User Profile for horstl

Ask the DJ 1.6 (Mac OS X)

Great idea - poor playback performance and GUI  

When I read the description, I was thrilled. However, after downloading and trying it out there is also some serious downsides:

• The GUI looks nice, but is impractical
• Even worse, the playback is choppy and unusable

If these two things get fixed, ideally to the point where I get a full integration of the features into the iTunes Party Jukebox, this would be a clear five star candidate.

For now, I give it 2 stars for a cool idea, the automatic BPM counting, and automatic in/out point selection. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, November 08 2005 @ 04:47 PM PST

iShelter 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Good for what it does ...  

I had been looking for an easy way to update my website when I came across iShelter. Unfortunately, my web server would only let me use scp or ssh, so my choices are limited ... This program does exactly what it advertises, and it does it right away with no problems on the way. This implies it will delete everything that is in the server directory, but not in the local directory, without any warning. This is something I don't like. I'd rather delete stuff manually, or at least be asked for confirmation. Ideally, there would be some way to configure what may be deleted and what not. For example, a special "mirror placeholder" typed file in the local directory, named like an existing item on the server, could indicate that the server item should not be touched. The other thing I would like to see added is also in the area of configurability: I do have some files and directories in my local copy of my web site that I would rather not want to copy onto the server. They carry a special label. If now I could tell iShelter to ignore all files and folders carrying that label, that would be really cool. And I can second the wish for more than one server ... On the usability side of things, I could imagine a more integrated progress/status indication than the separate Terminal window. Lastly, what are the demo limitations? I couldn't find a word on this in the manual ... This program being a relatively new kid on the block, and Rev. 1.0, I see that it could become very useful for me, and well worth its price, with the aforementioned changes and additions. [alert admin]

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Sunday, September 12 2004 @ 02:36 PM PDT

USB Overdrive 1.3.7 (Mac OS 9)

Replacing Logitechj MouseWare…  

3.5.1 with this solved a conflict, where Mac OS 9.1's Script Editor would crash the whole system when its "Record" button is pressed. The default confifuration is exactly what I need for my Logitech Wheel Mouse, except I also switched on AutoMove. The scroll wheel now works more intuitively in that when more than one scrollable area is around it still scrolls what I expect, not what the Logitech driver thinks it wants to scroll. [alert admin]

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Saturday, May 05 2001 @ 07:22 AM PDT

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