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User Name fishwhale
Member Since 2002-11-17
Total number of Feedback Posts: 28
Total number of comments: 10
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dotMac Menu 2.5 (Mac OS X)
Great idea, terrible installation procedure
I saw the screenshot, absolutely amazing idea!! I love it! But after downloading and reading the installation procedure, I deleted it. I'm a Mac user, I don't WANT to go through all that just to install an app. Please, find an easier way to add/remove these apps. I realize it's not your fault, I understand the technical problems with the menu extras. But as a user, this isn't something I care about. Nor should I. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 24 2005 @ 11:34 PM PDT
Konfabulator 1.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Great App, poor programmer decision
This is absolutely a beautiful app, very useful, and all the plugins make it that much more useful. What is annoying is the default placing of the Widgets folder in the Documents folder, this is not where lpugins for applications should go. The programmer should know better than to do this. If they're trying to make it easier for a user to add plugins, perhaps a better solution would be to place the widgets where they belong, in Application Support/Konfabulator. This would allow for system-wide, or user-based installations of widgets. To make it easy for the user, a link to Widgets can be placed in the Documents.. OR how about a plugin installation plugin? The user drags a new plugin over a konfabulator icon, and the program movse the lpugin into the Application Support. However it is done, program plugins should not be located in the Documents folder. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 09 2003 @ 09:10 AM PST
Apple iDVD 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Having used iDVD 3 just once, and not having read a single page of documentation or a manual page, I was able to put together a brief DVD of my favourite clips I've edited and brought with me. In fact, after an hour, I felt like a pro with the software, and I had yet to touch the Help button or any manuals. This is what technology is about, intuitive learning and exploration, one can only do this if they aren't afraid of crashes. With OS X's stability and iDVD's unititiveness, I was pleasantly surprised and glad to use a Mac in this manner. Now I wish that the burning part of iDVD 3 was a separate app, that way I could use iDVD to build a DVD image, and then burn it with a non-superdrive computer... becuase after using iDVD 3, ... I can honestly say.. I WISH I HAD A SUPERDRIVE... grrrrrrr [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 14 2003 @ 04:47 PM PDT
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Finally a perfect app. v1.0 is great, and I hope it's not ruined by bloat, like most software tends to be. The great benefit of this app is that it does a good job at the single task it claims to do, and it doesn't do anything else. Meaning, this app will only record whatever coreaudio can hear, it isn't bloated by timers, scheduling, all that crap. It adheres to the unix policy that one tool should do one job, and the power of an OS is the ability to combine tools to create new tools. So personally I wish more developers would do this. One thing I hope is added, is the mp3 or OGG encoders to wiretap, or it's ability to utilize Mp3 in quicktime, if it's there? I presume it is, since iTunes supports mp3 and AAC, so wiretap should be able to as well. For now I use wiretap and then improt the file into iTunes to conver to mp3. I also use wiretap to record live jams in Logic, or when experimenting with turntables. Excellent work!! I probably would pay maybe $5-$10 for a lifetime registration, but really, I'm super happy this tool is free. [alert admin]
Sunday, October 12 2003 @ 12:23 PM PDT
VersionTracker 6.5b (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
You know, I've heard of versiontracker.com when my friend showed it to me with System 7.5, and now when I have my Mac, it was the first place I turned to for software. So you guys have always been great, and continue to be so. Except, why doesn't anyone respond to any emails or requests? I've sent two so far and nobody from VT has responded. I am a dot mac user and I'd like to get the free VT Plus membership, but it requires a new account, which is silly, since I already have this account. It would be great if someone would respond to my emails about that... [alert admin]
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Friday, October 03 2003 @ 03:01 PM PDT
Mac Minder 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Tool does what it says, although I do not see it's purpose really. If it's mean to be used by parents, that's a ridicilous concept. If your kids are being parented by ratings and computer software, you got parental issues to work out. That aside, I can see it's purpose in showing me how much time I spend in applications, thus helping me look back and see where I am lacking focus and what I need to alter, to help catch time wasters. Like realizing I spend too many hours on iChat instead of ApplicationBuilder has really helped. But there is a HUGE BUG in this software. I wanted to add all the software on my Mac at once, instead of going one by one. I left the time field blank, and the app correctly said "None" for time limit. This would imply no time limit correct? Now guess what happened? Since Mac Minder was in my applications folder, the software now limited it's own use. So it wouldn't let me run any application nor itself. This software is easy to disable. Simply hold down the SHIFT key at boot up, and any user can by pass it. Ta-da!! :) So therefore, it's useless for controlling the # of hours a program is saved. What happens if for some reason a person is distracted and by the time they get back, Mac Minder has force quit the application without the last bit of changes saved? I've had this problem, too. Any app that gets a quit request without saving data will prompt you to save data - thanks to Mac Minder, this friendly reminder is now useless. Garbage. But usefull for statistical purposes. I'd love to see a separate version of this software that ONLY tracks how long an application ran. Going to look for one now, but if there isn't, it would be good for Mac Minder ot be split into those two functionalities, as they aren't neccesarily related. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 27 2003 @ 08:13 PM PDT
WhereDidAllMyMoneyGo 3.5 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
If you have nothing good to say, STFU 
There's a lot of really stupid people on VT, I'm sorry on their behalf. If you have nothing useful to say, please STFU and spare everyone your ranting comments about flower pots, or how stupid you think a software is. If you can do better, write software, otherwise, when you leave a comment for something, point out what couuld be improved, what you would like improved. Grow up a little, this isn't Windows. Respect the developer. Now onto my review after using this app for a bit.. I absolutely LOVE this program, the way it's designed is just perfect. All the other programs try to imitate Quicken, with their chequing and all the nonsense of transactions. This software shows you graphically precisely what you have and what you owe, right there where I can see it with ease. The idea of this is refreshingly original, and I can only hope the developer doesn't take the immature comments before this one to mean there's no interest in this app. There is, and I sincerely hope you continue with it. But now I have to suggest some areas for improvements. First, your menus, they need an overhaul, a menu item labelled as "Expensetype- & Accounthierarchy..." is simply not good UI. Perhaps it's because you aren't natively English, I'm not sure. Rethink how the user would use this and redo the menus. Second, is once you get into the above mentioned selection, the lettering and input boxes don't follow the standard OS X UI conventions, the lettesr are quite a bit smaller than they should be and it's not that intuitive sometimes. I had to guess at a few things. This should be updated as well - it is merely a cosmetic thing - but using a Mac is all about cosmetics. The actual function of the software is solid. You have a very good working piece of code, which has a lot of annoying ilttle cosmetic and functional details. Account owners for example, does that screen need to look the way it does? Will there really be 1000 owners listed there? Or is it more likely to be just one? I think there's two choices, peopel who use this personally and those who use it for lots of owners. Perhaps have a way of distinguishing the two. There are many areas to work on. I hope you continue where you left off. Great work thus far. I will not be registering yet, as I am still looking at every single Financial application on VT, and even if I register for another, I may register others if they become better. I personally never write cheques and never ever use any chequing features of any software, one of the reasons I prefer your softare is this fact. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 26 2003 @ 10:03 PM PDT
iSwipe 1.5b7 (Mac OS X)
I'm not entirely certain why the author chooses and continually leaves the "Preferences" menu in the Window option, while every single application has it under the Application menu. It would be nice (let's not even mention standard) if this app would move Preferences into the Application menu, and perhaps stopped using the annoying tabbed approach and switched to the actual preferences style dialog. [alert admin]
Monday, September 15 2003 @ 10:56 AM PDT
DriveGauge 2.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Visual feedback is the way to go!
This is a wonderful concept. Since the icon visually is the entrance point to a physical disk, it should also be possible for the icon to give some state as to the fullness or even "usage" of the disk, in relation to it's capacity. This software achieves that perfectly. If it were possible for it to somehow automatically update without requiring a finder relaunch that would make this a wonderful app to run in the background! Since I'm not sure of the feasability of that in OS X, I can't really comment beyond making a suggestion on this "desired feature". [alert admin]
Sunday, August 31 2003 @ 10:53 PM PDT
Tinderbox 1.2.3 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I have been using Tinderbox since 1.0, lurred by it's promise of awesome notetaking, linking, all the right things.. and I'm still using it mostly the way I would use multiple text files in a folder, and keep each folder for a certain item. Why? Because I can't figure out how to do anything more. There is NO useful documentation, and the little that is included tells you how to install it, run it, and make a note. THOSE things I can figure out on my own. There are a lot of forums, and discussion boards, but that helps those who know what to ask, and I don't know this because I don't know what's possible. This software requires a tutorial, a decent one, better than the little "how to make a note" one that comes with it, or documentation. Then this will be a complete title, until then it's difficult to grasp. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 05 2003 @ 11:20 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by fishwhale [ Search for All ]
excellent advice! I hope the developer listens...
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Tuesday, May 24 2005 @ 11:36 PM PDT
blublub's two words are right on the money ...
the fact that you like the way DVD profiler works, does not mean that application is the key to how a DVD cataloging applicaiton will work. your comment says absolutely nothing about this app, it's just sitting there, being annoying. this application is great for what it does. I dislike DVD profiler, and I'm glad this app is not the same.
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Monday, February 09 2004 @ 06:31 PM PST
this is the update for iDVD 3, not for iDVD 2. Get iDVD 3 installed and the update will work just fine.
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Tuesday, November 04 2003 @ 04:29 PM PST
good tip. I suppose it really is common sense not to do that, it's kind of like saying "if you renamed iDVD to MakeDVD then Apple's software updates won't find it".... :)
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Tuesday, November 04 2003 @ 04:27 PM PST
I bought the software, and have not received any such manual. The manual (ahem, PDF) that I did receive covers how to install it, use it (basics) and so on. All of those can be figured out on one's own without it. There is no concrete reference or manual book on how to actually use the "features" that make tinderbox useful. On how to use child, parent, and Agents. None of this is covered…
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Tuesday, October 28 2003 @ 11:23 PM PST
and I\'m getting so tired of useless comments on VT. If you can do better, WRITE AN APP with a good interface. Because everyone is tired of bad interfaces, but not everyone simply says one thing without offering any advice. If you don\'t like something, say and define a concrete area of improvement. Without any of that, your comment is just filler....more VT filler!
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Wednesday, October 01 2003 @ 07:13 PM PDT
shouldn't YOU stop your kids, and not some piece of software?
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Saturday, September 27 2003 @ 08:14 PM PDT
using software in place of parenting isn't really good. I realize this sounds like a negative comment, but it isn't. Any restriction placed on someone will lead to that someone wishing to break through it, as you pointed out. Man, this sounds like hell. Instead of common sense, a tool is used. ouch.
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Saturday, September 27 2003 @ 08:08 PM PDT
and you don't really need a computer, or a car. you're wrong. just because you don't need it, it doesn't mean others don't. I need to see certain stocks regularly. I need to know what iTunes song is playing without having iTunes take up space on my desktop. I *NEED* these things to do my daily job of writing music and investing. You don't probably.
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Wednesday, August 20 2003 @ 07:40 PM PDT
Personal upgrade issues do not belong here
I thought \"feedback\" and comments were meant to be about software, not as means for someone to discuss their problems with pricing and upgrade policies. That has nothing to do with versiontracker\'s or this software, it has to do with the upgrade procedure.
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Sunday, May 18 2003 @ 05:51 PM PDT
