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User Name humhum
Member Since 2005-11-01
Total number of Feedback Posts: 14
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myTexts 3.1 (Mac OS X)
In three months' time from version 1.0 to 3.1? This gives a whole new meaning to "version inflation". [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 21 2009 @ 06:40 PM PDT
Timesheet 0.8.4.2 (Mac OS X)
I wanted to track the time I spend on certain projects and duties. This utility helps a lot—it even stimulates focussing on specific tasks, or deciding enough time has been spent on another. I now use this on a daily basis. I like the fact that the UI is clean, no gimmick buttons and the like. [alert admin]
Friday, September 25 2009 @ 08:15 AM PDT
Outspring Mail 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)
In contrast to the previous post, I do believe there is room for a new email client - there are problems with the existing ones. Mail is slow and still loses email on occasion. PowerMail is still the fastest among them, but does not really support IMAP (it crashes, even after all these years) and does not support Unicode. PowerMail is not actively developed; it is only updated for new versions of the OS. Outspring mail has a promising interface, but what bothers me is the amount of RAM it takes (550Mb real memory), and the percentage of CPU (about 10% without running in the foreground). The search facility is underdeveloped too in comparison to PowerMail. Still, I will monitor the development here - I still have hopes for a good client, and am willing to pay for one. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 08 2008 @ 11:01 PM PDT
Ulysses 1.5 (Mac OS X)
This tool is magnificent, particularly in the current version. You can define the various views, easily hide/show the browser view by clicking, the notes, the control panel, all done in subtle ways. The main thing is to work with the editor for serious writing, whether fiction or non-fiction. And, in contrast to the previous review, it *does* support footnotes also in formats other than LaTeX (but TextEdit is not yet able to show these footnotes, which may be the cause of the confusion; try Mellel for RTF-files and you'll see that footnotes work). Moreover, these footnotes are not in your face, within the main body of text, but in a side panel (which "stacks" notes). The browser allows you to view collections (sort of folders) but also filtered groups (where you can define the filter yourself). Incredibly flexible, and clean in presentation. Experience learns that this tool is not for everyone: those who insist on editing in RTF-format don't like it that Ulysses does not follow suit. For good reasons, and I am happy that the developers have their own take on things, while simultaneously allowing for several export facilities which are powerful. [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 29 2007 @ 08:57 AM PDT
iBank 2.2 (Mac OS X)
As a long-term user of iBank (way back when version 1.1 or 1.2 came out or so), I like to comment that the current update sees an important improvement to importing data. This used to be slow, but it is pretty fast now, which is great. I must admit that I merely use it to archive my transactions (dowloaded from the bank) and categorize expenses, none of the other stuff. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 24 2007 @ 06:46 PM PDT
PowerMail 5.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Incredibly fast and customizable searching, strong filter implementation, but: * poor IMAP implementation and no sign of improvement over the last 3 years * still uses the old, non-Unicode WASTE text engine instead of the new unicode-savvy one which is out for half a year There seems to be little real development, other than addressing OS updates. Still, if you do not need IMAP, or Unicode, this is the best of the pack. If you need either of these, it's time to look elsewhere. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 10 2006 @ 12:37 PM PST
UltraFind 2.5.2 (Mac OS 9)
Ultrafind is still sorely missed, and it is incomprehensible that no one has stepped into this gap in the market - as it still beats the competition hands down, despite being a 9 year old *update* ! [alert admin]
Friday, November 10 2006 @ 08:55 AM PST
Drop Drawers X 1.6.6 (Mac OS X)
A correction of my last post: it *is* possible to remove the drawers entirely from sight: select tab style "None" in the drawer options (and for convenience, use a key as set up in the main Preferences to show or hide any drawer). The drawers will still appear, out of the blue, expanding from the screen side. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 24 2006 @ 07:19 AM PDT
Drop Drawers X 1.6.6 (Mac OS X)
I have used Drop Drawer for many years now, and utterly depend on it. Apps in various tabs, document types each in a separate tab, text snippets, and: one tab for troubleshooting (the solutions to problems that I always seem to forget when I need them). One of DD's advantages is that you can actually see the name of the file/folder/app in the drawers; with many rival apps, that is not the case. So if I want to launch one of my Tinderbox-files, or Ulysses-files, I have to go through an additional step in those applications; not so in DD. With long text snippets, you can give them a shorthand name. URL's can directly be loaded, but the snippet can also be pasted in a field elsewhere. In short, DD works faster and with less clicks than other apps. The one thing that does bother me, is that it takes screen space, no matter how little. Whenever I enlarge a window to extend to full window size, somthing of that screen is obscured by DD. The scrollbar, mostly. So I have to resize the window manually—and that happens a lot. Even more with my iBook 12". (I have 10-11 drawers). So my big wish would be, that the drawers could altogether disappear like the dock, or that it gives a signal to the finder not to let windows extend under DD's drawers. DD has been rock solid over these years, never crashed; highly recommended. [alert admin]
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Sunday, July 23 2006 @ 05:08 PM PDT
Daylite 3.1 (Mac OS X)
I have no problems with this update whatsoever. Quite a few of the last posts (which suggest that Daylite is unstable, while it is the very opposite) give the impression that the bad feelings and almost animosity created by the absolute failed and flawed launch of a rival product is spoiling over to this list. That is a shame. While there is most certainly room for improvement in Daylite - for example, in the Notes section, or in memorizing certain field values in contacts and the like - this is a reliable workhorse, with features not paralleled elsewhere. I hesitated a long time before I made my choice, and tried all alternatives. In the end, this was by far the most polished, finished, powerful and reliable product I could find. It does not come cheap, and I would prefer email integration with other email clients than Mail, but otherwise I can only recommend it. The way you can personalize various lists such as tasks, projects and opportunities is great, and I have come to depend on it completely. I did not use version 1.9, so the issues reported in connection with 1.9 are unknown to me. But the only problems I noticed were in the beta's. The official launch of 3.0 has been good in my experience. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 03:08 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by humhum [ Search for All ]
I cannot agree more with your comment; it is, indeed, extroardinarily responsible behaviour on the part of SigSoftware, while the efforts and openmindedness of the developers of DragThing are also to be commended. Well done.
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Sunday, May 20 2007 @ 07:50 PM PDT
Oh, I forgot: if you want to see the names of the items, it's under Drawer options > general > show item names. Control-click: edit clipping.
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:41 PM PDT
You can still do the same; if you have switch on Dragthing > Drawer options > Advanced > Dock items are buttons, they even need only a single click. Otherwise they'll need a double click. I am a long-standing fan of Drop Drawers, too, and was very happy with the product so I'm sorry to see it go. But this functionality, on which I too came to depend, still exists. My fear is that DragThing will require…
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:39 PM PDT
Syncing is, in fact, not at all difficult. The only problem which may occur is changing IP addresses in your network. That is easy to overcome, though, with one of the many freeware apps that check the current IP address (e.g., mynet). If the IP address has changed - as is often the case if you share a router with more computers - you need to login to the main database, then go offline. The…
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Tuesday, May 08 2007 @ 03:28 PM PDT
For keyboard shortcuts, why not use the built-in OSX Preferences? You can assign whatever you want to specific Mellel menu items. It is not entirely true that Mellel is the only app for Unicode, and 1000$ is an exaggeration. But if I need a wp, I use Mellel as well. (After exporting from Ulysses).
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Thursday, March 29 2007 @ 05:45 PM PDT
I had the same problem - but had already overwritten both my laptop and desktop version. However, the subscriptrions are only invisible - not lost. On the support website I found that you have to run the following lines in Applescript Editor: tell application "Vienna" reset folder sort end tell And indeed, it did the trick with thjis latest version. It's a bit of an oversight on the part of the developers, to say the least, but at least it's not…
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Tuesday, November 07 2006 @ 12:52 PM PST
One thing Safari cannot do is importing a website directly as a webarchive into DEVENthink Pro... Of course, you can do this manually, but it would be nice to automate this.
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Tuesday, July 25 2006 @ 07:38 PM PDT
As I stated previously, I like iBank in many ways, but I do think the beta-period took long for an app that one wants to rely upon. Anyway, my recent problems seem to have gone.
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Wednesday, December 21 2005 @ 03:33 AM PST
