User Profile for eyeless

VPN Tracker 5.0.3 (Mac OS X)

no customer support if you cannot activate your product  

Version 5.0 was not possible to activate -- one could only pay for it! Now I had to transfer my product to another computer, but after deactivating on the old computer and reactivating on the new one, I discovered that I had to had the license activated on the old computer in order to export the profiles there, so deactivating the new and reactivating the old, then doing an export and deactivated the old again. Then imported the exported profile and tried to activate the license on the new computer, but then receives an error saying I have activated/deactivated the license too many times and that one should contact customer support, who MAY help you. Contacted customer support but just like when version 5.0 did not work I do not receive any replies at all. Now again I have a newly bought license that cannot be used anywhere. You better expect this kind of non-support from Equinux! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, February 19 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Sidenote 1.7.2 (Mac OS X)

still good  

I was forced back to use sidenote again after having forgotten to use it for a while. Even under Leopard it works great! It takes too long time to get up a new Text Edit document as there is no contextual way to do so and most other programs are usually too obtrusive to be helpful, even if I more or less otherwise try to use the very handy Curio (but it takes up all the screen on my 12"). Stickies have I never even contemplated to make use of (I think I used Stickies briefly in 10.1). Sidenote is simple and one can drag links in and have them clickable without any preferences. Someone said there was no easy way to save the notes -- well try the floppy disc symbol! [alert admin]

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Friday, November 23 2007 @ 03:02 PM PST

CDpedia 3.4.0 (Mac OS X)

iTunes integration lacking  

For those of us who never buy stuff from iTunes Store, but use iPods and iTunes to arrange and label our music this program is very unhelpful. It can import all the things entered into iTunes, but when you do any change in iTunes you have to basically start from scratch again. Even more so than Bookpedia, there is perhaps only 5% of my 1000 CD collection that has any informaton available online and even whene there is online information available it is usually incorrect in part. /Jerry [alert admin]

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Sunday, January 28 2007 @ 06:30 AM PST

ClickRepair 1.2.5 (Mac OS X)

Very Good, but no click or noise repair is better  

I had given up on sound filtering programs after having been shown how one could work with real professional noise removal software and then I went totally disillusioned as the result was far below my standards. This software has the advantage of leaving most of the music intact and it at my intial testing on different source material worked so well I thought I should use it on all my 1000 of vinyls, BUT when I tried it on my favourite recordings I came to a halt as it simply was not possible to use there and when I understood in what way it can screw things up, I decided to throw this software out also. No software can match the real-time filtering one can make in the head while listening to music, so I recommend people to stop using any kind of noise removal even for professional purposes -- but this is still the most recommended, I think, if you have to get rid of clicks... (just be careful about voices and certain instruments). [alert admin]

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Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 08:49 AM PDT

Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Mac OS X)

Had to force restart the computer (2nd update this has happened with)  

After applyng the update, the machine could not start up -- it just hanged before the blue screen appeared. Force restart (just like with one previous update) worked. --But why should it not be possible just to restart the machine after applying the update?!? (Maybe because I have an external monitor and external keyboard/mouse attached -- something they seemed to drop support off after 10.3.5 ... . Jerry [alert admin]

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Monday, April 18 2005 @ 03:23 AM PDT

Opera 7.54 (Mac OS X)

Probably the slowest browser but ...  

There are fewer web sites not working properly than in any other Mac browser I know of. So, if things does not work in Safari, IE and Opera -- there's not much need to try yet another browser in my experience. One site that only works perfectly in Opera and no other Mac browser I have found is: http://www.suedtirol.info/ No other browser gets as unresponsive after a while like Safari and look at the behavior of the bookmarks menu in Safari -- you could as well go for lunch while it tries to launch. (Still I prefer Safari for everyday browsing.) (IE & Netscape is only for accessing certain banks, as Safari still has no standard implementation of the security features it claims to have.) [alert admin]

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Friday, August 06 2004 @ 02:43 AM PDT

Eudora X 6.0b18 (Mac OS X)

A long way to go still  

I have not tried out this beta yet, but here is nothing in the release notes that suggests any crucial fixes has been taken care off. There is still no way to get Eudora to read (that I or the Eudora staff know of) messages properly with non-7bit ascii in it. If you live outside the US, about 1 in 10 messages will be hard to read and it is thus not an application suitable for serious use. IMAP handling is very non-standard. Saving an imap message does not save it anywhere (may be fixed here, but I am not sure). Dating of imap messages does not follow standards -- no other users can sort your imap messages in a shared mailbox on a server correctly. If IMAP is not important and readability of messages, then Eudora is still ok. There is no way (I know of) to set something like an auto-responder on a Communigate Pro server and have the text be correctly read by Eudora. Almost all messages sent from mobile phones are diffficult to read and some mobile phone users cannot see anything even if you send them messages in plain text. There is only one way to get attachments properly delivered to XP users with OE (for example) and it is sure not the default setting in Eudora. When replying to a message written in html and you set it to plain, the text is not converted into plain properly. Etc. No compatability with Adress book or Palm devices. Nothing of this seems of any concern to the developers at Eudora. Jerry [alert admin]

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Thursday, May 08 2003 @ 03:07 AM PDT

Safari Enhancer 1.2b (Mac OS X)

I also got…  

the "'myPanel' is not defined"-error message. But one can import easily into Mozilla and from there to Safari. Only that all non 7bit ascii american letters get screwed up. Also there seems to be little point in having bookmarks on Safari as they are so difficult to access.... . [alert admin]

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Friday, January 17 2003 @ 10:32 AM PST

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