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User Name jdtangney
Member Since 2001-04-14
Total number of Feedback Posts: 57
Total number of comments: 6
Last 10 Feedback Posts by jdtangney [ Search for All ]
voxReducer Kit 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Following the instructions on the web site, I was not able to hear any sound. Then it started spontaneously quitting whenever I tried to play an audio file. The UI is very strange - completely unusable. Funky dials that you're supposed to twist - wit a mouse?! And the entire window vanishes whenever the app is in the background. Of course the fatal usability issues were not a problem for me, because I couldn't even get the thing to play a sound! Completely useless. I also had to dig through my /Library/Receipts folder to find out what it had installed and uninstall by hand. What junk! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 24 2007 @ 09:58 PM PDT
Library Books 2.6b133 (Mac OS X)
This little app is precisely what I was looking for. As I walked through installation and setup, I was shocked at how the author had anticipated every nuance that makes it a great app! I don't gush about software, but the depth and breadth of this app is stunning! Look at the list of supported libraries around the world! And look at how seamlessly the app integrates with the environment. Serving a calendar via webdav is an astoundingly nice touch! I could go on (and on and on). There a a couple of trivial flaws (e.g. after a library is added, you can't change the name; you have to remove and re-add. BFD.) I can't wait for the dashboard widget. [alert admin]
Saturday, July 07 2007 @ 10:11 AM PDT
Beyond Compare 2.4.3.2.4.3 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
I use this app daily. It totally rocks! I like it so much that I even boot up my x86 box into windows just to run this puppy. All we need is a Mac OS X version... Pretty please? [alert admin]
Saturday, May 26 2007 @ 03:26 PM PDT
BitTorrent 4.27.2 (Mac OS X)
I use bt to download huge files - several gig each. I burn DVDs with them. I download them to a special directory that does not get backed up. Unfortunately, bt puts creates a temp directory in ~/Library/Application Support/BitTorrent where the files live while they're being downloaded. If the temp files are left lying around, they get backed up. Ouch! I didn't see that coming. To be fair, bt will probably delete these files when the d/l is finished, but I didn't wait that long, so my backup got clobbered with gigantic temp files. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 01:56 PM PST
Transmission 0.6.1 (Mac OS X)
I was using the official BT client for a while, but was not happy. I gave Transmission a try. The ability to throttle upload and download bandwidth is perfect! The ability to pause/resume all downloads at once is great. One thing I miss: If I open a gazillion torrent files, Transmission attempts to download them all. The official client only starts 4 downloads. One great thing that the official client messes up: Temporary files are not left lying around. I got burned with BT leaving huge files (several gig each) in ~/Library/Application Support/BitTorrent. Transmission doesn't do that. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 01:43 PM PST
EZxslt 1.5.3 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
This sounds like a very appealing and easy app. It is easy, and it works like a charm on toy examples. But give it a real-world, multipage document and it fails to repeat the entire document contents for each record. I contacted the author and was told they were able to repro my problem. Yay! I was hopeful. But several follow-up enquiries over the following months were ignored. If this was a freeware app, I'd be more generous, but with this outrageous price tag, I expect it to work - or my money back. Note that the xsl requires that you export fields in a certain order, which is a left-over from the old, old Filemaker xml schema. But more modern Filemaker versions export a more sensible xml that, with an intelligently designed xsl, do not require the manual work of ensuring that fields are exported in a particular order. This is more evidence that this is abandonware - again, that's fine for freeware, but at that price...! Bottom line: Do not buy this. [alert admin]
Saturday, February 03 2007 @ 07:10 PM PST
ProlifixOBM 4.6.1.1 (Mac OS X)
"Protect business data against [...] ire and flood." We need more "ire protection" in this world. [alert admin]
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Friday, June 24 2005 @ 05:06 PM PDT
Adobe GoLive CS 7.0.2 (Mac OS X)
GoLive 8 crashes constantly. This is pre-alpha quality code. Adobe ought to be ashamed. It is criminal that these gangsters charge money for such apallingly poor quality. It's not possible to go for more than a few minutes without a crash. Shame! Shame! Shame! Can I give negative stars? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 08 2005 @ 11:13 PM PDT
PGP Desktop 9.0.0 (Mac OS X)
I bought 8.1 recently, since I was using it for business purposes, rather than personal. What a fool I was! There I was, being honest, and now they're demainding full retail to upgrade to 9.0. I don't think so. I'll be using GPG from now on. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 12:40 PM PDT
DNSUpdate 2.7 (Mac OS X)
Simple. Does what it says. Caveat: Your password is stored in cleartext. Not a big deal, perhaps, but you should know about it. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 21 2005 @ 08:48 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by jdtangney [ Search for All ]
You need Snort to try this.... 
The db schema used by HenWen is not the same as that required by SAM. Has anyone actually got SAM to work with HenWen's Snort?
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Wednesday, May 25 2005 @ 07:55 AM PDT
JavaScript and Java are totally, completely, entirely, 100% unrelated. They are different languages running in different environments with different purposes.
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Friday, April 22 2005 @ 04:02 PM PDT
For a list of good reasons to use a software client rather than your router's built-in formware, see http://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/why-software.html
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Monday, March 21 2005 @ 08:54 PM PST
Echoes are caused by people using their PC speakers. Tell them to get a headset and there will be no more echoes.
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Saturday, January 01 2005 @ 10:08 PM PST
See http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000435.html
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Monday, October 25 2004 @ 10:06 PM PDT
Same experience as Cam3D - but different h/w - and with 10.3.5 install! I have more than one boot disk. One was successfully updated to 10.3.5 and works fine. My main boot disk exhibits this peculiar blue screen - loginwindow keeps crashing and writing a report to crashreporter. I did a test by restoring from backup to a system prior to 10.3.5 install - worked fine. Applied upodate - blue screen back! Even "safe boot" does…
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Sunday, August 15 2004 @ 11:11 PM PDT
