User Profile for electric1--2008

User Name electric1--2008

Member Since 2000-06-28

Total number of Feedback Posts: 30

Total number of comments: 4

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Vuze 4.2.0.2 (Mac OS X)

User earlier version if you require "SEARCH" to work...

If you require "SEARCH" to work then stay with the previous version. The current version, 4.2.0.2 has a bug that won't display the search option. Changing back to the previous .jar file did not work (as suggested by MacJuanC in an earlier post here at VersionTracker). If you want to upgrade - best to use the method MacJuanC has detailed below - it will give you the new features without the additional baggage (and without search facility!). [alert admin]

OmniPlan 1.6.2 beta 2 (Mac OS X)

No network diagram view in previous versions...

The previous versions did not offer a network diagram view. From their website there is no mention that a Network Diagram view is included in this version. A Network Diagrams view is one of the most critical in project planning and execution. Maybe in V2.0. [alert admin]

Yank 1.4.1 (Mac OS X)

How does it stack up against...

How does this stack up against or
is different to or
"better" than:

CleanApp
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29702

or

AppZapper
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28764 [alert admin]

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Tuesday, February 17 2009 @ 12:11 AM PST

Vuze BitTorrent Client 4.0 (Mac OS X)

Do Not Use 4.0 go back to 3.1.1.0 or Earlier Version...

4.0 is more bloated than version 3. And S-L-O-W-E-R. Slower to load, slower to redraw the interface, SLOWER TO DOWNLOAD... For three days now I have had a 550mg file that hasn't finished downloading... with a swarm speed of over a meg, 47 seeders and 1 leecher (other than me!)... speed was running at a measly 3 to 20k. Decided to go back to 3.1.1.0 (although I kinda liked 3.0.4.2) and the speed was working fine. Mac OS X 10.4.11, 1500k line, NAT working/Green, Ratio-Green, Torrent-Green, port-forwards working fine, firewall bypass for TCP/UDP working fine, Port Open Test-Fine, tried alternating between Dist.DB--same thing, tried some other changes... no go. The change that worked was going back to Version 3. To remove the annoying VUZE toolbar in FireFox - go to FF's menu TOOLS: TOOLS/ADD ONS/EXTENSIONS You'll need to let them know why you're removing it ... by clicking the boxes ... that's it. You're done. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, October 21 2008 @ 03:14 PM PDT

Transmission 1.34 (Mac OS X)

What Happened??

Transmission has been a nifty program sometime. Light, fast and not bloated like it's counterparts (in both MAC OS X and WIN environments). It hasn't crashed my machine. It's worked fine in that area. The problem that I have found and have tested - is that v1.34 downloads more data than the size of the file being transferred. 70mg file transferred in about 15min - in that same period of time - the data amount transferred from our ISP jumped to over 120mg!! Tried with Azureus - 78mg. Tried again with a 300mg file - 647mg with Transmission. With Azureus, just over 370mg. I would suggest going back to an earlier version of Transmission - until this problem and the problems of crashing other users have experienced is resolved. AND ***DO NOT*** dismiss earlier working versions of Transmission - it's still a useable program. NOTE: The discrepancy between the size of a file and the actual amount downloaded is due to the transfer protocol - and I would allow 50 to 100mg on a file - depending on how long the bit torrent client was running - as there is constant DownLoad being chewed up even when seeding a file. (The rough calc for "seeding only" was 647mg per month of DownLoad if you ran Az 24/7 just for seeding!) [alert admin]

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Friday, October 17 2008 @ 04:06 PM PDT

Apple Safari 3.1.2 (Mac OS X)

Why Did Apple Remove Global Find in Safari??

Just can't understand why Apple has to muck up a good thing... Just upgraded to 3.1.2... and I shouldn't have! For example, searching in BookMarks - you could use CMD-F to search "ALL" folders in bookmarks... instead of using Safari's version of having to search each folder one-by-one. Now in 3.1.2 you can no longer use Global Find and are restricted by having to use the one-by-one folder search option... Bad Apple - BAD. [alert admin]

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Friday, September 19 2008 @ 09:46 PM PDT

Mac Amazon Browser 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Quit on start...didn't work at all...

Tried several times to start this program, except it Quit on start...didn't work at all... It gets to the menu stage - then quits. Subsequent restarts returned the same Quitting results. Mac OS X 10.4.10 PPC G4 Dual 450 [alert admin]

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Monday, September 01 2008 @ 05:40 AM PDT

PhoneDirector 1.2.6 (Mac OS X)

Just short of being excellent!

This program is just short of being excellent! It was just what I was looking for... and then some!! 6300 Nokia Model RM-217, Firmware: V 05.50 Delivers what it promises. Phone and SIM back up of numbers works well. SMS transfer - A GEM !! To be able to back up/archive SMS messages from the phone to the computer is a handy feature - laid out in its own database and PhoneDirectory provides it's own Radio - updated channels. Worked. Gallery - pix/video/etc., transefers, works. Processing files to your phones format works well... processing speed is somewhere between good and fast. Importing should be part of the GUI instead of a menu - but this is more my pref and most people don't mind selecting from the File menu each time. Log - can save list - but doesn't list each tracked call in a saved file. Viewable in the program. Would be nice if this was improved - and a very handy feature. To Do - list - needs to be imported. Works well within the program if using the dialog box to create a TO-ITEM. However for iCal - you have to import the file from the FILE menu. It would be better if this was part of the TO-DO GUI as a button, for example. Cosmetic problem: In the To-Do Alarms - the AM/PM listing is not visible - you can still choose the AM or PM - it's just not "visible" - so this is more of a cosmetic issue. (Have contacted Developer with screenshots). Calendar Events/Dates on the phone can be easily transferred to iCal as individual items (if so desired) - by simply dragging from PD into iCal. Transfers with alarms (check w/notes). Calendar - syncs - but it's a bit of work each time. To transfer MEETING, CALL, BIRTHDAY, MEMO and REMINDER - you have to import each one separately. The program won't allow a batch import. I ASSUME that the NOKIA transfer protocol doesn't allow the multiple transfer... however... if I am wrong... then this part of the transfer needs to be improved. When importing calendar - the setting needs to be from the "day before" - that is the setting needs to be set to the day before the day you want the calendar to start in your phone. Themes building is cool. It's not part of the demo - so can't say it works fully... "The building of themes" panels seem easy enough to create themes. Recording Audio sound message using inline microphone - remember to stop speaking a second before hitting the stop recording button... otherwise the end of your message will be truncated. If you have a NOKIA phone - and "IF" this software supports it - you'll be happy with what this software can provide. The demo allows for testing most of it each features - so give it go... [alert admin]

Senuti 0.33 (Mac OS X)

It works... that's all you need to know!

Senuti works... the only CAUTION I would give is setting up your PREFS for what you want to achieve... read the opions (a couple of minutes) and make the choices that you want. You could accidently overwrite tracks - but then this is the case with other programs similar to this. Great program and thanks to the developer for keeping this up-to-date.... [alert admin]

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Friday, June 06 2008 @ 05:05 AM PDT

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It works well despite

BusySync works well - despite Google calenders limitations. It took sometime to work out why appt's were out of time-sync... setting the correct time-zone in Google fixed that - after this - appt's were syncing correctly time-wise. Google doesn't list TO-DO's from iCal - and this limitation can be a let down. However, the notification features of Google are useable - not good or great(!) just useable. For now - I am still publishing my calendar from iCal into: http://www.icalx.com icalx has a fairly decent calendar layout and TO-DO lists as well as forward listings are displayed. BusySync - for those that need to use Google or local network display/access - is worth the look and the price for "a preference pane" might be a little bit too expensive - but for what it offers - it'll be okay for most people to purchase... Well done to the developer. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, June 04 2008 @ 03:58 AM PDT

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Tax?

@NCKitkat The real question (now), based on what you have said is, WHY POST IT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?? It's not a review, troubleshooting, etc., - it REALLY IS a question for the seller and not a world-wide audience or this site.

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Sunday, February 15 2009 @ 03:37 PM PST

No, Hannibal Fortune, Perhaps - You Need to - Get a grip

@Hannibal Fortune The original posters point is that there is NO PREFERENCE to be able to switch this off. The program, free or not, should not provide pop-ups of any kind without prior warning - and there should be the choice to turn the pop-up off !

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Saturday, February 14 2009 @ 08:11 PM PST

Stay away from this version if...

Also - if you're running 10.4.11 - you need to install: Mac OS X 10.4.11 w/ Security Update 2008-002 Not sure if that will work for people on 10.4.11 - but worth a try.

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Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 06:19 PM PDT

NO, NOT QT or Toast

Depends on the .wma file you have. I tried this with several .wma files in both QTPro and Toast - and neither program could open the .wma file in order to convert it. However, VLC had no problem playing the file and neither did Win.Media.Player.

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Friday, March 16 2007 @ 06:12 AM PDT