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User Name jeffnailen--2008
Member Since 2003-01-02
Total number of Feedback Posts: 88
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MarketBuddy 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Good features, but nothing you can't do yourself in other apps, so it can be a time saver but no unique killer feature you can't live without. I'd buy it if it were reasonably priced, say $49-79. [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 28 2009 @ 10:29 AM PST
Prosoft DataBackup 3.0.5 (Mac OS X)
I've had major problems with DataBackup over two versions: version 2 and the new version 3. I've really wanted to like this app as a highly recommended alternative to Retrospect. But I've had a series of problems over the years including executor problems and 'internal errors' once I finally got past the executor problems. What's worse, when I contacted tech support they just wanted to sell me the upgrade to version 3 rather than help with my problem. I had to be persistent and send more emails before they would actually provide tech support. Bad sign. Like a fool, I went ahead and upgraded to version 3 anyway (hoping it had been improved with the upgrade) after the executor problem had finally been solved by tech support only to encounter 'internal errors' when making routine, albeit extremely slow performing backups with version 3.0.5 (on a system I keep clean and running smoothly by performing routine weekly and monthly maintenance with the best utilities and no hacks). When this happens the backup stops. When you resume the backup after having to quit Data Backup and restarting, it doesn't pick up the backup where it left off, but starts over making it extremely slow. But it never finished a single complete backup due to 'internal errors' that are never explained so there's no way to solve the problem. Needless to say, I no longer use it because it simply doesn't work and tech support is slow and unresponsive. After doing much research including reading Joe Kissell's excellent Take Control eBooks, I now use dedicated apps for dedicated backups: Time Machine + an Apple Time Capsule for automatic hourly archive backups; the excellent SuperDuper for automatic bootable duplicates to an external drive; and CrashPlan Pro and BackJack for automatic offsite backups over the Internet. Once it's all set up as explained in Joe's eBooks it works consistently like a charm with no hassles. That's the way it should be. Don't buy this product; there are better ones out there with better tech support. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 07 2008 @ 04:41 PM PST
Grammarian PRO X 1.8.2 (Mac OS X)
great program and great service from the developer 
This is the best grammar solution for the Mac. The fact that it also includes spelling in one app that can be used across all apps is just great. I used to use Spell Catcher but it doesn't do grammar and it caused problems with my system. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 08:35 PM PDT
Daylite 3.7 (Mac OS X)
Woohoo! Accounting integration!
Thanks A.J. and team for listening to your users! Integration with an accounting package is something I and many others have been asking for. This will put Daylite way ahead of alternatives. As usual, MarketCircle seems to have chosen it's partners wisely. MoneyWorks has the best reputation among the major commercial accounting packages for the Mac platform. It has the highest user ratings on VersionTracker as well. Well done. The new integration with LightSpeed seems to do the same thing - integration with best-of-class point of sale on the Mac. Daylite is turning into the indispensable hub of my business, integrating with all the apps I need to run my business from a central location. Jeff Nailen BioFit Solutions [alert admin]
Monday, January 14 2008 @ 09:42 AM PST
Apple iWeb 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I was excited about the 2.0.2 fix especially since the release notes said it was fixing problems publishing websites created in 1.x. However, I was dissapointed to find out that it didn't correct any of the problems I was having in 2.0.1. The exact same problems are occuring: fonts are converted to bold and the spacing is changed which messes up the order of everything on the page. There's no way to compensate since everything seems fine in iWeb but the published page is so different. This is unusual and did not happen in 1.x. I would probably need to re-create the whole site from scratch in 2.0.2. But if I have to do that, I'd rather switch to something a little more powerful such as RapidWeaver or Sandvox. This is the first time I've had to 'switch' from an Apple product to a third party product. So I'm trying RapidWeaver since they pioneered this software genre, have an open architecture with over 20 plug-ins and over 100 templates available from 3rd party developers, have an active users' forum, are endorsed by VersionTracker and MacUpdate, have the best user reviews and Mac press reviews for this genre, and have many happy customers. Also looking at Sandvox. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 29 2007 @ 04:10 PM PDT
Apple iWeb 2.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I was excited about the 2.0.2 fix especially since the release notes said it was fixing problems publishing websites created in 1.x. However, I was dissapointed to find out that it didn't correct any of the problems I was having in 2.0.1. The exact same problems are occuring: fonts are converted to bold and the spacing is changed which messes up the order of everything on the page. There's no way to compensate since everything seems fine in iWeb but the published page is so different. This is unusual and did not happen in 1.x. I would probably need to re-create the whole site from scratch in 2.0.2. But if I have to do that, I'd rather switch to something a little more powerful such as RapidWeaver or Sandvox. This is the first time I've had to 'switch' from an Apple product to a third party product. So I'm trying RapidWeaver since they pioneered this software genre, have an open architecture with over 20 plug-ins and over 100 templates available from 3rd party developers, have an active users' forum, are endorsed by VersionTracker and MacUpdate, have the best user reviews and Mac press reviews for this genre, and have many happy customers. Also looking at Sandvox. [alert admin]
Saturday, September 29 2007 @ 04:08 PM PDT
Apple iLife 08 (Mac OS X)
I can't believe I'm giving a negative rating to an Apple product, this is a first. But only to warn people not to buy iWeb/iLife until they get the bugs fixed in iWeb '08. My small business site I created in iWeb 06 is not rendering correctly in iWeb '08 2.0.1 I didn't start using '08 until the 2.0.1 fix was issued, so this is all under 2.0.1. I didn't move or rename my site, I opened it in 2.0.1 which had made a few changes to the '06 created pages. I went thru and corrected the changes, mainly font & spacing changes until it resembled the site I created and saved. In iWeb the pages look great. But when I publish the pages several font and spacing changes are made in the published pages different from the changes I corrected in converting a '06 site to '08, mainly: some fonts are converted to bold and spacing changes are made so that it is no longer WYSIWYG: the pages in iWeb still look great, the published pages look terrible and unusable. The process of publishing the pages is changing fonts and spacing so that the published pages are far different than the unpublished pages. It's no longer WYSIWYG like iWeb '06/1.x was. I've given this feedback to Apple and posted this on their support forum which is full of many similar and other complaints on iWeb '08. iWeb '06 1.1.2 was great, but this one needs much work! Unfortunately I can't recommend it unless they issue a major fix. In the meantime, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and iWeb '06 are good alternatives. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 17 2007 @ 01:38 PM PDT
Apple iWeb 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I can't believe I'm giving a negative rating to an Apple product, this is a first. But only to warn people not to buy iWeb/iLife until they get the bugs fixed in iWeb '08. My small business site I created in iWeb 06 is not rendering correctly in iWeb '08 2.0.1 I didn't start using '08 until the 2.0.1 fix was issued, so this is all under 2.0.1. I didn't move or rename my site, I opened it in 2.0.1 which had made a few changes to the '06 created pages. I went thru and corrected the changes, mainly font & spacing changes until it resembled the site I created and saved. In iWeb the pages look great. But when I publish the pages several font and spacing changes are made in the published pages different from the changes I corrected in converting a '06 site to '08, mainly: some fonts are converted to bold and spacing changes are made so that it is no longer WYSIWYG: the pages in iWeb still look great, the published pages look terrible and unusable. The process of publishing the pages is changing fonts and spacing so that the published pages are far different than the unpublished pages. It's no longer WYSIWYG like iWeb '06/1.x was. I've given this feedback to Apple and posted this on their support forum which is full of many similar and other complaints on iWeb '08. iWeb '06 1.1.2 was great, but this one needs much work! Unfortunately I can't recommend it unless they issue a major fix. In the meantime, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and iWeb '06 are good alternatives. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 17 2007 @ 01:35 PM PDT
Scrivener 1.03 (Mac OS X)
After trying it for a while I decided to buy it. This app is awesome. Every writer should try it. Once you do you'll want to buy it when the trial is up. It's a world-class app. Bravo. [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 18 2007 @ 08:21 PM PDT
Scrivener 1.03 (Mac OS X)
After trying it for a while I decided to buy it. This app is awesome. Every writer should try it. Once you do you'll want to buy it when the trial is up. It's a world-class app. Bravo. [alert admin]
Wednesday, July 18 2007 @ 08:21 PM PDT
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Please contact our Support Team
Thanks David, but the problem was not that I was not contacted; I did get replies to my tech support emails but it was not tech support to help with the executor problems I was having which was preventing any backups from occuring; it was a sales pitch to upgrade to version 3 while the problem I contacted tech support about was totally ignored, leaving me with no backups in the interim--I did not appreciate…
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Wednesday, December 17 2008 @ 06:52 AM PST
Yes it does, thanks Keith. I assume it would also be helpful if using Apple's Pages for final output. Thanks, Jeff
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Wednesday, April 11 2007 @ 07:17 PM PDT
I think your point is well taken, as is Ori's. The reason why this is a big step is that Mellel has gone from a proprietary format to an open format as Ori points out. This facilitates long-term preservation of users' data since the format is now openly published rather than locked up in a private proprietary format known only to the company. An open format is a half-way point to an open standard. The point that you're…
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Saturday, September 02 2006 @ 03:55 PM PDT
It's a big deal but not big enough
I think your point is well taken, as is Ori's. The reason why this is a big step is that Mellel has gone from a proprietary format to an open format as Ori points out. This facilitates long-term preservation of users' data since the format is now openly published rather than locked into a private proprietary format known only to the company. An open format is a half-way point to an open standard. The point that you're making,…
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Saturday, September 02 2006 @ 02:56 PM PDT
I strongly agree with you on the merits of open standards like OpenDocument. The owners of Mellel are moving to an open standard XML format in version 2.1 and many users are requesting they then embrace the XML-based OpenDocument standard in the near future. In the meantime Mellel does support RTF, not exactly an official standard but a de facto standard nonetheless, as well as plain text. Mellel is the best WP on the market. In…
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Tuesday, October 25 2005 @ 11:06 AM PDT
True, it is a good development for Mac OS X,
That may be true, but the thought of doing anything in the aging, unnecessarily complicated, and ridiculously expensive Oracle, for which an expensive database administrator is necessary makes me cry. Sybase, though, is excellent at data warehousing and can do almost anything Oracle can do at a fraction of the price and complexity. It's a much better value in my opinion. Although I do admit that Oracle is still King of the Database Hill and there are…
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Sunday, April 17 2005 @ 09:13 AM PDT
One more thing I forgot to mention in my review: let's all remember that DayLite is a first-generation 1.X Cocoa app. Like all the excellent new Cocoa apps out there, it's not perfect but if you'll notice it's evolving rapidly as most Cocoa apps are. The developers are responding to user requests and gripes and evolving the app in a quite promising direction. The underlying platform and developer tools are also evolving rapidly, which must…
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Sunday, April 17 2005 @ 08:46 AM PDT
