Advanced SearchUser Name grh-svo
Member Since 2005-09-07
Total number of Feedback Posts: 123
Total number of comments: 24
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RecordPad 2.11 (Mac OS X)
Political remarks totally inappropriate
I haven't looked at the app or the developer's web site. But seeing "pty" in the name of the company is all I need, to know the developer is Australian. I'm a Kiwi so no need to defend an Aussie (there is friendly USA-Canada-type rivalry between Australia and New Zealand) but I will, because the political comment by Ancient Boii Tribe is completely out of place. Most of the rest of the world doesn't like Bush either (doesn't mean we root for Obama) but he's not to blame for your opinion of the software. Not only that but, as if you care, I can assure you there is no depression. Not in New Zealand, not in Australia and not even in America. Recession maybe in America but not in other countries. So the developer's software is completely unaffected by political and economic events in America. And we are all unaffected by your take on them. I see you have one supporter, another moron called Paul.I1 who found your remarks "very useful". Well maybe, but here is not the place. I'm with Bozzunter1. VT should remove this idiotic "review" that reviews nothing. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 17 2008 @ 03:08 PM PDT
PageSender 4.3 (Mac OS X)
What is wrong with Apple's built-in faxing capabilities? works great for me. [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 14 2008 @ 01:39 AM PDT
VirtualKeyboard 3.3 (Mac OS X)
Launch the app, can't access preferences. Can't change the language (switching using system prefs in the menu bar achieves nothing). Non-standard GUI. (Red button at top left does not close the app window, it collapses it. (No green or yellow button.) Click away then click in app window does not make the app active. App window is floating and cannot be changed. And the whole thing is way too ugly for my desktop! Plonk [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 07 2008 @ 02:48 PM PDT
Jolt 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Maybe one star was a little harsh, but... 
Maybe I'm missing something? The developer was kind enough to respond to my earlier one-star review so I went back for another look. Well, sorry but I still think it's useless. Either that or I'm still missing something. Launch the app for the first time and, yes, there is a splash screen. But when will I ever see it again? Surely I sort of need it again if I decide to pay? As the developer and the other guy says, it places an icon at the right hand end of the menu bar. And, it's true, clicking it turns it from grey (inactive) to Red-brown (active). But what is it doing? In demo mode, it says it will delay screen dimming for five minutes. But who has the system prefs set to dim the screen in under five minutes? I would've thought it made sense to pull down a menu "dim screen after x minutes: disabled (or compulsory 5) in demo mode. But...nothing! Sorry, I thank the developer for his effort, doing something I can only dream of (writing an app) but I honestly can't see any point in the thing. I have my system prefs set to dim the screen after 30 minutes of inactivity. What point is there in a tool that lets me change this setting from 30 to 35 or whatever? Why would I ever want to? [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 07 2008 @ 04:11 AM PDT
Microsoft Expression Media 1.0.9038.0 (Mac OS X)
I've used iView Media Pro for years. Microsoft took an excellent program and ground it into the dust with its typical MS BS. All the way from its annoying, ugly splash screen that cannot be disabled, Stupid name, s l o w operation, non-intuitive prefs, to its lack of support for files I use and its ability to twist images 90 degrees without being asked. Someone...anyone must surely step up to the plate and author a competitor. Please make it work more or less how this dog worked before MS grabbed it. And not at this outrageous price, either! [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 11:43 AM PDT
cineSync 1.2.7 (Mac OS X)
Not only the price is a bad joke, also the fact that you pay it over and over and over and... [alert admin]
Monday, April 07 2008 @ 04:37 PM PDT
TinyCal 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
In the mid nineties, Apple included a small, free, calendar utility with the laptops it sold. I loved that utility. LOVED IT ! If only its author would update it and release the same thing for OSX I would pay fifty bucks to have it. TinyCal comes closer to that wonderful tool than anything else I've seen so far. A little effort might move it up to gold star status with me. I plan to email the developer and raise the issue. [alert admin]
Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 05:16 PM PDT
TinyAlarm 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Great Interface, someone said. I tried to install it. Far as I can see, it's a faceless app, i.e. no interface. Either that or it won't install at all. In both cases, there is no way I can use it. I have an Intel core 2 Duo, driven by OSX 10.4.11 so no reason why it should just sit there laughing at me. I'll stick with iClock thanks. Plonk [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 05:08 PM PDT
iClock 3.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I really want this utility to work.
It offers to do many things that I would appreciate. Most of the time, it works. Some of the time, it does not. This intermittent failure pisses me off even worse than a utility that just doesn't work at all. I have v 3.05 installed on an Intel core 2 Duo running OSX 10.4.11. I had to make it one of the start-up items, which I think is not clever. If installed, it should fire up without that. Naturally, I had to turn off the Apple clock which means that, when iClock fails to run, I am doubly inconvenienced. There is a check box in iClock that needs to be checked if you want the clock in the menu . "Show in Menu Bar". I have it checked. iClock sometimes does not show up in the menu bar after a restart. So I must launch the utility manually and look to see if that checkbox is checked. Sometimes it has unchecked itself. No matter, I can just check it again. But no, iClock still refuses to appear in the menu bar. Damned annoying. Thee is no manual. Maybe you don't need one because setting it up is reasonably intuitive. But other people might want one and, surely, for debugging, a manual would be helpful. (Or should be!) I think, in view of its full feature set yet instability, I would prefer to see it as a preference pane. [alert admin]
Friday, April 04 2008 @ 01:28 AM PDT
ThumbPrinter 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
96% of the world is NOT American and does not use stupid inches. Some preferences — cannot switch to the logical metric system. That alone is enough to keep me away from buying this. tool. Statistically, you too. Wake up, developer! [alert admin]
Monday, March 31 2008 @ 11:42 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by grh-svo [ Search for All ]
Kontakt 2.0.1 was released in April
Surely the timing of a mention in VersionTracker is down to the software developer, not VT. VT must merely be a semi-automated database reflecting posts made to it, as and when they are made.
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Friday, May 02 2008 @ 07:39 PM PDT
...that Adobe is very frustrating and often viciously anti-Mac, and while it's true that they did not put any data in the "What's New" field, this time your criticism is blunted by the fact that what is new with this version is adequately-mentioned in the "Product Description" field. Sadly, on this occasion, they would be justified in pointing out that only moron would've missed this.
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Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Who on earth is running Nutopia?
Link doesn't work (presumably because we go direct there instead of via some other page first)
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Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Skype is owned by eBay which makes it a brother to PayPal, one of the most vilified bunches of assholes on the web. Look at <http://paypalsucks.com/> <http://paypalwarning.com> <http://www.aboutpaypal.org/> <http://www.screw-paypal.com/> <http://switchersblog.com/2006/08/20/paypal-is-an-absolutely-miserable-operation.html> <http://blog.centresource.com/2007/04/25/bad-paypal-when-security-becomes-ridiculous/> Skype can be known by the company it keeps.
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Friday, November 30 2007 @ 12:19 AM PST
Instead of asking a dumb question in the middle (and the beginning, and the end!) or your "review" why not just search for Growl. You just might leasrn something useful.
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Wednesday, November 07 2007 @ 01:42 PM PST
The software was developed with Artificial Intelligence. It can detect when you are at work and it disables all sporting broadcasts.
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Wednesday, November 07 2007 @ 01:37 PM PST
One of the more absurd, illogical posits I've read this year. Just suppose you are unlucky emough to have 120GB of duplicate files and you spend $40 to delete them. Ok. Now you no longer have your duplicae files but you still have the app. Suppose you are _really_ unlucky and you have 120GB of duplicate files on every one of your 200 disks. Now would you argue that you got $800 value from the utility so…
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Wednesday, July 04 2007 @ 10:25 PM PDT
My teenage daughter loves it and so do we!
Either you've got more money than you need or your daughter is damned spoilt!
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Thursday, May 24 2007 @ 12:31 AM PDT
Squeeze is A 5 Star APP that I rely on and Has never let me down.
The BBC's online offerings stink! Postage-stamp sized, Windows Media Player or, worse, Real. And their television presentations are no better. World's best content, worlds worst presentation. Overlay graphics by some moron escaped from retard grade school. Eating up way too much screen, inane ticker, over-saturated red kills everything else, HUGE type... How can they do that yet their Horizon and Panorama documentaries are surely the best television on the planet. I have BBC waffling in the background…
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Monday, December 18 2006 @ 06:19 AM PST
Interesting – but not the comment.
BTorrent, you are in the wrong place for comments like this. You are entitled to your opinion but _this_ sort of opinion helps no one and just shows you to be a shallow thinker, maybe even a moron.
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Sunday, December 17 2006 @ 09:14 AM PST
