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User Name jdien
Member Since 2000-12-08
Total number of Feedback Posts: 97
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ProtectMac AntiVirus 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
It's like the story about the guy who goes around banging on a drum. When he's asked why he does this, he says to keep the tigers away. When someone points out there are no tigers in the city, he declares "it works!". There's no way to even know if this product actually works since there is nothing to test it with. If one really needs this kind of reassurance, it would make more sense to at least get software from a known security company like Symantec (which costs the same amount of money). [alert admin]
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Monday, January 12 2009 @ 02:55 PM PST
Stox 1.2 (Mac OS X)
I find Stox to provide a useful snapshot of how my portfolio is doing. It provides a clean, simpler interface. However, I keep running into bugs. First of all, for mutual funds it keeps track of the number of shares out to some large number of decimals but only displays them out to two decimals. If you try to enter in a sell record, it will reject it unless you type in exactly how many it thinks you have out to the full number of decimals, which can be problematic since it doesn't give you any way of finding out how many it thinks you have. After one has accumulated dividend reinvestments and so forth for a while, it can be difficult to figure this out. I've given up tracking mutual fund shares with this program. A second problem I've just started noticing is that it is not correctly calculating the %age gain/losses for my stocks and the total summary %age is likewise not reflecting either the correct figure nor the incorrect figures displayed for my individual stocks. This is really problematic since this is the main function for me. I'm not sure if this is a general problem with the program or if my Stox database has become corrupted and the program is not detecting it. Either way, it's not inspiring confidence. I've already reported the mutual funds problem but it took a month or two before they got around to responding and so far, a month later, they haven't done anything about it. I'm not too impressed with the support. I can't really recommend the program based on my experiences thus far but if it ever starts actually working then it would be a worthwhile program for me. Meanwhile, I think I'm going to look into alternatives. I can't trust my finances to something that is being this problematic. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 06 2008 @ 02:51 PM PDT
iBank 3.0 (Mac OS X)
nice comparison with Moneydance
See the following website for a nice comparison with Moneydance, the other major Mac competitor with Quicken: http://facelikefizz.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/should-i-give-up-on-ibank-3-and-go-back-to-moneydance/ [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 02 2008 @ 12:58 PM PST
Stalker 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
It's a definite improvement over just using Yahoo. It is nice to have a compact listing of how investments are doing with both information about price change during the day, since the security was bought, and overall investment performance. It doesn't do anything else though. It also doesn't handle short sales. If you want something cheap and simple then it is a good buy. [alert admin]
Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Stalker 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
It's a definite improvement over just using Yahoo. It is nice to have a compact listing of how investments are doing with both information about price change during the day, since the security was bought, and overall investment performance. It doesn't do anything else though. It also doesn't handle short sales. If you want something cheap and simple then it is a good buy. [alert admin]
Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
FileInfo 1.3 (Mac OS X)
I've used the 1.2 version for some time and been happy with it. I tried version 1.3 on a file (using OS X 10.4.11 on a G5) and got a weird error message: "Can't make current application into type <<class imaA>>" Quick Change 3.0 worked fine for me and it is free. [alert admin]
Monday, January 14 2008 @ 03:30 PM PST
DropInfos 1.0 (Mac OS X)
It didn't work when I tried changing both Creator and Type although it did for just Creator. Quick Change worked for me and it is also free. [alert admin]
Monday, January 14 2008 @ 03:26 PM PST
MacCvsX 3.3b1 (Mac OS X)
I couldn't even get past logging into sourceforge to import a project. It wouldn't ask me for my password and instead just gave me error messages that I was not providing a password. I'm sure there is some way to do so but there is not documentation and no one to ask. There isn't even a user forum that I can find. I can't recommend this program unless you REALLY know what you are doing. Seems like it is better to just use the command line interface. At this point this program just seems to be adding an additional level of complexity to the process. [alert admin]
Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 05:31 PM PST
YouTube Video Grabber 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I tried out both this one and videobox on a youtube video. They both worked fine but videobox is easier to use and is cheaper. [alert admin]
Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 02:31 PM PST
QIM 1.4.2 (Mac OS X)
My father, who is a professor of Chinese, has the following to say: I have been using QIM for about a year and find it excellent. The characters are clearly displayed, having frequently used characters movie to the front is very useful, and I have not had any problems with it. On the contrary, the change of the Apple fonts that came with OS10 is a disaster, many common characters are not included, and the range of input methods are strange indeed. Thank goodness for QIM. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 20 2007 @ 10:12 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by jdien [ Search for All ]
I wanted to edit this but Versiontracker doesn't seem to allow one to do that any more. By poking around on Google I found that the camer control issue has caused a lot of complaints. Apparently there is a fix though. What you do is go to the game options and select the checkbox for two-button rotate. After you do this, you can rotate the screen when holding down both mouse…
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Saturday, June 16 2007 @ 02:21 AM PDT
What makes you say Bookends might suffer from database corruption issues? I haven't seen any comments to this effect. Do you have evidence for this or is this just speculation? It's a serious charge!
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Monday, July 11 2005 @ 03:10 PM PDT
Ran into some sort of browser glitch and it's not letting me delete the extra posts.
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Monday, July 11 2005 @ 03:08 PM PDT
Endnote has declined drastically 
Check the comments under Endnote. It's done worse than just stagnate. Version 8 was so full of bugs it is unusable. They issued two patches for the Windows version but left the Mac users in the cold. Now they have version 9 out. Would you buy it given what happened with version 8?
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Monday, July 11 2005 @ 02:59 PM PDT
Endnote has declined drastically
Check the comments under Endnote. It's done worse than just stagnate. Version 8 was so full of bugs it is unusable. They issued two patches for the Windows version but left the Mac users in the cold. Now they have version 9 out. Would you buy it given what happened with version 8?
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Monday, July 11 2005 @ 02:54 PM PDT
Endnote has declined drastically
Check the comments under Endnote. It's done worse than just stagnate. Version 8 was so full of bugs it is unuseable. They issued two patches for the Windows version but left the Mac users in the cold. Now they have version 9 out. Would you buy it given what happened with version 8?
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Monday, July 11 2005 @ 02:54 PM PDT
After upgrading, no more launching
I ran into this too when I upgraded via the automatic update mechanism. I e-mailed the developer and got a prompt reply (customer support is great!). The problem is that Moneydance was upgraded but not the Java code it relies on. Some sort of developer oversight. What you need to do is to reinstall the application from scratch. In other words, download the application from the developer website. It'll…
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Monday, March 07 2005 @ 10:27 PM PST
Another thing to consider is that the developer making the spamcop plugin says that they are no longer supporting it due to some misunderstanding with the spamcop site and so it will likely stop working with the next OS X upgrade (10.4).
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Saturday, February 05 2005 @ 09:12 PM PST
Spamcop is also making me hit a confirmation button for each report which gets annoying. I'd say sp@mx is still easier to use.
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Saturday, February 05 2005 @ 01:15 PM PST
Hmmmm.....not bad. I notice it's opening up a separate browser page for each report. I would imagine that for folks struggling with dozens or hundreds of messages the sp@mx approach would be easier. I'm only getting about a dozen each day so I may use this instead. My spam count seems to be going up, alas, so maybe not.
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Saturday, February 05 2005 @ 01:03 PM PST
