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User Name grikdog1
Member Since 2006-03-12
Total number of Feedback Posts: 22
Total number of comments: 3
Last 10 Feedback Posts by grikdog1 [ Search for All ]
FTP Commander 7.67 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
I'd give this eleven stars if it allowed me to set a few default behaviors, such as PASV or home folder. Apparently, it's a lite edition; but these are quibbles. This is a beautiful piece of software that does its somewhat esoteric job (these days, anyway) without a fluff, muff or duff. Recommended. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 28 2007 @ 05:33 AM PDT
ImgBurn 2.3.0.0 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
Should a utility this good be fun to use? 
There's no manual. Maybe you don't need a manual. I was able to create an iso image of a large essential folder without one, then burn it to CD. There was nothing intuitive about it. What saved my bacon was the program itself -- it created missing control files and filled in necessary information automatically, while telling me what I dunce I am for forgetting that bit. The only difference between this program and the way Mac OS X works out of the box is the know-it-all unprofessional geeky attitude, but hang it all -- the utility itself is far more than just fine. I'd certainly recommend this, but it requires a certain derring-do to approach. Fear not, or not as much as you might think, anyway. And it's free. Why is that? That worries me. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 23 2007 @ 05:42 PM PDT
Ultimate Boot CD 4.0 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
This is not a beginner's tool! Fortunately, you have to track down the install files on the web, download them if possible, and burn the eventual iso to a CD. Daunted? Not yet? You will be. Boot the CD you just created, and encounter a plethora of DEEP ROCKET SCIENCE workbench stuff which may or may not be what you're looking for. In my case, I was just looking for a boot CD to let me run my backup program's recovery program from an external USB drive. Not sure I've got that here... Still looking. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 10:30 PM PDT
Unlimited Checkers 1.1 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
Opens a terminal console (for Java?), followed shortly by a game board and two or three primitive dialogs. There is a speaking voice inviting you to a game of checkers. Unfortunately, game play is a bit buggy -- at least, in my case, play halted when the program marked a forced move in the middle of the board with no close checker to make the move! Needs work. A pity, too, because at first blush this is a nice, free checkers program -- welcome in a world where the "free" XP software is usually embedded in adware and/or other annoying commercial sludge. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 10 2007 @ 07:04 PM PST
Flying Toasters Screen Saver 3.0.0 (Mac OS X)
The classic Flying Toasters from After Dark had class. For one thing, the toasters were steel-sided and LOOKED steel-sided, with ambient reflections including toast and other toasters. Blue, they were not. They did not plummet in random directions from the top left corner, but flew IN FORMATION, like geese, with stragglers joining a group and adventuresome toasters zipping off on their own to find their own space and form their own groups. If I recall correctly, there were a number of Options, but I never used them because the toasters were our friends just as they were. After Dark also included a slew of other modules, including synchronized swans and a cityscape with creepy eyes on the bottom edge of the screen and a surreal eldritch moon that you could wrap a bitmap around (including an eyeball). The good old days. This is about halfway there, using the old hacker's formula that 90% of the work comes in the last 2% of the inspiration. Oh, yeah. After Dark sucked. It froze up your IBM PC like clockwork, but it was sure pretty. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 30 2006 @ 03:37 PM PST
Man Viewer 1.0 (Mac OS X)
downloads manpages from developer.apple.com?!
First thing it does is download manpages from developer.apple.com. This takes awhile. It also populates a pane on the left side of the dialog with downloadable-from-apple manpage titles. It seems reasonable to ask whether this pup knows about /usr/local manpages, or offbeat non-standard stuff "man psql" if you happen to have PostgreSQL installed. It's hard to determine, because as I write this, the manpage download from developer.apple.com seems to have stalled. As a workaround, you could try xman (if you have Darwin installed), or just do "man whatever | aless" from Terminal, if you have a copy of aless in your /usr/bin directory (it's not in the Man viewer titles pane, I can tell that much). Loading Man pages is still stalled, so... good luck! [alert admin]
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Friday, October 13 2006 @ 11:46 AM PDT
Vampz Screensaver 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Last time I checked my foggy memory banks ('bout 0.43 seconds ago) girlbats don't look like flying blue monkeys, let alone batboys. Ugh. [alert admin]
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Friday, October 13 2006 @ 11:21 AM PDT
Virtual ][ 5.5 (Mac OS X)
Update 5.4 -> 5.5 breaks license
I can't update to 5.5 because doing so breaks my license. The new version runs in demo mode. Restoring from backup repairs the damage, if any. [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 08 2006 @ 12:09 AM PDT
OSX SkyFighters 1945 0.9.8 (Mac OS X)
The "10.1.5 or better" spec is bogus. THIS version requires 10.4 point something. The Read Me file does refer users of older systems to the author's website. However, the link to "older systems" if it even exists is obscure. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 02 2006 @ 12:02 PM PDT
Old Glory 1.3 (Mac OS X)
By changing Old Glory.tiff, this is fairly easy to hack with other flags -- such as Finland, the USSR ensign or Jack Rackham's jolly roger. However, the algorithm seems to adjust the effective image size and blur the result. It would be cool to see other versions of this with different flags, provided it was done right. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 27 2006 @ 10:06 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by grikdog1 [ Search for All ]
= Thunderbird?
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Wednesday, August 09 2006 @ 03:47 PM PDT
It's a system chokehold. No thanks.
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Wednesday, May 10 2006 @ 05:53 AM PDT
If only somebody would bring back the real fully-fledged After Dark, flying toasters and all (yes, I know about the cheep jacques imitators)...! I miss the night owls, the swans, the floating eyeball...everything but the inevitable system lockup after two or three hours.
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Sunday, March 26 2006 @ 08:35 AM PST
