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User Name ian.greig
Member Since 2002-10-15
Total number of Feedback Posts: 21
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Postbox 1.0 beta 15 (Mac OS X)
Promising -- pity about company culture
Some good features -- tabs, searches, gmail-like thread displays. It's a good user experience, better than Mail BUT beware, the spam filtering is crude -- nowhere near as effective as Spamsieve. It is particularly poor at learning spam matches, even using the recommended routines Also, the company culture is a bit nauseous, impersonal and hiding behind the world's worst feedback forum which isn't a proper forum at all -- you cannot see what is being discussed by others, merely search for issues. I dislike dealing with this company so much that I might go back to the imperfections of Mail which does at least handle spam well. The advantage of small, independent developers is (usually) that they are accessible and talk to you. Not this lot. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 18 2009 @ 01:39 PM PDT
Decompose 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Decompose scores over Photoshop by having a brush to define the transitional edge ares where pixels may be foreground image or background. Rather than having to perform a very accurate selection, cut it out and then perform a lot of smoothing of the edges, in Decompose you make a quicker, broad-brush selection of the edge area, from which the app. calculates the border, removes the background to transparency and gives a smooth edge. It seems to work well even if there isn't a lot of contrast between foreground and background. Well worth the money to save time and effort -- and if you need to make good quality, foolproof cut-outs in a hurry, you'll thank the developers. It could do with some sensitivity controls, and a grab tool with a spacebar shortcut to navigate around the image, but this is only a v1.n and it lacks little in the way of refinement. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 16 2007 @ 11:12 AM PST
NoteList 2.1 (Mac OS X)
During the trial period (10 days) you are nagged to buy a licence on EVERY add or save, etc. That put it in the trash for me. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 19 2007 @ 11:29 AM PDT
Mori 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Don't like the 'designed by committee' approach -- makes for blandness and lack of clear direction. • Needs to link with WriteRoom. • Needs to be capable of simple outline structure and/or continuous text • Needs to rise above the TextEdit feel. But I use it and I'm OK with it but I'm not sure that I like it that much. Has potential to be an outstanding notetaker/writer app with a bit more excitement and sense of innovative direction. Maybe there's an alpha of a v.2 which is breaking ground and we'll see it before long . . .??? But don't put it in front of the committee or we never will ;8-) [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 16 2007 @ 10:29 AM PST
Papyrus 12.19 (Mac OS X)
Support/dialog difficulties prevail against 
I have to second the comment about poor-to-nonexistent dialog. The developer appears to have very fixed ideas, among them taking a dim view of potential customers who ask questions. The demo version is crippled by exchanging certain letters of equivalent width which effectively makes it impossible to trial the software on any real job. These days that is idiosyncratic and harks back to the early days of shareware -- but everyone else has moved on. Smaller developers compete very well by being proactive and customer-accessible -- not this one. A pity because there are innovative ideas, the app. handles wrapping text and graphics well unlike most others and the searchable .pdfs are a definite plus. But it is buggy and cranky, and I feel, overpriced as a result. I'm not sure the database adds much to the concept. And beware if you dare to raise these sorts of questions with the developer! [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 21 2006 @ 11:10 AM PST
Bible Sander 1.3 (Mac OS X)
Following earlier feedback, the developer has been very quick off the mark to address my slight difficulty with Accordance output – all the various options now "sand" perfectly. I paid my licence fee for the earlier version and use this app a lot – a real help and time saver. Get this if you teach or preach or author web sites where the Bible is quoted. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 19 2006 @ 10:07 AM PDT
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Long awaited. Needs some more options though
I do a lot of searching for, copying and pasting Bible passages in preparing presentation materials and handouts. I've been wanting something like this for a long time! The concept is very good and the interface clean. UNFORTUNATELY it doesn't strip verse references from my Accordance output. It does work very well on the Bible Gateway, as claimed. [alert admin]
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Monday, June 12 2006 @ 02:20 PM PDT
StoryWritingAssistant 1.1 (Mac OS X)
. . . not being able to save or export effectively means no real trial. Why not be a bit more generous-spirited and allow potential purchasers to save and to check the export options (rather important feature). Competitors CopyWrite, Ulysses, Avenir, Jers Novel Writer are more full-featured -- and a lot more welcoming! [alert admin]
Thursday, December 22 2005 @ 02:47 AM PST
Nisus Writer Express 2.6b2 (Mac OS X)
Freedom from Word -- a bullet-proof writer's app
I'm a former Nisus Writer user who also uses (or more accurately, used) Word for interchange documents. I'm finding Nisus Express .rtf's are quite acceptable with Windows Word users, which is a great breakthrough. Especially as Nisus Express drives a lot better than Word, and these days pretty much everything works -- bullets, styles,formatting (NE 1 was a bit lacking). Nisus Express is now the best writer's word processor out there. It's fast, it's bullet proof, it's intuitive. Can't understand why it's not showing a full ***** on VT. The one area which isn't so strong is the graphics handling. For some run of the mill work I like to include graphics and do quick'n'dirty layouts right there in the WP. The old Nisus Writer was excellent in this respect -- NE still only fair, but improvements are coming through all the time. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 08:17 AM PST
NovaMind 3.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Early releases of 3 were unusable for me (OS 10.3.9) because of "beachball" situations on every change of layout or type. 3.0.4 much better but still ponderous when changing position of branches. For me 2.4 is still a much better user experience. I fully expect 3 to be great and snappy to use when the code has been smoothed out -- and it is now usable without too much difficulty. Keep up the good work! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 13 2005 @ 09:53 AM PST
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The comparison is more with PS than PS Elements because according to the spec PL32 handles CMYK. PS Elements cannot be used for professional-level work which will go to a (litho) printer because CMYK separation is essential. On this appraisal PL32 is very price competitive as a possible alternative to the full version of PS (costing about 8x as much) for less affluent graphics professionals!
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Saturday, April 28 2007 @ 12:55 PM PDT
Reasonable upgrade option needed
There was a $10 upgrade option from v2 but I couldn't make it work (tried several times). I would urge that a fair upgrade price is reinstated, otherwise the reputation of this becoming-good product will be compromised. Needs the ability to position captions flexibly rather than top, middle or bottom. it is actually rather less than simple to use at the moment because it is inflexible. But the concept is good and "it does what it says…
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Monday, February 28 2005 @ 02:42 PM PST
