User Profile for innovia

User Name innovia

Member Since 2002-11-01

Total number of Feedback Posts: 2

Total number of comments: 2

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Searchlight 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Really simple to install (just run it!) and works perfectly so far. Gives you a fairly basic Spotlight search box - I'm guessing that later versions might let you compose more advanced queries. Even without that, it's already a huge leap forward for Server users, and all for less than $30. Very impressive. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, February 07 2006 @ 12:33 AM PST

Adobe Reader 7.0.1 (Mac OS X)

Hugely better than v6 but still malware

Much faster than version 6 (which was intolerable), good viewing options and a serious alternative to v5 or Preview now. BUT it hijacks all PDF downloads in Safari and displays them using a plug-in. There's a preference to turn this off but if you use it, the setting endlessly reverts to hijacking mode. I need it for DRM features but really resent having my machine tampered with - not only inconvenient but results in my PDFs being stored in a temporary folder where they're automatically deleted. Hence 1 star for features. A teenage hacker would get taken to court for doing this - why not Adobe? [alert admin]

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Wednesday, June 22 2005 @ 11:34 AM PDT

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Can't disable plugin

Not only does Adobe repeatedly over-ride the user preference not to use Adobe's browser plugin, but if you delete the plugin files, it eventually puts them back. So there really seems to be no way to prevent this behavior. This amounts to hacking my Safari and Preview so I can't use them as I prefer. Adobe must know they're doing this by now - we're on version 7.0.2 - so how do they get away…