Advanced SearchUser Name hueco
Member Since 2004-11-07
Total number of Feedback Posts: 18
Total number of comments: 12
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Bracketeer 3.1.1 (Mac OS X)
I would love to see some numbers next to those sliders, if possible. Otherwise, it's a Spinal Tap moment every time you play with Bracketeer. [alert admin]
Wednesday, April 09 2008 @ 03:20 AM PDT
Bracketeer 2.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Please provide a note on changes between versions. [alert admin]
Monday, February 18 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Billings 2.5.5 (Mac OS X)
Billings has become best of class 
I have admittedly been slightly unhappy with Marketcircle in the past, when they dropped the ball on Billings development for many months (see early reviews). They did, however, eventually come up with the features promised at 1.0, and every update since has been free for the earliest adopters. Given a choice, I'd rather pay for updates and have them arrive in a timely fashion, but I think Marketcircle has acted in a fair and generous manner with regards to how things developed -- or not as the case was for a long time. The previous review does highlight a shortcoming -- i.e. documentation -- but it can be overcome. There is a PDF floating around that outlines the ideas of the layout-engine. Once mastered, it is the most powerful tool available for custom "paperwork." I found reading the PDF a great help in understanding how it fundamentally works, and the rest is sorted out with a little trial and error. I now use a selection of templates that can beat the advertised 5-min mark for fast and easy creation of estimates and invoices. But mostly I spend a little longer, just to admire my designs ;-). I hope Marketcircle will stick with Billings now and get into a profitable routine of regular, paid updates. Billings is no longer an app with just promise and potential; it delivers better than any app of its class. [alert admin]
Saturday, December 15 2007 @ 12:26 PM PST
RegExpress 1.2.0 (Mac OS X)
.dmg does not mount; not recognized (10.4.10) [alert admin]
Friday, June 22 2007 @ 10:43 AM PDT
Boinx FotoMagico 2.0 (Mac OS X)
If you are a 1.8.1 user and choose this free "upgrade" to 2.0 Express, you actually lose the ability to set custom sizes for your exports. Those features are now reserved for the paid Pro version. Given that Express is pretty much like 1.8.1 minus the OS 10.4 look (look, ma, no brushed metal), you may want to preserve your options and secure a copy of 1.8.1 before you try or update to 2.0 Express. [alert admin]
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Friday, March 09 2007 @ 03:14 PM PST
BBEdit 8.5 (Mac OS X)
I could write a lengthy review, but my response after upgrading again (paid) is really more of a shrug and an OK. I feel no need to blow the trumpet for stuff I've seen and used before (in that other editor). BBEdit 8.5 feels a bit like a Windows Vista launch. You know, all those "new" features. That said, I'll no doubt enjoy using it and $30 is really of no consequence for an app that regularly puts in many hours of work every day. [alert admin]
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Friday, September 08 2006 @ 12:46 AM PDT
CubicConverter 2.2 (Mac OS X)
CC 2.2 still crashes on 10.4.6 when creating cube faces here. It hangs and then crashes just when the first face is being created. All other functions, like loading a folder of cube faces, seem to work as they should. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 27 2006 @ 12:30 PM PDT
CubicConverter 2.1.4 (Mac OS X)
What CC needs, to get even better, is a wider choice of interpolator functions that sample from more pixels: 36, 64, 256. [alert admin]
Wednesday, March 29 2006 @ 08:01 AM PST
Yojimbo 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Having tried and tested many of the notepad and organizer packages, I never quite settled into using any of them. Passwords and serial numbers, often emailed, ended up in their own folders within Mail app; notes came and went in folders of text files, for projects, and iCal To Do items, day to day GTD. Safari bookmarks grew and continue to outgrow their usefulness. It was sort of organized all over the place. Needless to say, Yojimbo's simplicity hit a sweet spot, and not being a great fan of taxonomies as an organizing principle, I like the search function over the folder hierarchy. One of the uses I have adopted is to compile a little code library of useful snippets. Which brings me to a question, posed as a request: Why can't I do a double click, or Command-J, and edit a Note in, say, BBEdit? [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 11 2006 @ 12:05 PM PST
Mapwing Flash Viewer 1.0.8 (Mac OS X)
This is pretty misleading advertising. They throw around words like "virtual" tours and "virtual" reality when the fact is that the Mapwing concept is nothing but a packaged slideshow. "Virtual" in these contexts -- tours and reality -- is usually reserved for interactive 360-degree panoramas displayed with QuickTime, Java or OpenGL to change the pano projection on the fly in the viewer. This viewer is in fact a very basic pop-up website using Flash and PHP ("authoring" available for $295) with exactly zero "virtuality." Anyone seriously considering this item should do some more research. There are plenty of better solutions available for free or a tiny fraction of this price. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 18 2005 @ 02:33 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by hueco [ Search for All ]
I agree. I have used iBank for a long time and they never seem to have understood the "basics". When I look at all the silly graphics of 3.0, I despair. This is an application for finance and accounting. It deals with numbers. There are penty of interface bugs in iBank and it always has been. The developer seems unable to get a 100% stable release. The trick would be to scale back and get…
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Wednesday, February 27 2008 @ 12:49 AM PST
BBEdit is still the best Mac text editor
echo "my own thoughts exactly";
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 11:23 AM PST
Productive work in the end not possible
A PDF was linked to on the forums a while back. It covered concepts of the report engine in Daylite/Billings. A quick read of that should put you on the path to beatiful invoices.
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Saturday, December 15 2007 @ 12:28 PM PST
Thanks. BBEdit called spyware. Made me giggle. The whole program is a productivity Trojan. You have been warned.
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Monday, August 06 2007 @ 11:44 PM PDT
1. Your "review" was based upon version 2.0 (see that 2.0 right next to your 5 stars?) and included a conclusion that you were reviewing software you had not used. I was simply quoting you. Instead of finding my quote misleading, you may examine the logic of your own statement. 2. If, then, you simply "reviewed" the new version based upon the new features list, perhaps you should have opted for commentary or feedback instead and…
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Thursday, March 15 2007 @ 04:51 AM PDT
Were you equally upset by the guy who wrote a 5-star review without even trying the software? (1+5)/2 = 3 so you're still ahead of the Versiontracker Karma curve.
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Tuesday, March 13 2007 @ 02:00 AM PDT
You wrote a 5-star review titled STILL THE BEST about a new product you have, according to your own review, not even tried yet? Great.
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Saturday, March 10 2007 @ 09:24 AM PST
Not long ago, dinosaurs roamed the earth. Soon we will have Billings 2 ; -)
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Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 07:44 AM PDT
Try PhotoMagico. Much easier to work with overall. I have licensed, and use, both but did not upgrade PTM to v. 4. PTM stays on the HD due to its ability to handle QTVR movies.
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Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 01:48 AM PDT
The fix was listed on the CC download page (not the first place to look). Uncheck the Velocity Engine under the Environment tab in the Prefs. 2.2 obviously does not fix this problem on all machines. Works fine, as before, with the new setting.
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Friday, April 28 2006 @ 01:52 AM PDT
