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Member Since 2005-07-27
Total number of Feedback Posts: 40
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iSwipe 1.7.11 (Mac OS X)
I can't believe it. I tried it several years ago and couldn't get it to work. Apparently things have not changed much. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 02 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Transmission 0.90 (Mac OS X)
I used Transmission for a very long time before eventually deciding that Xtorrent was a better choice for me. Now that I am using a different ISP who throttles Bit Torrent traffic I've been forced to use Azureus which I detest. I'm totally going back to Transmission now with the addition of the encryption support. Transmission has really grown up since its initial release a few years ago. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 23 2007 @ 11:33 PM PDT
PacketStream 2.2 (Mac OS X)
This is quite an improvement over 2.1. The interface has dramatically improved. The buttons now look more Mac-like. Now to get rid of the jagginess of the search field. I also like not having to open the hierarchal tree for the different ports that you can monitor and not having to confirm that I wish to quit the application every time. The help documentation is actually useful now and gives a brief introduction to the tcpdump command. Good work overall! There is a small improvement that I would like to see in the autoupdate feature. It would be nice to actually view the progress when it is downloading the new version. Something like what the Sparkle framework does where it shows the remaining amount of data to download that updates as it finishes. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 29 2007 @ 10:10 PM PDT
Mellel 2.2.5.1 (Mac OS X)
I just downloaded Mellel the other day as I've been anxious to give it a try. From what I can tell so far it looks fantastic. Very fine tuning of documents, clean UI, and exceptional organization of tools. I much prefer its use of palettes over Word's. The tools are laid out in a very straightforward and logical manner. I wouldn't consider myself a word processing power user. So, I can't say how its more advanced features compare to Word or Nisus Writer Pro. It's unlikely that I would use many of them either. I did try importing .doc files and it didn't do so great. It threw headers and footers at the end of the document. Strange. The full screen editing mode is a pretty nice addition, but it lacks the ease of use and accessibility of basic functions (i.e changing fonts and text styles) that Write Room does so well. It also doesn't have the customizeability. I suppose it does an adequate job if you just want to get your text down and do the editing and formatting afterwards. I'm looking forward to see if this is something that will make research papers easier this semester. The price is certainly nice compared to the competition in more professional writing tools. [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 16 2007 @ 12:46 AM PDT
Apple iMovie HD 7.0 (Mac OS X)
Anyone know if iMovie '08 will run on a Core Solo Mac Mini? The system requirements only state Intel processor but not which varieties. I really hope that future updates change the system requirements a bit for G5s. I'm a bit irked that the new version has such high requirements for PowerPC Macs. Many of us still have a G4 or G5 lying around. Fortunately it should rock on my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 15 2007 @ 08:21 PM PDT
PortAuthority 2.3 (Mac OS X)
I tried the last version and it did not work very well for me. I had a few bumps on the first launch of this version, but after restarting it everything seems to work perfectly. Maybe it was conflicting with some files from the last install of 2.2 that I missed when I removed it. I've used Fink for a number of years and I decided to give MacPorts a try. It seems much less cumbersome even though it has fewer packages. PortAuthority is an excellent way to manage MacPorts and I feel that it is much more feature rich than Porticus. Porticus may be prettier and have better integration with OS X, yet it seems a bit lacking in options and I received more errors while trying to install packages. After installing a few packages in PortAuthority, I think it's a bit more robust and easier to use. If you use MacPorts and want an easy way to manage things, don't pass PortAuthority by! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, August 08 2007 @ 01:00 PM PDT
PortAuthority 2.2 (Mac OS X)
I installed PortAuthority first since it claims that it can also install MacPorts. That's a mistake. It instantly crashes when you try to run it without MacPorts installed first. I tried to installed packages from it, but it basically freezes up. The window goes out of focus and I get the system "complaint chime" each time I try to do anything. It looks like this release lacked some QA testing before being released. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 30 2007 @ 08:00 PM PDT
Bookit 3.7.2 (Mac OS X)
Just what I've been looking for! 
I frequently switch between browsers from time to time and it can be a pain to keep all the same bookmarks in each. Sure most browsers allow you to import bookmarks now, but it's still extra work figuring out which ones are missing or just replacing all the bookmarks in a browser each time. This takes all the work out of it and allows you to keep things in order with minimal effort. I've also tried Bookdog but it's much more expensive, ugly, and is not as simple to use. As far as I can tell, Bookit is perfect. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 01:30 PM PDT
WriteRoom 2.1 (Mac OS X)
I would like to revise my original review now that I am a little better informed. I went back and took another longer look at WriteRoom and learned about some relatively hidden features. While WR may only allow you to create plain text and rich text files as the application's native formats, you can save your files in Word and Word XML formats (Open Document is definitely missing). It would be nice if this feature were a little better advertised and were placed under a more prominent location in the menubar (maybe under "export" instead of "save as"). It is very simplistic and is rather lacking in features, but it does offer a decent amount of options to customize it. It would be nice to have more options in the menubar than in the preferences. It's much easier and more intuitive to make changes to the document from the menu instead of having to turn things on and off in Preferences for each document. I suppose that the main selling point for WR is achieved in that it takes all the clutter off from the screen so you can create a very basic document or rough draft. In the end, it is just a text editor and probably will not replace a full featured word processor such as Word, Nisus Writer Pro/Express, Mellel, etc. Clearly this application will only appeal to a rather small niche. I still believe that using Freeverse's Think and the text editor or word processor of your choice is the more customizable and fastest method that is possibly less expensive and achieves the same results. Try both Think and WriteRoom and see which method works best for the way that you write and which keeps you focused. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 23 2007 @ 08:17 PM PDT
Linkinus 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I just bought a copy of this from, er...a competing Mac software tracking site and I must say that it is one of the best IRC clients that I have tried on any platform. I haven't used IRC for a couple of years and when I did try a couple clients after switching to the Mac about 5 years ago, I was unimpressed and disappointed by all of them. This is a very simple and well organized application. I'm so glad that it doesn't have a dozen windows like other clients such as Colloquy and IRCle. It has a very straightforward setup assistant that helps you get started right away and get all the basic settings right the first time. Very customizable too. I was also amazed that they offer a student discount. I do wish some of the default settings complied a bit more to what is customary to other IRC clients. Example: a better indicator of who the ops are on a channel. You can change it in the preferences though to use the "@" such as is common in other clients. Some features could be a little more intuitive. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 21 2007 @ 02:44 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by i_gaucho [ Search for All ]
I bought the lifetime upgrade option too and I had no problems getting my 2.0 license. Maybe you didn't get the email? You can have it resent by visiting http://www.acquisitionx.com/code.php.
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Tuesday, March 25 2008 @ 09:01 AM PDT
Why are people commenting on 6.0.1
Maybe they are commenting on 6.0.1 because that was the current version when their comments were posted? Geez, check the date before attacking people.
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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 03:32 AM PST
MacPorts uses Unix packages. You need to run most of them from the command line. You can also use a graphical interface such as PortAuthority or Porticus to install them from MacPorts.
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 06:43 PM PST
Hmm, that's odd. Have you tried removing the preference file and any Acquisition folders from the /Library/Application support folder in your home directory? I'm not at my Mac right now, but I think there is also an option in the preferences to disable update checking.
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Wednesday, November 28 2007 @ 09:29 PM PST
If you go to the Acquisition product page, there's a link at the bottom of the page to have your serial number resent.
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 04:55 PM PDT
Works just fine for me.
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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 04:50 PM PDT
It did that on my PPC Mac. My Intel Mac shows as 98.
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Thursday, November 01 2007 @ 10:45 AM PDT
You probably need to enable to options in the preferences to ignore spam files. I generally find what I am looking for and rarely get spam in my search results. Sure you can find free alternatives, but many are bloated java apps and don't have as intuitive an interface or as good OS integration. The only other Gnutella application I know of that has any sort of iTunes integration is Limewire and the Pro…
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Wednesday, October 31 2007 @ 10:53 PM PDT
It all depends on the RSS feed. Some feeds include the entire post or article while others just include a snippet making you go to their page. I think sometimes this is done so that you will still view the ads that pay for their website. In some ways RSS steals advertising money. You may have noticed that some feeds have even started to include advertisements.
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Monday, October 29 2007 @ 11:06 PM PDT
Did you even bother to read the change log? It has absolutely nothing to do with the Transmission update. The 52 update is mainly to improve compatibility with Leopard. BTW, how do you steal code from an open source project whose license agreement allows for commercial use and the developer of the derivative clearly gives credit to the original development team of the libraries used to create it? Honestly, just go…
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Monday, October 29 2007 @ 09:50 PM PDT
