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User Name internettools

Member Since 2003-11-14

Total number of Feedback Posts: 8

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Jaikoz Audio Tagger 1.10 (Mac OS X)

Good solution to correcting lots of meta data

If you have songs with missing or incorrect meta data on your Macintosh, Jaikoz is well worth your time and money. There is no other program available on the Mac that provides all the capabilities of Jaikoz. If some of your meta data is correct, you can easily transfer the correct portions to other songs that have problems. The color coding scheme showing what data has changed is very useful, and allows you to easily verify the updates before you save them to your hard disk. Jaikoz integrates with MusicBrainz, giving you a chance to capture a lot of meta data starting with just the music, by matching up the song and grabbing the meta data from MusicBrainz. Jaikoz can grab album artwork and song lyrics from the Internet, for all of your music, with one command, and store the data inside your MP3 file. Jaikoz has extensive documentation explaining each of the features available, and suggesting sequences of operations to perform for best results. The author is extremely helpful with support, and releases new versions with new features on a monthly or better basis. The downside to this program is that it's written in Java, and does not have the good looking, fun to use interface that Mac Cocoa programs have. Although an MP3 tagger program is not something I use on a daily basis, so I'm willing to live with this. [alert admin]

Maxi Bidder 1.99r6 (Mac OS X)

Works Intermittently

Which is not good when you are bidding on auctions. I'm an infrequent bidder on eBay, but I do need my bids to be submitted. This program does that sometimes, and other times not. The fact that it's a Java program with an ugly interface does not bother me. But it's got to submit the bids all the time. Keep looking, I'm going to try Auction Hunter next mark [alert admin]

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Monday, March 12 2007 @ 04:59 PM PDT

Process 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)

Very nice program with lots of bugs and no support

Process 2 is a gorgeous program that does everything I want in simple task manager for me. Jumsoft gets credit for bringing out a second version of their program, written specifically for OS X Tiger. Unfornuately the program still has a lot of critical bugs and no updates for the past several months. Lots of crashes when I move tasks around. That is, the whole program dies. Sometimes my data disappears in the window, only to come back a minute later. Sometimes the drag and drop of a task works, and sometimes not. I am a paid user, but they do not respond to my email. A crying shame, because I really want to use this program. [alert admin]

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Friday, May 19 2006 @ 10:10 AM PDT

Factuur Bright X 1.2 (Mac OS X)

A great idea, a modest price, but ...

I've been looking for this program for quite a while. There are some invoicing programs out there, but nothing that also helps you track who paid. And allows you to easily send out dunning notices. So I'm willing to overlook a lot of flaws to use this, but alas I will keep on looking. For starters, I'm spoiled by Cocoa programs, and this is written in Real Basic. No real menus, everything is in a Toolbar in the one main window. Not a show stopper for me, but not good either. The second problem for this American is that the authors are in the Netherlands, and the wording, forced use of taxes, and other minor points don't translate well to how I want my invoices to look. And getting invoices to look "right" is very important. Third I really want plain text invoices, in the body of the email. Maybe a pretty PDF with graphics as an option. The reason is that spam filters and users that don't have or know how to get Acrobat cause problems. In my case, I don't need to wow my clients with a pretty invoice, I just need to get it delivered so they can read it. I already have too many people giving me the excuse that they never received my invoice. While this program has a broad range of variables that you can drop in the invoice, I need to drop my client id into the invoice. And I couldn't figure out how to get that in there. In summary, they hit the nail on the head with their idea, but their execution has room for improvement for my purposes. [alert admin]

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Friday, May 19 2006 @ 07:18 AM PDT

OD4Contact 2.6.5 (Mac OS X)

open letter to crm4mac and od4contact

Gentlemen Great products you have with CRM4MAC and OD4CONTACT. I think that I would benefit from buying your package and using it. However, I currently caught up in Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) and unable to make a decision. Therefore I am suggesting that you work together to create a tool that allows somebody to export the data out of one application and into the other. I'm suggesting that if you can remove the FUD factor, that both of your sales will increase. Probably a noticeable increase in sales. I understand that my contact, calendar and email correspondence remains in the respective Apple applications. I worried about the data that is in what you call Activity List/Contact Manager. I think the approx $50 for your application is cheap. What is expensive to me is the time and energy I spend using your package. And I'm worried about being stranded and no longer able to use your package. I'm worried that I might choose the wrong package. I'm much more worried that OS X 10.5 or 10.6 or 10.7 is going to break your application. I'm deciding that any short term benefit from using your package could be outweighed by being up creek without paddle in the future. The ability to export / import my data would remove the FUD factor and generate a sale. I'd like to have a free open source standalone tool that can easily and fully export/import all the data between your respective applications. It could be an XML or OPML file, or whatever makes sense. I'd like the interchange format to be well documented and available for even other CRM software to use. If anybody wants to second my motion, it looks like the email addresses to write are CRM4Mac - marketing@ibizzi.com OD4CONTACT - info@objective-decision.com Thank you for your consideration. mark [alert admin]

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Saturday, February 25 2006 @ 04:51 AM PST

Crm4Mac 2.1 (Mac OS X)

open letter to crm4mac and od4contact

Bloglight 1.0 (Mac OS X)

A good tool for searching the blogosphere

The blogosphere has an incredible amount of useful information from ordinary people. And it can be very very current. Much like the Usenet Groups use to. This desktop tool allows you easily search up to 4 of the search engines that focus on the millions of blogs. When the results are returned, you can quickly scan a summary of text containing your search term. Clicking on a button takes you directly to that blog item. Clicking on a different button takes you to the blog home page. And a third button will get you subscribed to that blog via your news aggregator (like NetNewsWire). You can sort the results by date or relevance. So while BlogLight does not do much that the search engines themselves don't do, it makes it fast and easy to use. And that justifies the $14 price. This is a very nice 1.0 implementation, and I'm hoping the author will incorporate user's suggestions into future versions. For instance, it might be nice to save the results in a useful format, so that I can load back up a search results executed in the past. Or so I can research just new blog posts the next time. [alert admin]

PodSalvage 4.0 (Mac OS X)

Recovered iPod files when nothing else would

Worked like a charm, and didn't even need to read the 35 page User Manual. A friend of mine had his iPod reset itself, and in doing so, lost all the music on the iPod. And this was not just any music, but a collection of 400 folk music songs lovingly collected from various cassette tapes, albums and even 78's. In addition, each song had ten seconds of silence at the end, to allow his folk music group time to get ready for the next dance. The person who had created this masterpiece had left town, and nobody had any backups. When I plugged his iPod into my Tiger laptop with Itunes 6, it took about 10 minutes for iTunes to recognize the iPod and report that there was no music on it. I could feel the vibrations of the hard disk as it kept trying to re-read sectors. When I ran Disk Utility against his iPod, it gave me an drastic error message and stopped. Diskwarrior would not recognize the iPod, as it was created and formatted on a Windows machine. So I used Version Tracker to see what was available. PodWorks is more for copying songs, and it could not find the iPod. iPodrip saw the drive one time, but then crashed. Subsequent attempts at starting up iPodRip failed, with iPodRip crashing right away. Then I tried PodSalvage from SubRosaSoft, and it found the iPod, started scanning and came back with 400+ found songs. It was not able to tell me any of the file names, but did show the size of each file. When I tried the recovery step, it said I needed to ante up some money. Fair enough. So I called my friend and he did not hestitate on coughing up $40 ($50 if you want them to send you a CD). After using their on-line store, SubRosaSoft emailed me a serial number, which allowed me to recover all the songs onto my Powerbook hard drive. The files all came with their proper name attached, except for about 18 WAV files. I then used iTunes to add them to a library, and everybody is happy. I also made a couple of backup DVD's so we shouldn't need to go thru this process anymore. Thanks SubRosaSoft !! [alert admin]

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Friday, November 25 2005 @ 09:23 AM PST

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