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Panorama 5.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Panorama is my all-time favorite software application. An early slogan was, "The database that thinks it's a spreadsheet." In fact, Panorama is easy to approach like a spreadsheet. You can be productive within minutes. But Panorama is also rich, with bottomless depth of capability and power. Useful for anything from an ad hoc personal shopping list to an internet enabled, multi-user enterprise application. Panorama deserves 10 stars on a 5 stars scale! Congratulations to everyone at ProVUE Development for a consistently outstanding product with decades of dedicated development! [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 06:28 PM PDT
Missing Sync for BlackBerry 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Finally! After Months of Suffering, Working Sync! 
I had a previous Mark/Sync software for my Palm Treo. Because of that, I was able to buy Missing Sync for Blackberry at a very attractive discount. Missing Sync for Blackberry works great with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The fact that it works at all gets 5 stars from me after fooling around with RIM's free PocketMac for 8 months. A total waste of time -- I never did get PocketMac to work. If you are like me and trapped in a contract (yes, I want an iPhone), do yourself a favor and buy Missing Sync for BlackBerry. It works! [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 07:48 PM PDT
PocketMac for BlackBerry 4.0.20b (Mac OS X)
Don't know what possessed RIM to destroy their reputation with Mac users, but this software is total junk and a waste of time. Free doesn't matter when something does not work. PocketMac for BlackBerry is cruel torture for those of us stuck in cell phone contracts waiting for an iPhone. If you are using a Blackberry with Macintosh, so yourself a favor and buy Mark/Space Missing Sync for Blackberry. After 8 months fussing with PocketMac, I installed Missing Sync half an hour ago, and now everything is lovely for the very first time since I got the Blackberry. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 07:40 PM PDT
Passwords Plus 1.0060 (Palm OS)
Trust is critical when it comes to passwords. This program is a seductive charlatan. It makes promises, gains trust, and in the moment of crisis, Passwords Plus and DataViz will leave you abandoned.
For several years, I have used Passwords Plus. It was easy, it synced with my Palm Treo, life was good. As an IT pro, I referenced Passwords Plus many times daily to navigate my world.
Of course, the reason this product exists is to prevent passwords from falling into the wrong hands. On Black Friday, November 23, 2007, that's exactly what happened to me. Thieves broke into my car and took both my Palm Treo 650 and my Apple MacBook Pro 17".
OK, at least I've got backups. But guess what? I can't recover my Passwords Plus passwords. This is probably the most critical information I've got. The DataViz website is horrible. It demands that I logon to my account to get assistance. Guess what? My logon info is in Passwords Plus -- stolen.
DataViz offers a stupid knowledge base, the type that demands you read for hours only to discover they never anticipated the prime root reason their product exits. Only one tech bulletin, #13041, hints on a backup and restore procedure. In it, DataViz provides a manual way to create a backup file.
Great. If I can't recover my passwords from a conventional Retrospect backup (I'm still working on that... hope I'm not blocked by passwords lost in Passwords Plus), I am really up the creek.
DataViz: "No e-mail support is available for this product."
BTW - Passwords Plus is *not* shareware. DataViz is a commercial developer.
There are no paid support options. I understand low cost software. But obviously, passwords are mission critical (I'm an IT director and administer tons of servers and vendor websites).
Shame on DataViz. My issue with them is not their product, but their business practices and support. Unless they correct this gross deficiency, they deserve to go out of business. That's certainly the position they've put their customers in by selling software that kills their customers.
I wouldn't have posted this in public except DataViz offers no approach in private. I can't reach them. Beware this prime evil: those who use machines against man. Do humans like me have any recourse when those large (government intersection cameras) or small (DataViz) use technology to insulate, automate, and prosecute. My time is measured in heartbeats, not clock cycles, and DataViz is eating me alive.
[alert admin]
Sunday, November 25 2007 @ 11:23 AM PST
Tascam US-428 3.23 (Mac OS X)
Tascam 3.2.3 is required for Panther 10.3.3. [alert admin]
Sunday, March 28 2004 @ 03:23 PM PST
Microsoft Entourage 9.0.2 (Mac OS 9)
Upgrading my mail server (EIMS) broke my customer's e-mail logon using Entourage under OS 9. This was a very difficult problem, too much to detail here, but upgrading to 9.0.4 was the cure. [alert admin]
Monday, March 01 2004 @ 03:54 PM PST
Steinberg Nuendo X 2.1.0.10 (Mac OS X)
I have noticed many problems with FTP lately on Mac OS X browsers. This might be due to incompatibilities with specific FTP servers in a PC/Windows centric world. At any rate, I was unable to download the Nuendo update via Safari, but immediately downloaded using Interarchy, a dedicated FTP client for OS X. [alert admin]
Friday, November 07 2003 @ 10:57 AM PST
Tascam US-428 3.22 (Mac OS X)
I've been using the Tascam US-428 for many months with OS X, and it is rock solid. It deserves a top rating for performing as advertised. The only reason I dropped back off 5 stars overall is because the US-428 is an inexpensive unit. The newer Tascam FW-1884 is now at the top of my with list. [alert admin]
Monday, October 13 2003 @ 05:57 AM PDT
SurfSecret PestPatrol 4.2.0.48 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
PestPatrol -- Internet Cockroach Killer 
If your computer is eaten up with popup ads, it is likely you've become infested with spyware. PestPatrol tracks hundreds of different marketing schemes, removes programs, files, and registry entries. Rids your computer of performance and bandwidth robbing scams like Gator, KaZaa, etc. If you have children or teenagers with access to the Internet, this is just the sort of junk that will absolutely take over your computer. Run the freeware version of PestPatrol to identify the junk on your machine. Only after you can see that problems exist are you required to pay, to enable PestPatrol to remove pests. [alert admin]
Saturday, August 16 2003 @ 02:16 PM PDT
Matrox RTMac 1.2 (Mac OS 9)
Once I figured out that Interarchy 6.2 would download files from the Matrox site, everything went smoothly. Note: use the browser of your choice under OS X to logon to the Matrox website and navigate to links for software download. Control-click on links to present an option to "Copy link to clipboard." Then switch to Interarchy 6.2 and select File --> FTP Manual Download. Paste clipboard into first field -- the dialog will automatically populate with bits of the URL placed in various fields for path, folder, password, etc. Downloading in Interarchy 6.2 is a breeze, but totally impossible in Internet Explorer and Safari.
Update: Matrox RTMac firmware upgrade to version 1.2 went smoothly after rebooting under OS 9.2 (OS 9.2 or later required.) This corrected the problem I have always experienced with my video workstation booted under OS X, with desktop icons appearing half off screen. Now, after installing 1.2 firmware, icons remain where I previous left them after a reboot.
After installing RTMac 1.2 firmware under OS 9.2, I rebooted under OS X 10.2.6 to continue installation of RTMac 4.0pr2 (beta). This requires overwriting Final Cut Pro preferences. There is a warning on the installer with a workaround detailed. RTMac 4.0pr2 also resets your display control panel to default, leading me to recalibrate the monitor (Cinema Display in my case.) This was all accomplished without much problem.
Overall, I am a lot less hot now since things worked out in the end with Matrox RTMac 4.0pr2. My complaints at this point are more against the Matrox website and non-support of Mac-based browser FTP, requiring users to resort to a specialty FTP client. Interarchy filled the bill, and I don't mind owning the latest version, though I kind of resent spending money on an FTP client just to utilize the Matrox website.
Maybe my experience will help other RTMac users to cut to the chase and upgrade painlessly for OS X compatibility (finally).
I have not had an opportunity to work with RTMac 4.0 pr2 yet. The installer says it supports Final Cut Pro versions 3 & 4. I haven't upgraded to 4 yet -- not doing much Final Cut work lately -- but I hope to finally get some benefit out of this RTMac hardware I paid so much for.
[alert admin]
Wednesday, August 13 2003 @ 03:49 PM PDT
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