraded" to 1.0 it has been a big headache, refusing to load images at random and choking on imperfect javascript code that the "big guys" (IE and Netscape) handle with ease. If THAT's what's improved, AND I don't see any reports of major disasters, I'll download this. At this moment, VT is showing only 22 downloads, not enough to let me feel safe nor that there's a value to it. Will watch comments here with great interest. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 22 2003 @ 03:09 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by donlevy [ Search for All ]
Yep. It's a big problem for one of my clients, as he's running on an old G3 Beige 233mhz with 640 MB of memory. On top of that, his boot partition is a very small 3.9 GB with only about 900 MB free at startup. If he's got Photoshop running (especially with ImageReady open, too), after a couple of hours he has to reboot to get his disk space back. We've set the scratch disks…
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Sunday, June 08 2003 @ 11:33 AM PDT
