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User Name garyrog
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The Unarchiver 1.6.1 (Mac OS X)
I got this to open a .sit file -- I didn't want any more of that stuffit stuff for me on my hard drive. The first time I ran it it put up a preferences window with a checkbox for each of the formats it could handle. I checked the checkbox for .sit files. Then when I opened my .sit file it went directly into The Unarchiver and it opened it with no problem. So, for my simple use, the app could not have been easier or worked better. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 12:24 PM PST
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I don't know exactly how safe this product is to use -- I don't know what it does to control the sleep settings or whether it might interfere with future OS upgrades. I hope the author will comment on that here. But for now I will give this product the benefit of the doubt. In terms of functionality, it does something very useful, and it does it in a simple, elegant way. And it does it for free. 5 stars. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 08 2008 @ 08:12 AM PST
Calcline 1.2.0 (Mac OS X)
I like this app with one huge caveat: you should be able to get the answer onto the clipboard from the small window. Preferably with command-C. I won't rate this now in the hopes that the author fixes this omission in the next version. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 15 2007 @ 12:36 PM PDT
CopyPaste + yType 2.02 (Mac OS X)
Can't get it to work on Intel Mac
I've used this program for years and it's always been great, but now I can't get it to work on my new MacBook Pro under 10.4.8. I asked about it on their forum a couple of days ago but no one has responded. I tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling it, that didn't help. [alert admin]
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Thursday, November 09 2006 @ 09:50 AM PST
NotLight 0.1 (Mac OS X)
I've been waiting for some to write a front end for SpotLight that enables access to its AND, OR, and NOT capabilities. This is the first one I've found. So far, it seems to work. I'd like it to have more features such as retrieval of history beyond the previous one, Help pages, etc. It seems great for a .1 release, but given its room for improvement I'll give it 4 stars rather than 5. [alert admin]
Monday, January 30 2006 @ 12:07 PM PST
LyriPod 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I love the idea of this app, but it doesn't recognize my iPod. It's connected via a powered USB hub. It's a pretty new iPod, I bought it a couple of months ago, so I assume it's up-to-date enough. iTunes has no problem recognizing it. [alert admin]
Wednesday, September 14 2005 @ 11:24 AM PDT
Goombah 0.521 (Mac OS X)
Three things everyone should keep in mind for now: a) The recommendation quality is dependent on the number of users, because it works by finding similar users to you. It's essentially supercharged word-of-mouth, supercharged because we use mathematical processing and a lot of computer horsepower to find the VERY best matches to you, so that you are extremely likely to like the same things your best matches like. BUT: if your tastes are non-mainstream, the probability that there will be matches to you is based on the number of people who have signed up already. And because we are still in fairly early beta test mode, we have done almost no publicity for it. The publicity has been a blog and a couple of mac version sites. We are using this period to get the code right, refine the UI, etc. b) The bottom line is that it does not make sense to judge us on recommendation quality... YET. We're going to put our tails on the iine and say that Goombah will have the best recommendations in the business. Our software is built from the ground up to handle huge numbers of users with no deterioration due to scalability issues. That's what we're really about. It means that when we have lots of users, we WILL find your VERY best matches, according to mathematical processing based upon a key optimality theorem. At that time, the recommendations will be fantastic. But right now, while we prepare for the growth we are planning, we should be judged according to UI issues, stability, etc. We simply cannot produce those fantastic recommendations until we get more people, and we aren't trying to get a lot of people now because we're beta-testing and refining the UI. c) The above being said, we will be posting an update before long that should make the recommendations significantly better than they are now. The algorithm in the software currently assumes we have a lot of users, because our whole is to harness that power of that kind of large community. But there are simple things we can do to minimize the negative impact of the fact that we don't have those people yet. The coming updates will start to include such processing so that recommendation performance is substantially better during this testing period. We'll post developer notes here regarding changes that involve recommendation quality as they come. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 05 2005 @ 08:25 AM PST
OmniWeb 5.0 beta 7 (Mac OS X)
I saw a few negative reviews here and thought I should counter with a positive one. For people who spend a lot of time each day in their Web browsers, this is the best I've seen on the Mac, and I've seen them all. Now that I've gotten used to the tab drawer, I don't want to experience the Web without it. The reason is a bit hard to explain. It's kind of like trying to explain why tabbed browsing is better to someone who assumes "What difference does it make? I'm happy with an open window for every site I'm on -- I just go to the Window menu and pick the one I want!" But the vast majority of the time, once they experience tabbed browsing for a while, they understand. The tab drawer does not make as great an improvement over tabs as tabs makes over non-tabs. But the difference is real nonetheless. With the additional visual clues from seeing the thumbnails displayed, you can find the one you want a bit quicker, and darnit, it's just more enjoyable to see them all laid out there. When I first started playing with them I thought they took too much space, because I often have a lot of pages open at once. But I quickly learned otherwise, as I actually used them for real browsing. Other improvements over, for instance, Safari, include workspaces and the little pop-up window for editing text input areas. Smaller improvements over Safari (at least since the last time I used Safari) include retaining your scroll position in a text input field when you go to another page and return to the one you were editing. The Mozilla-based browsers such as Firefox, Camino, and Mozilla itself are all very good, but none of them come near to the Cocoa look-and-feel of OmniWeb, and that makes a real difference in my experience. Only Safari is (at least) as good in that area. OmniGroup technical support has always been excellent. Every comment or question I've had has been responded to in a helpful manner. 5.0 Beta 6.1 had some bugs. They were getting frustrating enough that I considered temporarily trying something else as my default browser until the next beta came out. In fact, yesterday, I downloaded Opera 7.51, which I saw was getting some very good reviews here on VT. But I quickly saw it was missing some features I depend on with OmniWeb, so I continued using OmniWeb. And then today 5.0 Beta 7 came out. And on the enhancement list, it specifically mentions having fixed every bug I can recall experiencing under 6.1. If this seems like a rave review, it is. But.... I am not saying OmniWeb is for everyone. Casual Web users (such as my wife) may be better served by Safari, which has all the basic features a Web browser needs. And by presenting fewer advanced features, it may make it a bit easier for casual users to not feel lost. So I have not suggested that my wife, who gets on the Internet once a week at most, switch to OmniWeb. But I wouldn't consider going back to Safari or another browser unless OmniGroup really drops the ball in the future. And given the fact that they've been around since the NeXT years, there is every reason to think they have the longevity to keep going for a long time. Note, I'm giving "Quality/Stability" 4 stars based on the fact that this version lists the bugs I can recall as being fixed. I would have given it 2 stars in this category yesterday. [alert admin]
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Sunday, June 06 2004 @ 03:32 AM PDT
GyazMail 1.2.0 (Mac OS X)
I downloaded GyazMail a couple of days ago and like it very much. I have gotten sick of crashes in Entourage and wanted to try something else, so I tried GyazMail. It appears to store each email in its own disk file, and there is an index file for each account called MessageIndexArchive. One thing that concerns me, a lot: if GyazMail crashes, can that index be easily rebuilt? After all, software crashes and computers freeze. Entourage and Quicken have ways of causing their indexes to be rebuilt when it happens. I think it is an essential feature. I can find no sign of this feature in GyazMail's documentation. I emailed the developer directly yesterday but haven't gotten a response. So I thought I should post a note here and see if anyone else knows. This is the only issue that is holding me back from paying for the software and recommending it to others. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 15 2004 @ 04:57 AM PDT
NetNewsWire 1.0.8 (Mac OS X)
I like this software for reading RSS feeds. I tried to also use it for posting to TypePad, and had a number of problems which could only be explained as bugs in NNS wrt TypePad. I posted questions and requests for help to the NetNewsWire mail list which were usually IGNORED. And the bugs persisted for quite some time, as new releases of NNW with new features came out -- my choice would have been for the bugs to be fixed before features were added. Finally I gave up and got ecto, which I am very happy with for posting. For all I know NNW may work with TypePad now, but it's too late for me. I don't think NNW needs to be all things to all people, but the developer should respond to requests for help. This was a few months ago and for all I know these problems are resolved now, but no software remains problem-free forever, and this developer has demonstrated a lack of commitment to be responsive when problems do emerge. So I thought that people considering NNW should know that. For newsreading, it's excellent, and I still use it for that purpose, although for the reasons mentioned above I no longer have "loyalty to the brand". I'll switch if at some point I try something else that I like as much for reading. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 15 2004 @ 04:48 AM PDT
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Hopefully recommend! However, Does OmniOutliner .....
As another MORE lover, I thought I'd mention how I've replaced cloning in the context of OmniOutliner. The disadvantage of my technique is that it's a bit more labor-intensive. However, to my mind, the advantage of the technique far outweighs the disadvantage: you can export an outline to OPML if there's ever a need to, import it into another outliner include a PC-based one, and still have your clones. I keep a sticky open…
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Thursday, June 02 2005 @ 04:42 AM PDT
See my Develper Note entitled Recommendation Quality, posted in this discussion list today. It's premature to judge us on recommendation quality for reasons described in detail there. I will add though that you made one good point, which echoes other feedback we've received recently: it shouldn't recommend artists that you already have (or at the very least there should be a preference setting for that). That's obviously an easy thing to add and you can expect us…
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Saturday, March 05 2005 @ 09:02 AM PST
That's true for dialup users -- sorry. We should make it clear that the suggested configuration includes high bandwidth such as a DSL or Cable modem. It should be noted both here on versiontracker and on our download page. We'll do that.
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Thursday, October 14 2004 @ 07:12 AM PDT
Actually I got some feedback from the author of the product, who says that the indexes are automatically reconstructed after a crash!
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Sunday, June 06 2004 @ 09:13 AM PDT
One other thing. In a way, I can understand people complaining about the price, given that most of the alternatives are free. However, most people spend $1,000 or significantly more for their macintoshes. For those who spend a great deal of time on the Web, this is one of the few truly efficient ways to spend a few bucks to significantly improve their computing experience. It's better than the free alternatives for serious Web users,…
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Sunday, June 06 2004 @ 03:54 AM PDT
Hi, We got a large enough response yesterday to the product release that our server got a bit swamped. We're tuning it (database threads, etc). This problem either has been or will be solved soon.
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Thursday, December 11 2003 @ 06:20 AM PST
