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Submerge 1.3 (Mac OS X)
speedy, works, good customer support 
This program is very simple and *very* fast. It did exactly what I needed, which was adding subtitles to a Quicktime movie, and did it in about 60 seconds --- which compares very favorably with the huge amounts of time various other programs seem to require for the same task. I did run into a problem, which turned out to be the result of an improperly formatted .srt file at my end. It would have been nice if the program dealt with the problem more gracefully than just stalling and crashing on me! HOWEVER, when I contacted the developer, I received a response almost immediately, and after I sent him my subtitles file (at his request), he spotted the error right away, and I was in business. So I, for one, am very impressed with the support for this product. [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
TranslateIt! Deluxe 8.1 build 8191 (Mac OS X)
A well done, very useful program. Seems to have good support as well -- they responded promptly when I had a problem. Russian-oriented, since the program's developers appear to be Russian -- but there are dictionaries available that get you between English and a variety of other languages, and open-source dictionaries are also fully usable. I am personally using this program all the time. My only criticism is that it is a bit unobvious how to install dictionaries. I figured it out (click on plus under dictionaries, and don't do anything else except click on the dictionary files you want to install) -- but some more guidance would be useful. Now TranslateIt comes with a widget as well -- but don't judge the package by the widget, which looks very odd indeed. (Initially, I thought I was having some kind of video problem when I first saw it.) Additionally it does not seem to work reliably. So I just ignore the widget, and use the regular program instead -- which does not look odd and works perfectly. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 09 2007 @ 04:13 PM PDT
TranslateIt! Deluxe 8.1 build 8191 (Mac OS X)
A well done, very useful program. Seems to have good support as well -- they responded promptly when I had a problem. Russian-oriented, since the program's developers appear to be Russian -- but there are dictionaries available that get you between English and a variety of other languages, and open-source dictionaries are also fully usable. I am personally using this program all the time. My only criticism is that it is a bit unobvious how to install dictionaries. I figured it out (click on plus under dictionaries, and don't do anything else except click on the dictionary files you want to install) -- but some more guidance would be useful. Now TranslateIt comes with a widget as well -- but don't judge the package by the widget, which looks very odd indeed. (Initially, I thought I was having some kind of video problem when I first saw it.) Additionally it does not seem to work reliably. So I just ignore the widget, and use the regular program instead -- which does not look odd and works perfectly. [alert admin]
Sunday, September 09 2007 @ 04:05 PM PDT
Weather Underground Weather Widget 1.42 (Mac OS X)
Very good, with one tiny "but"
Widget is excellent, gives more information than the Apple-supplied alternative. But: What's with the so-called "photo feed"? Why does a *weather* widget also need to download a whole bevy of unrelated images of "pets", "natural disasters", "wild animals", "windmills" and, yes, random past weather events -- which get optionally displayed in a tiny window below the weather, to boot. Click on them, and you can see them full-size in your browser. Harmless, I guess, but definitely a bit odd. [alert admin]
Sunday, August 26 2007 @ 02:08 PM PDT
iTunes Connection Monitor 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Almost works, but not quite...
With someone sharing my iTunes music, this widget does tell me what they are listening to, but the "Connected Users" side of the widget just says "Searching..." and never leaves that state. I think that is the same problem experienced by the previous user. I'm using iTunes 5.0 and OS 10.4.2. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 19 2005 @ 05:52 AM PDT
Menu Master 1.3 (Mac OS X)
An excellent program, very helpful -- with a few quirks. For example, it seems to produce two "Empty Trash" items in the File menu of the Finder -- for no apparent reason. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 09 2005 @ 08:33 PM PDT
FruitMenu 3.4 (Mac OS X)
Something's gone wrong with this version 
I've been using Fruitmenu happily for more than two years, but something has gone seriously wrong here. Like other users, I find myself waiting several seconds for the menu to open, and redrawing of the menu bar is often imperfect. What a shame! [alert admin]
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Monday, May 09 2005 @ 08:29 PM PDT
EndNote 8.0 (Mac OS X)
Each time I try to change the bibliography in a document created with Endnote 7 (adding or deleting a reference and then regenerating the bibliography with Cite-While-You-Write), Endnote 8 crashes "unexpectedly" -- leaving Word 2004 unresponsive and with a stalled progress bar. I have to force-quit Word.
For this I paid $89 and waited a half-year? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 30 2004 @ 05:35 PM PST
Synchronize! X Plus 2.0 (Mac OS X)
The license makes it clear that this new version of the program contacts the company (Qdea) every time you use it. Allegedly this is to ensure compliance with the license.
OK, perhaps it's not technically spyware if they warn you about it in the fine print -- but count me out nonetheless. I have an older version of the program that is adequate, and eventually OS 10.4 will have synchronization capability built in. I'll wait this one out. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 22 2004 @ 10:02 PM PST
EndNote 7.0 (Mac OS X)
It's now 6 months since a small revision in Word 2004 disabled Endnote's toolbar within that program. A fix was promised but still has not been provided. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 21 2004 @ 08:15 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by dpdp [ Search for All ]
The widget is a component of a program listed elsewhere: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32189 I've no idea why it's listed separately here.
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Saturday, July 19 2008 @ 10:32 AM PDT
Well that's not working for me. I am sent to: ".../86/TB2Mac86.dmg" I've tried three variants: changing both 86's, just the first, and just the second -- all dead links. What did you try that worked?
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Monday, October 29 2007 @ 04:00 PM PDT
Re: Evaluate Carefully Before Use
I am a long-time Chronosync user, and a satisfied one -- but I too did not realize until this moment that "Exclude" meant "exclude permanently". So I would like to suggest that the button be changed to "Exclude permanently", to clear up this confusion. Now I am wondering if things have been failing to sync without my knowledge, all along.
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Saturday, October 14 2006 @ 08:52 AM PDT
As someone who is writing a PhD, you should watch those dangling participles!
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Thursday, May 19 2005 @ 05:38 PM PDT
I too am now getting repeated "Service error: generic" messages.
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Monday, December 06 2004 @ 08:48 AM PST
Sorry, but none of these ideas help. Some of them, in any case, are only relevant to earlier versions of Endnote and Word. No, there is clearly something very wrong with Endnote 8 (and with the process that produced it and placed it on the market, given the other comments that have appeared here).
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Monday, December 06 2004 @ 07:46 AM PST
>Why is anyone using Office 2004 over the much faster and more
>stable 10.1.x anyway?
Because Office 2004 (like Endnote 8) supports Unicode, which is essential if you deal with documents that use foreign alphabets or characters.
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Monday, November 29 2004 @ 10:56 PM PST
That's not the message I see at the web site:
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Sunday, May 23 2004 @ 06:56 AM PDT
The previous "alpha" version worked fine for me, and still works fine. It's at http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000280.php (click on the word "Here"). Replace the "Menu Master.ape" file on your machine with the same-named file you have just downloaded. The file will be in the folder "Application Enhancers" in either your root Library folder or your home Library folder. It's possible the older, alpha version had problems too, but I haven't found any.
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Thursday, February 05 2004 @ 06:27 AM PST
Yes, it might be the OS. I am using 10.3.2, and though while typing a label I can see a bunch of lines, the minute I'm done, it's 2 lines only, no matter how I set Onyx.
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Monday, January 12 2004 @ 07:52 PM PST
